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• Governor signs law to allow daily fantasy sports in New York

  03-08-2016 23:56
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a new law Wednesday to allow the resumption of daily fantasy sports in New York.
  
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• Windies earn surprising draw with India

  03-08-2016 23:53
  (Reuters) - Roston Chase joined elite company as West Indies escaped with an unlikely draw against India after the second test concluded in Jamaica on Wednesday. Chase scored 137 not out to lead West Indies to safety, with the home team losing only two wickets on the fifth and final day at Sabina Park in Kingston. West Indies had reached 388 for six in their second innings when India captain Virat Kohli conceded a draw with a few overs still remaining.
  
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• Wayne Rooney reveals Jose Mourinho wants Manchester United's attackers to express themselves next season

  03-08-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The United captain celebrated 12 years at Old Trafford with a testimonial against Everton on Wednesday night, albeit goalless. Rooney insisted Mourinho is demanding they express themselves.
  
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• You're in! Baseball/softball, 4 other sports make Tokyo cut

  03-08-2016 23:49
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic leaders approved the addition of five sports to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, including the return of baseball-softball and the introduction of youth-oriented events such as skateboarding and surfing.
  
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• BUMBLE AT THE TEST: Stuart Broad gave me a fright at the toss... but I kept my head down, sadly England's batsmen didn't do the same

  03-08-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DAVID LLOYD AT EDGBASTON: Those lovely people at Sky let me loose on the toss on Wednesday and it was all going swimmingly until my last question to Alastair Cook.
  
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• Bolivia name Argentine Hoyos as coach

  03-08-2016 23:44
  Bolivia appointed Argentine former Barcelona B coach Angel Guillermo Hoyos to take charge of the national team on Wednesday, the Bolivian FA (FBF) said. The 53-year-old Hoyos, who helped coach Lionel Messi as a teenager at Barcelona and was in charge of Bolivian first division side Bolivar in 2011-12, replaced Julio Cesar Baldivieso. “What’s important now is that everyone, directors, clubs, press and fans support the new process...and work to change Bolivian football,” FBF head
  
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• NFL Network, Dish reach new carriage deal, ending fee dispute

  03-08-2016 23:42
  Satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp said on Wednesday that it has struck a new carriage agreement with the National Football League's NFL Network and NFL Redzone channels, ending a disagreement over distribution fees. Dish has restored NFL Network and NFL Redzone on its satellite-TV service, it said in a statement. Both channels will be added to its online video service Sling TV in time for NFL season, it said.
  
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• Former Everton boss Roberto Martinez appointed as new Belgium head coach

  03-08-2016 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former Everton boss had been linked with the vacancy at Hull but will now lead Belgium into the World Cup 2018 qualifiers after signing a two-year deal.
  
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• Clatt's tatts: Mark Clattenburg gets Euro 2016 and Champions League final tattoos but aren't good referees the ones you hardly notice?

  03-08-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Clattenburg is the best referee in England but he is also the most high profile. Photos of Clattenburg with his new tattoos diverge from the old saying that the best referees are hardly visible.
  
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• Champions League to go global? Group games could be played outside Europe as UEFA face pressure

  03-08-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Champions League group games could be played outside Europe as UEFA come under pressure from Spanish and Italian clubs.
  They want to see some games played away from the continent to cash in.
  
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• Rio water as safe as Vancouver, says Canada doctor

  03-08-2016 23:36
  By Steve Keating RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The health risks of competing in the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay at the Rio Olympics are no greater than if swimming in Vancouver, the chief medical officer for the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said on Wednesday. Asked if concerns over pollution levels in the bay and sea, where sailing, windsurfing and long-distance swimming events are being held, were over-hyped, Canada's Chief Medical Officer for the Olympics Bob McCormack was quick to say t
  
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• Refugee team share the stage with Olympic star Michael Phelps ahead of Rio Games: 'Whichever flag it is, the feeling would still be the same'

  03-08-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Phelps, who has amassed £40million in becoming the most decorated Olympian, walked into the biggest press conference room in the place and hundreds of flashbulbs went off.
  
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• Celtic 2-1 Astana (3-2 agg): Moussa Dembele scores last minute penalty to send Brendan Rodgers' side through

  03-08-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For Moussa Dembele this was a Celtic coming of age, a first goal to savour.. Twelve yards. Ninety minutes gone, £20million on the line and the new bhoy stepped up to the plate.
  
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• Olympic Games to feature five new sports from 2020 as baseball and skateboarding are added

  03-08-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a unanimous vote, the 90 IOC members backed the executive board's recommendation to bring in the five sports, which will add 470 athletes and 18 new events in four years' time.
  
