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Referee rebukes Broad for 'wide ball' protest

Stuart Broad had his first brush with officialdom at the conclusion of England's 54-run defeat to India on Monday and, judging by the aggressive and slightly confrontational way in which the fast bowler plays cricket, it is...

Football: Ireland can finish ahead of Italy, claims Giovanni Trapattoni

Giovanni Trapattoni has suggested for the first time that the Republic of Ireland can challenge his native Italy for the automatic World Cup qualifying spot from Group Eight. The Ireland manager had previously said that his...

GrayNicolls hope their new doublesided bat will prove a hit in Twenty20 cricket

The development of a double-sided bat suggests cricket technology is keeping pace with the fast-changing modern game. Seeing double: Stuart Kranzbuhler, master bat maker for Gray-Nicholls, holds their new double-sided bat...

Michael Billington on what TS Eliot's complex plays did for the theatre

Is there a dramatist currently less fashionable than TS Eliot? The verse-drama revival he so ardently championed bit the dust. His high Anglicanism is now a minority taste. Even the drawing-room settings he used as a spiritual...

NBA: Boston 110, New York 101

BOSTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Paul Pierce had 22 points and eight rebounds Tuesday to lead Kevin Garnett-less Boston to a 110-101 victory over New York. Garnett sat out after being suspended for hitting Milwaukee's Andrew Bogut...

Complacency could cost India dear

England needs to buck up fast to make it a competitive series — Photo: K.R. Deepak EPITOMISING THE SPIRIT: The fielding — an index of a team in sync — has been good in the two matches so far, with Suresh Raina’s athletic effort...

Spain: Judge drops civil war probe

Jurisdiction issue forces the end of alleged crime against humanity case MADRID, Spain - Spain's most famous judge abandoned a drive for a symbolic indictment of the late Gen. Francisco Franco and his regime, dropping a probe...

Boston's Pedroia wins AL MVP

Red Sox star is first second baseman to win award since 1959 Dustin Pedroia batted in each of the first four spots in Boston's lineup and finished second to Mauer with a .326 batting average. The Boston little man with the...

Political prisoner, detained in 1973, returns home to Chile

Soldiers toook German Rene Cofre Martinez away during Chile's "dirty war" in 1973 Remains were identified as his in 1995, but misidentification discovered in 2006 He'd been in Argentina for 35 years before returning to...

Maradona nicking spotlight from European stars

LONDON (AP) -- Diego Maradona is Argentina's new coach and will be on the bench for the first time to direct his team's play when it faces Scotland at Glasgow's Hampden Park. It starts a new chapter to a career that has...

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