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Top-ranked Simona Halep outlasted third-ranked Sloane Stephens 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4 to win her second Rogers Cup title.

Halep, the 23-year-old Romanian won her third title of the year and 18th overall.

 

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Manchester City's midfielder David Silva announced his retirement from international football.

Silva, 32, was part of the Spain squads which won the 2010 World Cup as well as the 2008 and 2010 European Championship, making 125 appearances and scoring 35 goals over 12 years.

His final match was the penalty shootout defeat to Russia in the 2018 World Cup round of 16.

 

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KICK BOXING

GLORY 57 SHENZHEN
Saturday, August 25 2018
8:30 AM EDT / 8:30 PM CST

Lightweight Headline Event
Sitsongpeenong (Champion) VR Grigorian (#1 Lightweight)​

 

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Novak Djokovic is the first to claim all nine ATP Masters 1000 events since the series started in 1990, with a win over Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday for his first Western & Southern Championship.

 

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Brandt Snedeker began the Wyndham Championship with history--and ended it with a victory.

Snedeker earned his ninth PGA Tour title on Sunday, three days after opening with a 11-under 59.

He closed with a 65 for a 3-stroke in the regular-season finale.

 

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Boxing:

Andrew "El Chango" Cancio (19-4-2, 14 KO's), 29, won a unanimous 10-round decision over Dardan Zenunjaj (14-5, 11 KO's), 31, in a grueling, punch-filled bout. The scores in Cancio 96-94 (the same as ESPN), 99-91 and 99-91.

 

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Hawai'i shuts out South Korea to claim its third LLWS crown. It's their first Little League World Series title since 2008.

 

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The AP Top 10 College Football Preseason Poll:​

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Georgia
4. Wisconsin
5. Ohio State
6. Washington
7. Oklahoma
8. Miami
9. Auburn
10. Penn State

 

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Usain Bolt makes soccer debut for Central Coast Mariners in 6-1 win. Bolt played just over 20 minutes.

 

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The AP Top 10 College Football Preseason Poll:​

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Georgia
4. Wisconsin
5. Ohio State
6. Washington
7. Oklahoma
8. Miami
9. Auburn
10. Penn State

AP Top 10 Ranking - Week 5:​

1. Alabama
2. Georgia
3. Clemson
4. Ohio State
5. LSU
6. Oklahoma
7. Stanford
8. Notre Dame
9. Penn State
10. Auburn

 

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The WNBA:

The Seattle Storm beat The Washington Mystics in a three-game sweep (89-76, 75-73, 98-82) in the WNBA Finals. This is Seattle's third WNBA Championship.

Sue Bird: Storm players have no interest in White House visit. Not even if an invitation is extended.

President Donald Trump did not invite the Minnesota Lynx after they won the 2017 WNBA Championship

 

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The AP Top 10 College Football Preseason Poll:​

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Georgia
4. Wisconsin
5. Ohio State
6. Washington
7. Oklahoma
8. Miami
9. Auburn
10. Penn State

AP Top 10 Ranking - Week 5:​

1. Alabama
2. Georgia
3. Clemson
4. Ohio State
5. LSU
6. Oklahoma
7. Stanford
8. Notre Dame
9. Penn State
10. Auburn

AP Top 10 Ranking - Week-13:​

1.) Alabama (11-0)
2.) Clemson (11-0)
3.) Notre Dame (11-0)
4.) Michigan (10-1)
5.) Georgia (10-1)
6.) Oklahoma (10-1)
7.) LSU (9-2)
8.) Washington State (10-1)
9.) UCF (10-1)
10. Ohio State (10-1)

 

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Playoff Picture - Week 13:

1.) Alabama
2.) Clemson
3.) Notre Dame
4.) Michigan

5.) Georgia
6.) Oklahoma

 

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Two of college basketball's blue bloods remained firmly entrenched atop the AP Top 25 after a week of easy wins, while two more tumbled all the way out after a week filled with defeats. One of them happens to be the reigning national champion.

While top-ranked Duke and No. 2 Kansas did little to hurt their status as early national title contenders, Villanova and Syracuse slid all the way out of the Top 25 on Monday. The Wildcats lost a rematch of last year's championship game with Michigan, then lost in overtime to Furman on Saturday to give coach Jay Wright's team back-to-back losses for the first time in five years.

AP NCAAM Top 25 poll

1. Duke (53)
2. Kansas (7)
3. Gonzaga
4. Virginia (2)
5. Tennessee (1)
6. Nevada
7. North Carolina
8. Auburn
9. Michigan
10. Kentucky
11. Michigan State
12. Kansas State
13. Virginia Tech
14. Florida State
15. Mississippi State
16. Clemson
17. UCLA
18. TCU
19. LSU
20. Iowa
21. Oregon
22. Buffalo
23. Ohio State
24. Purdue
25. Wisconsin

 

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South Carolina's run in the top 10 is over.The Gamecocks fell out of the first 10 teams in the AP women's basketball poll on Monday after being ranked that high for the past 89 consecutive weeks dating back to Jan. 6, 2014. It was the third-longest active streak behind UConn and Notre Dame.

AP NCAAW Top 25 poll

1. Notre Dame (31)
2. Connecticut
3. Oregon
4. Baylor
5. Louisville
6. Mississippi State
7. Maryland
8. Stanford
9. Oregon State
10. Texas
11. Tennessee
12. Iowa
13. South Carolina
14. Syracuse
15. North Carolina State
16. DePaul
17. South Florida
18. California
19. Arizona State
20. Texas A&M
21. Missouri
22. Marquette
23. Minnesota
24. Miami
25. West Virginia

 

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Venus Williams reaches settlement in wrongful death lawsuit

 

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14h ago Making their case: Mitchell, Masoli up for MOP

 

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Ex-Chelsea, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba announces retirement

 

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Experienced roster helps Gonzaga in upset over No. 1 Duke

In the final seconds of Gonzaga's win over No. 1 Duke in the Maui Invitational championship, Blue Devils freshman R.J. Barrett decided to put the game in his hands. As he drove toward the middle of the floor and searched for a shot, Bulldogs junior Rui Hachimura, who recorded a game-high 20 points and seven rebounds in Gonzaga's thrilling 89-87 victory, smiled at him. Then, he blocked Barrett's shot, a punctuating play for a Gonzaga team that relied on its experience in the most intense game of the college basketball season thus far.