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• Safety rules imposed on Britain's Olympic rowers in toxic Rio waters

  03-08-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Every rower for Great Britain has been warned of the dangers from the toxic bacteria which can lead to severe stomach and respiratory illnesses.
  
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• Rugby - Rio gold would beat World Cup wins for Sonny Bill

  03-08-2016 23:32
  By Nick Mulvenney RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A gold medal in the inaugural Olympic rugby sevens tournament would surpass the achievement of winning the World Cup twice with the all-conquering All Blacks, New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams said on Wednesday. The highest profile player at the tournament, former heavyweight boxing champion and rugby league international, Williams was part of the New Zealand teams that won the 2011 and 2015 World Cups.
  
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• Manchester United 0-0 Everton: Wayne Rooney plays 53 minutes of his testimonial match as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jose Mourinho make Old Trafford bows

  03-08-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS WHEELER AT OLD TRAFFORD: Wayne Rooney's testimonial match ended in a goalless draw as Manchester United failed to score in Jose Mourinho's Old Trafford bow.
  
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• Lizzie Armitstead's fiance goes on the attack after she is called 'shameful' by French star Pauline Ferrand-Prevot

  03-08-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: Irish cyclist Philip Deignan has made a highly controversial intervention in the drugs-test scandal involving his fiancee Lizzie Armitstead.
  
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• Lizzie Armitstead claims cycling chiefs are at fault for missed test

  03-08-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT LAWTON: Armitstead issued a 1200-word statement on Wednesday insisting the test she missed in June was an ‘oversight’ that ‘could have been prevented’.
  
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• Everton ready to refuse Romelu Lukaku sale after Chelsea's attempts to unsettle striker infuriate manager Ronald Koeman

  03-08-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Everton are ready to dig their heels in over the sale of Romelu Lukaku. The club are prepared to refuse offers for their striker with Ronald Koeman unhappy at Chelsea for unsettling the Belgian.
  
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• Team GB's James-Andrew Davis up for a fight in Rio after shedding six stone

  03-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James-Andrew Davis is 6ft 4in and muscular, bounding around the gym at the Team GB preparation camp here to the sound of pop songs booming from the sound system.
  
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• Jack Beaumont gets the right kind of break as oarsman is called up to Team GB side for Rio Olympic Games 

  03-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Less than a year after a shattering accident that left him fearing he might never walk again — let alone row competitively — Jack Beaumont is back in contention for an Olympic medal.
  
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• Football - Brazil kick off at home with 3-0 win

  03-08-2016 23:26
  By Andrew Downie RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil got off to a winning start in South America's first Olympic Games on Wednesday when the women's football team beat China 3-0 in host city Rio de Janeiro. Brazil got off to the perfect start with a commanding performance in front of their home crowd in at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Defender Monica headed home the first 10 minutes before halftime and Andressa Alves got a second with a volley from close in after 59 minutes.
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic's aura alone can rekindle the Manchester United mentality

  03-08-2016 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JACK GAUGHAN AT OLD TRAFFORD: United fans buzzed excitedly, giddy whenever their new No 9 looked remotely like stretching Everton’s back four or finding any sort of space to operate in.
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Thursday, August 4

  03-08-2016 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Thursday's meetings at Brighton, Yarmouth, Haydock, Sandown and Wolverhampton.
  
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• Michael Phelps opens door _ slightly _ to another comeback

  03-08-2016 23:21
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps kept saying this would definitely be his final Olympics.
  
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• Belgium name Spaniard Martinez as manager

  03-08-2016 23:20
  
  Spaniard Roberto Martinez was named as head coach of the Belgium national team in a surprise appointment on Wednesday. The former Everton manager will succeed Marc Wilmots, who was dismissed after Belgium lost to Wales in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals. "The KBVB decided today to appoint the Spanish coach Roberto Martinez.
  
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• Tokyo 2020 Games on track after turmoil, say organisers

  03-08-2016 23:16
  Tokyo's first woman governor will carry on her predecessor's push to make the city's 2020 Summer Games the ''most innovative'' in history, the head of the Games' organising committee said on Wednesday. Yuriko Koike, Japan's first female defence minister, was elected governor on Sunday after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city's preparations to host the Games. The head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee Yoshiro Mori had called the timing of the latest resignation
  
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• World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has suspension lifted and will face anti-doping tribunal

  03-08-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tyson Fury is free to fight again as his suspension was lifted pending an anti-doping tribunal. The world heavyweight champion tested positive for a prohibited substance and was banned on June 24.
  
