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Woods Tops $100 Million in Earnings

Tiger Woods has become the first $100 million man on the PGA Tour.

Woods finished third Monday in the Deutsche Bank Championship and made $544,000, pushing his career total to $100,350,700. Next on the list is Phil Mickelson, who finished fourth at the TPC Boston and has $66,805,498.

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Egypt Football Icon Gohary Dies

Egyptian football coach Mahmud al-Gohary, who steered his national team to the World Cup in 1990, died Monday aged 74 after suffering a brain stroke in Jordan, the official MENA news agency said.

Gohary, who inspired a pop song after his name when he took the Egyptian team to the championship in Italy, had been taken to hospital in Amman where he had been managing the Jordanian national team.

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Injured Nadal to Miss at Least Next 2 Months

Rafael Nadal has a partially torn patella tendon in his left knee and will be sidelined for at least the next two months, including Spain's upcoming Davis Cup semifinal against the United States.

"I have to recover and I'll be back once the pain is gone," Nadal said in a website posting linked to his Twitter feed.

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Kohlschreiber Beats Isner after 2 a.m. at U.S. Open

Equaling the record for the latest finish at the U.S. Open, Philipp Kohlscreiber of Germany eliminated John Isner of the United States 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at 2:26 a.m. local time Monday to reach the fourth round.

The official completion time was the same as a second-round match in 1993, when Mats Wilander beat Mikael Pernfors. The latest finishing match at any Grand Slam was the 4:34 a.m. end to Lleyton Hewitt's third-round encounter against Marcos Baghdatis at the 2008 Australian Open.

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Athletics: Defeated Pistorius Reopens Prosthetics Debate

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius has reopened the debate about whether artificial blades give amputee runners an unfair advantage after sensationally losing his T44 200m title at the London Paralympics.

The 25-year-old "Blade Runner", so-called because he runs on carbon fiber prostheses, was beaten into silver by Brazil's Alan Oliveira on Sunday evening, stunning the 80,000-strong crowd at the Olympic Stadium into silence.

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Alonso Says Lucky Not Hurt in F1 Crash

Fernando Alonso said he felt fortunate to have escaped serious injury in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix when he was almost struck by Romain Grosjean's airborne Lotus.

Spaniard Alonso of Ferrari was left as a stranded victim of a multiple collision triggered by Frenchman Grosjean's impetuous aggression.

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Juve Go Top as Roma Stun Inter at San Siro

Champions Juventus underlined their Serie A title credentials by going top as Inter Milan were humbled 3-1 by a Francesco Totti-inspired Roma at the San Siro on Sunday.

AC Milan, who finished runners-up to Juventus last season but stuttered against Sampdoria last week, got their scudetto campaign back on track Saturday when Giampaolo Pazzini struck a hat-trick in a 3-1 win away at Bologna.

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Van Persie Treble Fires United, Arsenal Sink Liverpool

Robin van Persie hit a dramatic hat-trick as Manchester United fought back to win 3-2 at Southampton in Sir Alex Ferguson's 1,000th league game in charge, while Arsenal piled on the misery for struggling Liverpool with a 2-0 victory at Anfield on Sunday.

Van Persie looked like ruining Ferguson's landmark celebrations when he missed a penalty with United trailing 2-1 midway through the second half at St. Mary's.

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Sharapova Gets Past Petrova in 3 Sets at U.S. Open

Maria Sharapova is back in the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time since winning the title in 2006.

Shrieking loudly during points, screaming and pumping her fist after winning them, Sharapova grabbed control after a 75-minute rain delay to beat 19th-seeded Nadia Petrova 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 on Sunday night.

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Adriano Strike Sinks Valencia to Keep Barca Top

Barcelona maintained their winning start to the season with a fine strike from Adriano Correia giving them a 1-0 victory over Valencia in La Liga action on Sunday.

The Catalan side may have lost the domestic Super Cup to Real Madrid in midweek but they have now picked up maximum points from their first three league games that keeps them top of the table.

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