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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
MOSCOW, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Vera Zvonareva and Jelena Jankovic, the top two seeds, took different routes Tuesday into the second round of the Kremlin Cup.
The top-seeded Zvonareva coasted past Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-2, 6-2 to set up a second-round meeting with qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova.
Jankovic struggled to get past Yaroslava Shvedova 6-4, 5-7, 6-1. Jankovic will meet Lucie Safarova in the second round.
Pironkova advanced by outlasting Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. Safarova won her first-round match Monday.
Aleksandra Wozniak also moved on when her opponent, Sara Errani, retired prior to the start of the second set. Wozniak had won the first set 6-1.
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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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LOS ANGELES, June 1 (UPI) --
Dick Beals, known as the voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer, died at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, Calif., his friend told the Los Angeles Times.
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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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