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Dwyane Wade scored 19 points to lead the US team of National Basketball Association stars past Angola 97-76 on Tuesday but the African champions found a way to put the "feat" in defeat.
With a flamboyant fast-paced attack that featured...

Second seed Ana Ivanovic won the battle of the Serbs in a thrilling French Open semi-final on Thursday and will play Russia's Dinara Safina for the title on Saturday.
The 20-year-old Ivanovic defeated 23-year-old Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to reach the final at Roland Garros for the second straight...

Big East conference commissioner Mike Tranghese will leave his job next year.
He has been commissioner since 1990. He said Thursday the conference was enjoying unprecedented success and this was the time to go. He will leave next year at the end of June.
Under Tranghese, the Big East expanded to 16 schools and became the nation's largest Division I-A conference. He was...

Dinara Safina needs only one more win to join her older brother as a Grand Slam champion, and she'll try for it Saturday against Ana Ivanovic in the French Open final. Dispensing with the come-from-behind drama of her previous two matches, Safina advanced Thursday by beating fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3,...

Nearing Super Bowl-like proportions, the buildup has included black-and-white footage from the 1960s — images of Red Auerbach puffing a victory cigar, Bill Russell swatting away a shot and Jerry West rising for a jumper.
We've revisited the 1980s, taken back to those days of Ronald Reagan, bad haircuts and short shorts by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the icons whose meetings...

MIAMI - Bill Parcells is speaking out, and wants it known that Jason Taylor has a place with the Miami Dolphins.
The Dolphins' football operations czar, in one of his first interviews since joining the franchise in December, said Thursday "of course" he wants the six-time Pro Bowl defensive end to be...

SEATTLE - Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch.
But then last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it was making another fan uncomfortable.
The incident has exploded on local TV, on...

Russia's Dinara Safina moved one victory away from joining big brother Marat as a Grand Slam title winner when she reached the French Open final on Thursday.
The 13th seed saw off fourth-seeded compatriot, and overwhelming favourite, Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3,...

Russia's Dinara Safina moved one victory away from joining big brother Marat as a Grand Slam title winner when she reached the French Open final on Thursday.
The 13th seed saw off fourth-seeded compatriot, and overwhelming favourite, Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3,...

Bill Parcells is speaking out, and wants it known that Jason Taylor has a place with the Miami Dolphins.
The Dolphins' football operations czar, in one of his first interviews since joining the franchise in December, said Thursday "of course" he wants the six-time Pro Bowl defensive end to be on the field with Miami this fall.
"Why wouldn't you want one of...

Dinara Safina needs only one more win to join her older brother as a Grand Slam champion. Dispensing with the come-from-behind drama of her previous two matches, Safina advanced to the French Open final by beating fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-2 Thursday.
It's the first berth in a major final for...

Ruud van Nistelrooy wants to star at Euro 2008 so he can erase the painful memory of a World Cup flop he blames on Manchester United.
Van Nistelrooy endured a dismal tournament in 2006 and was substituted in all three...

Fighting for first-place in the AL East, the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox have quickly developed a testy rivalry.
Josh Beckett and the David Ortiz-less Red Sox regained the top spot in the division Wednesday night with a 5-1 victory over Tampa Bay that featured a hard slide and an...

PITTSBURGH - The Detroit Red Wings are the most deserved Stanley Cup champions the National Hockey League has seen in some time. The Big Brown of the hockey set, they were the best team in the league from September through June.
The comparison to what normal organizations must go through to be...

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will play together the first two rounds of the U.S. Open, a decision by the USGA to create equal footing for the highest-ranked players, but one that could turn Torrey Pines into one big traffic jam.
Woods and Mickelson, Nos. 1 and 2 in the world, will be joined by No. 3 Adam Scott.
The USGA will release...