Aug
30
England defeated South Africa by 126 runs in the third one-day cricket match at the oval, to take an unassailable lead of 3-nil in the five match series.
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Batting first, England made 296 for 7 from 50 overs. Andrew Flintoff hit 78 not-out while Ian Bell scored 73 runs. South Africa were never up with the rate as they were bowled out for 170 in 42.4 overs with Patel taking 5 for 41 to cap a memorable match.
Aug
22
Twenty-one more gold medals are up for grab today at the Beijing Olympics.
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The evens are athletics, beach volleyball, canoeing, cycling, hockey, modern pentathlon, table tennis, and Taekwondo. China continues to maintain its lead on the medals table with 46 golds while the US has 29 gold medals to its credit.
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Aug
22
Pakistan’s disappointing hockey campaign at the Beijing Games finally came to an end when they were defeated 4-2 against New Zealand to be placed at number 8th today.
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This was Pakistan first ever loss to the Kiwis in the Olympics.
Earlier they also lost to Great Britain in the Olympics for the first time in 56 years.
Pakistan only managed to score two goals as New Zealand trounced the green shirts with utmost ease.
Lack of fitness and flair was eminent on the field as the kiwis tore through the Pakistani defense time and again scoring 4 goals.
Total humiliation was saved as Rehan Butt scored a late second half goal to grab some salvation for his team.
They finished 8th in the 12 team competition and have also failed to qualify for the next Champions Trophy.
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Aug
22
A meeting of the central executive committee of Pakistan Peoples Party is being held in Islamabad at 4 pm today.
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PPP co-chairman senator Asif Ali Zardari will preside over the meeting. Matters relating to the ruling coalition and political situation are expected to come under discussion. Source
Aug
22
A joint investigation team of different agencies has been constituted to probe the two suicide bomb blasts outside Wah Ordnance Factories in, which at least 71 people were killed and over 100 others injured.
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed the authorities to make efforts to expose the hidden hands behind the incident. The area was cordoned off after the blasts and security put on high alert. A suicide attacker along with a suicide jacket was arrested. Advisor on interior Rehman Malik visited POF Hospital and enquired about the health the injured persons. He announced financial assistance of three hundred thousand rupees each for the heirs of the deceased and one hundred thousand rupees each for the injured. The Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif also the injured at POF hospital and announced five hundred thousand rupees each for the heirs of the deceased, one hundred thousand rupees each for the injured and fifty thousand rupees each for slightly injured.
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Aug
22
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad at Russia’s black sea coast of Sochi.
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The two sides discussed Middle East peace moves, including recent indirect talks between Syria and Israel, as well as issues of bilateral interest. Talking to reporters, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow was ready to sell new weapons to Syria. He said arms sales would not change the strategic balance in the Middle East. Moscow and Damascus are reportedly preparing deals on anti-aircraft and anti-tank missile systems, as well as surface-to-surface islander missiles.
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Aug
15
The Balochistan Assembly session begins in Quetta at 5:00 pm today.
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The house will adopt a resolution regarding impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf. It will ask the president to seek vote of confidence from the assembly or quit the office of president.
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Aug
9
NEW YORK — Cameras flashed by the dozens, and a wide-eyed Brett Favre took his first steps into the New York spotlight.
“Just like home,” the Jets’ newest quarterback said Friday with a deep breath and a sheepish grin.
Get used to it, Brett. This is only the beginning.
“Time will tell, but I don’t want to say, ‘Be patient,’ ” Favre said Friday at a City Hall news conference. “I have to get a lot done in a short amount of time. They wouldn’t have signed me if they didn’t think I could do that.”
Having won three MVPs and led two Green Bay teams to the Super Bowl, Favre is more than just a country boy from Mississippi. But even he seemed a little awed by his welcome to jaded New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg greeted him, showering the star quarterback with a number of gifts — including some cheesecakes — designed to help with his transition.
“The legendary No. 4 has now become Jet Favre,” Bloomberg said, “and we’re delighted to welcome him to City Hall.”
The Jets acquired the recently unretired Favre from the Packers for a conditional draft pick late Wednesday night. He was with the team for its preseason-opening victory at Cleveland, flew into town early Friday morning and quickly popped in for his City Hall visit.
The Hall of Famer in waiting will practice with his new teammates for the first time Saturday after passing his physical. After his meeting with the mayor, Favre headed to the team’s facility and took his conditioning test, joined in team meetings and got better acquainted with his teammates.
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“I know I still can play,” said Favre, wearing a blue and white polo shirt and khaki slacks and sporting his familiar 5 o’clock shadow. “I don’t think too many people question that. I think a lot of people question what happened this offseason.”
Favre closed a summer of discontent and opened a new chapter in his career by joining the Jets, who stunned the NFL by outbidding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the iconic QB. He brings instant relevance to a team that went 4-12 last season and hasn’t had a quarterback of his stature since Joe Namath ruled Manhattan more than 30 years ago.
