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Tennis: Rain disrupted today's Women's Semi-Final at the
Wimbledon Championships. Play didn't start until after 5pm when it should have began at 1pm. Despite the delay fans were treated with 2 superb matches. In a shockingly powerful performance
Venus Williams (seeded 14th) beat the reigning champion
Maria Sharapova in straight sets, 7-6 (7-2) 6-1. The win was highly unexpected but the match was considered some of the best
Tennis from the ladies all season. In Court 1
Lindsay Davenport faced
Amelie Mauresmo in an equally highly entertaining match. In the middle of the 3rd set it began to rain and so the match was left at 7-6 6-7 5-3 to Davenport.
(BBC Sport)*
Baseball:
Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers is in trouble with his team and could be in trouble with the law after he shoves two cameramen walking onto the field at
Ameriquest Field in
Arlington, Texas for a pre-game warm-up before a game against the
Los Angeles Angels. One of the cameramen,
Larry Rodriguez, has filed assault charges against Rogers. Rodriguez was taken to a local hospital, complaining of neck, back, and arm pain. Rogers has refused to talk to local media (
Dallas, in this case) this season after a report was released during
spring training that said Rogers was having trouble trying to get a contract extension with the Rangers.
(Yahoo!)*
Tennis: In today's
Wimbledon men's quarterfinals, defending champion
Roger Federer beat
Chilean
Fernando González in straight sets 7-5 6-2 7-6(2).
Andy Roddick also made it through to the final four after beating
Sebastien Grosjean in a tough but exhilarating five-set thriller 3-6 6-2 6-1 3-6 6-3. Meanwhile
Australian
Lleyton Hewitt saw off
Feliciano Lopez in straight sets 7-5 6-4 7-6(2) and finally
Thomas Johansson reached his first ever Wimbledon semi-final by seeing off
David Nalbandian in straight sets 7-6(5) 6-2 6-2.
(BBC Sport)*
Auto racing:
**
Formula 1:
***The seven teams that use
Michelin tires are found guilty on two of five charges brought against them before the
World Motor Sport Council for their failure to race in the
2005 United States Grand Prix. Announcement of punishment has been deferred to
September 14.
(Motorsport.com)***The
2006 Formula One season may have a record 20 races, as the
FIA releases the preliminary calendar for
next year. How the race order will go is yet to be determined, but the
Malaysian Grand Prix is presumed to be the season opener, because the usual season opener, the
Australian Grand Prix, is being pushed back to April because of the
2006 Commonwealth Games.
(FIA press release; calendar is located on the very bottom)*
Basketball:
**The
2005 NBA Draft takes place in
New York City. The
Milwaukee Bucks make
Andrew Bogut, a
center from
Australia by way of the
University of Utah, the top overall pick. Four players from reigning
NCAA champions North Carolina are among the
lottery picks (i.e., the first 14 players drafted).
(AP/Yahoo!)*
Auto racing:
**
Formula One:
***
Michelin announces they will reimburse all money to all spectators who attended the
2005 United States Grand Prix in
Indianapolis, in which the seven teams that use Michelins refused to take part in over safety issues regarding their tires. Michelin also announces they will offer to buy 20,000 tickets for next year's
United States Grand Prix to give to spectators who attended this year's race, trying to help better promote the sport in the
United States. How those tickets will be distributed and how much money will be given back is unclear at this time.
(CNN.com)***The seven teams who refused to race in the recent
2005 United States Grand Prix will face a disciplinary hearing this coming Wednesday. The teams face charges of bringing the sport into disrepute and could be docked constructors' points.
(BBC Sport)*
Tennis:
Venus Williams,
Maria Sharapova,
Lindsay Davenport and
Amelie Mauresmo are all in the
Wimbledon semi-finals after they saw off stiff competition respectively in today's Quarter Finals.
(BBC Sport)*
Cricket: Rain stopped play six overs into
England's run-chase in the
NatWest Series match against
Australia. Play was stopped a couple of times before that as well, but eventually - with England 37-1 - the match was declared a no-result.
England's bowling restricted the
Australian score to 261-9.
Darren Gough claimed three late wickets among five falling for 30 runs.
