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Korean industries gauge impact of Biden's steep tariffs on China
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76ers hand Knicks 5th straight loss
NEW YORK (AP) ― Lou Williams did more than take over the game in the third quarter. He took whatever spirit the sagging New York Knicks had left.The good feelings created last month by Jeremy Lin’s emergence ― along with Lin’s best play ― seem long gone now.“When we get down, it just seems like our whole energy just goes out the door,” Carmelo Anthony said.Williams scored 12 of his 28 points in a dazzling flurry, Evan Turner had 24 points and 15 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers handed the Kn
More SportsMarch 12, 2012
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Stage set for March Madness
This time around, the drama began before the brackets even came out.Kentucky, Syracuse and North Carolina all earned top seeding for the NCAA tournament Sunday despite surprising weekend losses that brought more intrigue to the three-week, 67-game tournament better known as March Madness.Michigan State earned the other No. 1 seed and was the only one of the four top-billed teams to win its conference tournament. The Spartans defeated Ohio State 68-64 in the Big Ten title game ― a contest widely
More SportsMarch 12, 2012
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Rose takes Doral by one stroke over Watson
DORAL, Florida (AP) ― On a day of endless drama at Doral, Justin Rose won his first World Golf Championship standing on the practice range.Rose had to make up a three-shot deficit against Bubba Watson, and then a two-shot deficit against Keegan Bradley. Rose was steady down the stretch, even with a bogey from the bunker on the 18th hole, and closed with a 2-under 70 to win the Cadillac Championship.Watson, as always, made it interesting. He hit a bullet of a 4-iron out of the palm trees to just
GolfMarch 12, 2012
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Isinbayeva wins pole vault gold
ISTANBUL (AP) ― Yelena Isinbayeva was humbled this time.Over the years, the Russian pole vaulter had won so much and set so many records that she said she lost the value of success. Then came a long slump, and now she has fresh appreciation for what it means to win a competition even without a world record.“The main problem was that, for me, victory was like nothing special at all,” Isinbayeva said after winning the gold medal Sunday at the world indoor championships with just two jumps. “To set
More SportsMarch 12, 2012
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Man United surges to EPL lead
LONDON (AP) ― Manchester United took over the Premier League lead at the end of a round of games for the first time since Oct. 15, beating West Bromwich Albion 2-0 Sunday on a pair of goals by Wayne Rooney as Manchester City lost 1-0 at Swansea.Rooney deflected in a shot by Javier Hernandez in the 35th minute at Old Trafford, then converted a penalty kick in the 71st after Keith Andrews fouled Ashley Young. Rooney increased his season total to 26 goals, including 20 in the league.At Swansea, Luk
SoccerMarch 12, 2012
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Eaton sets world mark in heptathlon
ISTANBUL (AP) ― Justin Gatlin’s fear of fading into obscurity disappeared in a sprint for gold at the world indoor championships.Shortly after teammate Ashton Eaton set a heptathlon world record on an all-American day in Istanbul, Gatlin earned his first gold medal since serving a four-year doping suspension and Sanya Richards-Ross won the 400 meters by a wide margin.Gatlin chased down Nesta Carter to win the 60 meters in 6.46 seconds ― 0.08 seconds better than his Jamaican rival.“It feels like
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Wolves’ Rubio out for season
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― Ricky Rubio’s sensational rookie season has come to a devastatingly abrupt end.The Minnesota Timberwolves point guard will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced on Saturday. Now the upstart Wolves will have to keep chasing a playoff berth without one of the players who was most responsible for the franchise’s resurgence.“I feel bad for Ricky having to miss the rest of this season,” Wolves president David Kahn said in a statement. “But
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Watson goes after 1st world title
DORAL, Florida (AP) ― Bubba Watson hit one shot over the green and off the tower. Another shot hit a fan in the gallery. As wild as it looked at time, he never lost control of his game and he never lost the lead Saturday in the Cadillac Championship.Watson raced off to an eagle-birdie start, then survived a few errant shots coming home on the Blue Monster for a 5-under 67, giving him a three-shot lead and putting him on the verge of his first World Golf Championship. “All in all, it was a great
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Djokovic earns win over qualifier
INDIAN WELLS, California (AP) ― Novak Djokovic opened his bid for a third BNP Paribas Open championship by topping qualifier Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday.The top-ranked Djokovic, who beat Rafael Nadal in last year’s finale at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and also won in 2008, is 23-4 on the slow PlexiPave courts that he said favor his game and will face No. 29 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa in the third round.It is the second year in a row that Djokovic has beaten Gol
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Manning watch moves to desert
TEMPE, Arizona (AP) ― The Peyton Manning stakeout moved to Arizona on Saturday, even though there was no sign of the superstar in the desert.Manning spent nearly six hours at the Denver Broncos’ facility on Friday, and speculation was high that the Cardinals would be his next stop.The Cardinals’ facility was a bee hive of activity as the setting for Kurt Warner’s annual “Ultimate Football Experience,” a fundraiser for his First Things First foundation that features current and past football star
