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• Yanks use big 3 in bullpen to secure 2-1 win over White Sox

  14-05-2016 23:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees manager Joe Girardi unwrapped his new bullpen toy Saturday and unleashed it on the Chicago White Sox.
  
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• Christian Benteke wants to stay at Liverpool despite growing doubts over his future

  14-05-2016 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Benteke, 25, has made only 13 Premier League starts this season following his £32.5million move from Aston Villa, though he should get a rare outing against West Bromwich on Sunday.
  
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• Nationals' Harper drops appeal, serves 1-game suspension

  14-05-2016 23:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals star Bryce Harper has dropped his appeal and will serve a one-game suspension in the second game of the day-night doubleheader Saturday against Miami.
  
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• Barca had to win league twice, says Pique

  14-05-2016 23:43
  By Richard Martin BARCELONA, May 14 (Reuters) - Defender Gerard Pique praised Barcelona's resilience after they ended an emotion-filled season by clinching top spot in La Liga with a 3-0 victory at Granada on Saturday. Barca were nine points clear at the start of April before three successive defeats set up a thrilling three-way race with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid who eventually had to settle for second and third respectively. "We've had to win the league twice, we were so far ahead and we
  
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• Mark Noble is leader of my unsung stars of the season... He pulled the strings for West Ham and will be unlucky if not in Roy Hodgson's Euro 2016 squad

  14-05-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GLENN HODDLE: Riyad Mahrez was my player of the year, though Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Dimitri Payet and N’Golo Kante would all have had legitimate claims. But Mark Noble is an unsung star.
  
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• Hereford's big day out at Wembley is confirmation they are back from extinction... and thriving

  14-05-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER HOLT: Not much more than a year ago, Edgar Street was a place of broken dreams. A fine, elegant old stadium, it lay bedraggled and unkempt in the shadow of a shiny new shopping development.
  
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• Liverpool vs Sevilla Q and A: Who are the Europa League holders standing in Jurgen Klopp's way of a first trophy in England?

  14-05-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PETE JENSON: Liverpool's Europa League opponents will be no pushovers in Basle on Wednesday. They have won the last two competitions and four in the past 10 years.
  
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• Arsene Wenger reveals his pain at another season without a title as Arsenal

  14-05-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You get the impression that this particularly testing season, which promised so much but has delivered no silverware, has taken a heavy toll on Wenger, his players and the club's fans.
  
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• Andy Murray can mark his 29th birthday by winning one of the historic championships in tennis at the Italian Open 

  14-05-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray turns 29 today and there could be no better way to celebrate than by adding one of the great historic championships of tennis to his collection of titles.
  
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• World No 1 has a great ring to it and I'll do my best to stay there... but the bigger goal is nine Test trophies

  14-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  STUART BROAD: It has sunk in a bit more now, knowing I'm the world's No 1 ranked Test bowler. There have been a few times I've been announced on to a stage as that — and it has a nice ring to it.
  
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• Why a Manchester United win in the FA Cup final would be a big deal for Daley Blind

  14-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JOE BERNSTEIN: No Manchester United player heading to Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley has played more games this season than Daley Blind, now reinvented as a centre-half.
  
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• John Terry's Premier League puzzle: Chelsea legend's snub to other clubs could be costly as he weighs up future

  14-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROB DRAPER - CHIEF FOOTBALL WRITER: John Terry appears to have boxed himself into a corner by stating that he would never play for another Premier League club.
  
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• Alastair Cook has 10,000 reasons for not quitting as England captain as his side prepare for the return of Sri Lanka

  14-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PAUL NEWMAN: The contrast in Alastair Cook this week to the last time he faced Sri Lanka at Headingley could not be greater as he approaches the most important milestone yet in his career.
  
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• Erik Jones wins Xfinity race at Dover for $100,000 bonus

  14-05-2016 23:25
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Erik Jones won the Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover International Speedway and took a $100,000 bonus from the series' Dash-4-Cash program.
  