Andrew Symonds had the top-score with 74, putting on 101 with
Mike Hussey (45).
(BBC Sport)*
Rugby union: The
British and Irish Lions score the first truly convincing win of their
current tour of New Zealand, destroying
NPC Division Two team Manawatu 109-6.
Wales international Shane Williams equals a Lions record with five .
(BBC)*
Golf:
**
South Korea's
Birdie Kim wins the
U.S. Women's Open with an overall score of
3-over, making birdie on the 72nd and final hole to break a tie between she and
amateur Morgan Pressel.
Annika Sörenstam finishes at 12-over in an 8-way tie for 23rd, ending her hopes of winning the calendar grand slam.
Michelle Wie, who had been in a three-way tie for the lead after the third round, balloons to a final-round 82 and finishes level with Sörenstam.
(LPGA.com)**
PGA TOUR:
Ireland's
Padraig Harrington gets his second PGA TOUR win this season, and the second of his career at the
Barclays Classic in
Rye, New York with a score of 10-under.
(PGATOUR.com)*
Auto racing:
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NASCAR:
Tony Stewart wins the
Nextel Cup Series Dodge/SaveMart 350 at the
Infineon Raceway in
Sonoma, California, passing
Ricky Rudd in the closing laps.
(NASCAR.com)**
Champ Car World Series:
Paul Tracy defeats
A.J. Allmendinger to win the
Grand Prix of Cleveland at the
Burke Lakefront Airport in
Cleveland, Ohio.
(ChampCarWorldSeries.com)*
Rugby union: In the first Test match of the
British and Irish Lions tour of
New Zealand, the
Lions are comprehensively beaten 21-3
in Christchurch by the
All Blacks. Lions captain
Brian O'Driscoll suffers a dislocated shoulder less than two minutes in, ending his tour, and fellow Lion
Richard Hill is also injured.
(BBC)(Or
24 June 2005 for those in the
Eastern Standard Time zone)
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Basketball: The
San Antonio Spurs win their third
NBA championship in seven years, defeating the
Detroit Pistons 81-74 in the first game 7 in an
NBA Finals since
1994.
Tim Duncan is named the
most valuable player of the series for the third time. Only
Magic Johnson,
Michael Jordan, and
Shaquille O'Neal have won three MVPs besides Duncan. Jordan, of course, won a record 6.
(NBA.com)*
Basketball: The
NBA and the NBA Players Association agree to a new
collective bargaining agreement, averting a potential lockout. Among the terms of the agreement is an age limit, which will require all American players to be 19 or older on draft day.
(ESPN.com)*
Cricket:
England (391-4,
Paul Collingwood 112 not out and 6-31,
Andrew Strauss 152) beat Bangladesh (223 all out) by 168 runs, as England set the second highest One-day International score ever, and Collingwood became the first to score a century and take a six-wicket-haul in the same match.
BBC*
Football (soccer): In the final of the
2005 UEFA Women's Championship,
Germany beat
Norway 3-1, to win the title for the fourth successive time.
(UEFA.com)*
Cricket:
England (253 for 7,
Kevin Pietersen 91 not out) beat
Australia (252-9) by 3 wickets to hand Australia their second defeat in two days, and their fourth consecutive loss to England in all competitions.
(BBC)*
Auto racing:
**
Dane Tom Kristensen wins his record seventh race at the
24 hours of Le Mans for
Audi with
J.J. Lehto and
Merco Werner.
(ESPN)**
Formula One: At the start of the
United States Grand Prix race in the
2005 season all cars using
Michelin tires pull out of the race because of safety concerns.
Michael Schumacher wins,
Rubens Barrichello finishes second, and
Tiago Monteiro finishes third. A happy Monteiro is the only one who sprays champagne on the podium. Some angry fans vent frustration by hurtling bottles and other forms of trash onto the circuit.
(BBC)**
NASCAR Nextel Cup:
Greg Biffle takes his fifth win of the year at the
Batman Begins 400 at
Michigan International Speedway. Biffle has won the last two races at the track.
(ESPN)*
Golf:
Michael Campbell of
New Zealand wins the
2005 U.S. Open with a score of even
par, two strokes ahead of
Tiger Woods.
