Milwaukee Sports Headlines

WEDNESDAY

This is what Maria Sharapova does. She digs herself a big hole in a match, then figures a way out, no matter what it takes. On Tuesday, she did it again to stay alive in the French Open.

When Steve Ballmer agreed to pay $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers, there were sharp gasps followed by bewildered head shaking, followed by serious head scratching.

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TUESDAY

The Brewers have the third-best record in baseball behind the Giants and Athletics. They started the season as a 14-to-1 shot to win the World Series, but the current odds, provided by bovada.lv, has them slipping to 16-1, the same current odds for the Red Sox, Angels and Yankees.

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Helio Castroneves easily won the second Detroit Grand Prix race of the weekend Sunday, finishing 1.6836 seconds ahead of Penske Racing teammate Will Power.

Jordan Burroughs, the Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion, swept David Taylor in the freestyle final at 163 pounds in the best-of-three finals of the U.S. World Team Trials in Madison.

A week after shaking off a lengthy winless streak by his championship standards, Jimmie Johnson raced his way to another routine romp in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Autism Speaks 400 Sunday at Dover International Speedway.

Goals by Fabian Johnson and Clint Dempsey led the United States over Turkey, 2-1, Sunday for the Americans’ second straight win in their World Cup sendoff series.

Hideki Matsuyama earned his first victory in America and validation as one of golf’s young stars Sunday with birdie on the 18th hole to force a playoff and a 10-foot par putt on the first extra hole to win the Memorial.

Manu Ginobili came up big for San Antonio as the Spurs eliminated the Thunder in Game 6 on Saturday. During the series, Ginobili became the highest-scoring left-handed player in NBA playoff history.

Everything appeared to be under control for Roger Federer, just like in the old days at Grand Slam tournaments. And then, suddenly, it wasn’t.

MONDAY

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