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| Wright scores 34, No. 14 Hoyas beat Harvard 86-70 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chris Wright scored a career-high 34 points, Greg Monroe added 16 points and 16 rebounds, and No. 14 Georgetown used a half-ending 11-0 run to break open a tight game and beat Harvard 86-70 Wednesday, avoiding a second consecutive loss.... hosted.ap.org |
Simplicity the key as Ian Bell steers England towards victory • 'Sometimes you make it too complicated,' says batsman• Bell's century puts England in sight of victoryIan Bell says a positive approach has paid dividends as he provided a fitting riposte to his critics with 141 as England finished the fourth day in sight of victory over South Africa.Bell's position in the side had been questioned following a poor run of form but a fine 227-ball innings guided England to 575 for nine.He then caught Ashwell Prince off the bowling of Graeme Swann as the hosts were reduced to 76 for six with a day remaining in Durban.The 27-year-old insisted he had not listened to much of the criticism to which he had been subjected but revealed returning to a simple approach was behind his improvement.Bell said: "I haven't listened to a lot of that. If I got selected it was a matter of me scoring some runs. I just needed to get out and score some runs and in this innings luckily I've done that."I'd made a few errors thinking about games too much. Sometimes you can make it too complicated. I walked away and looked at a few things. I'd changed what I didn't need to do."This game I've gone back to what I've done in the past. I just wanted to play positive cricket. I was probably on the wrong side of being negative in last game, in this I was just positive."England in South Africa 2009-2010England Cricket TeamSouth Africa cricket teamCricketguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Hard to see value in Patrick Vieira On a previous shopping trip to Milan, Manchester City’s swaggering belief in the raw power of their money predictably ran headlong into a wall of embarrassing rejection, and the jolting realisation that all their recently bestowed wealth didn’t give them the football credit rating needed to bring Kaka to England. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
English FA presses ahead with mission to Angola England’s 2018 World Cup bid team will tread cautiously when they set off on a mission to Angola to lobby African football officials after tensions were raised by the instant reaction of figures in the English game to the terrorist attack on the Togo team that left three dead. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Juan MartĂn del Potro defeat offers Andy Murray glimpse of glory • US Open champion loses 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3• Marin Cilic will now play Andy RoddickIt is hard to think of anything more dangerous than looking past Rafael Nadal when the Spaniard is your next opponent and, as he prepares for his showdown with the defending champion here on Tuesday, Andy Murray is experienced enough to know that. But should he find a way past Nadal then the path to the final was theoretically eased today after a surprise defeat for Juan MartĂn del Potro.The US Open champion was edged out 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 by the Croatian 14th seed Marin Cilic, who will now play Andy Roddick, himself a gutsy 6-3, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 winner over the Chilean Fernando González in the night match. On paper a semi-final against Cilic or Roddick is a more attractive proposition than taking on Del Potro, though Murray will be well aware of the dangers they pose, having lost to Roddick in the semi-finals at Wimbledon last summer and then to Cilic in the fourth round of the US Open last September.Del Potro had survived an epic five-set match with James Blake in the second round on his way to the last 16, but today he simply ran out of steam. It was not without a fight but in the end Cilic proved too strong. "We played a hard match, five sets again," Del Potro said. "Marin is playing great tennis. I think he did better than me and he won."Nagging pain in his right wrist had almost stopped Del Potro from competing here and the Argentinian said he would go home to recover for the tournaments ahead. As for Cilic, he has now made consecutive grand slam quarter-finals, his movement has improved enormously in the past 12 months and as Murray can testify, he is a dangerous shot-maker.At the rate she is going, former world No1 Justine Henin will surely be back near the top of the women's rankings before too long. In only her second tournament after returning from retirement, the Belgian fended off compatriot Yanina Wickmayer 7-6, 1-6, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.Next up is the Russian Nadia Petrova, who followed up her shock win over Kim Clijsters by beating another Russian, the third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova. Clijsters won the US Open last September in just her third tournament back after two years off but Henin said it was too soon to say if she could complete what would be an incredible Belgian double. "Of course, I have dreams," she said. "I'll try to go as far as possible and if it's until the end, it would be amazing, but it's still too early to talk about that."The second seed Dinara Safina withdrew during the first set of her match with the Russian Maria Kirilenko because of a back injury. Kirilenko will play Jie Zheng of China for a semi-final spot.Australian OpenJuan MartĂn del PotroAndy RoddickJustine HeninTennisSimon Cambersguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |