Sizzling Saints crush Tigers

Undefeated St Kilda set up a blockbuster clash with the Cats next week after inflicting a crushing 56-point defeat on Richmond. more…

Barnes, Glover lead as soggy US Open to resume (AP)

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 14th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Sunday, June 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Final-round play at the U.S. Open resumes this morning at Bethpage Black, with Ricky Barnes — who made bogey on six of his final 13 holes — tied with playing partner Lucas Glover for the lead at 7 under, both with 17 holes remaining. They’ve got a sizable cushion over Phil Mickelson, David Duval, Hunter Mahan and Ross Fisher, all of whom sit 2 under early in their rounds.


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Storm overcome Tigers 14-12

Melbourne avoided Origin woe when they scrambled to a 14-12 win over the desperate Wests Tigers in their NRL clash at Olympic Park on Sunday. more…

Rain delay at US Open forces Monday finish (AP)

Tiger Woods waits for play to be suspended during a downpour during the third round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Saturday, June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Barring any more significant rain, the final round of the U.S. Open will begin at midday Sunday and a champion at the season’s second major could be crowned as early as Monday morning.


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With better forecast, US Open resumes at Bethpage (AP)

Water accumulates on the 13th green as spectators leave following suspended play because of heavy rain during the first round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Thursday, June 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP – Tiger Woods swung away on the 18th tee Friday morning, watched his ball fly into a bunker on the way to another bogey, and turned away in disgust.


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Downpour halts US Open

First-round play was halted in the 109th US Open after intense rain made Bethpage Black unplayable, with Tiger Woods standing two strokes off the pace. more…

Lefty winning hearts as he tries to win the Open (AP)

Phil Mickelson wears a breast cancer awareness ribbon sewn on his cap during his practice round for the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Wednesday, June 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP – He won their hearts the last time, even though he couldn’t win their tournament. Tiger Woods stood in his way, as he so often does, but that didn’t stop New Yorkers from showing a lot of love for the swashbuckling lefty who kept grinning even as his chances of winning slipped away.


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Heighington out for at least six weeks

Wests Tigers will be without back-rower Chris Heighington for at least the next six weeks through injury. more…

Rights groups want Sri Lanka probe into war abuses (AP)

File- In this Nov. 26, 2005 file photo, members of a rebel volunteer youth force march with a flag of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during a ceremony to celebrate the 51st birthday of rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in Velvetithurai, about 315 kilometers (197 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are trying to rise from the ashes of their devastating battlefield defeat, swearing off violence and pledging to transform their internationally shunned terror group into a democratic movement for Tamil statehood. The rebels once controlled a shadow state across northern Sri Lanka backed by thousands of guerrilla fighters, a navy and even a nascent air force. They were crushed by government forces in May 2009, after a quarter century of civil war. Prabhakaran was killed in the war. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)AP – Human rights groups called Thursday for an international investigation into wartime abuses in Sri Lanka, saying the government lacks the political will to investigate the incidents on its own.


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Sri Lanka scoffs at new Tamil exiled government (Reuters)

COLOMBO (Reuters) – The remnants of the Tamil Tigers have vowed to form a government in exile to push their separatist cause, which Sri Lanka Wednesday called an “hallucination” and another illegal attempt to violate its unitary status. more…