Sports News Update-24: 2013-01-20

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Chris Wood eagles 18th to win Qatar Masters, beating Garcia, Coetzee by 1 shot

Chris Wood eagled the 18th hole to win the Qatar Masters for his first European Tour victory on Saturday, overtaking Sergio Garcia and George Coetzee who finished a shot back.

Mike and Bob Bryan have set one more record together as a doubles team — and this may be the most special of them all.

Victoria Azarenka has won her second straight Australian Open title, beating Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a dramatic final that included a break for fireworks and two medical timeouts.

Cory Schneider made 30 saves in his fifth career shutout, Mason Raymond scored twice, and the Vancouver Canucks avenged last week's blowout loss to Anaheim with three power-play goals in a 5-0 win over the

Gennifer Brandon had 13 points, 10 rebounds and a key block with 20 seconds left to help preserve No. 7 California's 59-56 win over No. 20 Colorado on Friday night.

CAF Africa Cup of Nations debutants Cape Verde Islands hope to beat Angola on Sunday and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah says Espanyol striker Mubarak Wakaso will be sidelined for a few days because of a sore knee.

Cook Islands have kept their FIFA U-17 World Cup hopes alive by winning the four-nation preliminary stage of qualifying in Apia, Samoa.

FIFA president Blatter says point deduction or relegation ‘ideal punishment’ for racism

London, Jan 25 : FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted fining racist elements is not good enough to stop such elements from repeating their offences, adding tougher actions such as point deductions, relegation or spectators-ban can be the solution to this menace.

London, Jan 25 : Manchester United players led by Ryan Giggs, have won the club’s annual quiz, beating team boss Sir Alex Ferguson’s team.

London, Jan 25 : Tiger Woods' former wife Elin Nordegren, who has spent millions on her Florida beachfront home, is getting her money's worth covering almost every inch of the 21,000 square foot plot.

Melbourne, Jan 25 : The top-seeded pair of Sara Errani and Robert Vinci won their first Australian Open women's doubles title by beating local team of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacque here Friday.

Islamabad, Jan 25 : Pakistan's national basketball team has returned home after clinching the silver medal in the second South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Championship in Dhaka.

Roma beat Inter in Coppa Italia semis first leg

Rome, Jan 24 - Roma beat Inter 2-1 in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal at home.

Roma dominated the first half Wednesday with Alessandro Florenzi opening the scoring in the 13th minute

Madrid, Jan 24 - Real Madrid set up a possible Copa del Rey semifinal tie against bitter rivals FC Barcelona as they drew 1-1 to defeat Valencia 3-1 on aggregate in their quarterfinal.

Cleveland Cavaliers' Brazilian center Anderson Varejao has been sidelined for the next two months from the National Basketball Association (NBA) after it was revealed he needs surgery on his right knee.

Melbourne, Jan 24 : It was a bad day in office for India as both Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi lost their respective mixed doubles quarterfinal matches at Melbourne Park here Thursday. This brings an end to the

The pair apparently began seeing each other in November last year, and the shamed golfer is pulling out all the stops to ensure this relationship goes the distance, unlike his marriage, the Daily Mail reported.

Cape Verde Islands scored their first-ever goal in a major tournament, but conceded late on to miss out on a historic victory over Morocco in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations.

Brazil targets a million World Cup volunteers

Janeiro, Jan 23 - Brazil plans to have one million volunteers participating at this year's FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup, the federal government said.

Bangladesh clinched the South Asian Basketball Association championship defeating the Maldives 69-54 in the final at the Dhanmondi Basketball Gymnasium here.

Melbourne, Jan 23 - Defending champion Victoria Azarenka overcame early jitters to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova here on Wednesday and advance to the Australian Open semifinals while one of her rivals and

London, Jan 23 : World number one Novak Djokovic has claimed his ability to recover within very less time of competing in marathon tennis matches is down to his good and natural routine.

Football’s knack for springing a surprise or two is one of the reasons why the game never gets boring. In 2007, Austria raised more than a few eyebrows when they stormed to fourth place at the FIFA U-20 World

Online Qualification Season 3 for the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2013 was packed with players, matches and goals! Over 4.9 million games were played over the course of the month with the number of average

Hosts South Africa got their CAF African Nations Cup campaign up and running with a comfortable victory over Angola. Both of these sides were involved in 0-0 draws on the opening day of the tournament and

Former Oakland coach Bill Callahan has denied allegations made by two of his former players that he "sabotaged" the Raiders in their Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay 10 years ago.

Mahela Jayawardene impressed with turnaround

Sri Lankan outgoing skipper, Mahela Jayawardene, has praised the team’s improved performances in the limited-overs arena, and expressed confidence of clinching the ODI series when they meet Australia in the

Hoffenheim have confirmed the signing of Argentinian defender David Abraham from Getafe.

The 26-year-old former FC Basle player has signed a contract with the relegation-haunted German club until 2016.

Golf star Phil Mickelson says he regrets publicly commenting that he may have to leave California over high taxes, saying he should not have spoken out on such a personal topic.

Tony Gibson seems very calm, as if he’s not about to jump into one of the biggest road shows of his racing career.
But, undeniably, he is.

Li Na ousted arguably the hottest player at the Australian Open in straight sets, while Maria Sharapova continued her dominant ways to also roll into the semifinals of the year's first major.

Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals star with the corkscrew stance and too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque, died Saturday. He was 92.

There were 5,000 fans on hand when the St. Louis Blues finally opened training camp after the lockout.
Coach Ken Hitchcock figures good results will keep everyone happy.

The Dallas Mavericks are finally playing like the team they thought they built after Deron Williams spurned them in the offseason.

Armed gunmen entered the Colorado home of a Patriots player and held the residents at gunpoint while they stole several items during the AFC Championship game Sunday night.

Woods misses cut after 2-shot penalty in Abu Dhabi, joins McIlroy in exiting with 3-over 75s

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday, a woeful start to the season for the world's top two golfers.

Ka'upulehu-Kona, HI (Sports Network) - John Cook birdied the second playoff hole on Sunday to defeat overnight leader David Frost and win the season- opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

More than 220 motorsports journalists from across the nation – and, in a few cases, across the pond – will gather in Charlotte this week for the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Sprint Media Tour, an extended

John Harbaugh and his Baltimore Ravens set up a family reunion at the Super Bowl, shutting down the New England Patriots 28-13 Sunday in the AFC championship game.

NEW YORK -- The Pittsburgh Penguins have four points atop the Atlantic Division. The New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers have none at the bottom.

HONOLULU -- PGA Tour rookies Russell Henley and Scott Langley get to play one more round together at the Sony Open, this time with a lot more on the line.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka advanced in contrasting styles Saturday to the fourth round at the Australian Open.

Williams, the tournament favourite aiming for a third consecutive major title, recovered from a break down in

Barça travel to Malaga this week for Thursday’s return leg of the Spanish Cup quarter finals, with a league game on Sunday against Osasuna to follow.

Leo Messi: "Losing a game had to come at some point"

The Argentinian says that "we have to pick ourselves up because we have a Cup match," while Pedro notes that "Piqué's red card conditioned the match" After tonight's match Leo Messi, who scored Barça’s first goal

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