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• Manu Tuilagi can emulate Ma'a Nonu... he can be the best midfielder in the world, says Leicester Tigers coach Aaron Mauger

  04-03-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON: If Eddie Jones needs confirmation that Manu Tuilagi can emulate Ma'a Nonu, then former All Black and Leicester coach Aaron Mauger is only a phonecall away.
  
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• ITF says Australia-US match played on wrong surface

  04-03-2016 23:48
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Tennis Federation says that the first-round Davis Cup match between Australia and the United States should have been played on hardcourts, and not grass.
  
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• Typical Spurs? No, they're the real deal. And if Mauricio Pochettino steers them to the Premier League title, it will be the best success of the modern era

  04-03-2016 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAMIE CARRAGHER: As they go into the most significant north London derby since the 1991 FA Cup semi-final, Mauricio Pochettino remains on target to pull off what would be the greatest managerial job in Premier League history.
  
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• Hammer steers U.S. to gold, Dibben roared to title

  04-03-2016 23:38
  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Sarah Hammer led the U.S. to their first gold medal in women's team pursuit before Britain's Jonathan Dibben produced a thrilling climax to day three of the world track championships in the points race on Friday. The 32-year-old Hammer, winner of five individual pursuit world titles in her illustrious career, steered rising stars Kelly Catlin, Chloe Dygert and Jennifer Valente to victory over a Canadian quartet who hung on grimly but could not keep up.
  
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• Newcastle 14-15 Worcester: David Potgeiter and Bryce Heem tries secure hard-fought victory for Warriors at Kingston Park 

  04-03-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Worcester ended Newcastle's four-match home winning run in the Aviva Premiership with a narrow victory at Kingston Park. The win sees the Warriors leapfrog the Falcons into 10th place.
  
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• Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp urges players to settle score with Crystal Palace as he targets European football

  04-03-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jurgen Klopp has urged Liverpool's players to keep their anger if they want to stand any chance of playing in Europe next season. Liverpool moved to within six points of the top four on Wednesday.
  
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• Tottenham legend David Ginola says every Premier League club should be run like the White Hart Lane outfit 

  04-03-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spurs are fighting for their first title in 55 years and former Tottenham winger Ginola insists it is down to the way they are run, from Mauricio Pochettino as manager to Daniel Levy as chairman.
  
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• Sebastian Vettel: 'It doesn't look very nice but if it helps increase the safety and helps save lives, there would be at least two drivers who would still be around 

  04-03-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sebastian Vettel cited the deaths of two British drivers as the clincher for Formula One ending its historical designation as a fully open-cockpit sport. The four-time world champion spoke out about
  
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• Tottenham's Harry Kane declares fearless challenge for title is still on as Arsenal await

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HARRY KANE believes Tottenham can recover from their West Ham debacle and get their title challenge back on track against bitter rivals Arsenal.
  
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• Salford face major Super League points deductions amid salary cap issues

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SALFORD could be docked a maximum 20 First Utility Super League points if they are found guilty of alleged breaches of salary cap regulations in 2014 and 2015.
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino can topple Arsene Wenger and end Arsenal's title challenge with a win in the north London derby 

  04-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mauricio Pochettino is Tottenham’s 12th manager since Wenger arrived at Highbury in 1996 but it could be his own disciples — the Arsenal supporters — who topple the great Frenchman.
  
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• Manchester United sensation Marcus Rashford has not saved my job, insists Louis van Gaal

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LOUIS VAN GAAL claims youngsters like Marcus Rashford have not saved his neck as Manchester United boss.
  
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• Jurgen Klopp: 'Angriness' will be key in Liverpool's charge for a Champions League spot

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JURGEN KLOPP has told his Liverpool players they need to fuel themselves with anger to muscle in on the race for the Champions League.
  
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• Jason Kenny delivers at World Championships as GB's Olympic cycling hopes head his way

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OLYMPIC champion Jason Kenny answered his critics on the opening day of the individual sprint competition at the track World Championships in London on Friday.
  
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• Exclusive: Bournemouth's Andrew Surman talks statistics, fitness, Eddie Howe and England

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ANDREW SURMAN has run further and worked harder than any other player in the Premier League this season.
  
