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• Australia were cricket's most disliked team before cheating scandal

  24-03-2018 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LAWRENCE BOOTH: Cheating scandals in cricket do not usually provoke schadenfreude, but for this Australian team many observers will be happy to make an exception.
  
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• Rugby World Cup 2019 qualifier between Belgium and Spain risked integrity of game

  24-03-2018 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Even if Spain had won and qualified for the RWC2019 I would have supported any view that the match be replayed because there was a huge conflict of interest.
  
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• Sandy Ryan shapes up for Commonwealth Games

  24-03-2018 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was 11 years ago this month that a teenage Sandy Ryan travelled to a function room inside Derby County’s Pride Park to watch her boxing brother Dave make his professional debut.
  
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• London Irish 29-33 Gloucester: Tom Marshall tries boost visitors' Aviva Premiership play-off chances

  24-03-2018 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GARY FITZGERALD: Declan Kidney was left with mixed feelings after his first game in charge saw Irish collect two important points but also throw away a big lead. 
  
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• Mohamed Salah is the Egyptian King who may be as big as Lionel Messi

  24-03-2018 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo’s hunger for goals denied Mohamed Salah a victorious return to Switzerland — but it was unable to prevent more accolades piling up for Liverpool’s Egyptian star.
  
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• Joe Gomez: ‘I didn’t have time to think about my England debut’

  24-03-2018 23:30
  The young Liverpool defender was shocked to find Gareth Southgate sending him on from the bench against Germany in November but now he is firmly in World Cup squad contentionJoe Gomez barely had time to think. It had not even crossed his mind that Gareth Southgate would turn to him when Phil Jones went down injured in the 25th minute of England’s friendly against Germany in November. Gomez was sitting on the bench at Wembley but the Liverpool defender was a new face in the squad and assume
  
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• Jamie Vardy hopes to start for England against Italy – and touch the ball

  24-03-2018 23:30
  • Substitute against Netherlands failed to get a touch in 22-minute cameo
  • ‘As a striker you do sometimes have to sacrifice,’ he saysJamie Vardy is set to start England’s friendly against Italy on Tuesday and will aim to go one better than in his 22-minute cameo against Holland by succeeding in actually touching the ball. Related: Jesse Lingard strikes as experimental England defeat NetherlandsContinue reading...
  
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• Gareth Southgate to shuffle pack for England’s next game against Italy

  24-03-2018 23:30
  Jack Butland, Jamie Vardy, Dele Alli and Eric Dier are set to return to the starting line-up for the friendly at Wembley on Tuesday after missing the win over the NetherlandsThe rhetoric around England is shifting. It is not long since Gareth Southgate would shuffle into the media scrum after matches, whether his selection had been victorious in a qualifier or just edged out in a friendly, and have to reassure all present that subtle progress was being made. He would be forced to pick through th
  
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• Anthony Joshua raring to shine again on big stage against Joseph Parker

  24-03-2018 23:29
  The reigning IBF and WBA heavyweight champion is ready to embrace the electric atmosphere of an arena crowd once more and questions whether Joseph Parker might crumbleIf Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker can reach the end of the week without insulting each other, it might not do a lot for Sky’s pay-per-view sales but it will restore much-needed dignity to the heavyweight division.While Tyson Fury continues to rant in the wings – and is justly proud of having shed four stones since ann
  
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• Ian Poulter likely to miss Masters by a whisker despite hitting form in Austin

  24-03-2018 23:28
  • Englishman set to miss Augusta by three hundredths of a point
  • Poulter reached last eight of WGC Match Play before Kisner defeatThere are the fine margins in sport, and then there are the circumstances attached to Ian Poulter and the Masters. As things stand, the Englishman will miss out on a place at the first major of 2018 by three hundredths of a point – and a single place – on the world ranking table. Even more galling for the 42-year-old is that an outstanding effor
  
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• Golf: Kisner thrashes Poulter to set up Thomas Match Play semi-final

  24-03-2018 23:25
  Kevin Kisner produced a stunning performance in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play quarter finals to beat Ian Poulter 8 and 6.
  
