SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson shot a third-round five-under-par 67 to take a two-shot lead at the $7 million WGC-HSBC Champions on Saturday, setting up a rare head-to-head battle with Tiger Woods on the final day.
World number two Mickelson finished the day at 14-under for the tournament, ...
Ramirez, who signed a deal last offseason that guaranteed him $25 million for 2009 and a player option for 2010, had until Tuesday to notify the club.
The 37-year-old batted .290 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs last season but was hit with a 50-game suspension by Major League Baseball for testing ...
Bryant made 19-of-30 shots for his second 40-point performance in a row, and his third in four games, as last season's NBA champions carved out another win despite the absence of injured starters Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum.
"It's always a great honor to be in that elite category," Bryant ...
It took eight shootout rounds to decide the outcome of Friday's game -- Avalanche winger Chris Stewart converted before Chicago's Dustin Byfuglien missed to end the game.
Colorado (12-3-2) were on the receiving end of a 4-3 loss to Chicago (8-5-2) on October 10 in a game that required nine ...
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A victory anti-doping crusaders once believed impossible is now within reach with the help of powerful new allies as the war on performance-enhancing drugs in sport moves on to new fronts.
When the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was launched 10 years ago on November 10, the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of New York Yankee fans cheered their baseball team on Friday at a parade through Lower Manhattan to celebrate its 27th World Series victory.
Ticker-tape and toilet paper, the traditional way to bestow honor in New York, was thrown from office windows as ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods is hoping to inhabit a world of his own as he tries to make up two shots on tournament leader Phil Mickelson in Sunday's final round showdown between the top two in the world at the WGC-HSBC Champions.
The pair of golfing titans will be joined for the fourth round ...
"There's risk in everything," general manager Josh Byrnes said on their website (http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com). "With the last three months... some of the risk has been reduced because the surgery went well and Webby's really responded well.
"I think there's a lot of ...
X-rays confirmed Thomas fractured the radius of his left forearm and will undergo surgery on Saturday the Bulls said on their website (http://www.nba.com/bulls).
In four games this season Thomas has averaged eight points, five rebounds and 21 minutes.
Hardy's move follows a disappointing season in which Hardy bat a career-low .229 with 11 home runs and 47 RBI.
The Twins, however, are counting on the 27-year-old returning to the form he displayed during the 2007 and 2008 seasons when he slammed 20-plus homers and 70-plus RBIs for the Brewers.
