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• How did it go so horribly wrong at the Stadium of Light?

  31-07-2017 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CRAIG HOPE: The Stadium of Light was supposed to herald a bright new era for Sunderland, and for a little while they shone as Peter Reid’s side finished seventh.
  
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• ANALYSIS: Athletes must respect the doping testing process

  31-07-2017 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT LAWTON - ANALYSIS: No athlete enjoys drugs tests, not least because it normally involves providing a urine sample in front of a stranger. It can sometimes take hours.
  
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• Chelsea set sights on Leicester City's Danny Drinkwater

  31-07-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chelsea are interested in Leicester City midfielder Danny Drinkwater after manager Antonio Conte drew up a list of targets to bolster his options in the middle of the park after Nemanja Matic's move.
  
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• Manchester City and PSG have been transformed in 10 years

  31-07-2017 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  10 years ago, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain had just finished another season among the also-rans of their leagues, finishing in 14th and 15th positions respectively.
  
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• Man Utd set to have Tinder as £12m-a-year sleeve sponsor

  31-07-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE - SPORT AGENDA: Tinder are said to be interested in becoming United's sleeve sponsor - a new commercial opportunity for Premier League clubs from the upcoming term.
  
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• FA’s increased drug testing to focus on Premier League players

  31-07-2017 23:33
  • New proposals envisage doubling of tests, concentrated on elite level
  • John Terry will not face gambling charge over final-game substitutionDrug testing in football will increase to unprecedented levels this season, with the Premier League coming under the greatest scrutiny.The Football Association, in conjunction with UK Anti-Doping, conducted more than 3,250 tests on professional players last season, and there were two positive results with two further cases under review. But the
  
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• Arsenal summer clear-out delayed

  31-07-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Gunners are keen to sell with Jack Wilshere, David Ospina, Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson, Lucas Perez, Calum Chambers and Mathieu Debuchy all available this summer.
  
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• Rory McIlroy didn't think his caddie did a great job

  31-07-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DEREK LAWRENSON'S WORLD OF GOLF: Rory McIlroy’s year of upheaval took another jarring turn with the surprise announcement he has parted company with his caddie JP Fitzgerald.
  
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• England believe Mark Sampson’s great leap forward can bring Euro 2017 glory

  31-07-2017 23:30
  Quarter-final victory over France and Germany’s shock defeat have left Sampson’s well-drilled women’s squad convinced they can end a 51-year national waitPeople often talk about jumping for joy but it is relatively unusual to see a full-grown adult actually do it. Such scarcity value meant things felt significant when, late on Sunday night at a small, slightly dilapidated, football stadium in the ancient Netherlands city of Deventer, a 34-year-old Welshman offered a perfect phy
  
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• CJ Ujah: I'm not just a guest at Usain Bolt's farewell do

  31-07-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Usain Bolt will be handed an unfair advantage at the World Championships if London organisers turn the 100m final into a love-in for the retiring Jamaican, believes Britain’s best sprint hope.
  
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• Los Angeles reaches deal over hosting 2028 Summer Olympics

  31-07-2017 23:27
  Paris expected to land 2024 Games after Tokyo hosts in 2020IOC president Thomas Bach welcomes LA’s decisionLos Angeles has accepted a deal to stage the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games – which means that the 2024 Games will be heading to Paris.The Los Angeles Organising Committee confirmed that it had signed a contract with the International Olympic Committee that will see it given £1.8bn to compensate it for stepping aside until 2028 and to help it increase participation for
  
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• Fina 2017 world aquatics championships – in pictures

  31-07-2017 23:16
  With almost 3,000 athletes competing in 75 contests across six different aquatic disciplines, the 2017 FINA world championships in Budapest was one of the biggest sporting events in the world in terms of participation and global exposure. We bring you some of our favourite images from the event Continue reading...
  
