November 27th 2010
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An autopsy conducted Tuesday on a 2-year-old boy who plunged from a skybox after a Los Angeles Lakers game determined that his death was an accident. Police and paramedics said Lucas Anthony Tang suffered massive head injuries in the Sunday night fall at Staples Center, but Los Angeles County coroner's Capt. John Kades said the official cause of death was multiple traumatic injuries. The toddler fell from a third-level luxury box and landed on a row of seats minutes after the Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors. He died at a hospital.

Steven Gerrard is embracing his rehabilitation process from a hamstring injury with great determination, says Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson. Gerrard will be missing for up to a month after suffering the injury in England's defeat by France last week. Hodgson said: "He's straight into it and he's anxious to get back as quickly as possible.”He's not letting any dust settle but I don't think there's so much he can do at the moment. "First of all he has to let the injury quieten down and then really start to work on it."

UEFA was studying the match referee's report on Wednesday before deciding whether to charge Real Madrid players Xabi Alonso and Sergio Ramos for appearing to get intentional red cards in a Champions League match against Ajax. Alonso and Ramos both collected second cautions for time wasting late in Real's 4-0 win at the Amsterdam Arena on Tuesday. Neither player protested the red cards and Ramos even shook hands with Scottish referee Craig Thomson before walking off the pitch.

Kumar Sangakkara continued to make batting look easy on the second afternoon of the second Test, as he completed his 24th Test century to take Sri Lanka to 294 for five, when rain forced a premature end to proceedings at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The Sri Lanka captain ensured that that the hosts continued to stride towards a good first innings total, despite the loss of Thilan Samaraweera and Angelo Mathews to some excellent sustained pressure from the West Indies fast men.

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