Sport
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Tom English: ‘What does boxing thinks it’s losing. Its reputation? Its dignity? They were sacrificed years ago’
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Scottish Cup final: Cavalcade of colour from capital’s sides
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Scottish Cup final: As it happened
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Tom English: ‘If this verdict stands it is going to be an indelible stain on the history of Rangers’
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Interview: John Yorkston, Dunfermline chairman
Frankel simply the best as he destroys rivals in effortless win
Frankel made it a perfect ten when putting up a typically brilliant performance to win the JLT Lockinge Stakes at Newbury.
Elena Baltacha suffers Prague semis defeat
SCOTLAND’s Elena Baltacha missed out on the chance to get to the final of the Sparta Prague Open yesterday when she went down in straight sets to the Czech No.2 seed Klara Zakopalova in the semis.
Iain Fletcher: West Indies’ up and down attitude will hand England Test on a plate
BEFORE the Test match started, West Indies were publicly stating that a draw or taking the game into the final day could be construed a success for them. It was rhetoric that smacked of pessimism, or realism, depending on one’s outlook, but nothing they have shown in three days has suggested they should have greater ambition. England will win this game, comfortably, and West Indies will try and glean some positives for their rebuilding process. What though?
Cricket: Home loan benefits for Ali Evans
Ali Evans came to a crossroads and carefully sized up his options. Having played cricket for Scotland at every level through his teens, he reached the age of 19 and was cast out into the cold.
Cricket: Stoneywood-Dyce outbowl limp Heriot’s
STONEYWOOD-DYCE may be regarded by some as the weak link in the new Eastern Premier Division but the People’s Park side answered that charge in emphatic style yesterday with a thumping win over Heriot’s.
Football
USA vs Scotland: Craig Levein’s rich pickings for Brazil bid
‘I’VE just got too many good players’, the Scotland coach tells Andrew Smith
SPL Play-offs: Dumbarton stand ready to move up
Dumbarton hold a 2-1 advantage going into today’s play-off final second leg against hosts Airdrie United and stand on the brink of First Division football for the first time since Murdo MacLeod was their player/manager 17 years ago.
Keith Knox aiming to sound the last post for Albion Rovers
Stranraer opened the door to Second Division football with their 2-0 win over Albion Rovers on Wednesday night and manager Keith Knox is hoping that his men now walk through it by securing promotion at Coatbridge today, writes Craig P Stewart.
Champions League final: This win means everything, says Frank Lampard
FRANK Lampard hit one of Chelsea’s four successful penalties and the 33-year-old, who joined from West Ham in 2001 and captained them last night in John Terry’s absence, savoured the club’s glory night.
Blackpool 1 - 2 West Ham: Ricardo Vaz Te nails it for Hammers
FORMER Hibernian winger Ricardo Vaz Te scored a £90 million goal to fire West Ham into the Barclays Premier League after a dramatic play-off final at Wembley yesterday.
Rugby
No hard feelings as SRU reject Scott Steele shows his mettle among the Tiger cubs
NEVER mind the aesthetics, just sit back and admire their success. Leicester Tigers have won more Premiership titles than any other club (eight and counting) and they will be hoping to add to that number next Saturday at Twickenham, writes Iain Morrison. The Midlands giants take on the surprise package of the season, Harlequins, in an Aviva final that promises to be a contrast in styles.
Scots’ try drought is thick end of the wedge for Scott Johnston
When Scotland’s touring squad was announced last Wednesday, there was a little round fella wandering around Murrayfield with the glazed eyes of a newbie. Step forward Scott Johnston, who does not officially start until the squad touches down in Australia. Your diarist engaged the native Australian who appeared a cheery sort of soul, as indeed you would be if you were paid the thick end of £200,000 per year to teach players to run around rather than through the opposition. Mind you, after scoring just four tries throughout the Six Nations that money will look well spent if Johnston can chivvy the boys in blue across the Wallaby whitewash once or twice in Newcastle.
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Interview: Ryan Grant, Glasgow Warriors prop
RYAN Grant couldn’t get a game for Edinburgh when Andy Robinson was in charge of the capital club, but now the same coach has picked the Glasgow Warriors prop for Scotland
3 commentsWe’re hungry for more glory, warns Brian O’Driscoll
BRIAN O’Driscoll believes Leinster are building a dynasty after they won a record-breaking third Heineken Cup title in four years when they beat Ulster 42-14 in the all-Ireland final at Twickenham.
Heriot’s clinch comeback win in final to sink Melrose hopes
Heriot’s produced a powerful performance against Melrose to win the Jed tournament, the final round of what has been a lengthy Kings of the Sevens competition this season, and which desperately needs a careful redesign.
Golf
Laura Murray keeps her cool to win Scottish amateur title
LAURA Murray from Alford, a 23-year-old part-time swimming pool lifeguard, was certainly not out out of her depth in the final – her first – of the 98th Scottish women’s amateur golf champion over the Old Tom Morris-designed links at Tain in Ross-shire.
Paul Lawrie reigns in Spain as Scot reaches semis
TWO weeks after a wretched performance in front of Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal, Scotland’s Paul Lawrie is poised for another mighty leap towards adding a second cap to the first he won 13 years ago.
John Huggan: Take pity on go-slow Kevin Na
THE American slowed the glacial pace of US golf even further at Sawgrass but, unlike the PGA, he is at least trying to change
John Huggan: Eye Spy
USPGA champion Bradley has the odd flaw, says John Huggan, but watch out for this rising star in majors and the 2012 Ryder Cup
European tour golf: Del Moral in control with one round left
Spaniard Carlos Del Moral knocked two strokes off his previous best European Tour round and was in control of the Madeira Islands Open with a round to go.
Other sports
Federer goes through the pain barrier
AN ACHING Roger Federer made up for lost time yesterday as he saw off Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters.
Carrot-fuelled Carter hares into the final
Ali Carter marched into the Betfred.com World Championship final and revealed his title charge is being fuelled by a ten-bags-a-day carrot habit.
Richard Moore: Mall of confusion over drugs
PICTURE the scene. The Mall, Saturday, 28 July. At the finish of the men’s Olympic road race Spain’s Alejandro Valverde outsprints Holland’s Thomas Dekker for the gold medal, with Kazakhstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov claiming bronze.
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Snooker: Stephen Hendry humbles John Higgins
STEPHEN Hendry completed a crushing 13-4 victory over John Higgins yesterday, winning the one frame required to reach the quarter-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship.
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