- BOSTON – Midway through their season, the Seattle Mariners are on pace to win 84 games, have produced two All-Stars and went 5-4 on a trip that some fans thought might ruin their year.
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- Roger Federer won his record 15th Grand Slam title Sunday, outlasting Andy Roddick for his sixth Wimbledon championship in a marathon match that went to 16-14 in the fifth set. Federer served 50 aces and overcame the resilient American 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14 to break the record of major titles he shared with Pete Sampras and enhance his reputation as perhaps the greatest player in history.
BOSTON – The Seattle Mariners will have two players – Ichiro Suzuki and Felix Hernandez – in the 2009 All-Star game next week.
No matter what happens today. No matter if Brandon Morrow walks the first eight batters he faces, no matter if Russell Branyan strikes out five times in a row, no matter if the Seattle Mariners lose, 22-0, to the Boston Red Sox, they will get on the plane after the game and know this trip has been a huge success.
• 2008-09 All-Sports tabulations
Mead is back on top. The Panthers from Spokane claimed their 12th All-Sports championship since The News Tribune began the annual tally of the state’s top athletic programs after the 1987-88 school year.
Mead is back on top. The Panthers from Spokane claimed their 12th All-Sports championship since The News Tribune began the annual tally of the state’s top athletic programs after the 1987-88 school year.
BOSTON – A team that lost 101 games last season hit the portion of its 2009 schedule that looked like a built-in losing streak – a trip to play the Dodgers, Yankees and Red Sox.
MONACO – Lance Armstrong put in a solid performance in his comeback at the Tour de France on Saturday, finishing the first stage ahead of 170 riders many years younger and in a respectable 10th place, behind winner Fabian Cancellara.
SALT LAKE CITY – The Tacoma Rainiers outlasted the Salt Lake Bees, 7-5, in a Fourth of July marathon that featured four lead changes, some ninth inning dramatics and an uncomfortable moment when the umpiring crew seemed to lose control of the game.
In a battle of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference, Alejandro Moreno scored the tying goal in the 59th minute to help the Columbus Crew push its home unbeaten streak to 17 games with a 1-1 draw with D.C. United on Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio.
The worst-kept secret in the America’s Cup is official: Alinghi of Switzerland will sail a giant catamaran when it defends the oldest trophy in international sports early next year against U.S. rival BMW Oracle Racing.
It was only seven innings, but it was perfection nonetheless.
BOSTON – Ryan Langerhans went six days without an at-bat, then started a game against CC Sabathia – and wound up winning a job as Seattle’s left fielder.
A week after spinning out at Richmond and losing the IndyCar Series points lead, Ryan Briscoe won his second straight pole at Watkins Glen International.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart led lap after lap around Daytona International Speedway, using a flawless pit-road performance to inch closer to his second win as owner of his race team.
Anthony Kim finally gets a crack at Tiger Woods.
WIMBLEDON, England — Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon women’s final on Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player trying to deny her a Grand Slam title.
BOSTON – One month into his major league career, reliever Shawn Kelley wound up on the disabled list – and worried for a time that the Seattle Mariners would think him a malingerer.
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