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    <title>Track and field champships are un-four-gettable</title>
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    <description>Southern Durham&#39;s Jacinda Evans dominates the girls meet, and Wakefield&#39;s T.J. Graham makes his mark in the boys meet by sprinting to victories in the 100 and 200 meters.</description>
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    <title>Big day for Duke lacrosse</title>
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    <description>On a bright, breezy spring Saturday at Koskinen Stadium, Duke men&#39;s lacrosse fans had many reasons to cheer, including the return and three goals of Collin Finnerty, a former Blue Devil who was one of three members of the 2006 Duke team.</description>
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    <title>The boos don&#39;t faze Busch</title>
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    <description> The crowd booed him. He called his car pathetic. His crew missed a lug nut, and he couldn&#39;t stay off Darlington Raceway&#39;s wall.</description>
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    <title>Duke&#39;s plan to fix football calls for &#39;changing the culture&#39;</title>
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    <description>The strategy tackles the problems of a program that has 25 straight ACC losses.</description>
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    <title>Hawks on the right rails</title>
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    <description>The celebration was furious and fevered after the apparent game-winning goal, scored in front of the Carolina RailHawks&#39; hardest-core fans.</description>
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    <title>Wings prevail without Franzen</title>
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    <description>With its leading scorer sidelined, Detroit toughs it out to go up 2-0 on Dallas.</description>
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    <title>Lemaire says he&#39;ll return to lead Wild</title>
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    <description>Veteran coach called this his toughest season after first-round playoff ouster.</description>
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    <title>Dixon speeds to Indy pole</title>
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    <description>Strategy was almost as important as speed on Saturday as Scott Dixon won the pole for the Indianapolis 500 with a big gamble by his Target Chip Ganassi Racing team.</description>
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    <title>Kanaan is taking a big-picture look</title>
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    <description>Winning the pole at Indianapolis isn&#39;t as important to Tony Kanaan as it once was. Maybe, it&#39;s because he still hasn&#39;t won the race. Maybe, he&#39;s just a little more patient.</description>
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    <title>Wake Christian claims 3 titles</title>
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    <description>Bulldogs earn NCCSA championships in baseball, softball, girls soccer.</description>
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    <title>Crowd vents on Busch</title>
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    <description>As expected, Kyle Busch was raucously booed during driver introductions, where fans made it loud and clear how they felt about his late-race accident last week in Richmond that might have cost Dale Earnhardt Jr. a win.</description>
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    <title>Covering the bases</title>
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    <description>Jason Isringhausen got his wish. After blowing his major league-leading fifth save on Friday night in a 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, the St. Louis Cardinals&#39; embattled reliever will no longer close games, manager Tony La Russa said Saturday.</description>
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    <title>Arroyo treats Reds to a split</title>
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    <description>Bronson Arroyo pitched eight dominant innings to win a matchup of struggling pitchers, and Jeff Keppinger had a career-high five hits, lifting the Cincinnati Reds over the New York Mets 7-1 for a split of their day-night doubleheader.</description>
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    <title>Soriano returning to form</title>
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    <description>Chicago&#39;s star slugger hits and runs the Cubs past Arizona at sold-out Wrigley.</description>
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    <title>A nod to the old school</title>
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    <description>Later this year, Greg Maddux may pass Roger Clemens&#39; total of 354 career wins. But whether Maddux hits that number, the verdict is in. It arrived in the Mitchell Report. The greatest right-handed pitcher since Walter Johnson is no longer the tainted Clemens but the mesmerizing Maddux.</description>
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    <title>Restless vacation</title>
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    <description>He&#39;s got plenty of free time and still is being paid handsomely by the Baltimore Orioles, so there is no limit to what Leo Mazzone can do this spring.</description>
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    <title>Troubled pitcher transforms into ace</title>
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    <description>Midway through the best game of his career, Scott Olsen was pitching as if double-parked. He threw a strike, caught the return toss from his catcher, took one step back to reposition himself and looked in for another signal.</description>
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    <title>Durham Bulls</title>
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    <description>The Durham Bulls put an end to their three-game losing streak Saturday at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park when they recorded their league-leading seventh shutout of the season, dropping the Syracuse Chiefs by a score of 3-0.</description>
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    <title>Carolina Mudcats</title>
