O, THE RAYS WINNING WAYS

The Tampa Bay Rays won their 7th straight game in Toronto tuesday night.

INSIDE TENNIS TAKES ITS PLACE

Dinara Safina, left, and Amelie Mauresmo became the first players to play on Centre Court with the roof closed.

GREINKE: BEST OF THE BEST

Zack Greinke, who leads the majors in both Wins and ERA improved to 10-3 Sunday as Kansas City wrapped up their road trip with a 3-2 defeat of the Pirates at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

D.C BLEEDING RED

The Washington Nationals, who became the first team to lose 50 games on Friday night in Baltimore, fell 17 games behind Philadelphia in the National League East for the first time Saturday with a 6-3 loss in Baltimore. Washington holds not only the worst record in baseball at 21-51 but is the only team yet to win 10 road games in 2009 with a 8-26 record away from D.C. Manager Many Acta is pictured above.

BEAUTIFUL SCENE FOR NEW YORK YANKEES

The New York Yankees crushed their crosstown rival New York Mets Friday night in Queens 9-1 under a beautiful sky and sell-out crowd. The Yankees, who play their first series at Citi Field this weekend haven't won the Subway Series in 6 years but lead in the 2009 matchups 3-1 with two games left to play.

HEWITT SHINES AS BRIGHT AS SUN

Lleyton Hewitt defeated fifth seeded Martin Del Porto in an emotional straight set victory at Wimbledon Thursday. He advanced to the third round where he will face Philipp Petzchner for a place in the finals.

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AMERICA DOES UNTHINKABLE

The United States stunned Spain, the world’s top-ranked soccer team, and advanced to the Confederations Cup final with a 2-0 victory in South Africa Wednesday.

FIRST PLACE DETRIOT CELEBRATES AGAIN

Ryan Raburn celebrates the Tigers walk-off 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The Tigers, who improved to ten games above .500 at home, have won 5 in a row and remain in first place in the AL central, leading the Minnesota Twins by 4 games.

GLOVER GRIPS OPEN TITLE

Lucas Glover’s final-round 73 at Bethpage Black gave him a two-shot victory and US Open Title.

BALTIMORE GETTING IT DONE

Brian Roberts and the Baltimore Orioles won there 5th straight game and moved into single digits from first place in the AL East with there defeat of the Philadelphia Phillies. Baltimore, which has also won 7 of its last 10 games will continue interleague play Tuesday against the Florida Marlins.

RAMIREZ GUIDES MARLINS OVER YANKEES

Hanley Ramirez and the Florida Marlins defeated the Yankees 2-1 in a big game for both teams. Florida moved within four games of first place and New York fell three games behind Boston in the American Leauge East.

REDS COME OUT VICTORIOUS

Brandon Phillips guided the Reds to Friday night victory in-front of a sold out crowd at Great American Ballpark, as Cincinatti defeated Chicago 4-3. Phillips, who had 3 RBIs and a go-ahead 2-run home run handed the White Sox a painful loss as Paul Konerko hit his 300th home run as a White Sox.

CUBS BEAT CHICAGO RIVALS

Alfonso Soriano reacts after his game-winning hit in the ninth inning, capping off a 2-inning 5-run rally and defeat of crosstwon rival Chicago White Sox. The Cubs, with the 6-5 victory Thursday split a rain-shortened two game set with the south side Sox after falling 4-1 in game 1.

CALIFORNIA BASEBALL AT ITS BEST

Los Angeles Angels catcher Jeff Mathis tags Matt Downs out at the plate in the 7th inning of Wednesday's ball-game. The play at the plate proved crucial as the Angels defeated the Giants 4-3 in San Francisco for their 6th straight win, putting them just 1.5 games out of first place in the American Leauge West.

TAMPA TAKES TWELVE RUNS AND SHOVES THEM DOWN COLORADO'S THROAT

The Colorado Rockies fell terribly short of there 12th straight win, as it was Gabe Kapler and the Tampa Bay Rays who capitalized Tuesday night, extending their own streak to six consecutive victories with a 12-4 win at Coors Field in Denver.

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WHAT A COMEBACK!

In the top of the 8th inning on Monday night, in route to a stunning Brewers comeback in Cleveland, Prince Fielder took Rafael Perez deep for his first ever career Grand Slam. The left field bomb put Milwaukee up 13-12 in a game they trailed 8-1 and went on to win 14-12. Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun combined for 11 runs batted in and the Brewers are now in sole possession of first place in the National League's central division.

LOS ANGELES RAISES ANOTHER TITLE

Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are the 2009 NBA Champions.

FIRST HEADLINE: MILESTONES REACHED IN PHENOIX

In the Astros 6-4 defeat of the Diamondbacks saturday night in Arizona, Huston's Miguel Tejada collected his 2,000th career hit in the sixth inning, and two batters later teammate Lance Berkman brought him home with career home run No. 300.

INAUGURAL

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Evgeni Malkin and the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup, defeating the defending champion Red Wings to claim the title with a 2-1 Game 7 victory in Detroit.

Thanks to three pointers late in the game, the Lakers took Game 4 from the Magic thursday night in Orlando by the score of 99-91. Los Angeles now leads the NBA Finals series 3-1, just one victory away from the title.

Just one night after defeating the Yankees 7-0, the Red Sox improved to a 09' record of 7-0 against New York with a 6-5 victory at Fenway Park. The win put Boston in sole possession of first place.

Dwight Howard led the Magic to a 108-104 defeat of the Los Angeles Lakers in Orlando tuesday night. LA now leads the 2009 NBA finals series 2 games to 1.  

The Toronto Blue Jays, who hold the best home record in the American Leauge at 21-10, won a crucial road game in Texas behind the red-hot bat of Adam Lind, above. Lind, who is batting .472 over the last 9 games, hit 2 home-runs. Blue Jays slugger Lyle Overbay, who was named AL Player of the week for batting .533 and snapping baseball's best pitcher Zack Grenkie's homerless streak, went 1 for 3 with a walk in the 6-3 victory at Arlington Ballpark. The Blue Jays are just 2 1/2 games behind New York for first in the East.

Roger Federer celebrated his French Open title. The victory gave him a complete set of Grand Slam singles titles and allowed him to tie the career record of 14 major singles titles held by Pete Sampras.

The Red Wings took Game 5 from Pittsburgh and lead the series 3-2. They dominated the entire game, routing the Penguins 5-0. 

The best team in baseball won a game for the ages in walk-off fashion, improving the .667 Dodgers to 21-7 at home. Andre Either, who is pictured above, delievered the two-run game-winning single off the red-hot NL east's best and defending world series champion Philadelphia Phillies and there closer Brad Lidge. Despite over 25 games without Manny Ramierez, the Dodgers are still the #1 team in the majors and, as the Lakers battle Orlando for the NBA Title, Los Angeles is one of the hottest sports town in America.

Kobe Bryant set the tone for a Laker's championship on Friday night, crushing the Orlando Magic in LA for a 100-75 victory. The Lakers, who now lead the series 1-0 led by as much as 30 points.

Jeff Niemann took a perfect game into the fifth inning and wound up with a 2-hit complete game shutout as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Kansas City Royals 9-0 behind a Ben Zobrist grand slam. The Rays are now 5 games out of first in the AL East.

The Pittsburgh Penguins took Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals 4-2 over the Red Wings. Detroit now leads the series 2-1, winning the first two series games at home.

Jim Thome's 550th carrer home run Monday night was a big one. It was a tie-breaking 3-run shot that gave the Sox their 4th straight victory and 8th in the last 10, 6-2 over Oakland.