Feb 02
Duke needed to overcome a pair of sizable halftime deficits to win its last two games and remain the ACC’s lone undefeated team.
The third-ranked Blue Devils hope for an easier time as they try to stay atop the league standings and continue their dominance over Miami on Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke (18-1, 6-0) beat North Carolina State 92-72 at home Thursday for its eighth straight win, but needed to rally from a nine-point halftime deficit to make it happen.
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Feb 02
As impressive as Marquette has been at home in Big East play, it has been equally awful on the road. The Golden Eagles try again for their first conference road victory Saturday afternoon when they face Cincinnati.
The No. 17 Golden Eagles (15-4, 5-3) have averaged 78.0 points and shot 40.2 percent from 3-point range in their five Big East wins. Marquette, though, scored only 62.7 points per game and shot 37.
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Feb 02
Arkansas plays host to Florida on Saturday. The matchup pits two good friends in opposite benches.
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Feb 02
Vienna’s glitziest event of the year, the Opera Ball, kicked off on Thursday evening with some soccer legends taking to a dance floor instead of a soccer field.
Dancers and students of the Vienna Opera ballet opened the show with a “footballet” simulating goals, penalties, yellow cards and even an injury on a fake pitch, while footballs made from fragrant pink roses decorated the balconies in the sumptuous Opera house.
Tickets were a mere 230 euros and the private boxes cost a paltry 17,000 euros only.
And you could have rubbed shoulders with the Kaiser himself Franz Beckenbauer and the manager of reigning European champions Greece Otto Rehhagel.More here..
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Feb 02
Nicolas Anelka
LONDON – Clubs in the English Premier League showed again during soccer’s January transfer window the benefit of playing in Europe’s richest national competition.
The 20 teams spent a record total of about 150 million pounds (C$298 million) on players to boost their chances of success or aid their attempt to avoid relegation.
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Feb 02
Everybody is asking us about our morale and whether Ireland will be adopting a different approach this season.
There’s no doubt that things are more low-key and while there is that quiet sense of trying to right what went wrong at the World Cup, it’s not as if we are ranting on about it all the time.
Last year before the Six Nations, we were definitely looking ahead and thinking that we could win the Six Nations.
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Feb 02
TIGER Woods for once did not have things go all his own way but he still held on in blustery and unusually cold conditions to lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic.
Following five carefree rounds to kick off his season, the world No.1 was made to struggle at times as a cold front surged through the emirate, blasting sand over the Majlis Course and sending temperatures plunging to unseasonal lows.
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Feb 02
What did Nikola Knezevic, Ryan Anderson, Eric Vierneisel, Alexis Gray-Lawson, Ashley Walker, and Natasha Vital all have in common on Thursday? They all topped the plus/minus charts in helping their Cal basketball teams to victories, with the men pulling an upset shocker over #9 Washington State, 69-64, while the women held on to first place in the Pac-10 with a 67-53 win over UCLA.
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Feb 02
All season, California has been losing close games in the closing minutes.
The Bears finally won one Thursday night.
Ryan Anderson scored 27 points and California hung on to hand No. 9 Washington State its first home loss of the season, 69-64.
Cal (12-7, 3-5 Pac-10) either led, was tied or trailed by two in the final three minutes in six of its losses.
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