Football
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Aidan Smith: What exactly did Hibs do at that Dublin training camp?
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Inside Sport podcast: Cup final aftermath, Rangers takeover and Scotland in the States
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Euro 2012: Players to watch this summer
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Stuart Bathgate: Hampden may be perfect send-off for Paulo Sergio
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Scottish Cup final: Cavalcade of colour from capital’s sides
Rangers administration: Duff & Phelps ‘hopeful’ that Taxman will agree to CVA
RANGERS administrators are working to a date of Wednesday 13 June for the creditors’ meeting that could determine whether the Ibrox club has a future in its current form.
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USA 5 - 1 Scotland: Donovan grabs hattrick as Scots routed in Florida
CRAIG Levein suffered his heaviest defeat as Scotland manager as the United States cruised to a 5-1 win in tonight’s friendly in Jacksonville.
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Rangers administration: End game nears for fallen icon
Alphabet spaghetti of CVAs and EBTs could be coming home to roost but debate rages over SPL’s sanctions
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Green shoots: Billy Stark on David Wotherspoon
Excluded from Pat Fenlon’s cup-final squad, David Wotherspoon remains a valued Scotland U21 player, says Andrew Smith
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Ambitious Thomson eyes SPL return
JASON THOMSON today revealed how he intends to convince top-level clubs he merits another shot at the Scottish Premier League after signing a pre-contract agreement with Raith Rovers.
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Rugby
Foreign policy: Mark Dodson on improving Scottish Rugby
We’re using pro clubs to give overseas talent Scotland ‘opportunity’, admits SRU chief
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Harry Leonard confident team can thrive in Cape Town after poor Six Nations
There is a good story about the rotund prop Victor Ubogu who, on tour to South Africa with Jack Rowell’s England squad, was being lapped by his team-mates as they warmed up by running around the pitch. “The altitude’s killing me!” gasped the overweight prop.
Club coaches to get pro chance
Following a fraught meeting with the Premier One clubs earlier in May the SRU is to set up what they are calling a coaching professional development (CPD).
Harlequins 30-23 Leicester: Style as well as substance give Quins title
Harlequins were crowned champions of England for the first time by defeating Leicester in a thrilling Twickenham final.
Quins came to the party by refusing to abandon their free-flowing style, which was rewarded as skipper Chris Robshaw lifted the Aviva Premiership trophy.
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Golf
Els fury as field is left high and dry
THE sun may have been shining but moods were decidedly dark on day three of the BMW PGA Championship. James Morrison, who led by four shots at the halfway stage, had a nightmare. So, too, after a promising start, did Borderer David Drysdale. As for Ernie Els, his blood was boiling from anger.
John Huggan: Beem brightens up Euro Tour
IN AN era where big, blond and bland are increasingly the dominant characteristics of so many leading players on his home circuit, Rich Beem is cheerfully none of the above.
Dunbar man aims to keep momentum in third round
DAVID DRYSDALE set out in today’s third round of the £3.6 million BMW PGA Championship determined not to take stage fright in the European Tour’s flagship event.
Scott Henry leads Scots’ challenge in Belgium
CHALLENGE TOUR: Scott Henry was the leading Scot at the Telenet Trophy in Belgium as the Clydebank man sat just four shots off the lead set by Marco Crespi, thanks to a three-under-par second round of 68.
Bovey double bogey puts Kerr in ninth
EUROPRO TOUR: A double bogey 6 at the 10th killed any hopes Edinburgh’s Mark Kerr might have had of winning the £10,000 first prize in this week’s PGA EuroPro Tour event at Bovey Castle, Dartmoor in Devon. But rounds of 66, 68 and 72 for a four-under-par total of 206 saw him finish joint ninth and collect a cheque for £800.
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Tennis
Tennis: Elena Baltacha faces stern test
ELENA Baltacha will go into the opening day of play at the French Open confident she can pull off a huge shock against US Open champion Samantha Stosur this afternoon.
Injury talk gets Murray’s back up
AS THE good and the great assemble in Paris for the start of the French Open today, Andy Murray is trying to find a little peace and quiet. He wishes everyone would just get off his back. For the past six months, he has been troubled by a nagging back injury and while he will not explain exactly what is wrong or what treatment he has had for it, this week he has been at pains to point out that it is really not that bad. Nonetheless, reports of his terminal decline have gathered momentum and just a couple of days ago, Boris Becker suggested in one of the London newspapers that Scotland’s finest should forgo the French Open in order to save himself and his ailing body for the rigours of Wimbledon and the Olympics. That was the final straw and while it may not have broken the back of Dunblane’s most famous camel, it clearly gave him the hump.
