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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
MADRID, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Open runner-up Jelena Jankovic won and Wimbledon champion Venus Williams lost Tuesday in the $4.5 million Madrid Open.
Fourth-seeded Jankovic of Serbia defeated Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 7-5, 6-2. Jankovic next plays Russian Elena Vesnina.
Russian Alisa Kleybanova, 19, defeated Williams in 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Williams beat Kleybanova in the fourth round at Wimbledon last season.
In other second-round action involving seeded players, Dane Caroline Wozniacki beat American Varvara Lepchenko 6-3, 6-1 and former top-ranked Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo beat Zheng Jie of China 6-2, 7-5.
Mauresmo, two-time major champion Mauresmo, plays Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (UPI) --
Javier Lopez snuffed out a Chicago comeback bid in the ninth inning Friday to give the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the Cubs.
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HOLLYWOOD, June 2 (UPI) --
Rising U.S. television personality Dan Savage has signed on with the top-tier talent agency CAA, The Hollywood Reporter said.
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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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UPI horoscopes for Saturday, June 2, 2012.
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