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• St Helens 38-34 Leeds

  22-04-2016 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  St Helens full-back Jonny Lomax scores two tries after a 13-month absence to help Saints beat Leeds Rhinos.
  
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• Manchester United vs Everton: A flashback through the FA Cup semi-finalists' history in the famous competition

  22-04-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahead of what could be a season defining clash at for both Everton and Manchester United at in their FA Cup semi-final, Sportsmail look at their shared history in the competition.
  
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• Penguins rookie goaltender Murray has Rangers on brink

  22-04-2016 23:47
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Matt Murray watched the Pittsburgh Penguins' second-round collapse against the New York Rangers from afar two years ago, the wispy goaltender still a teenage prospect in the spring of 2014 as a 3-1 series lead morphed into a franchise-altering meltdown.
  
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• Stewart's stormy return garners support of fellow drivers

  22-04-2016 23:38
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart returned to the track on Friday for the first time this season, and several drivers said they support his right to raise questions about safety concerns.
  
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• From back garden to Cup glory: The Piutau brothers' 'unreal' adventure continues in the Champions Cup semi-final with Wasps 

  22-04-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Piutau brothers’ ‘unreal’ adventure will reach new heights on Saturday when they join forces with Wasps, 12,000 miles from home, with the aim of reaching the Champions Cup Final.
  
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• Manuel Pellegrini admits Manchester City spared him feeling like a fool by announcing Pep Guardiola as new manager

  22-04-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Chilean’s three-year reign ends next month after Txiki Begiristain secured long-term target Pep Guardiola, announcing his arrival in February.
  
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• Curry says he'll be very surprised if he doesn't play Game 4

  22-04-2016 23:33
  HOUSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry said Friday that he'll be very surprised if his sprained right ankle keeps him out in Game 4 of the Golden State Warriors' first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
  
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• Chelsea fretting over Dominic Solanke as highly-rated teenager's contract talks stall 

  22-04-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Striker Solanke, 18, has one year left on the contract he signed in 2014 and has so far rejected a new one. Chelsea have reacted by preparing a move for Fulham forward Moussa Dembele.
  
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• NBA: Harden should been called for foul on winning shot

  22-04-2016 23:31
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The NBA said Friday that Houston's James Harden should have been given an offensive foul for pushing Golden State's Andre Iguodala before his winning shot Thursday night in Game 3 of the first-round playoff series.
  
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• Outcry over FA's girls' football shake-up as irate parents protest at lost facilities

  22-04-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE: Strict new FA requirements for the re-named regional talent clubs mean 35 top county FAs and professional clubs, including Watford, have not applied for licences.
  
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• Manu Tuilagi says he knows the secrets of Dan Carter ahead of Champions Cup semi-final against Racing 92  

  22-04-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manu Tuilagi plays his biggest match for almost two years on Sunday, with priceless knowledge from within the All Black brotherhood about how to stop Racing Metro’s Dan Carter in his tracks.
  
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• Lawrie McMenemy on the unlikely prelude to a great Cup final upset... 'Why were my lads laughing on the bus to Wembley? Freddie Starr was sitting at the back!' 

  22-04-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IAN LADYMAN: It says much for the Premier League that managers of all FA Cup semi-finalists are under pressure. If that was the case 40 years ago one of the best stories may never have been written.
  
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• Andy Murray hints that he could miss Davis Cup quarter-final tie against Serbia 

  22-04-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Serbia’s desire to make Andy Murray think twice about playing twice in the Davis Cup quarter final already appears to have had the desired effect.
  
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• Hornets, Blazers need a win; Thunder, Raptors seek 3-1 leads

  22-04-2016 23:28
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers are hoping a change in venue will provide some mojo in the NBA playoffs, while the Oklahoma City Thunder and Toronto Raptors look to take commanding 3-1 leads in their first-round series on Saturday.
  
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• Hats over rats: NHL commish on what fans can throw on ice

  22-04-2016 23:19
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Attention, Florida Panthers fans: Throwing those toy rats on the ice during a game means drawing the ire of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
  
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• Chris Colabello suspended 80 games for positive drug test

  22-04-2016 23:19
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello was suspended Friday for 80 games without pay after testing positive for the same anabolic steroid that caused Philadelphia pitcher Daniel Stumpf to be disciplined last week.
  
