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(Photo: AP / Chris Carlson)Beckham labels claims that he may be picked for GB team for his commercial value 'disrespectful'
An injured Los Angeles Galaxy's David Beckham watches his team play the New England Revolution during the second half of a MLS soccer match in Carson, Calif., Saturday, March 27, 2010. The Galaxy won 1-0....Full Story

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(Photo: WN / Aaron Gilbert)Serena Williams withdraws with back injury
Serena Williams (USA) competes against Shuai Zhang (CHN) during the Day 4 of the Sony Ericsson Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on March 22, 2012 in Key Biscayne, Florida - USA....Full Story

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Liu wins 110 meters hurdles in Shanghai
| SHANGHAI (AP) — Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has defeated American world champion Jason Richardson to win the men's 110 meters hurdles at the Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday. | Liu and Richardson were even through the first seven hurdles before the Chinese star pul...Full Story
Liu wins 110 meters hurdles in Shanghai
| SHANGHAI (AP) - Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has defeated American world champion Jason Richardson to win the men's 110 meters hurdles at the Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday. | Liu and Richardson were even through the first seven hurdles before the Chinese star pulle...Full Story
Idowu Impresses In Shanghai Triumph
| Phillips Idowu fired an early warning to his Olympic triple jump rivals on his first outing of the season by winning today's Diamond League meeting in Shanghai. | The world silver medallist beat the man who pipped him to the world title in Daegu last year, American Ch...Full Story
Great City Games: Holly Bleasdale to savour partisan support
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | British pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale talks of her love for competing in the Great City Games in Manchester and believes the atmosphere will prepare her for the partisan support at the Olympic Stadium late...Full Story
Live Video - European Gymnastics Championships
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Matt Baker introduces highlights from the women's European Championship, the final major event for these gymnasts before the Olympic Games. | Available to UK users only. Share this story | Share this...Full Story
Diamond League: Campbell-Brown beats Jeter in 200m
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown beats off tough competition from compatriot Carmelita Jeter to win the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai, while Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare finishes third. ...Full Story
London 2012: Haile Gebrselassie considers Olympic options
Haile Gebrselassie has not ruled out the possibility of qualifying for the 10,000m at this summer's Olympics. | The 39-year-old said his Olympic dream was over after failing to win a place in Ethiopia's marathon team. | But the two-time Olympic 10,000m champio...Full Story
Dylan Armstrong takes 2nd in shot put at Diamond League Shanghai
| Canada's Dylan Armstrong captured second place in shot put at the Diamond League Shanghai Golden Grand Prix meeting on Saturday. | The 31-year-old of Kamloops, B.C., who is defending the title after finishing first overall in 2011, threw 20.93 metres. | American Reese...Full Story
Farah Tipped For Double Gold
| Mo Farah can claim double Olympic gold at London 2012 despite the Briton's difficult indoor season, according to two-time Olympic 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie. | Farah will go into the Games this summer as one of Great Britain's biggest medal hopes having...Full Story
Diamond League: Asafa Powell powers to 100m victory
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell powers to 100m victory at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai in 10.02 seconds, Michael Rodgers of the United Sates was second with Jamaica's Nesta Carter third. | Avai...Full Story
Athletes of the week
| High School Sports Tool | The Dispatch high-school Athletes of the Week, based on performances from May 7 to 13: Dylan Merle and Evan Zimmerman | GROVEPORT, BOYS TENNIS | Merle, left, and Zimmerman went 4-0 to win the Division I sectional doubles title at Reynoldsburg...Full Story
Live Video: Diamond League Shanghai, China.
| Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | Live coverage of the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, China including Phillips Idowu in the triple jump. | Available to UK users only. Share this story | Share this page print More from Athletics | Vid...Full Story
Fargo Marathon this weekend in its eighth year
| FARGO, N.D. (AP) — About 24,000 people are taking part in events during the Fargo Marathon weekend. | The marathon itself on Saturday will include 35 soldiers currently stationed in southwest Asia. Most are with the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Civil Engi...Full Story
Mara's marathon aim
| Four years since finishing sixth in the Olympic marathon in Beijing, Team GB hopeful Mara Yamauchi is confident she can reproduce the goods on the streets of London in her second Olympic appearance this August. | The 38-year-old from Oxford qualified for the London Ga...Full Story
Javelin mark smashed
| Sean Keller will be big in Finland. | The Heritage High javelin thrower has been invited to compete in an elite event this summer in the Nordic country, which has a national obsession over javelin. | Just how popular is it? | “It’s like the NFL there,&rdqu...Full Story
British duo fifth in three-metre synchro diving final
Britain's Chris Mears and Nick Robinson-Baker finished fifth in the three-metre synchro final at the European Diving Championships. | They scored 436.74 last time out at the final World Series leg in Mexico but could only manage 390.84 in Eindhoven. | "We'...Full Story
Friday's roundup: G.P. South dashes away with girls track and field title
By Tom Markowski The Detroit News Comments | Grosse Pointe- There was little doubt Grosse Pointe South would repeat as girls regional champions at the Division 1 track and field meet at South on Friday. | The question that faced coach Steve Zaranek was how many of his a...Full Story
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Sat 19 May 2012
WPIAL track meet was golden for A-K athletes
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | Alle-Kiski Valley athletes ascended the medal stand about as fast and high as they moved around the oval and leapt through the air at Thursday’s WPIAL track and field championships at Baldwin. | The locals collected 11 gold medals in all. | Bring...
