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Bogomolov, Tipsarevic Make Russia Semis

ST. PETERSBURG, Rus­sia — Janko Tip­sare­vic advanced to his sec­ond finalin as many weeks, beat­ing Alex Bogo­molov Jr. 6–2, 6–1 at the St. Peters­burg Openon Sat­ur­day. The second-seeded Tip­sare­vic won eight straight games to close out the firstset and take a 5–0 lead in the sec­ond. Last Sun­day, he won his sec­ond careertitle at the Krem­lin Cup. The other semi­fi­nal later Sat­ur­day will fea­ture fourth-seeded Marin Cilicand 2004 win­ner Mikhail Youzhny. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by X2 news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more... 

Cowboys Release Ineffective RB Choice After Slow Start

The Dal­las Cow­boys released run­ning back Tashard Choice on Sat­ur­day, NFL Network’s Michael Lom­bardi confirmed. The story was first reported by ESPN. Choice con­firmed the move on his Twit­ter page, writ­ing, “I just want to say thanks to all the great dal­las cow­boy fans. My time in Dal­las has come to an end and the best is yet come. God bless.” Choice, 26, is aver­ag­ing 2.7 yards on 28 car­ries with­out any touch­downs this sea­son. He will go on waivers because he has less than four sea­sons of tenure. The Cow­boys will acti­vate line­backer Bruce Carter... 

Cedric Benson’s Non-Injury Grievance Rejected, Suspension Stands

On Fri­day, Ben­gals run­ning back Cedric Ben­son pre­sented to an out­side arbi­tra­tor a griev­ance regard­ing his one-game sus­pen­sion (plus one-game fine) for vio­la­tion of the league’s per­sonal con­duct pol­icy dur­ing the lock­out. Per a source with knowl­edge of the sit­u­a­tion, the griev­ance has been rejected. Ben­son didn’t expect to play on Sun­day, even if he pre­vailed. It’s some­what sur­pris­ing that the rul­ing came as quickly as it did. He’ll be eli­gi­ble to rejoin the team on Mon­day. A sep­a­rate unfair labor prac­tice charge... 

No. 13 Nebraska Tops No. 9 Spartans 24–3

LINCOLN, Neb. — Rex Burk­head scored three touch­downs and ran for 130 yards on 35 car­ries, and No. 13 Nebraska defeated ninth-ranked Michi­gan State 24–3 Sat­ur­day to take con­trol of the Big Ten Leg­ends Division. Burk­head, who went over 100 yards for the fifth time in six games, scored at the end of 80– and 89-yard dri­ves in the third quar­ter to put Nebraska up 24–3. Tay­lor Mar­tinez com­pleted 6 of 7 passes for 80 yards in the third quar­ter after going 1 for 6 in the first half. Michi­gan State (6–2, 3–1), com­ing off the incred­i­ble fin­ish to its... 

Game 7 of World Series Was Most Watched Baseball Game Since 2004

Jon Weis­man of Vari­ety and the excel­lent Dodger Thoughts brings word that Game 7 of the World Series between the Rangers and Car­di­nals drew 23.2 mil­lion view­ers last night accord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary Nielsen esti­mates, mak­ing it the most watched base­ball game in seven years. Weis­man notes that the audi­ence could go up by more than a mil­lion when a more pre­cise read­ing is released later this after­noon, but it will almost cer­tainly fall short of Game 4 of the 2004 World Series, which drew 28.8 mil­lion view­ers when the Red Sox swept the Car­di­nals to... 

Robert Hight Leads Top Fuel Field

LAS VEGAS - Robert Hight raced to the pro­vi­sional No. 1 qual­i­fy­ing posi­tion in Funny Car on Fri­day in the Big O Tires NHRA Nation­als at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bran­don Bern­stein, Jason Line and Hec­tor Arana also topped their cat­e­gories in the second-to-last event of the NHRA Full Throt­tle Drag Rac­ing season. FORT WORTH, TX — RIL 07: NH… - Apr 7, 10:47 pm EDT Hight, who entered the event fifth in the sea­son stand­ings, took the pro­vi­sional top spot on the first pass of the sec­ond ses­sion of qual­i­fy­ing, pow­er­ing...