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Ding Junhui fired four centuries to take a commanding 6-2 lead over Alan McManus in the first session of their World Championship semi-final while Mark Selby leads Marco Fu 5-3. The Chinese player had to qualify for the Crucible this year after slipping out of the worlds top 16 but has been unstoppable up to this point.He dropped just seven frames in three best-of-19 qualifying matches and disposed of Martin Gould and Judd Trump in the first two rounds before winning his quarter-final against Mark Williams 13-3 with a session to spare. He began this match in the same blistering form, with breaks of 100, 84 and 131 taking him into a 3-0 lead.He added the fourth and made another 100 break to go 5-0 up before McManus, in the last four for the first time since 1993, finally got on the board in frame six.A precise long red helped McManus take the next but Ding rattled in a 128 in the last frame of the session for a 6-2 advantage in the best of 33 frames. Mark Selby leads Marco Fu in the other semi-final The final could yet be an all-Asian affair, with Marco Fu playing Mark Selby in the other semi-final although the Hong Kong star is currently 5-3 down to the world No 1.Selby won the opening three frames with half-century breaks in frames two and three before Fu got on the scoreboard by winning the next two including a break of 72 and the pair shared four frames after the mid-session interval. Also See: Williams demolished by Ding Fu holds off battling Hawkins Gary Harris Nuggets Jersey . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. Dikembe Mutombo Nuggets Jersey . Didier Drogba gave away the penalty that put Senegal one goal away from a major upset, but the veteran striker will get another chance -- probably his last -- at the World Cup after Salomon Kalous injury-time strike sealed the Ivorians place in Brazil next year. http://www.nuggetsprostore.com/kids-alex-english-nuggets-jersey/ . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Thomas Welsh Jersey . LOUIS -- Theres no telling how these wacky World Series games will end. Will Barton Nuggets Jersey .com) - The Pittsburgh Penguins placed forward James Neal on injured reserve Tuesday.Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - Miguel Cabrera hit his 40th homer of the season and knocked in three runs, Max Scherzer became the first 18-game winner in the majors and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals, 6-3, on Sunday at Comerica Park. Scherzer (18-1) allowed two runs on five hits while striking out four over eight innings for the AL Central-leading Tigers, who won three contests in this five-game series. The 29-year-old right-hander became the fifth pitcher since 1912 to win at least 18 of his first 19 decisions, according to STATS. Torii Hunter, Brayan Pena and Ramon Santiago each drove in a run for Detroit, which had 12 hits. Kansas City starter Bruce Chen (5-1) gave up six runs on eight hits over 5 1/3 innings. Billy Butler hit a solo homer and Salvador Perez and Emilio Bonifacio each had an RBI. After hitting a walk-off homer Saturday night, Cabrera socked a two-run shot on the first pitch he saw Sunday. Austin Jackson, who led off with a single, scored on Cabreras blast over the wall in left. Detroit tacked on another run in the third. With two outs, Hunter hit a ground-rule double to right and raced home on Cabreras single to left-center field. The Tigers gave Scherzer some more run support in the fifth.dddddddddddd Jose Iglesias and Austin Jackson hit back-to-back doubles to put men on second and third. Hunters sacrifice fly to right made it a 4-0 contest. Scherzer allowed just one hit through five innings. The Royals finally moved a runner past first in the sixth when Jarrod Dyson singled, stole second and advanced to third on David Loughs groundout. Scherzer, though, got Eric Hosmer looking at strike three. Detroit scored two more runs in the bottom half. Andy Dirks singled and crossed the plate on Penas double to center. Louis Coleman then took over for Chen and Santiago greeted him with an RBI single to right. Kansas City got both of those runs back in the seventh. Butler singled, moved to third on Alex Gordons double and scored on Perezs groundout. Bonifacio followed with an RBI double to left-center field. Butler homered off Joaquin Benoit in the ninth to account for the final margin. Game Notes It was the 11th time in Tigers history that a player has hit 40-or-more home runs in a season. Cabrera became just the third player in franchise history to hit 40-or-more homers in back-to-back seasons. ' ' '