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A knee injury that probably ends his season, and perhaps his career, seems an unjust way for the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera to leave the field.

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On Baseball: On Baseball: Imagining the Ninth Inning Without Mariano Rivera

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — There was no denying North Carolina’s Tyler Zeller in his final game at the Dean E. Smith Center. Maryland ran out of big bodies trying. Zeller scored a game-high 30 points, getting to the free throw line as if by birthright on senior night, to pace North Carolina’s 88-64 rout of Maryland on Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. North Carolina: Terps are no match for Tar Heels, 88-64

Wales centre Jamie Roberts limps out of Cardiff Blues’ 28-9 Pro12 defeat of Newport Gwent Dragons with a knee injury six weeks ahead of the Six Nations.

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Roberts gives Wales injury scare

Wales centre Jamie Roberts limps out of Cardiff Blues’ 28-9 Pro12 defeat of Newport Gwent Dragons with a knee injury six weeks ahead of the Six Nations.

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Roberts gives Wales injury scare

ATLANTA — Andrew Gonnella , Maryland’s starting left guard and one of four co-captains, lay on the football field for nearly 15 minutes after suffering a knee injury so gruesome ESPNU refused to replay it on the television broadcast. Flanked by medical staff, teammates and school officials, Gonnella relayed a message to teammates through his head coach before being whisked away in an ambulance: Read full article > >

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England all-rounder Paul Collingwood will have keyhole surgery on a knee injury after the Cricket World Cup.

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Collingwood to have knee surgery

England lock Courtney Lawes is out of the Six Nations with the knee injury he picked up in Northampton’s loss to Leicester on Saturday.

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Injured Lawes out of Six Nations

Arsenal left-back Kieran Gibbs is ruled out for “a few weeks” with a knee injury, with the club hoping for a “positive” scan on Friday.

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New Gibbs injury blow for Arsenal

Manchester City and Italy striker Mario Balotelli expects to have recovered from his knee injury by late November.

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Balotelli ‘to return by December’