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• Ashes 2015: Australia forced to call on novice Peter Nevill as Brad Haddin pulls out of Test

  14-07-2015 23:58
  
  Brad Haddin, Australia’s veteran wicketkeeper, has withdrawn from the Second Test of the Ashes series for family reasons. After a day of speculation, his self-imposed absence was confirmed by the team management and he will be replaced by Peter Nevill, the reserve who will be making his debut.
  
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• Carl Froch's career – in pictures

  14-07-2015 23:54
  
  As Carl Froch announces that he’s hanging up his gloves, we take a look back at the four-time world super middleweight champion’s time in the ring Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Clarke links up with mental guru again

  14-07-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Darren Clarke, the 2011 winner, hopes mind sessions with Bob Rotella can help him regain form at this week's Open Championship at St Andrews.
  
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• Sanchez to miss start of season

  14-07-2015 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez will miss the start of the season after helping Chile win the Copa America.
  
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• Ashes 2015: Calmness of Trevor Bayliss is key to England's revival, says his assistant Paul Farbrace

  14-07-2015 23:44
  
  Alastair Cook might have only scored 32 of England’s 719 runs at Sophia Gardens but he still formed half of one of England’s most important partnerships in their victory in the first Ashes Test, at least as far as assistant coach Paul Farbrace is concerned.
  
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• IPL owners suspended from cricket for life over illegal bets

  14-07-2015 23:40
  
  The owners of former Indian Premier League champions Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals have been suspended from the competition for two years after an investigation into corruption, meaning the teams are not allowed to play unless they find new owners.
  
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• I'm glad it's over, says Sterling

  14-07-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raheem Sterling says he is ready to challenge for major honours after completing his £49m move from Liverpool to Manchester City.
  
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• 'Clean rider' Froome wants respect

  14-07-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tour de France leader Chris Froome says he is a "clean rider" and wants more respect, but understands doping questions.
  
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• Everton’s Tom Cleverley intends to prove Louis van Gaal wrong

  14-07-2015 23:30
  
  • Midfielder keen to win back England place after Manchester United exit
  • Cleverley says 13 years were ‘some of the best days of my life’Tom Cleverley says he does not blame Louis van Gaal for ending his 13-year stay at Manchester United but intends to prove the Dutch manager wrong by winning back his place in the England squad.The midfielder, 25, joined Everton on a free transfer in the summer after spending last season on loan at Aston Villa, and is set to make his debut against Stoke
  
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• Nathaniel Clyne denies showing England’s Roy Hodgson lack of respect

  14-07-2015 23:30
  
  • Liverpool player appeared to snub manager after win in Slovenia
  • Clyne disappointed at not being in starting XI for Euro 2016 qualifierNathaniel Clyne has denied he showed a lack of respect at the end of England’s victory over Slovenia last month in the Euro 2016 qualifier, when he appeared to snub the national manager, Roy Hodgson, at full-time by heading straight for the tunnel.The Liverpool right-back, who says Hodgson’s warning that no player has a divine right to a place will mot
  
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• England’s Ben Stokes savours taste of Ashes revenge before Lord’s Test

  14-07-2015 23:30
  
  • All-rounder backs side to enter second Test full of confidence
  • Haddin and Watson set to miss out for AustraliaBen Stokes believes the “massive” motivation of revenge for last year’s Ashes humiliation will ensure England seek to ram home the advantage gained in Cardiff when the second Test at Lord’s begins on Thursday. Related: Stuart Broad: Pressure on Australia after defeat in first Ashes TestContinue reading...
  
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• Australia spurning an Ashes drink with England will not dampen spirits | Mike Selvey

  14-07-2015 23:27
  
  New Zealand’s tour was cricket’s summer of love but this series is more businesslike and, if necessary, the social side can wait until the finishThose of vintage years may remember 1967 and the Summer of Love when an estimated 100,000 people descended on Haight-Ashbury (or Hashbury as Hunter S Thompson labelled it) in San Francisco, wearing flowers, protesting against the Vietnam war and generally getting up to all manner of things to earn establishment disapproval. My recollection is that i
  
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• Henshaw earns silver in Glasgow

  14-07-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Henshaw and Claire Cashmore win breaststroke silver medals at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow.
  
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• Aston Villa play hardball with Liverpool over Christian Benteke buyout

  14-07-2015 23:10
  
  • Villa insist Liverpool should pay £32.5m buyout clause in contract• Tim Sherwood: ‘We don’t want to sell him. We don’t want the £32m’Liverpool are set to step up their pursuit of Christian Benteke in the wake of Raheem Sterling’s departure to Manchester City but Aston Villa remain adamant that the Belgium international will not be allowed to leave unless the £32.5m buyout clause in his contract is met.Talks will take place between Liverpool and Villa over the coming days
  
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• Raheem Sterling to Manchester City: Winger thanks Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers after getting his record-breaking switch

  14-07-2015 23:04
  
  Raheem Sterling has left Liverpool at the end of one of the most poisonous transfer sagas in history with a final conciliatory gesture - thanking Brendan Rodgers for helping to develop his career.
  
