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Manchester City fine Balotelli for discipline breach
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:28 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Manchester City have fined striker Mario Balotelli a week's wages for a breach of club discipline, the Premier League leaders' manager Roberto Mancini said on Wednesday. Mancini was speaking at a news conference before City's Europa League last-16 first-leg match at Portuguese club Sporting on Thursday. Balotelli broke a curfew on Friday morning, the day before City played a league game against Bolton Wanderers in which the Italian striker scored a goal on his return to the team following a three-match suspension. ...
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FIFA says Council of Europe motion has 'inaccuracies'
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:27 PM PST
Reuters - BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA said there were "certain inaccuracies" in a Council of Europe advisory panel motion calling for an internal investigation of Sepp Blatter's re-election as president last year. The Council of Europe's committee on culture, science, education and media said earlier on Wednesday that FIFA should investigate whether "the successful candidate" had exploited his position to obtain "unfair advantages" during last year's election. ... Full Story | Top |
Tottenham survive scare to reach Cup quarters
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:23 PM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Striker Jermain Defoe scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur came from a goal down to beat third tier Stevenage 3-1 and reach the FA Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday. The victory came at a heavy cost, however, with defender Michael Dawson suffering what manager Harry Redknapp feared was a season-ending injury. Defoe fired in the equaliser in the 26th minute after feisty Stevenage took a shock lead at White Hart Lane through a fourth- minute Joel Byrom penalty. ...
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Tevez nears comeback as City, United enter run-in
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:20 PM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The once-impossible idea of Carlos Tevez ever playing for Manchester City again could actually become reality on Sunday when the leaders travel to Swansea City as the race for the Premier League title enters the home straight. Argentina striker Tevez, who had a spectacular falling out with manager Roberto Mancini last September, netted in a 3-1 win for the reserves against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday watched by an appreciative crowd of around 1,000. ...
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Ideal balancing act keeps Federer near the top
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:18 PM PST
Reuters -  INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Healthy eating habits and a well balanced playing schedule have helped Roger Federer stay ultra-competitive and largely free of injury, the Swiss world number three said on Wednesday. The 16-times grand slam champion will celebrate his 31st birthday in August. Though he has not clinched a grand slam title since the 2010 Australian Open, he has won five of his last seven tournaments. ...
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Australia's Thorpe says London bid likely to fail
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:16 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Ian Thorpe's bid to make Australia's swimming team for the London Games after coming out of retirement is more than likely doomed to fail at next week's national trials in Adelaide, the five-times Olympic champion said. Thorpe, who announced his return to the pool just over a year ago after retiring in 2006, told Australian television he had left his run too late. "The most realistic outcome of this is that I will most likely fail," Thorpe told Network Ten. "I wish I had another six months to do this. I wish I had more time to do it. ...
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Families of Munich dead want IOC to remember 1972 tragedy
Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:05 PM PST
Reuters -  TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Forty years after 11 Israelis were killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games, the families of the dead are urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to organize an official commemoration. Two widows of athletes who were killed have long campaigned for the 1972 victims to be remembered at Olympic opening ceremonies - either through the IOC president's welcome speech or with a moment of silence - but they fear their call for a commemoration in London on July 27 will again be ignored. "We want the International Olympic Committee ... ...
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Record man Messi hits five for Barcelona
Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:59 PM PST
Reuters -  BARCELONA (Reuters) - Lionel Messi at his breathtaking best tore Bayer Leverkusen apart with a record five-goal Champions League haul on Wednesday as Barcelona swept into the quarter-finals 7-1 on the night and 10-2 on aggregate. The Argentine World Player of the Year became the first player to score five in a Champions League match. Substitute Cristian Tello scored twice as the holders equalled the biggest victory margin in the knockout stages of the competition. ...
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Guardiola lauds 'unique' Messi after record haul
Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:58 PM PST
Reuters - BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola predicted he would not see another footballer of the calibre of Lionel Messi in his lifetime after the Argentine World Player of the Year became the first man to score five goals in a Champions League match on Wednesday. Messi tore through a hapless Bayer Leverkusen in their round of 16 second leg at the Nou Camp as holders Barca crushed the German side 7-1 to advance to the quarter-finals of Europe's elite club competition 10-2 on aggregate. ... Full Story | Top |
NZ take slim lead in test vs S.Africa
Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:49 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Debutant wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk and former captain Daniel Vettori staged a middle order fightback to help New Zealand establish a slim first innings lead at the close of play on the second day of the first test against South Africa on Thursday. The South African-born Van Wyk (36) combined with Vettori (46) in a 53-run partnership and then with bowler Doug Bracewell (25) for 41 runs as the hosts made 243 for nine in reply to South Africa's 238 on a sun-drenched University Oval in Dunedin. ...
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Dupuis scores two as Penguins rake in Leafs
Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:39 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Pascal Dupuis scored two goals, including the game-winner in the third period, to steer the Pittsburgh Penguins to their seventh straight win in a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. Pittsburgh, who celebrated the unveiling of a statue of Hall of Fame player Mario Lemieux earlier in the day, fell behind early as Phil Kessel and Carl Gunnarsson gave the visiting Maple Leafs a 2-0 lead in the second period. ...
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Nets stun Clippers with last-second three-pointer
Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:30 PM PST
Reuters - * Clippers stay behind Lakers, who also lost * Nets win just fourth home game of the season NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Jordan Farmar sank a last-second three-pointer to lift the New Jersey Nets to a 101-100 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday as the visitors missed a chance to leapfrog city rivals the Lakers. The Nets, who were just 3-13 at home this season, forged an 18-point advantage in the third quarter and held off a fierce fightback by the Clippers, led by high-flying forward Blake Griffin and hot-shooting guard Randy Foye,to score the upset. ... Full Story | Top |
Ideal balancing act keeps Federer near the top
Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:55 PM PST
Reuters -  INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Healthy eating habits and a well balanced playing schedule have helped Roger Federer stay ultra-competitive and largely free of injury, the Swiss world number three said on Wednesday. The 16-times grand slam champion will celebrate his 31st birthday in August. Though he has not clinched a grand slam title since the 2010 Australian Open, he has won five of his last seven tournaments. ...
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Tennis-Ideal balancing act keeps Federer near the top
Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:47 PM PST
Reuters - INDIAN WELLS, California, March 7 (Reuters) - Healthyeating habits and a well balanced playing schedule have helpedRoger Federer stay ultra-competitive and largely free of injury,the Swiss world number three said on Wednesday. The 16-times grand slam champion will celebrate his 31stbirthday in August. Though he has not clinched a grand slamtitle since the 2010 Australian Open, he has won five of hislast seven tournaments. ... Full Story | Top |
Sharapova happy to be closing in on sport's summit
Wed,7 Mar 2012 05:25 PM PST
Reuters -  INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Losing two grand slam finals in the past nine months has been bitter-sweet for Maria Sharapova as she continues her bid to return to the game's pinnacle from injury. The former world number one has not won any of the sport's blue riband events since being sidelined for seven months after a shoulder injury in 2008, yet she has been delighted with her progress so far. ...
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