Jan 10
Tottenham Hotspur are willing to listen to offers for Jermain Defoe as head coach Juande Ramos plans a clear-out of his squad. Unsurprisingly Ramos has also identified Darren Bent as surplus to requirements although it is understood that the striker, who is desperate to leave, will have to stay until the summer because no club will come close to paying the £16.5m Spurs committed last year when he arrived from Charlton Athletic. Bent will not be allowed to go on loan.
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Jan 10
* BRISTOL CITY Manager Gary Johnson said he was disappointed to see supporters leaving early during City’s 2-1 defeat to Middlesbrough on Saturday. “We really appreciate the fans coming here but we need their support for 90 or 93 minutes,” he said. “It is soul-destroying sometimes when you want to give it a big push and you see half the crowd leaving.”
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Jan 10
Drake guard Josh Young, the leading scorer in the Missouri Valley Conference, is out indefinitely with a sprained right ankle.
Young is averaging 16.3 points per game and has keyed Drake’s 13-1 start, the best in school history. The sophomore injured his ankle Wednesday night early in the second half of Drake’s 75-50 win over Indiana State and did not return.
Drake has won 12 straight and is 4-0 in the Valley for the first time since 1970.
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Jan 10
INDIANAPOLIS — Coach Tony Dungy isn’t saying anything definitive about his future coaching plans.
Dungy
Dungy, who has considered retiring after each of the past two seasons, acknowledged Thursday he would talk with his wife and Colts officials after this season before deciding what to do next season.
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Jan 10
The American owners of Liverpool may have relented last night to allow Rafael Benitez a new signing this transfer window but with Martin Skrtel set to arrive from Zenit St Petersburg for £6.5m, the more crucial talks take place in New York today.
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Jan 10
Ibanez’s final game came against Argentina last year
France captain Raphael Ibanez has announced his retirement from international rugby.
The 34-year-old said he would carry on playing with Wasps at least until the end of the season.
He has represented Les Bleus 98 times since his debut in 1996, with 41 of those caps coming as skipper.
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Jan 10
Kelly Tilghman, the Golf Channel anchor who during Friday’s broadcast from the Mercedes-Benz Championship said while discussing Tiger Woods’ dominance that young players on the PGA Tour should “lynch him in a back alley,” was suspended two weeks Wednesday for the remark.
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Jan 10
Oklahoma (9-2) Visits Iowa State (11-2) Wednesday Night NORMAN, Okla. — No. 6 Oklahoma (9-2) opens the Big 12 season against one of the league’s toughest teams to beat on the road in Iowa State (11-2).
The Sooners have beaten the Cyclones just once in Ames under Sherri Coale, but have won the last four meetings, including 2007′s Big 12 Tournament Championship Game.
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Jan 10
Former England captain Martin Corry has decided to end his international career after turning down a place in coach Brian Ashton’s 2008 Six Nations squad.
The 34-year-old Corry does not think he can maintain his high standards in both international and domestic rugby.
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Jan 10
Tiger Woods
Philadelphia, PA – Don’t you just hate all of those preseason predictions pundits make? What do they know, without a golf ball being struck in regulation?
So, confidently, with four rounds in the books, it’s my turn.
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