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    <description>It was a game of missed opportunities that cost the Mudcats in their series opener against the Chattanooga Lookouts, before a crowd of 5,427 at Five County Stadium.</description>
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    <title>Pace looking for a healthy start</title>
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    <description>Two injury-plagued years haven&#39;t hurt Orlando Pace&#39;s sense of humor. The Rams&#39; former Pro Bowl tackle said on Saturday during the second day of St. Louis&#39; minicamp that he is feeling good and looking forward to training camp.</description>
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    <title>Potential exists for podium protests</title>
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    <description>Australian Olympic chief John Coates said Saturday that he believes there&#39;s a good chance some athletes will protest on the medal podium at the Beijing Olympics.</description>
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    <title>No joke, Goydos leads field</title>
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    <description>Good-humored golfer holds one-shot lead over Perry at TPC Sawgrass.</description>
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    <title>Sorenstam starting to regain form</title>
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    <description>Rarely spectacular but remarkable for her consistency, Annika Sorenstam shot her third consecutive nearly mistake-free round, shooting a 2-under 69 in the Michelob Ultra Open at Williamsburg, Va. It signaled that she may be ready to give Lorena Ochoa a run for No. 1 again.</description>
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    <title>Letters</title>
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    <description>Eight Belles&#39; death caused by injection: Your Sports news brief stated in the May 7 edition, &quot;Owner Rick Porter said the preliminary necropsy result showed the death came as a result of the fracture of the filly&#39;s two front cannon bones.&quot;</description>
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    <title>Coaches begin their &#39;Cruisin&#39; for a Cause&#39;</title>
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    <description> Their do-rags are pink. Their motorcycles are painted Volunteers orange.</description>
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    <title>High School Results</title>
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    <description>Results from Saturday&#39;s high school games.</description>
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    <title>Pack eliminates Heels in ACC</title>
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    <description>Kristine Bechtholdt hit a solo home run, and Lindsay Campana held one of the nation&#39;s top offenses to three quiet hits as N.C. State stunned No. 13 North Carolina 1-0 in the semifinals of the ACC Softball Tournament in College Park, Md., on Saturday.</description>
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    <title>Pack earns split with Terrapins</title>
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    <description>Freshman right-hander Jake Buchanan tossed a complete-game five-hitter, and Jeremy Synan and Nick Stanley hit three-run home runs on Saturday as the N.C. State baseball team defeated Maryland 12-1 to earn a split of their ACC doubleheader in College Park, Md.</description>
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    <title>D&#39;Antoni agrees to coach Knicks</title>
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    <description>Mike D&#39;Antoni has agreed to coach the New York Knicks, bringing his entertaining offensive style from the Phoenix Suns to a team coming off one of the worst seasons in franchise history.</description>
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    <title>Pistons put Magic against ropes</title>
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    <description>Even without star point guard Chauncey Billups, Detroit takes 3-1 series lead.</description>
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    <title>Cleveland&#39;s supporting cast comes alive</title>
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    <description>Cavaliers easily win Game 3 over Celtics, despite James&#39; shooting woes.</description>
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    <title>On the Air</title>
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    <description>Live, same-day, and delayed cable TV and radio sports coverage. Schedule subject to change.</description>
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    <title>Track and field champships are un-four-gettable</title>
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    <description>Southern Durham&#39;s Jacinda Evans dominates the girls meet, and Wakefield&#39;s T.J. Graham makes his mark in the boys meet by sprinting to victories in the 100 and 200 meters.</description>
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    <title>Big day for Duke lacrosse</title>
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    <description>On a bright, breezy spring Saturday at Koskinen Stadium, Duke men&#39;s lacrosse fans had many reasons to cheer, including the return and three goals of Collin Finnerty, a former Blue Devil who was one of three members of the 2006 Duke team.</description>
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    <title>The boos don&#39;t faze Busch</title>
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    <description> The crowd booed him. He called his car pathetic. His crew missed a lug nut, and he couldn&#39;t stay off Darlington Raceway&#39;s wall.</description>
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    <title>Duke&#39;s plan to fix football calls for &#39;changing the culture&#39;</title>
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    <description>The strategy tackles the problems of a program that has 25 straight ACC losses.</description>
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    <title>Hawks on the right rails</title>
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    <description>The celebration was furious and fevered after the apparent game-winning goal, scored in front of the Carolina RailHawks&#39; hardest-core fans.</description>
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