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European football final adds new chapter to Adidas-Puma rivalry
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - German sportswear makers Adidas and Puma will renew their own decades-old rivalry when Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund meet in the Champions League Final at Wembley on ...
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Horne to miss Sevens World Cup
Springbok Sevens captain Frankie Horne will miss the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow, Russia, next month because of injury. Picture by: Wessel ...
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Cape football must clean up it’s act
Cape Town – "I’m not proud, I was wrong. And the truth is hard to take, I felt sure we had enough. But our love went overboard. Lifeboat lies lost at sea, I’ve been trying to reach your shore. Waves of doubt keep drowning ...
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Spot-fixing NCP asks cricket board chief N Srinivasan to step down
New Delhi : With the spot-fixing probe widening and Mumbai Police likely to question Gurunat Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has said that Mr Srinivasan should step down."N Srinivasan should immediately resign keeping morality in mind, until the investigation is complete," NCP leader DP Tripathi said today."Match fixing is ...
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Wests Tigers steal NRL win over Cowboys
A 78th-minute David Nofoaluma try sealed a controversial 22-20 NRL win for the Wests Tigers over North Queensland on Friday night and ended a seven-game losing streak. In atrocious conditions at Leichhardt Oval, the Cowboys were below their best against a brave Tigers outfit but were desperately unlucky not to leave with the competition points. The home side showed far more fight than last ...
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Solid Bulldogs beat Broncos 24-14
Canterbury bounced back from their last-start thrashing to Newcastle with a solid 24-14 NRL win over Brisbane at ANZ Stadium on Friday night. The Bulldogs had begun to resemble the side that surged to last year's grand final with three successive wins before crashing 44-8 to the Knights last week. But they returned to the winners' circle with a grinding four-tries-to-three win over ...
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Rebels upset Waratahs 24-22
The Melbourne Rebels put a serious dent in the Waratahs' surge to the Super Rugby finals with a 24-22 upset win on Friday night. The Rebels finally got a taste of victory against the Stormers last round following a series of close defeats and made it two from two at AAMI Park with their first-ever win over NSW. The loss could be a near fatal blow to the Waratahs' finals hopes given ...
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Uefas Michel Platini renews call for European sports police force
The Duke of Cambridge, left, is presented with a ball by Uefa's Michel Platini ahead of Saturday's Champions League final. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty ...
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Irish plot series win after tie
All-rounder Kevin O'Brien is confident Ireland can claim a series win over Pakistan after Thursday's dramatic tie in the first ODI in Dublin.O'Brien swept the final ball from Saeed Ajmal to the boundary to level the scores and leave the hosts agonisingly short of a first ever win against a Test-playing nation in the Republic.Pakistan had appeared in full control when Mohammad ...
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Im here if needed for Ashes Magoffin
Former Queensland fast bowler Steve Magoffin says if the phone rings he'll be available to play for Australia in the upcoming Ashes series.The 33-year-old took remarkable figures of 12-31 playing for Sussex against Somerset this week."I am quite shocked to be honest but all the guys played well and it was pretty much the perfect performance," Magoffin told Britain's Daily ...
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Europa League winners to get Champions League place - UEFA
LONDON (Reuters) - The Europa League winners in 2015 will qualify for the Champions League the following season, UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said on ...
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Cruden Clarke help Chiefs claim crucial Crusaders win
Flyhalf Aaron Cruden and captain Craig Clarke both scored first half tries after charging down Crusaders kicks and the defending champions survived sustained periods of second period pressure from the seven-times winners to earn a crucial ...
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Jockey Ahern lodges appeal against 10-year ban
LONDON (Reuters) - Jockey Eddie Ahern has lodged an appeal against his 10-year ban for corruption, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) said on ...
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Tricky French Open draw for Stosur
Samantha Stosur faces Japanese veteran Kamiko Date-Krumm in the opening round of the French Open, with Maria Sharapova a possible quarter-final ...
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Nadal Djokovic could meet in French Open semi
Riccardo De Luca/AP PARIS (AP) -- Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal could face top-seeded Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals a year after they met to decide the title. Friday's draw for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament placed Nadal and Djokovic on the same half of the field, while Roger Federer could face David Ferrer in the other semifinal. Federer, the ...
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Nadal Djokovic on semi-final collision course in Paris
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Novak Djokovic of Serbia (R) shakes hand with Rafael Nadal of Spain after the final match of the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Olivier ...
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Former Maine sports star guilty on child porn charge
BANGOR, Maine - A former Maine college basketball star has been found guilty of a child pornography charge.Dana Wilson pleaded no contest Thursday in a Bangor courtroom. The plea means while not admitting guilt, he is not contesting the charges. The judge then found him guilty.Authorities say the 62-year-old Wilson, who works as a disc jockey, had videos of young girls engaged in sexual behavior ...
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The Joy of Six Football League play-off finals | Barry Glendenning
Manchester City players celebrate promotion after the 1999 Division Two play-off final against Gillingham at Wembley. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty ...
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Football quiz Bayern Munich
Champions League final: live webchat with Barney Ronay Barney Ronay will be online from 12pm to answer your questions about Bayern Munich v Borussia ...
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Hayne has grown into Eels captaincy Burt
Parramatta legend Luke Burt says Eels captain Jarryd Hayne has emerged as capable of leading the NRL club to a new era of success. Burt, a member of the Eels coaching staff after retiring last year, said he had reservations when Hayne was first named as skipper by new Parramatta coach Ricky Stuart. But the Eels' most prolific try-scorer said Hayne has grown into the leadership role ...
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Rain delays Headingley start
Rain delayed the start of play on day one of the second Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley in Leeds.The inclement weather had not relented by the scheduled toss at 10:30 local time (09:30 GMT), with umpires Steve Davis and Aleem Dar were yet to inspect conditions.England are likely to name an unchanged XI, while the visitors will field an all-seam attack in the wake of spinner ...
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William welcomes football chiefs
Football Association (FA), joked about who he thought would win the eagerly anticipated final.Speaking at central London's Grosvenor House hotel he told delegates: "It is a great honour for us, the English FA, to host not just this prestigious congress, but of course - the real excitement - tomorrow's Champions League final. My money is on Bayern Munich and two-nil. To host these ...
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Former Giro winner Di Luca tests positive for EPO
Italian Di Luca, who had a previous positive for the same banned substance in 2009, failed an out-of-competition test taken on April 29 at his home, five days before the start of this year's ...
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Chiefs grind down Crusaders to win 28-19
Defending Super Rugby champions the Chiefs took a firm grip of the New Zealand conference and kicked clear at the top of the overall standings with a brutal 28-19 win over the Crusaders on Friday night.In an arm wrestle between defensively strong sides, the Chiefs tackled themselves to a standstill before finishing the stronger of the two in Hamilton.Trailing 19-15 with half an hour remaining, ...
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Giro stage called off after heavy snow overnight
PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow has forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val ...
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Some residents of Orlando unthrilled by new theme park plan
Tourism is essential to the economy of Orlando, to such an extent that The City Beautiful has become something of the capital city of amusement parks, not necessarily because of their number, but because of the calibre of amusement parks that are located within Orlando. A new theme park proposal for the city, however, has courted the ire of residents.
The three major amusement parks, or theme parks in Orlando are Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando, all of which are massive in size and comprise of several different huge parks within themselves. Read more
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