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All football fans detained in Moscow released from police expect for 2 fans
MOSCOW, May 19 (Itar-Tass) - All football fans detained in Moscow, except for two people, were released from police, the press service of the Moscow police department told Itar-Tass on ...
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Dinda returns Warriors choose to bat
In the battle of the bottom-placed teams, Pune Warriors chose to bat on a track that had a bit of grass on it. They made one change, bringing back seamer Ashok Dinda for Ishwar Pandey. Delhi Daredevils also made one change, picking Bharat Chipli in place of Unmukt ...
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Mutko Lauds Rebirth of Sports Units in Russian Army
MOSCOW, May 19 (R-Sport) - Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has hailed the arrival of the first all-athlete military units since Soviet times. Thirty-six athletes who could represent Russia at the Sochi Olympics took their military oath Sunday at Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow. "Sports units are the right decision from the point of view of the economy and the strategy for ...
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Rooney to miss West Brom game
Rooney has been given permission to sit out the trip as wife Coleen is due to give birth to the couple's second child.The 27-year-old's Old Trafford future is in doubt after he asked for a transfer ...
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Redknapp QPR hasnt been easy
Rangers have been dogged by controversy since embarking on an extravagant but doomed spending spree last summer and the situation has failed to improve since Redknapp's appointment in November. The club's relegation from the ...
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Wenger optimistic for next season
Arsene Wenger feels his squad will finally be able to get the right mental preparation to hit the ground running at the start of the next season following a summer without speculation over the future of key ...
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Benitez backs Torres to lead Blues
Benfica in the Amsterdam final on Wednesday."It's more than just me," said Benitez, when asked about Torres' improvement, before he cited assistant ...
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NRL deal with Tigers needs balance Wests
Financially powerful Western Suburbs are demanding to be on equal terms with Balmain in the struggling Wests Tigers merger.However, the Magpies faction denied they would attempt to separate themselves from Balmain, saying it would be unrealistic for the foundation club to re-enter the NRL as a lone entity.Wests Tigers Chairman Mike Bailey - who is from the Magpies side - along with deputy ...
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Ports Hinkleys AFL honeymoon over
Port Adelaide's hot early-season AFL form has given way to a run of three straight defeats, culminating in Sunday's disappointing loss to ...
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Fever beat Tactix to stay near top four
The West Coast Fever have snapped a three-match losing run and maintained their trans-Tasman netball league play-off hopes with a 64-55 win over the lowly Tactix.The victory in Nelson was the Fever's fourth of the season but their first away from Perth and keeps them just two points outside the top four.They were helped by some soft turnovers from the home side, who also put in a poor ...
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Inu could be in trouble over leg twist
Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu could be facing another stint on the sidelines after a sickening leg twist on Newcastle's James McManus in the Knights' 44-8 win over the Bulldogs on Sunday.Inu has only just returned from a five-game ban for a spear tackle on Inglis and although he was not placed on report, the incident is certain to come under scrutiny from the match review ...
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McKenzie defends omitted Quade Cooper
Robbie Deans' most likely successor as Wallabies coach has questioned Quade Cooper's omission from the squad to tackle the British and Irish ...
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Crows beat Saints by 40 points in AFL
Adelaide squared their AFL season with a 40-point victory against St Kilda in Sunday's twilight match. The Crows floored the Saints with a third term burst which set up a 12.15 (87) to 6.11 (47) triumph at AAMI Stadium. Adelaide now have a four-four win-loss record and St Kilda's struggles continue with their sixth loss of the season. Crows forwards Josh Jenkins and Tom Lynch both ...
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Magpies want equal place in Tigers merger
Financially powerful Western Suburbs are demanding to be on equal terms with Balmain in the struggling Wests Tigers merger. However, the Magpies faction denied they would attempt to separate themselves from Balmain, saying it would be unrealistic for the foundation club to re-enter the NRL as a lone entity. Wests Tigers Chairman Mike Bailey - who is from the Magpies side - along with deputy ...
