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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!By Monday morning, the shape of next season's Premier League will be clearer. Saturday lunchtime stages the final round of the actual best league in the world, the Championship. One of Ipswich, Millwall and Middlesbrough will join Frank Lampard's Coventry in being a top-division club by 3pm,...
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Renée Slegers' team take their first-leg lead to France knowing a repeat of last season's display will see them into a second European final in a rowArsenal will attempt to become the first British women's club to reach back-to-back European finals on Saturday as they take a 2-1 first-leg lead to France in their semi-final against OL Lyonnes.The...
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Gloves will be off in Saturday's lunchtime kick-offs as all three clubs hope to join Coventry in the top-flightIf Ipswich do not achieve promotion this month the image may be permanently seared into Jack Clarke's retinas. He had slalomed through Southampton's defence in the final act of a dizzying cameo on Tuesday night and, from an angle on the...
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The Japanese wrecking ball known as the Monster takes center stage at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday, facing unbeaten rival Junto Nakatani in a matchup for the agesNaoya Inoue made it to the pinnacle of his sport with a destructive upward surge through boxing's weight classes not seen since Manny Pacquiao's prime. And he has made it clear he plans to...
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Bath's European player-of-the-year contender on international recognition, the ultimate test in Bordeaux and those budgie smugglersThe shortlist for this year's Champions Cup player of the year award is an eyecatching one. There are five contenders and four of them – Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Finn Russell, Matthieu Jalibert and Caelan Doris – are...
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Three teams vie for two promotion spots on Saturday, with Charlton and Birmingham going head-to-headThree teams, two automatic promotion spots and only one point between them. Add the fact that two are facing each other and Saturday's final day of the Women's Super League 2 season is set perfectly for an afternoon of high drama, twists and...
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Sinner is youngest man to reach all nine Masters finalsRaducanu reunites with coach who helped her win slamJannik Sinner has become the youngest man to reach the final of all nine Masters 1000 tournaments after swatting aside Arthur Fils at the Madrid Open.The world No 1 follows Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in completing the set...
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With their last title a decade ago, young players moving on and coach churn, Middlesex are no longer even the most famous team that call Lord's homeMiddlesex is unlike every other English county in at least one very important way. It doesn't actually exist. It was abolished by the London Government Act of 1963, persisted, in dotage, as a postal...
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Leeds 40-22 WakefieldRhino half-back Jake Connor masterminds bruising winLeeds Rhinos underlined their position at the top of Super League with this bruising win over Wakefield Trinity, with half-back Jake Connor further emphasising why he should be England's starting scrum-half for this autumn's Rugby League World Cup.Brad Arthur's side were...
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European nations wanted more merit-based prize moneyHigh costs of travel and hotels will exceed Fifa payoutsA number of leading European countries still expect to lose money at the World Cup despite Fifa increasing the prize and participation fund by $112m (£82m) this week.The main host federation, US Soccer, is also understood to be forecasting...
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Semi-final poised at 7-7 after attritional 14th frameJohn Higgins edges to 13-11 lead over Shaun MurphyWu Yize and Mark Allen's semi-final is poised at seven frames all after their afternoon session ended with a bizarre frame – the longest in the World Snooker Championship's Crucible era – clocking in at just over 100 minutes.Allen began the...
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Arteta: 'The difference in the leagues is night and day'Ødegaard likely to miss Fulham game with knee problemMikel Arteta has dismissed suggestions that Premier League sides are incapable of matching the levels hit by their European rivals, saying that freshness was key to Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain producing arguably the game of the...
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Sunday storms could affect first F1 race in five weeksMcLaren edges Mercedes' Antonelli in sprint qualifyingWith Formula One returning after its early season enforced break, the Miami Grand Prix is proving an enticing prospect given most of the teams used the time to work furiously on upgrades to their cars. Many of which are being deployed here....
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It was the night all the nerves vanished into the ether, replaced by every track on the Leeds United soundtrack as Premier League survival was all but confirmed. It was all too easy to defeat rudderless and relegated Burnley, to put Leeds nine points clear of the relegation zone, with their rivals having four games remaining.Anton Stach's smart...
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Blue Jays manager John Schneider joins Blair and Barker to discuss what’s impressed him most about how easy Kazuma Okamoto has turned his life upside down, and adjusted to the MLB, at the plate and in the field, and off-field to his new life in Toronto.
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All-Australians Shaun Burgoyne, Michael O'Loughlin and Michael Walters are among those critical of the make-up and lack of Indigenous representation on the panel designed to address a crisis in the number of First Nations players in the game.
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