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<title>Yankees feel the pain in 11th-inning win</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Rodriguez lost feeling in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch in the 11th inning. Jorge Posada was so banged up that he compared the game to a boxing match. Derek Jeter's bruised right foot felt so bad he actually acknowledged the injury.

This was one frightening victory for the New York Yankees.

Rodriguez and Jeter both had X-rays that were negative, and Posada's right hand was swollen after a particularly brutal foul ball in the eighth inning. A-Rod was already...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:05:07 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Leopard with green afro will be the 2010 World Cup mascot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The character, called Zakumi, has been given his own biography and name to reflect the country's aims and hopes.

Organisers said the character was 'born' on 16 June, 1994 - the year in which apartheid ended.

The date is celebrated as Youth Day to mark the 1976 Soweto uprising when young protesters struck a blow against white rule.

At the mascot's introduction at a state TV studio, a performer in a Zakumi costume kicked around a football with Mark Fish, who helped lead South Africa to...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:31:09 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Documents Reveal Underage Chinese Gymnast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What began as whispers among the media and gymnastics insiders weeks ago about the ages of three of China's female Olympic gymnasts -- Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and He Kexin -- has grown into ear-shattering, head-hurting shouts. Despite assurances by Chinese officials that all three are 16, the minimum age of eligibility for Olympic competition, newly discovered documents and records prove otherwise.

The New York Times first looked into the age of China's gymnasts with a story on July 27 that...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:53:57 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you watch the Olympics gymnastics this year, you may be confused by the new scoring system which will let athletes score 14, 17, or even higher. The new rules are "heavy on math" and employ two panels of judges: one for technical difficulty, which adds points up from a score of zero; the other for execution and technique, which starts at 10.0 and subtracts for errors. The two numbers are then combined for the final score. As one judge put it, "The system rewards difficulty. But the mistakes...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:41:40 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>They're up 2-0 in the NBA Finals.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[But they needed some of their leprechaun's luck to get there.
Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, unknown Leon Powe added 21 and the Celtics held off a remarkable rally by Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers for a 108-102 win Sunday night in Game 2 of these trip-down-memory-lane Finals.
The Celtics had to work every second to get the win.
Up by 24 points in the fourth quarter, they nearly blew it.
"We're happy because we won, but we definitely...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:11:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>He won't admit it, but Mamba met his match</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Score one for the mongoose.

With the Celtics employing their Rikki-Tikki-Tavi team defense, the Black Mamba was unable to deliver the venomous strikes with which he had so mercilessly dispatched the Nuggets, Jazz and Spurs.

As he had done so often in the first three rounds of the playoffs, Bryant spent the first half measuring his opponent and getting his teammates involved. Running the pick-and-roll to perfection, Bryant took advantage of the Celtics' understandable fixation on him to...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:10:56 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Marion Jones Is Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time."

"I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be," said Jones, who cried on her husband's shoulder after she was sentenced.

The disgraced former Olympic champion was ordered to surrender March 11 to begin her term.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas said...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:45:54 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Vick gets 23 months for dogfighting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for running a "cruel and inhumane" dogfighting ring and lying about it.

The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback could have been sentenced up to five years by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson. Vick, who turned himself in Nov. 19 in anticipation of his sentence, was wearing a black-and-white striped prison suit.

After Vick apologized to the court and his family, Hudson told him: "You need to apologize to the millions of young...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:48:32 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Brady, Moss dominate; Pats move to 10-0</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Tom Brady. Randy Moss. Even Kyle Eckel.

The New England Patriots are showing no mercy to any opponent, not even the Buffalo Bills, a team for which coach Bill Belichick has publicly expressed affection.
Scoring touchdowns on their first seven offensive possessions and getting the eighth on a turnover, the Patriots won their 10th straight game, routing Buffalo 56-10 Sunday night. Brady and Moss, ready to rewrite the NFL record books, led the romp.

Brady was...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:03:51 CST</pubDate>
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<title>T.O. powers Cowboys to 9-1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRVING, Texas (AP) - One snap went off Tony Romo's face, two went over his head. Then, coming out of the 2-minute warning before halftime, Romo went to the line and called a timeout.

As disjointed as the Dallas Cowboys were Sunday, they still found a way to beat the Washington Redskins 28-23.
Their secret? Throw it to Terrell Owens.

Owens caught touchdown passes of 4, 31, 46 and 52 yards, marking the first four-TD game of his career, to get the Cowboys to 9-1 for the first time since...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:56:51 CST</pubDate>
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