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• Lewis Hamilton stands to benefit from fulfilling his promise to Valtteri Bottas

  31-07-2017 23:13
  Giving third place to his team-mate has won the Briton applause and the move should guarantee Mercedes’ full backing if the F1 title race gets tightLewis Hamilton knows giving third place back to Valtteri Bottas at the Hungaroring on Sunday might cost him in the Formula One title battle but insisted it was the right thing to do. He has been applauded for doing so and rightly. In the cut-throat business of a championship fight, few drivers would have felt it necessary. Indeed Sebastian Vett
  
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• Richarlison to join Watford, Fluminense confirm

  31-07-2017 23:11
  Rising Brazil star Richarlison is set to join Watford despite having been linked with Premier League champions Chelsea.
  
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• David Rudisha ‘saddened’ after pulling out of worlds with muscle strain

  31-07-2017 22:57
  • World record holder in 800m scratches on eve of championships
  • IAAF’s Seb Coe says Russian ban will remain for foreseeable futureThe Kenyan David Rudisha, who lit up the London Olympics with a bravura display of front running which brought him a gold medal and a 800m world record, has pulled out of the world championships with a quad strain.Rudisha, the world and Olympic champion and the only person to run under 1min 41sec for the 800m, said he was disappointed and saddened by
  
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• Manchester City arrange training camp after their Premier League opener

  31-07-2017 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is to take his squad to a training camp in Catalonia less than a day.
  
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• CJ Ujah in the mood to rain on Usain Bolt’s retirement parade

  31-07-2017 22:32
  CJ Ujah feels the Jamaican legend has lost his edge before his world championships farewell and believes he is among those who could beat himCJ Ujah will compete over 100m at the World Championships this week in a stadium only 10 miles from where he was born in Enfield, north London, but he is under no illusions that he will benefit from home advantage.The presence of Usain Bolt, contesting for the final time an event he has dominated for almost a decade, will negate any patriotic fervour among
  
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• Sky Sports Box Office to screen McGregor-Mayweather fight

  31-07-2017 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sky Sports Box Office has won the race to broadcast the highly-anticipated fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather on August 26..
  
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• PSG make plans for unveiling ahead of £197m deal for Barcelona’s Neymar

  31-07-2017 22:00
  • Paris Saint-Germain hope to conclude world record deal this week
  • Five-year contract for forward has been ready for several daysParis Saint-Germain are so confident of signing Neymar that they were on Monday preparing his unveiling. They hope to conclude a deal this week to buy the forward from Barcelona for a world record £197m, the Brazilian’s release clause.A five-year contract has been ready for several days and just needs to be signed. When PSG bought Zlatan Ibrahim
  
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• David Rudisha makes shock withdrawal from London 2017

  31-07-2017 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kenyan sensation David Rudisha has made a shock withdrawal from the World Championships because of injury, revealing on Monday he had suffered a grade one strain in his quadriceps.
  
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• ‘X-rays are a waste of money,’ says Dean Elgar after painful show of defiance

  31-07-2017 21:44
  The opener’s 136 in the third Test despite a suspected broken finger displayed traditional South African grit but also highlighted his side’s batting weaknessThe battered and bruised hands of Dean Elgar told their own story as he stood on the outfield of The Oval following the epic finish to the third Test, with the opener’s 136 over five and half hours at the crease a brave attempt to keep alive South African hopes of a series win. Related: Moeen Ali takes hat-trick to seal em
  
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• Andrey Kuznetsov surprised by qualifier Miljan Zekic in Kitzbuhel

  31-07-2017 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Serbian qualifier Miljan Zekic surprised world number 66 Andrey Kuznetsov to book his place in the second round of the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel..
  
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• Watford sign Richarlison from Fluminense in £11.2m deal

  31-07-2017 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chelsea had also made enquiries for the exciting 20-year-old from Fluminense while Ajax had agreed personal terms on a four year contract but he has now joined Watford.
  
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• Geoffrey Boycott pranked by Aggers on Test Match Special

  31-07-2017 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott was well renowned for his defensive technique as a player, but he was beaten all.
  
