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PREVIEW: Contrasting start to 2009 for Barcelona and Real Madrid
Madrid - Spanish twin giants Barcelona and Real Madrid will make a contrasting start to 2009 this weekend. Barca will kick off the New Year at home to Mallorca on Saturday, full of confidence and expectation, no less than 10 points clear at the top o...
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Iverson leads injury-depleted Pistons to fifth straight win
Los Angeles - With three key players out with injuries, Allen Iverson stepped in to rescue the Detroit Pistons. Iverson scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half, and the short-handed Pistons clipped the visiting New Jersey Nets 83-75 on Wednesda...
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Calling all prospective yogis: Take heed
Hamburg - Madonna practices yoga and so does Courtney Love. Even the German national football team swears by it. The word yoga translates from Sanskrit into English roughly as union with superiors and originated in India. Through its growing popula...
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Djokovic dream a reality as Belgrade event approved
London - Novak Djokovic can officially don two hats after his family consortium won official approval to stage an ATP event in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. The world number three will leave most of the heavy organizational lifting to his relative...
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Linz residents get early start on cultural capital work
Linz/Vilnius - Both Vilnius and Linz planned to start their terms as 2009's joint European Capitals of Culture in the waning hours of 2008. But the residents of Linz couldn't even wait that long. Work began Wednesday afternoon on a four-metre tall cl...
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Teichmann and Kuitunen win Tour de Ski stages - Summary
Nove Mesto, Czech Republic - Axel Teichmann of Germany got his second stage win on Wednesday while Swiss Dario Cologna retained the overall lead in the Tour de Ski cross-country series. On the women's side, the 2007 winner and 2008 runner-up Virpi Ku...
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Teichmann wins stage, Cologna retains Tour de Ski lead
Nove Mesto, Czech Republic - Axel Teichmann of Germany got his second stage win on Wednesday while Swiss Dario Cologna retained the overall lead in the Tour de Ski cross-country series. The former world champion Teichmann, who had dominated Saturday'...
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Rogge: IOC was surprised by Tibet unrest; defends silent diplomacy
Hamburg - The unrest in Tibet took the International Olympic Committee by surprise and it could only react with crisis management to the rising tensions around the Beijing Games, IOC president Jacques Rogge said in an interview. But the Olympic supre...
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