Gardner&#39;s storied career ends with a thud
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Rulon Gardner&#39;s bid for a second consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling&#39;s super heavyweight division fell to the mat with a resounding thud yesterday along with the big man himself.
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He was flat-footed and in pain at the finish, which is the way all but a few of the great ones bow out of their sport. They can choose when to leave, but not always how, and so some part of you wanted a better ending for Andre Agassi.
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The top-seeded Belgian was upset in the fourth round of the year&#39;s last Grand Slam tournament by 14th-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-3, 6-2.
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Marat Safin ended Andre Agassi&#39;s hopes of a title repeat when he sent the second seed crashing to defeat in the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters yesterday.
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ATHENS, Greece - Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset - his own.    One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match...
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Andre Agassi's remarkable career ended   in the U.S. Open on Sunday when he lost to big-serving German   qualifier Benjamin Becker, 7-5 6-7 6-4 7-5.
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Andre Agassi sat alone, starting blankly at an Arthur Ashe Stadium doorway, the silence punctured by the rustling leaves on nearby trees. Soon, he'd walk through that exit, his U.S. Open done with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 loss Thursday to top-ranked Roger Federer in a quarterfinal suspended by rain early in the fourth set the night before and wrapped up in the worst of swirling winds.
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ATHENS -- On a day when Rulon Gardner escaped any surprises on the mat, there was one waiting for him in the stands.
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Joe Gross, a three-time All-Met, has suffered through a troubling year that has derailed a promising golf career.
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American Rulon Gardner wins two pool matches, his first in the Olympics since his upset of Russia's Alexander Karelin in Sydney, to move within one victory of reaching the Greco-Roman semifinals.
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In the Los Angeles Dodgers&#39; 8-3 loss to the Cardinals last night, right fielder Milton Bradley went 2 for 3 with a double and a home run.
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OCEANPORT, New Jersey  - The Breeders' Cup came to a thrilling but tragic end on Saturday.
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The course is a back-breaking 7,800 yards long off the tips, the rough is up, it&#39;s 100F out there, the greens are fast and firm and refusing to hold, and yesterday there was a tricky wind to contend with.
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KAPALUA, Hawaii -- So far as golf's best one-two punch goes, yesterday's final round of the Mercedes Championships was disappointing.
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Former champion Marat Safin loses to Thomas Enqvist at the US Open.
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ATHENS, Greece - Rulon Gardner was in another Olympic wrestling upset - his own. One of the biggest stars of the 2000 Summer Games, Gardner was thrown to the mat in overtime Wednesday by Kazakhstan's Georgi Tsurtsumia and lost 4-1 in his Greco-Roman semifinal match...
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South Africa&#39;s Wayne Ferreira played the final ATP Tour singles match of his 15-year career on Wednesday, losing in the first-round of the US Open to former world No.