Palmer glum after Pierce pulls out
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Tournament director Richard Palmer now believes lightning can strike twice in the same place after he lost star act Mary Pierce for next week&#39;s international women&#39;s tennis tournament in Auckland.
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With a Sunday charge that would have made his namesake Arnold Palmer proud, Ryan Palmer birdied four straight holes down the stretch and closed with a 10-under 62 to win the Funai Classic at Disney by three shots over Vijay Singh and Briny Baird.
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It has been an uninspiring United States Open for the American men, who fell apart with remarkable alacrity in the first week of the tournament. Until this year, when Taylor Dent, Mardy Fish and Vincent Spadea all lost in the second round, the Open had never gone into the third round with only two American men.
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A bitterly disappointed Andre Agassi  had his hopes of a third U.S. Open title ended by top seed  Roger Federer Thursday but the American again reiterated that  he would not be retiring just yet.
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After the MVP celebrations in the Dominican Republic die down, outfielder Vladimir Guerrero will be swinging and pitching. By Miguel Gomez, AP.
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Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Robredo, the top two seeds in the menâs draw at the Pilot Pen in New Haven, were eliminated in straight sets yesterday in the third round.And in the womenâs draw, a qualifier advanced to the semifinals when Agnes Szavay defeated eighth-seeded Alona Bondarenko, 6-1, 6-4.Davydenko, the defending champion, lost to Gilles Simon, 6-4, 6-4. Robredo fell to Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-3, 6-3. Igor Andreev beat fourth-seeded David Ferrer, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.James Blake, seeded third, won, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1, after being down three match points to Agustin Calleri.
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Arnold Palmer will skip the Bay Hill Invitational for the first time since he founded the tournament in 1979, most likely ending his 52-year streak of playing on the PGA Tour.
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Rookie Ryan Palmer fired a final-round 10-under-par 62 to seal his first PGA Tour victory in the Funai Classic this morning, Australian time.
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FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y., Sept. 5 -- The U.S. Open slumped into the doldrums after Andre Agassi bowed out in defeat over the weekend. On Tuesday, rain moved in to dampen spirits that were already low.
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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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ORLANDO, Florida  - Rookie Ryan Palmer fired a  final-round 10-under-par 62 to seal his first PGA Tour victory  in the Funai Classic on Sunday.
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The return of pitcher Francisco Liriano toÃÂ the wild-card leading Twins comes to a sudden halt Wednesday during a 1-0 loss to the A's as Liriano feels a pop in his pitching elbow and leaves the game during the third inning.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - A legendary name in golf â-almer â - returned to the top echelon of the PGA TOUR. But this Palmer is a 28-year-old TOUR rookie from Grapevine, Texas, named Ryan â no-he
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Former world number three Mary Pierce is in doubt for the Medibank International in Sydney starting on January 9 after pulling out of a tournament in New Zealand.
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Carson Palmer is all the way back and sharp as ever. Sharper, maybe. Exactly eight months to the day after doctors rebuilt his mangled left knee, Palmer hit nine straight passes in one impressive stretch in Cincinnati's 23-10 victory over Kansas City, which lost quarterback Trent Green to injury.
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The Maria Sharapova bandwagon came to  a grinding halt on Saturday when Mary Pierce rolled back the  years with a sensational 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 win in the third round  of the U.S. Open.
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The Tight Lies Tour is one of several regional circuits for players with aspirations of making the big leagues. One of its alumni is Ryan Palmer, who held off Vijay Singh last month at Disney for his first PGA Tour victory.