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• Resignation after power grab rocks Infantino's new era claim

  14-05-2016 23:07
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — It's taken less than 80 days for Gianni Infantino's claim to be leading FIFA into a new era to be publicly undermined.
  
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• St. Louis tries to shake those home blues against Sharks

  14-05-2016 23:03
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The rest of the postseason, the St. Louis Blues have home-ice advantage. Now, if they can only capitalize on it.
  
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• FIFA president Gianni Infantino accused of personal greed as audit and compliance chairman Domenico Scala resigns

  14-05-2016 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New Fifa president Gianni Infantino is facing damning accusations of personal greed and killing the corruption-plagued body's entire reform process as one of his key aides dramatically resigned
  
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• Is Assad's regime losing momentum?

  14-05-2016 22:55
  
  Government air strikes and promises of counter-offensive fail to dislodge rebel forces as Russia reduces air support.
  
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• AFC Wimbledon 1-0 Accrington Stanley: Home side take the advantage in League Two play-off semi-final first leg

  14-05-2016 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There’ssomething special about the date May 14 for Wimbledon. In 1988 the Dons shocked Liverpool by winning the FA Cup at Wembley. Here, they took a big stride towards reaching the same venue.
  
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• Wary of rust, Cavs sweat in gym while awaiting next round

  14-05-2016 22:47
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Even coach Tyronn Lue came off the floor sweating on Saturday.
  
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• Game 7 to finally decide Raptors-Heat winner, Cavs' opponent

  14-05-2016 22:47
  
  MIAMI (AP) — History is going to happen.
  
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• Juventus run may never be repeated - Allegri

  14-05-2016 22:30
  Juventus' remarkable sequence of 25 wins in 26 Serie A games may never be matched, said coach Massimiliano Allegri after the champions ended their campaign with a 5-0 home victory over Sampdoria on Saturday. Juve were 11 points off the pace on Oct. 31 but took76 points from their next 26 matches to clinch a record fifth consecutive Italian title. "I think it will be almost impossible to repeat our run," Allegri told reporters.
  
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• Barnsley 3-0 Walsall: Sam Winnall takes Tykes a step closer to Wembley final as Yorkshire continue to dominate play-offs

  14-05-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sam Winnall struck twice to continue Yorkshire’s dominance of this year’s play-offs. Winnall gave Barnsley a convincing 3-0 win over Walsall with his 22nd and 23rd goals this year.
  
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• West Ham United fans could return to Upton Park... as they are given chance to vote on whether or not charity game takes place

  14-05-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  West Ham fans could still have one last opportunity to return to Upton Park with plans for a charity match on June 5 in the pipeline. Supporters can vote on whether or not the game goes ahead.
  
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• Penguins, Lightning off to chippy start in conference finals

  14-05-2016 21:58
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — So much for niceties and the promise of fluid, free-flowing hockey. In the span of three testy periods Friday night, the Eastern Conference finals flipped from benign to occasionally belligerent.
  
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• Saracens' victory in the Champions Cup shows benefits of a young, hungry English squad

  14-05-2016 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON IN LYON: On the 7.19am Eurostar, Ed Griffiths was stood in the buffet carriage explaining that Saracens' project was never about trophies. It was about 'building something'.
  
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• Racing 9-21 Saracens: Owen Farrell kicks Aviva Premiership winners to Champions Cup glory in Lyon

  14-05-2016 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SAM PETERS AT GRAND STADE DE LYON: Owen Farrell won his battle with Dan Carter as Saracens became the first English club in nine years to win Europe’s premier club competition.
  
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• Jimmie Johnson looks to extend track dominance at Dover

  14-05-2016 21:26
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson fell in love with Dover the first time he turned a lap at the track in the late 1990s.
  
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• Motorcyclist dies in crash while racing

  14-05-2016 21:18
  
  Malachi Mitchell-Thomas was killed after he crashed on the third lap of the race.
  
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• Derby County 0-3 Hull City: Abel Hernandez strike and Jason Shackell own goal put Tigers in control of play-off semi-final

  14-05-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NICK HARRIS AT iPRO STADIUM: Hull moved to the brink of the Championship play-off final and a step closer to an immediate return to the Premier League with this routing of Derby.
  
