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  • Chelsea receive a right fillip

    Shaun Wright-Philips (right) of Chelsea celebrates after scoring his and the team's second goal of the game during last night's Premiership match against West Ham United at Upton Park. Chelseas victory ensure they keep Premiership leaders Manchester United in their sights. SOCCER/West Ham Utd 1 Chelsea 4: Chelsea showed all the attributes that have made them Premiership champions in the past two seasons. West Ham, for all their early spirit, displayed the failings that will almost certainly see them relegated. With four games to play, the side are five points adrift of the safety of 17th place, occupied by Sheffield United. p

  • Shock as Uefa look to east

    SOCCER: The 2012 European Championship will be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine after Uefa's executive committee delivered a major surprise yesterday, awarding the tournament to the unfancied joint bid with a two-thirds majority which signals a shift to the east in European football's centre of gravity. p

  • Ireland humbled but not bowed

    CRICKET: Ireland emerged from yesterday's World Cup humbling by Sri Lanka, hatching an audacious plan to safeguard their cricket future by arranging all international fixtures in the British close season. p
Soccer

  • Scandals and vandals queer Italians' pitch

    Paddy Agnew on the disappointment in Italian football circles at their failure to secure the Euro 2012 finals p

  • Rise in league attendances is good news for FAI

    Attendances at League of Ireland games have increased by more than a third during the opening six weeks of the new season, FAI officials revealed yesterday. The increase of 37.16 per cent equates to an average of fractionally more than 400 additional spectators at every game played in the two divisions so far. p

  • Gerrard again forced to provide spark

    Liverpool 2 Middlesbrough 0:  Times must be changing in English football if David Dein is no longer associated with all things Arsenal and Alan Curbishley, so recently a candidate for national coach, is contemplating life exiled from the top flight, but some things remain constant. Liverpool laboured for long periods last night but, in the end, they had Steven Gerrard to thank for success. p

  • Chelsea show fails to impress Keane

    Roy Keane is not the type to be overly impressed by self-styled "Special Ones" and he departed underwhelmed after checking out Jose Mourinho and his Chelsea team on Sunday. p

  • English football buzzing over departure of Dein

    When representatives of the 20 Premier League clubs gather for their monthly shareholders' meeting in London this morning an empty chair at the boardroom table will capture the essence of news that, since it broke yesterday evening, has set the mobile phones of football's powerbrokers buzzing. p

  • Soccer Shorts

    Today's other stories in brief p
Gaelic Games Back to Top

  • Veteran still willing to serve the cause

    National Football League Final: Ian O'Riordan talks to Kevin O'Neill about his decision to remain with the Mayo squad and how adversity has only strengthened their resolve p

  • Demanding O'Mahony still looking for improvement

    It's either mind games gone berserk or a genuine distraction because most of the talk ahead of Sunday's Allianz National Football League final concerns the state of the pitch and the size of the crowd. Neither Mayo's John O'Mahony nor Donegal's Brian McIver yesterday seemed particularly bothered about who actually won or lost. p

  • Injuries a curse for both Mayo and Donegal

    Mayo and Donegal are both cursing the luck and timing of their injury problems ahead of Sunday's football league final in Croke Park, and it could be Saturday before the teams are finalised. p

  • Thomas Davis reiterate their offer of direct talks

    The increasingly bitter row over the use of the Tallaght stadium site took a somewhat milder twist yesterday when the Thomas Davis GAA club reiterated their invitation to Shamrock Rovers to sit down and try to establish more cordial talks on the matter. p

  • Clare leave it late

    Munster MFC/Tipperary 2-5 Clare 0-11: A late, late point from Gerry Leahy gave Clare a second chance in their clash against Tipperary at the Gaelic Grounds last night. p
Rugby Back to Top

  • Le Roux and Gomez join Leinster's roster

    Leinster contract negotiations:  Leinster have confirmed the signings of former South African prop Ollie Le Roux and Argentinian prop Juan Gomez for next season and expect to be in a position to announce the final roster of players within the next two weeks. p

  • Argentina play hard ball over tour dates

    Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan is expected to announce both the Ireland squad to tour Argentina and the Ireland A squad to take part in this summer's Churchill Cup at the end of the month. It's likely the confirmation of the two groups will come before the final two rounds in the Magners Celtic League. p

  • Paul the latest to head north

    The exodus of top players from the southern hemisphere after the autumn World Cup gained another member yesterday when the Australian hooker Jeremy Paul said he would be moving to Europe, where Saracens head the queue for the 30-year old's signature. p
RacingBack to Top

  • Sander Camillo's bubble bursts

    Sander Camillo was usurped at the head of the Stan James 1,000 Guineas betting after going down by a neck to Scarlet Runner in the Shadwell Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket yesterday. p

  • Nycteos looks smart

    British champion trainer Paul Nicholls is never a man to rest on his laurels and was already earmarking targets next season for Nycteos after his encouraging victory in the feature event at Cheltenham yesterday. p
GolfBack to Top

  • Casey's challenge will be full of merit

    Asian Open: Paul Casey is keen to move a step closer to his goal of claiming the European Order of Merit title this season with a strong performance in the BMW Asian Masters which gets under way at Tomson Shanghai Pudong GC today. p

  • Weekley a Louisiana draw card

    US Tour: American Boo Weekley, who claimed his maiden PGA Tour victory on Monday, is one of the draw cards at the New Orleans Classic in Avondale, Louisiana, which starts today.  p

  • Rearrange these letters instead of your golf game

    It was a good while back that a golf-obsessed acquaintance sent an email that simply included the following line: "We thrifty Scot nobs couldnae land near flag!" We replied along the lines of: "Pardon?" p

  • Big Easy responds to reward the faithful

    He might sound like a scary magazine that comes out every Thursday, but Boo Weekley proved frighteningly good at the weather-delayed Heritage Classic last Monday when chip-ins from 40 and 36 feet on the last two holes clinched him his first PGA Tour victory. p
Cricket World CupBack to Top

  • Time for Fletcher to make his exit

    The England management responded yesterday to the team's ignominious exit from the World Cup, on the back of arguably the most humiliating arse-kicking they have received in a one-day international, by disappearing to the golf course without a word of explanation of what went wrong or a note of contrition. p
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  • Referee's punishment seems to be rather foul

    America at Large: Thirty years later I may be conflating the memory, but I seem to recall that I covered the first NBA game Joey Crawford worked. If not, it was one of the earliest. p

  • Nadal extends unbeaten run

    TENNIS/Monte Carlo Masters Series: Rafael Nadal, the French Open champion for the past two years, began yesterday where he left off last season on clay with a conclusive 6-3, 6-1 victory over Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela at the Masters here, extending his unbeaten run on the surface to 63 matches. p

  • Ryan and Mylotte advance

    SQUASH: Derek Ryan, a former world number seven and Laura Mylotte, the Irish number two, qualified for the main draw in the Cannon Kirk Irish Open at Fitzwilliam yesterday. p

  • Contrini maintains his lead

    CYCLING: Ivan Stevic (Toyota-United) won the second stage of the Tour de Georgia yesterday, jumping clear on the final climb of Clocktower Hill and hitting the line two seconds ahead of Juan José Haedo (Team CSC) and Freddy Rodriguez (Predictor-Lotto), reports Shane Stokes. p

  • McIlroy included in top field

    GOLF/DIGEST: Rory McIlroy (Holywood) and Richie Ramsay (Scotland), the respective reigning European and American Amateur Open champions, are included in a star-studded field for the AIB-sponsored Irish Amateur Open which returns to Royal Dublin GC on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 11th, 12th and 13th. p
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