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Van Persie eyes further success
Manchester United 's expense in 2005. It was one of the major reasons why the 29-year-old opted to make the 24million move to Old Trafford last summer.The switch has paid off handsomely, with Van Persie landing both the championship and the Golden Boot for the second season running, but Van Persie is not finished, and he told MUTV: "I am not thinking I have my medal and this is it. It ...
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Sigurdsson Bale must stay
Midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson warned that Tottenham would not be able to find a direct replacement for Gareth Bale if they let the award-winning star leave this ...
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Emotional Harper bows out on a high
Goalkeeper Steve Harper has admitted it would be just like Newcastle to go and win a trophy without him next year after his 20-year roller-coaster ride on ...
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Redknapp toiling to shift players
QPR manager Harry Redknapp admits he has a difficult task on his hands offloading unwanted players in order to bring in recruits more suited to the npower ...
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Moyes backs Neville to be a success
Chelsea in his 518th and last match in charge, while Neville is taking time to consider his future following the end of his playing spell at Goodison Park, eight years after his arrival from Old Trafford.Moyes anticipates the 36-year-old Neville's next move will be to stop playing altogether, saying: "I think he'll probably go into coaching or management, that would be my ...
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US Open door opens for Jaidee
VARNA, Bulgaria – Thongchai Jaidee's disappointment in losing out in the final of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship has been eased knowing he will qualify for next month's US Open in ...
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IPL Spot-fixing Tainted Sreesanth is subject of upcoming Malayalam movie Cricket
He may not be a role model for young cricketers, but his dramatic life can send a "strong" message of what's right and what's wrong. That's the theme of a Malayalam movie being planned around the rumbustious life of Sreesanth by filmmakers Shaji Kailas and AK Sajan. Sreesanth, a former Indian Test pacer and a member of the Rajasthan Royals team, is facing spot-fixing ...
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Castroneves Franchitti Chase 4th Indy 500 Win
Helio Castroneves hopes a new generation of fans gets to see a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. It's been 22 years since the last driver won his fourth Indy 500 title. Now Castroneves and Dario Franchitti are trying to join the exclusive club at Sunday's ...
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IPL spot fixing Rs 20 lakh seized from Ajit Chandilas cricket kit
Fifteen touch-screen smartphones to consider below Rs 15,000 Within the huge list, we take a look at fifteen touch-screen smartphones that have been ...
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Lu Upsets 5th-Seeded Seppi in France
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Section 219 Is the Twins lost weekend a sign of the slide to come
Startribune.com digital sports editor Howard Sinker used to cover the Twins and now shares season tickets with friends in Section 219 of Target Field. He blogs about baseball from the perspective of a long-time fan who loves the game, doesn't always believe the hype and likes hearing what others think. Howard sometimes talks about sports with Cathy Wurzer on MPR's Morning ...
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Chinese sensation Guan Tianlang 14 to play at Nicklaus Memorial Tournament
DUBLIN, Ohio - Fourteen-year-old golf sensation Guan Tianlang will play in the Memorial Tournament next week. The Chinese amateur has accepted an exemption for the event at Muirfield Village. Memorial founder and host Jack Nicklaus met with Guan's parents at the Masters and has said he hoped the phenom might play at his tournament, which runs from May 30 to June 2. Last month, Guan ...
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Soccer ah football comes to Windows 8
It may not be 'America's pastime', but Microsoft still proudly announces that it is making a deal with Major League Soccer to bring the sport to its Windows 8 customers. The sport known as soccer in the US, but football to most of the rest of the world, joins the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the National Hockey Leagues on Microsoft's latest ...
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Vettori Joins NZ Squad Early After Martin Ruled Out
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Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday
BOSTON — NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on Tuesday at their spring meetings. The San Francisco area, where a new stadium is being built in Santa Clara, and South Florida are competing for the the 50th edition, to be held in February 2016. The loser in that bidding will go against Houston to host the 51st game the following year. A three-quarters ...
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Alabamas broken BCS title trophy auctioned off
You might recall that Alabama’s 2011 BCS national championship trophy suffered an unfortunate and painful ending during last season’s spring practice. Carleton Tinker, the father of former Tide longsnapper Carson ...
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Sochi 2014 the most expensive Olympics in history and whos paying the bill Russian tycoons of course
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business powerhouses.Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for the construction of ...
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San Francisco on track to host Super Bowl
San Francisco is in position to be chosen as the host city for Super Bowl L, with NFL owners set Tuesday to vote on the game's location, NFL.com reports. The game would be hosted at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium being built in Santa Clara, where it would offer a look at the new technology that can be put into stadiums and the future of technology in the game. San Francisco got a ...
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Romania orders retrial of football officials
BUCHAREST, Romania - Bucharest's highest court has ordered a retrial in the case of eight Romanian football officials who were sentenced to prison for tax evasion and money laundering in connection with the transfer of 12 players over a six-year period.The court on Monday overturned "in totality" an appeals court sentencing in November when Rapid Bucharest chairman George Copos, ...
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Exclusive 49ers COO on Super Bowl Santa Clara as the next SoMa
Paraag Marathe is the COO of the San Francisco 49ers. On Tuesday, team owners for the National Football League will decide between Santa Clara and Miami for the 2016 Super Bowl L. In an edited interview, Niners COO Paraag Marathe, a 12-year veteran of the team, shares his thoughts on Super Bowl prospects at the new $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium and drops hints about a new, high-end 49ers ...
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Big boys kick off big week
Big Picture After 72 league matches - mismatches, in some cases - we're into the final week of the IPL. The most important week. The week Chennai Super Kings have negotiated five times previously, with more success than failure; they're the only team to progress past the league stage in every edition of the IPL so far, losing once in the semis, finishing runners-up twice (including ...
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Bin Hindi The Royal Honouring is a Pride for all Affiliates in Youth and Sports Field
Manama, May 20th (BNA) -HM the King's Advisor for Youth and Sports Affairs, Saleh Bin Hindi expressed his thanks and appreciation for His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa for honouring the Youth and Sports leaderships, who attained high posts in the Youth and Sports field in Gulf states. He also considered that the Royal honouring is a pride out of its noble meanings which ...
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Brady ‘Never Felt Better Throwing The Football’
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady throws some pregame snaps in the rain before New England’s game against the Denver Broncos at Gillette Stadium. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty ...
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Dortmunds Hummels likely to be fit for final
Borussia Dortmund's goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller (R) saves the ball as team-mate Mats Hummels and Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain (L) fall during their Champions League semi-final second leg soccer match at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Juan ...
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Fernandinho tweets City wish
Confederations Cup plans by current boss Luis Felipe Scolari and, in responding to a question on Twitter from a City fan, has confirmed he wants to join the ...
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Is the student-beating teacher being used as scapegoat?
Without question, the shocking video footage of a Houston school teacher attacking and beating a cowering 13-year-old student shows something wrong and something that should never ever occur in the classroom. But recent revelations surrounding the events leading up to the incident, and the conditions at the school itself, seem to suggest that this teacher was pushed to the limit by a flawed school system, as well as her own lack of training to deal with the rigors of a stressful and provocative teaching environment.
On April 29th Sheri Lynn Davis attacked a student in her class, the footage has now gone viral on the internet and shows an incident that seems to represent a complete breakdown of the system. In the video the 13-year-old student is seen backed into a corner of the room with Davis standing before him in a position indicative of an imminent attack, the boy cowers down at which point the beating begins. Read more
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