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• Soccer-Dominant Liverpool beat United, Reus lifts Dortmund

  10-03-2016 23:59
  By Toby Davis LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool drew first blood with a 2-0 win over Manchester United in their Europa League last-16 first leg on Thursday as the two sides took their bitter domestic rivalry on to the European stage for the first time. Goals from Daniel Sturridge (penalty) and Roberto Firmino ensured Liverpool will be strong favourites to progress, along with Borussia Dortmund after the Germans underlined their status as favourites with a masterclass show against Tottenham Hotspur.
  
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• Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United - Five things we learned: Juan Mata proves he is not captain material and Roberto Firmino continues impressive form with a goal

  10-03-2016 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eyebrows were raised when Juan Mata was tasked with leading Manchester United - ahead of Chris Smalling and the midfielder proved he is not ready to be the Red Devils general. 
  
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• The Latest: Clinton courts NC with public education pledge

  10-03-2016 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential race ahead of Thursday's GOP debate and the March 15 primaries (all times local):
  
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• LTA bid to change Wimbledon ballot system is shelved after strong protests

  10-03-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE DICKSON: Controversial plans to charge people to enter the hat for half of all balloted Wimbledon tickets have been shelved after strong protests.
  
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• Leicester assistants Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh in talks over new contracts  

  10-03-2016 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two pivotal members of Claudio Ranieri’s backroom staff are set for new contracts, but Leicester will have to improve their current offers, Sportsmail understands.
  
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• Dylan Hartley fears retiring a failure... the England captain is determined not to let Grand Slam opportunity slip away

  10-03-2016 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS FOY: There is a sense of rising concern among senior English players that their Test careers may end without significant reward and captain Hartley voiced that sentiment on Thursday.
  
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• Graham Poll: Carlos Velasco Carballo was correct to award Liverpool a penalty

  10-03-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liverpool took the lead against Manchester United in controversial circumstances on Thursday night - but former ex-Graham Poll believes Carlos Velasco Carballo made the right decision.
  
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• A's right-hander Jarrod Parker injures his elbow yet again

  10-03-2016 23:39
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Trying to come back from a series of elbow injuries, Oakland pitcher Jarrod Parker hurt his elbow yet again on the 12th pitch of a simulated game Thursday.
  
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• Illinois holds on for stunning 68-66 upset of No. 20 Iowa

  10-03-2016 23:35
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jalen Coleman-Lands scored 17 points and Malcolm Hill broke a tie with a 16-foot jumper with 1:14 to go Thursday, helping Illinois fend off No. 20 Iowa's frantic comeback for a stunning 68-66 upset in the Big Ten tournament.
  
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• Yale team navigates campus anger amid NCAA Tournament bid

  10-03-2016 23:33
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale will be competing next week in the program's first NCAA Tournament since 1962, but the Ivy League champions are struggling to gain support on campus as controversy swirls around its former captain, who was dismissed from the school last month.
  
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• George Ford warned to expect a physical onslaught from Wales after colliding with Joe Launchbury in training

  10-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS FOY: England’s diminutive fly-half was led off the field at the national team’s Surrey HQ and was assessed by medical staff before being cleared to continue and is not a doubt for Saturday.
  
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• Eddie Jones blasts Wales for scrummaging 'terribly illegally' ahead of clash with rivals England

  10-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS FOY: The countdown to Saturday's England versus Wales clash has erupted with accusations of scrum cheating coming from both sides of the Severn Bridge.
  
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• Eddie Jones and Warren Gatland share the same DNA... their underachievement as players drives them on to be top-level coaches

  10-03-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Eddie Jones and Warren Gatland's backgrounds, modus operandi and experience are incredibly similar. They are the longest-serving coaches in Test rugby
  
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• No. 7 UNC opens ACC tournament by topping Pitt 88-71

  10-03-2016 23:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventh-ranked North Carolina was shooting so well that arena workers had to replace the fraying net at one end of the floor at halftime. In the second half, the Tar Heels gave the other net a workout.
  
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• Notre Dame tops exhausted Duke 84-79 in OT in ACC tourney

  10-03-2016 23:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe that tight rotation and lack of depth finally caught up with Duke. Sure seemed like it while the reigning national champion let a 16-point, second-half lead evaporate in an overtime loss to Notre Dame at the ACC Tournament.
  
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• No. 22 Baylor beats No. 23 Texas 75-61 in Big 12 tournament

  10-03-2016 23:07
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Scott Drew thought his team was playing well entering the Big 12 tournament, but the conference was so challenging this year that Baylor kept coming out on the losing end.
  
