It’s a Rough-and-Tumble Path to a Title Repeat for Azarenka
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Victoria Azarenka retained the Australian Open title with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Li Na, and preserved her No. 1 ranking.
Novak Djokovic won a grueling final 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-2 match over Andy Murray to win his third consecutive Australian Open title.
Victoria Azarenka retained the Australian Open title with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Li Na, and preserved her No. 1 ranking.
Bob and Mike Bryan became the most decorated doubles team in Grand Slam history by beating Robin Haase and Igor Sijsling in the Australian Open men’s doubles final.
Jim Harbaugh’s quarterbacking tenure in Baltimore, brief and unproductive, was the opposite of his older brother John’s experience while steering the Ravens to three A.F.C. title games in five years.
President Obama predicted that the game would gradually change to "reduce some of the violence," and he expressed more concern about college players than those in the N.F.L.
Boxes of photographs, awards and highlight reels once belonging to Mean Joe, famous for his defensive play for the Pittsburgh Steelers, are in a warehouse in Phoenix.
Alejandro Bedoya, a free agent who played recently in Sweden, is in training camp with the United States national soccer team, unsure of where he will next be playing.
Even with their full complement of talented, confident and expensive pieces at their disposal, the Knicks were unable to slow down the 76ers and Jrue Holiday, who scored 35 points.
Deron Williams scored 20 points in the first quarter but was held to 7 points the rest of the game, and the Nets struggled to contain Houston early.
Despite Brook Lopez’s fine season and Dwight Howard’s horrid one, an exchange of centers by the Nets and the woeful Lakers may still happen.
The Rangers scored four goals in the third period, two by Marian Gaborik, and rallied to earn their second victory of the season.
For Alex Rodriguez a directive to use a different surgeon for his latest hip surgery is followed by unease over possible past links to a Miami-area man being investigated by Major League Baseball.
Atlanta’s acquisition of B. J. and Justin Upton evokes memories of Henry and Tommie Aaron, who hit more home runs combined than even the three DiMaggios.
The Wildcats, on the strength of some late 3-pointers, posted their second victory of the week over a top-5 team.
At 36, Scott Gardiner is the oldest rookie on the PGA Tour and he is also the first indigenous Australian to earn his full-time playing privileges.
The Ravens, a traditional defensive powerhouse, will face the 49ers’ speed and youth. Tom Jolly and Carl Nelson have their annual debate on who will win.
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The question confronting Shaun White is whether slopestyle, an event he once dominated the way he still dominates the halfpipe, has passed him by.
The Inferno, one of the world’s oldest and longest downhill races, has grown from 12 competitors to 1,850 ski racers, but many of the rituals remain.
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John Madden, who coached a Super Bowl winner in the 1976 season, likes the 49ers' Colin Kaepernick but says the Ravens may be a team of destiny.
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Fans at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament were hopeful that 2013 might bring an end to the protracted losing streak by Japanese wrestlers.
The race to the top of very tall buildings.
A group of world-class skiers and snowboarders set out to ski Tunnel Creek. Then the mountain moved.
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