Back problem lurks, but Andy Murray ‘feels good’ for French Open
Andy Murray battled through adversity to reach the semi-finals of the French Open 12 months ago, and he is ready to do the same again if necessary.
Tennis: Boris Becker advises Andy Murray to skip French Open
BORIS Becker believes Andy Murray might be better off pulling out of the French Open to let his back problem recover in time for Wimbledon and the Olympics.
Tennis: Heather Watson closes in on main draw at French Open
Heather Watson breezed through her first qualifying match at the French Open this morning against Canada’s Sharon Fichman.
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Horse Racing
O’Brien back on track for Derby
GIVEN his extraordinary achievements over the years, it is a mystery why Aidan O’Brien has only two Epsom Derbies to his name. The back-to-back victories of Galileo and High Chaparral in 2001 and 2002 showed that the Ballydoyle trainer could prepare a Derby winner, but Treasure Beach’s agonising defeat by a head by Pour Moi last year is the closest O’Brien has come in almost a decade.
Power lives up to his name as he carries O’Brien jnr over
Power employed an electric turn of foot to land the Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh. Trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by his son, Joseph, Power, who disappointed in the Newmarket Guineas on his seasonal bow, was sent off an uneasy 5-1 chance.
Musselbugh at home for Top Ten clash
Musselburgh’s excellent 6-2 away win over Aberlady has earned the Midlothian champions a home bowls tie against Castle Douglas of Stewartry in tomorrows second round of the Inter County Top Ten.
Racing: Parish Hall trainer prays for double
Parish Hall attempts the first leg of a remarkable Classic double in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh today.
Horse Racing: Taste victory on the hoof
On THE HOOF hit the target for top golfer Lee Westwood and his agent Chubby Chandler when winning at Beverley recently and he can score again for the partnership at Musselburgh tomorrow night.
Snooker
Snooker: Ace MacGillivray out to retain Scottish title
Granton snooker ace Craig MacGillivray will bid to retain the Scottish National Snooker Championship this weekend when he plays this year’s No. 1 ranked player James McBain (Glasgow) in the final at the Locarno Snooker Club in Edinburgh.
O’Sullivan in call for ‘compassion’
World champion Ronnie O’Sullivan has accused snooker chiefs of lacking “compassion”.
Snooker: Ronnie O’Sullivan mulls quitting after world final
Ronnie O’SULLIVAN could follow Stephen Hendry into retirement tonight even if he wins the Betfred.com World Championship for a fourth time.
Break of 141 helps O’Sullivan take control in final clash with Carter
Ronnie O’Sullivan claims he has never known a Crucible campaign so gruelling but a fourth world snooker title should be his reward today for lasting the pace.
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.
Cricket
Keeping up the good work
Wicket-keeping has become routine for Craig Wallace, but far from humdrum. The last 12 months, he confidently declares, “has been the best year of my life”.
Sammy and Strauss star in a tale of two captains
There are few finer sights in Test cricket than a full Trent Bridge basking in perfect sunshine. The verdant green of the sward in the foreground, a sky above so clear the Gods must have washed it of impurities and a knowledgeable, delightful crowd of cricket lovers burbling in appreciation in the background.
Praise for centurion Drummond
Former England all-rounder Gavin Hamilton has paid tribute to Gordon Drummond, his Saltires captaincy successor, who has become the latest cricketer to achieve a century of caps for Scotland.
Wallace backs Scotland to reach for the stars
DEFIANT wicketkeeper Craig Wallace has backed Scotland to kick start their CB40 campaign by snuffing out the challenge of star-studded Durham.
New signing Saeed set for Freuchie bow in Fife derby
FREUCHIE will take the wrappers off their newly-signed pro when they square up to Falkland in the mid-Fife derby today. Usman Saeed arrived in the country this week and spokesman John Anderson revealed there is a lot of anticipation in the club.
Boxing
Amir Khan secures title showdown with undefeated WBC champion Garcia
Amir Khan will again bid to prove he is the best light-welterweight in the world when he fights unbeaten WBC champion Danny Garcia on 14 July.
