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07:45, Dec 29 2012 Rafael Benitez has refused to rule out a second coming at Liverpool ahead of his first match on Merseyside as Chelsea boss. Interim Blues manager Benitez has been linked previously with a return to Anfield and will be a free agent again at the end of the season. Sunday...

THE former England cricket captain and veteran Channel Nine commentator Tony Greig has died, aged 66. Greig, who had a key role in Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket revolution and was a distinctive voice in cricket...

Manchester United tactician and leader Sir Alex Ferguson, left, who might well be complying with the TKO suggestion that any gag should be given to Brendan Rodgers, his Liverpool counterpart, to help to make 2013 as memorable a year as the sport...

07:45, Dec 29 2012 Sir Alex Ferguson is considering abandoning defence altogether, so exasperated has he become at Manchester United's failure to tighten up at the back. United head into Saturday's Old Trafford encounter with West Brom seven points clear of Manchester City, but a 4-3 Boxing Day triumph over Newcastle means...

Australian middle-order batsman Mike Hussey today announced that he will retire from Test cricket after the final match of the series against Sri Lanka at Sydney starting on January 3. Sydney game will be the 79th and final Test in 37-year-old Hussey's career having made his debut at 30. He will...

LIKELY Test debutant Glenn Maxwell says he not only had to improve his game to international standard, but that his "look'' hadn't been up to scratch when he was first called up to the Australian squad. Maxwell, 24, admitted it had been a whirlwind few months since he was called up to the national one-day team in August, culminating in his Test call-up to replace the injured Shane Watson. And today, as the Victorian all-rounder faced the national media for the first time, he said he'd had a crash course in what it took to become an...

Following an inspection by Turf Club officials at Limerick, the...

Melbourne – All-rounder Shane Watson is considering playing only as a batsman and will talk over his plans with the Australian selectors after next week's third Test against Sri Lanka in Sydney. Watson will miss the final dead-rubber Sydney Test starting on January 3 with a calf injury which resurfaced during this week's second Test in Melbourne. The 31-year-old said he had felt some soreness before the match but was not...

The 37-year-old confirmed that the third Test against Sri Lanka at the Sydney Cricket Ground - scheduled for January 3 to January 7 - would be his last, with his international commitments ending after the ensuing one-day series, which ends on January 23. An official statement from...

ACOMB 'A' made it a 4-3 double win against their 'B' team to maintain their unbeaten run at the top of the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League. John Ashwell levelled after Nick Marchant's first-frame...

New Delhi: Century-old club Mohun Bagan was today slapped with a two-year suspension by the All India Football Federation for abandoning their violence-marred I-League match against East Bengal on December 9. The decision was taken today by the I-League Core Committee which also declared all of club's matches in the "I-League Competition 2012-2013 cancelled and considered null and void." "The I-League Core Committee of All India Football Federation (AIFF) received the detailed Report dated 26th December 2012 of the Hon'ble Justice A. K....

From left, stage seven winner Dave Smith, organiser Neil Hart and Martin Chappell Leeds-BASED Dave 'The Rhino' Smith charged to an emphatic victory in stage seven of The Yorkshire Masters Darts Open in Castleford....

Australian middle-order batsman Mike Hussey today announced that he will retire from Test cricket after the final match of the series against Sri Lanka at Sydney starting on January 3. Sydney game will be the 79th and final Test in 37-year-old Hussey's...

North Yorkshire trainer John Quinn, a dab hand at switching Flat horses to hurdles, can prove the point again at Doncaster this afternoon. Quinn, who earler this week at Wetherby produced Hidden Justice to make a hugely...

Simon Dyson MIDDLE earth will be the crucial centre of attention for Simon Dyson's bid for a big bang start to the 2013 golf season. After missing almost a quarter of the year through, initially, the birth of his first-born daughter, and then by serious injuries to both his pelvis and his right wrist, the York swing-king is...

THE York Par-Tee Golf Society could well be christened 'none but the brave' after members defied the wretched weather to continue their winter tour. Round five was in severe danger of being...