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• Raheem Sterling to Manchester City: Winger 'can't wait to get started' at new club after Liverpool switch

  14-07-2015 23:04
  
  Raheem Sterling has left Liverpool at the end of one of the most poisonous transfer sagas in history with a final conciliatory gesture - thanking Brendan Rodgers for helping to develop his career.
  
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• Stjarnan 'need best-ever display'

  14-07-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stjarnan head coach Runar Pall Sigmundsson says his players need to play better than ever before to beat Celtic.
  
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• Paul Farbrace delighted with Trevor Bayliss and Alastair Cook relationship

  14-07-2015 23:00
  
  England’s assistant coach played an early matchmaking role and was pleased to find the side’s head coach and captain hit it off in the runup to the Ashes seriesMost of us have been there: that seemingly innocent meeting, which is specifically, yet cunningly designed to allow two people, who have never met before to get to know one another on the off chance that they just might subsequently enjoy a long and fruitful relationship together. All too often the matchmaker’s best intentions end i
  
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• Ronny Deila sure there will be no more slip-ups as Celtic eye big league

  14-07-2015 23:00
  
  Potentially season-defining fixtures in July are not meant to be on the agenda at clubs of the scale of Celtic, but for the third consecutive season they face a mid-summer Champions League qualifier.
  
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• Ashes 2015: Quite simply, Ben Stokes has Aussies worried

  14-07-2015 23:00
  
  On that last ill-fated expedition to Australia, Ben Stokes was asked if he relished the fray. Stokes did not quite pick up the question and when it was put a second time, he admitted to being confused.
  
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• Swindon Town FC bans media outlets from press conferences

  14-07-2015 22:58
  
  Club excludes local paper and two websites, saying that in future all interviews will be conducted by its own press officer and be released through an app
  A football club has been accused of “pulling up the drawbridge” after it banned media outlets from attending press conferences. Instead, Swindon Town FC will put out interviews conducted by its own press officer on its website and a social media app.The decision follows a ban handed to the local paper – the Swindon Advertiser – last ye
  
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• Robin van Persie vows to win trophies at Fenerbahce unveiling

  14-07-2015 22:53
  
  • Thousands of fans turn up for ceremony in Sukru Saracoglu stadium
  • Manchester United look light on strikers after Van Persie’s exitRobin van Persie has been unveiled as a Fenerbahce player at a signing ceremony after his move from Manchester United. The 31-year-old arrived in Istanbul over the weekend to finalise the transfer and was introduced at the club’s Sukru Saracoglu stadium where he signed forms in front of thousands of fans.“I’m humbled to see that so many great fans came
  
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• Middlesex’s pursuit of victory over Somerset is confounded by weather

  14-07-2015 22:39
  
  • Middlesex 283 & 132-6 dec; Somerset 197 & 147-7. Match drawn
  • James Franklin unable to force result despite inventive captaincyAgainst the will of the weather a game of cricket broke out at Merchant Taylors’ School which, having lost nearly 500 of its first 768 Championship overs, must rank as the most luckless county venue. Last season’s match between Middlesex and Sussex was completely washed out but, thanks to a lively pitch and some inventive captaincy from Middlesex’s J
  
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• Buffalo Bills coach Aaron Kromer put on leave after arrest for assault

  14-07-2015 22:30
  
  Offensive line coach Kromer, 48, was arrested in Florida for punching a boy at the beach and threatening to kill the boy’s familyBuffalo Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer has been put on administrative leave after he was arrested at the weekend for allegedly punching a boy and threatening to kill the boy’s family.The Bills announced their decision on Tuesday, two days after Kromer, 48, was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge in Walton County, Florida. Continue reading...
  
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• The Open 2015: St Andrews showed Rickie Fowler how to enjoy links golf

  14-07-2015 22:24
  
  American now relishes taking on the elements after learning to adapt skills he picked up in his youth in US to conditions on the Scottish coastRickie Fowler has turned up this week with all the assurance of a man who is at peace with life and the challenge ahead in what has become his first multiple-win season and one he wants to enhance by carrying off a first major title.It was at St Andrews in 2010 when the man who won last week’s Scottish Open to add to the Players Championship he took in
  
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• German Grand Prix will return in 2016, says Mercedes boss Toto Wolff

  14-07-2015 22:00
  
  Formula One will return to Germany in 2016 after a hiatus this year, according to Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.
  
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• Knox living 'dream' debut at Open

  14-07-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Florida-based Scotsman Russell Knox says it is "pretty special" to make his Open debut at St Andrews.
  
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• VIDEO: Sky smashed it for Froome - Thomas

  14-07-2015 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Geraint Thomas says that Sky "smashed it" on Stage 10 of the Tour de France leaving their main rider Chris Froome well set to win the race.
  
