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  • Millar ups the stakes in boycott row

    RUGBY: The rift between the warring factions which has led to a boycott of next season's Heineken European Cup by the French and English clubs appeared to worsen yesterday. Despite a flurry of meetings and negotiations this week, the IRB chairman, Syd Millar, has launched an extraordinary broadside at the chief agent provocateur in the row, Ligue Nationale de Rugby president Serge Blanco. p

  • Keane leads Sunderland right to the top

    SOCCER/Southampton 1 Sunderland 2: On his last trip to St Mary's, Roy Keane had to be led from the pitch by stewards for taunting home supporters after Manchester United had sealed Southampton's relegation from the Premiership. p

  • Butler's serves McCoy well

    Tony McCoy pops Butlers Cabin over the last on their way to victory in yesterdays Irish Grand National. RACING/Irish Grand National:   Tony McCoy might not be able to crack the Aintree code, but yesterday's Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse was no problem to the champion jockey who landed a memorable winin Ireland's most valuable steeplechase on board Butler's Cabin.  p
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  • Odds piled up against Mourinho

    Valencia (1) v Chelsea (1): Chelsea last night issued a statement reassuring their fans that the Spanish police, whose reaction in dealing with Tottenham's supporters last week in Seville was so excessive, will be less intemperate in Valencia tonight. p

  • Ferguson under no illusions

    Manchester Utd (1) v AS Roma (2): Manchester United face a formidable task against Roma at Old Trafford tonight as they bid to reach the last four of the Champions League for the first time in five years. p

  • Cork add to Derry's woes

    Derry City 1 Cork City 4: Derry City are now playing catch-up having fallen nine points off the pace in the Premier Division following last night's embarrassing defeat to Cork City. p

  • Abrasive Bolton still on target

    Bolton Wanderers 1 Everton 1: There was widespread laughter last summer when Nicolas Anelka said he intended to help Bolton qualify for the Champions League, but Arsene Wenger must now be taking his former striker's mission statement extremely seriously. p

  • No winners in an apology of a match

    Newcastle Utd 0 Arsenal 0: In the wake of Arsenal's historic home defeat to West Ham last Saturday, Arsene Wenger described this fixture as "very urgent". But his team are tired right now, and weary men do not listen well. p

  • Defence key to Pearce survival

    Fulham 1  Manchester City 3: A month ago today, on the eve of Manchester City's FA Cup quarter-final with Blackburn, Stuart Pearce was said to be one defeat away from losing his job; his side lost that match, Pearce was confronted by one of his own supporters and the sack looked imminent. Here, as City won their third consecutive away game and moved nine points clear of the relegation zone, his name rang out around Craven Cottage for all the right reasons. p

  • If Paisley and Adams can do it, why not football unions?

      On Soccer: After the week in which Ian Paisley came to Dublin and shook hands with Bertie Ahern outside Farmleigh, the manner in which Dermot Ahern's call three months ago for a merger between Irish football's two governing bodies was casually dismissed looks more disappointing than ever. p
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  • Football double bill confirmed for Croke Park

    The GAA have confirmed the fixtures for next weekend's National League semi-finals. Despite some last-minute uncertainty, it has emerged that the football double bill will go ahead at Croke Park on Sunday, the all-Connacht clash of Mayo and Galway starting at 2.15 and Donegal-Kildare to follow at 4pm. p

  • Meyler times it right

    National Hurling League: For a man who sprang the coup of the weekend, John Meyler sounds vexed at the drift of the reaction to Wexford's defeat of Galway in Sunday's NHL quarter-final. Big surprise? Shock? Not to him, he says. p
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  • Heroic onslaught yields last-gasp victory

    Under-19 World Championships/Ireland 13 Scotland 12: It took a last-gasp try by Ireland centre Eoin O'Malley to salvage hopes of winning a place in the semi-finals of the IRB Under-19 World Championships at Ravenhill last night. p

  • Hot words baffling as peace hopes fade

    On Rugby: Not the least irritating aspect of the whole Anglo-French imbroglio that has jeopardised the best competition in the Northern Hemisphere - the millions that will be lost to the game financially, the countless livelihoods that will suffer and the effect on the European game - is the apparently utter lack of concern, much less regret, expressed by the English and French clubs. p
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  • Aintree ground 'lovely'

    Officials at Aintree report "lovely jumping ground" on the Grand National course. Although the dry spell has led to concerns for the three-day meeting, regular watering is maintaining good ground. Clerk of the course Andrew Tulloch said, "We started our watering programme in good time and have been putting on between four and 10 millimetres daily for two weeks. p

  • It may pay to row in with Nolan's Savitha in feature

    Fairyhouse Preview: Today's Fairyhouse feature has a habit of throwing up either winning favourites or screaming results for the bookmakers and it could be worth rowing in with Savitha to get it right for punters this time. p
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  • Tail turns the tide for NZ

    New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendan McCullum appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Kevin O'Brien during yesterday's match in Georgetown, Guyana. Ireland lost their third Super Eights game comprehensively here in Georgetown as a late onslaught by New Zealand's batsmen changed the character of a match that earlier in the day had begun to swing Ireland's way. p

  • Irish cricketers win hearts and minds in Guyana

    Ireland's cricketers and their management team have donated $1,000 to a Guyanan charity aimed at increasing the life chances of some of the most deprived children in the Caribbean. p
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  • Harrington sees bright side

    All around him, in the players' locker room of Augusta National, the cleaners were busy putting whatever leftovers were strewn on chairs into clear plastic bags. In the corner, Padraig Harrington seemed oblivious to it all, scrolling through a computer, analysing and consuming the statistics, one of which showed him to be first in putting averages in the 71st Masters. A first, but not the one he wanted; they don't give green jackets for topping a list of statistics. p

  • Ten out of ten for Augusta's 10-shot rule

    Caddie's Role: The Masters for Retief Goosen began in earnest on Friday afternoon amid the towering pines and leafy magnolias to the right of the 18th fairway. My boss had holed a 12-foot putt for birdie on the 17th to get back to plus six for the 71st Masters. p

  • Young Cutler scythes down the champion

    The king is dead. Long live the king. As Rory McIlroy's bid for a hat-trick of titles ended in tears and frustration in the Radisson-SAS West of Ireland Championship, his teenage contemporary from nearby Strandhill, Tommy McGowan, appeared on the scene as the heir apparent. p

  • Seek and you will find golf paradise that doesn't cost you the earth

    Green fees: Philip Reid on how the "value for money" concept has extended even to top courses here, such as American Express championship venue Mount Juliet p

  • The Short Game

     Today's other stories in brief p
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  • Cork Harlequins hold nerve to win on penalty strokes

    DIGEST: There was a delicious sense of justice to Cork Harlequins' victory in the European Cup Winners Trophy in Prague. After missing out on European success on penalty strokes in 2003, they beat Ukrainian side Kolos Sekoia 4-1 on strokes in a thrilling game that saw the lead change hands three times and ended 3-3. p
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