(ESPN)*
Cricket:
Bangladesh (250 for 5,
Mohammad Ashraful 100) beat
Australia (249 for 5,
Damien Martyn 77) by 5 wickets in one of the biggest upsets in cricket's history.
Rediff.com*
Football (soccer): In the second semi-final of the
2005 UEFA Women's Championship,
Norway beat
Sweden 3-2 after extra time.
(UEFA.com) Norway will meet Euro and World Cup title-holders
Germany in Sunday's final, to be played at
Ewood Park,
Blackburn.
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Cricket:
England (192 for 0,
Trescothick 100*,
Strauss 82*) beat
Bangladesh (190,
Aftab 51) by ten wickets in the first match of the NatWest Series at
the Oval.
(Wisden Cricinfo)*
Athletics -
Men's 100 metres -
Asafa Powell of
Jamaica sets a new world record of 9.77 at the
Athens Olympic Stadium.
(BBC)*
NASCAR: The merger between the
Sprint Corporation and
Nextel means that the
Nextel Cup Series will become the
Sprint Cup Series in
2007. The name change is expected to be approved within two weeks.
(The Tennessean)*
Arena football: The
Colorado Crush win
ArenaBowl XIX in
Las Vegas 51-48 over the
Georgia Force. Crush kicker
Clay Rush kicks the title-winning field goal with 3 seconds left.
(ArenaFootball.com)*
Auto racing:
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Formula 1:
Kimi Räikkönen wins the
Canadian Grand Prix in
Montreal over
Michael Schumacher. Both
Renaults drop out, and
Juan Pablo Montoya is disqualified for failing to heed the red light at the end of pit road as the
safety car leads by a long string of cars, a safety car that was brought out after polesitter
Jenson Button crashes.
(Formula1.com)**
Nextel Cup:
Carl Edwards wins the
Pocono 500 in
Long Pond, Pennsylvania for his second Nextel Cup win of the season.
(NASCAR.com)*
Football (soccer):
Norway join
Germany in the semi-finals of the
2005 UEFA Women's Championship following a 5-3 defeat of
Italy and Germany's 3-0 win over
France. (UEFA.com –
Norway-Italy,
Germany-France)
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Golf:
**
Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to win the first two
majors of the year since
1986, waltzing to a three-shot win at the
LPGA Championship in
Havre de Grace, Maryland. Second place went to 15-year-old
Michelle Wie, who scored the highest finish by an amateur in a major since
1998.
(AP/Yahoo!)**
Sergio García wins the Booz Allen Classic on the
PGA Tour, this year held at Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda, Maryland. The Classic, the old Kemper Open, is held annually in suburban
Washington, DC. It is generally held at the TPC (
Tournament Players Club) at Avenel in
Potomac, Maryland, but Avenel is being renovated. Having the tournament at Congressional, the week before this year's
U.S. Open, attracted the best field ever for the event.
(AP/Yahoo!)*
Horse racing:
Afleet Alex passes
Giacomo in the final turn at
Belmont Park in
Elmont, New York, and runs away with the
Belmont Stakes, the final jewel of the now meaningless
Triple Crown.
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NFL Europe: The
Amsterdam Admirals defeat the
Berlin Thunder 27-21 to win
World Bowl XIII, held at the
LTU Arena in
Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Boxing:
**Former
heavyweight champion
Mike Tyson quits his fight with little-regarded
Kevin McBride after six rounds, giving the large Irishman an unexpected victory.
ESPN**
WBO super lightweight champion
Miguel Cotto preserves his undefeated record by defeating
Muhammad Abdullaev on a
technical knockout in the ninth round. Cotto had earlier been beaten by Abdullaev for the gold medal at the
2000 Summer Olympics.
ESPN*
Auto racing:
Tomas Scheckter wins the
IndyCar Bombardier Learjet 500k at
Texas Motor Speedway in
Fort Worth,
Texas.
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Football:
UEFA grants special dispensation to allow
2005 UEFA Champions League winners
Liverpool to enter the 2005-
06 Champions League in the first qualifying round. The position of the other four
English entries in the draw for the competition will not be affected.
