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• Premier League: Ranieri finally ready to drop stars of Leicester's title-winning season

  12-02-2017 23:50
  
  Claudio Ranieri acknowledges he has been too loyal to some of Leicester City's key performers from a year ago.
  
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• Angry Ranieri hints at dropping Leicester underperformers

  12-02-2017 23:49
  Leicester City's beleaguered manager Claudio Ranieri suggested he is ready to drop some of the players who won them the Premier League title as the Italian seeks to stave off relegation just one season later. The champions have yet to win -- or even score -- in six league matches in 2017 and were beaten 2-0 by fellow relegation strugglers Swansea City on Sunday. The latest setback leaves them just one point above the relegation zone with the club seemingly free-falling into the Championship.
  
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• Braves acquire Brandon Phillips from Reds in trade

  12-02-2017 23:44
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves acquired three-time All-Star Brandon Phillips on Sunday from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for two pitchers.
  
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• Barry Hawkins survives a fightback to win World Grand Prix

  12-02-2017 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Barry Hawkins survived a stirring fightback from Ryan Day to win the Ladbrokes World Grand Prix on Sunday night as he claimed the £100,000 first prize at Preston's Guild Hall.
  
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• Sizing John in Gold Cup frame after Leopardstown win

  12-02-2017 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The highs and lows of National Hunt racing were showcased at Leopardstown on Sunday when Sizing John landed the Irish Gold Cup for owners Alan and Ann Potts.
  
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• Ruthless England are ready to rule the world

  12-02-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: History will eventually show that England’s win over a wonderfully feisty and skilful Welsh team in Cardiff was the tipping point for this group of players.
  
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• Rugby star met girlfriend when she worked at his school 

  12-02-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elliot Daly, 24, and Michelle Cussell, 25, first met at the Whitgift School for boys in Croydon, south London. The rugby star was a pupil and she was working as a sports events organiser.
  
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• Jose Mourinho is rewared for putting faith in Juan Mata

  12-02-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAMIE REDKNAPP: Juan Mata must have thought his days were numbered at Old Trafford when Jose Mourinho arrived but I am so impressed with how they have set aside their differences.
  
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• Joe Schmidt already gearing up for showdown with France

  12-02-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joe Schmidt is confident Ireland’s Six Nations title challenge is back on track after his side atoned for their first round defeat against Scotland with a nine-try demolition of Italy at the Stadio Olimpico.
  
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• England show grit of world champions to finish off Wales 

  12-02-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage from the last two minutes of this thunderous classic should serve as a demonstration of what rugby commitment and courage looks like. Both sides had countless heroes in an incredible match.
  
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• England ready to bring back Mako Vunipola for Italy

  12-02-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England are ready to galvanise their Grand Slam crusade by bringing in stellar reinforcements and experimenting in the RBS 6 Nations home banker against Italy.
  
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• Wales vs England - PLAYER RATINGS:

  12-02-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England face Italy at Twickenham in their next game and Eddie Jones could shake things up for the Azzurri. Mike Brown and Jonathan Joseph could become casualties of quiet displays against Wales.
  
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• Premier League: Guardiola insists Aguero 'knows what I want' but striker set for more time on the bench

  12-02-2017 23:30
  
  The City boss suggests the Argentine will not be getting back into the team in the coming weeks, and admits he does not know how he will react
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino insists Spurs’ challenge merits greater recognition

  12-02-2017 23:30
  
  • We are fighting for the Premier League with different tools, manager says
  • Net spend at White Hart Lane over the past five years is only £1mMauricio Pochettino feels that Tottenham Hotspur deserve more credit for competing at the top end of the Premier League with “different tools” to their top-four rivals.The Spurs manager’s irritation at Liverpool was not confined to a poor performance from his team as their 11-game unbeaten run was shattered by two goals f
  
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• Lukaku sees bigger picture as he waits to equal record

  12-02-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Belgian striker's chance to draw level was spurned on the half-hour on Teesside as Middlesbrough goalkeeper Victor Valdes rushed out to repel his one clear-cut opportunity.
  
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• Liverpool’s Lallana reveals players-only meeting helped spark win over Spurs

  12-02-2017 23:30
  
  Jürgen Klopp was kept in dark over training-ground get-together before 2-0 win at Anfield because players needed to step upPinning blame on players may be justified, tempting and good for self-esteem but can come at a price for managers who succumb. “That is killing for a team,” said the Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum. Liverpool repaid Jürgen Klopp for his refusal to give the last rites before Saturday’s comfortable defeat of Tottenham Hotspur was under way.At M
  
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• Hughes offers an olive branch to West Brom boss Tony Pulis

  12-02-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Hughes will take his squad to the desert heat of Dubai this week — but first he wants to cool the boiling feud over Saido Berahino. The Stoke boss has tried to draw a line under the episode.
  
