• The Rebels were given possession and Henderson's off-balance shot failed to draw iron.

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  • Outside Wheeling Park's White Palace Ballroom in Wheeling, West Virginia, Craig Bouchard, president of the little-known, closely held Esmark of Chicago, was frantically calling large investors, pulling off a long-shot coup.

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  • The crowd was urging Flintoff to take his first five-wicket haul at Lord's, and having ripped out Nathan Hauritz's off stump when the off-spinner played no shot, he came off a shortened run and blew away Peter Siddle.

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  • "That was rough, " Holmes said of his play-off tee shot which found the water.

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  • We wouldn't embark on this project if we didn't feel it had strategic long-term value, this isn't a one-off shot.

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  • And then there was a spin-move James did at the three-point line, followed by a pass under his legs, then a hook-shot-toss off the backboard.

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  • After Tyreek Duren's two foul shots tied it 74-all at the 1:07 mark, Mississippi star and team lightning rod Marshall Henderson missed an off-balance bank shot that would have given the Rebels the lead.

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  • Shakib was the catcher when Vandort mis-timed a pull-shot off Shahadat Hossain, and three overs after taking the top-edge, he added another wicket to his collection as he breached captain Mahela Jayawardene's defences.

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  • And although the South African, who is ranked 21 in the world, had the worst drive of the trio in the play-off, his second shot landed in the best position - Wood was more than 20 feet from the hole, while Quiros was just off the green.

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  • Shortly after Kovalchuk banged a power-play shot off the post, Del Zotto swatted a shoulder-high pass from the corner by Derek Stepan into the net at 11:49 for New York's third short-handed goal of the season.

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  • Villa keeper Friedel almost let Duff's deflected shot slip in and Cuellar smuggled Viduka's goal-bound shot off the line as Newcastle pressed for an early breakthrough.

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  • Deng then missed an off-balance fadeaway bank shot with 1.5 seconds left in regulation.

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  • Garcia finds the green with his tee-shot off the 154 yard second - the shortest hole on the Wentworth course - but misses a 12-foot birdie putt.

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  • But Carlisle had a home record matching the 17 wins achieved by Premier League champions Manchester United and the Brunton Park side had the first chance as an off-balance Grant Smith shot wide.

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  • Kemp's two-run shot off Harvey in the sixth, originally ruled a triple before a replay review, snapped a 1-all tie and ended the slugger's drought of 86 at-bats dating to last season.

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  • Eagles, 24, broke the deadlock in the 50th minute with a curling 25-yard shot following a lay-off from Wade Elliott.

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  • Less than a week later, Nassau County police announced that Rebello, who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other college students inside an off-campus house, had been shot and killed during an early morning break-in Friday that also left the armed intruder dead.

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  • Gerrard was allowed time and space with the ball in midfield and he used it to telling effect as he slid a ball through to Torres, who took a lovely first touch and held off Gary Caldwell before catching Al-Habsi off guard by taking his shot early to find the bottom corner.

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  • Cheers erupted when he pulled out a 5-wood, a risky shot off the pine straw through a 15-foot gap of pines.

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  • Shaping to play a premeditated sweep to Hauritz, the batsman was given a ball well wide of off-stump - and he should have aborted the shot.

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  • But Jelavic was not to be denied with his next attempt, the striker brushing off the challenge of Mulgrew to latch on to Weiss's quickly taken free-kick and sliding a shot past Forster, the ball rebounding off the right-hand post but spinning back over the line.

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  • David Robertson could have settled the tie in the injury time, but blasted his long-range shot off the crossbar.

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  • And he then bettered it at Turnberry last July, finishing tied for third, missing the play-off by just one shot.

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  • And within two minutes, Petrov had doubled the lead with a right-footed snap-shot - courtesy of a wicked deflection off Campbell's inside leg.

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  • Lampard hit the post with a trademark long-range drive and Terry fired just wide with a well-struck shot off the outside of his right foot.

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  • Nix hit a two-run shot off LaTroy Hawkins in the sixth.

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  • The family of an off-duty Essex police officer shot dead while intervening in a row have spoken of their shock at the deaths of two officers in Manchester.

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  • Peter Siddle was driven pleasantly through the off-side for four by Strauss, a shot which saw the 50-run stand raised well within the first hour.

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  • However, Blues keeper Ben Foster smartly got a hand to the ball to crucially slow down the Nigerian's left-foot shot before a sliding Ridgewell cleared off the goal-line.

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  • Navarro hit a solo homer just over the basket at the wall in left-center in the second to break a 1-all tie and added a two-run shot down the left-field line off John Danks (0-1) in the fourth, with both drives coming from the right side.

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