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Sunday, May 2nd (All times eastern)Chicago White Sox (10-14) at New York Yankees (15-8), 1:05 p.m.

Probable Starting Pitchers: Chicago – Mark Buehrle (2-3, 4.68) New York – Phil Hughes (2-0, 2.00)

(Sports Network) – The Chicago White Sox go for a series win this afternoon when the play the rubber match of their three-game series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

Heading to the hill for the White Sox will be left-hander Mark Buehrle, who has lost his last three starts. Buehrle fell to 2-3 on Tuesday in Texas after allowing four runs on seven hits in seven innings to raise his ERA to 4.68.

Buehrle may be in for another rough outing today, as the Yankees have dominated him in his career. In 10 starts against the Yanks, the hurler is 1-6 with a 6.43 ERA.

For New York, Phil Hughes takes the hill owning a 2-0 record with a 2.00 ERA through three starts. Hughes is coming off a no decision against Baltimore on Tuesday in which he permitted two hits and one run in 5 2/3 innings.

In his career against Chicago, Hughes is 0-1 with a 1.64 ERA.

Chicago bounced back from a loss in Friday’s opener on Saturday, as A.J. Pierzynski’s two-run double in the seventh proved to be the difference, and the White Sox recovered after blowing a four-run lead to pull out a 7-6 win.

Pierzynski’s decisive hit came one batter after Carlos Quentin was intentionally walked, but he followed by recording his third hit of the game in four at-bats. Andruw Jones hit two homers, while Mark Kotsay added a two- run shot, as the White Sox snapped a six-game losing streak in New York.

“We’ve been through so many ups and downs, and to bounce back and score two was huge,” Pierzynski said. “We’ve been battling, we’ve been right there. We just need a big hit, and today we got it. Hopefully, tomorrow we can do it again.”

John Danks lasted only five innings because of a high pitch count and allowed two runs, six hits and three walks. Scott Linebrink (1-0) earned the win despite giving up four runs in 1 1/3 frames, and Bobby Jenks locked down his fifth save of the season.

Nick Swisher hit a two-run homer for the Yankees, who had a three-game win streak stopped. Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez each added two hits and an RBI in defeat.

Javier Vazquez’s struggles continued, as the righty gave up five runs, seven hits and four walks in just three-plus innings. He was spared the loss, which went to David Robertson (0-2) for giving up two runs while recording just two outs.

“It’s not fun (to struggle),” Vazquez said. “I’m not having a good time right now, but I’m going to keep working. I promise I’m going to keep working. I’m working on everything: mechanics, mental part of the game, just everything.”

The Yankees also got some bad news concerning outfielder Curtis Granderson, who strained his left groin running the bases in the sixth. He left the game and went to the hospital for an MRI, which revealed a Grade 2 strain and he is expected to be placed on the disabled list.

New York won four of seven tilts against the White Sox last season and swept a three-game series between the teams in the Bronx back in August. Chicago has gone 3-9 as the visitor in this series since the start of 2007.

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Hawks complete series win in Game Seven against Bucks

A Florida International football player was stabbed to death last night on campus in Miami.

University president Mark Rosenberg said in a news release that Kendall Berry had been stabbed and that the school was “shocked and saddened.”

Berry, 22, was a reserve running back for the Golden Panthers from Haines City, Fla.

A Colorado State University club hockey player faces misdemeanor charges after he allegedly checked a referee – slamming him into the boards – during a national tournament in Simsbury, Conn.

The incident happened last Friday, after A.J. Hau, 24, became upset over his team’s 5-4 overtime loss to William Paterson in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II national tournament, police said.

Hau told the Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper that he “barely bumped” the referee, who had ejected him earlier in the game.

The referee’s name was not released.

Georgia Tech basketball coach Paul Hewitt confirmed yesterday that he had turned down an offer from St. John’s. “My family and I have developed deep ties to Georgia Tech and the city of Atlanta,” Hewitt said in a statement.

When Norm Roberts was fired last week after six seasons at St. John’s, athletic director Chris Monasch said he wanted to hire “someone who has a record of success of getting into the NCAA tournament.” St. John’s has not been to the NCAAs since 2002.

Auburn will pay basketball coach Tony Barbee, formerly of UTEP, $1.5 million annually over the next six years. Barbee will receive a base salary of $225,000 with the rest coming from endorsements and television, radio and Internet rights, and personal appearances.

Barbee will also receive two dealer cars or car allowances equaling 5 percent of his base salary. Auburn was paying Jeff Lebo $785,000 a year before his firing after six seasons.

Thomas Young scored 15 points to lead Indiana (Pa.) past St. Cloud State, 76-70, in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II tournament in Springfield, Mass. The Crimson Hawks (33-2) will play Cal Poly-Pomona in tomorrow’s 1 p.m. final.

TELEVISION: Chester R. Simmons, 81, who served as president of ESPN during the company’s launch in 1979, died yesterday in Atlanta, his family said. The cause of death was not disclosed.

Simmons, who began in broadcasting in 1957, was involved in developing Wide World of Sports before becoming president of NBC Sports and later ESPN. Among his most notable achievements were the birth and direction ofSportsCenter on Day One of ESPN; television’s first comprehensive coverage of the early rounds of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament; and the NFL draft telecast (both in 1980). He left ESPN in 1982 and joined the USFL, serving as the league’s commissioner until January 1985.

TENNIS: Former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic beat Pauline Parmentier of France, 6-4, 6-3, in her opening match of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. Since her French Open win two years ago at age 20, Ivanovic has been slowed by injuries, most recently a sore shoulder. The Serb is ranked 58th this week and out of the top 50 for the first time in five years.

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One look is about all they’ve seen, at least at this level. Arevalo followed up his second collegiate match on Thursday with another victory on Friday in the Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic.

“It’s a really nice tournament,” Arevalo said. “I like it. You get to stay with host families and that’s really nice because you get to meet good people.”

The 19-year-old El Salvador native defeated Furman’s Sawyer Duncan 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday for only his second win as a college tennis player. Then he followed it up by accounting for all of Tulsa’s points with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Arizona’s Jay Goldman and teaming with Ive Grant to beat Andres Arango and Andres Carrasco in a doubles match.

It’s a new environment for Arevalo, who grew up learning tennis from his older brother Rafael, a pro player who teamed up with his brother in Davis Cup competition.

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