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• England 19-14 France: Sam Burgess and Henry Slade impress on debut as Stuart Lancaster's side secure victory over visitors

  15-08-2015 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SAM PETERS AT TWICKENHAM: Sam Burgess made a hugely encouraging international debut as England scored three high-class tries but failed to completely convince against France.
  
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• Tiger Woods is desperate and deluded: Another cut missed, another unwanted record, his fall from grace is almost too painful to watch 

  15-08-2015 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DEREK LAWRENSON: It took 20 years for Tiger to miss three cuts at the majors. Now he’s missed three in a row, and four out of the last five. That grotesque world ranking, currently 278th, does not lie.
  
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• Chelsea worried that Manchester United and City secretly want to sign John Stones

  15-08-2015 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chelsea fear both Manchester clubs are secretly plotting moves to snatch John Stones from under their noses. The Barclays Premier League champions are pursuing the England defender.
  
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• Vincent Kompany can be to Manchester City what John Terry is to Chelsea... captain, leader, legend!   

  15-08-2015 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany is being typically forthright when he says only two of his team-mates did themselves justice last season. This term, he is demanding much better.
  
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• Russia could be let off the hook BEFORE end of investigation by British drug-buster and WADA president Sir Craig Reedie

  15-08-2015 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Fears that the British head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) may be taking a soft approach to Russian drugs cheats have grown.
  
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• Usain Bolt must win at the Beijing World Championships... a Justin Gatlin victory will tarnish the spectacle of athletics

  15-08-2015 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On Sunday night the best 100m sprinters in the world will settle down on to their blocks in the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the scene of much heroics in the 2008 Olympics.
  
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• Jose Mourinho has a duty to play attacking football... managers must entertain the fans too, believes Manuel Pellegrini

  15-08-2015 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester City's Manuel Pellegrini has delivered a pointed reminder to arch enemy Jose Mourinho by saying that managers have a duty to 'take care of the Premier League'.
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill faces mother of all battles as she eyes World Championships medal in Beijing for son Reggie

  15-08-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jessica Ennis-Hill said it would be among her greatest feats if she can win a medal at the World Championships in Beijing, barely a year after giving birth to her first baby.
  
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• Alastair Cook: I was on the brink of quitting all summer... but now the Ashes are won I want to take England to next level

  15-08-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PAUL NEWMAN: England captain Alastair Cook has revealed for the first time how he thought long and hard about stepping down at the end of the series, whether the Ashes were won or lost.
  
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• Stuart Lancaster hands Ben Youngs the chance of England redemption after Martin Johnson nightmare 

  15-08-2015 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ben Youngs is one of only six survivors from Martin Johnson’s 2011 squad still in with a shot at redemption as Stuart Lancaster considers his World Cup options.
  
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• Jessica Mendoza will make history at the European Championships... meet the British showjumper also eager to win Olympic gold

  15-08-2015 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jessica Mendoza will become the youngest British international for nearly 40 years when she rides in the European Championships in Aachen, Germany, next week.
  
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• England 19-14 France PLAYER RATINGS: Sam Burgess made his mark while Anthony Watson caught the eye with fine display 

  15-08-2015 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail's Chris Foy rates England's performers at Twickenham as a brace of tries from Anthony Watson and a second half score Gloucester winger Jonny May secured victory over Les Bleus.
  
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• David de Gea is back in first-team training for Manchester United, but Sergio Romero looks set to continue between the posts  

  15-08-2015 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David de Gea trained with Manchester United’s first-team squad on Saturday despite being left out of Friday’s 1-0 win at Aston Villa. The goalkeeper arrived at 10.30am with other players.
  
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• Jason Puncheon has played in all four divisions of English football, now at Crystal Palace the London lad is finally a star 

  15-08-2015 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For some Barclays Premier League players, their arrival among the elite seems almost inevitable; the end point on a clear path to the top. Yet at 29, Jason Puncheon is only just becoming a star.
  
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• Liverpool didn't appreciate Raheem Sterling, claims Manchester City legend Francis Lee

  15-08-2015 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester City legend Francis Lee has defended £49million signing Raheem Sterling and accused Liverpool of taking him for granted. Lee says that Sterling's reputation has been tarnished.
  
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• Bastian Schweinsteiger hits back at Pep Guardiola's claims that he is unfit and insists he can deliver for Manchester United

  15-08-2015 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Defiant Bastian Schweinsteiger has hit back at his former boss Pep Guardiola who claimed the German midfielder has not been fit for three years. He signed for United this summer.
  
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• Arsenal must stop being so nice if they want to win the Premier League, claims manager Arsene Wenger ahead of Crystal Palace trip

  15-08-2015 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arsene Wenger has told his Arsenal players to stop being so nice and get aggressive if they want to win the Premier League. The Gunners lost their opening game of the season 2-0 to West Ham.
  
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• Jose Mourinho is clearly worried that Chelsea just don't look special

  15-08-2015 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GLENN HODDLE: Jose Mourinho doesn’t look happy. My guess is that he was hoping that he had the squad to retain the Premier League. And that what he’s seen in the last few weeks has left him with major doubts.
  
