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Pakistan Super League signs foreign cricketers
Pakistan Super League organisers say they have secured more than 50 foreign cricketers to take part in the country's first professional Twenty20 tournament starting in March. PSL managing director Salman Sarwar Butt did not reveal the nationality of players but said his management had already obtained signatures of more than 50 overseas players with some more likely to sign up shortly. "This clearly is an indication that the PSL is attractive both in terms of cricket and financial gains for the cricketing talent, no matter where in the world it is located," he said. AP
 
Olympic gold medallist jailed for Japan rape
A double Olympic judo gold medallist was jailed in Japan yesterday for raping a student, capping a terrible week for the sport after claims a national coach beat athletes with a bamboo sword. Masato Uchishiba was sentenced to five years in prison for the assault on a teenage member of a college judo club he was coaching, a court official said, after she drunkenly fell asleep in a Tokyo hotel. Uchishiba, 34, was feted as a national hero after bringing home a gold medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics, an achievement he repeated at the 2008 Beijing Games. AFP
 
Mickelson goes close to golf's magic number
Phil Mickelson came tantalisingly close to golf's magic number of 59, a near-miss at his last hole leaving him with a 60 and a four-shot lead in the US PGA Tour Phoenix Open. Mickelson's 25-foot birdie attempt at his final hole of the day curled around the rim of the cup but didn't drop. "You don't have chances to shoot 59 often," he said. "To have that putt on line - I'm kind of mortified that it didn't go in." Only five golfers have carded 59s on the US PGA Tour, most recently Australian Stuart Appleby in the 2010 Greenbrier Classic. "Well, 60 is awesome," Mickelson said. "Last time I shot 60 here in '05, I birdied like the last three or four holes just to do that, and I was ecstatic, and I'm ecstatic to shoot 60. But there's a big difference between 60 and 59. Not that big between 60 and 61, there really isn't. But there's a big barrier, a Berlin Wall barrier, between 59 and 60." AFP


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Pakistan Super League organisers say they have secured more than 50 foreign cricketers to take part in the country's first professional Twenty20 tournament starting in March.
