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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
METZ, France, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Seventh-seeded German Andreas Beck advanced Monday at the Open de Moselle tennis tournament with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu.
Beck will be joined in the second round by fellow German Bjorn Phau, who beat countryman Rainer Schuettler 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-5) Monday.
This week's top seeds are France's Gael Monfils, German Philip Kohlschreiber and last year's runner-up Paul-Henri Mathieu. Russian Dmitry Tursunov, who is not defending his title this week, defeated the Frenchman Mathieu in last year's finale.
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PARIS, June 1 (UPI) --
Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, the world's top two ranked women's tennis players, picked up wins Friday at the French Open.
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NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. author Lauren Weisberger is working on a sequel to her 2003 blockbuster novel, "The Devil Wears Prada," EW.com reported.
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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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HOLMES BEACH, Fla., June 1 (UPI) --
Employees at a Florida grocery store restrained a Cuban sandwich thief by sitting on him until authorities arrived, police say.
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