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Els wins Grand Slam of Golf

Thu, 10/21/2010 - 09:27 by Prince damin

Southampton, Bermuda -- Three straight birdies on the back nine Wednesday vaulted Ernie Els into first place Wednesday and he went on to capture the Grand Slam of Golf.

Els won the event for the second time, his other triumph having come 13 years ago.

The two-day tournament is designed to bring together the winners of the year's for major championships -- the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship. Only two of those winners, however, played this week at the Port Royal Golf Course.

Masters winner Phil Mickelson and British Open champ Luis Oosthuizen chose not to compete and were replaced by Els and David Toms.

Els shot a 2-under-par 69 Wednesday for a 5-under 137 total and a one-shot victory over Toms.

Nadal solid at No. 1, Djokovic up to 2nd

Tue, 09/14/2010 - 21:51 by Prince damin

London -- Rafael Nadal's completion of the career Grand Slam cemented his hold on the world No. 1 spot in tennis and U.S. Open runner-up Novak Djokovic moved to No. 2.

Nadal finished off the rain-delayed Open with a four-set victory Monday over Djokovic. It was his ninth major tournament title but first at the U.S. Open. Nadal has won the French Open five times, Wimbledon twice and the Australian Open once.

He has won the last three Grand Slam events and will go for the "Rafa Slam" in January in Australia.

Djokovic returned to the world No. 2 position with his finals appearance. He got there by beating Roger Federer, keeping Federer out of the U.S. Open finals for the first time since 2003 and knocking him to No. 3 in the rankings.

MLB: Boston 6, Cleveland 2

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 09:23 by Prince damin

Boston -- Adrian Beltre's grand slam and Daisuke Matsuzaka's eight-inning effort Thursday lifted the Boston Red Sox to a 6-2 win over Cleveland.
The teams split a four-game series.

Matsuzaka (8-3) gave up a solo homer to Shin-Soo Choo in the first inning but limited the Indians to just four other hits until he was removed in the ninth. He struck out six in helping Boston win for the ninth time in 14 games.

Cleveland starter Josh Tomlin, making the third appearance of his major league career, retired the first 10 men he faced before giving up a single to Marco Scutaro in the fourth. After David Ortiz flew to left for the second out of the inning, Tomlin walked both Victor Martinez and J.D. Drew.

MLB: Toronto 8, Cleveland 1

Sat, 07/31/2010 - 09:28 by Prince damin

Toronto -- Baseball's home run leader, Jose Bautista, highlighted a six-run fourth with a grand slam Friday, pacing the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8-1 victory over Cleveland.

It was the 31st homer of the season for Bautista, who established a club record with his 11th long ball of July. He had three hits overall and helped bring the Blue Jays their fourth straight win.

Toronto had a 1-0 lead before sending 10 men to the plate in the fourth. Edwin Encarnacion and Yunel Escobar drove in the first two runs of the inning with singles and both runners scored along with Fred Lewis on the Bautista home run.

All eight Toronto runs came off Justin Masterson (3-10), who allowed a career-worst 13 hits over 5 1/3 innings.

MLB: Pittsburgh 11, Milwaukee 9

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 09:34 by Pankaj Damin

Pittsburgh -- Pedro Alvarez blasted a grand slam homer in a nine-run first inning Tuesday and the Pittsburgh Pirates hung on to down Milwaukee 11-9.

Alvarez added a solo blast in the next inning and finished the night with five RBI. Neil Walker went 5-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored as the Pirates scored nine runs in the first inning of a home game for the first time since 1893.

Walker, Delwyn Young and Jose Tabata each collected run-scoring doubles in the big inning.

The Brewers, however stormed back for seven runs and nine hits off Pirates starter Brad Lincoln and D.J. Carrasco (2-2) came in to toss 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to collect the victory.

MLB: San Francisco 15, Milwaukee 2

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 11:09 by Pankaj Damin

Milwaukee -- Buster Posey drove in six runs with a grand slam and a two-run homer Wednesday in the San Francisco Giants' 15-2 rout of Milwaukee.

The Giants jumped off to a 4-0 lead in the first, thanks in part to Posey's two-run blast, and his grand slam in the fourth extended San Francisco's lead to 11-1.

Andres Torres homered and drove in three runs, Freddy Sanchez chipped in with three RBI and Aubrey Huff added a solo shot for the Giants, who won their third straight over the Brewers.

Tim Lincecum (9-4) tossed seven strong innings, striking out 10 while allowing one run on four hits.

Brewers starter Chris Narveson (7-6) was lit up for 10 runs on nine hits in 3 1/3 innings.

Martina Navratilova determined to overpower cancer

Sat, 04/10/2010 - 15:40 by Samia Sehgal

Tennis great Martina Navratilova is going through what is possibly the toughest phase in her life, but she is not prepared to give in to it.

Andy Roddick to miss Davis Cup this year

Fri, 01/08/2010 - 20:14 by Samia Sehgal

Brisbane, Australia, January 8 -- Andy Roddick will not be a part of the U.S. Davis Cup team this year. The American has pulled out of the tournament to avoid any serious damage to his previously injured knee.

MLB: Oakland 5, Seattle 2

Mon, 09/07/2009 - 04:44 by surajdogra

Oakland, Calif. -- Scott Hairston's seventh-inning grand slam Sunday lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 5-2 win over the Seattle Mariners.

Landon Powell also homered for the A's.

Winning pitcher Gio Gonzalez (5-5) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings.

Jose Lopez and Adrian Beltre singled in the Seattle runs.

Reliever Shawn Kelley (4-2), victim of Hairston's blast, was the loser.

Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki collected the 2,000th hit of his major-major career, a double to right field in the first inning.

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