Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.
Surging Boston turn up the heat on Miami
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Flyers rally from 3-0 down to beat Penguins in OT
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Red Sox fans in no mood to party after slow start
TORONTO (Reuters) – In 100 years of baseball at Fenway
Park, Boston Red Sox fans have seen many highs and lows, but
the team’s flat start to the season may sting more than usual
with the city prepared to mark a special occasion. Following a
3-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, the Red Sox
return to Boston for their home opener with a 1-5 record that
has not exactly left Beantown in a party mood for next week’s
centennial celebration of Fenway Park.
Canucks’ Daniel Sedin to miss playoff opener
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Paul’s heroics push Clippers past Thunder
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Bruins’ Horton to miss playoffs with concussion
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Chen makes solid Orioles debut, Yankees win game
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore Orioles southpaw Chen
Wei-yin opened his Major League Baseball career with a solid
debut, giving up two earned runs and seven hits to the New York
Yankees over five-plus innings in a narrow home defeat on
Tuesday. The Taiwanese rookie with impressive credentials from
Japan’s Central League was pulled from the game with two outs
in the sixth with the Orioles and the defending AL East
champions locked at 4-4.
Arkansas fires football coach over relationship with
assistant
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – The University of
Arkansas on Tuesday fired head football coach Bobby Petrino
after a motorcycle accident with a young female passenger led
to what university officials said was a pattern of deception
about her hiring and their relationship. At a press conference
Tuesday night in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Athletic Director Jeff
Long said that Petrino, 51, was dismissed because of a ”pattern
of misleading and manipulative behavior to deceive me.”
Women exercise right to fight in Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Jeet Toshi’s eyes glaze over as the
blood flow to her brain begins to slow. She claws at the arm
clamped around her throat but Nicole Chua’s choke is sapping
her strength, and the rising panic in Toshi’s chest tells her
she will black out in seconds. Brutality is blind to gender in
mixed martial arts (MMA).
Long flights give Oosthuizen time to reflect
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – After playoff heartbreak at the
U.S. Masters, Louis Oosthuizen spent every minute of his near
30-hour journey to Malaysia thinking about what more he could
have done at Augusta. The 2010 British Open champion lost on
the second extra hole to American Bubba Watson at the Masters
late on Sunday before making the lengthy journey across
continents to compete in the European and Asian Tour
co-sanctioned Malaysian Open.