Malaga and Liverpool chasing Wigan Athletic midfielder Mohamed Diame
The Examiner | Liverpool has been thought to be the leading candidate to sign Wigan Athletics’ out of contract midfielder, Mohamed Diame. | However, TalkSport has heard reports that Spanish upstart club Malaga could be vying for the player’s signature as well...
Change Of Heart For Richards-ross
Sporting Life | Sanya Richards-Ross admits she has changed her mind on the issue of lifetime Olympic bans for drug cheats and is wishing Dwain Chambers well for London 2012. | The British Olympic Association has officially rescinded their lifetime ban for athletes...
Talent showcase at Southern Section track and field championships
The Los Angeles Times The Southern Section track and field championships will be held Saturday at Mount San Antonio College, with field events beginning at 10:30 a.m. and running events at 1 p.m. | Sprinter Khalfani Muhammad of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, the second-place fi...
Manchester will test Dwain's campaign to reign once again
The Independent | Britain's highest profile "drugs cheat" hardly needed any kind of backing from the sporting world's most notorious dabbler in the dark arts, Chambers' path to London 2012 having been opened by the lifting of the British Olympic Associatio...
Weekend preview: Ferris loath to lose Ulster's winning habit at final hurdle
The Independent | "It's been a long journey these last four or five years, getting here from a point where we were sitting at the bottom of the Celtic League and not even making the quarter-finals of this tournament," the Ulster flanker said yesterday. &qu...
Collegiate athletic spending rising faster than revenue
Asbury Park Press Major-college athletics departments increased the amount of money they generate by nearly $190 million in 2011, but they increased their spending by more than $267 million, a USA TODAY Sports analysis finds. In addition, only 22 out of 227 public sch...
Rutgers' athletic subsidy among nation's highest
Asbury Park Press While Rutgers reduced spending by $4 million in 2011 from the previous fiscal year, its athletics department received the nation's third largest subsidy, according to a USA TODAY special report examining spending and revenue among NCAA Division I pub...
Fri 18 May 2012
Like father, like son: Alexander seeks track and field gold
Fresno Bee | In the beginning, Willie Alexander Jr. said nothing of his track and field accomplishments to Willie III. | And Junior couldn't have been blamed if he did because he was pretty darn good. | "I never told him anything," dad says before today's Centr...
Sneak preview: Track and field Central Section Masters Championships
Fresno Bee | CENTRAL SECTION MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS | Today: Field events begin at 4 p.m., running events 5 p.m. at Buchanan's Veterans Memorial Stadium | Admission: $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors | State qualifiers: The top-three finishers in each o...
GIRLS' TRACK AND FIELD: Pioneers ready for another title run
LA Daily News After winning first cross country championship in the fall, Simi Valley looks to make history again with Div. II crown.By Erik Boal erik.boal@dailynews.com Staff WriterPosted:   05/18/2012 10:26:29 PM PDTUpdated:   05/18/2012 11:14:17 PM PD...
4A Track and Field | High School Sports
Seattle Times | MARYSVILLE - With most participants looking ahead to state, Ballard's Emmaline Suchland found ways to stay focused on events at hand Friday at Quil Ceda Stadium. | Suchland won the 100 meters in 12.09 seconds and the 200 in 24.8 during the KingCo/W...
Friday's results from Kentucky track and field meet
Courier Journal individual: 5 numChar :2042 | -->individual: 14 numChar :2241 | -->individual: 21 numChar :2293 | -->individual: 29 numChar :2045 | -->individual: 37 numChar :2141 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 40 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 11297 | TOTAL CHARACTERS...
4A, 3A Track and Field | High School Sports
Seattle Times | TACOMA - After Decatur's Drew Thompson finished his final event on Day 1 of the West Central 3A District track and field championships Friday, he took time to shake every volunteer's hand working the high jump. | "That's the way he is," Decatur hur...
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