Nagasu leads following short
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The Attack of the Giant 4-Footers left defending United States women's champion Kimmie Meissner reeling last night as both 14-year-old Mirai Nagasu and 15-year-old Rachael Flatt finished ahead of the former global gold medalist in the short program at the Xcel Energy Center.
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Kaz Matsui didn't get the ball out of the infield his first four at-bats, including striking out with two runners on in the seventh. He changed his whole night his fifth time up.
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Tiger Woods held a three-stroke lead halfway through the Dunlop Phoenix, hoping to end a drought that has left him without a title since February. Woods shot a 3-under 67 Friday that gave him an 8-under 132 after two rounds in the &#36;1.89 million event, the richest on the Japanese tour.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Hajime Meshiai, an 11-time winner on the Japanese PGA Tour, shot 69 Sunday to retain a share of the lead after five rounds of the Champions Tour national qualifying tournament.
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Stewart Cink was atop the leaderboard, and David Toms had the lead in the clubhouse. But with only 24 players completing second-round play in the rain-delayed NEC Invitational, it was hard to tell who had control.
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South Korea&#039;s Shi Hyun Ahn shot a 1-under 71 Friday to retain a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Rochester LPGA.
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Jenson Button set himself a target of winning the final race of the season after again falling just short in Sunday&#39;s Japanese Grand Prix.
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Time slips away in a hurry as Tim Thomas runs around looking to make something happen in short order. The slumping forward&#39;s on a short leash at the moment and wound up watching most of last
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Gregory Havret and Jose Manuel Lara shared a one-stroke lead over Phil Mickelson yesterday, while Colin Montgomerie missed the cut at the Scottish Open in Luss.
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Japan&#39;s Ai Sugiyama suffered a shock first-round loss as the top seeds had a bad day at the Wismilak International. Third-seed Sugiyama was fuming after her 6-4 7-6 (7-1) loss in Bali to Aiko Nakamura, who is 151 places below her in the world rankings.
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Akiko Morigami outlasted the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova from Uzbekistan yesterday to earn a 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3 win and her second finals berth in three years at the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason Ohio.Morigami, the seventh seed from Japan, had 17 chances to break Amanmuradovaâs serve and converted just four. The most crucial came in the sixth game of the third set, when Morigami returned a second serve deep to Amanmuradovaâs backhand. Amanmuradova hit her return volley into the net.âIt was a little bit tough,â Morigami said. âI kept telling myself not to think about the breaks and just to focus on the next point.âShe will face the winner of the semifinal match between top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze of Russia and third-seeded Sania Mirza of India.
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Japan's Shigeki Maruyama carded a  five-under-par 65 to grab the second-round lead at the Sony  Open Friday, while 15-year-old schoolgirl Michelle Wie missed  the cut.
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Japanese industrial production grew in August for the first time in three months, official data has shown. Although only a month-on-month rise of 0.3%, and below some forecasts, the news saw Japan&#39;s leading shares rise for the first time in nine days.
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MIYAZAKI, Japan (Ticker) - Tiger Woods needed nine months but is back in the winner&#39;s circle. Woods used a final-round 3-under-par 67 Sunday to post an emphatic eight-stroke victory at the Dunlop Phoenix.
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HARRISON, New York  - K.J. Choi holed out from the fairway on the 350-yard par-four seventh for eagle on Friday on his way to claiming a two-stroke lead at the halfway mark of the Barclays Classic.
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