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• Ellis leads No. 1 Kansas to 85-63 rout of K-State in Big 12s

  10-03-2016 23:06
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perry Ellis scored 21 points, Frank Mason III added 16 and top-ranked Kansas ran roughshod over weary Kansas State, 85-63, on Thursday in the quarterfinals in the Big 12 Tournament.
  
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• Jurgen Klopp wanted to draw Manchester United in the Europa League Last 16 and the Liverpool boss got his revenge

  10-03-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IAN LADYMAN AT ANFIELD: Jurgen Klopp has the kind of mind in which things tend to stick. After a 1-0 defeat in January this was the Europa League draw he wanted.
  
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• QB Brock Osweiler signs $72 million deal with Texans

  10-03-2016 22:55
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Brock Osweiler signed his four-year, $72 million deal with the Houston Texans on Thursday, making the quarterback with all of seven NFL starts one of the league's highest-paid players.
  
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• Laura Robson beaten on WTA Tour comeback at Indian Wells

  10-03-2016 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Robson reached a significant landmark in her comeback from injury but her first WTA Tour game since August ended in defeat as she lost in str
  
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• Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew questions reaction over Christian Benteke furore

  10-03-2016 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alan Pardew has revealed his concern at the reaction to what he viewed as Christian Benteke's dive against Crystal Palace, believing players shoul
  
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• Paul Scholes And Rio Ferdinand Blast Manchester United Display Against Liverpool

  10-03-2016 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand were left aghast at Manchester United's disjointed display in their 2-0 Europa League defeat to bitter rivals Liverp
  
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• Borussia Dortmund are 'exactly where Mauricio Pochettino is trying to get to' says Jermaine Jenas after Tottenham suffer heavy defeat in Europa League

  10-03-2016 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spurs suffered a 3-0 defeat in the first leg of their Europa League Last 16 tie in Germany on Thursday and were thoroughly outplayed by the Bundesliga outfit.
  
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• Andy Murray slams own sponsors Head for standing by Maria Sharapova in drugs row

  10-03-2016 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World No 2 Andy Murray criticised his own racket company for promising to extend its sponsorship of Maria Sharapova, despite her positive test in Australia.
  
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• Ivy League adds basketball tournaments for 2017

  10-03-2016 22:26
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The last holdout for postseason conference tournaments has finally given in.
  
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• Champion Chen sent packing by close friend Xue

  10-03-2016 22:24
  By Rod Gilmour BIRMINGHAM, England, March 10 (Reuters) – - Holder Chen Long was dumped out of the All-England Championships as fellow Chinese and close friend Xue Song continued the upsets in the men's singles on Thursday. A day after second-ranked Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia was sent packing, top seed Chen was beaten 21-19 21-17 as Xue atoned for his early defeat last year to advance to the quarter-finals of the sport's oldest event. "I have to say the top seeds losing means the general sta
  
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• England coach Eddie Jones: I've told Manu Tuilagi to just run against Wales

  10-03-2016 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  England centre Manu Tuilagi will be unleashed upon Wales in the second half of Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with the simple instruction of runni
  
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• David Millar: Head's backing of Maria Sharapova 'sends the wrong message'

  10-03-2016 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Head's decision to extend its contract as racket sponsor of Maria Sharapova despite her failed drugs test has been labelled as "highly cynical" by
  
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• Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Tottenham: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus both net to hand German side first-leg advantage

  10-03-2016 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT BARLOW AT SIGNAL IDUNA PARK: Tottenham’s European exit was all but confirmed in Germany as Mauricio Pochettino marked his century of games at the club with an big defeat.
  
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• Brady signs new deal, gets $28 million bonus

  10-03-2016 22:21
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady's two-year contract extension with the Patriots will give him a $28 million signing bonus and adds $41 million to his deal should he play it out.
  
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• Maria Sharapova should teach tennis to kids for three months, says sponsor chief  

  10-03-2016 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE BYMIKE DICKSON: Johan Eliasch has suggested that, as it stands, three months spent coaching tennis to children would be an appropriate punishment for the Russian.
  
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• IAAF awaits key report on Russian anti-doping progress

  10-03-2016 21:59
  By Mitch Phillips MONACO (Reuters) - The IAAF Council is awaiting news on Friday of Russia's progress in reforming its anti-doping operation when a negative report from the governing body's task force would likely leave the country's involvement in the Olympics hanging by a thread. After working on the routine tasks of choosing venues for the 2018 world under-20 (Tampere, Finland) and half-marathon (Valencia, Spain) championships on Thursday, the Council members retired for dinner where the main
  
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• Terry Flanagan has press conference showdown with Derry Matthews ahead of WBO lightweight title fight in Liverpool

  10-03-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In one of the most hotly anticipated domestic match-ups of the year, Terry Flanagan will face Derry Matthews on Saturday.The two will meet at Liverpool's Echo Arena for the WBO title
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Friday, March 11 

  10-03-2016 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Friday's racing at Leicester, Ayr, Sandown and Chelmsford.
  
