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* CRICKET: SYDNEY: Shane Warne (in picture) had trimmed down, had a new attitude to training and was ready to ``go berserk'' in a return to his leg-spinning best, says acting Australia cricket coach Allan Border. Border, who is leading the Australian limited-overs squad on a short series in Kenya in the absence of regular coach John Buchanan, said Warne was in the right physical and mental shape to replicate his best moments in cricket. ``I've just got a feeling in my gut that he might just surge again and have a period when he just goes berserk,'' Border was quoted saying in Thursday's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. The former Australian Test batsman and skipper said Warne had been through a recent trough in his career and would re-emerge a better bowler. ``That's what it looks like from the way he's bowling, his attitude, his body language — the whole thing is really positive,'' Border was quoted saying. *TENNIS: STOCKHOLM: Former tennis champion Mats Wilander was named captain of Sweden's Davis Cup team by the Swedish Tennis Federation. Wilander, ranked No. 1 in 1988 when he won three Grand Slam events, replaces Carl-Axel Hageskog, who resigned after Sweden lost 1-4 in this year's quarterfinals to Russia in Moscow. ``I'm proud to announce that Mats Wilander will be the new captain of our successful Davis Cup team,'' Swedish Tennis Federation chairman Jan Carlzon said. Wilander will assume his new job in January. NEW PORT: Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker leads the list of nominees for next year's induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The German-born Becker won six Grand Slam singles titles during his career, including the Australian Open in 1991 and 1996 and the 1989 US Open. He also held the world's No. 1 ranking for 109 weeks and finished his career with 49 singles and 15 doubles titles. Becker has been inducted in the Recent Player category. French women's doubles ace Francoise ``Frankie'' Durr and American Nancy Richey were nominated in the Master Player category. Durr was the world's No. 3 ranked player in 1967 and holds 12 titles in Grand Slam events. She has 26 career singles titles and 40 doubles titles. *BASKETBALL: HONG KONG: A Hong Kong sports leader who was barred from the 2000 Sydney Olympics for security reasons has been chosen as president of world basketball's governing body, officials said. Businessman Carl Ching Men-ky got the top job at the International Basketball Federation, or FIBA, in a vote this week in the Midwestern U.S. city of Indianapolis, according to officials from the Asian Basketball Confederation. The confederation's Web site carried an announcement on Ching becoming president but it did not say whether there had been a contested election. *BOXING: LAS VEGAS: In the decade since he won the gold medal in the 1992 Olympics, Oscar de la Hoya has won titles in five weight classes, made tens of millions of dollars and even launched a side career as a singer. Now he's got his sights set on one more goal — to go down in history as one of boxing's all-time greats. ``It's all about placing myself in history,'' de la Hoya said. ``My mentality is different now than it was before. I'm not thinking about a world title or making the money.'' De la Hoya will make at least $ 14 million more on September 14 when he gets into the ring against Fernando Vargas in a 154-pound (69.853-kilogram) match-up that carries some ugly overtones. *FOOTBALL: RIO DE JANEIRO: Veteran striker Bebeto has returned to Vasco da Gama for what is expected to be his final season, club officials said. Bebeto, 38, signed a contract with Vasco for the Brazilian first-division championship, which began this month and ends in December. It's the third stint for Bebeto on Vasco. In 1989 he led the club to its second national title, and he returned briefly last year. A star of Brazil's 1994 World Cup champions alongside Romario, Bebeto hasn't played in an official game since last October. LONDON: England's Football Association wants to know what David Beckham (in picture) will write in his forthcoming autobiography in a bid to avoid the scandals emanated from one written by Manchester United teammate Roy Keane. FA chief executive Adam Crozier said he was confident Beckham would not cause any controversies in his book. The FA will decide next week whether to charge Keane after he admitted in his autobiography he deliberately tackled Manchester City player Alf Inge Haaland last year with intent to hurt him. Haaland and Man City have since taken legal action against Keane. ``From any conversations that we have had with anyone connected with him, I think David is the sort to naturally bring things to people anyway to make sure he writes the right kind of book,'' Crozier said.
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