(ESPN Soccernet)*
Football:
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2005 UEFA Women's Championship:
***
Italy 0-4
Germany (UEFA.com)***
France 1-1
Norway (UEFA.com)*
Football:
**
Football World Cup 2006:
***
Iran,
Japan,
Saudi Arabia and
South Korea become the first four nations after
the hosts to qualify for next year's World Cup Finals in
Germany. Saudi Arabia and South Korea secure the top two positions in
Asian Qualifying Group A, and Iran and Japan secure the top two positions in
Group B, all with one match to spare.
(BBC)***Later,
Argentina becomes the next team to qualify after defeating archrivals
Brazil 3-1 in
South America qualifying in
Buenos Aires. With the win, Argentina assures itself of finishing no worse than fourth in its group, which guarantees automatic qualification.
(Reuters/Yahoo!)**
2005 UEFA Women's Championship:
***
Denmark 2-1 host
England (UEFA.com)***
Sweden 0-0
Finland (UEFA.com)*
Golf:
**
LPGA: LPGA commissioner
Ty Votaw announces that the women's tour will implement a playoff system in
2006 at the season-ending
ADT Championship. The playoff system will consist of 30 players determined by a points system, and two wild cards. The winner of the tournament will win a $1 million prize.
(USAToday.com)*
Football (soccer):
**
Women's Euro 2005***
Germany beat
Norway 1-0 in the opening match in Group B, while
Marinette Pichon scored two goals as
France beat
Italy by 3-1.
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Basketball:
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NBA Playoffs: The defending champion
Detroit Pistons earn their second consecutive trip to the
NBA Finals with an 88-82 victory over the
Miami Heat in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. They will meet the
San Antonio Spurs. Game 1 of the Finals will be on
June 9.
(AP/Yahoo!)*
Rugby union:
** In their North American tour,
Wales defeats the
USA in East Hartford, Connecticut by a record 77 points to 3, despite two-thirds of their regular team being unavailable through being on the
British and Irish Lions team currently
touring New Zealand.
(BBC)*
Floorball:
**
Switzerland's women team wins the
Women's World Floorball Championship 2005 in Singapore, defeating the team of
Finland 4–3 (2–1, 1–1, 1–1). Former world champion
Sweden takes the third place.
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Golf:
**
Bart Bryant wins the
PGA TOUR's
The Memorial Tournament with a final score of 16-under par. It's Bryant's second career PGA TOUR win.
(PGATOUR.com)*
Tennis:
**
Rafael Nadal beats
Mariano Puerta for the
men's singles title in the
2005 French Open.
*
Cricket:
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2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup:
***
Kenya (300-6d & 282-9d) (17pts) drew with
Namibia (335-9d & 68-5) (15pts) at
Windhoek. Kenya go through to the semi-finals as winners of the African group
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2005 English cricket season:
**
Bangladesh Tour, 2nd Test:
***
England (447 for 3 declared,
Ian Bell 162*,
Marcus Trescothick 151,
Graham Thorpe 66*) beat
Bangladesh (104,
Steve Harmison 5/38, and 316,
Aftab Ahmed 82*,
Javed Omar 71,
Habibul Bashar 63,
Matthew Hoggard 5 for 73) by an innings and 27 runs to win the second Test at
Riverside,
Chester-le-Street. England win the two-Test series 2-0 to cement their ranking as the second-best Test team in the world. Bangladesh remain tenth.
**
Australian Tour of England:
***The
Australian team has landed in England to start their tour of England
**
National League, Division One:
***The match between
Glamorgan (2pts) and
Nottinghamshire (2pts) is abandoned without a ball being bowled
**
National League, Division Two:
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Boxing:
**
Ricky Hatton defeats
Kostya Tszyu to become the new IBF Light Welterweight champion of the world at the
MEN Arena in
Manchester,
England. Tszyu was behind on the cards of all three judges when he failed to answer the bell for the 12th, and final, round.
(BBC)*
Football (soccer):
**
Women's Euro 2005***
Sweden and
Denmark battle to a 1-1 draw in the opening match at
Bloomfield Road in
Blackpool.
