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• Slick City hungry for success, says Kompany

  24-02-2016 23:59
  Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany said they played like a team "hungry for success" as they put a poor recent run behind them to move to the verge of the Champions League quarter-finals with a 3-1 win at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. City had lost their previous three matches, denting their Premier League hopes with back-to-back defeats by Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur and exiting the FA Cup with a humiliating 5-1 loss at Chelsea.
  
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• Derby County 1-0 Blackburn Rovers

  24-02-2016 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Derby County climb to fifth in the Championship table after Jacob Butterfield's goal beats Blackburn Rovers.
  
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• Hearing tonight as Ballyboden player hopes to overturn red card for All-Ireland club final

  24-02-2016 23:44
  
  Declan O’Mahony was sent-off in the semi-final against Clonmel Commercials.
  
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• Carl Frampton keen to prove that he is a man of letters ahead of crunch 'Battle of Britain' bout with Scott Quigg

  24-02-2016 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JEFF POWELL: Carl Frampton now has an MBE to go with his IBF world championship belt and is ‘very proud’ to pin that royal decoration to his chest. He was honoured for services to community relations.
  
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• Dynamo Kiev 1-3 Manchester City

  24-02-2016 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City take command of their Champions League last-16 tie against Dynamo Kiev with a first-leg win in Ukraine.
  
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• Ten-man PSV hold on to frustrate Atletico

  24-02-2016 23:35
  PSV Eindhoven played for more than 20 minutes with 10 men but held on for a goalless draw at home to Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. PSV, making their first appearance in the knockout phase of the competition since 2007, were forced to play the closing stages deep in their own half after 20-year-old striker Gaston Pereiro was sent off for a second booking in the 68th minute. Having been cautioned in the first half, he was dismissed for a needl
  
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• Chicago Cubs owner says Trump tweet about mom was 'surreal'

  24-02-2016 23:33
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts said Wednesday he found it "surreal" to see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump "threaten" his mother on Twitter over her political contributions.
  
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• Rumble for Rio... but Barry McGuigan feels it's 'crazy' to let professional boxers fight at the Olympic Games

  24-02-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Olympic boxing is set to undergo an extraordinary overhaul with controversial plans under discussion to allow top professional fighters to compete for gold.
  
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• Paul Nicholls upbeat over Festival challenge despite lack of standout contenders

  24-02-2016 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trainer Paul Nicholls has insisted he is happy to head to Cheltenham free of expectation and pressure as he strives to add to his 37 Festival successes.
  
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• Changes have little effect - Hamilton

  24-02-2016 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World champion Lewis Hamilton says proposed changes to Formula 1's qualifying format will not have much effect.
  
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• PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Atletico Madrid

  24-02-2016 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PSV Eindhoven's last-16 tie with Atletico Madrid is finely poised after surviving with 10 men for the last 22 minutes.
  
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• Great Britain boost Eurobasket hopes

  24-02-2016 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain women keep alive their hopes of qualifying for next year's Eurobasket finals with a 71-67 win over Montenegro.
  
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• Lydiate may change tackle technique

  24-02-2016 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Flanker Dan Lydiate may consider changing his tackle technique after being sin-binned before his Wales Six Nation recall.
  
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• Red Sox owner: 'We were reliant too heavily on analytics'

  24-02-2016 23:01
  FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — After their new players added up to another last-place finish, the owner of the Boston Red Sox figured out the team's math was wrong.
  
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• France make five changes to face Wales

  24-02-2016 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Maxime Machenaud is back at scrum-half as one of five France changes against Wales in the Six Nations in Cardiff on Friday.
  
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• Cubs owner accepts hype, hints at new contract for Epstein

  24-02-2016 22:53
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Like Joe Maddon and his players, Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is ready to "embrace the target." He also appears ready to give a new deal to Theo Epstein.
  
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• Man City close on last eight after 3-1 win at Dynamo

  24-02-2016 22:51
  Manchester City moved within touching distance of a first appearance in the Champions League quarter-finals after a dynamic first-half display at Dynamo Kiev helped them secure a 3-1 last-16 first-leg win on Wednesday. City were irrepressible in the opening 45 minutes, slicing through their opponents almost at will and taking a 2-0 lead with goals from Sergio Aguero and David Silva. The hosts, however, improved dramatically after the restart and Vitaliy Buyalskiy's deflected effort reduced the a
  
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• Bobby Moore to be celebrated with a commemorative stone at West Ham United's new Olympic Stadium home

  24-02-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bobby Moore will take centre stage in a new landmark that is being constructed outside West Ham's forthcoming Olympic Stadium home. He will be immortalised with a commemorative stone.
  
