2010 FIBA World Championship roundup: Lithuania shakes 18-point deficit to stun Spain
Lithuania rallied from an 18-point second-half deficit to beat Spain 76-73 Tuesday in a game between the two Group D favorites at the basketball world championship.
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Two-time Tour de France champ Laurent Fignon dies at 50
Times wires Tuesday, August 31, 2010 CYCLING TWO-TIME TOUR DE FRANCE CHAMP FIGNON DIES AT 50 Laurent Fignon , the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and ’84 and lost to Greg LeMond in the race’s closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50. Fignon said in June 2009 that he had advanced cancer of the digestive system and was undergoing chemotherapy. Fignon had been a television …
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Subs need to perform for U.S. to succeed at Worlds
ISTANBUL — The last U.S. basketball team was so stacked that Dwyane Wade was the sixth man. Chris Paul and Chris Bosh were also part of that second unit, one good enough to beat any starting five in the world. When Mike Krzyzewski looked Monday at the bench he has …
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