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Martina Hingis in Action
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DURHAM, N.C. — A judge Friday ordered a paternity test on a baby expected by the woman who has accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape. But both the district attorney and the defense rejected any possibility that one of the men is the father.
News of the accuser’s pregnancy comes roughly nine months after the team party where she says she was raped.
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BERLUSCONI LAUNCHES SHEVA ATTACK
AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has launched a scathing personal attack on Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko.
The Ukrainian has struggled to make an impact since his 30million move from the San Siro and the former Italy Prime Minister has chosen to take a public view on Shevchenko’s private life – describing him as a “lap-dog” for his supermodel wife.
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Freddy Adu was traded Monday from D.C. United to Real Salt Lake, ending a sometimes tumultuous three-year run in Washington for the highly touted teenager who clashed with his coach and was often frustrated by his role.
The 17-year-old will move to an MLS franchise in need of a marketable star as it hopes to boost attendance and gain support for a new stadium. He will also get to be an attacking midfielder, a position he never played consistently with United.
“It will be fun to be reunited with him. It will be even more rewarding to have him score goals for us instead of against us,” said Real Salt Lake coach John Ellinger, Adu’s former coach on the U.S. Under-17 club.
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Vernon Wells said he wanted to take care of his kid’s kids. He’ll get that chance with the Toronto Blue Jays. The All-Star center fielder and the Blue Jays agreed Friday night to a $126 million, seven-year contract extension through 2014, the sixth-largest deal in baseball history.
“How can you not be happy?” Wells said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press hours before terms of the deal were finalized. “Like I said, my family comes first. Obviously this gives me an opportunity to set my family up for a couple of generations. That’s the biggest part of this thing. And this gives me a chance to do something special in Toronto that hasn’t been done in a while.”
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The Suns extended one of the best stretches in franchise history. The 76ers remained stuck in a dismal one, on the trade front and the basketball court. And by the end of the night, Kobe Bryant had yanked the headlines away from both of them with another sensational performance.
Bryant scored a season-high 53 points, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 21-point deficit to beat the Houston Rockets 112-101 in double overtime Friday night.
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Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, right, tries to score unsuccessfully during their English Premier League soccer match against Arsenal at the Stamford Bridge ground in London, Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. The match ended 1-1.
“The goal was tremendous, unbelievable,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said. “We were losing at home with five minutes to go, but we had an incredible reaction and should have won the game.”
Manchester United has an eight-point lead in the standings, but with one more game played than Chelsea. Man United, which beat Manchester City 3-1 on Saturday, has 44 points, followed by Chelsea with 36. Arsenal has 26 points.
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Atlanta Hawks center Zaza Pachulia (27), from Georgia, loses the ball while driving through Sacramento Kings defenders Ron Artest, left, and Shareef Abdur-Rahim (3) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006.
Brad Miller scored a season-high 19 points and the Kings snapped a five-game losing steak with a 117-92 win over the
Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night.
