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• Darren Clarke says Ryder Cup captaincy could cost him friends... but he will be ruthless to bring Europe victory over America

  19-03-2016 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  INTERVIEW BY OLIVER HOLT: Darren Clarke has said he will not be afraid to leave his 'old pals' out of his Ryder Cup team as the workaholic Northern Irishman is desperate not to fail Europe.
  
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• Victoria Pendleton sets sights on Aintree after impressive Cheltenham showing

  19-03-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An audacious bid by Victoria Pendleton to follow Friday’s fifth place at Cheltenham Festival by tackling the Grand National fences next year is likely to be discussed in the next few weeks.
  
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• Rory McIlroy endures more water torture at Arnold Palmer Invitational as Jason Day holds the lead going into final day 

  19-03-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DEREK LAWRENSON IN ORLANDO: Rory McIlroy carded another 75 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational to leave himself in 64th place and well short of form ahead of next month's masters.
  
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• Cricket should get down on its knees and give thanks for Twenty20... India’s vibrant crowds at the World Cup shame our sniffiness at the short form

  19-03-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER HOLT: India were playing a World T20 warm-up match against South Africa at the Wankhede Stadium a few hundred yards away, the game had just begun and the excitement was unconfined.
  
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• Oklahoma faces another dangerous double-digit seed in VCU

  19-03-2016 23:29
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said his team sees Virginia Commonwealth simply as a good team heading into their second-round NCAA Tournament matchup on Sunday.
  
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• Gawker could still win Hulk Hogan case despite $115 million verdict: legal experts

  19-03-2016 23:29
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $115 million a Florida jury awarded to Hulk Hogan on Friday may seem like a big blow to the website Gawker, but the media company could ultimately prevail in its court battle with the flamboyant wrestler, legal experts say. Hogan had sued the website for posting a video clip in 2012 featuring him having sex with the wife of his then-best friend, the radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. Both sides cast the case as a crucial test of the balance between
  
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• Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester City: Riyad Mahrez strike sends Foxes eight points clear at the top of the Premier League

  19-03-2016 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROB DRAPER AT SELHURST PARK: Leicester City have gone eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table after a fifth straight 1-0 win away at Crystal Palace.
  
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• France 21-31 England: Eddie Jones' men edge 'Le Crunch' for Grand Slam glory after 13-year wait thanks to band of young guns

  19-03-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SAM PETERS AT STADE DE FRANCE: After thirteen years of hurt England’s fans were finally dreaming on Saturday night as Eddie Jones’s men delivered a long-overdue Grand Slam in Paris.
  
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• Patient Day stays two ahead at soggy Bay Hill

  19-03-2016 22:57
  (Reuters) - Jason Day, seeking his eighth PGA Tour victory, rebounded from a stumbling start to preserve a two-shot lead after Saturday's rain-soaked third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida. Two ahead overnight, the world number three bogeyed the par-three second after finding a bunker off the tee but birdied three of the next six holes on the way to a two-under 70 at a soggy Bay Hill. "I feel like I stayed patient to grind out a two-under par," Day told reporters after
  
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• Runaway leaders Leicester must keep calm, says Ranieri

  19-03-2016 22:26
  By Jamie McGeever LONDON (Reuters) - Leicester City must keep calm and carry on, manager Claudio Ranieri said on Saturday after a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace put them eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with seven games to play. "We have been working so well and so hard during the season, we have to carry on and to be calm and enjoy it and be focused as well," Ranieri told the BBC. After the final whistle, Leicester fans, increasingly scenting a first top-flight title for their unh
  
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• Crystal clear as leaders Leicester march on

  19-03-2016 22:26
  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Indomitable Leicester City stayed bang on course for the Premier League title as Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal at Crystal Palace on Saturday to open up an eight-point lead with seven games left.     Third-placed Arsenal, 11 points behind with a game in hand, made a timely return to form with a 2-0 win at Everton and Tottenham Hotspur can reduce the gap to five on Sunday.     But any hopes that the two London rivals and fourth-
  
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• Ireland and Scotland look to positives amid differing fortunes

  19-03-2016 22:25
  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland may have failed in their bid to land a third successive Six Nations, and Scotland in theirs to win three championship games for the first time in a decade, but both looked towards the positives on Saturday. "For us, we expect to win every game and that's a standard we've set over the last two-and-a-half years so we'll look back at the Six Nations and be disappointed," Ireland captain Rory Best told a news conference.
  
