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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
BEIJING, July 30 (UPI) -- Michael Phelps won his third gold medal at the World Swimming Championships with a victory in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday.
Phelps covered the course in 50.71 seconds, 0.44 seconds ahead of Konrad Czerniak of Poland.
Tyler McGill of the United States came in third.
The gold was the third in a row in world competition for Phelps, who also added a bronze and two silvers to his collections at the Beijing Worlds this week.
Phelps' final event of the meet is the 4x100-meter relay Sunday.
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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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