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  • Striking weakness is exposed

    Filippo Inzaghi turns away to celebrate after scoring Milan's opening goal against Liverpool in last night's Uefa Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. SOCCER/Uefa Champions League final, AC Milan 2 Liverpool 1: This was revenge for Milan as they atoned for the famous fiasco against Liverpool in 2005, but neither club last night struck the heights they had attained in the past two months, writes Kevin McCarra in Athens p

  • Harrington not fazed by follow-up bonus on offer

    Padraig Harrington tees off during the PGA Championship pro-am at Wentworth yesterday GOLF: Padraig Harrington stood on the third tee of the West Course at Wentworth yesterday, a million miles from phone calls from the president. Three days into his reign as Irish Open champion, and a day after Dr Michael Smurfit had officially presented him with the Harry Vardon Trophy as Europe's number one of 2006 at the tour dinner, he was back to business, doing what he does best: playing golf. p

  • McIver's open approach is key to Donegal success

    GAELIC GAMES: It's a 20,000 sell-out, a home venue, Donegal are favourites and manager Brian McIver must be thinking he'll be glad to get out of it alive. And that's if they beat Armagh. If Donegal lose he'd probably be better off not being born at all. p
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  • Gerrard will feel the pain more acutely

    They had bellowed "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the interval here in a bid to inspire a repeat of Istanbul, but, in the end, there was to be no staggering revival summoned by Liverpool this time around. p

  • Suave Milan oust spikier Liverpool

    Richard Williams reports that both sides played with the belief that scoring goals is the best way to win a football match. p

  • Athens reaction

    What they said. p

  • FAI out to win hearts, minds and wallets

    International Tour: While the promoters of last night's game between Ireland and Ecuador continued to hope that the big "walk up" crowd they were predicting would actually materialise at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the large contingent of travelling FAI officials on this week's trip were viewing the match as the half-time interval in the first phase of what they view as a play for far larger financial stakes. p

  • Newcastle buyout

    Shorts: Mike Ashley, a 42-year-old billionaire from Buckinghamshire with no known previous connection to Newcastle United, dramatically altered the ownership of the club yesterday when he announced he had agreed to buy the 41.6 per cent stake of John Hall's family for £55 million, writes Michael Walker . p
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  • Lead role for Hero in Cork attack

    All players claim they're happy just to get their starting place and yet Kieran Murphy must surely be a little happier than most.  Ian O'Riordan Reports p

  • Donaghy and Toner get first starts Gaelic Games

    Armagh manager Joe Kernan has given full back Brendan Donaghy and midfielder Kieran Toner their first championship starts for Sunday's Ulster quarter-final against NFL champions Donegal. p

  • Wexford take seconds

    Leinster MHC Quarter-final replay/Wexford 3-21 Offaly 4-7: Wexford and Offaly, who failed to raise a green flag between them in the drawn game, made amends by providing a goal-fest at O'Connor Park yesterday. p
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  • Gleeson remains positive despite the setbacks

    Tour to Argentina: Gerry Thornley talks to Keith Gleeson who returns to the Irish team after a 3½ year absence. p

  • Tournament to start later than usual

    European Cup: The Heineken European Cup will start later than usual next season due to the World Cup in France this September/October. p

  • Argentina in bold move

    Argentina coach Marcelo Loffreda named his side to face Ireland at the Estadio Brigadier Estanislao Lopez stadium on Saturday a day early, with a debut for Tomas De Vedia one of his boldest selections. Places in the autumn World Cup squad are up for grabs and the Saracens winger has been handed the chance to make a late bid. p

  • Sexton may struggle to hold on to fullback role

    Ireland A coach Michael Bradley will select a team tomorrow for next Tuesday's penultimate match in the Churchill Cup against the New Zealand Maoris (Live Sky Sports 1 at 8pm), writes Gavin Cummiskey. p
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  • Els adds a few homely touches

    Imagine getting a canvas painted by, say, Michelangelo, and allowing someone to add some of their own brushstrokes? It hardly bares thinking about. In a way, that is what has happened to the West Course here, with Ernie Els touching-up the old work of Harry Colt. Yet, it would seem to have worked, with hardly a bad word to be heard from any of the 150 players who set out today in pursuit of the BMW PGA Championship, the European Tour's flagship event. writes Philip Reid at Wentworth p

  • PGA Diary

    Compiled by Philip Reid p

  • Karen Delaney breaks through at Lahinch

    Irish Ladies' Close:  "I am thrilled to have won this prestigious championship, but the significance of it has not sunk in yet." p
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  • Mullins fined by Turf Club Horse Racing

    The Cheltenham festival-winning trainer Tony Mullins narrowly avoided losing his licence yesterday after the Turf Club Referrals Committee heard that an inspection at his premises in Co Kilkenny last August found that over half the horses listed as being trained by him were not present. Brian O'Connor , Racing Correspondent, reports. p

  • Oxx keeping his fingers crossed

    John Oxx is hoping the weather doesn't put a dampener on his hopes for a Group One double at the Curragh on Sunday where Arch Swing is rated the principal danger to the favourite, Finsceal Beo, in the featured Boylesports Irish 1,000 Guineas. p

  • Downtown looks the pick

    Downtown is the daughter of the champion sire Danehill and the triple-classic winner User Friendly and should be a major player in the mile and a quarter maiden at Clonmel after a good run when second to Fancy Dance at Cork on her last start. p
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  • Ireland confirm status as best associate

    CRICKET/Intercontinental Cup final: Champagne flowed as Ireland outclassed Canada by an innings and 115 runs to retain the ICC Intercontinental Cup at Leicestershire's Grace Road ground yesterday and confirm their place as the best of the Associate level nations. p

  • Anthony's men reel in breakaways to hold yellow

    CYCLING/FBD Insurance Rás: There were countless attacks in yesterday's fourth stage of the FBD Insurance Rás, but despite the battles and skirmishes on the road to Dungloe, the war between the overall contenders remains unfinished. p

  • Petacchi wins stage

    CYCLING/Giro d'Italia: Italy's Alessandro Petacchi won a mass sprint to take the 11th stage of the Giro d'Italia from Serravalle Scrivia to Pinerolo yesterday. The Milram rider beat compatriot Gabriele Balducci and Australia's Robbie McEwen for his third race win. p

  • German sponsors may quit over drugs

    CYCLING: Derek Scally in Berlin reports on Deutsche Telekom's threat to pull out of professional cycling p

  • Familiarity breeds respect as old foes unite

    America at Large: Between May of 2002 and June of the following year they engaged in three savage, 10-round battles, two of which were named "fight of the year". In the course of those 30 rounds both men reported near-death experiences, and once the trilogy was complete one of the blood-and-guts warriors announced his retirement. p
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