Derby County sign Blackburn midfielder Robbie Savage on a
two-and-a-half year deal.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:42 pm
AP - Roy Hibbert had a big game at the other end of the court.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:33 pm
AP - It was a good night for a couple of the NBA's bad teams. And another reminder that the Miami Heat are now one of them. The New York Knicks snapped a seven-game losing streak, and league-worst Minnesota ended an eight-game skid. Of course, the Timberwolves did it by beating Miami, so maybe that wasn't saying much.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:33 pm
Peter de Villiers replaces Jake White as South Africa coach.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:27 pm
Views from around the world on the Australia v India fallout
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:04 pm
AFP - Avram Grant believes Chelsea's never-say-die spirit will help his side reach a third League Cup final in four seasons.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:56 am
When she last departed Australian shores, Justine Henin left as a target of abrasive criticism.
Since then she has suffered extended injury absences and the breakdown of her marriage, so it's understandable that the world's No 1. ranked player can anticipate better times ahead.
Henin was pilloried by some for her retirement during the 2006 Australian Open final against Amelie Mauresmo, complaining of a stomach upset.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:34 am
Tongan wing Lesley Vainikolo is named in England's Six Nations squad while Josh Lewsey and Andy Farrell are omitted.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
David Nalbandian injured his back and withdrew from the Kooyong Classic on Wednesday, leaving a slim chance Roger Federer could yet play at the Australian Open tuneup.
Nalbandian complained of muscle spasms in his back in a hitting session at Melbourne Park, the Australian Open venue.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
SFA chief executive Gordon Smith denies the appointment of U21 boss Billy Stark is a precursor to Tommy Burns being made national team manager.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:30 am
David Ferrer won both his matches to advance at the Heineken Open on Wednesday as two rounds of singles were completed due to rain the day before.
The defending champion and top seed posted comfortable straight-sets wins to reach the quarterfinals as upsets claimed four of the tournament's top eight seeds.
Ferrer beat Oscar Hernandez of Spain 6-1, 6-2 in his first round match and returned to the court to beat Sergio Roitman of Argentina 6-1, 7-6 (2) in the second.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:29 am
Italy's Flavia Pennetta deprived the Hobart International WTA tennis tournament of another seeded player when she beat India's Sania Mirza 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 in Wednesday's quarterfinals.
Sixth-seeded Mirza was one of only two seeds remaining in the main draw at the start of the tournament's third day but, by the end, No. 2 Vera Zvonareva was left alone among seeded players.
Pennetta converted five of eight break point chances and survived a mid-match slump on her way to a gritty win over Mirza.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:28 am
Richard Gasquet and Lleyton Hewitt crashed out of the men's draw at the Sydney International on Wednesday as women's No. 1-seeded Justine Henin breezed into the semifinals of the Australian Open warm-up event.
No. 1-seeded Gasquet was beaten by Russian Dmitry Tursunov 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in their second-round match.
Gasquet has had little court time since arriving in Australia, as he pulled out of last week's tournament in Adelaide due to a knee injury.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:27 am
David Beckham took some time out from training to meet a high-profile fan - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:21 am
Rafa Benitez has reiterated his desire to remain at Anfield following speculation about his future as Liverpool boss.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:11 am
Cricket Australia defends Ricky Ponting and his team in the face of mounting criticism of their on-field behaviour.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:08 am
AFP - India's Sania Mirza paid dearly for not taking advantage of her numerous break point chances to crash out of the Hobart International in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 10:28 am
AP - Chris Chelios took the ice and received a standing ovation for being old.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 10:20 am
Sir Alex Ferguson is targeting domestic and European glory for Manchester United this season - and believes he has the squad to achieve it.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:54 am
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba insists the Blues are good enough to bring the Premier League title back to Stamford Bridge, even without him.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:52 am
Mohamed Sissoko is keen for Juventus to agree a deal with Liverpool as the midfielder 'wants a new challenge'.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:50 am
AP - Two honors in four days is pretty impressive even for Tom Brady. After all, he only wins one game every week.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:24 am
TRECKER: The NHL Winter Classic was the type of spectacle MLS needs to expand its fanbase around the USA.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:16 am
AP - Goose Gossage was only 20 when the Chicago White Sox promoted him to the majors in 1972, less than two years after stealing him in the ninth round. The surprise was where they put him.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:11 am
AP - Goose Gossage waited a long time to get into the Hall of Fame.
