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• Winningest UConn hockey coach, Bruce Marshall, dies at 54

  16-10-2016 23:59
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The former longtime head coach of the Connecticut Huskies ice hockey team, who transitioned them to Division I status, has died. Bruce Marshall was 54.
  
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• Inter's De Boer calls for end to Icardi-ultras row

  16-10-2016 23:57
  Inter Milan must find an urgent solution to end a row between captain Mauro Icardi and the club's ultra fans who are angry at the striker over comments he made in his autobiography, coach Frank De Boer said on Sunday. Leading scorer Icardi, who earlier this month extended his Inter contract to 2021, was greeted by several insulting banners on Sunday with fans calling him a "clown" as he took to the pitch for their Serie A game at home to Cagliari. "On another day Icardi would have scored from th
  
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• England collapse allows West Indies to level ODI series at 2-2

  16-10-2016 23:53
  
  • Tourists lose nine wickets for 48 runs in Kingston
  • Openers Beaumont and Winfield score half-centuriesEngland women missed the chance to secure the five-match series when, chasing 224 to win the fourth one-day international against West Indies and take an unassailable 3-1 lead, they lost nine wickets for 48 to lose by 42 runs in Kingston. England were 133 for one, with the openers, Lauren Winfield and Tammy Beaumont, both having hit half-centuries. But the collapse started with Winf
  
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• Mauro Icardi and Internazionale go from bad to worse with Cagliari defeat

  16-10-2016 23:49
  
  • Argentina forward misses penalty after upsetting ‘Ultra’ fans
  • Milan climb to third with 3-1 win at Chievo, Lazio draw with Bologna
  The Internazionale captain, Mauro Icardi, can do no right and a missed penalty in a 2-1 defeat by Cagliari in Serie A on Sunday will not help his cause with Inter fans.Icardi had a fantastic start to the season, with six goals in seven matches, but angered “Ultras” at the club with comments in his autobiography, which the support
  
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• Liverpool are in form but this is classic Jose Mourinho territory... it's set up perfectly for a Manchester United win

  16-10-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IAN LADYMAN: This is classic Mourinho territory. With his back against the wall and the hand grenades already tossed, all the United manager needs is a display which has typified his genius.
  
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• Andy Murray closes in on world No 1 rank after adding China Open and Shanghai Rolex Masters to trophy haul

  16-10-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray arrived in China a fortnight ago with no great expectations, having spent little time on the practice court during his two-week break after Great Britain’s Davis Cup semi-final defeat.
  
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• José Mourinho: I am not to blame for confusion over Wayne Rooney’s role

  16-10-2016 23:37
  
  • Portuguese says his captain can play everywhere and is ‘first-choice’
  • Manchester United face Liverpool at Anfield on Monday nightJosé Mourinho says any confusion Wayne Rooney has about being a midfielder is not down to him after Manchester United’s captain indicated a desire to play there during the international break.On Monday night Mourinho takes United to Liverpool with his side trailing Jürgen Klopp’s team by three points and three positions
  
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• Arsene Wenger believes challenging for titles will convince Mesut Ozil to sign a new Arsenal deal... not money

  16-10-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arsene Wenger was discussing Mesut Ozil’s unsigned contract when he made a quip: ‘If you have a good bank, call me.’ The German is thought to want £200,000 to extend his current deal.
  
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• Theo Walcott has struggled to reach his full potential... but the hard graft is slowly paying off for Arsenal forward 

  16-10-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAMIE REDKNAPP: Theo Walcott has found it difficult to fulfil his early promise but hopefully at 27 the penny has finally dropped. Over the summer Walcott must have realised he was not strong enough.
  
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• Dele Alli admits Tottenham must learn to take their chances if they want to challenge for the Premier League

  16-10-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dele Alli admits Tottenham must learn to take their chances without star striker Harry Kane if they want to challenge for the title, after their lacklustre draw 1-1 against West Brom on Saturday.
  
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• Owen Farrell back to his world class best on return from injury as Saracens stun Toulon 

  16-10-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Owen Farrell may have played precisely no competitive rugby since England’s summer tour to Australia but he took masterminding one of the great European victories in his stride at Stade Mayol.
  
