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Los Angeles - When high-flying Vince Carter went down, rookie Chris Douglas-Roberts stepped up.
Devin Harris scored 21 points and Douglas-Roberts added 18 off the bench as the New Jersey Nets beat the Miami Heat 100-98 in overtime on Thursday night in pre-season play.
The contest was played in Paris as part of an annual NBA Europe Live tour to promote the game globally.
The Nets and Heat take their show to London on Sunday. The New Orleans Hornets meet the Washington Wizards in Berlin on Tuesday, before traveling to Barcelona on Friday.
Though the Nets walked away with the...
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Rome - Brazilian striker Ronaldo told an Italian newspaper that he is planning his comeback from a knee injury and dreaming of participating in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The 32-year-old, who is the all-time World Cup top scorer with 15 goals, was quoted in Friday's edition of Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport daily as saying that he will be back.
"It would be nice to be playing in the World Cup in 2010," he said.
Ronaldo, who has not played since suffering a serious knee injury playing for AC Milan against Livorno in February, is keen to start practising again...
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Dusseldorf - Rene Adler faces a baptism of fire as Germany goalkeeper in an important World Cup qualifier against Russia on Saturday.
"I am looking forward to the game, this is the highlight of my career," the 23-year-old Bayer Leverkusen player Adler on Friday told a news conference.
Goalkeeper coach Andreas Koepke expressed the full faith of the coaching staff in the uncapped Adler ahead of Saturday's game in front of 70,000 in Dortmund.
"We believe in his ability. Rene will play a super match. I am fully convinced that he will show the same performance as in...
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Los Angeles - Louis Williams poured in 16 of his game-high 27 points in the final quarter, rallying the Philadelphia 76ers past the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics, 98-92 on Wednesday night, in the pre-season opener for both clubs.
The Sixers trailed 92-89 with just under two minutes remaining before Williams led the late charge, that wiped out an early 14-point deficit.
The speedy backup guard sparked a 9-0 closing run with seven points, and spotted Royal Ivey for the go-ahead jumper from the right sideline with 42 seconds left, to put Sixers ahead, 93-92. Williams' four free...
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Fuji, Japan - Championship leader Lewis Hamilton heads into this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix holding a seven-point lead over nearest challenger Felipe Massa and looking to make up for the disappointment of letting last season's title slip away.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver looked to have sealed the 2007 drivers' championship with an impressive win in atrocious conditions at the Fuji International Speedway in his rookie season last year but blew a 12-point lead in the final two races and was pipped to the crown by Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.
This time around, Hamilton's third-place...
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