The Rossoneri may be in crisis but the probable arrival of the Italy star will lock down a top-class attack for the next decade and prompt the beginning of a new positive chapter More On : AC Milan, Manchester City...

Although both sides have disappointed this season, scoring goals has not been a problem of late and Phil Kitromilides is backing both teams to net at 4/5 as his main bet By Phil Kitromilides More On : Liverpool, QPR Comments telegraph The final match of 2012 for these two sides could be one of the most signficant of the season, as bottom of the table Queens Park Rangers host a Liverpool team desperately languishing in mid table....

The past 12 months have seen some astonishing play on the pitch from the likes of Spain and Barcelona, but matters off it have left a bitter taste in the mouths of fans of the game More On : Borussia...

(Source: PFA - Professional Footballers' Association) Manchester City assistant boss David Platt accepts the champions must find a way to deal with the imminent loss of talisman Yaya Toure. The inspirational midfielder and his brother Kolo, the centre-back,...

(Source: PFA - Professional Footballers' Association) Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is confident his players will produce the right response at QPR on Sunday. The Reds boss criticised his players for the "soft" nature of their 3-1...

USAIN Bolt was back in his hometown of Sherwood Content on Boxing Day, December 26, where he hosted 200 children on the grounds of Piedmont Basic and Waldensia Primary schools. The sprint king, under his Usain Bolt Foundation banner, partnered with Digicel and KFC to treat the children to a day of fun and frolic. Bolt, the IAAF Athlete of the Year and Digicel...

Jaipur, Dec 29: A BJP legislator in Rajasthan wants the state government to prohibit private schools from making girls wear skirts as uniform, citing it as the reason...

NEW YORK - The NHL made a new offer to the players' association, hoping to spark talks toward ending the long lockout and saving the hockey season. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Friday the league presented its proposal Thursday and was waiting for a response. The sides haven't met in person since a second round of talks with a federal mediator broke down Dec. 13. The lockout has reached its 104th...

West Ham chairman David Gold has admitted that manager Sam Allardyce is 'highly likely' to remain at Upton Park. Reports had claimed that Allardyce is facing an uncertain future as there are six months left on his current contract and he is yet to start formal talks about a new deal....

Harlequins coach John Kingston has said that his side will not take London Irish lightly in the Big Game 5 on Saturday. Champions Harlequins are top of the Aviva Premiership table after an impressive run of results, whilst Irish are struggling...

Kelso's clerk of the course Hazel Peplinski announced a 7am precautionary inspection due to the threat of overnight rain, but that failed to materalise and the...

NEW DELHI, Dec 29 (Reuters) - India's oldest soccer club, Mohun Bagan, have been kicked out of the league and banned for a further two years after refusing to take the field for the second half of their crowd trouble-hit derby against East Bengal earlier this month. Mohun Bagan were trailing their arch-rivals 1-0 on Dec. 9 in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata when one of their players was hit by a stone hurled from the stands. The match resumed after a near 15-minute interruption but Mohun Bagan, founded in 1889, did not return to the field. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed a retired judge to look into the case and his finding got the approval of an I-League Core Committee...

Fraser Grice THERE was a silver lining for York's Fraser Grice at the European Shotokan Karate Championships in Belgrade, Serbia....

The Blancos boss compared the structure of the Italian champions' side to that of his triumphant 2004 Porto team, and revealed he has been contemplating his own future By Joe Wright More On : Juventus, Real Madrid CF, José Mourinho Comments Getty Images Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has admitted he is wary of the threat posed by Juventus in the Champions League....

Photo-sharing app Instagram has lost over 23% of daily users in the wake of anger at controversial changes to its terms of service. Facebook-owned Instagram had hoped to...

In a new study, a team of researchers has discovered that massive earthquakes in the range of 8 to 8.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale have left clear ground scars in the central Himalayas. This ground-breaking discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has huge implications for the area along the front of the Himalayan Mountains, given that the region has a population density similar to that of New York City. NTU Professor Paul Tapponnier, who is recognised as a leading scientist in the...