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• AP Source: Browns' Mack voids contract, becomes free agent

  02-03-2016 23:57
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Alex Mack snapped the ball into the Browns' court.
  
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• PAOK withdraw from Greek Cup after game abandoned

  02-03-2016 23:54
  PAOK Salonika owner Ivan Savvidis withdrew his team from the Greek Cup and called for the resignation of Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) president Giorgos Girtzikis after the semi-final first leg against Olympiakos Piraeus was abandoned due to a pitch invasion on Wednesday. With Super League champions Olympiakos leading 2-1 in the 86th minute at a hostile Toumba stadium, PAOK were denied what looked like a clear penalty when Slovakia midfielder Robert Mak was felled by visiting keeper Stefano
  
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• Harbaugh helps coach Tigers to 10-3 rout of Pirates

  02-03-2016 23:50
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — With Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh moonlighting as their first base coach, a split squad of Detroit Tigers scored four runs in the first inning Wednesday and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-3.
  
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• Manchester United 1-0 Watford PLAYER RATINGS: David de Gea shows safe hands to keep out misfiring Odion Ighalo

  02-03-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JACK GAUGHAN AT OLD TRAFFORD: Despite fielding their fourth youngest starting XI in Premier League season, it was the eldest member of the team Juan Mata who netted a late winne
  
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• Manchester United 1-0 Watford: Juan Mata comes to youngsters' rescue in boost to Louis van Gaal's hopes of top four finish

  02-03-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS WHEELER AT OLD TRAFFORD: Manchester United edged closer to an unlikely top four finish after defeating Watford 1-0 in a closely contested game at Old Trafford.
  
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• Lawro v The Coral's James Skelly

  02-03-2016 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson takes on The Coral frontman James Skelly.
  
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• Dan Cole hits back at calls for tackling to be banned in schools, claiming early contact skills can help avoid injuries at senior level

  02-03-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 28-year-old England prop was speaking in response to a group of 70 doctors and academics who wrote to Parliament calling for tackling to be banned from raugby in schools.
  
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• Danny Willett may not travel to Augusta for the Masters if his wife hasn't given birth to their first child before the first round starts

  02-03-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE BY DEREK LAWRENSON: As one of the world’s top golfers, it's not surprising Danny Willett has dreamed of a Sunday at the Masters. He just hopes the birth of his first child comes before it.
  
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• Bangladesh beat Pakistan to set up Asia Cup final against India

  02-03-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bangladesh booked their place in the Asia Cup final with a five-wicket win over Pakistan in Dhaka. The hosts will face India at the same venue in Sunday's final.
  
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• Arsenal in despair after home defeat by Swansea

  02-03-2016 23:27
  Arsenal's title hopes took another heavy blow on Wednesday after a 2-1 defeat at home to Swansea that gave the visitors' Premier League survival hopes a big boost. Third-placed Arsenal dominated the early stages and went ahead on 15 minutes when Joel Campbell slid along the ground to half-volley home a pass from Alexis Sanchez on the turn. Fifth from bottom Swansea equalised against the run of play after 32 minutes as Wayne Routledge slotted in a ball from Jack Cork that had sliced the home defe
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Thursday, March 3

  02-03-2016 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Thursday's racing at Southwell, Ludlow. Taunton and Chelmsford City.
  
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• West Ham United 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur

  02-03-2016 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham miss the chance to go top of the Premier League after Michail Antonio's winner earns West Ham a deserved win.
  
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• Spurs, Arsenal, Man City all lose in Premier League

  02-03-2016 23:16
  
  LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Leicester strengthened its place atop the Premier League without even playing on Wednesday, after its three main title rivals all lost to cap another unpredictable round in England's top division.
  
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• Real put derby defeat behind them by winning at Levante

  02-03-2016 23:14
  Cristiano Ronaldo netted a first-half penalty as injury-depleted Real Madrid recovered from their derby defeat by Atletico Madrid at the weekend with a 3-1 win at Levante on Wednesday. An own goal by goalkeeper Diego Marino and a stoppage-time strike by substitute Isco ensured Real kept a firm grip on third place in La Liga. Barcelona, who visit Rayo Vallecano on Thursday, hold a five-point lead over second-placed Atletico who triumphed 3-0 at home to Real Sociedad on Tuesday.
  
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• Carrick Rangers 1-0 Dungannon Swifts

  02-03-2016 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carrick Rangers moved off the bottom of the table with a 1-0 victory over Dungannon Swifts at Seaview.
  
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• Sprinters angry at missing out on Rio

  02-03-2016 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jess Varnish and Katy Marchant blame Britain's selection policy after failing to secure a team sprint place in Rio.
  
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• Celtic 0-0 Dundee

  02-03-2016 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic see their lead at the top of the Premiership cut to four points as Dundee frustrate the champions at Parkhead.
  
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• Marouane Fellaini edging 'hairly' close to injury return for Manchester United as he enjoys stroll with his twin brother Mansour

  02-03-2016 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As Reds boss Louis van Gall hinted he is nearing a return to the first team set-up, Marouane Fellaini decided he was in need of some brotherly love and took an afternoon stroll with his twin in Cheshire.
  