“There’s no guarantees,” Favre said. “You see teams go out in free agency and spend on a lot of guys and everyone says, ‘Oh, they’re going to be great and go to the Super Bowl.’ It takes chemistry, and to me, that’s the most important thing. You can have all the talent in the world, but if the chemistry is not there, it won’t matter.
“I think we can achieve that.”
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Brett Favre says he didn’t come to New York to be a big hit on Broadway. But there’s no arguing he’s the Jets’ biggest star at quarterback since “Broadway Joe” Namath.
After a huddle with staff members, Bloomberg picked out a few things to help Favre “make a quick adjustment” to the Big Apple. As part of the city’s initiative to plant a million trees by 2017, Bloomberg announced one would be planted in Favre’s name.
“I cannot tell you where the tree is going to be, for obvious reasons, because it’ll be stripped bare in about 30 seconds,” said Bloomberg, wearing a green tie in honor of the Jets.
Bloomberg then presented Favre with a MetroCard — with $4 fare on it, of course.
“If you had picked a number higher, you would’ve gotten more money on your MetroCard,” Bloomberg said, drawing laughs.
He also gave Favre a huge “Broadway” street sign, a copy of his book, “Bloomberg by Bloomberg,” an empty key ring — “You win the Super Bowl and I promise you will get a key” — and a few cheesecakes from Junior’s Cheesecakes.
Favre, joined by Jets owner Woody Johnson and general manager Mike Tannenbaum, presented Bloomberg with a green and white Favre jersey, already a hit with fans who have snatched up more than 6,500 of them since the trade. The 38-year-old Favre, who joked that his daughter asked if he was joining a college team because all the other players look much younger, won’t commit to playing for the Jets beyond this season.
“Let’s enjoy this year,” he said. “The future is now. I don’t have 17 more years to play, I don’t think. I want to give the New York Jets and the people of this city the best year possible. Believe me.”
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Favre is coming off one of his most productive seasons, passing for 4,155 yards, his most since 1998, and had 28 TDs with 15 interceptions.
“We wish Brett nothing but the best,” said Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Favre’s replacement. “He still has the utmost amount of respect from the guys in this locker room here and we wish him well, wish him a good season and hope to see him in Tampa.”
That, of course, is the site of the next Super Bowl.
“The pressure is just building,” Favre said. “The attention I’ve gotten since I’ve been here has been overwhelming. The bottom line, as we all know, is to win games. That’s what I’m here to do.”
Five months after a tearfully retiring, and a month after changing his mind, Favre is starting over. His new teammates are glad he is.
“There have been smiling faces around here all day,” said Jets tight end Bubba Franks, who played eight seasons with Favre in Green Bay. “It is good to have him here. When you play with a legend, you can’t help but feed off of it. I think he’ll fit right in with both the team and the city.”
Favre is now part of a rebuilding Jets team that has been reduced to second-stringer status in New York behind the defending Super Bowl champion Giants.
“Hopefully I can bring as much excitement throughout the year,” Favre said, “as we’ve had the last two or three days.”
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Jul
20
Rapper DMX arrested at Phoenix mall
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PHOENIX - Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix mall Saturday on suspicion that he gave a gave a false name and Social Security number to a hospital to get out of paying for medical expenses.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that when DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, went to Scottsdale’s Mayo Clinic in April, he used the name “Troy Jones” and failed to pay a $7,500 bill.
DMX’s Scottsdale attorney, Cameron Morgan, declined to comment.
Arpaio said his office began investigating the charge following an animal neglect investigation last year at the 37-year-old rapper’s north Phoenix home. DMX was arrested in that case on felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges after authorities seized 12 pit bull dogs and dug up the remains of three others.
The musician/actor has had other recent run-ins with the law, including an arrest at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport earlier this month on outstanding warrants after he failed to appear in court.
The week before, he was arrested in Miami on charges of attempting to purchase cocaine and marijuana.
“He’s back in jail again,” Arpaio said. “I don’t know why judges keep letting this guy out. Every time he goes in there, he gets out on bond.
“I’m hoping this is the one time he’s going to pay the penalty for his offense,” he added.
Arpaio said the bond had not been set in the recent arrest.
If DMX remains jailed, the sheriff said he would be isolated from the rest of the inmates for his own safety. “They may not like his music,” he said.
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Jul
18
SOUTHPORT, England - From sunny San Diego to bleak and blustery Royal Birkdale, the expression on Rocco Mediate’s face didn’t change. He watched one final birdie tumble into the cup for a 1-under 69 and a three-way share of the lead in the British Open, straightened his 45-year-old back, then dropped his jaw into a smile that said, “How did that just happen?”
Others must have been wondering the same thing Thursday.
Ernie Els was playing some of his best golf in the worst of the weather until taking 45 shots on the back nine and posting an 80, his highest score in nearly two decades at his favorite major.
