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  • Leinster to come up with right formula

    Ryan Lamb dives over to score a try for Gloucester during their 32-14 win over Ulster in the European Cup match at Ravenhill last night. RUGBY/Leinster v Leicester Tigers: Deciphering Leinster's aptitude to successfully negotiate such a pivotal contest at this point in the season is a fraught process, incorporating so many intangibles as to be virtually impossible. The Irish province resembles a complex mathematical equation: the numbers are there but the formula for a successful conclusion can be elusive to find. p

  • Rooney ruled out for four weeks

    Wayne Rooney: the Manchester United striker has an ankle injury. SOCCER: Alex Ferguson will be forced into a comprehensive change of plan after Wayne Rooney's ankle injury in training yesterday ruled the Manchester United striker out of contention for four weeks. p

  • General optimism strike will be averted

    GAELIC GAMES: Despite a massive vote by players in favour of withdrawing from intercounty activity in the new year, hopes remain high that ongoing talks between the Gaelic Players Association (GPA), Government and GAA can resolve the core issue of player grants. p
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  • Waterford head for the play-offs

    League of Ireland championship Premier Division/Shamrock Rovers 0 Waterford Utd 0: A year after leaving the place with a championship medal in his pocket, the clean sheet Dean Delaney kept at Tolka Park last night helped Waterford United to keep their noses just in front of Longford and avoid automatic relegation to the first division. p

  • St Patrick's unable to punish tired champions

    St Patrick's Ath 0 Drogheda Utd 0: Drogheda were second best and forced to share the night's prize. But with the biggest bounty of all tucked up at home they'll hardly care. The point was sufficient to sugar coat their seven-point winning margin at the summit. p

  • Bray strike early

    Bray Wanderers 2 Sligo Rovers 1: Bray Wanderers, inspired by two early goals from Alan Cawley and Jay O'Shea, made sure of their place in the Premier Division next season with a narrow victory over Sligo Rovers at the Carlisle Grounds last night. p

  • No joy for Cork just yet

    Cork City 0 Bohemians 1: Bohemians achieved a notable win over Cork City to clinch third spot in the league at Turner's Cross last night. p

  • UCD survive despite fourth defeat in a row

    Galway Utd 2 UCD 1: On a high-stakes evening in the Eircom League UCD survived despite suffering a fourth league defeat on the spin. p

  • Mooney hat-trick can't save Longford from drop

    Longford Town 3 Derry City 1: Longford Town started their top-flight life with a 1-0 victory against Derry City eight seasons ago. How ironic, therefore, that an emphatic 3-1 triumph against the same opposition should end their time in the top tier. p

  • Not a place for aunties or logic

    A year on the Wear: As tight as a clenched fist. That is the mood, the feeling gripping everyone all week and last night as the seconds peeled off towards the final countdown. Twelve miles separate Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne and there are sweaty palms being scratched each and every step of the way. Neither side is confident, neither set of supporters convinced by their team's form. In the case of Newcastle United, their fans may be closer than Sunderland's to abusing their players and manager Sam Allardyce if today brings a defeat, but a home loss and Roy Keane may discover for the first time the fearsome volatility of Wearside. p

  • Master of modern management

    English Premier League/Harry Redknapp profile: Dominic Fifield on the Portsmouth manager who has proved himself to be more than just a shrewd wheeler-dealer in the transfer market p

  • Wenger warns Platini against change

    Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has warned Uefa the integrity of the Champions League will be at risk if they adopt Michel Platini's proposal to include cup winners and an increased number of teams from lower-ranked nations. p

  • Soccer Digest

    Today's other stories in brief p
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  • The eye of the liger

    Pool Six/Leinster v Leicester: John O'Sullivan talks to Leinster backrow Shane Jennings as he prepares to face his former Leicester team-mates at the RDS today p

  • Hero with a finger on the red pulse

    Pool Five Wasps v Munster: The long-time Munster captain starts from the bench today but his presence will remain vital and his influence palpable. Gerry Thornley talks to him p

  • Munster have knack of thriving on fear factor

    Wasps v Munster: Unlike in the World Cup, half the 24 teams in the Heineken European Cup teams can realistically consider themselves contenders to win the trophy next May. And it is a measure of Munster's brute of a draw that they have been pitted in a pool with four of that dozen. p

  • Ulster's frailties are cruelly exposed

    European Cup/Ulster 14 Gloucester 32: In the scheme of how things had been unfolding this season for Ulster, this was no surprise, although some home fans may still be in shock. Gloucester's invitation to Ravenhill to meet a team that had won just five games in their last 16, were sitting at the bottom of the Magners Celtic League and had somehow contracted the Ireland team's virus of inexplicably underachieving, was as benign an invite to Belfast as the English Premiership leaders will ever get. They took full advantage and what will hurt the Ulster players is Gloucester didn't have to work that hard to kill the game in just 28 minutes. p

  • Connacht fail to convert chances

    European Challenge Cup/Brive 15 Connacht 6: Connacht began their European Challenge Cup campaign with a disappointing defeat to Brive at a chilly but dry Stade Municipal last night in a poor contest littered with errors by both sides. p

  • Gatland appointed as Wales coach

    Warren Gatland yesterday became the third New Zealander to be Wales's head coach and called for a reduction in the number of foreign players in the country. The former Wasps and Ireland coach, follows Graham Henry and Steve Hansen in switching from black to red and is Wales's 14th coach in 19 years. p

  • Rounding up some Tiger tales

    Other stories from rugby p

  • Weekend Previews

    Previews of this weekend's matches p

  • All-Ireland League previews

    Previews of the weekend's matches p
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  • Stadler keeps his advanatge

    European Tour: Surprise packet Kevin Stadler and pre-tournament favourite Phil Mickelson flew the Stars and Stripes in China as the American duo emerged as the main men at the halfway stage of the HSBC Champions tournment. p

  • Testing time for Smyth

    Des Smyth was left to rue bogeys on the 16th and 17th hole as he signed for a second round of 72 at The Kingdom of Bahrain Trophy, Seniors Tour Championship at the Buckinghamshire Golf Club, where Argentina's Adan Sowa leads Scotland's John Chillas by one shot in the final European Seniors Tour event of 2007. p
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  • Sanders edges title thriller

    Seb Sanders leads Jamie Spencer by just one winner as the jockeys' title race reaches its thrilling conclusion at Doncaster today. p
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  • Swamped by flush on the river

    POKER: Paul O'Hehir recalls his anxieties during the recent European Poker Tour event at the RDS p

  • Awards, glorious awards

    On Athletics: Six weeks to Christmas so it must be the start of the sporting awards season, and naturally enough Athletics Ireland are first out of the blocks. After falling into terrible neglect the national athletics awards have this year been revived in association with Waterford Crystal, with the winners' ceremony set for this day week. p

  • Silent summer doesn't bear thinking of

    Sideline Cut: Move over, Leon Trotsky. Revolution is in the air. Unless things change fast in the stolid, unhurried world of the GAA, the boys of summer will play no more. p
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