3D retained the top spot on the Japanese hardware chart for the week ended October 2. Despite a significant weekly drop, sales of Nintendo’s portable were almost double those of its nearest rival, PS3. Every system except PSPgo experienced a week-over-week decline, but one more unit sold over the previous 7 days doesn’t really [...]
Maria Sharapova defeated Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-3 Thursday to reach her second Wimbledon final. Sharapova, who won her first Grand Slam title at the All England Club in 2004, will face Petra Kvitova in Saturday’s final. Maria Sharapova reached the final of Wimbledon for the 1st time in 7 years with a 6-4 6-3 [...]
Novak Djokovic continued his torrid start to the 2011 season with a straight-set victory over Roger Federer in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Novak Djokovic needed a mere 71 minutes to post a 6-3, 6-3 victory on Saturday and claim the Dubai title for the third straight year. Novak Djokovic also extended his [...]
The top-ranked Yani Tseng closed in on her third tournament victory in three weeks when she grabbed a one-shot lead in the LPGA Thailand in the third round on Saturday. A four-foot eagle putt on her finishing hole on the Pattaya Old Course at Siam Country Club carded the Taiwanese star a 2-under 70 and [...]
Feel a cold coming on? If you do, you might want to get your hands on some zinc. A review of data from 15 trials suggests that the zinc supplements so many Americans pop at the first sign of a cold may, in fact, cut the length and severity of illness. The review, conducted by [...]
Japanese automaker Honda on Thursday said it was recalling nearly 700,000 vehicles worldwide due to defective parts that could stall the engine and cause problems restarting in certain models. The move comes after the car giant was forced to call back about 1.35 million vehicles in December and is the latest in a series of [...]
Rory McIlroy struggled gamefully throughout the day in Saturday’s tough third round at the Dubai Desert Classic, but by the end of it he was still ahead in a three-way tie for the lead. The 21-year-old Ulsterman, who led by one overnight, had a nightmare start with a hat-trick of bogeys and, opposed to the [...]
Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter donated a kidney to freshman outfielder Kevin Jordan, who suffers from a disease that can lead to kidney failure. Both men met with the media in an Atlanta hospital while recovering Wednesday. With an undergraduate enrollment of fewer than 4,500 students, Wake Forest is one of the smallest schools [...]
Dwayne Wade on the break for Miami is blocked, but King James is there for the follow up slam dunk over the Pacers When the Heat started Tuesday’s game with payback in mind against the Pacers, no one figured it would come with this much stress. The Heat, which lost to the Pacers by 16 [...]
A 10-month investigation found no flaws in Toyota vehicles’ electronic systems that might cause unintended acceleration, but federal officials say they will propose new safety rules for all cars based on the engineers’ findings. “Toyota vehicles are safe to drive,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday after recounting that he had advised his daughter last [...]