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• Arsenal need stuttering Mesut Özil to find early-season form for Bayern test

  12-02-2017 23:30
  
  The German playmaker looked short of confidence in the 2-0 win over Hull City but will need to be on his mettle in Munich for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tieWith the score at 0-0 against Hull and Arsenal spluttering, the ball came out of the air to Mesut Özil. The Germany midfielder was in an advanced position, unmarked on the edge of the six-yard box. As Alexis Sánchez’s cross came to him he sized it up, adjusted his body to the perpendicular and hit a voll
  
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• Any of the top six can still win the title, claims Conte

  12-02-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Antonio Conte insists the title race is not over after his Chelsea team dropped two Premier League points by drawing 1-1 at Burnley. Chelsea are 10 points clear but that lead will be cut to eight if Man City win.
  
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• Pep Guardiola admits Sergio Agüero could soon leave Manchester City

  12-02-2017 23:29
  
  • Success of Sterling, Jesus and Sané has recently relegated striker to the bench
  • Guardiola says he wants Agüero to stay but currently sees him as back-upPep Guardiola has admitted for the first time that Sergio Agüero could leave Manchester City in the summer. The manager and the club do not want the striker to depart but it is clear Agüero may get a move if he agitates for one. Guardiola has dropped him for City’s past two games – wins over West Ha
  
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• Atletico stun Celta late on, Sevilla edge Las Palmas

  12-02-2017 23:26
  Antoine Griezmann scored a late winner to complete a stunning fightback by Atletico Madrid, who beat Celta Vigo 3-2 on Sunday with two goals in three minutes. Atletico looked set to stumble to defeat when John Guidetti put the visitors ahead in the 78th minute for the second time in the game. Gustavo Cabral had given Celta a surprise lead in the fifth minute which Fernando Torres cancelled out with a stunning overhead kick in the 11th.
  
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• Higuain fires Juventus past Cagliari, Roma beat Crotone

  12-02-2017 23:23
  (Reuters) - Gonzalo Higuain scored either side of half time as Serie A leaders Juventus won 2-0 at Cagliari on Sunday to preserve their seven-point lead over second-placed AS Roma, who downed Crotone 2-0 away after goals from Radja Nainggolan and Edin Dzeko. Higuain, signed for 90 million euros ($95.61 million) last year, proved his worth against Cagliari as he settled a tight contest to take his goal tally to 18 for the season.
  
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• Claudio Ranieri vows to ditch Leicester's title stars

  12-02-2017 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claudio Ranieri has made the damning promise to axe the players who won the league for Leicester, insisting they have blown their last chance after falling within one point of the relegation zone.
  
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• Nantes 3-2 Marseille: Dimitri Payet suffers shock defeat

  12-02-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dimitri Payet joined Marseille in controversial circumstances in January having gone on strike at West Ham, but he may be having thoughts of trying for a return ticket after his new side were beaten.
  
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• Wales on the wrong axis against England to enjoy bread of heaven | Paul Rees

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  Wales were minutes away from mass rejoicing in Cardiff but they must now address the gap that has opened up between them and Eddie Jones’s EnglandWhen Wales were at their pomp in the 1970s the sound of the crowd in Cardiff singing Bread of Heaven as the visiting team were about to run on to the field put a wobble in the step of even the most hardened player in opposition colours. It was not enough on Saturday as England, who have fast become a team in the mould of their head coach Eddie Jo
  
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• Eddie Jones copies José Mourinho manual to keep England winning | Robert Kitson

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  After his side snatch a 21-16 win over Wales, England’s coach admits adopting Spanish practices used by Portuguese manager in bid to catch up All BlacksThis year’s Six Nations has yet to reach the halfway mark but already the old tournament has a renewed sense of verve. When a game matches the occasion in Cardiff there is no finer place in the world to watch rugby union, even if the lurching late twist in England’s favour made it a bittersweet Welsh symphony.Carry on like
  
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• Eddie Jones considers ringing the changes for England’s match with Italy

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  • Jamie George’s form may see him replace captain Dylan Hartley
  • Mako Vunipolaand Anthony Watson in line for returnsEddie Jones is poised to reshuffle his unbeaten England team for the home game against Italy, with Mako Vunipola and Anthony Watson close to returning to the Six Nations fray. Elliot Daly will also be considered at full-back, as Jones looks to take the Azzurri “to the cleaners” at Twickenham a week on Sunday.With England having won 16 consecutive Tests,
  
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• Cagliari 0-2 Juventus: Gonzalo Higuain bags brace in win

  12-02-2017 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gonzalo Higuain scored his 17th and 18th Serie A goals of the season to strengthen Juventus' position at the top of Serie A with a 1-0 win over struggling Cagliari on Sunday night.
  
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• Atletico Madrid 3-2 Celta Vigo: Report

  12-02-2017 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Atletico Madrid completed an incredible comeback to overcome Celta Vigo at the Vicente Calderon. Fernando Torres scored a wonderful overhead hooked kick and Yannick Carrasco hit a great volley.
  
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• Ex-Knick Sprewell returns to MSG, 2 days after Oakley's ban

  12-02-2017 22:51
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Knicks star Latrell Sprewell has returned to Madison Square Garden for the first time in 13 years, just two days after Charles Oakley was banned from the building.
  