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• Novak Djokovic's 700th career victory is a piece of cake as world No 1 takes just 65 minutes to beat Malek Jaziri

  24-02-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Novak Djokovic claimed the 700th victory of his career as he breezed into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Championships. The Serb needed only 65 minutes to beat Malek Jaziri 6-1 6-2.
  
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• Hibernian 0-3 Greenock Morton

  24-02-2016 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hibernian remain eight points behind Championship leaders Rangers after a surprise home loss to Greenock Morton.
  
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• It’s been a good night for Laois, Wexford and Wicklow in the Leinster U21FC

  24-02-2016 22:33
  
  Laois saw off Louth, Wicklow defeated Carlow and Wexford beat Longford.
  
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• FIFA election to go ahead but Blatter told to stay away

  24-02-2016 22:25
  By Brian Homewood and Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - World football's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history. One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zuric
  
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• Professionals could compete in Rio

  24-02-2016 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Professional boxers could be eligible to compete at the Rio Olympic Games under new plans from the sport's governing body.
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Thursday, February 25

  24-02-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Thursday's racing at Huntingdon, Chelmsford City, Sedgefield and Lingfield.
  
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• Machenaud at scrumhalf as France make changes for Wales

  24-02-2016 21:57
  PARIS, (Reuters) - Scrumhalf Maxime Machenaud will start France’s Six Nations game against Wales in Cardiff on Friday as manager Guy Noves made five changes to his team on Wednesday. Machenaud replaced Sebastien Bezy, who started Les Bleus’ first two matches against Italy and Ireland at the Stade de France, which they won 23-21 and 10-9 respectively. He will pair up with flyhalf Jules Plisson who will start for the third time in a row with Francois Trinh-Duc, back after an injury lay
  
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• Josh Hamilton has injured knee and will start season on DL

  24-02-2016 21:54
  
  SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton will start the season on the disabled list because of an injured left knee.
  
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• Platini says appeal rejection is 'insulting and shameful'

  24-02-2016 21:49
  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned UEFA President Michel Platini launched a vitriolic attack on the FIFA Appeals Committee on Wednesday after it upheld his suspension from the game for ethics violations. Frenchman Platini's ban, along with that of former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, was reduced from eight to six years by the appeals committee, based on the mitigating factor of the pair's services to the game. “The decision… is insulting, shameful and is a violation of rights,"
  
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• FIFA's Rogues' Gallery - banned, fined or suspended

  24-02-2016 21:49
  Following is a list of high-ranking officials to have been implicated or punished in the bribery and corruption crisis that has engulfed FIFA. President of FIFA for more than 17 years, banned for eight years by the Ethics Committee he created to help clean up FIFA's image when it found him guilty of a conflict of interest by paying European football boss Michel Platini 1.3 million pounds for work done a decade earlier. At one stage seemed destined to succeed Blatter as FIFA president, but the pa
  
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• Blatter and Platini lose Fifa appeals

  24-02-2016 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter and suspended Uefa boss Michel Platini fail in their appeal against bans from football.
  
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• Mike Trout committed to stealing more bases again for Angels

  24-02-2016 21:06
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Mike Trout wants to take a swipe at something else this season — stealing bases, the way he once did.
  
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• Dynamo Kiev 0-1 Man City LIVE score: Sergio Aguero opened the scoring for visitors

  24-02-2016 21:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the UEFA Champions League as Manchester City visit Dynamo Kiev at the Olympic Stadium for the first leg of their last-16 encounter.
  
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• No doubts about Haryanto's contract, says manager

  24-02-2016 20:56
  By Alan Baldwin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Rio Haryanto's manager has calmed fears that Indonesia's first Formula One driver may have to raise more money to last the whole season. Haryanto has brought at least five million euros (£3.9 million) to the sport's smallest team, thanks to state oil sponsor Pertamina, and will be the only Asian driver on the starting grid. Although he tested previously for the team in its former guises, and is familiar with the Circuit de Catalunya from competing in t
  
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• MPs say integrity unit lacks proper funding

  24-02-2016 20:52
  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) set up to tackle the threat of match-fixing is under-funded and struggling to cope with a rise in the number of suspicious betting alerts, MPs said on Wednesday. The London-based organisation, established and funded by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Grand Slam Board to police the sport, survives on a $2 million (£1.4 million) per ye
  
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• Blatter and Platini bans upheld, reduced to six years

  24-02-2016 20:49
  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful men in world football, had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six. The 79-year-old Blatter, who served for 17 years as FIFA president, and Platini, 60, one of the greatest players of all time and UEFA president since 2007, had appealed against the bans imposed last October. The ruling came two days before FIFA holds a special elective Co
  
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• Brendan Rodgers gets down on one knee in Times Square

  24-02-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has proven his love for the big occasion once again by proposing to girlfriend Charlotte Searle in New York's Times Square.
  
