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Flintoff fails to impress ahead of New Zealand tour

sportingaction — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:34:40 +0000

LONDON -- Lancashire all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was out for a duck against Durham as he looked to impress the England selectors ahead of the squad announcement for the first Test against New Zealand. Flintoff was one of seven wickets to fall after lunch against the basement side at Old Trafford as Mark Davies took seven for 33 in the LV County Championship Division One. Resuming on 75 for three, the hosts were hit when Mal Loye became Davies' first victim of the afternoon session for 39 after Lancashire had reached 93 for four.

Johnson, Jones stars at U.S. Indoor Championships

sportingaction — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:05:27 +0000

BOSTON — Allen Johnson is trying to overcome a series of injuries to make one more Olympic team at age 37. Twenty-five-year-old Lolo Jones is aiming for Beijing after rebounding from a disappointing 2004 Olympic trials. Both will run the 60-meter hurdles over the weekend, races expected to be among the most hotly contested events in this [...]

Allen Johnson, Lolo Jones at different ends of hurdling careers

sportingaction — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:46:00 +0000

BOSTON -- Allen Johnson is trying to overcome a series of injuries to make one more Olympic team at age 37.

Sprints, men’s shotput take center state at USA Indoors

sportingaction — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:50:38 +0000

BOSTON -- Four-time U.S. outdoor champion Khadevis Robinson held off a lunging Nicholas Symmonds by a mere hundreth of a second to win the men's 800 meters in 1:46.95 at the AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships on Sunday.

The contest highlighted the fast and furious second day of the competition as the sprints and men's shotput took center stage.

Kluft forced out of worlds by injury

sportingaction — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:28:12 +0000

Carolina Kluft has pulled out of the Swedish team for the IAAF World Indoor pentathlon competition in a fortnight’s time due to a hamstring injury. Kluft, whose only world indoor gold medal success came at the 2003 championships in Birmingham, became aware of the problem when warming up for Thursday night’s GE Galan meeting in Stockholm. The [...]

Mavs shut down LeBron, rout Cavs 92-74

sportingaction — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:31:50 +0000

CLEVELAND — They raised a championship banner. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers then collapsed.

Jason Terry made six 3-pointers and scored 24 points, Dirk Nowitzki added 15 and the Dallas Mavericks, whose NBA title pursuit last season ended with a stunning first-round exit against Golden State, opened 2007-08 with a 92-74 victory over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night.

Lamar Odom involved in two-car crash

sportingaction — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:30:42 +0000

Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom was involved in a two-car crash in Hawthorne, Calif., yesterday morning which sent one person to the hospital TMZ.com reported. Odom was not injured.

Holliday wants to keep 100-meter title in LSU family

sportingaction — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:38:37 +0000

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jake Arnold of Arizona capped his college career with his second NCAA decathlon championship. Heptathlon favorite Diana Pickler of Washington State will leave school without even one. Arnold pulled away in the second day of the 10-event competition to become the first athlete in 22 years to repeat as decathlon champion in the [...]