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- Bruins reschedule game due to blasts
- Pistorius 'not welcome' at Anniversary Games
- Nadal starts against Matosevic, Djokovic plays
| Bruins reschedule game due to blasts Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:18 PM PDT BOSTON, Massachusetts: The National Hockey League's lockout shortened season has been extended an extra day due to the deadly explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday. League officials announced Tuesday that the Boston Bruins-Ottawa Senators game which was postponed because of the finish line blasts has been rescheduled to April 28 at the Garden arena. "On behalf of my entire family, our prayers and deepest sympathies are with those who were injured, lost their lives, their families and the entire city of Boston," said team owner Jeremy Jacobs. "We will be there to offer our support in any way that we can in the wake of this tragedy." Monday's Bruins game was set to be played at the downtown arena just blocks from the site of the twin blasts that caused chaos in the city, killing at least three and injuring over 100, some critically. A labour dispute which lasted four months after the owners locked the players out of NHL arenas resulted in the 2012-13 regular season being reduced from 82 to just 48 games. The National Basketball Association announced Monday that the Boston Celtics regular season-ending home game on Tuesday against Indiana was being cancelled and would not be rescheduled. The contest did not carry any playoff implications. Boston is the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference, eight games behind Indiana, which is third and cannot catch the second place New York Knicks. Both teams end the NBA regular season on Wednesday, with Boston heading to Toronto, Canada and Indiana hosting Philadelphia. There were moments of silence prior to sporting events at stadiums around the United States on Monday. That included Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles where the Dodgers and San Diego Padres celebrated the legacy of civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson who broke baseball's colour barrier. - AFP |
| Pistorius 'not welcome' at Anniversary Games Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:15 PM PDT LONDON: South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend, will not be welcome at the Anniversary Games at London's Olympic Park this year, organisers said on Tuesday. The three-day event to commemorate the first anniversary of the London Olympics will include a day of Paralympic sport, but UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner said Pistorius would not be invited to take part. "I don't want to see the Sunday of the Anniversary Games turning into a media circus," Warner told BBC radio. "It would over-shadow every other athlete that was there. It's not about innocent or guilty, it's about how you handle an individual with a difficult moral situation hanging over them. "Anything might change. He is in court before then, but based on what I know at the moment, it would be a no if he rang this morning." Pistorius, a six-time Paralympic gold-medallist, is currently on police bail after being accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria in February. The 26-year-old, who claims he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, is allowed to compete outside South Africa before his case goes to trial. He was recently photographed at an athletics track in Pretoria, but is yet to return to full training. British Olympic gold medal-winners Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford will all compete at the Anniversary Games on July 26-28, organisers announced earlier on Tuesday. "I have amazing memories of competing in the Olympic Stadium last year and it will be good to step out on that track again in front of a British crowd," Ennis said. "I'll never forget the noise the crowd made when I competed last August and know that the draw of the stadium and the great line-up of athletes will fill the stands and make it another incredible occasion. "I am training hard and am getting excited about the prospect of getting out there and competing again this summer." - AFP |
| Nadal starts against Matosevic, Djokovic plays Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:14 PM PDT MONTE CARLO, Monaco: Rafael Nadal lines up on Wednesday against Australian Marinko Matosevic at the Monte Carlo Masters as the Spaniard begins his campaign for a record ninth straight trophy at the iconic venue. Nadal's opponent Matosevic faces the toughest ask in tennis after winning his first match on clay in almost a year to open Tuesday with a 7-5, 6-3 success over Fernando Verdasco. Top seed Novak Djokovic meanwhile informed tournament director Zeljko Franulovic that he would be fit to make his start in the second round after a bye. Djokovic has been putting in training and tests on his injured right ankle over the past few days. He will begin against Russian Mikhail Youzhny, who stands a respectable 3-4 in their career series. Wednesday's line-up features Nadal, Djokovic and second seed Andy Murray, whose profile has been the quietest of the major contenders so far. Matosevic, the number 54 in the world, won't have time to celebrate his upset of Spain's former ace Verdasco. Instead, he will become just the first obstacle placed in the path of Nadal, winner of his last 42 matches here at the Country Club overlooking the Mediterranean. Matosevic sprang a surprise on Verdasco, the one-time clay powerhouse and 2010 runner-up here to Nadal, going through to the second round in a struggle as his Spanish opponent fought back at the end in the one-hour, 51-minute contest. Matosevic saved nine of the dozen break points he faced while breaking the 31st-ranked Verdasco on five occasions. The Australian last won a clay match in the first round of French Open qualifying last May after earning his last ATP win on the surface in Munich a few weeks earlier. In other first-round matches on a perfect, sunny day, Spain's 10th seed Nicolas Almagro came back against Belgian David Goffin 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, while Swiss 13th seed Stanislas Wawrinka beat Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-3, 7-5. Argentine 14th seed Juan Monaco defeated Slovak Martin Klizan 6-4, 6-0, but French showman Gael Monfils lost to Albert Montanes 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. In the second round, Argentine wild card and fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro survived an early scare from Alexandr Dolgopolov, with the South American finally posting a 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 win and securing his first career victory in Monte Carlo after last playing in 2009. French sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Russian Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 while compatriot and number seven Richard Gasquet struggled before containing countryman Benoit Paire 6-1, 3-6, 6-1. Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov upset eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic 7-6 (7/3), 6-1, with the Serb double-faulting on a set point in the opening set and tweeting that he is now taking a few days off. - AFP |
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