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(Photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda)Chelsea face Bayern Munich in final clash
Bayern Munich's Philipp Lahm warms up during his team's offical training session in Cluj, Romania, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, a day before the match against CFR Cluj in the Champions League Group E. Bayern Munich says its board will hold talks with coach Louis van Gaal soon to discuss and resolve "current differences". The statement on Monday came shortly after club president Uli Hoeness described the Dutch coach as someone who is difficult to talk to, does not accept other people's opinions and makes poor choices in his team selection....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)Aguero In, Tevez Out For Argentina
Argentina's Lionel Messi, left, dribbles the ball as Australia's Mark Milligan (4) and Stuart Musialik (8) defend during a men's first round Group A soccer match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Shanghai, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008...Full Story

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Mara's marathon aim
| Four years since finishing sixth in the Olympic marathon in Beijing, Team GB hopeful Mara Yamauchi is confident she can reproduce the goods on the streets of London in her second Olympic appearance this August. | The 38-year-old from Oxford qualified for the London Ga...Full Story
Javelin mark smashed
| Sean Keller will be big in Finland. | The Heritage High javelin thrower has been invited to compete in an elite event this summer in the Nordic country, which has a national obsession over javelin. | Just how popular is it? | “It’s like the NFL there,&rdqu...Full Story
British duo fifth in three-metre synchro diving final
Britain's Chris Mears and Nick Robinson-Baker finished fifth in the three-metre synchro final at the European Diving Championships. | They scored 436.74 last time out at the final World Series leg in Mexico but could only manage 390.84 in Eindhoven. | "We'...Full Story
Friday's roundup: G.P. South dashes away with girls track and field title
By Tom Markowski The Detroit News Comments | Grosse Pointe- There was little doubt Grosse Pointe South would repeat as girls regional champions at the Division 1 track and field meet at South on Friday. | The question that faced coach Steve Zaranek was how many of his a...Full Story
WPIAL track meet was golden for A-K athletes
| Alle-Kiski Valley athletes ascended the medal stand about as fast and high as they moved around the oval and leapt through the air at Thursday’s WPIAL track and field championships at Baldwin. | The locals collected 11 gold medals in all. | Bringing home titles in C...Full Story
Malaga and Liverpool chasing Wigan Athletic midfielder Mohamed Diame
| Liverpool has been thought to be the leading candidate to sign Wigan Athletics’ out of contract midfielder, Mohamed Diame. | However, TalkSport has heard reports that Spanish upstart club Malaga could be vying for the player’s signature as well. Diame enjoyed a se...Full Story
Change Of Heart For Richards-ross
| Sanya Richards-Ross admits she has changed her mind on the issue of lifetime Olympic bans for drug cheats and is wishing Dwain Chambers well for London 2012. | The British Olympic Association has officially rescinded their lifetime ban for athletes found guilty of dop...Full Story
Talent showcase at Southern Section track and field championships
The Southern Section track and field championships will be held Saturday at Mount San Antonio College, with field events beginning at 10:30 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. | Sprinter Khalfani Muhammad of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, the second-place finisher in the state ...Full Story
Manchester will test Dwain's campaign to reign once again
| Britain's highest profile "drugs cheat" hardly needed any kind of backing from the sporting world's most notorious dabbler in the dark arts, Chambers' path to London 2012 having been opened by the lifting of the British Olympic Association bar on the selecti...Full Story
Weekend preview: Ferris loath to lose Ulster's winning habit at final hurdle
| "It's been a long journey these last four or five years, getting here from a point where we were sitting at the bottom of the Celtic League and not even making the quarter-finals of this tournament," the Ulster flanker said yesterday. "In coming out of ...Full Story
Collegiate athletic spending rising faster than revenue
Major-college athletics departments increased the amount of money they generate by nearly $190 million in 2011, but they increased their spending by more than $267 million, a USA TODAY Sports analysis finds. In addition, only 22 out of 227 public schools in NCAA Divisio...Full Story
Rutgers' athletic subsidy among nation's highest
While Rutgers reduced spending by $4 million in 2011 from the previous fiscal year, its athletics department received the nation's third largest subsidy, according to a USA TODAY special report examining spending and revenue among NCAA Division I public u | ...Full Story
Like father, like son: Alexander seeks track and field gold
| In the beginning, Willie Alexander Jr. said nothing of his track and field accomplishments to Willie III. | And Junior couldn't have been blamed if he did because he was pretty darn good. | "I never told him anything," dad says before today's Central Section Masters C...Full Story
Sneak preview: Track and field Central Section Masters Championships
| CENTRAL SECTION MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS | Today: Field events begin at 4 p.m., running events 5 p.m. at Buchanan's Veterans Memorial Stadium | Admission: $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors | State qualifiers: The top-three finishers in each of the 16 boys and gi...Full Story
GIRLS' TRACK AND FIELD: Pioneers ready for another title run
After winning first cross country championship in the fall, Simi Valley looks to make history again with Div. II crown.By Erik Boal erik.boal@dailynews.com Staff WriterPosted:   05/18/2012 10:26:29 PM PDTUpdated:   05/18/2012 11:14:17 PM PDT | Amanda Hamilton ...Full Story
4A Track and Field | High School Sports
| MARYSVILLE - With most participants looking ahead to state, Ballard's Emmaline Suchland found ways to stay focused on events at hand Friday at Quil Ceda Stadium. | Suchland won the 100 meters in 12.09 seconds and the 200 in 24.8 during the KingCo/WesCo 4A bi-district ...Full Story
Friday's results from Kentucky track and field meet
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4A, 3A Track and Field | High School Sports
Seattle Times | TACOMA - After Decatur's Drew Thompson finished his final event on Day 1 of the West Central 3A District track and field championships Friday, he took time to shake every volunteer's hand working the high jump. | "That's the way he is," Decatur hur...