Phil Mickelson was up to his knees in grass right of the sixth green and never found his ball, taking a triple bogey that sent him to a 79.
Robert Allenby and Graeme McDowell, who watched on television as the early starters suffered through raging wind and stinging rain coming off an angry Irish Sea, must have wondered where all that nasty weather went as they made their way around Birkdale in tamer wind to join Mediate atop the leaderboard.
Stranger still was seeing 53-year-old newlywed Greg Norman in the hunt.
Indeed, how did all that happen?
“I have no explanation for that whatsoever. No idea why that happened,” said Mediate, still going strong after his epic playoff loss to Tiger Woods last month in the U.S. Open.
“It was just one of those rounds,” he said. “It was just up and down, up and down, and a couple of birdies, and here we are. I would have been ecstatic with 73 or 74 today.”
For those who thought his performance at Torrey Pines was merely a mirage, Mediate again found bright lines under leaden skies of the Lancashire Coast by bouncing back from three bogeys on the opening six holes by holing a 40-foot birdie putt on the 13th, chipping in from off the 17th green for birdie and ending his round with a 20-foot birdie.
“Crazy stuff,” he said.
Norman made enough par-saving putts to sustain momentum and finish at 70 along with Australian protege Adam Scott and Bart Bryant.
The group at 71 included Retief Goosen, who might have played the best golf of anyone.
Goosen awoke at 2 a.m. when rain pelted his windows, and he caught the brunt of the bad weather his entire round. He still managed four birdies and was under par most of the round until a pair of late bogeys.
“How in the hell is he 1 under?” Pat Perez said from the warmth of the locker room after an 82. “I would pay to learn how to do that.”
The leaders caught a break by getting slightly better weather, although it was by no means easy. The average score in the opening round was about 76, driven up by 19 rounds in the 80s.
But they arrived at Royal Birkdale in good form.
McDowell, the first-round leader down the coast at Royal Liverpool in 2006, won the Scottish Open four days ago at Loch Lomond. Allenby lost in a playoff at the Stanford St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn., last month, and tied for third two weeks ago at Congressional.
Even so, the British Open lived up to its billing as the major that sometimes requires the most luck. It wasn’t a goofy bounce but the tee times, thanks to weather that shifted along with the tide in the middle of the 15 hours of action.
“We did get the better side of the draw, no doubt about it,” Norman said. “When you watch it in the morning, you feel sorry for the guys. But there’s times when you say, ‘Well, I’ve been there before. I’ve been on that side of the draw, too.’ It all balances out, and you have to take advantage of it.”
Former Masters champion Mike Weir did his best in the morning, making an eagle on the 17th for a 71.
Sergio Garcia, the betting favorite at Birkdale with Woods on the disabled list, was among the late starters but did not make his first birdie until the par-5 15th and had to settle for a 72. Also at 72 was Brandt Snedeker, who has contended in both majors this year. After five bogeys on the first six holes, he was 3 under the rest of the way.
Now for the gloomy side of this opening round.
“It was miserable, miserable, miserable weather,” Vijay Singh said after his 80. “It was just a miserable day.”
Mickelson, at No. 2 the highest-ranked player at a major for the first time, was not terribly bothered by his 79 because he figured everyone else would struggle. When the winds died slightly, so did his hopes. He was tied for 123rd.
“You can’t play,” Simon Dyson said after an 82 while playing in the opening group. “You put a 4-handicapper on that first tee and they’d probably shoot 100. That’s no exaggeration. I don’t think I’ve played a par 4 that I couldn’t reach with my best drive and my best 3-wood, and there’s three of them.”
Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson responded to the complaints with a statement as old as this championship.
“Links golf,” he said. “Tough day by the seaside.”
It was so brutal that two major champions didn’t even bother to finish. Sandy Lyle stopped after 10 holes and former PGA champion Rich Beem made his exit after a 46 on the front.
“It’s the greatest golf known to man,” Beem said. “It was just difficult.”
McDowell considered himself fortunate. The British Open starts at 6:30 a.m. and did not finish until nearly 10 p.m., offering the late starters a chance to tune into the BBC and see how the course is playing.
“I sat at home this morning with my breakfast cereal and cup of coffee in my hand going, ‘God, do I really have to go out there this afternoon?’ Obviously, we got pretty lucky,” McDowell said.
He added to his good fortunes on the 499-yard sixth hole, playing dead into the wind toward the sea, when he got greedy with his second shot out of the rough and advanced it only 10 yards. He had to lay up to 9-iron range, hit that 30 feet and made it for bogey.
“If I made double there, I’m obviously feeling pretty bad about things,” McDowell said.
This was a day where a lot of players felt plenty miserable - except for Mediate, of course. Even in the chill of late afternoon, he felt the warmth of the gallery, of another good round and what is shaping up as a magical summer.