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• Prandelli gets winning start as Valencia boss, Villarreal thrash Celta

  16-10-2016 23:32
  By Richard Martin BARCELONA (Reuters) - Former Italy coach Cesare Prandelli got off to a winning start in La Liga with Valencia as his team triumphed 2-1 at Sporting Gijon on Sunday while Villarreal maintained their impressive opening to the season by thrashing Celta Vigo 5-0. Former Atletico Madrid and Watford midfielder Suarez provided the ideal launch pad for Prandelli with a thumping right-foot drive to score in the seventh minute.
  
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• England confident new father Alastair Cook will return to Bangladesh in time for opening test

  16-10-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England are confident captain Alastair Cook will return to Bangladesh in time to lead the side in the first Test starting on Thursday as they await news on the birth of his second child.
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur optimistic over Toby Alderweireld’s knee injury

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  • Belgian defender likely to miss weeks rather than months
  • Harry Kane set to return to training pitch on MondayHarry Kane is poised to return to the training pitch on Monday after being sidelined for a month and Tottenham Hotspur are cautiously optimistic that there will be more encouraging injury news about Toby Alderweireld, who is due to undergo a scan after he was taken off on a stretcher on Saturday.Although Alderweireld was in a lot of pain at the time of the injury, the Belgia
  
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• Mark Hughes discovers a leader in Joe Allen as Stoke record overdue first Premier League win of the season

  16-10-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Stoke manager Mark Hughes the stars were in perfect alignment when £13million ‘bargain’ Joe Allen agreed to make the switch from Liverpool to the Potteries last summer.
  
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• Marc Albrighton insists Leicester City players realise they have to fight more

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  • Danny Drinkwater admits there is something missing with champions
  • Claudio Ranieri: ‘Last year we were out of this world, now we are back in it’Leicester City’s frustrated players have pointed to a lack of fight undermining their defence of the Premier League title as they struggle to balance the demands of domestic and European commitments. Related: Leicester’s woes continue as Hazard, Costa and Moses fire Chelsea to victoryContinue reading...
  
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• Manchester City manager backs Sergio Agüero to continue taking penalties

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  • Manger confident in Agüero despite fourth miss of season
  • The Argentinian has now failed from the spot nine times out of 38Pep Guardiola remains confident in Sergio Agüero’s penalty-taking ability despite his latest miss, against Everton on Saturday and which means the Argentinian has now missed a total of nine from 38.Since missing two at Dinamo Bucharest early in the season, Agüero scored from the spot against Stoke City and Swansea as well as against Borussia
  
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• Jürgen Klopp dismisses claims that José Mourinho’s influence is waning

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  • Liverpool manager says talk of counterpart’s demise is ‘rubbish’
  • ‘He knows how successful football works’Jürgen Klopp has ridiculed suggestions José Mourinho is a manager in decline and insisted his rival remains a fierce competitor who knows how to restore success at Manchester United.Liverpool could open up a six-point lead over United and go joint top of the Premier League with victory at Anfield on Monday. While Klopp has created a clea
  
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• Jose Mourinho is the master of the dark arts... but he was unwise to offer his views on referee Anthony Taylor  

  16-10-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GRAHAM POLL: Jose Mourinho was unwise to offer his view on Anthony Taylor. The comments are carefully considered; there is no current manager more familiar with the ‘dark arts’ than Mourinho.
  
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• Jordan Henderson: ‘Liverpool ready for whatever Manchester United throw at us’

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  Captain is still stung by memories of José Mourinho’s smash-and-grab win with Chelsea in 2014 that derailed his club’s title bidThere has been no attempt at Liverpool these past few days to dilute the biggest contest in English club football. “It will never be a normal game for as long as I live,” Jürgen Klopp said on Friday, visibly excited three days before kick-off. For his captain, Jordan Henderson, the desire to ruin Manchester United’s 84th league
  
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• Jordan Henderson eager for revenge against Jose Mourinho following Chelsea's dramatic win that wrecked Liverpool's title bid in 2014

  16-10-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When Liverpool looked to be closing in on their first championship since 1990 back in April 2014, Jose Mourinho set his Chelsea side out do disrupt Brendan Rodgers' in form team
  
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• Expect José Mourinho to opt for customary caution in Liverpool test

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  Manchester United have been more positive, if uneven, under José Mourinho than under Louis van Gaal but expect the Portuguese to make keeping things tight the priority at AnfieldJosé Mourinho’s Manchester United tenure started with an insistence that in thought and style his side would always be on the front foot. In play here was a pressing need to assure fans his arrival meant an end to the default position of cautiousness that marked the United of his predecessor Louis van
  
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• David Haye gives Tony Bellew strict ultimatum following BJ Flores win: We fight at heavyweight or not at all 

  16-10-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Haye has told Tony Bellew they fight at heavyweight or not at all. The former world champion scoffed at suggestions he would move to cruiserweight to face the Liverpudlian.
  