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• Yaya Toure: I joined Man City to make them like Man United

  12-02-2017 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yaya Toure has said he joined Man City in order to make the club more like bitter rivals Manchester United. The Ivorian has won two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups.
  
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• Brent Burns scores 2, Sharks beat Devils 4-1

  12-02-2017 22:42
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The stat line on Brent Burns reveals all one needs to know about the San Jose Sharks' victory over the New Jersey Devils.
  
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• Germans outraged as U.S. plays Nazi version of anthem

  12-02-2017 22:24
  (Reuters) - German tennis has responded with outrage after the United States Tennis Association (USTA) made the embarrassing error of playing the Nazi-era version of Germany's national anthem during a Fed Cup tie in Hawaii. The version played included the first stanza, beginning "Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles, uber alles in der Welt" which was used as Nazi propaganda. It translates as "Germany, Germany, above all, above all in the world" and was dropped after World War Two because of its a
  
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• UK film awards show love for 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Lion' - KAKE

  12-02-2017 22:16
  
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  (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP). BAFTA staff lay out heads-on-sticks marking the seating plan at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, ahead of the EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday Feb. 12. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP).en meer »
  
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• Mets' Syndergaard prepared to start opening day

  12-02-2017 21:52
  
  PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets manager Terry Collins has not officially revealed his opening day starter yet, waiting instead for a spring training announcement.
  
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• Ex-NFL player Quentin Moses, 2 others die in house fire

  12-02-2017 21:47
  
  MONROE, Ga. (AP) — Fire officials say former NFL linebacker end Quentin Moses and two other people have died in a house fire in Georgia.
  
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• Claudio Ranieri says he has given Leicester players too many chances

  12-02-2017 21:23
  
  • Italian says, after defeat to Swansea City, he has been too loyal
  • Ranieri adds: ‘We have two problems: conceding goals and not scoring’Claudio Ranieri has said he has been too loyal to the players that led Leicester City to the Premier League title last season and admitted that he was guilty of giving them too many chances to turn around a season that is in danger of ending in relegation to the Championship.In what was in effect a warning to his players that he was
  
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• Injured Davis Cup umpire undergoes surgery on fractured eye socket

  12-02-2017 21:07
  French umpire Arnaud Gabas has had surgery to repair a fractured eye socket after being hit by a ball from Canada's Denis Shapovalov during a Davis Cup tie with Britain, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Sunday. "Chair umpire Arnaud Gabas has undergone successful surgery in France to repair a fracture of the orbital bone under his left eye," the ITF said in a statement. "The fracture was detected when doctors performed X-rays upon Mr Gabas’s return from Ottawa, where he was
  
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• Former Miami Dolphins linebacker Quentin Moses, 33, dies in house fire

  12-02-2017 21:03
  
  Moses was MVP in University of Georgia’s SEC championship teamWoman and child also died in fire early on Sunday morningThe former Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals linebacker Quentin Moses has died at the age of 33 in a house fire that also killed a woman and child.Firefighters found Moses unconscious at the house in Monroe, Georgia; he later died in hospital. The fire started around 6am on Sunday morning and also took the lives of Andria Godard, 31, and her daughter, Jasmine, who was 1
  
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• Sevilla sneak past Las Palmas to stay in title race

  12-02-2017 20:56
  Sevilla returned to winning ways after a late strike from substitute Joaquin Correa earned them a 1-0 win over Las Palmas on Sunday and allowed them to stay in touch with La Liga pace setters Real Madrid and Barcelona. The goal inflicted a first home league defeat of the season on Las Palmas, who had spurned a series of chances in an end-to-end second half, thwarted by a couple of outstanding saves from Rico. Sevilla, who had failed to win on their previous two outings, are third in the standing
  
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• Alan Smith Leicester find to get angry about situation

  12-02-2017 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leicester were defeated 2-0 by Swansea on Sunday at the Liberty Stadium, leaving them 17th in the Premier League table, just one point above the relegation zone with 13 games remaining.
  
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• Florentin Pogba makes huge Arsenal claim as he prepares for Manchester United clash

  12-02-2017 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SAINT-ETIENNE defender Florentin Pogba has revealed his admiration for Arsenal.
  
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• Rangers caretaker boss Graeme Murty not short of advice

  12-02-2017 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Caretaker manager Graeme Murty claimed he had 'the world' telling him which Rangers team to pick for the 2-1 William Hill Scottish Cup fifth-round over Morton at Ibrox.
  
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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson smiling again thanks to radical changes after Rio

  12-02-2017 20:37
  
  • Heptathlete changed coaching team and moved to France
  • Booked place at European Indoor Championships in long jumpAfter Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s Olympic heartbreak in Rio she not only picked up the pieces but radically re-arranged them, deciding on a new coaching team and a new life in France. In Sheffield on Sunday, however, some things remained reassuringly familiar as a leap of 6.69m in the long jump booked her place at next month’s European Indoor Championships in
  
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