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• Defending champ Duke back in Sweet 16, beats Yale 71-64

  19-03-2016 22:25
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Grayson Allen had 29 points, including five 3-pointers, to help Duke fend off a furious rally by Yale and advance to the Sweet 16 with a 71-64 victory on Saturday in the NCAA Tournament.
  
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• Bayern edge closer to Bundesliga title with Cologne win

  19-03-2016 22:22
  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Bundesliga leading scorer Robert Lewandowski grabbed an early goal to give Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory at Cologne on Saturday that sent them eight points clear at the top of the table with seven matches left. Bayern, on track for a treble of titles after advancing to the Champions League quarter-finals with an extra-time victory over Juventus this week, are on 69 points, with second-placed Borussia Dortmund in action against Augsburg on Sunday. "I have to c
  
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• Doing it all: Versatile Walkup, Stephen F. Austin face Irish

  19-03-2016 22:21
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame forward Bonzie Colson was in the locker room, still digesting a first-round victory against Michigan when he got the inevitable question: What do you know about your next opponent?
  
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• Champion Lorenzo starts the season with Qatar pole

  19-03-2016 22:11
  (Reuters) - MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo started the new season where he left off with pole position for Yamaha under the Qatar floodlights on Saturday. Honda's twice world champion Marc Marquez will line up next to him on Sunday with Suzuki's Maverick Vinales, who put in a storming last lap, in third place on an all-Spanish front row. "I thought I had the pole," said Marquez after a session that offered far more excitement than Formula One's farcical new qualifying format that made a dis
  
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• Swansea 1-0 Aston Villa: Federico Fernandez moves his side within touching distance of safety with first ever goal for the club

  19-03-2016 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RIATH AL SAMARRAI AT THE LIBERTY STADIUM: Swansea set themselves up perfectly for a difficult run of fixtures as Federico Fernandez's first goal for the club handed them a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa.
  
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• Raonic overpowers Goffin to reach Indian Wells final

  19-03-2016 21:58
  (Reuters) - Big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic overcame a second-set wobble to reach the final of the BNP Paribas Open with a 6-3 3-6 6-3 victory over Belgian David Goffin in California on Saturday. The 12th-seeded Raonic, bidding for his second ATP title of the year and his first ever Masters 1000 crown, will take on either defending champion Novak Djokovic or three-times Indian Wells winner Rafa Nadal in Sunday's final. Top-seeded Serb Djokovic and Spanish left-hander Nadal, the fourth seed, we
  
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• Atletico's loss steers Barca closer to title

  19-03-2016 21:55
  (Reuters) - Barcelona moved ever closer towards a successful defence of their La Liga title after nearest challengers Atletico Madrid suffered a shock late collapse at struggling Sporting Gijon to lose 2-1 on Saturday. Relegation-threatened Gijon scored twice in the last 11 minutes with Carlos Castro securing the winner in the 89th to deliver a potentially fatal wound to Atletico's title chances. Atletico, who have been drawn to meet Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, will
  
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• Sporting Gijon 2-1 Atletico Madrid: Diego Simeone's men lose ground on Barcelona

  19-03-2016 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Atletico Madrid missed the chance to close the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona when they lost 2-1 at Sporting Gijon - despite taking the lead through a stunning free-kick from Antoine Griezmann.
  
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• Ireland beat Scotland in exciting end to campaign

  19-03-2016 21:49
  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland ended a disappointing defence of the Six Nations title with their best display of the championship, beating Scotland 35-25 in an exciting contest on Saturday to wrap up the campaign with two victories in a row. Ireland, who rediscovered their form in a nine-try rout of Italy last weekend, totally dominated the first half with tries from CJ Stander and Keith Earls. Conor Murray and Devon Toner added two in the second half to see them home.
  