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• Arsenal may have to break the bank to keep Mesut Özil beyond 2018

  16-10-2016 23:30
  
  • German needs to see commitment to winning more trophies
  • Arsène Wenger: ‘He wants to stay. If you have a good bank, call me’Arsène Wenger has said Arsenal may have to break the bank to secure Mesut Özil to a new long-term contract and also prove to him the club can satisfy his ambitions by winning the league title. The midfielder’s deal expires in the summer of 2018 and negotiations are continuing over fresh terms. Related: Mesut Özil scores
  
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• Antonio Conte believes 'age is not important' as he promises academy stars they will get their opportunities

  16-10-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having named five Chelsea academy graduates among his substitutes on Saturday, Antonio Conte promised opportunities to those who prove they are good enough.
  
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• Owen Farrell: Toulon was a big win for Saracens and we intend to crack on

  16-10-2016 23:27
  
  • The holders’ only failure was the lack of a bonus point
  • Loss of discipline after 50 minutes offered Toulon a way backSaracens won the league and European double last season for a reason. A team often pilloried for being rugby’s equivalent of the old Wimbledon FC on a dull day, they so ruthlessly exposed Toulon’s fault line that at times they resembled Barcelona.Toulon like to direct their opponents into quicksand, bogging them down in a game where the ball struggl
  
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• Steven Finn insists captain Alastair Cook will 'fit seamlessly' back into England team to face Bangladesh in first Test

  16-10-2016 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alastair Cook travelled out to Bangladesh early to acclimatise to the conditions during England's one-day series before departing for home to attend the birth of his second child.
  
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• Sweden's Alex Noren shows Europe's Ryder Cup team what they were missing at British Masters victory

  16-10-2016 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DEREK LAWRENSON: How Europe could have done with the guts and guile of Swede Alex Noren at the recent Ryder Cup. The 34-year-old showed another side to his game to win the British Masters
  
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• Sir Dave Brailsford under increasing pressure over his handling of Team Sky mystery package controversy

  16-10-2016 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT LAWTON: The pressure on Team Sky principal Brailsford's position has intensified after he admitted his handling of the crisis had made it 'a damn sight worse'.
  
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• Gary Neville: I would gladly pay £5,000 fine for celebration against Liverpool again 100 times

  16-10-2016 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  So in the 90th minute, Ryan Giggs is standing over the ball and all I remember is him bending it into the box, Rio Ferdinand rising up and the ball hitting the back of the net.
  
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• The Latest: Prescott's pick-less streak sets NFL mark

  16-10-2016 23:04
  
  The Latest on Week Six of the NFL season (all times EDT):
  
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• ‘Jobs are on the line’ says Northampton’s Tom Wood after Alex King exit

  16-10-2016 23:00
  
  • Northampton 16-14 Montpellier
  • Captain says King paid price for Saints’ poor start to seasonA battered Tom Wood, having led his team to victory in the face of a fearful assault from Montpellier, expressed regret that his team’s failure to win enough of these tight games had cost Alex King his job as Northampton’s attack coach.“It’s tough when an individual carries the can for a collective underachievement,” Wood said of King’s departure, ann
  
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• Bishoo heroics give Windies faint hope in day-night test

  16-10-2016 22:51
  (Reuters) - An eight-wicket haul from West Indies' Devendra Bishoo breathed fresh life into the first test against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday, leaving his side with a faint chance of pulling off the unlikeliest of wins in the day-night contest. The Guyana spinner's career-best spell of eight for 49 helped skittle Pakistan for 123 as they chased quick runs to ram home their first-innings advantage of 222. By the close, West Indies, set a total of 346 to win, had battled to 95 for two, needing an
  
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• Beckham's career day, late 66-yard TD lead Giants

  16-10-2016 22:48
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A banged-up Odell Beckham Jr. turned a short fourth-and-1 pass into a winning 66-yard catch and run with 1:24 to play Sunday as the New York Giants snapped a three-game losing streak with a stunning 27-23 victory over the hurting Baltimore Ravens.
  
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• Brady has big day in homecoming, Patriots beat Bengals 35-17

  16-10-2016 22:37
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady had a smooth regular-season home debut.
  
