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• Marcus Rashford has everything and would star for England at Euro 2016, claims Jordan Henderson after Australia win

  27-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jordan Henderson is convinced Marcus Rashford has the ability needed to feature for England at Euro 2016 and remain a big player for club and country.
  
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• Scientists disagree over Zika risk at Brazil's Olympics

  27-05-2016 23:54
  
  One day after a top U.S. health official declared there was no public health reason to cancel or delay this summer's Olympics in Brazil, more than 150 scientists on Friday called for just that, saying the risk of infection from the Zika virus is too high. The scientists, many of them bioethicists, who signed an open letter published online to Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization. The letter urged that the Games, due to be held in Rio de Janeiro in August, be moved
  
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• Sheffield Wednesday and Hull to battle it out in £163m Championship play-off final for place in the Premier League

  27-05-2016 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE: The huge stakes being played for by Sheffield Wednesday and Hull to gain entry to the world’s richest league have been variously priced but we now have an official figure.
  
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• Northern Ireland extend unbeaten run with Belarus win

  27-05-2016 23:43
  By Michael Church BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's record-breaking unbeaten streak was stretched to 11 matches with a 3-0 victory over Belarus at Windsor Park on Friday as Michael O’Neill’s team continued their impressive preparations for Euro 2016. Kyle Lafferty scored six minutes into his 50th international appearance, Conor Washington claimed his second in three games just before halftime and substitute Will Grigg netted two minutes from time as the Irish claimed a sixth win
  
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• Exeter Chiefs and Geoff Parling mean business as Rob Baxter's men look to prove they can boss Aviva Premiership final

  27-05-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is not a sight-seeing trip, a day for taking in grand, unfamiliar surroundings. Exeter are not just glad to have made it this far — they are at Twickenham for ‘business’.
  
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• Robert Snodgrass slams Fernando Forestieri's 'cheating' ahead of Hull's clash with Sheffield Wednesday

  27-05-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Snodgrass says he would rather not win Saturday's Championship play-off final if it meant behaving like Forestieri, who was sent off twice in six days in February for diving offences.
  
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• Euro 2016 countdown: Rush, Saunders and Hughes seal stunning Welsh win over Belgium

  27-05-2016 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Goals from Ian Rush, Dean Saunders and Mark Hughes help Wales beat Belgium 3-1 in a 1992 European Championship qualifier.
  
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• London 2012 Olympic hero Greg Rutherford 'fears' many doping cheats are still at large

  27-05-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GREG RUTHERFORD fears there will be more positive drugs tests from the London 2012 Olympics.
  
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• Hull’s Steve Bruce: if we go up it will be for our owner … he’s having a tough time at the minute

  27-05-2016 23:30
  
  Manager will weigh up his future after Saturday’s Championship play-off final against Sheffield Wednesday, which Assem Allam will watch from a hospital bedThe room’s single, overhead light is of such low wattage that reading small print becomes a strain and the gloom feels slightly oppressive. “Can’t we make it a bit brighter?” inquires Steve Bruce, his sunny Geordie humour and Algarve tan suddenly out of step with the surrounds. Related: How Sheffield Wednesday ret
  
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• Thunder look to close out defending champion Warriors

  27-05-2016 23:23
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Thunder won't say they have to win Game 6 against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday to win the Western Conference finals.
  
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• Marcus Rashford watch: Manchester United striker given standing ovation after scoring scorching volley on England debut

  27-05-2016 23:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marcus Rashford made an instant impression on his England debut, scoring less than three minutes into Friday night's 2-1 win against Australia. JACK GAUGHAN kept a close eye on the striker.
  
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• Iraqis fleeing ISIL-held Mosul seek refuge in Syria

  27-05-2016 23:16
  
  UNHCR reports sharp rise in number of Iraqi refugees fleeing Mosul to Syria's Hasakah province.
  
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• Slovakia 3-1 Georgia: Adam Nemec scores twice as England's Euro 2016 opponents earn friendly win in Austria 

  27-05-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England's Euro 2016 opponents Slovakia continued their preparations for their first European Championship as an independent nation with a comfortable 3-1 win on Friday evening.
  
