Injured Arenas won't play in worlds
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Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas strained his groin during practice Monday and won't play for the United States at the world championships.
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WALTHAM -- He hasn't played since Dec. 20. An injury that initially was diagnosed to keep him out 2-3 weeks is now on week six and likely will stretch to seven before he plays another game. Any wonder Paul Pierce felt a bit isolated as he watched his team drop 20 of 22 games in his absence?
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Sport: Athletics: Another British medal hope for world championships disappears with triple jumper's injury.
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The rafters in Dallas's three-year-old arena, where the Knicks and the Mavericks play on Friday, are missing Mark Aguirre's No. 24.
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SCHLADMING, Austria  - American Bode Miller has said he might not defend his downhill title at next month's world championships in Sweden because of injury concerns.
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Ron Artest was suspended for the rest of the season Sunday, and two of his Indiana Pacers teammates must miss a total of 55 games for fighting with fans during a melee that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
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JONKOPING, Sweden (CP) - The Worldstars had no intention of being blown out of the rink two games in a row in Sweden. The travelling band of locked out NHL players turned in a solid defensive game and got
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Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas says his groin injury was an excuse to leave the U.S. national team instead of getting cut outright and that he feels he did not receive a fair shot at making the squad.
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Wade Redden took off his practice gear unsure of when he'd have a chance to put it on again. His injured shoulder wouldn't allow him to play for Canada in the World Cup of Hockey championship on Tuesday night. The lack of a collective bargaining agreement between NHL players and owners figures to keep the Ottawa defenseman off the ice much longer.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Spain's chances of winning a   first world basketball championship have been severely hampered   by an injury to the talismanic Pau Gasol, who misses Sunday's   final against Greece with a broken bone in his foot.
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New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury will miss the remainder of the National Basketball Association season because of a left ankle injury, the New York Post reported Saturday.
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Clay Bennett, the Seattle SuperSonicsâ owner, filed paperwork to have an arbitrator rule on whether the club could escape the last two years of its arena lease and relocate. The team has sought construction of a new home arena and Bennett is from Oklahoma City, which drew rave reviews as a temporary home for the Hornets after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. A deadline for having a new arena deal is set for Oct. 31, the day the N.B.A. season opens.
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Americans in general and American NBA fans in particular will never, ever understand the frenzy that drives the league's international players to play for their national teams in the offseason. As one NBA official put it last week, the ongoing European Championships in Spain are a bigger deal to many of the players in the tournament than the Olympics. And ...
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BASKETBALL Los Angeles Sparks star Lisa Leslie has withdrawn from next week's world basketball championships because of family medical problems. Leslie, recently chosen the WNBA's most valuable player, won't play in the Sept. 12-23 championships in Brazil because her mother-in-law is facing surgery and her uncle has been hospitalized since a car accident Aug. 27, USA Basketball spokeswoman Caroline Williams ...
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U.S. captain Claudio Reyna, who has  been suffering with a thigh injury, was missing from Bruce  Arena's 23-man squad named Friday for this month's World Cup  qualifiers against El Salvador and Panama.
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Ron Artest was suspended for the rest of the season Sunday and two of his Indiana Pacers teammates must miss a total of 55 games for fighting with fans in a melee that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
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Nuggets shooting guard Voshon Lenard will be sidelined at least six months after surgery Monday on his torn left Achilles&#39; tendon.