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• Double Olympic champion Mo Farah tells anti-doping authorities: 'Tag me, test me, every day'... as he bids to prove he's clean

  10-03-2016 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mo Farah has called on the anti-doping authorities to tag him and subject him to daily drug tests so he can prove he is a clean athlete. He admitted he could not be certain Galen Rupp had not cheated.
  
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• Thierry Henry cleared to be a football manager after Arsenal legend earns UEFA A Licence

  10-03-2016 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry has continued taking steps towards a career in management by completing his UEFA A Licence.
  
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• ‘Spaces not faces. General movement helped us to a Grand Slam’

  10-03-2016 21:13
  
  Our Six Nations columnists Lynne Cantwell outlines the good work the Italian union are doing.
  
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• All eyes on England prop Joe Marler after Wales accusations of illegal scrummaging

  10-03-2016 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joe Marler will be under the microscope at Twickenham after Wales told referee Craig Joubert to look out for the England prop’s illegal scrummaging.
  
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• Adam Johnson to be sentenced on March 24 after child sex conviction

  10-03-2016 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former England footballer Adam Johnson will have two more weeks of freedom as it was confirmed he will be sentenced on March 24 for sexual activity
  
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• Pep Guardiola faces his toughest managerial test at Manchester City, warns Steve McManaman

  10-03-2016 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Steve McManaman expects Pep Guardiola to transform Manchester City but has warned the Spaniard the job at the Etihad Stadium will prove his hardest.
  
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• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reveals he turned down Tottenham approach in 2012 because 'everything became a bit weird'

  10-03-2016 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has revealed the reason his proposed move to Tottenham in 2012 never went ahead and it may come as a surprise.
  
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• Cardinals Peralta undergoes surgery for thumb injury

  10-03-2016 20:25
  
  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Jhonny Peralta had surgery Thursday to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb and likely will be sidelined for about 10-to-12 weeks.
  
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• Ruthless Borussia Dortmund put Tottenham to the sword

  10-03-2016 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tottenham were given a lesson in the demands of top-level European football as Borussia Dortmund blew Mauricio Pochettino's men away with an emphat
  
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• Jonjo Shelvey fears he has let Newcastle down after captaining Steve McClaren's struggling side to two defeats

  10-03-2016 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonjo Shelvey has admitted he fears he let Newcastle down after captaining the Premier League strugglers to two successive defeats in the absence of Fabricio Coloccini.
  
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• Fisher says Barnes altercation not behind firing from Knicks

  10-03-2016 20:07
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Fisher says his altercation with forward Matt Barnes had nothing to do with his firing as New York Knicks coach.
  
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• Ticking clock makes England's senior players desperate to win Six Nations

  10-03-2016 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dylan Hartley insists England's determination to win the RBS 6 Nations has intensified among senior players who fear seeing their international car
  
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• McClaren future in doubt as Benitez linked with Newcastle

  10-03-2016 19:52
  Steve McClaren's future as manager of Newcastle United was up in the air on Thursday with media reports suggesting the club were in negotiations to replace him with former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez. The 54-year-old McClaren has been in charge at St James' Park for nine months but they have been anchored in the relegation zone for much of the season while a January spending splurge failed to spark a revival. With only 10 matches remaining to secure their Premier League survival, Newcastle are s
  
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• Second thumb operation for Zafar Ansari

  10-03-2016 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Surrey all-rounder Zafar Ansari has undergone a second operation on the thumb injury that ruled him out of England's tour of the United Arab Emirat
  
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• Riyad Mahrez 'in good condition' ahead of Leicester City's match against Newcastle United

  10-03-2016 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Riyad Mahrez pulled up with what appeared to be a hamstring injury in the second half at Vicarage Road but it was revealed to be cramp and he has shown no ill-effects this week.
  
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• Aguero says will quit City for Independiente after World Cup

  10-03-2016 18:59
  Argentina striker Sergio Aguero said on Thursday that he will leave Manchester City to return home to his first club Independiente after his contract expires following the 2018 World Cup. Recent media reports said that the 27-year-old Aguero, City’s top scorer with 16 league goals this season, could renew his deal through to 2020. “In the last few months lots was said about my renewal but I didn’t pay it any attention,” said Aguero, who joined City from Atletico Madrid in
  
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