Pedroia signs eight-year deal with Red Sox
(Reuters) – All-Star second baseman Dustin Pedroia signed an eight-year contract extension with the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday, all but ensuring he will fulfill a dream of spending his entire career with the Major League Baseball team.
Patriots coach says Hernandez shows flaws of player screening
ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (Reuters) – New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick said on Wednesday he was “shocked” when he learned last month that player Aaron Hernandez was being investigated for murder and noted the case revealed flaws with the team’s…
Marilyn inspires Romashina to third synchro gold
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Svetlana Romashina’s jaunty Marilyn Monroe-inspired free routine secured her third gold medal of the world championships and made it four out of four for synchronized swimming’s dominant nation Russia on Wednesday.
Australian O’Grady admits to using EPO in 1998
(Reuters) – Australian Tour de France stage winner Stuart O’Grady has admitted using the banned blood-booster EPO before the notorious 1998 race.
World champion Greene out of London Diamond League
LONDON (Reuters) – World champion Dai Greene has pulled out of the 400 meters hurdles at this weekend’s Diamond League meeting in London in a bid to get fit to defend his title in Moscow next month.
Brazil’s twice World Cup winner Djalma Santos dies at 84
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Djalma Santos, a trusty right back who won two World Cups with Brazil and was widely considered one of the country’s greatest defenders, has died after a battle with pneumonia. He was 84.
Phelps-slayer Le Clos ready for more glory
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Chad le Clos conjured one of the biggest shocks at last year’s London Olympics when he pipped Michael Phelps to win the 200 meters butterfly final and the South African now heads into the world championships hungry for more titles…
French Senate lays bare doping in 1998 Tour de France
PARIS (Reuters) – The top two in the 1998 Tour de France – Italian Marco Pantani and Germany’s Jan Ullrich – were taking the banned blood booster EPO, a French Senate inquiry into sports doping said on Wednesday.
Wiggins returns from injury in Tour of Poland
LONDON (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins will make his comeback from the injury and illness that prevented him defending his Tour de France title in the Tour of Poland this weekend, Team Sky said on Wednesday.
Vettel aiming for another first in Hungary
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Sebastian Vettel had never won in July before this year’s German Grand Prix. That box ticked, Red Bull’s triple Formula One champion now has a Hungary hoodoo to overcome on Sunday.
