Michael Phelps will compete in his first swim meet this week since returning from a six-month suspension following a second drunken driving arrest.
The 18-time Olympic champion is entered in five events in the Arena Pro Swim Series meet in Arizona that begins Wednesday.
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With chimneys rising from the former cotton mills which nestle between tightly-packed houses, Burnley provides a quintessentially English vista for fans at the town's football stadium.
From the days Burnley was the world's cotton-weaving capital through the hardships endured as the thriving textile industry collapsed, Turf Moor has been a constant presence for 132 years. While many of England's pioneering 19th-century clubs have abandoned their original homes, Burnley has remained at the heart of its community.
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Raheem Sterling and Joe Allen scored in each half to give Liverpool a 2-0 win over Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday that puts the club four points from the last Champions League place.
Sterling opened the scoring in the ninth minute when he downed a long cross on the left edge of the area and dribbled past two defenders before slotting a neat finish inside the far post.
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Chelsea veteran Didier Drogba insisted Monday he intended to play for at least one more season.
The 37-year-old Ivory Coast forward is out of contract with the Premier League leaders at the end of the current campaign, having returned to Stamford Bridge after two seasons abroad.
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Manchester United ended two years of hurt on derby day by dismantling Manchester City in a 4-2 win in the Premier League on Sunday, underlining the reversal in fortunes of the local rivals this season.
City had won four straight Manchester derbies since April 2013 but the "noisy neighbors" — as former United manager Alex Ferguson once called them — were silenced in another sign of United's resurgence under Louis van Gaal.
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Marc Marquez needed no drama to be the fastest at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday.
With a sunny sky above, a dry track and the powerful Repsol Honda engine underneath him, the 22-year-old Spaniard delivered yet another easy victory.
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Jordan Spieth never really suffered. Certainly not like Phil Mickelson, who came close so many times before finally winning his first major title.
Yet, not long after Spieth slipped on the green jacket at age 21, the second-youngest champion in the history of the Masters, he pondered what pushed him to one of the game's greatest performances.
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India Prime Minister Narendra Modi led an outpouring of praise Monday for Sania Mirza after she became the country's first tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in women's doubles.
"An excellent accomplishment @MirzaSania! Congrats on being World Number 1 in doubles," Modi wrote on his Twitter page after Mirza won the Family Circle doubles title in Charleston on Sunday partnering Swiss great Martina Hingis.
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Lewis Hamilton roared to victory at the Chinese Grand Prix but sparked a furious blast from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg as their long-running feud reignited on Sunday.
The Briton made it two wins out of three races this year after the cars came home behind the safety car, with Rosberg second and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finishing in third.
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Jose Mauri struck on the hour mark as crisis-hit Parma stunned Juventus 1-0 to hand the champions only their second defeat of the Serie A season, while Cagliari's relegation woes deepened with a 2-0 defeat at Genoa.
Days before hosting Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri rested a number of regulars for the trip to a packed out Enrico Tardini stadium.
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