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• Villanova-Iowa bound to end a Sweet 16 drought, but just 1

  19-03-2016 21:48
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It's not the only thing being talked about around the Villanova basketball team but it sure takes up a lot of the discussion.
  
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• Wenger praises Arsenal's resolve

  19-03-2016 21:47
  Arsene Wenger applauded his side's mental resolve after a 2-0 win at Everton salvaged something from a miserable week and kept them just about in the Premier League title race on Saturday. A home defeat by Watford in the FA Cup quarter-finals last Sunday, followed by a predictable Champions League exit in Barcelona had put Wenger's under-performing side, and his own position, under intense scrutiny. If we didn't win today, we knew that we were out of it (the title race) so it was a mental test f
  
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• Human hand grenade Carroll may be England option

  19-03-2016 21:43
  By Tony Jimenez LONDON (Reuters) - If England want to lob a human hand grenade on to the pitch to shake things up late in European Championship matches in June, they need look no further than West Ham United's very own lethal weapon Andy Carroll. With Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge likely to dominate the starting places up front at the finals in France, the bustling Carroll would be an ideal option for England manager Roy Hodgson to utilise as a battering-ram substitute.
  
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• Samir Nasri speeding towards full fitness as he picks up prized Lamborghini after Manchester City train ahead of the derby

  19-03-2016 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahead of the Manchester derby, City trained at the Etihad in front of the club's owners. Nasri was the subject of some envious glances as he left the session in his Lamborghini Aventador Pirelli Edition.
  
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• Kuwait's ban over sports law is unfair, negotiator says

  19-03-2016 21:37
  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - A ban imposed on Kuwait by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year over what it says is government interference in the autonomy of sport is unfair, Kuwait's chief negotiator said on Saturday. The two sides had talks in January that included the United Nations, to try to resolve the dispute over changes to a law that the IOC says is interfering with the autonomy of sport, but could not come to an agreement. Kuwait was suspended from the Olympics
  
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• Soft Swansea goal pushes hapless Villa closer to drop

  19-03-2016 21:31
  (Reuters) - Swansea hammered another nail into Aston Villa's Premier League coffin on Saturday with the softest of goals earning the Welsh side a victory that may well secure their safety for another season. Villa keeper Brad Guzan came off his line in the 53rd minute only to flap hopelessly at a free kick curled in by Gylfi Sigurdsson and tip the ball on to a grateful Federico Fernandez's shoulder and into the net. ...
  
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• West Brom 0-1 Norwich: Robbie Brady strikes to lift Canaries out of relegation zone

  19-03-2016 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JACK GAUGHAN AT THE HAWTHORNS: Norwich City boosted their chances of survival by moving out of the Premier League relegation zone with a 1-0 victory over West Brom after Robbie Brady's goal.
  
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• Stormers clinch controversial win against ill-disciplined Brumbies

  19-03-2016 21:27
  By Nick Said CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Wing Dillyn Leyds scored a controversial try as South Africa’s Stormers swung momentum in their favour and defeated an ill-disciplined ACT Brumbies 31-11 in their Super Rugby clash at Newlands on Saturday. With the home side holding an eight-point advantage, Leyds dived over in the corner but appeared to lose control of the ball and came up disappointed, spurning the celebrations of his teammates. Television Match Official Marius Jonker ruled that at no p
  
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• Chelsea 2-2 West Ham: Midfielder Cesc Fabregas converts late penalty to bag his side a share of the spoils at Stamford Bridge 

  19-03-2016 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SAM CUNNINGHAM AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: West Ham were into the top four for all of 58 minutes as they twice went ahead against Chelsea, until a late Cesc Fabregas penalty secured a draw.
  
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• England boss Roy Hodgson watches Danny Drinkwater star for Leicester City as Crystal Palace are shrugged aside by Foxes

  19-03-2016 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LAURIE WHITWELL AT SELHURST PARK:Drinkwater will earn his first cap when England face Germany and Holland next week and this display typified why, impressing in Leicester's win.
  
