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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
NEWPORT, R.I., July 10 (UPI) -- Canadian Frank Dancevic and wild card player Prakash Amritraj advanced Thursday to the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Rhode Island.
Dancevic, seeded seventh, upset fourth-seeded Russian Igor Kunitsyn 7-5, 6-3 and Amritraj, of India, topped countryman Rohan Bopanna 6-4, 6-3.
The two winners will meet in the semis.
Defending champion Fabrice Santoro, who had an opening-round bye in the grass-court event, won a second-round match to reach the quarterfinals. The 35-year-old Santoro, seeded second, beat Aisam Ul-Haq Quereshi of Pakistan 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
American Vincent Spadea eliminated third-seeded Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 6-3 to gain a quarterfinal berth.
Others advancing to the quarters were Austrian Alexander Peya, who ousted American Donald Young 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, and Spaniard Ivan Navarro, an 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-4 winner over South African Kevin Anderson.
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BOSTON, June 1 (UPI) --
A team effort led by Kevin Garnett overcame a one-man show by LeBron James Friday and the Boston Celtics held on to defeat Miami 101-91.
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NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) --
Rielle Hunter, former mistress of onetime Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, has written a memoir about their affair and the child it produced.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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