(BBC)*** In the day's second match, a competition-record crowd of 29,092 at the
City of Manchester Stadium watches
England defeat
Finland 3-2 in a match in the same group. The Finns came back from 0-2 at half-time to tie the match 2-2 when
Laura Kalmari scored with two minutes to go, but England's 17-year-old striker
Karen Carney scored the decisive goal in injury time.
(BBC)*
Arena Football League:
**The
Georgia Force win the Arena League's National Conference championship game 60-58 over the
Orlando Predators. Force
quarterback Matt Nagy throws 7 touchdown passes and runs for another. It's the franchise's first trip to the
ArenaBowl as the Force, but third overall, as they made two straight trips in
2000 and
2001 as the old version of the
Nashville Kats. They lost both times.
(USAToday.com)*
2005 English cricket season:
**
Bangladesh Tour, 2nd Test:
***
Ian Bell becomes the first Englishman since
Les Ames 70 years ago to score 100 runs in a Test match before lunch
**
County Championship, Division One:
***
Sussex (12pts) drew with
Glamorgan (8pts)
***
Hampshire (17pts) beat
Nottinghamshire (4pts) by 14 runs
***
Surrey (10pts) drew with
Warwickshire (8pts)
**
County Championship, Division Two:
***
Derbyshire (11pts) drew with
Essex (9pts)
***
Lancashire (7pts) drew with
Northamptonshire (7pts)
***
Leicestershire (10pts) drew with
Somerset (7pts)
***
Worcestershire (9pts) drew with
Durham (9pts)
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Football (soccer):
**
2006 World Cup European qualifying***
Israel come from behind to draw 2-2 with
Ireland at
Lansdowne Road in a bad-tempered match. Five Israeli players were given
yellow cards, as was one Irish player while another Irish player,
Andy O'Brien was
sent off.
(IOL)*
Tennis:
**
Justine Henin-Hardenne wins her second
French Open title in three years, defeating
2000 champion and
French citizen
Mary Pierce 6-1, 6-1.
(AP/ESPN)*
Rugby union:
**The
British and Irish Lions win the first match of their
tour to New Zealand, defeating
Bay of Plenty 34-20 in
Rotorua. Experienced
England back-rower
Lawrence Dallaglio suffers a serious ankle injury, ending his tour.
(BBC)*
Major League Baseball:
**In a pivotal, yet still early-in-the-season game between
National League East Division rivals the
Florida Marlins and the
Washington Nationals, Nationals outfielder
Marlon Byrd accidentally railroads second base umpire
Joe Brinkman while rushing toward first base ump
Bill Miller to argue a call during the top of the seventh inning, a call that came a half-inning earlier. Byrd is ejected seconds before he smashes into Brinkman, who is uninjured. The incident overshadows the Nationals' 7-3 win.
(SI.com)*
2005 English cricket season:
**
County Championship, Division One:
***
Kent (18pts) beat
Gloucestershire (3pts) by 7 wickets. Kent are deducted 8pts for preparing a poor pitch
**
MCC University matches:
***
Cambridge UCCE beat
Middlesex by 2 wickets
***
Yorkshire beat
Bradford/Leeds UCCE by 5 wickets
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Auto racing: For the second time in a year-and-a-half,
NASCAR Busch Series driver
Shane Hmiel is suspended for violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy. In September
2003, Hmiel failed a drug test, and was barred indefinitely, with the punishing ultimately lasting five months. Hmeil has since hired a lawyer to combat this.
(TheState.com)*
Football:
**An independent commission charged by the
English Premier League with investigating the alleged "tapping up" of
Arsenal defender
Ashley Cole by
Chelsea issues its findings. Cole, Chelsea, and Chelsea manager
José Mourinho are all found guilty. Cole is fined £100,000, Mourinho £200,000, and Chelsea £300,000. Chelsea also receive a suspended three-point deduction for 2005-06, which will be assessed if they commit another tapping-up offense in the 2005-06 season.
(BBC)*
Basketball:
**
NBA Playoffs: The
San Antonio Spurs defeat the
Phoenix Suns 101-95 to clinch the Western Conference finals, four games to one. The Spurs will play in the
NBA Finals beginning
June 9.
(AP/Yahoo!)*
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