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• Barcelona seek bumper £50m kit deal as they call on agency to help them replace Qatar Airways as shirt sponsor

  04-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Barcelona have engaged Creative Artists Agency to find them a shirt sponsor who are prepared to pay around the record-breaking £52million a year that Manchester United receive from Chevrolet. 
  
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• Arsene Wenger almost signed Mauricio Pochettino for Arsenal as a player... but went for Philippe Senderos instead 

  04-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The managerial duo go head-to-head in one of the most eagerly-anticipated north London derbies in years at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
  
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• Arsenal's Arsene Wenger: Tottenham must prove title credentials in 'crunch time' showdown

  04-03-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ARSENE WENGER declared today's north London derby against Tottenham as "crunch time" and challenged Arsenal's noisy neighbours to show how good they really are when it matters.
  
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• Alan Birchenall is MR LEICESTER... Former star has kissed Tony Currie, played with Pele and now falls for Jamie Vardy's pranks

  04-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LAURIE WHITWELL - INTERVIEW: Everyone at the club knows The Birch, a Leicester player for 183 games between 1971 and 1977 who stayed on and on, frequently dishing out unfiltered wisecracks.
  
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• Goaltending fraternity split over Lundqvist's outburst

  04-03-2016 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist was flipping mad that referee Trevor Hanson wouldn't blow his whistle to stop play. Run over by teammate Ryan McDonagh seconds earlier, the injured New York Rangers goaltender took the situation into his own hands and flipped the net over to get a stoppage.
  
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• Hammer proud to lead new generation to gold

  04-03-2016 23:09
  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Sarah Hammer was racing around velodromes when her U.S. pursuit team mates were still on tricycles and she used all that experience to guide them to world championship gold on Friday. The 32-year-old had already slipped on the rainbow jersey seven times in a dazzling individual career, but at the London velodrome she had some company on the podium. Kelly Catlin, 20, Chloe Dygert, 19, and 21-year-old Jennifer Valente all produced brilliant rides too against Can
  
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• Bud Collins, US voice of tennis in print and on TV, has died

  04-03-2016 23:09
  
  Bud Collins, the tennis historian and American voice of the sport in print and on TV for decades, has died. He was 86.
  
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• Newcastle United boss Steve McClaren has unedifying bust up with Sportsmail's Craig Hope during heated press conference

  04-03-2016 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CRAIG HOPE: Confronted with an exclusive back page story in this newspaper, and subsequent articles, Newcastle boss McClaren showed a bitter, angry side to his nature.
  
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• Knife found at O.J. Simpson's former home not consistent with murders - NBC

  04-03-2016 23:06
  (Reuters) - A knife purportedly found on a Los Angeles property where O.J. Simpson once lived is a utility-style blade inconsistent with the murders of the former American football star's wife and her friend, NBC News reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. The sources described the knife as a relatively inexpensive, smaller-bladed utility knife typically carried by construction workers, gardeners and other labourers, NBC reported. (Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Eric Walsh)
  
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• Roma in seventh heaven after beating Fiorentina

  04-03-2016 23:00
  AS Roma won their seventh straight Serie A game as Mohamed Salah scored twice in a 4-1 win at home to Fiorentina on Friday to move clear of their opponents in the race for a Champions League spot and maintain their faint title hopes. Third-placed Roma, now three points ahead of Fiore, have been transformed since Luciano Spalletti replaced Rudi Garcia as coach in January, losing once in the league before a winning streak that has put them within five points of leaders Juventus. Diego Perotti side
  
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• USOC forms infectious disease panel to address Zika concerns

  04-03-2016 22:46
  DENVER (AP) — An infectious disease specialist from University of Utah will chair a group formed by the U.S. Olympic Committee to address concerns about the Zika virus and other health issues at the Rio de Janeiro Games this summer.
  
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• GB's Dibben secures gold at Worlds

  04-03-2016 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jon Dibben wins Britain's second gold of the London Track World Championships, as GB claim two further bronze medals.
  
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• Euro 2016: Why Roy Hodgson can't say no to Man United's Marcus Rashford for England

  04-03-2016 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MARCUS RASHFORD'S story has been entirely in keeping with the sensational nature of this season's Premier League.
  