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Yahoo! News: Sports News | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:09 am
Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt hits out at the standards of umpiring after crashing out of the Sydney International.
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 9:06 am
David Ferrer survived heavy attrition among seeded players as two rounds of singles were completed at the rain-affected Heineken Open ATP tournament Wednesday.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:21 am
Arsene Wenger admits the form of Eduardo has left the rest of the Arsenal team expecting him to score every time he gets the ball in the box.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:13 am
Paralympic sprint hopeful Katrina Hart targets Team GB Beijing berth
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BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:10 am
They finally get an easy victory over the Grizzlies, giving them three wins in a row, all against sub-.500 teams. Fisher is almost perfect with 26 points.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Stop the pressure.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
It would have been fun to hear Rich "Goose" Gossage tell stories about the craziness of his years with the New York Yankees, when George Steinbrenner was firing Billy Martin every other day and Reggie Jackson was the straw that stirred a very strange brew in the clubhouse.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
The ink wasn't even dry on newspaper accounts of LSU's national title before a rival SEC president started calling for a playoff. News flash: It's not happening.
NEW ORLEANS -- Finally, the end. Peace at last.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
The Hall of Famer has spoken of his difficulty maintaining focus lately. Assistant coaches Gregg Williams and Al Saunders are the likely leading candidates.
Joe Gibbs is leaving his Washington Redskins family to spend more time with his real one.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
He probably will play power forward the rest of the season because of his strong work on the boards.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- It sounded like a sensible concept at the time, moving Lamar Odom to small forward when he returned from off-season shoulder surgery, the better to save wear and tear on his upper body by avoiding a season's worth of banging against power forwards.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
The pitcher signals a strategy of portraying his former strength coach as untrustworthy to cast doubt on steroid claims.
Within hours after former Sen. George Mitchell issued a report in which Brian McNamee contended he had injected Roger Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone, Clemens' attorney issued a statement blasting the claims as "uncorroborated allegations of a troubled man threatened with federal criminal prosecution."
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Legally blind in one eye from a punch, she says the team's security was lax in not preventing a parking lot altercation.
Weeks before spring training, the Los Angeles Dodgers got an early workout Tuesday as jurors heard a woman's claim that the ballclub failed to protect her from a drunken, abusive, foul-mouthed woman who assaulted her in the stadium parking lot after a game against archrival San Francisco.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Receiver, who wound up being a deal-of-the-decade acquisition, was so intent on joining the Patriots that he chartered a private jet so he could make it to team headquarters and meet with owner Robert
Good fortune didn't just fall out of the sky for the New England Patriots.
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L.A. Times - Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Top-seeded Richard Gasquet and former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt crashed out in the second round of the Sydney International on Wednesday, setting back their preparations for the Australian Open.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 7:50 am
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 7:29 am
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 7:24 am
The other big winner in Monday night’s national title game was the SEC, which reaffirmed its status as the best league in college football.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:38 am
A longtime friend and former teammate of Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte may be asked questions regarding Clemens’s possible use of steroids before a Congressional committee.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:37 am
At 7 feet 7 inches and 360 pounds, some things come easily on the court for North Carolina-Asheville center Kenny George. But such size does bring serious drawbacks.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:21 am
The Rangers tried to rally from a three-goal deficit against the worst team in the Eastern Conference, but came up short and dropped their fourth straight game.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:20 am
The Knicks erased an 11-point deficit in the second quarter and a 13-point deficit in the fourth, which was capped by a game-clinching 3-pointer from Stephon Marbury.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:19 am
The college hoops conference season is upon us. And that means it's time for the annual Seth Davis Stock Report, which projects where 30 squads are headed.
