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| Leinster grab the spoils |
| 2008-09-19 20:13:06 |
Leinster won the clash of the reigning Magners League and EDF Energy Cup champions as Felipe Contepomi and Isa Nacewa kicked the league title holders to a hard-earned 19-13 win over the Ospreys in Dublin on Friday. The RDS was thronged to see two of the league's top teams put their early-season unbeaten records on the line and it was a defensively-sound Leinster who came up trumps with Contepomi and Nacewa kicking 14 points between them. However, come May, Leinster could look back and rue the last minute of this game when they allowed Nikki Walker to barge through for a try which James Hook brilliantly converted from the left touchline, to salvage a bonus point for the Ospreys. Sean Holley's side, showing 12 changes from last week's win over Glasgow, lost Sonny Parker to a training g...
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| Biarritz rocked by Dax |
| 2008-09-19 19:46:33 |
Dax, who last week claimed their first away wi in the Top 14 in eight years, went one better on Friday, beating Biarritz handsomely 30- 18. The Landais thoroughly deserved their victory, but there are worrying signs for Biarritz that last season's rot is not yet out of the system. The visitors offered very little, perhaps believing they merely had to turn up and do simple things to win. Possession was frittered away with some atrocious kicking, and the discipline was awful. Referee David Rosich was perhaps a little over-zealous regarding players going off t...
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| Biaggi set to Return to Aprilia for Superbike World Championship |
| 2008-09-19 19:13:25 |
Max Biaggi, who won three of his four world 250 GP titles with Aprilia, is set to return to the Noale-based company to ride the Aprilia RSV4 in the Superbike World Championship in 2009 and 2010. Rome-born Biaggi had a successful period with Aprilia between 1991 and 1996, winning three world titles in the 250 GP class, which included 23 GP wins and 37 podiums."It was our...
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| Dragons’ delight in Ulster |
| 2008-09-19 18:34:54 |
Ulster slipped to a third straight defeat, as the Dragons claimed their first victory of the Magners League season at Ravenhill on Friday, winning 16-14. The home side dominated the opening exchanges, going close on a couple of occasion before former Irish flanker Kieron Dawson opened the scoring on 11 minutes. Dawson went around the blindside of the lineout to touch down under the posts and Australian full-back Clinton Schifcofske converted. Dragons' James Arlidge opened the visitors' account with a penalty after 19 minutes, awarded following an infringement by Ulster at the lineout. Arlidge cut Ulster's lead to a point after 30 minutes when he slotted over his second penalty from just inside the home side's half. Ulster could not turn their pressure into points and allowed the Dr...
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| Edinburgh bounce back |
| 2008-09-19 18:28:59 |
Edinburgh shook off the hangover from two defeats in two games at the start of the Magners League to thump the Scarlets 32-12 at Murrayfield on Friday, securing a bonus point into the bargain. Andy Robinson's troops had gone into battle with two defeats to their name, while the visitors had won all three of their tussles. But the recent records counted for nothing in a one-sided contest in which the Gunners bagged a precious bonus point. They exploded into action from the start and had the Welsh outfit under the cosh for virtually the entire first half. They rattled up 15 points - but it should have been more, as winger Mark Robertson emerged as the hero and villain. Stand-off Phil Godman broke the deadlock in the 18th minute with a regulation penalty. And Edinburgh's superiority,...
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| Bad boy Fava the transgressor |
| 2007-11-30 09:59:16 |
Quokka Shocker: Scott Fava feels the heat The RugbyWA (Rugby Western Australia) misconduct committee have fined Western Force players Scott Fava and Richard Brown as the Rottnest Island saga continues to take new twists. The RugbyWA disciplinary hearing reconvened Thursday night, after further and serious allegations were made about the mistreatment of quokkas by Force players at Rottnest Island last Friday, November 23, during a pre-season training camp. After considering these further allegations and taking further statements from players and witnesses, the committee determined that Fava and Brown had breached the Western Force serious misconduct protocol. The committee found that both players had been drunk in public, behaved anti-socially and inappropriately handled quokkas. The...
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| How Low is ROCK BOTTOM? |
| 2007-11-30 09:57:50 |
I’ve never been a New York fan for anything. The Yankees seem to dump tons of money at players so they are always contenders, while it’s not fair to small market teams, it is business. The Knicks (back in the Ewing days) were always a rough team (I think they secretly wanted to be like the Detroit Bad Boys) but it was the kind of grit that was used in pursuit of championship basketball. Enter Isaiah Thomas. I’ve never seen such a bunch of heartless, spoiled bums in my life. No I’m not talking about the season ticket holders, I’m talking about the “team” of professional athletes they put on the court every night. A season ago some of these players bought into Isaiah’s “wisdom” and were blindly coaxed into the Dever Brawl. Well afte...
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| Liverpool’s Kuyt: Babel Can Become Premiership Sensation |
| 2007-11-30 09:46:51 |
Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt believes summer-signing Ryan Babel can become Premiership ‘sensation’. Of late, Babel, who joined the Reds during the summer from Ajax for £11m fee, is showing the full array of his talent and his masterly finish off a move set up by skipper Steven Gerrard in the 3-0 win at Newcastle United last weekend, has earned from his fellow Dutch international a lavish praise. Babel, who has been dubbed by Dutch team team manager Marco Van Basten as “the next Thierry Henry”, had been recently urged by Reds boss Rafa Benitez to give more and the 20-year-old versatile attacker is warming up to fire on all cylinders. Kuyt said in the Liverpool Echo: “I think Ryan can be a sensation in the Premiership. He has a lot of talent and ability and I think sometimes it is...
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| Kiwis sweat on Ioasa injury |
| 2007-11-30 09:46:27 |
Twisted knee: Tafai Ioasa New Zealand coach Gordon Tietjens is sweating o n the fitness of his captain Tafai Ioasa, who withdrew on the eve of the opening round of the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series, in Dubai, with an injury. Ioasa, who twisted his knee when landing awkwardly in training, may also be out of the second leg - in South Africa next week. After missing six of last year's eight tournaments with a knee injury, Ioasa has started the new season by injuring his other knee. "The funny thing was we never had the ball, he was just competing in the team's line-out and twisted his knee," Tietjens said. "He wasn't being tackled, just coming out of a line-out so it was quite a freakish accident really." Ioasa did some medial ligament damage which could be enoug...
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| Fergie happy to help England’s hunt |
| 2007-11-30 09:39:46 |
Twenty-four hours after it was confirmed Ferguson would be among a hand-picked group of football men FA chief executive Brian Barwick would talk to over hiring Steve McClaren's successor, the United boss accepted he had a part to play. There might be a certain irony in such a fiercely patriotic Scot speaking on St Andrew's Day about helping England but, after 21 years as United boss, Ferguson knows his experience can prove invaluable as Barwick begins the hunt for a man who can restore the fortunes of a national team who so miserably failed to reach Euro 2008. "Obviously, I will try to help the situation," he said. "A lot of people want to do that because it is important to our game that England get the right man to replace Steve and try to drive the team on. "It is not easy to get international managers. It is not an easy job and it is not an easy selection process. "No-one at the FA has spoken to me and I don't know if they will or not but there is nothing wrong with them askin...
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