BELGRADE (Reuters) – The princes and paupers of Europe’s premier club basketball competition celebrated wins in the latest round of matches with Khimki Moscow stealing the show from more illustrious and wealthier city rivals CSKA on Friday. Both teams moved a step closer to the playoffs after Khimki ended a week-long strike over unpaid wages with an 88-67 home whitewash of quadruple Euroleague winners Maccabi Tel Aviv while CSKA enjoyed an 87-73 away rout of Lithuanians Zalgiris Kaunas. …
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BELGRADE, Jan 18 (Reuters) – The princes and paupers of Europe’s premier club basketball competition celebrated wins in the latest round of matches with Khimki Moscow stealing the show from more illustrious and wealthier city rivals CSKA on Friday. Both teams moved a step closer to the playoffs after Khimki ended a week-long strike over unpaid wages with an 88-67 home whitewash of quadruple Euroleague winners Maccabi Tel Aviv while CSKA enjoyed an 87-73 away rout of Lithuanians Zalgiris Kaunas. …
Giants agree to $8 million deal with Posey
(Reuters) – Nationa l League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $8 million, one-year deal, the team's website reported on Friday. The deal, in catcher Posey's first year of arbitration, represents a big increase in his previous salary of $615,000 with the World Series champions. Posey posted a National League-leading .336 batting average and had 24 home runs and 103 runs batted in after coming back from ankle surgery in 2011. … Baseball-Giants agree to $8 million deal with Posey
Jan 18 (Reuters) – National League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $8 million, one-year deal, the team’s website reported on Friday. The deal, in catcher Posey’s first year of arbitration, represents a big increase in his previous salary of $615,000 with the World Series champions. Posey posted a National League-leading .336 batting average and had 24 home runs and 103 runs batted in after coming back from ankle surgery in 2011. …
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(Reuters) – Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys will perform the national anthem before the Super Bowl in New Orleans on February 3, the National Football League (NFL) said o n Friday. Keys, who has previously been involved in other performances at two previous Super Bowls, will start an North American tour to promote her 'Girl on Fire' album in March. The NFL had previously announced that female vocalist Beyonce will perform the halftime show. (Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami; Editing by Gene Cherry) 
Alicia Keys is adding her voice to the Super Bowl show for the third time. 
ABU DHABI (Reuters ) – Paul McGinley sported a grin as wide as the 18th green at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club on Friday as he explained how he had been blown away by the reaction to his appointment as Europe's 2014 Ryder Cup captain. The 46-year-old Irishman was almost certain to miss the halfway cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship after carding a one-over-par 73 for a five-over tally of 149. … 
For anti-doping officials, Lance Armstrong's admission of cheating was only a start. Now they want him to give details -- lots of them -- to clean up his sport. 
(Reuters) – The Atlanta Falcons are one game from finally turning their Super Bowl potential into reality but while their presence in the NFC Championship game is no shock, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is certainly a surprise element. Sunday's game in the Georgia Dome will arguably come down to whether Atlanta's defense, which has struggled against mobile quarterbacks this season, will be able to cope with the fast read-option plays of the thrillingly unpredictable Kaepernick. Atlanta have everything else in place. … 
BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Michael Lombardi knows his return to the Browns was wildly unpopular with many Cleveland fans. 
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Britain's Justin Rose produced a soft-shoe shuffle to the top of the second-round leaderbo ard at the Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday while world number one Rory McIlroy and second-ranked Tiger Woods missed the cut. McIlroy went out after slumping to a second successive three-over 75 on his debut with his new Nike clubs and Woods suffered the same fate after being handed a belated two-shot penalty for a bizarre rules infringement at the fifth hole. … 
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy made an inauspicious start to his Nike career, and there was certainly no tick against his scorecard, as the world number on e missed the cut at the $2.7 million Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday. The Northern Irishman, playing with new clubs and a new ball, swished and swooshed his way to a second successive three-over 75 in his first competitive outing since signing a massive sponsorship deal with the U.S. sportswear firm on Monday. … 
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – A belated two-shot penalty imposed on Tiger Woods for a rules infringement earlier in the secon d round meant the world number two missed the cut in bizarre circumstances at the Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday. The 14-times major winner had made a dreadful start, dropping strokes at three of the first four holes before making another bogey at the fifth. Six holes later tournament referee Andy McFee informed Woods he might have to sign for a triple-bogey seven rather than a bogey five. … 
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – It wi ll be time for Australia's Bernard Tomic to put up or shut up when he faces 17-times grand-slam champion Roger Federer in the third round of the Australian Open tennis on Saturday. Local favorite Tomic and Federer have traded barbs since the draw for the season's opening grand slam was made last week and the Swiss has been repeatedly questioned about the prospect of facing the brash 20-year-old in the third round. "I feel so confident. … 
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – World number one Rory McIlroy missed the cut at t he Abu Dhabi Championship on Friday and second-ranked Tiger Woods looks almost certain to suffer the same fate after a bizarre rules infringement. McIlroy carded a 75 for a six-over total of 150 while playing partner Woods was given a belated two-shot penalty for an incident at the fifth hole and seems sure to miss out as well after having to sign for a 75, rather than a 73, for a tally of 147. Woods now faces an anxious wait before the two-over-par projected cut of 146 is confirmed. … 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The Jacksonville Jaguars have an energetic head coach to go along with their brash general manager. 
Here's the real story: Manti Te'o's stock in the NFL draft already was sinking. 
(Reuters) – Two years ago, a dejected Tony Gonzalez stood on the sidelines as yet another playoff game ended in defeat for the veteran tight end and his Atlanta Falcons. The Green Bay Packers had come into the Georgia Dome and routed the Falcons 48-21, and Gonzalez, a record setter in most categories a tight end is measured by, was still looking for his first career playoff win. The Californian was injured in the third quarter and while he got taped up and returned to the bench, the Falcons' chances fizzled out. …