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SAN DIEGO - Tiger Woods played his first round of golf Wednesday since knee surgery two days after the Masters, getting a thumbs-up from his swing coach after 17-plus holes at Torrey Pines riding in a cart.
Eight days before the start of the U.S. Open, Woods played in solitude on the South Course with swing coach Hank Haney, stopping only when...

Tiger Woods played his first round of golf Wednesday since the Masters, practicing at Torrey Pines eight days before the start of the U.S. Open.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Woods played in 3 hours, 15 minutes amid tight security and no spectators or media. The South Course has been closed...

Back in February, the Stanley Cup finals were no more than a pipe dream for a trio of thrilled Pittsburgh Penguins.
Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis toiled in Atlanta, and Hal Gill endured long days while mired in the mess the Toronto Maple Leafs' season had become. Less than four months later,...

Corey Hart hit a three-run, inside-the-park homer and Russell Branyan followed with a conventional shot to lift the surging Milwaukee Brewers to a 10-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday for their sixth straight win.
Brewers starter Manny Parra (4-2) tied a career high with eight strikeouts in seven innings, retiring...

No matter how great a player you are, there is a higher regard for those heroes whose teams win championships than those who talents cannot bring them the ultimate prize.
Just ask the Boston Celtics.
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Adam "Pacman" Jones is already showing his new teammates some of his playmaking skills. Still, Jones knows lessons learned off the field in more than a year away from the game are more important than two interceptions in two offseason practices with the Dallas Cowboys.
"Just picking and choosing my places, my...

Jason Taylor has another reason to dance. Two weeks after announcing Taylor won't practice with the team through training camp, Dolphins coach Tony Sparano said Wednesday he told the six-time Pro Bowl defensive end that he and the organization want him back.
"I wanted to make it clear to Jason that we...

The Detroit Red Wings are playing a game they didn't want to play, in a city where they don't want to be, against a growing-confident Pittsburgh Penguins team they were certain would be long gone by now.
Such are the perils of the Stanley Cup finals where, as the Red Wings discovered...

There have been times this year when Roger Federer's cloak of infallibility slid from his shoulders, when his absolute dominance against anyone but Rafael Nadal and at any tournament but the French Open wasn't quite so absolute.
Federer arrived at Roland Garros with one title, his lowest count since 2001. He arrived...

BOSTON - A starting lineman for the New England Patriots worked as an informant for federal drug agents after he was arrested in New York on a charge of carrying the powerful painkiller oxycodone without a prescription, an attorney said.
Nicholas Kaczur, 28, wore a wire to help agents build a...

Russia and Serbia ensured they will contest the French Open women's title match as Wednesday's quarter-finals ended in another rollercoaster win for Moscow comeback queen Dinara Safina.
The 13th seeded Russian, who recovered from a set and 2-5 down, as...

Hanley Ramirez hit two homers, including a two-run shot in a four-run ninth inning, and the Florida Marlins rallied to beat the Atlanta Braves 6-4 Wednesday.
Mike Rabelo hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth as Manny Acosta blew a 4-2 lead. Acosta (3-3) recorded only one out while giving up...

Not just a hockey mole, The Bellowing Moose follows all things NHL for NBCSports.com.
So there will be no cups -- of coffee or anything else -- at Joe Louis Arena for at least the next few days.
Why? Because the Red Wings are lousy closers. Worse than Napoleon. Worse than Eric Gagne....

PARIS - There have been times this year when Roger Federer's cloak of infallibility slid from his shoulders, when his absolute dominance against anyone but Rafael Nadal and at any tournament but the French Open wasn't quite so absolute.
Federer arrived at Roland Garros with one title, his lowest count since 2001....

Russia completed their programme of Euro 2008 warm-up matches with a 4-1 win over Lithuania here on Wednesday.
Zenit St Petersburg midfielders Konstantin Zyryanov and Andrei Arshavin along with Spartak Moscow duo Roman Pavlyuchenko and Vladimir Bystrov scored for the...