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• Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe relishing chance to take on mentor Brendan Rodgers in tough away trip to Liverpool   

  15-08-2015 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eddie Howe has gone to lengths analysing Brendan Rodgers’ teams and has made the bold claim that the current crop are the best the Liverpool manager has constructed.
  
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• World Championships 2015: Britain’s heptathlon rivals Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson finally get to see who’s best

  15-08-2015 23:30
  To date, it has been a rivalry in word only, oft-talked about but yet to materialise.
  
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• Manuel Pellegrini profile: Shedding light on Manchester City's international man of mystery

  15-08-2015 23:30
  
  Manuel Pellegrini wanted a word with the reporters who covered his club. Chelsea had just won the title and the papers were full of stories that Pep Guardiola had signed a pre-contract with Manchester City. The journalists gathered in a small room at the Etihad training complex expecting the kind of bollocking Sir Alex Ferguson had perfected. Short, furious and full of violent epithets.
  
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• Manchester United vs Club Brugge: Reds must enrich attack or miss European cash

  15-08-2015 23:30
  
  When Manchester United last contested a Champions League qualifier back in 2005, the tie was over at the halfway stage after goals from Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo did for the Hungarian side Debrecen at Old Trafford.
  
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• Liverpool vs Bournemouth: Brendan Rodgers sticks by Joe Gomez after teen's testing debut

  15-08-2015 23:30
  
  As Premier League debuts go, Joe Gomez’s could not have been more testing: against a team that Liverpool had been humiliated by in their last competitive game and at Stoke,  indeed, where the immediate challenge was to stop Jonathan Walters, a striker 13 years his senior and someone who possesses the physique of a cruiserweight boxer.
  
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• Jose Mourinho's tirade at Eva Carneiro shows how much he is worrying... Chelsea's squad needs new blood as Diego Costa and Co struggle for form and fitness

  15-08-2015 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROB DRAPER: Even among Jose Mourinho's litany of polemical interventions, the tirade delivered at Eva Carneiro and Jon Fearn was perhaps the most explosive yet, and for no discernible reason.
  
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• Chelsea transfer news: Jose Mourinho hints at further signings to bolster Blues' title defence

  15-08-2015 23:30
  
  Jose Mourinho has admitted that Chelsea may have to make another signing beyond a defender such as Augsburg’s Baba Rahman or Everton’s John Stones in order to win the title. He also insisted the reason the Premier League is so hard to retain is because the champions force all other challengers to react with big statements in the market – something his club have not yet done this summer.
  
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• England vs France match report: Anthony Watson leads the charge as dazzling wingers secure victory

  15-08-2015 23:11
  
  England’s World Cup build-up started with long-awaited match action after a summer of training, three tries shared between the irrepressible wings Anthony Watson and Jonny May and victory by a small margin in the first of three warm-up games.
  
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• Crystal Palace vs Arsenal: Signing Yohan Cabaye shows how Eagles have joined the top table

  15-08-2015 23:02
  
  Told before the start of the transfer window that midfielders Yohan Cabaye, Xherdan Shaqiri and Dmitri Payet (creator of most chances in any major European league last season) would be joining Premier League clubs, few would have guessed Crystal Palace, Stoke City and West Ham United as their  respective destinations.
  
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• Ben Youngs interview: Scrum-half says England are 'worlds away' from 2011 World Cup disaster

  15-08-2015 22:03
  
  Time will tell whether England’s Rugby World Cup efforts in 2015 will be compared favourably with the glory, glory year of 2003, or rated closer to the bottom-feeders of the beaten quarter-finalists in 2011.
  
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• Ireland vs Scotland match report: Maverick Ian Madigan proves his worth in Irish victory

  15-08-2015 21:55
  
  Ian Madigan went up through the gears during the final quarter of this contest as Ireland producing some cutting rugby to see off Scotland  in Dublin.
  
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• New Zealand vs Australia match report: Record-breaker Richie McCaw inspires demolition job

  15-08-2015 21:49
  
  New Zealand roared to a 41-13 triumph at an emotional Eden Park to retain the Bledisloe Cup against an Australia side who had no answer to the power running of Ma’a Nonu.
  
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• League Two round-up: Carlisle and Cambridge share spoils in eight-goal thriller as Teddy Sheringham earns first points 

  15-08-2015 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carlisle and Cambridge shared a point apiece in an eight-goal thriller at Brunton Park as Jabo Ibehre netted a hat-trick in the 4-4 draw, while Teddy Sheringham gained his first points as manager
  
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• Howe praise for new-look Liverpool

  15-08-2015 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eddie Howe believes Brendan Rodgers is on the verge of building his strongest Liverpool team to date. The Bournemouth manager on Monday t
  
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• Five things you may have missed

  15-08-2015 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport picks out this week's main talking points, results and tweets from the Football League.
  
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• VIDEO: 'I know you - you're Leigh Halfpenny'

  15-08-2015 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wales star Leigh Halfpenny surprises eight-year-old by telling him he has been picked to be a Rugby World Cup mascot.
  
