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Los Angeles - For the second night in a row, hot-shooting Devin Harris was off the charts.
Harris exploded for a career-high 47 points, including 21 in the fourth quarter, and the New Jersey Nets snapped a 14-year drought in Phoenix, with a 117-109 come-from-behind victory over the Suns on Sunday night.
"It's good to finally get a win here for the organization," said Harris, who shot 14-of-25 from the field, including a pair of three- pointers, and made all 17 free throws while adding eight assists and seven rebounds. "We had enough energy to finish it off."
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Madrid - What should a great club do when it is immersed in a massive injury crisis and has slipped down to fourth in its domestic league?
Answer: sign a top-class forward to revitalize the attack - and to cheer up the frustrated fans.
This is exactly what troubled Real Madrid intend to do now, by signing Klaas Jan Huntelaar from Dutch giants Ajax.
Embattled Real president Ramon Calderon hinted on Monday evening that he was about to buy "a top-class striker", and the Spanish media are sure that he was referring to Huntelaar.
The imminent signing of Huntelaar is...
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Los Angeles - Quiet in the first half, Paul Pierce made noise in the second.
Pierce erupted for 17 of his 24 points in the third quarter, and the Boston Celtics rolled to their ninth straight victory, 107-88 over the visiting Orlando Magic on Monday night in an early season showdown of Eastern Conference powerhouses.
"I got into early foul trouble," Pierce said. "I came out and wanted to be aggressive in the second half and we came away with the win."
Ray Allen scored 21 points, Rajon Rondo had 16 with 12 assists, and Kevin Garnett contributed 15 points with...
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London - Defiant Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez said that his side deserved more than the point they earned in Monday's 0-0 draw with West Ham United.
The point was enough to put Liverpool atop the English Premier League, one point clear of Chelsea, with champions Manchester United another five points back, albeit with a game in hand.
After Chelsea's defeat on Sunday by Arsenal, Monday's draw was a missed opportunity for Liverpool, who have now drawn back-to-back matches at home in the league.
Benitez said that Liverpool deserved to win.
"From the beginning to the...
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Hamburg - Mercedes and BMW have both come out strongly in support of Germany continuing to host a Formula One grand prix in the wake of reports at the weekend that the country could be without a F1 race in 2010 for financial reasons.
Hockenheim GmbH, the cash-strapped company that runs the Hockenheim circuit, is considering withdrawing from the 2010 German Grand Prix and officials from the Nuerburgring have already said they would be unable to stage the event, which would leave the country without a F1 race for the first time in nearly half a century.
"Germany is an important...
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