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Mo, Yu, Nesbitt win speedskating titles
BERLIN (AP) ― Yu Jing of China won her second 500-meter race in two days at the speedskating finals Saturday to claim the overall World Cup title.Christine Nesbitt of Canada was third, 0.54 seconds behind, and finished 10th overall, but she made up for it later when she won the 1,500 meter race, and with it the World Cup title.Yu followed up Friday’s success by winning the last race of the season in 37.63 seconds, with Olympic champion Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea second.Lee also finished second
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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Choo goes deep but Indians fall
GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) ― Dustin Moseley was told to lighten up for a change. He did, and it worked wonders.Moseley, loosening the grip on his changeup, pitched three scoreless innings and Will Venable had three hits to help the San Diego Padres beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 Saturday.“I thought his stuff was very crisp,” Padres manager Bud Black said of Moseley, working his way back from shoulder surgery on Aug 3. “He had command of his fastball. He did all the things you look for in an all-arou
BaseballMarch 11, 2012
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Spurs loss tightens top-4 race
Drogba nets 100th EPL goal; Ronaldo reaches 40LONDON (AP) ― The race for the final two Champions League berths in the Premier League tightened Saturday when Everton sent Tottenham to its third straight league loss and Chelsea defeated Stoke on Didier Drogba’s 100th goal in England’s top division.Nikica Jelavic scored in the 22nd minute and American goalkeeper Tim Howard got the shutout in Everton’s 1-0 victory over Spurs at Goodison Park. Chelsea won 1-0 against visiting Stoke as Drogba scored i
More SportsMarch 11, 2012
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S. Korea in tough draw in final World Cup qualification round
South Korea has drawn tough counterparts in the final Asian qualification round for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. In a draw held Friday at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, South Korea, No. 30 in the FIFA rankings, was paired with Iran, U
SportsMarch 9, 2012
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Motorboat racer indicted on match-fixing charges
Prosecutors on Friday detained and indicted a motorboat racer on charges of fixing races, officials said, in the first legal case of its kind in South Korea. The 36-year-old racer surnamed Park is suspected of taking cash from two gambling brokers in exchange for giving them the predicte
SportsMarch 9, 2012
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Lee hits first homer of spring
Lee Dae-ho of the Orix Buffaloes hit his first home run of the spring at Thursday’s game, taking the Seibu Lions’ starter deep in the first inning for a two-run homer. Now, after three spring training games, Lee is 2 for 8 with a .250 batting average. It’s a bit of a slow start for the Korean slugger following his successful winter training season. During the winter, Lee went 13 for 19 with a .684 average, raising expectations for his debut year in Japan.Orix manager Akinobu Okada, who watched L
BaseballMarch 9, 2012
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S.Korea, China dominant at short track speedskating
SHANGHAI (AP) -- South Korean and Chinese skaters swept most of the podium finishes in the 1,500-meter races Friday to open the world short-track speedskating championships.Noh Jink-yu of South Korea won gold in the men’s 1,500 in a time of 2 minutes, 15.661 seconds, with teammates Kwak Yoon-gy second in 2:15.755 and Sin Da-woon in third in 2:15.861.In the women‘s race, Li Jianrou finished in a time of 2:23.217, less than two one-hundredths of a second faster than Liu Qiuhong’s 2:23.411. Canada‘
More SportsMarch 9, 2012
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Scott, Dufner tied for lead at Cadillac
DORAL, Florida (AP) ― In fierce and relentless wind on the TPC Blue Monster at Doral, Adam Scott kept the ball in play and then hung on for dear life for a 6-under 66 that gave him a share of the lead with Jason Dufner in the Cadillac Championship.“When you’re in the fairway on a day like today, you get a chance to hit it somewhere near the hole, give yourself an opportunity,” Scott said. “If you’re in the rough, it’s very hard to even just hit the green, let alone give yourself a chance. I took
GolfMarch 9, 2012
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Marino: Manning ‘fits with anybody’
AVENTURA, Florida (AP) ― If Peyton Manning wants to talk about playing quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, Dan Marino would be thrilled to take his call.And just in case, Marino has his sales pitch ready.“There’s great tradition there. We’ve had a couple off years but believe me, they’ll be back,” said Marino, the Hall of Famer who threw for 420 touchdowns and more than 61,000 yards in his career. “It’s a great franchise and they’ll get it turned around.”Manning would almost certainly help in th
More SportsMarch 9, 2012
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Korea faces Iran in 2014 WC Asian qualifying round
South Korea has been grouped with Iran in the final Asian qualifying round for the Brazil 2014 World Cup. In a draw held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, Korea was picked to face the side in Group A along with Uzbekistan, Lebanon and Qatar.Ten teams were divided into two groups of five in the draw. In Group B, Australia is pitted against Japan, Iraq, Oman and Jordan. Asia has 4.5 tickets for the FIFA World Cup. The top-two teams of the two groups will automatically qualify for the 2014 Worl
SoccerMarch 9, 2012