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  • Brennan calls for measured analysis

    GAELIC GAMES/Championship TV Coverage: GAA President Nickey Brennan has called on RTÉ to bear in mind the sensibilities of players when analysing matches. His comments came at yesterday's launch of the broadcaster's championship schedules, which will be the most extensive yet transmitted.  p

  • Milan in different class

    AC Milan's Clarence Seedorf (10) scores his side's second goal during last night's Champions League victory over Manchester United at the San Siro. SOCCER/Uefa Champions League Semi-final, second leg/AC Milan 3 Manchester Utd 0 AC Milan win 5-3 on aggregate: Manchester United, who had been so full of hope, took no more from the San Siro than the comfort of knowing that they had been outclassed by a wiser and better side. p

  • Leinster move on officials

    RUGBY: The Leinster Branch have made a request through official Magners Celtic League channels for the practice of "home" touchjudges to be abandoned next season. p
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  • Scholes unable to tackle the situation

    A dank Manchester drizzle settled over San Siro shortly before last night's kick-off, accompanied - as if to provide a fanfare for a fixture with a history going back to 1958 - by a succession of thunderclaps. The history strongly favoured Milan, with that first meeting, also in a semi-final, seeing the end of United's interest in the competition. p

  • Athens is a family affair for Reinas

    Uefa Champions League: It had gone midnight when Jose Reina, a magnum of champagne under his arm and his wife and baby at his side, emerged from the bowels of Anfield. The smile plastered across his face in the afterglow of victory would evaporate within the hour when he returned home to discover he had been burgled, but not even the loss of a Bang & Olufsen entertainment system and a Porsche could ruin this occasion. p

  • Mourinho begins to sound rattled

    Jose Mourinho's weakness has been exposed by his own hubris. The man who belittled Liverpool as a "cup team" was himself a diminished figure after the Champions League semi-final exit at Anfield on Tuesday night. His rambling reaction to the disappointment, in which he untenably claimed Chelsea had deserved to win the match and that Liverpool had sought only to force a penalty shoot-out, had all the cogency of King Lear's "matter and impertinency mixed". p

  • Chelsea vice-president dies in helicopter crash

    Philip Carter, one of eight honorary vice-presidents of Chelsea FC, and his teenage son were among four people killed in a helicopter crash yesterday - 11 years after the club's vice-chairman died in a similar tragedy. p

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    Today's other stories in brief p
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  • Abolishment threat to championship recedes

    Under-21 Football Championship final: With this year's final due for decision on Saturday, the prospect of the under-21 football championship being abolished is receding. p
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  • Garryowen spurred on by past defeats

    This weather brings out positive vibes. And it was no different yesterday as the captains from the All-Ireland League finalists, Cork Constitution and Garryowen, travelled to Dublin for a pre-match conference ahead of Saturday's final. p

  • Rise in numbers at games

    While the format of the Magners Celtic League has changed over the years, the most recent attendance figures available (with one round of matches remaining) indicates that Irish rugby has had one of its most successful seasons in terms of attracting people to home games. The average gate for the four provincial teams is now almost 8,000. p
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  • Els eyes win on return visit

    Ernie Els believes his second successive appearance at the Wachovia Championship could provide an ideal warm-up for next month's US Open at Oakmont. p

  • Kavanagh's 'Angular Momentum' directs him to Druids Glen

    Even before he triumphed in week four we'd spotted Patrick Kavanagh's 'COAM' line-up on our leaderboards and, as our Galway manager suspected it would, the acronym had us flummoxed. Intensive research over two minutes on the internet gave us several possibilities: (1) Chiltern Open Air Museum, (2) Coin-operated Amusement Machine, (3) College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, (4) Customer Owned and Maintained, (5) Committee on Academic Misconduct, (6) Colegio Official de Arquitectos de Madrid, and our favourite, (7) Campground Owners Association of Montana. p

  • Manager on track with 'Try For Last Place'

    We were looking up the results of the Byron Nelson Championship on the sportsline.com website earlier in the week and noted a little feature on their leaderboard where you can "highlight your players", putting their names in to three different colour-coded categories - "Favourite", "Preferred" and - are you ready for this? - "Despised". p
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  • Kinane takes Duke ride

    Aidan O'Brien will be triple-handed in Saturday's Stan James 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket with Michael Kinane teaming up with the champion trainer's Duke Of Marmalade in the first classic of 2007. p
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  • National centre opened

    ROWING: You could believe you were on the Continent, and not just because of the sun sheen on the glassy surface of the lake p

  • A case of if you can't beat them, join them

    America at Large: The temptation is to view the events of last weekend's NFL draft as some sort of Faustian bargain on the part of Robert Kraft. It might also be noted if it seems that the New England Patriots are being held to a different standard than other teams it is only because they set the bar themselves. In the 13 years that have elapsed since he purchased what would become the NFL's most dominant franchise, Kraft repeatedly took the moral high ground in deciding who would and who would not play for his team. p

  • Murphy's law for Stevens

    SNOOKER/World Championship: Shaun Murphy, the 2005 champion, produced the greatest quarter-final comeback in the 30 years that this theatre has staged the World Championship by recovering from five down with six to play to beat Matthew Stevens 13-12, after a final session of three hours 40 minutes during which the tension undermined fluency but enhanced drama. p

  • Nadal takes epic tie

    TENNIS: Rafael Nadal won yesterday's so-called 'Battle of the Surfaces' with an incredible tie-break victory against Roger Federer. p
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