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SI.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:16 am
After dealing with health problems, fractured relationships and homelessness, Sylvia Harris now has relative peace of mind and a successful career as a jockey.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:11 am
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:10 am
Each time I leave one of these football championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:09 am
If Andy Pettitte appears before the Congressional committee and is asked what he knows about Roger Clemens, he will be faced with telling the truth or lying. I don’t think he would lie.
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NYT > Sports | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:08 am
Multiple sources told ESPN.com late Tuesday night that the Falcons are pursuing Pete Carroll for an interview.
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 6:06 am
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SI.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 4:59 am
Mike Martz's agent said that the former Lions offensive coordinator has been hired by the 49ers.
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 4:28 am
David Nalbandian injured his back hitting with Marat Safin at Melbourne Park on Wednesday and is a doubtful starter for next week's Australian Open.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 4:26 am
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SI.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 3:35 am
Joe Gibbs retired as coach and team president of the Washington Redskins on Tuesday, three days after his team's playoff loss concluded a season marked by the killing of safety Sean Taylor.
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 3:26 am
The University of Hawaii fired athletics director Herman Frazier on Tuesday after he failed to re-sign football coach June Jones.
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 2:58 am
Brian McNamee's lawyers want a tape of trainer talking to Roger Clemens' investigators.
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ESPN.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 2:41 am
Lindsay Davenport's comeback has started well. But Matt Cronin says the Aussie Open will show where she stands.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 9 Jan 2008 | 1:43 am
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SI.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 1:31 am
Top-ranked Justine Henin and Australian Open champion Serena Williams will top the draw for next month's WTA Diamond Games tournament.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 9 Jan 2008 | 12:41 am
Shaun Wright-Phillips helped Chelsea to a 2-1 win over Everton on Tuesday in the first leg of the Carling Cup semifinals.
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FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 8 Jan 2008 | 11:16 pm
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SI.com | 8 Jan 2008 | 10:59 pm
He was not like the closers of today. Goose Gossage was a fireman. And now he's headed to the Hall of Fame -- an honor Gossage deserved, says Tom Verducci.
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SI.com | 8 Jan 2008 | 10:39 pm
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SI.com | 8 Jan 2008 | 10:25 pm
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SI.com | 8 Jan 2008 | 7:05 pm
Eleni Daniilidou upset top-seeded Alona Bondarenko 6-3, 6-3 in a second-round match Tuesday at the Hobart International.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 8 Jan 2008 | 7:01 am
Two former British police officers who fought corruption in horse racing and cricket are going to head tennis' efforts to prevent match-fixing.
Ben Gunn, who has worked for the British Horseracing Authority, and Jeff Rees, who retired in November from the International Cricket Council's security unit, were appointed Monday by tennis' governing bodies.
The sport's leaders want to avoid more problems after a season that included a gambling investigation into a match involving No.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 7 Jan 2008 | 11:01 pm
Two former British police officers who fought corruption in horse racing and cricket are going to head tennis' efforts to prevent match-fixing, the Associated Press learned Monday.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 7 Jan 2008 | 9:01 pm
Roger Federer has a severe stomach virus and has pulled out of an exhibition tournament less than a week away from the Australian Open.
Federer told officials at the Kooyong Classic on Monday that he became ill after arriving in Australia last Friday from his training base in Dubai.
"It continued to get worse over the weekend," the top-ranked Federer said. "After trying to practice on Saturday afternoon, I went to see the doctors and they immediately performed a series of tests.
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FOXSports.com News for TENNIS | 7 Jan 2008 | 8:29 pm
Fourth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny routed Rafael Nadal 6-0, 6-1 in the final of the Chennai Open.
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Tennis News: CBSSports.com | 6 Jan 2008 | 2:42 pm
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