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• McIlroy to change putting technique

  02-03-2016 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory McIlroy intends switching to the "cross-handed" putting method as he tries to improve his form.
  
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• VIDEO: Ulster Rugby Extra: Focus on youth

  02-03-2016 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ulster Academy head coach Kieran Campbell believes their youth development set-up can become the best in Europe.
  
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• West Indies' Russell faces doping ban

  02-03-2016 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell misses a third doping test in 12 months, putting his World Twenty20 at risk.
  
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• Australian Wiasak retains pusuit world title

  02-03-2016 21:31
  LONDON (Reuters) - Australia's Rebecca Wiasak overwhelmed Poland's Malgorzata Wojtyra to retain her individual pursuit title in the world track championships at London's velodrome on Wednesday. The 31-year-old was never threatened, leading the 3,000m event from start to finish as she claimed the first gold medal of the event, nearly eight seconds ahead of Wojtyra. Spain's Mora Vedri won the 15km scratch race, 60 laps of the track, ahead Ignacio Prado of Mexico and Switzerland's Claudio Imhof. ..
  
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• The Latest: Klingberg odd-man out among Sweden's D-ranks

  02-03-2016 21:25
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the World Cup of Hockey roster announcements (all times local):
  
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• Refugee team confirmed for Olympics

  02-03-2016 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A team of refugees will compete at this summer's Olympics in Rio, the International Olympic Committee confirms.
  
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• Lindsey Vonn ends season early because of left knee injury

  02-03-2016 21:15
  
  A hairline fracture in her left knee didn't deter Lindsey Vonn. Still, she raced.
  
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• Eatons looking for unprecedented double gold in Rio

  02-03-2016 21:12
  Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton, athletics' best-known couple, are not letting widespread concerns about the Zika virus stand in the way of a bid for unprecedented double gold medals at the Rio Olympics. "We are so focussed on what we are doing that we don't now pay that much attention to it really," Theisen-Eaton, who has no plans to start a family until after she finishes competing, told Reuters in a telephone interview with her husband. The Oregon-based athletes are hoping to become th
  
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• Monty Panesar back in the nets as he eyes England Test return ahead of winter tours of Bangladesh and India

  02-03-2016 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Monty Panesar will take what could be the first step of the rest of his career when he bowls in the nets at Northamptonshire on Thursday – as he aims to get himself in the fold for England's winter tours.
  
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• World chief Lapasset standing down to focus on Olympics

  02-03-2016 20:57
  Bernard Lapasset will not seek re-election as chairman of World Rugby in May so that he can focus his attention on spearheading Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympics, he said in a statement on Wednesday. Lapasset, first elected to head the governing body in 2007, informed colleagues at a World Rugby executive committee meeting in Dublin of his decision to stand down. "Rugby has never been healthier and I am so proud of what we have achieved in growing the game around the globe." Lapasset was head of
  
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• BOA issues Zika update to sports bodies

  02-03-2016 20:48
  By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has issued a fresh Zika virus advisory to national governing bodies of sport to reflect changed government advice ahead of the Rio Games in August. The BOA, which issued its first advisory three weeks ago, said the update simply reflected a commitment to keep all parties informed of any changes to government advice. British rower Constantine Louloudis, a double men's eight world champion and bronze medallist in London in 20
  
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• IOC identifies 43 potential refugee athletes for Rio Games

  02-03-2016 20:41
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic officials have identified 43 candidates for a team of refugee athletes who will compete in the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in a "message of hope" for millions of refugees around the world, the IOC said Wednesday.
  
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• West Indies all-rounder Russell commits doping violation

  02-03-2016 20:11
  By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON (Reuters) - West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has committed an "anti-doping whereabouts" rule violation, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) told Reuters on Wednesday. The 27-year-old, named in the West Indies squad for the World Twenty20 in India that starts next week, has missed three doping tests within a 12-month period. "We received notification of Russell's violation about two weeks ago and I've appointed a panel to hear his case," said JADCO indepe
  
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• Up to 10 refugees to compete at Rio Games - IOC

  02-03-2016 20:03
  By Karolos Grohmann LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - A team of refugees that will compete at this year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics could number as many as 10 athletes, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Wednesday. The team, which was officially approved by the IOC Executive Board and called Team of Refugee Olympics Athletes (ROA), will be made up from a pool of 43 prospective Olympians, already identified by the IOC and supported with funds to train. "We have no target
  
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• Swansea boss Guidolin taken to hospital ahead of match

  02-03-2016 19:54
  
  Swansea City manager Francesco Guidolin has been taken to a London hospital with a chest infection and will miss Wednesday's Premier League game at Arsenal. "The specialist felt the best course of action was for Guidolin to remain in hospital for a few days to receive further treatment," the club added. Swansea said he was expected to recover fully in a few days and that his assistant Alan Curtis, who was interim manager until Guidolin's appointment in January, would deputise.
  