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• Daniel Sturridge looking forward to his future at Liverpool as fit-again striker dismisses talk of leaving Anfield

  24-02-2016 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daniel Sturridge insists his future lies with Liverpool as he spoke for the first time since returning from the injuries that have decimated his season. The striker's position at Anfield has been under question.
  
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• Charlton vs Middlesbrough fixture rescheduled with 17 days' notice!

  24-02-2016 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Middlesbrough fans face forking out hundreds of pounds after the match that was due to take place on Saturday March 12 was moved to the day afterfor TV coverage.
  
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• Injured Launchbury replaced by Lawes

  24-02-2016 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Injured Joe Launchbury is replaced by a recalled Courtney Lawes in England's 23-man squad to face Ireland on Saturday.
  
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• Braga 2-2 Sion (agg 4-3): Theofanis Gekas' brace denied Europa League last 16 ticket by resolute Portuguese comeback

  24-02-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Portugal’s Braga fought back twice and survived a late onslaught from Sion to book their place in the Europa League last 16 draw on Friday with a dramatic draw at the Municipal Stadium.
  
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• Tennis authorities have completely underfunded the fight against match-fixing and have used TIU as a 'figleaf', slams Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

  24-02-2016 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Tennis is a huge outlier compared to other sports. The reason you are in this position is that the TIU is like a figleaf for the sport,' said Damian Collins MP. 'The opportunity for match fixing is huge.'
  
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• Manchester United playmaker Juan Mata spurred on by 'sadness' of Midtjylland defeat in quest for Europa League glory

  24-02-2016 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Danish champions ran out 2-1 victors in the first leg of their Europa League last-32 encounter, setting up a crunch clash at Old Trafford on Thursday.
  
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• Tiger shoots back at sceptics, says 'progressing nicely'

  24-02-2016 20:03
  (Reuters) - Tiger Woods posted a video of himself swinging a golf club on Wednesday in an effort to shoot down recent reports that suggested he had endured setbacks in his recovery from back surgeries. In a 13-second video posted on his Twitter account, Woods is seen hitting a nine-iron to the green on a 153-yard par-three hole on an indoor golf simulator, seemingly without discomfort. Woods, who made 11 starts on the PGA Tour last season and just seven the season before, had his first back surg
  
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• Suspicious betting alerts surge in 2015

  24-02-2016 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There were 246 alerts of suspicious betting on tennis matches in 2015, the head of the Tennis Integrity Unit says.
  
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• Rockies adjust to spring training without Jose Reyes

  24-02-2016 19:48
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Colorado Rockies have had some of the uncertainty surrounding Jose Reyes' status resolved, at least for spring training, but manager Walt Weiss says he understands the process is still unfolding.
  
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• Here’s the trailer for Tipperary’s Brendan Maher’s cricket training in Oz

  24-02-2016 19:48
  
  Tipperary captain Maher spent time with the Adelaide Strikers.
  
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• Adam Johnson's Sunderland teammates have refused to give evidence

  24-02-2016 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former Sunderland player met the schoolgirl in January last year in his black Range Rover. He insists they only kissed but the girl says she performed a sex act on him
  
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• Louis van Gaal’s press conference took on a rather raunchy tone earlier

  24-02-2016 19:47
  
  The Dutchman was chatting ahead of Thursday’s Europa League second-leg against Midtjylland.
  
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• Despite offseason deals, Reds' Phillips back for 11th year

  24-02-2016 19:47
  
  GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Brandon Phillips was traded twice this offseason but is back with the Reds for the 11th season.
  
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• Professional boxers could be cleared to compete in Olympics

  24-02-2016 19:45
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Leading professional boxers could be eligible to compete in this year's Olympics under proposals put forward by the sport's world governing body.
  
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• FIFA appeal committee reduce Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini's eight year bans to six

  24-02-2016 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have had their bans from all football-related activity reduced from eight years to six years, world governing body FIFA has announced.
  
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