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• Moeen Ali delights in historic hat-trick after England’s Test win

  31-07-2017 21:16
  • Spinner is the first man since 1958 to end a Test with a hat-trick
  • Joe Root praises man-of-the-match Ben Stokes’s growing maturityMoeen Ali had previously savoured the delight of a hat-trick only during England’s football warm-ups and so was brimming with joy after his three-card trick wrapped up a convincing victory over South Africa and delivered a sensational finale to The Oval’s 100th Test match.At 2.27pm on Monday afternoon England’s players erupted in
  
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• Steve Bartman, America's most infamous fan, receives Cubs redemption

  31-07-2017 21:09
  Bartman given World Series ring to celebrate Chicago’s 2016 victoryWas blamed for interfering with fielder during playoff loss in 2003Steve Bartman, the Chicago Cubs fan vilified and blamed for ending the team’s championship hopes in 2003, has been awarded a World Series ring to commemorate Chicago’s title win last year.The Cubs were mired in their legendary title drought – which ended after 108 years last season – when Bartman made his mark on history in 2003. The
  
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• Neymar may fly to Paris on Tuesday instead of Qatar

  31-07-2017 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neymar will not go to Doha for a medical before completing a £196m transfer from Barcelona to PSG but will likely arrive in the French capital on Tuesday, according to reports in France.
  
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• MLB: Steve Bartman, America's most infamous fan, receives Cubs redemption

  31-07-2017 21:09
  The Cubs were mired in their legendary title drought – which ended after 108 years last season – when Bartman made his mark on history in 2003.
  
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• Gordon Greer back at Kilmarnock after 10 years away

  31-07-2017 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Experienced defender Gordon Greer has returned to Kilmarnock..
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo denies tax exasion as he appears in court

  31-07-2017 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has denied he evaded tax or hid details of his income from the authorities..
  
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• Forest Green: the eco-friendly club with a robot mower and big ambitions

  31-07-2017 20:42
  The League Two newcomers, backed by a multimillionaire and with Jilly Cooper a boardroom regular, hail from a town of 6,000 and are proud to be differentJilly Cooper is a regular in the boardroom, the chairman is a multimillionaire who used to live in a converted car on a hill, Vivienne Westwood cheered the club on in the game that sealed promotion, every player eats a vegan diet and a robot cuts the grass. Welcome to Forest Green Rovers, the Football League’s newest member and a club like
  
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• Steven Finn to stay with England squad

  31-07-2017 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  England will retain Steven Finn as cover for his injured fellow seamer Mark Wood in an otherwise unchanged 13-man squad.
  
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• Nice emerge as suitors for Manchester City's Samir Nasri

  31-07-2017 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nice are emerging as a possible destination for Manchester City outcast Samir Nasri. Nasri, back from a successful season on loan at Sevilla, has two years left on his £180,000-a-week City contract.
  
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• West Indies players focused on silencing their critics ahead of England series

  31-07-2017 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  West Indies have arrived for their tour of England focused on silencing their critics..
  
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• Third time lucky for England spinner Moeen Ali

  31-07-2017 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was also the first hat-trick by an England spinner since Tom Goddard removed South Africa’s Dudley Nourse, Norman Gordon and Billy Wade in Johannesburg in 1938-39.
  
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• Goodwood on course to take York’s place in Flat hierarchy

  31-07-2017 20:16
  • Glorious Goodwood could claim to stand second only to Royal Ascot
  • Big Orange aiming to win Goodwood Cup for third year runningThe end of one era and the beginning of another will overlap at Glorious Goodwood this week, as Seamus Buckley, the track’s clerk of the course for nearly a quarter of a century, oversees the meeting for the last time and it breaks fresh ground with three Group One events spread over the next five days.There are changes to the familiar schedule too, wi
  
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• Moeen Ali joins select group of England hat-trick takers

  31-07-2017 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Moeen Ali claimed the 14th hat-trick by an England player in Test cricket as the hosts beat South Africa by 239 runs at The Oval..
  
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• Formula One half-term awards for Lewis Hamilton and Co

  31-07-2017 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JONATHAN MCEVOY: After packing away their freight in Budapest, F1 went into hibernation for the summer with Lewis Hamilton trailingleader Sebastian Vettel by 14 points.
  