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• Swimmer, 15, 'ineligible' for Rio

  22-04-2016 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Erraid Davies, who became the youngest ever Commonwealth Games medal winner in 2014, has been told she is no longer disabled enough to compete in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
  
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• Burnley go top as championship title tussle intensifies

  22-04-2016 23:14
  Burnley went top of the England championship on Friday after Joey Barton's deflected free kick secured a 1-0 win at local rivals Preston North End. With only the top two gaining automatic promotion to the riches of the Premier League, Sean Dyche's Burnley moved a point clear of Middlesbrough and three ahead of third-placed Brighton & Hove Albion. Middlesbrough, who have a game in hand, can regain top spot in the second tier table when they host Ipswich on Saturday, and Brighton, who have als
  
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• Stephen Curry says he'll be surprised if he doesn't play Game 4 for Warriors

  22-04-2016 23:06
  
  Golden State star missed Game 3 loss due to sprained ankleCurry also missed Game 2 after getting hurt in series openerWarriors hold two-games-to-one lead in best-of-seven seriesStephen Curry says he’ll be very surprised if his sprained right ankle keeps him out in Game 4 of the Golden State Warriors’ first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets on Sunday.Curry was injured in the series opener and missed the last two games. Golden State won the first one without him, but Hou
  
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• Climate change: World leaders sign Paris deal

  22-04-2016 23:03
  
  Gathering in New York marks first step towards binding countries to pledges they made to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
  
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• Manu Tuilagi and Leicester plot course to get the better of Dan Carter

  22-04-2016 23:00
  
  As the Tigers return to Nottingham to face Racing 92 in the European Champions Cup the England threequarter is settling into life at inside centreManu Tuilagi has been encouraged to use his head this season and, while in the past he may have been distracted by the desire to put some big hits on the Racing 92 playmaker Dan Carter early on in Sunday’s European Champions Cup semi-final, he now sees the broader picture.The Leicester and England centre has put 15 months of injury misery behind
  
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• Speculation mounts over Tiger's possible PGA Tour return

  22-04-2016 22:49
  By Mark Lamport-Stokes (Reuters) - With Tiger Woods hitting golf balls at a juniors clinic in South Carolina earlier this week, media speculation has been mounting that the former world number one could make his PGA Tour return within the next month. Some analysts suggest that Woods could make his PGA Tour return as early as the May 5-8 Wells Fargo Championship, but his manager Mark Steinberg said on Friday there was "nothing new to report" with regard to a timetable. Woods' long-time friend Not
  
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• Arsene Wenger's biggest mistake during his Arsenal reign is not signing Luis Suarez 

  22-04-2016 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAMIE CARRAGHER: In July 2013, when Arsenal were pursuing Luis Suarez, how different would things have been had they made Liverpool a proper offer?
  
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• Manchester City 1-1 Chelsea: Second-half Aaron Nemane effort cancels out Mason Mount opener in FA Youth Cup final 

  22-04-2016 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PETER OLIVER AT THE ACADEMY STADIUM: Aaron Nemane struck in the second half to keep alive Manchester City's chances of claiming the FA Youth Cup at home againstChelsea.
  
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• Carl Frampton to face Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA featherweight title in blockbuster clash in New York later this summer

  22-04-2016 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carl Frampton has announced he will face Leo Santa Cruz this summer in New York. News of the fight broke earlier this evening when Frampton's manager Barry McGuigan told social
  
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• Blue Jays' Chris Colabello hit with 80-game suspension for positive drug test

  22-04-2016 22:44
  
  Toronto Blue Jays first baseman tests positive for anabolic steroidColabello, 32, was hitting .069 with one RBI so far this seasonToronto Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello has been suspended for 80 games without pay after testing positive for the same anabolic steroid that caused Philadelphia pitcher Daniel Stumpf to be disciplined last week.Colabello’s penalty was announced by the commissioner’s office on Friday. The substance, dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, is sold under the
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Saturday, April 23

  22-04-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Saturday's at Sandown, Haydock, Ripon, Leicester, Doncaster and Wolverhampton.
  