Boxing: Amir Khan camp demand return of world titles
AMIR Khan last night called for the return of his WBA and IBF titles after claiming Lamont Peterson’s failed drugs test proves he was a “cheat”.
Boxing: City boxers given chance of GB funding
A TRIO of Capital boxers have the chance to be crowned the best in Britain at the GB Championships this month.
Boxing: Haye v Chisora bout sparks BBBoC threat
The British Boxing Board of Control has warned that all those involved in the impending heavyweight promotion between David Haye and Dereck Chisora will be automatically stripped of their licences.
Boxing: David Haye and Dereck Chisora set for London ‘grudge match’ Picture gallery
DAVID Haye vowed to inflict a “slow, concussive beating” on Dereck Chisora after their controversial all-British grudge match was confirmed on Tuesday.
Athletics
John Carlos: ‘Our wasn’t the struggle of the black athlete, it was the struggle of the black man’
Forty-four years on, the man who took part in an iconic 1968 Olympic protest has gone from pariah to civil rights hero, finds Jay Richardson
Life begins again at 40 for Haining
Flushed with the elixir of seemingly eternal youth, Hayley Haining will target victory in today’s Edinburgh Marathon in her first outing over the distance in almost three years. The former Great Britain international has, both by compulsion and choice, let her sporting ambitions take a back seat to motherhood of late, juggling the demands of a one-year-old son and a day job at Glasgow’s Veterinary School with an ad-hoc approach to training.
Edinburgh Marathon set to run with world’s elite
The potential to acquire a fast time has lured several overseas runners into the field for tomorrow’s Edinburgh Marathon, boosting the ambitions of its organisers to achieve elite status for an event that has squarely focused on attracting British talent since it was revived in 2003.
Jessica Ennis laughs at claim she’s ‘fat, with too much weight’
Former world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis has laughed off reports a senior figure at UK Athletics has described her as fat ahead of this summer’s Olympics.
Paralympics final for GB footballers
Great Britain’s seven-a-side cerebral palsy football team secured a place in the gold medal final of this year’s BT Paralympic World Cup with a 7-3 victory over the Republic of Ireland yesterday at the Manchester Regional Arena.
Motorsport
Formula One: Uncovering the mystery of William Grover-Williams
Richard Bath discovers that the first winner of the Monaco GP was an amazing man who went on to be a spy and met a grim end – or did he?
Fernando Alonso aiming for F1 title joy after banishing early despair
Fernando Alonso is convinced Ferrari can savour title-winning delight this season after admitting to starting the campaign in the depths of despair.
Formula 1: Jenson Button striving for greater consistency
JENSON Button believes he will only make an impact on what has so far been a mixed-up, crazy season if he cracks the consistency code so far eluding him.
Formula 1: Williams garage back on track after blaze
Williams will not be undermined this weekend by the fire that wrecked their Spanish Grand Prix triumph, but have implemented new procedures to ensure there will never be a repeat.
F!: Mercedes eye Di Resta for next season
Bathgate’s Paul di Resta is being lined up to replace seven-times F1 world champion Michael Schumacher at Mercedes GP next season.
Other sports
Bowls: McKendrick lifts Bainfield by slaying favourite Spalding
Danny McKENDRICK of Bainfield stole the show in last night’s last-16 play in the E&L Junior Singles for the James Fleming Trophy with a thrilling 21-19 victory over title favourite Josh Spalding of Craigentinny.
Paralympics: McGuires see off Czechs in World Cup
Great Britain’s Stephen and Peter McGuire made a successful start to their London Paralympics run-in with victory over the Czech Republic in their boccia international match at the BT Paralympic World Cup.
Bowls: Big home victory boosts Northern’s survival chances
Relegation-zoned Northern gave their prospects of survival in Division 1 of the Alpha Trophies Edinburgh Bowling League a massive boost by inflicting a 9-0 victory on bottom club Hillside in last night’s fourth round of fixtures.
Basketball: Rising Star plan move into different universe
Pentland STAR women’s basketball side have shown they are a force to be reckoned with after a season which has seen the club excel to a new level.
1 commentBowls: Big guns are spiked in District 11
Two major players were knocked out of the Singles in the Edinburgh District 11 national bowls championships last night – but not without a fight.
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