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• UK: Y Not/Truck Festivals, BBC E-Sports - Pollstar

  31-07-2017 20:04
  UK: Y Not/Truck Festivals, BBC E-Sports
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  Two Global-produced UK festivals – Truck Festival in Oxfordshire, July 21-23, and Y Not Festival in Derbyshire, July 27-30 – received bad feedback from partner companies and festivalgoers after weather dampened both events. Weather conditions were ...
  
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• 'Stranger things have happened': Rovers prepare to meet Sydney FC in Darwin | Helen Davidson

  31-07-2017 20:00
  The FFA Cup draw has thrown up a classic David and Goliath encounter between part-time players from the tropics and the three-time A-League championsOn a Tuesday evening Darwin Rovers are getting some extra training in at a suburban Darwin oval. They started late because some players hadn’t finished work, and they’re sharing the dying light with a few other sporting groups.But every session helps ahead of the biggest game of their lives this week, against the reigning A-League champi
  
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• Sky Sports announces UK and Irish pricing for Mayweather vs. McGregor pay-per-view - MMA Fighting

  31-07-2017 20:00
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  Sky Sports announces UK and Irish pricing for Mayweather vs. McGregor pay-per-view
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  The pay-per-view will be available to UK fans for £19.95, and to Irish fans for €24.95. by Peter Carroll@PetesyCarroll Jul 31, 2017, 2:00pm EDT. tweet · share · pin. Esther Lin, Showtime. Sky Sports has secured the UK and Ireland broadcasting rights ...
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  Sky Sports Box Office to screen McGrego
  
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• Les Murray: a cult figure who practically sang for joy doing a job he loved | Paul Connolly

  31-07-2017 20:00
  It is easy to be beguiled by someone else’s passion and the broadcaster managed to sweep up so many of us in his – the world gameAt some point, though it’s hard to say exactly when, the late Les Murray became a cult figure in the Australian sporting landscape. This happened long before he slipped into his silver fox years, those more recent times in which he began to ration his onscreen appearances while the relatively younger brigade, like Craig Foster, took up his work and th
  
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• Moeen Ali happy to be in the ensemble but putting in a lead performance

  31-07-2017 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the time Moeen Ali's hat-trick wrapped up a feelgood victory at the Kia Oval on Monday it was hard.
  
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• Moeen Ali's special end to England win in 100th Test

  31-07-2017 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Moeen Ali provided the perfect conclusion to The Oval’s 100th Test by taking the first hat-trick by an England spinner for nearly 80 years.
  
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• Mayweather vs McGregor to be shown on Sky Sports

  31-07-2017 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fight between champion boxer Floyd Mayweather and UFC champion Conor McGregor will be shown live on Sky Sports Box Office and available for just £19.95.
  
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• Bayern Munich's Rodriguez not competition, says Muller

  31-07-2017 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Germany international does not see Rodriguez as a rival for a first-team place after the Colombia star arrived on a two-season long loan deal from Real Madrid.
  
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• Nemanja Matic decision to join Man United was 'easy'

  31-07-2017 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'I feel great. Manchester United is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I'm very happy. I'm now part of this great club and great group,' Nemanja Matic told MUTV after completing his move.
  
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• Diego Simeone: Atletico Madrid could resign Diego Costa

  31-07-2017 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diego Simeone has refused to elaborate on Atletico Madrid’s pursuit of Diego Costa but indicated he could be playing for his old club in January. AC Milan are also interested in the striker.
  
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• Somerset sign Fakhar Zaman to replace injured Corey Anderson

  31-07-2017 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Somerset have announced the signing of Pakistan opening batsman Fakhar Zaman as a replacement for injured New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson..
  
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• Moeen Ali: I'd only scored hat-tricks in football warm-ups before, never cricket

  31-07-2017 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Moeen Ali's first hat-trick in any standard of cricket made history at The Oval - and gave him plenty to.
  
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