Track and field notes: Springs area rules the distance medley relay
Colorado Springs Gazette | Colorado Springs rocks the DMR | Cheyenne Mountain (4A), Vanguard (2A) and The Classical Academy (3A) all won their respective classifications in the girls' 800-meter sprint medley relay Friday, giving the Colorado Springs area winners in three of ...
Anything goes: Rough driving, hard feelings part of the game in Sprint All-Star Race
Sporting News | CONCORD, N.C.—What would Dale Earnhardt Jr. do to win the Sprint All-Star Race Saturday night? | How far would he go? Jimmie Johnson expects Saturday's All-Star Race, and the $1 million that goes to the winner, to 'ruffle some feathers.' (AP Phot...
Kyle Busch takes second straight Sprint All-Star race pole in Charlotte; seeks first win
Hartford Courant CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch has been a force on the NASCAR circuit for years, but of is 24 Sprint Cup victories, none have come at his favorite track — Charlotte Motor Speedway. | He has nine top-10 finishes in 16 starts. Victory lane...
> Moravian College track athletes and coach honored
Penn Live Photos courtesy of Moravian CollegeMoravian's Gary Zack, left, and Abby Schaffer | ...
>Lance Dewease wins 80th Williams Grove Speedway sprint feature
Penn Live | Lance Dewease grabbed the lead from teenager Sheldon Haudenschild on a lap 12 restart and went on to score his 80th career sprint car win at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night. | The win was worth a total of $3,700 for Dewease in a car owned b...
Girls Class 2A track: Adair sweeps sprints, leads Western Hills to title
Lexington Herald-Leader | LOUISVILLE — With the team title in the girls' Class 2A State Track and Field Meet coming down to the final event, Western Hills had an ace in the hole Friday. | Alisha Adair, who already had swept the 100-, 200- and 400-meter sprints, led of...
Boys Class 2A track: Lexington Catholic stars take titles in shot put, 1,600
Lexington Herald-Leader | LOUISVILLE — What would adding 25 pounds of muscle do for you? | Andrew Vollet can tell you what it did for him Friday. | Vollet, a Lexington Catholic junior, won the shot put in the boys' Class 2A State Track and Field Meet at the University...
Penney's Schieber wins state title in shot put
Kansas City Star | JEFFERSON CITY -- The defending champ eyed his main opponent in warmups Friday, wary of the challenge he could pose on this hot and muggy day. | And well, let's just put it this way: It sure didn't take Penney senior T.J. Schieber long to realize h...
Area athletes win 3A track titles
The News & Observer Buy Photo NEWSOBSERVER.COM Chapel Hill's Mitch McLeod sprints to the finish line to take first place in the 3200 meter run during the NCHSAA track and field 3-A state championships in Greensboro on Friday, May 18, 2012. Email Print Order Reprint Shar...
Adam Van Koeverden, 4 Canadians advance at Sprint World Cup
CBC | Olympic medallist Adam van Koeverden moved on to the K1 1,000-metre final as five boats from the Canadian CanoeKayak team advanced at the season-opening Sprint World Cup event. | Van Koeverden, the reigning world champion in the discipline, finishe...
Kyle Busch captures pole for Sprint All-Star race
Boston Herald | CHARLOTTE, N.C. — has been a force on the circuit for years, but of is 24 Sprint Cup victories, none have come at his favorite track — Charlotte Motor Speedway. | He has nine top-10 finishes in 16 starts. Victory lane, though, has prove...
Berry Academy wins North Carolina 3-A track and field state championship
The Charlotte Observer | GREENSBORO Berry Academy claimed the Class 3-A state track and field championship held at N.C. A&T State University on Friday. The Cardinals accumulated 65 points to easily out-distance second-place finisher Northern Guilford’s 47 points. | ...
Girls Track: Class 3A sprints shaping up to be sensational
Chicago Sun-Times | Updated: May 18, 2012 7:42PM | CHARLESTON, Ill. — When Aaliyah Brown goes after two more state titles in the sprints Saturday, she knows what to expect. | Lined up along side the Lincoln-Way East junior will be some familiar foes, national-calibe...
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