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• Sterling at 20: How he compares

  14-07-2015 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport compares Raheem Sterling's career progress to Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
  
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• Scotland ease past Kenya challenge

  14-07-2015 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland ease to a seven-wicket victory over Kenya in their World Twenty20 Qualifier in Edinburgh.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Retirement decision in past 24 hours'

  14-07-2015 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four-time world champion Carl Froch says he only made the definite decision to retire within the past 24 hours.
  
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• Warwickshire stage fight back

  14-07-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Warwickshire hit back to set up an intriguing last day at Chester-le-Street in their LV= County Championship Division One match against Durham.
  
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• Agent: Lewandowski won't come cheap

  14-07-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Manchester United have been told they will have to pay at least £35million if they want to sign Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich.
  
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• Middlesex & Somerset settle for draw

  14-07-2015 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Neither Somerset nor Middlesex can force victory after a topsy turvy 40-over run chase on the final day at Northwood.
  
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• Skenderbeu Korce v Crusaders FC

  14-07-2015 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The latest score as Crusaders face Albanians Skenderbeu Korce in the Champions League second qualifying round first leg.
  
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• Skenderbeu Korce 4-1 Crusaders

  14-07-2015 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Crusaders face a huge task in next Tuesday's Champions League Qualifying Round second leg after losing 4-1 in Albania.
  
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• The Open 2015: Justin Rose carrying British hopes as he seeks to realise boyhood dream

  14-07-2015 19:32
  
  The Open was where it all began in our relationship with Justin Rose, a teenage tyro taking it to Birkdale like Zorro with his blade. Chipping in at the last to finish in fourth place 17 years ago bottled a ton of romance that has survived the ups and downs of a professional career which has both fried his brains and given him everything.
  
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• Mitu rallies to win in Bucharest

  14-07-2015 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Home favourite Andreea Mitu provided the biggest cheer of the day at the BRD Bucharest Open by fighting back from a set down to defeat eighth see
  
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• No bitterness over move - Van Persie

  14-07-2015 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robin van Persie says he has "no hard feelings" over his move from Manchester United to Fenerbahce and could see it coming.
  
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• The Open 2015: Open and shut case for Tiger Woods who talks a brilliant game

  14-07-2015 19:30
  
  On a properly dreich Scottish morning, the light and the heat were supplied by the eternal flame that is Tiger Woods. Never one to undersell the Tiger cosmos, the three-times Open champion and owner of 14 major victories predicts shooting stars over St Andrews this week – all of them named after him.
  
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• Merthyr expect Rees' decision soon

  14-07-2015 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-Wales captain Matthew Rees could be set to join former international team-mate Andy Powell at Merthyr RFC.
  
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• Cricket 'should be an Olympic sport'

  14-07-2015 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cricket should be included in the 2024 Olympic Games, says former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
  
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• VIDEO: How to chip it like Mickelson

  14-07-2015 19:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Phil Mickelson's club designer Roger Cleveland shows BBC Sport's Chris Mitchell how to chip like a pro golfer.
  
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• Carl Froch retires: The Cobra leaves his mark as a true champion - Steve Bunce

  14-07-2015 18:56
  
  It has taken Carl Froch just over 13 months to tell everybody what he knew when he left the ring in front of 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium in May last year.
  
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• World Cup glory starts in Alps for Warren Gatland's Wales hopefuls

  14-07-2015 18:49
  
  What better place to launch your bid to conquer the summit of world rugby than in the Swiss Alps? If Wales are to win this autumn’s World Cup, then they have stolen a march on their rivals by kicking off their preparations high in the mountains.
  
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• Liverpool player ratings: Who starred as Nathaniel Clyne, James Milner and Danny Ings make unofficial debuts in Thailand?

  14-07-2015 18:46
  Brendan Rodgers has made numerous changes to his squad this summer and Liverpool fans had the chance to catch a first glimpse of them at a friendly in Bangkok.
  
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• Villa takeover dead, says Sherwood

  14-07-2015 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Talks over a £150m takeover deal at Aston Villa have broken down irretrievably, manager Tim Sherwood has revealed.
  
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• VIDEO: Ennis-Hill still to decide on Worlds

  14-07-2015 18:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jessica Ennis-Hill will decide whether to compete at the World Championships in Beijing next month after her performances at the Anniversary Games.
  
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• Manchester City complete £49m Raheem Sterling signing as Manuel Pellegrini hails capture of 'one of best attacking players of world football'

  14-07-2015 18:22 via
  
  Manuel Pellegrini says Manchester City's £49million signing of Raheem Sterling means they have captured 'one of the best attacking players in world football'.
  
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• Man City complete £49m Sterling deal

  14-07-2015 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raheem Sterling becomes the most expensive English player ever, joining Man City in a deal that could reach £49m.
  
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