Archive for January 14, 2013
Jonny Marray, seeded for the first time at a grand slam, may have to sacrifice new partner Andre Sa after Australian Open.
Every player involved in the Australian Open will receive an extra 1,000 Australian dollars for turning up.
Sepp Blatter has criticised Premier League teams for holding back the England team by playing too many foreign players.
Sprinter Sacre, unbeaten in his six starts over fences, was among nine entries for the Victor Chandler Chase on Saturday, his last outing before the Cheltenham Festival.
Sarah Taylor, the England wicketkeeper, has revealed she is in discussions to play men’s second XI county cricket later this year for Sussex.
Do post season weekends come any better than the one just served up by the National Football League? All four divisional championship games were high scoring.
John Higgins kept his Betfair Masters title challenge on track with a battling comeback in a 6-3 win over Ali Carter at London’s Alexandra Palace.
Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, has said England could make the World Cup “very, very exceptional” if given the chance to host the tournament.
Blackpool have been given permission to speak to the Dundee United manager Peter Houston about the vacancy at Bloomfield Road. With Michael Appleton quitting last week for a move to Blackburn Rovers, caretaker manager Steve Thompson will lead Blackpool again tonight in their FA Cup third round replay at home to Fulham.
Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, has said England could make the World Cup “very, very exceptional” if given the chance to host the tournament.
The mysteries of Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday were still surfacing when the stadium had emptied and Brendan Rodgers was explaining how he had motivated his team. “At half-time we reinforced the fact that they are really good players,” he said.
Game-by-game report: Andy Murray beat Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 in the first round in MelbourneMartin Pengelly …
Game-by-game: Andy Murray beat Robin Haase in straight sets. Martin Pengelly was watchingMartin Pengelly …
Two-time Masters champion John Higgins and Graeme Dott reach the quarter-finals of the tournament at Alexandra Palace.
Stuart Lancaster has responded to Owen Farrell’s phenomenal run of goal-kicking perfection for Saracens by suggesting that the young England fly-half is armed with a unique blend of talent and big-game temperament.
The surprise is not that a top woman cricket player is in talks to play for a men’s county team but that it has taken so longSarah Taylor …
Sunderland complete the signing of Senegal international defender Kader Mangane on loan until the end of the season.
Premier League clubs are prepared to take legal action, if required, to prevent the division’s big spenders evading Uefa’s financial fair play rules.
Here in the home of football there was some considerable cynicism concerning the absolute purity of the motivation behind the decision of Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool to band together to pursue an early enactment of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations.
• Strachan replaces Craig Levein following his sacking last year• 55-year-old last managed at Middlesbrough in October 2010Gordon Strachan will be confirmed as the new manager of Scotland before …