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• Redskins beat up Eagles' defense on way to 27-20 victory

  16-10-2016 22:36
  
  LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Kirk Cousins threw for 263 yards and two touchdowns and the Washington Redskins ran roughshod over one of the NFL's top defenses in a 27-20 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
  
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• McCoy scores 3 TDs in Bills 45-16 win over 49ers

  16-10-2016 22:35
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — LeSean McCoy scored three times and the Buffalo Bills extended their winning streak to four with a 45-16 victory over San Francisco and new starter Colin Kaepernick Sunday.
  
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• Liverpool are in form but this is classic Jose Mourinho territory... this is set up perfectly for a Manchester United win

  16-10-2016 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IAN LADYMAN: This is classic Mourinho territory. With his back against the wall and the hand grenades already tossed, all the United manager needs is a display which has typified his genius.
  
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• Dolphins stop Big Ben and beat Steelers 30-15

  16-10-2016 22:26
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins left Ben Roethlisberger limping, and the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers didn't look much better.
  
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• Huddersfield Town 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday: Fernando Forestieri clicks to get Wednesday back on track

  16-10-2016 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RICHARD GIBSON AT JOHN SMITH'S STADIUM: Two months after refusing to play, Fernando Forestieri proved the craftsman of a hard-fought Yorkshire derby.
  
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• Steven Finn insists captain Alastair Cook will 'fit back in seamlessly' into England team to face Bangladesh in first Test

  16-10-2016 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alastair Cook travelled out to Bangladesh early to acclimatise to the conditions during England's one-day series before departing for home to attend the birth of his second child.
  
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• Cleveland's Bauer says stitches should be no issue in Game 3

  16-10-2016 22:07
  TORONTO (AP) — Cleveland right-hander Trevor Bauer has pronounced himself ready to pitch Game 3 of the AL Championship Series, saying the stitches he needed after cutting his finger repairing a drone shouldn't be an issue Monday night against Toronto.
  
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• BHA spot checks of trainers’ bags ruffles feathers on racing’s biggest day

  16-10-2016 21:55
  
  • BHA explains background to checks at Ascot on Saturday
  • Robin Mounsey: ‘The checking of bags in the stables is fairly routine’Racing’s ruling body has moved to explain the background to events at Ascot on Champions Day, when four trainers were called before the stewards to explain various contraventions of the sport’s drug rules. The trainers’ staff had been found to possess substances which were either not allowed in the racecourse stables or for which
  
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• Sportsmail's Three Wise Men: Paul Pogba needs to finally stand up or Manchester United could be blown away against Liverpool at Anfield

  16-10-2016 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jose Mourinho's Manchester United travel to Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool for a mouth-watering derby clash on Monday night. Sportsmail's THREE WISE MEN cast their opinions.
  
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• Buffalo fans target Kaepernick for national anthem protest

  16-10-2016 21:48
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Amid loud chants of "USA! USA! USA!," San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem Sunday in his continuing protest against racial oppression and police brutality.
  
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• Purdue fires coach Hazell after 3-plus seasons and 9 wins

  16-10-2016 21:47
  
  Purdue fired coach Darrell Hazell on Sunday midway through his fourth season, ending his tenure with the worst winning percentage of any Boilermakers coach in 95 years.
  
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• 7 goals in 6 games for Southampton's bargain striker Austin

  16-10-2016 21:41
  
  LONDON (AP) — As the goals have dried up for Jamie Vardy at Leicester, another former non-league striker has embarked on a hot scoring streak for a Premier League club.
  
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• The Latest: Bryant out again for Cowboys

  16-10-2016 21:37
  
  The Latest on Week Six of the NFL season (all times EDT):
  
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• Bryant out again for Cowboys; Chancellor sits for Seahawks

  16-10-2016 21:37
  Star receiver Dez Bryant will miss his third straight game for the Dallas Cowboys. Bryant, who has a knee injury, was limited in practice this week.
  
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• Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay's teen daughter killed in Kentucky crossfire

  16-10-2016 21:35
  (Reuters) - The 15-year-old daughter of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay died on Sunday after being caught in an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles outside of a Kentucky restaurant, police said. After the shooting in Lexington at about 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT), Trinity Gay was taken in a private vehicle to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, the Lexington Police Department said in a statement. It's so crazy." Gay, 34, was born in Lexington and lives in a suburb of Orlando, Florida.
  
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