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• Liverpool vs Manchester City LIVE score: Follow all the Anfield action here as it happens   

  02-03-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liverpool host Manchester City in the Premier League at Anfield on Wednesday night, looking to avenge their Capital One Cup final defeat at Wembley last weekend. 
  
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• Adam Johnson found GUILTY of sexual touching a 15-year-old girl

  02-03-2016 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former Sunderland playerhas been found guilty of sexually touching the girl. He has been cleared of a second charge relating to the girl's claims she performed oral sex on him
  
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• Ex-Guatemalan football chief pleads not guilty to U.S. bribery charges

  02-03-2016 19:52
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former president of Guatemala's football federation pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he participated in bribery schemes at the heart of a corruption investigation into world football's governing body, FIFA. Brayan Jimenez, the former president, entered his plea through his lawyer in federal court in Brooklyn to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud charges, a day after being extradited from Guatemala. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes set bo
  
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• Arsenal vs Swansea LIVE score: Plus West Ham vs Tottenham Hotspur

  02-03-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the Barclays Premier League on a huge night concerning the title race as Tottenham Hotspur travel to West Ham United in one of fie top flight matches.
  
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• Bob Dylan sells treasure trove of archive material

  02-03-2016 19:45
  (Reuters) - Bob Dylan has sold his personal archive of notes, draft lyrics, poems, artwork and photographs to the University of Tulsa, where they will be made available to scholars and curated for public exhibitions, the school said on Wednesday. The collection was acquired by the George Kaiser Foundation and the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. The Foundation and the university did not say how much the Bob Dylan Archive cost, but the New York Times, which was given an exclusive preview, said it
  
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• 'On the road' with feminist icon Gloria Steinem

  02-03-2016 19:36
  
  The famous activist, whose new book is called "My Life on the Road", says more needs to be done in fight for equality.
  
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• Frampton ordered to box Rigondeaux

  02-03-2016 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carl Frampton must box Guillermo Rigondeaux by 27 July to avoid being stripped of one of his two world super-bantamweight belts.
  
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• Valtteri Bottas sets pace on day two of final Formula One pre-season test but Lewis Hamilton leads strong Mercedes showing

  02-03-2016 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Valtteri Bottas completed day two of the final Barcelona test fastest for Williams, but it was Mercedes who continued to show their overall strength during pre-season.
  
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• Less than half the tickets sold so far for Rio Olympics

  02-03-2016 19:25
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — With five months to go before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian organizers are struggling to sell tickets for South America's first games. Don't worry, says the IOC president, the locals will buy up tickets at the last minute.
  
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• Adidas nominates major investors to board

  02-03-2016 19:23
  By Emma Thomasson NUREMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - Adidas is proposing that Egyptian tycoon Nassef Sawiris and a representative of Belgium's richest man Albert Frere join its supervisory board after both took significant stakes in the German sportswear group. Adidas said on Wednesday the supervisory board was proposing that Sawiris and Ian Gallienne, the head of Frere's holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert , be elected at the company's May 12 annual general meeting for a three-year term. "The
  
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• Man United star Anthony Martial treats wife Samantha for birthday

  02-03-2016 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  He's treated Manchester United fans to a string of spectacular performances this season but it was Anthony Martial's wife's turn to be spoilt by the striker.
  
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• Murray plans to play whole Davis Cup

  02-03-2016 19:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World number two Andy Murray says he will play a full part in Great Britain's Davis Cup defence this year.
  
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• Former cyclist Pendleton romps to first victory

  02-03-2016 19:15
  Double Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton landed her first victory as an amateur jockey on Wednesday, winning the two-and-a-half-mile Switching Saddles Hunter Chase at Wincanton by 29 lengths. The 35-year-old Briton is now set to decide whether to ride in the Foxhunter Chase at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival on March 18. "I will do some more point-to-point (races) and see what the experts around me decide and I will go with their choice," she told reporters after guiding 5/4
  
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• Footballer faces 'significant' jail term

  02-03-2016 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-England footballer Adam Johnson is warned jail is "almost inevitable" after being found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.
  
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• Adam Johnson facing jail after child sex conviction

  02-03-2016 19:11
  English football player Adam Johnson, who was sacked by Premier League club Sunderland last month, was facing jail after being found guilty on Wednesday of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. A jury at Bradford Crown Court in northern England cleared him of one of these charges but convicted him of the other. "In our football-obsessed region Adam Johnson had a responsibility as a professional footballer to be a role model, a role he did not fulfil," Detective Inspector Aelfwynn Sampson told
  
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• Andy Murray doesn't expect fatherhood to curtail his schedule

  02-03-2016 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world No 2 resurfaced at Birmingham's Barclaycard Arena ahead of Friday's first round starting against Japan, three months after the 2015 final was won against Belgium.
  
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• Adam Johnson's football career is over, say sports experts

  02-03-2016 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The details of the trial - and Johnson's signing of the sex offenders' register - threaten to destroy his once-promising football career.
  
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