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• Ethiopia attack: 'I took my wife and child and ran'

  22-04-2016 22:08
  
  Survivor tells Al Jazeera about morning on which 200 people were killed and 100 children abducted.
  
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• Frampton fight with Santa Cruz agreed

  22-04-2016 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carl Frampton will fight world featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz in New York this summer, say his management team.
  
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• Blazers' McCollum wins NBA's Most Improved Player

  22-04-2016 21:42
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland guard CJ McCollum won the NBA's Most Improved Player award in his first season as a starter for the Trail Blazers, dramatically improving his scoring average by more than 14 points over last season.
  
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• Okore boycott adds more salt to Villa wounds

  22-04-2016 21:10
  The fall-out from Aston Villa's Premier League relegation continued on Friday when caretaker manager Eric Black revealed that defender Jores Okore is refusing to play for club. The former European champions' American owner Randy Lerner accepted blame for the situation in a statement released on Friday. Directors David Bernstein and Mervyn King left Villa Park this week and forward Gabriel Agbonlahor was suspended after being photographed on a night out in London with what is alleged to be laughi
  
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• Newmarket drugs claim sparks furore but writer stands by racing expose

  22-04-2016 21:04
  
  Chris Humpleby says he hoped to highlight plight of teenagers who dream of riding race horses but end up lonely and vulnerable
  It is the national headquarters of thoroughbred breeding and training, a historic country town where 2,600 resident horses are so important they have priority over cars on the street.But it was not equine athleticism being talked about in whispered tones in Newmarket this week but allegations of a “murky undercurrent of vice” fuelling the sport of kings.Conti
  
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• Joe Root insists he is 'happy' batting at four as England consider moving him to third man ahead of Sri Lanka Test match 

  22-04-2016 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  No-one could possibly describe Joe Root’s sublime sustained form in the England middle order as broken so he is very reluctant to try and fix it.
  
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• Andy Murray is right to be concerned over levels of corruption in tennis

  22-04-2016 20:50
  
  Statistics from the first quarter of 2016 suggest the sport does have a problem, with 48 matches having come under suspicion for irregular betting patternsAndy Murray’s concern that tennis is still under the shadow of corruption was given substance on Friday when the Tennis Integrity Unit revealed that 48 matches throughout the sport in the first three months of 2016 have come under suspicion for irregular betting patterns.While Murray’s most recent assertions targeted the suspected
  
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• Murray says will play Davis Cup, despite tough schedule

  22-04-2016 20:12
  Andy Murray is prepared to switch from grasscourts to clay in a matter of days to play for champions Britain against Serbia in the Davis Cup, the world number two said on Friday. The 28-year-old, who almost single-handedly won the trophy for Britain last year for the first time since 1936, could face world number one Novak Djokovic in Belgrade a week after this year's Wimbledon finals. Serbia have not surprisingly chosen clay as the surface, knowing that Murray would find the transition from the
  
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• Richard Johnson finally picks up Champion Jockey crown after years of battling with retired rival AP McCoy

  22-04-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At Sandown on Saturday, the unassuming 37-year-old son of a Herefordshire farmer will be crowned champion jockey for the first time. What the jockey has had to endure will make it a popular moment.
  
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• Midterm set to take the Shergar route to the Epsom Derby following Sandown trial win

  22-04-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trainer Sir Michael Stoute could plot the Shergar route to the Investec Derby on June 4 with impeccably-bred Midterm after the son of super sire Galileo landed the Sandown Classic Trial.
  
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• Chelsea defender Todd Kane returns to London after injuring his ACL on loan duty at NEC Nijmegen in the Eredivisie

  22-04-2016 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 22-year-old right-back is set to be out for six months after being stretchered off in the latter stages of NEC Nijmegen's 2-0 defeat to PEC Zwolle on Wednesday and had an MRI scan on Thursday.
  
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• Kenya president signs law making doping criminal offense

  22-04-2016 19:55
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president signed a law Friday that criminalizes doping and threatens drug cheats with prison sentences.
  
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• Aston Villa to make 500 staff redundant as crisis management specialist is hired after club's relegation from Premier League

  22-04-2016 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aston Villa have hired a troubleshooter to oversee the crisis club’s redundancy scheme that will see around 500 people lose their jobs, Sportsmail understands.
  