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• Middle Tennessee State sets sights on upset of Syracuse

  19-03-2016 21:15
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Middle Tennessee State made mush of millions of brackets when the plucky Blue Raiders sprung an upset of national title contender Michigan State, but there was at least one youngster happy with the outcome in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
  
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• Calm Kohli revives India by flooring Pakistan

  19-03-2016 21:13
  Virat Kohli shrugged off the pressure that always surrounds an India-Pakistan match to secure a campaign-reviving six-wicket victory for the host nation in the World Twenty20 on Saturday. India, chasing a target of 119 after losing their opening match to New Zealand, slumped to 23 for three in the fifth over before Kohli and Yuvraj Singh (24) shared a match-high 61-run partnership to steady things at Eden Gardens. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed a six to level the scores and then took a sin
  
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• Watford 1-2 Stoke: Jonathan Walters and Joselu fire Potters into seventh in Premier League as Hornets suffer third defeat in a row

  19-03-2016 21:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER TODD AT VICARAGE ROAD: Mark Hughes is dreaming of a fight for European football after a dominant win at Watford sent Stoke City into the Barclays Premier League’s top seven.
  
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• Harlequins 15-21 Worcester: Wynand Olivier and GJ van Velze launch the Warriors to hat-trick after controversial try

  19-03-2016 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Worcester recorded three successive Premiership wins for the first time since 2007 after upsetting Harlequins at the Stoop. The Warriors had already defeated Newcastle and Gloucester this month.
  
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• Cardinals sign SS Ruben Tejada to 1-year deal for $1.5M

  19-03-2016 20:30
  
  JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals tried to fill their big hole at shortstop, signing Ruben Tejada on Saturday shortly after he was cut by the New York Mets.
  
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• MK Dons 1-2 Brighton: Tomer Hemed double downs 10-man Dons as visitors avoid late penalty drama to move second  

  19-03-2016 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tomer Hemed came off the bench to score twice and give Brighton a crucial win over 10-man MK Dons. After a drab first-half, the game came to life in the second 45, following Hemed's appearance
  
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• Ireland 35-25 Scotland: CJ Stander, Keith Earls, Conor Murray and Devin Toner tries seal victory for Joe Schmidt's side in finale

  19-03-2016 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RORY KEANE AT THE AVIVA STADIUM: Ireland finished a frustrating Six Nations campaign with a flourish as Joe Schmidt’s side put Scotland to the sword in Dublin.
  
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• Burnley 1-1 Wolves: Late Danny Batth header denies Clarets three points

  19-03-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 92nd minute equaliser saw Burnley denied a seventh league win in a row for the first time since their last promotion season. Danny Batth rose high in added time to deny the Clarets.
  
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• Championship round-up: Fulham earn a point at Birmingham City to stay clear of relegation zone

  19-03-2016 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fulham halted their losing run with a battling 1-1 away draw against Birmingham at St. Andrew's but still face a difficult end to their Championship season, and Rotherham win again.
  
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• League Two Round-up: James Collins scores as Northampton Town complete comeback win

  19-03-2016 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Cobblers fell behind when Luke Wilkinson headed home in the 11th minute and it got worse on the half-hour when the defender doubled his tally with another flying header but were able to roar back.
  
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• Rodriguez, Miami hold off furious Wichita State rally

  19-03-2016 19:55
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Angel Rodriguez took over after Miami blew a 21-point lead midway through the second half, hitting a big 3-pointer with 72 seconds remaining and scoring 28 points to lead the third-seeded Hurricanes over Wichita State 65-57 on Saturday to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
  
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• Leeds 1-4 Huddersfield: Steve Evans' men humiliated in Yorkshire derby as fans take their anger out on Massimo Cellino 

  19-03-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WAYNE GARDINER AT ELLAND ROAD: Huddersfield gave themselves some breathing space towards foot of the Championship table with a quite brilliant 4-1 win atLeeds.
  
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• Virat Kohli leads India to memorable victory over Pakistan in rain-affected World T20 tie

  19-03-2016 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kohli made 54 of his side’s successful chase of 119 for 4 in a rain-affected 18-over clash in Kolkata, after the tournament hosts had stared down the barrel of an almost inevitable early exit.
  
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