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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson prepares to slay World Championship ghosts

  27-05-2016 23:00
  
  • Heptathlete can book Olympic place by clearing 6,200 points in Gotzis
  • ‘This year is all about Rio and I know I’m on the right path’While Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s heptathlon rivals were limbering up and down the Mosel Stadion track ahead of the prestigious Hypo-Meeting this weekend, she was in her hotel bed flicking through her athletics’ journal.At times it made for painful reading. Because as she went through it, she was reminded of her thoughts ab
  
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• Bautista's 1-game suspension upheld, will sit out Friday

  27-05-2016 23:00
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista has had his one-game suspension upheld by Major League Baseball and will serve his penalty Friday, missing Toronto's home game against the Boston Red Sox.
  
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• Rashford nets place in record books as England win

  27-05-2016 22:59
  (Reuters) - Marcus Rashford's rapid progress continued as the 18-year-old took 135 seconds to become the youngest player to score on his England debut in a 2-1 win over Australia on Friday and almost certainly claim a place at Euro 2016. Rashford's Manchester United club mate Wayne Rooney added a second -- a record-extending 52nd England -- 10 minutes after the break before substitute Eric Dier headed an own goal in the 73rd as England recorded a second straight 2-1 win in five days. ...
  
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• Euro-bound Ireland held to draw by late Dutch strike

  27-05-2016 22:55
  By Philip O'Connor DUBLIN (Reuters) - Striker Shane Long showed his poacher's instincts to grab a first-half goal that looked like giving Ireland a win in their friendly against Netherlands in Dublin on Friday, but Luuk De Jong's late equaliser snatched a draw for the Dutch. Ireland's goal came when Robbie Brady whipped in a corner which central defender John O'Shea headed powerfully goalwards. The Irish lost their shape following a slew of second-half changes, allowing Dutch substitute De Jong
  
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• Marcus Rashford hits the mark in England debut to remember

  27-05-2016 22:52
  
  With a single, assured swipe of a boot the 18-year-old from Manchester United scored inside three minutes in a 2-1 victory over AustraliaRoy Hodgson had wondered how Marcus Rashford might react to being thrown in at the deep end. England’s coach half-feared the boy might freeze on his England debut but he need not have worried because the 18-year-old simply did what he always does in these sort of situations.In other words, Rashford scored with his first shot. It is what he did on his Euro
  
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• Luuk de Jong denies Republic of Ireland morale-boosting win over Holland

  27-05-2016 22:50
  
  Please, can we get on with the finals? The Republic of Ireland moved into the last phase of their seven-month fine-tune for Euro 2016 by letting slip what should have been a comfortable victory against an off-colour Holland but it has long since reached the point where supporters are desperate for the real business to begin.The main idea was for Martin O’Neill to consider the merits of a clutch of fringe players, with his squad still not finalised, and the midfielder Harry Arter seized the
  
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• Warrington 52 - Leeds 18: Rhinos ripped apart by Wolves as disastrous season summed up

  27-05-2016 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TRAUMATIC does not do justice to Leeds’ plight this season, but things will surely only get worse before they get any better.
  
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• Kramaric strikes as Croatia beat Moldova 1-0

  27-05-2016 22:38
  Striker Andrej Kramaric boosted his hopes of getting into Croatia's Euro 2016 squad after scoring a clinical early winner in their 1-0 friendly victory over Moldova on Friday. The former Leicester City player took an Ivan Perisic pass in his stride and beat goalkeeper Ilie Cebanu with a crisp low shot from 13 metres in the ninth minute. The 24-year old Kramaric, who made no impact during his one-year spell at Leicester before he was loaned to German Bundesliga side Hoffenheim in January and made
  
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• Sport picture of the day: Rafael Nadal on the slide

  27-05-2016 22:32
  
  A close up shot shows Rafael Nadal’s stretching muscles as he runs and slides to return a shot to Facundo Bagnis in their second round match in the French Open. Nadal eased through to the third round with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-3 win, his 200th victory at a grand slam. However he will have to wait for number 201 as he has withdrawn from the tournament because of torn tendons in his left wrist Continue reading...
  
