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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
STANFORD, Calif., July 17 (UPI) -- Samantha Stosur pulled off an upset Thursday and Patty Schnyder set up a quarterfinal meeting with Serena Williams at the Bank of the West Classic.
Stosur defeated third-seeded Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 in the last match of the evening. Stosur earned her second quarterfinal appearance of the year on the ATP Tour, this one against Aleksandra Wozniak.
Schnyder eliminated Alisa Kleybanova 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 to set up her quarterfinal match against the top-seeded Williams. Schnyder lost in straight sets to Williams this year in the finals of a tournament in India.
In other matches Thursday, Wozniak was a 6-4, 7-5 winner over Sybille Bammer and sixth-seeded Marion Bartoli defeated Anne Keothavong 6-3, 1-6, 7-5.
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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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