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• Hamilton suffers glitch as Formula One testing ends

  04-03-2016 22:39
  (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes suffered a rare mechanical failure on Friday as Formula One teams wrapped up pre-season testing in Barcelona with Ferrari back on top of the timesheets. Mercedes, whose cars have pounded out 1,294 laps of the Circuit de Catalunya, said a transmission problem was to blame. The sport's dominant team have otherwise enjoyed relentless reliability over the eight days of testing with Hamilton and German team mate Nico Rosberg completing the equivalent of nearly 20
  
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• Hammer leads American women to team pursuit gold

  04-03-2016 22:28
  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Experienced Sarah Hammer led the U.S. to their first ever gold medal in the women's team pursuit as they convincingly beat Canada at the world track championships on Friday. The 32-year-old five-times individual champion, along with rising stars Kelly Catlin, Chloe Dygert and Jennifer Valente, overpowered the Canadian quartet who hung on grimly but never threatened to deny their north American rivals. "It's very emotional, this is my eighth world title but I'v
  
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• South Africa beat Australia as David Miller inspires Proteas to World T20 warm-up win

  04-03-2016 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Miller smashed an unbeaten 53 as South Africa claimed a three-wicket victory over Australia in the first Twenty20 International at Kingsmead on Friday.
  
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• Noted tennis journalist Bud Collins dies aged 86

  04-03-2016 22:17
  (Reuters) - Hall of Fame tennis writer and TV commentator Bud Collins, who helped popularize the sport during his decades-long career, died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts on Friday after a long illness. Collins, an enthusiastic chronicler of tennis who brightened the scene with his trademark bow-ties and colourful trousers, began his career at the Boston Globe in 1963 and became one of the sport's preeminent and foremost authorities. Collins was inducted into the International Tennis Ha
  
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• Arsenal U18 2-1 Liverpool U18: Stephy Mavdidi leads the way as Gunners impress to reach FA Youth Cup semi-finals

  04-03-2016 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ADAM SHERGOLD AT EMIRATES STADIUM: We were meandering along, with chances a precious commodity, until Stephy Mavididi broke the deadlock, and all hell broke loose.
  
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• Infantino starts to change FIFA's image with budget flight

  04-03-2016 21:34
  By Mike Collett CARDIFF (Reuters) - New FIFA president Gianni Infantino sent a clear message that his leadership style would be very different from his predecessor Sepp Blatter when he flew to his first official overseas appointment by budget airline on Friday. Infantino, elected to run football's world governing body last Friday, flew from Geneva to Bristol by easyJet instead of taking a private plane, which was Blatter's preference. "We are normal people and we have to behave like normal peopl
  
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• Terrell Suggs arrested on suspended license in Arizona

  04-03-2016 21:18
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was arrested Friday on a suspended driver's license after investigators say his car hit a curb and he told them he may have been asleep.
  
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• No double switch: Brewers say it's same Hank the dog

  04-03-2016 21:17
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — No double switch. No tale of deceit.
  
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• Daly handed league debut as Kerry make 3 switches for Sunday’s clash with Donegal

  04-03-2016 21:15
  
  Denis Daly from the St Mary’s club will make his Kerry senior league debut.
  
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• Miller heroics blast South Africa past Australia

  04-03-2016 21:07
  David Miller smashed an unbeaten 53 as South Africa claimed a three-wicket victory over Australia in the first Twenty20 International at Kingsmead on Friday. Set 158 for victory, South Africa reached their target with four balls to spare as Miller blasted his highest score in the format off 35 deliveries and rescued the home side's flagging chase. After winning the toss and electing to bat, Australia made a rollicking start and were 69 for one after six overs, thanks largely to Aaron Finch&rsquo
  
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• Five storylines to watch in 2016 MLS season

  04-03-2016 20:56
  (Reuters) - Five storylines to track during the 2016 Major League Soccer season which opens on Sunday. - - REVAMPED LA GALAXY The most successful team in MLS history have brought in a handful of big names for the upcoming season with high hopes that the investment will allow them to add to their record five MLS Cup titles. Following a disappointing 2015 campaign that saw LA finish fifth in the 10-team Western Conference before exiting in the first round of the playoffs, the Galaxy went on a bit
  
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• Five players to watch in 2016 MLS season