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• Swimming - No more top dog for underdog Lochte

  03-08-2016 23:10
  By Alan Baldwin RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Ryan Lochte was a top dog in the U.S. Olympic swimming team in London four years ago, but he felt more like an ageing underdog as he celebrated his 32nd birthday at the Rio Games on Wednesday. As 31-year-old room mate Michael Phelps told a million followers on Instagram in a message accompanying a photograph of the pair of them, the friends and rivals are "the old dudes on the team now". Lochte, who has 11 Olympic medals (five golds) from three Games co
  
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• Archery - London let-down still vivid for U.S. men's team

  03-08-2016 23:05
  By Ian Ransom RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Explaining the difference between Olympic gold and silver can be a tough ask for a disappointed runner-up, but for American archer Jake Kaminski, heartbreak can be distilled down to three-eighths of an inch. American Kaminski, silver medallist along with Brady Ellison and Jacob Wukie, has had four years to stew over a result that still rankles as he prepares to go one better in Rio de Janeiro. "The last arrow that we missed was out of the scoring range by
  
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• US boxer Claressa Shields punching toward 2nd Olympic gold

  03-08-2016 23:00
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Claressa Shields got the Olympic rings tattooed on her powerful right bicep five weeks ago. "Rio" and "London" are inscribed within the bottom two loops.
  
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• Dude! Rio riders celebrate as surfing to be Tokyo 2020 sport

  03-08-2016 22:58
  By Alexandra Ulmer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - There could hardly have been a better backdrop for adding surfing to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics than Rio De Janeiro's legendary sandy beaches. The IOC on Wednesday afternoon approved the inclusion of five new sports, including surfing, in a hotel conference room just a block from where Brazilians were riding the waves on a windy Rio day. Shaking off the Atlantic Ocean water as he clutched his board, 48-year-old Ivan Pfeil beamed at the decision.
  
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• Yanks left-hander Lindgren to have Tommy John surgery

  03-08-2016 22:54
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees left-hander Jacob Lindgren will have Tommy John surgery Friday, an injury that likely will sideline him until the 2018 season.
  
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• Demaryius Thomas says grandmother's sentence commuted

  03-08-2016 22:43
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas was told that President Barack Obama commuted the life sentence of Thomas' grandmother on Wednesday.
  
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• Michael Phelps upset that drug cheats are overshadowing Olympic Games again

  03-08-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with 18 golds and 22 medalsin all, has expressed sadness and doubts over the continued presence of drug cheats in sport.
  
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• Birthday boy: Patriots celebrate Brady turning 39

  03-08-2016 22:32
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The crowd gathered at New England Patriots training camp broke into the first of several choruses of "Happy Birthday" on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Moeen Ali reminded everyone what he can do... but England's batting at Edgbaston showed they still have work to do to be the world's best Test side

  03-08-2016 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASSER HUSSAIN: It was good to see Moeen Ali knuckle down and play like a proper batsman — but less good to witness another sloppy display by England overall. It's a reminder work remains.
  
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• Baseball, surfing among sports approved for Tokyo 2020 - IOC

  03-08-2016 22:31
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Five sports, including baseball, skateboarding and surfing, will feature at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after the IOC voted them in on Wednesday in an attempt to revamp the Games programme to attract a younger audience. The International Olympic Committee unanimously rubber-stamped the decision taken by its executive board in June, approving the inclusion of skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing, karate and a joint baseball/softball bid, which is expe
  
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• Martinez named Belgium manager

  03-08-2016 22:27
  
  (Reuters) - Spaniard Roberto Martinez has been named as head coach of Belgium, the team said on their official Twitter feed on Wednesday. In a surprise appointment, the former Everton manager will succeed Marc Wilmots, who was dismissed after Belgium lost to Wales in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals. Martinez, 43, has no experience of managing an international team. He was sacked by Everton in May after three years in charge. He also managed English clubs Swansea City and Wigan Athletic, who he led
  
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• Equestrian - Oldest New Zealand Olympian owes it to 'Steiny'

  03-08-2016 22:21
  By Scott Malone RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - More than half a century after she first rode a horse at the age of seven, New Zealand's Julie Brougham is ready for her Olympic debut this month and credits one close friend with that honour: The chestnut gelding she affectionately calls "Steiny". Brougham, 62, brushes off the record she has set as the nation's oldest Olympic competitor, saying she did little to earn that honour, but waxes poetic when it comes to her 13-year-old German born mount. OK,
  
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• Chase joins elite club as Windies fight back

  03-08-2016 22:20
  (Reuters) - Roston Chase joined an elite group, scoring a century as West Indies moved within sight of a great escape in the second test against India in Jamaica on Wednesday. The match was finely poised, with India needing to wrap up the innings quickly with the second new ball in the final session to have a chance of chasing down their target. Chase, in just his second test, was unbeaten on 112 at tea, with number eight Jason Holder on 21.
  
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