The Chicago Cubs have exercised their side of a $16 million mutual contract option on third baseman Aramis Ramirez. But Ramirez has informed the team that he will decline his side of the option and explore free agency. He has until Tuesday night to make that decision official. The 33-year-old Ramirez had been interested in [...]
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Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova won her first WTA Championships title on Sunday, beating Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 for a victory that will also put her at No. 2 in the world rankings. Kvitova raced to a 5-0 lead in the first set, but Azarenka rallied to level it at 5-5. The Czech player finally [...]
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North Carolina broke a tie with its fiercest rival and moved into one with one of college basketballs most storied programs. The Tar Heels, who return all five starters from the team that reached the regional finals last season, were the runaway No. 1 in the Associated Press mens preseason Top 25 on Friday. It [...]
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QB Andrew Luck (right) celebrates Stanfords hard-won victory over USC with his teammates. (Getty Images) Stanfords first win of the season against a ranked team helped Andrew Luck and the Cardinal move up in the BCS standings. BCS Standings School (Record) BCS Avg 1. LSU (8-0) .9734 2. Alabama (8-0) .9591 3. Oklahoma State (8-0) [...]
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CBSSports.com wi Ryan Smyth is happy to be home. Smyth scored a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oilers won their fifth game in a row, beating the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Sunday night. Shawn Horcoff and Jordan Eberle also scored for the Oilers (7-2-2), who improved to 6-1-1 at home and moved back [...]
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All Jay Wright needs is a digital recorder and a notebook and hed have a successful career as a sports reporter. He already has great sources. Wright, starting his 11th season at Villanova, works the phones for the next big tip that could affect Villanovas future. Hell be set to leave his office for practice [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2011 by admin
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CBSSports.com Landry Jones and Ryan Broyles put Oklahomas season back on track. Now, Kansas State will see if it can bounce back from its own loss. Jones threw for a school-record 505 yards and five touchdowns Saturday, his All-American wide receiver caught 14 passes for 171 yards and a score, and the 11th-ranked Sooners took [...]
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CBSSpor For a while, it seemed that Rangers coach John Tortorellas line-juggling with his two biggest stars would produce New Yorks first win at refurbished Madison Square Garden. Then in a span of less than eight minutes, nothing worked for the Rangers. First the momentum was gone, then the lead, and then a shot at [...]
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CBSSports.co Albert Pujols thrust both arms high in the air, even before he reached home plate. It was only the first inning, and already it felt as if the St. Louis Cardinals were home free. Because after they had overcome so much just to get this far, what could stop them? The Cardinals won a [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2011 by admin
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Second-seeded Janko Tipsarevic will take on seventh-seeded Alex Bogomolov Jr. in the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Open after both men maintained their good form in Russia on Friday. The other semifinal will feature fourth-seeded Marin Cilic against the 2004 winner Mikhail Youzhny, seeded fifth. In Fridays quarterfinals, Tipsarevic, who won his second title at [...]
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