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Snooker players competing for final four spots at China Open
In snooker,
It's day four at the China Open here in Beijing and the world's top players are battling for spots in the semifinal round.
Neil Robertson vs. Graeme Dott
Ricky Walden vs. Allister Carter
China's top ranked Ding Junhui vs. Mark King
Mike Dunn vs. Mark Selby
Norway and Canada battling for spot in the finals at the mens curling world championship
In curling,
Tonight teams are meeting for playoff action at the mens world curling championship here in Beijing.
First placed Norway and second place Canada are on the ice right now battling for a spot in the gold medal round.
The loser of that match won't be knocked out, but will have a chance to get into the final by playing the winner of the upcoming Switzerland vs. Sweden playoff.
The Chinese squad, skipped by Liu Rui, were knocked out of the running yesterday after a narrow loss to Sweden, 5-6.
Sri Lanka books spot in final at T20 Worlds after defeating the West Indies
In cricket,
Sri Lanka has made it through to the final at the T20 Worlds in Bangladesh after defeating the defending champions West Indies in the semifinals yesterday.
Sri Lanka's 27-run win was sweet vengeance for the squad after they were defeated by the West Indies in the final match of their home tournament back in 2012.
The West Indies might have had a chance to get back into the game, but a violent hailstorm struck bringing an early end to play.
Officials then consulted the Duckworth-Lewis tables, and awarded Sri Lanka the win by a margin of 27 runs.
West Indies captain Darren Sammy showed his leadership quality and maintained a positive attitude following the loss.
"Yeah, disappointing to come out of the tournament like this, but credit to Sri Lanka, they won the toss, batted first and probably knew some weather was around. But look, we've had a good run in this tournament and it's just sad that we got knocked out via the Duckworth-Lewis system. But that's life, you move on and we will start planning for the next T20 World Cup."
Sri Lanka will face the winner of the India-South Africa semifinal which gets underway today.
And just today, Pakistan's T20 captain Mohammad Hafeez announced that he's stepping down as captain after his squad failed to qualify for the semifinals, being ousted by the West Indies.
"I took this decision for the betterment of Pakistan cricket and to give a clean sheet to them (the PCB). They can see who is better for captaincy, they can select and give responsibility to him. As a player I was never keen to be a captain - I always try to be humble with my team colleagues, and try to perform better and will continue in the future ".
Hafeez isn't bowing out of cricket, but said he'll still be available to represent Pakistan across all three formats.
FC Barcelona president calls FIFA transfer ban an "injustice"
FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu held a press conference yesterday to comment on the transfer sanction handed down by FIFA for the club's violation of international transfer rules.
Barca was banned by FIFA from signing any new players for next season, but Bartomeu said the ban is an "injustice" and the club intends on fighting the sanction.
"The sanctions include that during the next two transfer windows we will not be able to transfer players to our club. But in the case that we appeal to FIFA and TAS that we don't want the sanctions, so we are going to ask them to suspend the transfer window that they are closing to us so that we will be able also to bring players to our club next summer."
One Spanish sports journalist David Bernabeu said he was surprised that Barca is choosing to fight the discipline, rather than acknowledge that mistakes have been made.
"Barca has to recognise they made a mistake. Article 19 from a FIFA regulation indicates how to acquire players under 18 years old with three exceptions. And Barca failed to comply with some of them. I was expecting Barca to acknowledge their mistakes during this press conference. But they didn't."
Bartomeu is adamant that no Spanish regulations have been broken in signing young players to their La Masia academy and went on to say that the club does not intend to alter their model of recruiting youth players.
Feng Shanshan is the early leader at the Kraft Nabisco Championship
In golf,
Bill Haas and Charley Hoffman share the lead after round one of the Houston Open, after the pair carded seven-under-par rounds of 65.
Former world number one Rory McIlroy finished the first day with a two-under 70, five strokes off the leaders.
Over in the LPGA,
China's Feng Shanshan leads with a six under par after round one of the Kraft Nabisco Championship in California. The 24 year old had seven birdies and a bogey in her opening round.
"My putting was really good - even though I still missed one or two more chances. But, I mean, overall my putting was great and it's just like magic, every time (my coach) comes over he fixes my putting and then my putting will be good so maybe I need to keep him with me like every week."
American Michelle Wie and South Korean's Se Ri Pak share second one stroke back.
The girls on these tours seem to be getting younger and younger, and this week's tournament includes a 15-year old high school freshman named Angel Yin who shot a four-under on the first round.
She's just one stroke behind Michelle Wie, who happens to be her sports idol.
The teenager said if there's one person she'd like to meet this week, it would be Wie, but she admitted she'd be so star-struck she'd probably just run away.
Formula One drivers head to Bahrain for third race of the season
Formula One drivers are looking ahead to the third race of the season this weekend in Bahrain.
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