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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Garrett Jones, Josh Harrison and Jose Tabata each drove in a run Friday and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 3-1 to break a five-game losing streak.
Pirates' starter Brian Burres (1-0) went 5 1/3 innings, allowing one run on five hits with one walk and five strikeouts in his first major league appearance of 2011. The only he gave up came on a second-inning home run by Carlos Pena.
Pirates centerfielder Andrew McCutchen left the game after being hit in the hand by a Ryan Dempster fastball in the top of the first.
Dempster (10-11) allowed three runs on seven hits with one walk and nine strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. The Cubs had won two straight coming into the game.
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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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