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Opening honours for Agassi
LONDON, June 23: American star Andre Agassi has been handed the honour of opening the 2002 Wimbledon Championships on Monday - ten years after he clinched his one and only title... 
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Vettori puts New Zealand in winning position
BRIDGETOWN (Barbados), June 23: A stubborn 31 by nightwatchman Daryl Tuffey helped put New Zealand in a commanding position at lunch on the third day of the first Test against the...
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Admiral’s Way triumphs
LAHORE, June 23: Raging favourite bay horse Admiral’s Way justified the confidence reposed by his connections, winning the feature event of the Lahore Gymkhana races run over 900 metres at the...
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Strategic completes hat trick
KARACHI, June 23: The chestnut colt Strategic completed a hat trick of wins in a common canter at the Summer Gymkhana Race Meeting held on Sunday at the Karachi Racecourse....
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Warwick clinch trophy
LONDON, June 23: Nasser Hussain’s Essex were swept aside by Warwickshire by five wickets in the final of the Benson and Hedges Cup at Lord’s Saturday....
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Jr selection committee abolished
LAHORE, June 23: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to abolish its junior selection committee that was headed by former captain Zaheer Abbas....
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Team for world event named
ISLAMABAD, June 23: The Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) Sunday named a team of four for this August’s World Junior Championship in Chennai, India....
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Barrichello wins at last
 NUERBURGRING (Germany), June 23: Brazilian Rubens Barrichello led Ferrari team mate Michael Schumacher home by 0.2 seconds to an emotional Ferrari one-two win in the European Formula One Grand Prix on...
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Refereeing furore plagues FIFA
YOKOHAMA (Japan), June 23: A furore about the refereeing at the World Cup plagued world governing body FIFA Sunday as football’s most prestigious theatre prepared for its final acts....
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Semis line-up defies opinion, odds, belief
SEOUL, June 23: Surely not even FIFA’s World Cup computer game could have produced the semi-final line-up that has emerged at the real thing as the last four defied expert opinion,...
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Top Spanish official quits
ULSAN (South Korea) June 23: Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Angel Maria Villar has resigned from the FIFA Referees’ Commission, a federation spokesman said Sunday....
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England team dodge fans on arrival
 LONDON, June 23: England’s team flew back from Japan into Heathrow airport late Saturday, dodging hundreds of waiting fans and failing to talk to reporters....
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Rivaldo does not expect bad feeling
 SAITAMA, June 23: Brazil striker Rivaldo, whose team meet Turkey in Wednesday’s semifinal, does not expect bad feeling to be carried over from their fiery first-round meeting....
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Declare the event null and void
BUENOS AIRES, June 23: Leading Argentine daily La Nacion said in a column Sunday that the 2002 World Cup should be declared null and void because of bad refereeing....
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Three die, 100 hurt in celebrations
SEOUL, June 23: A truck driven by a drunken teenager celebrating South Korea’s win over Spain hit a street lamp and killed two passengers, police said Sunday....
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Ronaldinho available for final
YOKOHAMA, June 23: Brazilian forward Ronaldinho will be suspended for one match only after being shown a red card in his team’s quarterfinal with England....
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