  04-03-2016 20:55
  (Reuters) - Five players to watch during the 2016 Major League Soccer season, which opens on Sunday. - - STEVEN GERRARD (LA GALAXY) After joining the Galaxy last July following a 17-year stint at Premier League club Liverpool, the former England captain struggled in his MLS debut season despite playing on a team that had won three of the previous four league titles. Gerrard ultimately found it hard to dominate and manage the midfield as he did at Liverpool, and in 15 appearances with the Galaxy
  
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• Giovinco, Drogba give high hopes to Canadian MLS clubs

  04-03-2016 20:54
  By Tim Wharnsby TORONTO (Reuters) - Italian Sebastian Giovinco revived his career with Toronto FC last year and Chelsea great Didier Drogba thrived in his first season with Montreal Impact, giving the Canadian teams high hopes for the 2016 MLS season. Drogba, a scoring sensation after his arrival in Montreal midway through last season, had 12 goals in 14 appearances with the Impact, the final one coming in a first-round playoff win over Canadian rival Toronto. Giovinco, known as the 'Atomic Ant'
  
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• Overhauled Galaxy loaded with top talent in title quest

  04-03-2016 20:53
  By Jahmal Corner LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Love them or hate them, the LA Galaxy have always been Major League Soccer's glamour team with a seemingly never-ending cast of top talent that have long set the standard for the North American league. Some of the most recognizable faces in the game now reside in MLS – from Kaka and Didier Drogba to Steven Gerrard – and the world-class pipeline can be traced back to the Galaxy and their aggressive courtship of standouts. David Beckham shifted
  
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• Rookie coach Vieira sees bright future for MLS

  04-03-2016 20:52
  By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former France international Patrick Vieira begins a managerial adventure on Sunday when his New York City FC visit the Chicago Fire to kick off their Major League Soccer season. Vieira, who played 107 times for France and was a member of the team which won the 1998 World Cup and European Championship two years later, debuts in first-team management after coaching the development squad of NYCFC parent club Manchester City. The Senegal-born Vieira, speaking to Re
  
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• Big-name MLS players face pressure to deliver in 2016

  04-03-2016 20:51
  Major League Soccer's highly-skilled big-name players who command the top salaries are under pressure to deliver results in the upcoming 2016 season after failing to provide success for their teams last year. LA Galaxy's Steven Gerrard and New York City FC's Andrea Pirlo and Frank Lampard were among the high-profile players who were supposed to lift their clubs to new levels but the big salaries did not bring in the silverware. The Galaxy, who started last season having won three of the previous
  
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• Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz trade insults during explosive TV interview, as Irish fighter promises: 'I bounce heads off the canvas every time... I'll bury him' 

  04-03-2016 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTIN DOMIN: Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz were involved in an astonishing expletive-filled row shortly after they threatened to come to blows on Thursday.
  
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• Bryant gets raise to $652,000 after winning rookie award

  04-03-2016 20:37
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Kris Bryant got a raise from the major league minimum to $652,000 after winning the NL Rookie of the Year award in unanimous vote.
  
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• Mercedes boss Zetsche criticises F1 supremo Ecclestone

  04-03-2016 20:20
  By Ilona Wissenbach ESTORIL, Portugal (Reuters) - Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche, whose dominant Mercedes Formula One team have been champions for the past two years, has taken issue with Bernie Ecclestone for talking down the sport only weeks before the start of the new season. Ecclestone, the sport's commercial supremo and shareholder, told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper last month that Formula One was the worst it had ever been and he would not pay to take his family to watch it. Zets
  
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• Athletics-Six Ethiopian athletes under investigation for doping

  04-03-2016 20:18
  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Six Ethiopian athletes are being investigated for doping, the general secretary of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation told Reuters on Friday. Bililign Mekoya said blood samples from the unnamed athletes had returned "suspicious results". Mekoya said none of the athletes under suspicion had competed in the Olympics or world championships.  It is a further blow for Ethiopian athletics after world indoor 1500 metres champion Abeba Aregawi was suspended l
  
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• Jayhawks star Perry Ellis prepping for final game at Phog

  04-03-2016 20:15
  
  Perry Ellis remembers the first time that Kansas coach Bill Self watched him play a game, what seems like a lifetime ago, and thinking what any promising high school prospect would think.
  
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• 4 changes to Cork team for Dublin clash after hammering against Roscommon

  04-03-2016 20:09
  
  Cork have the tough task of travelling to Croke Park tomorrow night.
  
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