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• Nadal sees off troublesome Fognini in Barcelona

  22-04-2016 19:42
  Rafael Nadal struggled to finish off Fabio Fognini at the Barcelona Open on Friday but eventually quelled one of his most troublesome opponents 6-2 7-6(1) to reach the semi-finals. Fognini, who beat Nadal in the tournament last year and knocked him out of the U.S. Open, hit back with two breaks after trailing 0-2 in the second set and served to send the match into a decider. Showman Fognini saved three match points from 0-40 at 5-6, one with an outrageous drop shot, before succumbing in the tieb
  
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• Durant: Happy ex-coach Brooks back in NBA, focused on Mavs

  22-04-2016 19:38
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Kevin Durant says he's happy new Washington coach Scott Brooks is back in the NBA a year after being let go by Oklahoma City.
  
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• Raise the roof for Rafa, says Klopp

  22-04-2016 19:28
  Liverpool fans should raise the roof for returning manager Rafa Benitez when he brings his relegation-threatened Newcastle United to Anfield on Saturday, says Juergen Klopp. "He's a very successful manager, nice person! Be louder than you have ever been -- that's absolutely okay. Do how you feel!" Spaniard Benitez spent six years at Liverpool and famously took them to the Champions League title in 2005 when they recovered from 3-0 down against AC Milan in Istanbul to win the final on penalties.
  
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• Paul Nicholls v Willie Mullins: Sandown showdown race-by-race guide

  22-04-2016 19:27
  
  Who will win the closest-fought trainers’ championship in years?2.20 Juvenile Handicap HurdleWillie Mullins should get off to a good start with Voix Du Reve, a late faller when close up at the Cheltenham Festival. Paul Nicholls relies on the more exposed Tommy Silver. Continue reading...
  
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• Fit-again Hazard ready for Chelsea return

  22-04-2016 19:03
  Belgium forward Eden Hazard is fit and available for Chelsea's trip to Bournemouth on Saturday after more than a month out with a hip injury, manager Guus Hiddink said. Hazard, last season's Premier League Player of the Year, has not played since the second leg of Chelsea's Champions League clash with Paris St Germain. "He is available and will travel," Hiddink told a news conference on Friday.
  
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• Tottenham squad banned from PFA dinner and told to focus on West Brom

  22-04-2016 18:51
  
  • Pochettino tells players to stay at home before Monday night game
  • Spurs duo Kane and Alli could miss collecting prestigious PFA awardsMauricio Pochettino has banned his Tottenham Hotspur players from attending the Professional Footballers’ Association awards dinner on Sunday night, as he refuses to contemplate any distraction for them before their vital home game against West Bromwich Albion 24 hours later.Harry Kane has been nominated for the union’s pla
  
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• Steele one ahead after weather-hit first round in Texas

  22-04-2016 18:47
  (Reuters) - American Brendan Steele parred his last five holes to card an eight-under-par 64 for a one-stroke lead when the weather-delayed first round of the Texas Open was completed in San Antonio on Friday. Steele, the 2011 champion, had stormed to eight-under through 13 holes before his round was cut short by darkness on Thursday after heavy rain wiped out more than three hours of play at the TPC San Antonio. Of those, American Patrick Reed made the biggest move on Friday with four birdies i
  
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• Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez train as Barcelona gear up for Sporting Gijon

  22-04-2016 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fresh from Wednesday's 8-0 mauling at Deportivo La Coruna, Luis Enrique's side were all smiles as they trained at their Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper base.
  
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• As Leicester and Tottenham battle it out for the Premier League, whose squad comes out on top for title-winning experience?

  22-04-2016 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AMITAI WINEHOUSE: Tottenham Hotspur may have the momentum in the title race after last weekend's results, but Leicester City have the title winning experience in their squad.
  
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• Vardy absence a blow for Leicester, says Pochettino

  22-04-2016 18:18
  Jamie Vardy's absence for Premier League leaders Leicester City could have a big impact, says Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino, although he prefers to focus on his side's Monday night clash with West Bromwich Albion. Tottenham reduced Leicester's lead to five points with a 4-0 victory at Stoke City on Monday, and will hope the Foxes struggle without Vardy when they host Swansea City on Sunday.
  
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