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The Mets finished a surprising collapse with a lackluster performance in a loss to the Florida Marlins that eliminated them from postseason contention.

The Jets failed to build off last week’s 31-28 win over Miami and are off to their second 1-3 start in three years.

Germany won its second straight Women’s World Cup, defeating Brazil 2-0 behind second-half goals by Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr.

NEW YORK (AP) — LSU reached No. 1 the hard way. The Tigers edged past Southern California in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, even though the Trojans remained undefeated.

On a day when their offense could never quite get into gear, the heavily favored Scarlet Knights could not handle Maryland on Saturday.

In the 45 loopy seasons of the Mets, nothing had ever happened like Saturday.

Haile Gebrselassie shattered the world record in the marathon by 29 seconds, securing a mark he has coveted since he was a teenager in Ethiopia.

Willie Ann Rucker left her three children with a baby sitter at home in Waterloo, Iowa, one day in 1979, and never returned. One of them was Jets cornerback David Barrett.

As they have been doing for more than 100 years, the Indians played their home games this season in Cleveland, but they also played home games in Milwaukee and Seattle.

Long before Luis Alvarez became a top Ironman and an advocate for the sport of triathlon, he was a self-described big, fat lazy couch potato who smoked too much.