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• Ashes 2015: Former Australia coach Mickey Arthur says Michael Clarke 'was a great captain'

  15-08-2015 21:38
  
  Such has been the flak that Michael Clarke has taken since announcing his retirement during the last Ashes Test, it is easy to forget that the outgoing skipper will retire with a Test batting average of close to 50 and a scoring record surpassed by only three Australians – fellow former captains in Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh.
  
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• Ashes 2015: England home in on record but big test will come away

  15-08-2015 21:25
  
  England have been here before. Two years ago they arrived at The Oval with an opportunity to win four Tests of an Ashes series at home for the first time. Now, here the two teams are again, with the same captains in subtly different circumstances.
  
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• Dick Advocaat blasts clueless Sunderland players and admits there is 'something wrong' following defeat by Norwich City

  15-08-2015 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sunderland head coach Dick Advocaat admitted there was 'something wrong' with his team after seeing them slip to a second comprehensive defeat in as many weeks.
  
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• US PGA Championship 2015: Tiger Woods exits tournament early in another major flop

  15-08-2015 21:11
  
  Tiger Woods made it to the Saturday of another major but only to say goodbye.
  
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• QPR 2-2 Cardiff: Scott Malone's late stunner earns visitors a point at Loftus Road

  15-08-2015 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott Malone fired a last-minute equaliser as Cardiff fought back to draw 2-2 with QPR at Loftus Road. Rangers looked to be heading for their first league win of the season after taking a two-nil lead.
  
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• England vs France LIVE: Follow the action from World Cup warm-up at Twickenham

  15-08-2015 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England face France at Twickenham on Saturday night in the first of two World Cup warm-up matches between the old rivals.  Follow the action LIVE here.
  
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• Dortmund 4-0 Borussia Monchengladbach: Marco Reus opens scoring as Thomas Tuchel's side ease to comfortable win

  15-08-2015 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thomas Tuchel got off to the perfect start as Borussia Dortmund manager after his side eased to a comfortable 4-0 Bundesliga victory over Borussia Monchengladbach. 
  
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• US PGA Championship 2015 – day three!

  15-08-2015 20:50
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  Email [email protected]| Tweet @alansmith907.50pm BSTHaving made it on to page one of the leaderboard with that attempt, McIlroy’s tee shot on the sixth is right down the middle of the fairway.@alansmith90 Kucher to make a move on "moving day", I think it'll be a "moving JDay" he's got the game & he's chomping at the bit 4 a major. 7.47pm BSTRory McIlroy eagles the fifth with a stunning putt! Absolutely everything about that was perfect – it&rsqu
  
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• VIDEO: Dujardin retains Euro dressage title

  15-08-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Charlotte Dujardin successfully defends her Grand Prix Special dressage title at the European Championships in Aachen, Germany.
  
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• England v France: Rugby World Cup warm-up – live!

  15-08-2015 20:48
  Follow the action at Twickenham with our live updatesEmail [email protected] or tweet @DanLucas86Ireland edge past Scotland 28-22 in World Cup warm-upAll the latest news before the Rugby World Cup 7.48pm BSTHeh, made me laugh. The build-up has been a wee bit Burgess-centric.RT “@SkySportsRugby: Sam Burgess confirmed as man of the match #ENGvFRA ” 7.45pm BSTOr enough for you to listen to today’s musical interlude a bunch of times. Continue reading...
  
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• Steven Crook pains his countrymen with career best for Northamptonshire

  15-08-2015 20:45
  • Northamptonshire 396; Australians 13-1Things have been tough enough for the Australians over the past fortnight without one of their own putting the boot in. Steven Crook, a son of Adelaide, provided the evening entertainment with a career-best unbeaten 142, awash with boundaries.His 20th, a short-arm jab backward of square leg had the 3,000 crowd on their feet to acclaim a 77-ball hundred. The fun did not end there, however. Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea players arrive at hotel ahead of Premier League clash with Manchester City 

  15-08-2015 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chelsea players have arrived at the five-star Lowry Hotel ahead of Sunday's game against Manchester City. The fixture is being tipped as an early player in the title race this season. 
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur's five new signings unveiled at White Hart Lane, but will they fare better than the 'Bale money seven'?

  15-08-2015 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spurs unveiled their five summer signings at White Hart Lane against Stoke, but the collective photo will bring back bad memories for fans of a similar image taken of the players signed with the 'Bale money'.
  
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• Claudio Ranieri says points matter more than position after Leicester's victory over West Ham puts the Foxes top

  15-08-2015 20:36
  Claudio Ranieri played down Leicester's position as early Premier League pacesetters as his side made it two wins out of two with victory at West Ham.
  
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• Ireland 28-22 Scotland: Joe Schmidt's side edge seven-try thriller at the Aviva Stadium 

  15-08-2015 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ireland secured their second consecutive World Cup warm-up victory with a hard-fought victory over Scotland in Dublin, but coach Joe Schmidt will not be happy with his side's defensive display.
  
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• David Beckham is on course to overtake Michael Jordan's $100m a year

  15-08-2015 20:16
  
  Two years after quitting football, David Beckham is challenging Michael Jordan's position as the world's highest-earning retired sports star.
  
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