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  • Celtic rain on Milan's parade

    Scott McDonald celebrates scoring Celtic's winner against AC Milan at Celtic Park last night. SOCCER/Celtic 2 AC Milan 1: A tetchy encounter, which gave Celtic their first three points of the Group D campaign and maintained a remarkable home record in Europe, ended in inauspicious circumstances last night and may lead to serious repercussions for the hosts. p

  • Chelsea rediscover misplaced excellence

    Chelsea's Didier Drogba surges past Raul Albiol and plants the ball beyond Valencia's goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand for his side's winning goal in last night's Champions League tie at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia. SOCCER/Valencia 1 Chelsea 2: Chelsea relived their recent past and so started to set course for a new era. Victory came here as it had by the same score on this ground in the Champions League six months ago, but it was accomplished without the departed Jose Mourinho. p

  • Ashton goes for brute force

    RUGBY/World Cup/England v Australia:  One of Australia's most experienced coaches believes England will be "smashed" by 30 points in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final. The evidence of the 36-0 pool defeat by South Africa has convinced Alec Evans, the former Wales coach now employed as a Wallaby skills guru, that England are one-dimensional has-beens. But Brian Ashton could not be accused of naming a bunch of lightweights in his starting XV yesterday. p
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  • Dutch coach lined up to fill Grant's old position

    It will come as little surprise to some that Chelsea have wasted no time in seeking a replacement for Avram Grant although the Israeli can breathe a sigh of relief that it is his former position and not the coach's post which is believed to have been offered to the Dutchman Henk ten Cate. p

  • Rotating Liverpool in a spin

    Liverpool 0 Marseille 1: It is rarely the Liverpool way to make heavy work of the Champions League group stages but that is the path they have chosen now. They were fortunate to escape with a draw in Porto, but last night there was no reprieve for another uncharacteristic European display as Marseille inflicted the first defeat in 10 group matches on Rafael Benitez's side to become the unlikely leaders of Group A. p

  • Kroenke keeps his options open

    Stan Kroenke's ambitions for Arsenal have been thwarted by Alisher Usmanov's interest in the club, according to the Russian billionaire's inner circle. Usmanov's advisers are confident that the €14,500-a-share investment he made in acquiring a portion of his 23 per cent stake in the Premier League leaders will deter the American from increasing his own 12.2 per cent interest. p

  • Ronaldo hides his scars of combat

    Cristiano Ronaldo could be found yesterday wearing dark shades and a diamond-encrusted baseball cap deliberately pulled low to conceal the gash above his right eye, inflicted by a flailing elbow during Manchester United's 1-0 victory over Roma. p
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  • Heineken to appeal ban on adverts

    World Cup News:   Heineken, one of the six official sponsors of the Rugby World Cup in France, are to appeal against a ruling forcing them to pull associated advertising from local magazines and newspapers. p

  • Connolly leaves sledging to others

    The Wallabies' refusal to follow the Pom-bashing lead of the Australian Rugby Union's chief executive, John O'Neill, is down to their head coach, John Connolly. With a nickname like Knuckles, earned as a nightclub bouncer in Darwin years ago, Connolly might be expected to follow the example of his predecessor, Eddie Jones, who never wasted an opportunity to wind up the English. But far from resorting to insults, Connolly is adamant all that matters this week is Saturday's quarter-final. p

  • Root-and-branch evaluation the way to go

    Eddie O'Sullivan has had his coaching values rocked to the core. There are two ways to approach the current scenario and the IRFU are staying true to traditional type. p

  • French opt for bite, boot and Beauxis

      New Zealand v France: Interesting. A very interesting selection. If nothing else Bernard Laporte will have made his arch-counterpart Graham Henry think. Amid all the speculation no one had forecast Damien Traille being reconverted into a full-back, whatever about Lionel Beauxis forming a new halfback combination with Jean-Baptiste Elissalde. p

  • McCaw wary of French threat

    Richie McCaw denies New Zealand will enter Saturday's World Cup quarter-final against France with a crucial psychological edge. p

  • World Cup duo primed for action

    Celtic League: Frank Sheahan and Alan Quinlan have a combined total of four minutes rugby from the World Cup, all belonging to Sheahan who temporarily replaced Jerry Flannery in the 25-3 defeat to France on September 21st, so it comes as little surprise that the veteran Munster forwards are eager to get back to action. p

  • Keating puts finish to Munster hopes

    Schools Interprovincials/Leinster Under-19 21 Munster Under-19 6: The fine finishing of fullback Michael Keating was the outstanding aspect of Leinster's comfortable win over Munster in the Schools Under-19 Interprovincial Championship at Donnybrook yesterday. p

  • Leinster pull clear for a rousing finish

    Leinster Under-18 18 Munster Under-18 6: The Munster under-18s repeated the mistake of their under-19 colleagues by making a fast start before fading to a disappointing defeat against Leinster in the schools interprovincial championship at Donnybrook yesterday. p
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  • Waterford get one over on All-Ireland champions

    All-Ireland winners Kilkenny find themselves in the slightly bizarre situation of having only one hurler nominated for the Vodafone All Star Player of the Year award, while the beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists Waterford have two. p

  • McGeeney quietly going about business

    Anyone expecting Kieran McGeeney to come marching into Kildare blowing his own trumpet while waving some sort of victory flag will be disappointed, at least initially. p
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  • Strong Irish team heading to Paris

    The Aidan O'Brien-trained pair of Dylan Thomas and Soldier Of Fortune remain on track to head a powerful Irish team for Sunday's prestigious Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe meeting in Paris, where horses from this country could run in all six Group One races. p
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  • Big Apple shaken to core over meltdown

    America At Large: As they looked forward to it a month ago, New Yorkers had expectantly circled the first weekend in October on their calendars. With both the Mets and Yankees in the baseball play-offs, a heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, and the hometown Jets and Giants squaring off against one another in American football on Sunday, the armchair sports fan in the City that Never Sleeps figured to be like a kid in a candy store, bedazzled and wondering which way to direct the remote. It couldn't get much better than this, could it? p

  • America's Cup may be held off

    SAILING: The organisers of the America's Cup may considering postponing the 2009 event in Valencia over uncertainty caused by a legal suit. p

  • Alcoba next in line for Duddy

    BOXING: John Duddy's opponent for his second professional fight in Ireland - at the National Stadium on Saturday, October 20th - is Uruguay's Noe Tulio Gonzalez Alcoba (28) whose only defeat in 15 professional fights came on points last summer when he challenged for Felix Sturm's WBA middleweight crown. p

  • Boucher sets record at stumps

    CRICKET: Spinner Paul Harris took five wickets and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher set a record for dismissals as South Africa nosed ahead of Pakistan on the third day of the first test yesterday. p

  • Orbinson ends Irish career

    WOMEN'S HOCKEY: Just a few days after Irish captain Linda Caulfield announced her retirement, coach Gene Muller has lost another of his most experienced players following Jill Orbinson's decision to end her Irish career, reports Mary Hannigan . p
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