Benjsports.com » Bosnia-Herzegovina http://benjsports.com Benjie's blog on FIBA Asia Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Star Snippets: Ichiro Suzuki, Christiano Ronaldo ….. http://benjsports.com/uncategorized/star-snippets-ichiro-suzuki-christiano-ronaldo/ http://benjsports.com/uncategorized/star-snippets-ichiro-suzuki-christiano-ronaldo/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:45:21 +0000 Benjie http://benjsports.com/?p=802 Japan’s Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners won his ninth consecutive American League Gold Glove Award for fielding skills. Suzuki made only five errors in the entire season of 2009. He is also credited for accuracy for throwing out runners from a distance.

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Portuguese Christiano Ronaldo will miss the World Cup play-off matches against Bosnia-Herzegovina on November 14 and 18. Ronaldo will be out for at least two weeks as he is still recovering from his ankle injury.

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German goalkeeper Robert Enke was confirmed to have committed suicide. Enke threw himself under a train at a level crossing. He used be the German national football team goalkeeper before he withdrew last September ahead of the World Cup qualifying match against Azerbaijan.

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Kelly Pavlik will defend his middleweight title in his hometown in Youngstown, Ohio on December 19. He will be facing Miguel Angel Espino of California.  Pavlik was originally scheduled to face Paul Williams but infection in his left hand prevented the bout to happen.  Williams instead was booked to face another fighter.

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