Cavs' Love 'feels good' after full court practice
Agence France-Presse
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love said Saturday he "felt good" after his first full-court, full-contact practice since he dislocated his left shoulder in April.
"I felt good," Love said in comments posted on the NBA team's website from the team's training camp in Ohio.
"Just getting into the rhythm of the plays more than anything, just getting my legs under me and contact -- five-on-five felt really good."
Love was injured in the Cavaliers' first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics.
He needed surgery and has been painstakingly working his way back since.
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Dodgers and Kershaw stunned by the Mets 3-1
The Sports Xchange
The New York Mets extended the postseason woes of Clayton Kershaw and stunned the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game One of their National League Division Series on Friday.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy homered and Jacob deGrom struck out a career-high 13, sparking the Mets to a 3-1 victory over the Dodgers before a sellout crowd of 54,428 at Dodger Stadium.
DeGrom limited the Dodgers to five hits and walked one in seven innings. His 13 strikeouts tied Tom Seaver's franchise mark for a postseason performance, which the Hall of Famer set in Game One of the 1973 National League Championship Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Major champions Johnson, Day go head-to-head in singles
Agence France-Presse
World number one Jordan Spieth and second-ranked Jason Day were kept apart in the Presidents Cup singles, but the Australian will still face a 2015 fellow Major champion in Zach Johnson on Sunday.
The US PGA champion Day and British Open champion Johnson go head-to-head in the marquee 10th match of the 12 singles encounters at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Incheon.
It could prove the pivotal game with the US holding a slender 9.5-8.5 lead after the four rounds of team fourball and foursomes play were completed on Saturday.
Masters and US Open champion Spieth will be out just ahead of them in the ninth match against Aussie Marc Leishman.
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Nadal to face Djokovic in Beijing final
Reuters
Rafa Nadal will take on world number one Novak Djokovic in the China Open final after the multiple grand slam champions bludgeoned their way to straight-sets wins on Saturday.
Nadal extracted a modicum of revenge on new Italian foe Fabio Fognini with a 7-5 6-3 semi-final win before Djokovic extended his unbeaten winning run in the Chinese capital to 28 matches with a 6-2 6-3 win over David Ferrer of Spain.
Sunday's battle will be the 45th meeting of a high-class, long-term rivalry between the two and although Nadal leads 23-21, the Serb has won six of the last seven.
Djokovic had been dominant for most of the season, winning three grand slam titles and dropping only 14 games in four matches in China.
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Rosberg on pole in Russia as title beckons for Mercedes
Alan Baldwin, Reuters
Nico Rosberg seized pole position for the Russian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday with world champion Lewis Hamilton joining his team mate on the front row in a perfect qualifying for Mercedes.
The pole was Rosberg's third of the season with championship leader Hamilton, who is 48 points clear of the German with five races remaining, denied his 50th for the third race in succession.
Hamilton, who had hoped for his 12th pole in 15 races, aborted his second and final lap of the final phase after making a mistake on a clear afternoon in the Olympic Park.
The front-row lockout was still just what Mercedes had ordered, with the team needing to score three points more than Ferrari to clinch their second successive constructors' title this weekend..
Finland's Valtteri Bottas qualified third for Mercedes-powered Williams with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen fourth and fifth.
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