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• Scarlets’ Aaron Shingler: ‘I need to keep pressing for World Cup place’

  24-03-2018 23:00
  A year ago Aaron Shingler’s Wales career looked over. Now, as Scarlets prepare to face La Rochelle in the Champions Cup quarter-final, his challenge is to stay in Warren Gatland’s plansAaron Shingler was one of Wales’s standout players in the Six Nations but the Scarlets flanker goes into Good Friday’s European Champions Cup quarter-final against La Rochelle feeling he has something to prove after being left out of the final match against France.The 30-year-old forward, w
  
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• NBA: Celtics' Irving to return in three to six weeks after surgery

  24-03-2018 22:17
  Kyrie Irving could be out until May after undergoing a "minimally invasive" procedure on his left knee.
  
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• Caroline Wozniacki says her parents received death threats at Miami Open

  24-03-2018 22:06
  • World No 2’s family members subjected to foul-mouthed abuse
  • Wozniacki beaten in second round by Puerto Rican Mónica PuigCaroline Wozniacki claims she and her family were threatened and abused by spectators during her second-round defeat at the Miami Open.The Australian Open champion suffered a surprise 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 loss to the unseeded Puerto Rican Mónica Puig on Friday. Afterwards the 27-year-old Dane revealed her parents were subjected to death threats a
  
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• Golf: Poulter forgets Oosthuizen's Masters nightmare

  24-03-2018 21:51
  Louis Oosthuizen was beaten in a play-off for the Masters title in 2012, a fact Ian Poulter forgot after his Match Play win.
  
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• Jack Wilshere ruled out of England's clash with Italy

  24-03-2018 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wilshere was hoping to win his first cap since Euro 2016 during the double header but did not travel to Amsterdam for Friday's 1-0 defeat of the Dutch having succumbed to a bout of tendinopathy.
  
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• England U21 2-1 Romania U21: Clarke-Salter scores winner on dream debut

  24-03-2018 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TOM FARMERY AT MOLINEUX: Gray and Clarke-Salter did enough to inflict defeat on a Romania side that never gave up and were rewarded with a late goal by Valentin Costache.
  
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• Tennis: Miami Open organisers unaware of Wozniacki abuse

  24-03-2018 21:41
  Caroline Wozniacki revealed her family were abused during her defeat to Monica Puig at the Miami Open, but organisers say they were unaware.
  
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• Dereck Chisora and David Haye clash ringside at the O2 Arena

  24-03-2018 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Haye and Chisora became embroiled in a ringside spat as talks over a potential fight between Del Boy and Joe Joyce broke down. Joyce, Haye's protege, has been calling out Chisora for weeks.
  
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• Luton 2-0 Barnet: Danny Hylton and James Collins seal win

  24-03-2018 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATTHEW SMITH AT KENILWORTH ROAD: 'Mad Dog' Martin Allen may have brought dogged determination to Barnet's fight for survival, but they will need more to remain a Football League breed.
  
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• FA condemn England supporters after trouble in Amsterdam

  24-03-2018 21:33
  The FA will work alongside the UK Football Policing Unit to try and identify those England fans responsible for the disorder in Amsterdam.
  
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• NBA: Warriors star Curry's regular season over after MCL sprain

  24-03-2018 21:29
  Stephen Curry will be re-evaluated in three weeks after suffering a Grade 2 sprain of his left MCL.
  
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• Saracens 24-11 Harlequins: Liam Williams and Maro Itoje score tries at London Stadium

  24-03-2018 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON AT THE LONDON STADIUM: 'Tired? Not me,' was the message as Maro Itoje clasped his hands together to mime the image of a sleeping baby. He was back to his best.
  
