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Arnold Palmer remained hopeful about his chances of beating prostate cancer after receiving encouraging test results at the Mayo Clinic. The medical center issued a brief statement Monday afternoon saying only that doctors were “encouraged by initial test results,” and spokeswoman Shelly Plutowski said Palmer, 67, still was undergoing tests into the early evening… . Frenchman Fabrice Becker breezed through a nearly flawless second run to win a World Cup acro-skiing contest. In the women’s event, World Cup leader Oksana Kushenko of Russia skied past Sweden’s Annika Johansson for the win… . Sugar Ray Leonard and Hector Camacho kept training and will fight March 1 in Atlantic City, N.J.