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• McEnroe to work with Canadian Raonic

  27-05-2016 22:28
  Seven-times grand slam champion John McEnroe is joining the coaching team of Canadian world number nine Milos Raonic, the American said on Friday. McEnroe, 57, made the announcement while working for television channel Eurosport at the French Open. "When it comes to Wimbledon I’ll be taking on and I'm gonna help coach this guy named Milos," McEnroe said.
  
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• The Latest: John McEnroe says he'll help Raonic at Wimbledon

  27-05-2016 22:16
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local):
  
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• Middlesbrough sign Danish winger Fischer

  27-05-2016 22:16
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Danish international Viktor Fisher has joined promoted Middlesbrough on a three-year contract from Ajax Amsterdam, the clubs said on Friday. The 21-year-old winger, who has won eight caps, was under contact to the Dutch league runners-up until the end of next season but has moved to the English Premier League for an undisclosed fee. Fisher won the Dutch title with Ajax in 2013 and 2014, playing 111 matches and scoring 31 goals, but he struggled last year with a hamstring in
  
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• Eddie Hearn urges Ricky Burns' fans to roar him on to victory over Michele Di Rocco

  27-05-2016 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Promoter Eddie Hearn has urged Ricky Burns fans to roar their man on to glory on Saturday night. The 33-year-old takes on Michele Di Rocco in Glasgow for the vacant WBA super-lightweight title.
  
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• Nadal pull-out stuns French Open but show goes on

  27-05-2016 22:02
  By Martyn Herman PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal went down fighting on his favourite battleground a year ago but this time his quest for an unprecedented 10th French Open title ended sitting glumly in front of a microphone. With third-round action in full swing out on the Roland Garros claycourts, Nadal dropped a bombshell midway though a sunny afternoon when he announced he was withdrawing because of an injury to his left wrist. Men's defending champion Stan Wawrinka eased into the last 16 by be
  
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• Delay or move Rio Olympics due to Zika - medical experts

  27-05-2016 22:02
  More than 100 health experts have called for the Rio Olympic Games to be postponed or moved because of fears that the event could speed up the spread of the Zika virus around the world, according to a public letter published online. "The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before," the letter said. "An unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to place
  
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• Sergio Busquets signs new Barcelona contract with £152m release clause

  27-05-2016 21:54
  
  • Midfielder commits future to Spanish champions until 2021
  • Busquets has won 23 major titles, including six La Liga titlesBarcelona have announced a new five-year deal for the midfielder Sergio Busquets. The 27-year-old has established himself as one of the most efficient passers in Europe over recent years and will now be with the club through to 2021. Related: José Mourinho appointed Manchester United manager on three-year contractContinue reading...
  
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• Rio Olympics 'Should Be Postponed' Over Zika

  27-05-2016 21:33
  
  The Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed over the Zika crisis, more than 100 scientists have said. Just 10 weeks before the Games begin, 125 experts have written an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying new findings about the virus make staging the Olympics in Rio "unethical". One of the signatories, Professor Arthur Caplan, told Sky News a postponement of three to six months would allow time for a vaccine to be created.
  
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• Medical experts urge delay or relocation of Olympics due to Zika

  27-05-2016 21:32
  More than 100 health experts have called for the Rio Olympic Games to be postponed or moved because of the threat to public health from Brazil's Zika virus outbreak, according to a public letter published online. "Our greater concern is for global health," the letter said. "The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before.
  
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• Czechs crush Malta as Rosicky shines on return

  27-05-2016 21:21
  The Czech Republic cruised to a 6-0 win over Malta on Friday as Petr Cech earned a record 119th cap and Tomas Rosicky returned to the squad in time for next month's European Championship. Midfielder Jaroslav Plasil scored after 15 minutes with a 30-metre strike that went in off the left post. Milan Skoda tapped in from close range and Roman Hubnik gathered a Plasil cross to smash in the third goal.
  
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• Adieu, Rafa: 9-time French Open champ Nadal out with injury

  27-05-2016 21:07
  
  PARIS (AP) — For a decade, Rafael Nadal ruled Roland Garros the way no other man has dominated any Grand Slam site.
  