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• Farrell leads Saracens to title against injury-hit Racing

  14-05-2016 21:16
  (Reuters) - Saracens became the first team to win all their games in the European Champions Cup when Owen Farell's seven penalties earned them a maiden title with a 21-9 victory over Racing 92 on Saturday in Lyon. Racing, who replied with Johan Goosen's three penalties, were relying on Dan Carter but the New Zealand flyhalf limped off the field early in the second half to join scrumhalf Maxime Machenaud on the sidelines.
  
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• Indians place OF Michael Brantley on 15-day disabled list

  14-05-2016 21:09
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Michael Brantley's right shoulder needs more rest.
  
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• Danielle Carter shows her class with superb winner to seal FA Cup success for Arsenal on a day which showed just how far the women's game has developed

  14-05-2016 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER HOLT AT WEMBLEY: The standard of women's football is improving fast. That was evident in the FA Cup final at Wembley as Arsenal claimed victory after Danielle Carter's goal.
  
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• Alonso hits 'mini target' for McLaren

  14-05-2016 20:41
  By Alan Baldwin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso made a breakthrough for McLaren at his home Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday by joining the top 10 in qualifying for the first time since Honda returned as engine partners last year. While recognising it was a far cry from the days when the former world champions would have been dismayed not to be in the final phase, the Spaniard said being 10th quickest marked an important step on the road back to the top. "It's the first qualifying in a long
  
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• Granada 0-3 Barcelona: Luis Suarez hat-trick inspires Luis Enrique's side to second La Liga title in a row

  14-05-2016 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RIK SHARMA: Luis Suarez won Barcelona this title. Not just with his hat-trick against Granada, which sealed their 24th La Liga triumph, but with 40 league goals across a superhuman season.
  
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• Saracens beat Racing 21-9 to win Rugby Champions Cup

  14-05-2016 19:55
  (Reuters) - Saracens beat Racing 21-9 to win the Champions Cup after Owen Farrell slotted seven penalties in the final played at Lyon. Johan Goosen scored three penalties for Racing, who lost New Zealand flyhalf Dan Carter to injury early in the second half. (Writing by Julien Pretot; Editing by Ken Ferris)
  
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• Stuttgart relegated after 41 years, late winner saves Werder

  14-05-2016 19:51
  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - Former champions VfB Stuttgart were relegated from the Bundesliga for the first time in 41 years after losing 3-1 at VfL Wolfsburg in the top-flight season finale on Saturday. Werder Bremen staged a last-gasp escape with Papy Djilobodji's 88th-minute strike giving them a 1-0 win over visiting relegation rivals Eintracht Frankfurt. While Werder kept their place in the Bundesliga, their opponents go into a playoff against Nuremberg, who finished third in the
  
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• Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea: Danielle Carter's first half goal gifts Gunners 14th FA Women's Cup as Blues fail to retain trophy

  14-05-2016 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OLIVER TODD AT WEMBLEY: Arsenal Ladies secured a record 14th Women’s FA Cup in front of a record crowd at Wembley with a dominant victory over London rivals Chelsea on Sunday.
  
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• An all-American final in Rome: Serena Williams vs. Keys

  14-05-2016 19:36
  
  ROME (AP) — It's going to be a rare all-American affair in the Italian Open final.
  
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• Pep Guardiola left completely drenched in beer during Bundesliga celebrations as incoming Manchester City manager signs off at Bayern Munich inside Allianz Arena with a 3-1 win over Hannover

  14-05-2016 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After three years at the helm, Pep Guardiola said goodbye to the Allianz Arena - a place that had come to appreciate his bullish and attacking style of play. It's off to Manchester City next.
  
