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Laurie Evans opens up to cloud Yorkshire's ambitions
Sunday 04 August 2013
Yorkshire 302 Warwickshire 221-8 (Yorkshire lead by 81 runs)
Transfer news: Steven Gerrard says he turned down move to Bayern Munich to stay at Liverpool - and wants Luis Suarez to do the same
Saturday 03 August 2013
Liverpool captain could have joined Champions League winners last season, but chose to remain at Anfield because of the value of the club's tradition
Liverpool must return to the Champions League says Steven Gerrard
Friday 02 August 2013
Gerrard says that if they can't return to their former glory days, they could face many more battles like the current one of retaining striker Luis Suarez
Ashes 2013: The day Australia fought back in the series
Thursday 01 August 2013
Tourists' anger over latest DRS controversy is soothed by wonderful day with the bat
Transfer news: Nani keen to impress at Manchester United - despite being 'offered' to Monaco
Wednesday 31 July 2013
The winger scored twice earlier this week
Kieron Dyer announces his retirement - and then reveals his ambition to be the next Pep Guardiola
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Former England international has retired at the age of 34 after an injury-plagued career
Traditional three-year university is not only path to top, CBI tells teenagers
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Teenagers should be told to drop the idea that a traditional three-year university degree course is the only route to a top job, Britain’s businesses warn today.
John Casablancas obituary: Agent whose company, Elite, ushered in the era of the supermodel
Friday 26 July 2013
He retired in 2000, saying, 'I'm leaving a business I detest' full of 'idiots and leeches'
Steve Bunce on boxing: Anthony Joshua should follow one golden rule in his pro career - Do the opposite of Audley Harrison
Thursday 25 July 2013
His first fights will be 'knock-over jobs' – and that was good enough for Lewis
Anniversary Games: Mo Farah excited to return to scene of his gold nights at Olympic Stadium
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Mo Farah has stepped inside the Olympic Stadium just once since his golden double last summer.
Former British number one Anne Keothavong announces retirement
Wednesday 24 July 2013
The 29-year-old is to join BT Sport
Chelsea goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer reveals he never gave up on move to elite club - even after transfer to Arsenal fell through
Wednesday 24 July 2013
The 40-year-old ran down his contract at Fulham before move to Stamford Bridge
St Nicholas Abbey bows out with life in jeopardy
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Racing was given a real jolt yesterday when Ballydoyle announced the bad news that St Nicholas Abbey, one of the best horses in the world, had suffered an injury so serious that it has not only resulted in his immediate retirement from the track, it has also put his life in jeopardy.
Boxing: Carl Froch will fight George Groves in all-British superfight
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Froch's IBF and WBO super middleweight titles will be on the line when the two meet at the end of 2013
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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