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• Carlo Ancelotti the arch firefighter who always pays his way | Richard Williams

  27-05-2016 20:59
  
  Latest book about Bayern Munich’s new manager says he saw the end coming early at Chelsea and Real Madrid, and reveals the unstinting admiration of Zlatan IbrahimovicThe captains of industry and cultural rainmakers who form the usual cast of a weekly-newspaper feature titled “Lunch with the FT” tend to use the opportunity to make a public demonstration of their ascetic personal habits. A small salad and a bottle of sparkling water is usually enough to make the point about what
  
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• Former ball girl Rogers sends sleepy Kvitova packing

  27-05-2016 20:58
  By Pritha Sarkar PARIS (Reuters) - A few years ago American Shelby Rogers was scurrying around court as a ball girl to the biggest names in tennis in her hometown WTA tournament. On Friday, the Charleston resident was the one being chased by a throng of autograph hunters after she produced one of the biggest shocks at this year's French Open by overwhelming twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the third round.
  
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• Rio de Janeiro police investigate alleged gang rape that has shocked Brazilians

  27-05-2016 20:56
  By Brad Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police are investigating allegations that more than 30 men and boys raped a 16-year-old girl, officials said on Friday, as outrage spread in the host city for the Olympics and reverberated across the country. The reported assault was discovered after one of the suspects posted to Twitter a video of the nude, semi-conscious youth, with a few men brazenly insulting the girl, showing their faces, and one man heard saying, "more than 30 impreg
  
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• 2014 victory has not sated Real's thirst for glory - Ramos

  27-05-2016 20:54
  By Richard Martin MILAN (Reuters) - Captain Sergio Ramos believes Real Madrid are as hungry to beat Atletico Madrid in Saturday's Champions League final as they were two years ago when they beat their neighbours to land a 10th European Cup. It was Ramos who headed an injury-time equaliser to send the 2014 final into extra-time where Real overpowered a flattened Atletico 4-1 to end a 12-year wait for 'La Decima'. "If I was to write a film I would have scripted it like that but now we have to focu
  
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• Hazard relishing chance to go up against Mourinho

  27-05-2016 20:45
  Eden Hazard said he was 99 percent sure to stay at Chelsea next season, and he relishing a chance to go up against new Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho. The Belgian international, who will captain his country at the European Championship in France next month, had been the subject of transfer speculation throughout a disappointing club season. "If I tell you I’m staying at Chelsea with 100 percent certainty, this is not the case," Hazard told a press conference in Switzerland on Frid
  
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• Joint leader Willett finds reverse gear after record 29

  27-05-2016 20:43
  By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Danny Willett veered from the sublime to the ridiculous, following a record 29 on the front nine with an inward half of 39 as he shared the second-round lead at the BMW PGA Championship on Friday. The U.S. Masters winner surged to the top of the leaderboard alongside South Korean Yang Yong-eun (69) and Scott Hend (69) of Australia after a scintillating burst of scoring on another sunny day at Wentworth that yielded six birdies in seven holes to
  
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• Chaves moves close to Giro win as Nibali takes stage

  27-05-2016 20:33
  (Reuters) - Colombian Esteban Chaves moved close to his maiden grand tour title in the Giro d'Italia when he snatched the overall leader's pink jersey off Steven Kruijswijk's shoulders after the Dutchman crashed on the 19th stage won solo by Vincenzo Nibali on Friday. Orica-GreenEDGE rider Chaves, fifth in the Vuelta last year, took third place behind former champion Nibali and Spain's Mikel Nieve in the French resort of Risoul, putting himself in prime position to become the second Colombian to
  
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• Nemec shines as Slovakia beat Georgia in Euro warm-up

  27-05-2016 20:29
  Adam Nemec showed he could provide the scoring threat Slovakia need in their European Championship debut by netting two goals to secure a 3-1 win over Georgia on Friday. Slovakia are looking to regain the attacking momentum that carried them to six successive wins, including victory against champions Spain, in qualifying for their first Euro finals since becoming an independent nation in 1993. Resting key players ahead of a friendly with Germany on Sunday, the Slovaks struggled early to keep pre
  
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