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• Proud dad Jos steps back as Verstappen speeds forward

  14-05-2016 19:34
  By Alan Baldwin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Proud father Jos Verstappen watched 18-year-old son Max qualify a sensational fourth on his Red Bull debut at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday and recognised it was now time to ease back to let his brilliant boy take more control of his own future. "I think at this stage of his career it's better if I put another step back," said the former F1 racer, who made two podium appearances as Benetton team mate to Michael Schumacher in 1994. Max was third in the f
  
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• Hat-trick hero Suarez leads Barca to title glory

  14-05-2016 19:29
  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - A ravenous Luis Suarez bagged a third hat-trick in five games as defending champions Barcelona won 3-0 at Granada to clinch their 24th La Liga title on Saturday. The Uruguayan converted Jordi Alba's low pass in the 22nd minute to give Luis Enrique's side the lead. Suarez finished the season as La Liga's top scorer with 40 goals, breaking Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's grip on the honour since 2009.
  
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• Deportivo La Coruna 0-2 Real Madrid: Zinedine Zidane's side miss out on La Liga title despite Cristiano Ronaldo double

  14-05-2016 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PETE JENSON: For 22 minutes Real Madrid were winning La Liga but in the end Cristiano Ronaldo’s 50th goal of the season was not enough, neither was his 51st. Barcelona had won the title.
  
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• Brilliant 40-goal Suarez crucial to Barca's title win

  14-05-2016 19:08
  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Luis Suarez has progressed from his impressive debut La Liga campaign to produce the most prolific season of his career and fire Barcelona to a second straight title, free of the stigma of his ban for biting which accompanied him to Spain in 2014. For Suarez is the hardest working of the feted 'MSN' partnership he forms with Messi and Neymar, a trio who have delivered 90 of Barcelona's 112 league goals.
  
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• Irish great Christy O'Connor senior dies, aged 91

  14-05-2016 19:04
  Christy O'Connor senior, one of the towering figures of European golf, left Irish sport in mourning when he died on Saturday at the age of 91. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny led the tributes. "Christy O'Connor senior was known as 'Himself' and always was himself, a wonderful man who left an indelible mark on professional golf and the sporting world," a statement from Kenny said.
  
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• Luis Suarez inspires Barca to La Liga title, as they pip Real Madrid on final day

  14-05-2016 18:56
  
  Hat-trick hero Suarez also finishes the season as the league’s top scorer.
  
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• Underwhelming feeling at Barca despite title win

  14-05-2016 18:55
  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Despite winning a 24th Spanish title and with a King's Cup final against Sevilla to look forward to next week, a feeling of deflation still lingers around Barcelona after falling short of their lofty pre-season ambitions. Atletico Madrid knocked them out in the Champions League quarter-finals and will face Real Madrid in the final -- a match Barca's players will watch with a degree of envy. The 2-0 loss at Atletico was sandwiched between defeats by Real Ma
  
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• Time for FIFA to talk about the players, says union

  14-05-2016 18:28
  By Brian Homewood MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Soccer's world governing body FIFA needs to start thinking about professional footballers and address their problems, according to the general secretary of the World Players' Union FIFPro. FIFPro secretary general Theo van Seggelen said on Saturday he was still waiting for details on a new FIFA stakeholders committee which will include player and club representatives. Van Seggelen, acknowledging FIFA was making progress after a series of corruption scand
  
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• Lewis Hamilton pips team-mate Nico Rosberg to pole as Mercedes dominate again at Spanish Grand Prix

  14-05-2016 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JONATHAN McEVOY IN BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton is back. On pole. In the hunt. He was nearly three-tenths of a second quicker than team-mate Nico Rosberg in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix.
  
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• Day sets record to claim four-shot halfway lead at Players

  14-05-2016 18:10
  (Reuters) - Jason Day broke the 36-hole Players Championship tournament record held by fellow Australian Greg Norman as he opened up a four-shot lead after the second round on Saturday. The world number one, who had to complete four holes due to a Friday weather delay, picked up where he left off but on a pleasant morning at the Sawgrass TPC Stadium Course. Day made a 15-foot birdie at the par-four 15th, his third in a row stretching back to Friday, before finishing with pars for a six-under 66.
  
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