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• Chelsea racism claims could be just the tip of the iceberg

  24-03-2018 21:05
  Gwyn Williams and Graham Rix facing legal action but solicitor says there might be ‘potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of young people’ who experienced racial abuseAfter all the alleged failures, all the specific allegations that boys in their care were stripped of self-confidence in a hard-faced world inhabited by some deeply unpleasant characters, what do Chelsea do next?Not just Chelsea either, if the latest former player to begin legal action against the club – a man,
  
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• Schachmann Takes Volta A Catalunya Stage Win

  24-03-2018 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Quick Step's Max Schachmann has won stage six of the Volta a Catalunya..
  
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• Tennis: Radwanska stuns Halep to open up Miami draw

  24-03-2018 21:01
  Simona Halep followed Caroline Wozniacki out of the Miami Open as Agnieszka Radwanska came from a set down to reach round four.
  
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• Kyle Edmund crashes out of Miami Open to Frances Tiafoe

  24-03-2018 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kyle Edmund remains winless since his semi-final exploits at the Australian Open after missing the chance to regain some important momentum at the Miami Open.
  
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• Lawless Takes Coppi e Bartali Win

  24-03-2018 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  British rider Chris Lawless picked up his first win for Team Sky when he sprinted to take the win on Stage 3 of the Coppi Bartali..
  
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• Boat Race 2018: Cambridge beat Oxford in men’s and women’s races

  24-03-2018 20:38
  • Cambridge men power to victory, 10 seconds clear of Oxford
  • Cambridge women claim first back-to-back wins since 1999On an overcast and increasingly chilly afternoon that continued to make it feel that spring is here in name only, Cambridge were able to enjoy the warm glow of a resounding victory in the 164th Boat Race. The Light Blues led from the start on the choppy waters of the Thames, avenging their defeat to Oxford last year and making it a clean sweep for Cambridge after their
  
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• Justin Thomas beats Si Woo to make WGC Match Play quarter-final

  24-03-2018 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Justin Thomas remains on course to become world No 1 as he coasted past Si Woo Kim to move into the quarter-finals of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin.
  
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• Northern Ireland’s Paul Smyth fires Michael O’Neill’s second coming

  24-03-2018 20:17
  Wearing the away kit colours that reflected the blue skies above them, Paul Smyth sent the Northern Ireland faithful into seventh heaven on a sunny spring‑like afternoon in Belfast. Only four minutes after coming on, the 20-year-old Queens Park Rangers winger shook off his South Korean marker just inside the penalty area and fired home the winner on his international debut. He marked it with an acrobatic backwards flip as Windsor Park celebrated.Smyth’s dream start as a Northern Irel
  
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• Martin Allen starts fifth stint at Barnet with ominous defeat at Luton Town

  24-03-2018 20:17
  It spoke volubly for the atmosphere Nathan Jones has built around Luton that, 20 minutes after his team had returned to the top of League Two, several hundred supporters remained in place simply to watch him run down the touchline. Jones absorbed the acclaim, thumped his chest and then disappeared down the tunnel to rapturous applause; it was some way to make an exit, but he had spent the previous two hours battling with a man who could write the manual on refusing to fade into the night. Relate
  
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• Liverpool bench can’t control laughter at John Aldridge tumble

  24-03-2018 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Supporters at Anfield were treated to a thrilling match on Saturday afternoon as they watched past Liverpool and Bayern Munich greats play out a 5-5 draw.
  
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• PSG hold talks with Antonio Conte’s representatives over summer move

  24-03-2018 20:01
  • Ligue 1 side willing to offer Chelsea manager £10m a season
  • Unai Emery certain to leave after failing to impress in EuropeParis Saint-Germain have opened talks with Antonio Conte’s representatives in an attempt to convince the Italian to leave Chelsea this summer.The French club are certain to part company with Unai Emery at the end of the season when his contract expires, and Conte is one of four managers the PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is considering as a repla
  
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• League Two round-up: Marc McNulty hat-trick sees Coventry continue play-off push

  24-03-2018 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marc McNulty scored a second-half hat-trick as Coventry continued their Sky Bet League Two play-off push with a 4-0 home win over struggling Grimsby.
  
