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  • Liverpool reveal ruthless streak

    Striker Peter Crouch scores Liverpool's third goal with a header against PSV Eindhoven during last night's Champions League quarter-final, first-leg tie at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven. Steven Gerrard put Liverpool 1-0 ahead in the first half and John Arne Riise added a second after half-time. PSV Eindhoven 0 Liverpool 3:   Liverpool had preached caution before their visit to the Netherlands, Rafael Benitez apparently wary of a testing evening ahead, though already that rhetoric smacks of a bluff. PSV Eindhoven, who had jettisoned Arsenal from this competition in the previous round, were crushed last night as the myth that English sides merely unravel when confronted by Ronald Koeman was exposed as a sham. Already, this tie has the appearance of a bye into the semi-finals. p

  • Nowlan Park to play host

    GAELIC GAMES: Nowlan Park will stage Sunday's National Hurling League quarter-finals, the Kilkenny venue being the obvious choice after Semple Stadium in Thurles, which is still unavailable because of minor refurbishment work. The Galway-Wexford clash will open proceedings at 2pm, followed by Waterford against Tipperary, which has a 3.40pm throw-in. p

  • Hughes on Chelsea shortlist

    Jose Mourinho pulls a face at Stamford Bridge yesterday. The Chelsea manager has warned his team to expect Latin wiles in tonights Champions League quarter-final with Valencia. Chelsea v Valencia:  Mark Hughes has been identified by senior figures at Chelsea as a leading candidate to take over as manager in the summer if, as expected, Jose Mourinho leaves Stamford Bridge. p
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  • Bayern bite back through Van Buyten

    AC Milan 2 Bayern Munich 2:  Daniel van Buyten never did this at Manchester City. With a compelling evening set to be overshadowed by a dreadful penalty decision by the Russian referee Yuri Baskakov, which enabled Kaka to give Milan an 85th-minute lead, the big Belgian scored with an injury-time volley that gives Bayern Munich an away-goals advantage ahead of next week's second leg in Bavaria. p

  • Ferguson has faith in Brown

    AS Roma v Manchester Utd: Alex Ferguson has spent the last few weeks working out how to stop Francesco Totti and, if Manchester United are going to reach the Champions League semi-finals, it is clear they are going to have do it the hard way. Ferguson's squad was notable for the number of absentees when they arrived in Rome yesterday, with Rio Ferdinand the only fit member of the team's first-choice defensive quartet. p

  • Bohemians have the last word despite struggling

    Bohemians 2 Shamrock Rovers 1: Just when it looked like Shamrock Rovers might sneak full points deep in enemy territory an old foe and a former team-mate stuck the knife in. Glen Crowe's equaliser with nine minutes remaining was hurtful but Jason McGuinness's winner two minutes from time was just cruel. p

  • Cork promise to fight case of ineligible pair

    Cork City do not intend appealing the Fifa decision that rules Colin Healy and Gareth Farrelly ineligible until the summer, but club chairman Brian Lennox is determined to fight the issue through other channels. p

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  • Quinn has sights set on June

    Of all the apparent weaknesses in a team - inexperience, inconsistency, even general incompetence - perhaps the hardest to rectify is being counted on to collapse in a crisis. Yet that's the most apparent weakness in the Dublin footballers, their defeat to Mayo on Sunday providing the latest example of how a comfortable half-time advantage can be quite easily surrendered before the end. p

  • GAA license foreign company

    The GAA have licensed a foreign sports apparel company but claim the move does not impinge on their rules regarding the Irish manufacturing of all playing gear. New Zealand company Canterbury, well established in the Irish rugby market, have been granted GAA partner status for their production of base layer products. p

  • Launch of Mayo sports hotel

    Sports facilities: A PR coup of this magnitude is rare. The Lynch hotel group managed to entice Keith Wood, Paul McGrath, Peter Canavan and DJ Carey to Croke Park yesterday for the launch of the €30 million Breaffy international sports hotel. p
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  • Cheika refuses to swallow choking suggestions

    Focus on Leinster: The question of whether Leinster choked was bound to emerge. "Choking" in this context is of course a term of disparagement and is usually levelled after a sequence of losses with a common thread. And at yesterday's weekly press conference Leinster coach Michael Cheika and flanker Keith Gleeson were challenged to explain why Leinster's string of exits from the Heineken European Cup have tended to be emphatic. p

  • McAleese banks on students

    Under-19 World Cup: Ireland coach Charlie McAleese has included seven schoolboys in the team for tomorrow night's opening Under-19 World Cup game against the defending champions, Australia, at Ravenhill. p
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  • O'Brien for France

    Aidan O'Brien could have his first overseas runners of 2007 in France on Sunday with Chinese Whisper a possible starter in the Group Two Prix Noailles at Longchamp. p

  • Fairyhouse plans hit by drying conditions

    Drying ground conditions may yet make a significant impact on Monday's Irish Grand National and the weather could also be a big player in the opening-day feature of the Easter festival at Fairyhouse, the Powers Gold Cup. p
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  • Downpours and Duckworth conspire against Ireland

    Cricket : Ireland made the number-one team in world cricket fight hard for victory yesterday when a controversial rain-affected match against South Africa ended in defeat. As they walked from the pitch in near darkness, the relief on the victors' faces told its own story. p

  • Call for Pakistan to operate without national coach

    Former Pakistan Cricket Board chief executive Rameez Raja said Pakistan should consider operating without a coach following the death of Bob Woolmer. Raja, who had convinced Woolmer to take up the coaching assignment with Pakistan in 2004, believes more control should be given to the team's captain. p
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  • Woods is the clear favourite

    US Masters betting: Who can stop the Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson show, the American pair having claimed the last three US Masters titles between them? Mickelson (8/1) won in 2004 and again last year but is comfortably a second favourite behind Woods (11/8, Ladbrokes, Powers) who prevailed in 2005 and is the player to beat, given his current form. p

  • Woods not distracted by talk of Tiger slam

    US Masters: Ten years. A decade. Who could have foretold the true impact that Tiger Woods would have not just on golf, but on a wider scale, when he won his first green jacket at Augusta National in 1997? Now, 10 years on, this iconic sportsman - one who has won 12 majors and accumulated over $84 million in prize money - is back on familiar terrain and hunting for more glory, more fame. p

  • Harrington appears to be ticking over nicely

    Tick-Tock! Tick-Tock! The clock by the first tee edged toward 11.45am - a quarter of an hour before high noon - when Padraig Harrington yesterday hit the first drive of his only full practice round in advance of the Masters, when, somewhat appropriately, he was partnered by Colin Montgomerie in a two-ball of discovery in the countdown to the year's first major. p

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  • Birrell wins award for March

    MANAGER OF THE MONTH: Adrian Birrell, coach of the Ireland cricket team, has been named Philips Sports Manager of the Month for March. p

  • Lenton sets freestyle record

    SWIMMING: Australia's Libby Lenton broke Britta Steffen's world record for the women's 100 metres freestyle at Sydney's Olympic pool yesterday. Lenton posted a time of 52.99 seconds, 0.31 under Steffen's mark of 53.30, which the German set at last year's European championships in Budapest. p

  • Two Irish boats in top 10

    SAILING: At the halfway stage of the annual Palma Olympic Classes Regatta, two Irish boats are holding top-10 overall positions in their respective fleets with two other crews close to breaking into the stakes for Friday's medal race final, reports David Branigan . p
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