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St George Illawarra prop Justin Poore is free to play in Saturday night's clash with Canberra after having his dangerous throw charge downgraded at the NRL judiciary.

After three seasons away from Detroit, Ben Wallace signed a free-agent contract Wednesday with the Pistons. Wallace won an NBA title with Detroit in 2004 and went back to the Finals in 2005.

Brisbane swimmer Jessicah Schipper has produced another world-record performance, this time in the 100m butterfly, on the final night of the Australian shortcourse titles in Hobart.

LOWELL -- The latitude and longitude of the mounds that Kason Gabbard is pitching off these days are vastly different than the ones he threw from while playing for the Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers.

Highlights: Tarvaris Jackson completed a deep pass to Jaymar Johnson on an easy play after cornerback Benny Sapp fell. That was perhaps the easiest completion of the day for Jackson, who hasn't yet stamped his claim on the starting role in the competition with Sage Rosenfels. Rosenfels completed a throw in the back of the end zone to Sidney Rice, who made a great one-handed catch.

HOBART, australia, August 12. DURING the final day of competition at the Australian Short Course Championships, Jessicah Schipper lowered the world record in the women's 100 fly.Schipper captured ...

CHICAGO - Better. Not 'a lot' better, or 'a little' better, or '37 percent' better. Just better. That's how Pedro Martinez describes the difference between how he feels today and how he felt last August, when he was in the midst of a frustrating final season with the Mets.

RED SOX 6, Tigers 5 FENWAY PARK, BOSTON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Detroit 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 5 10 0 Boston 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 x 6 12 0 Winning pitcher: Ramirez (6-3). Losing pitcher: Miner (5-2). Att: 37,960. Like ranchers in the spring, the Red Sox are waiting on a calf. This one is Tim Wakefield's, and the bedraggled Boston starting rotation could use the venerable knuckleballer very much. He threw 51 pitches in a simulated game yesterday. Wakefield's arm is doing fine, according to manager Terry Francona, but it was obvious that his troublesome left calf, which is recovering from nerve damage, is not 100 percent. It will be important to see how Wakefield feels today, the manager said. 'We definitely think he can get outs,' Francona said, 'but we don't want to make a mistake and bring him back too quickly.' Wakefield said he felt as though he could pitch today, but will wait for medical clearance. He'd like to be ready to return to action sometime during Boston's

Troy Percival visited his Tampa Bay teammates before Tuesday night's game with the Los Angeles Angels and the closer sounded every bit like someone who has thrown his last pitch in a major league game.

Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs face the prospect of a short break leading into the first week of the finals after the AFL confirmed on Wednesday night that it won't change its Round 22 scheduling.