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• Charlton boss Lee Bowyer ready to crash League One play-offs

  24-03-2018 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AMITAI WINEHOUSE AT THE VALLEY: Lee Bowyer hailed a perfect start to his managerial career before insisting Charlton must start dreaming of the play-offs again.
  
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• Cambridge win 2018 Boat Race as Oxford are dominated on gloomy Thames

  24-03-2018 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cambridge justified their tag of favourites to beat Oxford just before sunset on the Thames. Victory in the 2018 Boat Race saw Cambridge move 83-80 ahead in the overall head-to-head.
  
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• Maro Itoje back on form as Saracens ease past sluggish Harlequins

  24-03-2018 19:12
  • Saracens 24-11 Harlequins
  • Itoje had his say on possible fatigue with sleeping try celebrationEngland’s struggle this season has, as ever, generated debate about the fault line in the professional game in a country where the first loyalty of players is not to their national team but their employers, the clubs. Eddie Jones has been accused of flogging his squad in training but the only time he has control over his charges is during international windows, and a couple of camps o
  
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• Italy to name new coach in May, Costacurta confirms

  24-03-2018 19:12
  Alessandro Costacurta has confirmed the new permanent coach of the Italian national team will be named on May 20.
  
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• William Haggas lands fourth Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster

  24-03-2018 19:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newmarket trainer William Haggas easily landed the Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster for a fourth time as Addeybb launched what could be a fruitful link-up with jockey James Doyle this season.
  
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• Boat Race: Cambridge beat Oxford in men’s and women’s races

  24-03-2018 19:09
  Cambridge enjoyed a clean sweep in the Boat Race with both the men and women cruising to victory on the Thames.
  
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• Golf: Garcia eliminated as Thomas' Match Play charge continues

  24-03-2018 19:06
  Sergio Garcia was eliminated at the last-16 stage of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play on Saturday, but Justin Thomas is through.
  
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• League One round-up: Stefan Payne strikes as Shrewsbury go back top with win against AFC Wimbledon

  24-03-2018 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With Blackburn not in action Shrewsbury took advantage with a 1-0 win over AFC Wimbledon taking them back into top spot.Stefan Payne tucked away a cross from Carlton Morris.
  
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• Football League: Lee Bowyer starts Charlton reign with win over Plymouth

  24-03-2018 19:01
  Scunthorpe sack Graham Alexander after a draw with RochdaleShrewsbury go top of League One after beating AFC Wimbledon Continue reading...
  
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• Caroline Wozniacki says Miami Open fans 'wished death' on her

  24-03-2018 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Caroline Wozniacki has called for urgent action to be taken after reporting that her parents received death threats in the stands during her Miami Open defeat to Olympic champion Monica Puig.
  
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• Nottingham Forest owner Vangelis Marinakis rejects drugs-trafficking allegations

  24-03-2018 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A prosecutor on Friday charged Marinakis for engaging in drug-related criminal activity. The charges stem from the 2014 seizure in the Greek port of Piraeus of a tanker carrying 2.1 tons of heroin.
  
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• Liverpool Legends 5-5 Bayern Munich Legends: Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen strike

  24-03-2018 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ANDY KELLY AT ANFIELD: Jamie Carragher made his first major public appearance since his spitting controversy as his Liverpool Legends team played out a goal fest.
  
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• Anthony Joshua vs Joseph Parker complete guide to big fight showdown

  24-03-2018 18:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthony Joshua begins his journey to undisputed champion when he takes on Joseph Parker on the 31st March.
  Read our all you need to know guide prior to big showdown here.
  
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• Tennis: Wozniacki demands action after Miami Open abuse

  24-03-2018 18:44
  Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki has revealed her family were abused during her defeat to Monica Puig at the Miami Open.
  
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