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The Yankees had staged two exhibition games at the new ballpark, but then played their first nine games of the new Major League season on the road.

The new venue is across the street from the old Yankee Stadium, built in 1923.

But hopes of a fairytale opening were dashed as Grady Sizemore hit a grand slam off reliever Damaso Marte.

Cleveland pitcher Cliff Lee, last year’s American League Cy Young Award winner, picked up the win in front of a crowd of 48,271.
He gave up one run in six innings, as Yankees catcher Jorge Posada smashed the first home run in the new stadium to tie the game at 1-1 in the fifth innings.

Yankees starter CC Sabathia – who became the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history when he joined them as a free agent in December – matched Lee by conceding one run in six innings, but the Indians blew the game open by scoring nine runs in the seventh, including Sizemore’s big blast.

Small forward Nick George led GB’s scoring with 11 points and Joel Freeland and Dan Clark added nine each.

GB stayed with Turkey throughout the game and only a shortage of firepower, and the experience of Turkey’s NBA star Hedo Turkoglu, saw GB come up short.

Turkey scored their last 13 points from the free throw line, seven of those from Turkoglu, who had 15 points.

Against probably the best team in the tournament, GB started solidly and improved when first-choice playmaker Flinder Boyd, missing from Friday’s opening defeat to Poland, was brought on in the first quarter.

Freeland was again a force for GB, drawing two of the three fouls that forced Turkoglu out of the game early on.

Trailing by three points at half-time (33-30), GB took the lead with a three-pointer from Nate Reinking at the start of what proved to be a fractious third quarter.

First, Turkey coach Bogdan Tanjevic was ejected on two technical fouls for dissent.

Sailing competition is run in different classes, or types of boats. In any race, only boats of the same class compete against each other.

The classes of boats used in the Olympic Games are single-handed, double-handed or three-person and can be either women’s, men’s or open disciplines. The International Sailing Federation selects the classes for each Olympic Games and the classes do, and have changed over the years.

A new competition format will be used for the first time at the 2008 Olympic Games. For each event the sailing competition will consist of an opening series and a medal race. Eleven races are scheduled for each event except for the 49er class, for which 16 races are scheduled. Of the 11 (16) races, 10 (15) are scheduled as opening series races and one as a Medal Race. For detailed information please click here.