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Bennett praises improved Knights
Newcastle coach Wayne Bennett praised his team for the manner of their performance against Canterbury as the Knights ended a poor run of form with a 44-8 victory on Sunday. The Knights were a shadow of the side that capitulated in the second half against Canberra last week in an almost flawless display that also impressed Bulldogs coach Des Hasler. Two tries from young winger Kevin Naiqama and ...
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Rajasthan Royals to file police complaint against trio
Rajasthan Royals will file a police complaint against three of their players arrested earlier this week on allegations of spot-fixing. The decision was revealed by BCCI president N Srinivasan following an emergency working committee meeting of the board in Chennai to discuss the ...
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Deans happy to take a punt on OConnor at flyhalf
Australia's coach Robbie Deans gestures holding a ball during their test rugby union match against Italy at the Franchi stadium in Florence November 24, 2012. REUTERS/Alessandro ...
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Richmond hold AFL top-eight spot
Richmond held their spot in the AFL's top eight with a hard-fought 34-point win against the under-siege Melbourne at the MCG on Sunday. Second-year player Brandon Ellis had a career-best 39 possessions to spark the Tigers who improved their win-loss record to 5-3 with a 15.16 (106) to 11.6 (72) victory. Jack Riewoldt and Dustin Martin kicked three goals each for the Tigers who were only ...
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AFLs Blues still a way off Malthouse
Carlton coach Mick Malthouse admits the Blues remain very much a work in progress after they ground their way to an 18-point win over a disappointing Port Adelaide at Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Carlton won a scrappy game 16.13 (109) to 14.7 (91), with captain Marc Murphy kicking three goals playing mostly as a forward in his 150th match, Jeff Garlett snaring four and Heath Scotland slotting two ...
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Sharks happy winners after downing Raiders
In the world of sport, winning fixes everything. And that is certainly proving true - at least for now - for a Cronulla outfit who looked set to crumble under the pressure of an ASADA investigation that was ripping them from every angle. The investigation has slowed in recent weeks following stand-in captain Wade Graham's aborted interview with ASADA officials. Since that day, the Sharks ...
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Light shines at Wexford
18 May 2013 There could be better to come from Tuscan Light judged on her manner of victory in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Median Auction Fillies Maiden at ...
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Live updates - BCCI meeting on IPL spot-fixing crisis
Jayaditya Gupta: Gauging from the official broadcast of the IPL you'd be hard-pressed to guess there has been a spot-fixing scandal over the past few ...
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Police say more players in IPL fix probe
Indian police said Sunday they had widened their probe into cricket spot-fixing after the arrest of three players and 11 bookmakers, warning that more teams were under the microscope.Test discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was among a trio of players from the Rajasthan Royals arrested on Thursday over allegations they agreed to bowl badly during the Indian Premier League in exchange for tens of ...
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Rampant Knights destroy Canterbury in NRL
Newcastle have put the brakes on their recent slump in form with a first NRL win in three games, scoring seven tries to see off Canterbury 44-8 at Hunter Stadium on Sunday. In an occasionally fiery encounter, the Knights banished the memory of last week's 44-14 capitulation at Canberra, with Willie Mason putting his hand up for a NSW recall as he rolled back the years with a powerful ...
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Linden defeats Escalon in Division V baseball opener
STOCKTON -- Linden High senior Matt Zaklan threw four hitless innings before Escalon High rallied with a three-run fifth, but the Lions answered with three late runs to win 7-3 in Game 1 of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V best-of-three series at Billy Hebert ...
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New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
New Zealand is regional power in the Pacific and this is reflected in our ongoing involvement in the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, which is the mechanism by which the region manages one of its greatest natural resources.
New Zealand has long been a regional power in the South Pacific, and in this capacity the country has lead a number of major initiatives undertaken alone or in conjunction with other Pacific Island nations, the most important of these have been policies aimed at environmental protection and sustainability, as well as monitoring and rehabilitation of important environmental resources, such as the Pacific fisheries. Read more
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