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Coughlin sets American record in 100m freestyle
Natalie Coughlin broke her own American record in the women's 100 freestyle while finishing second at the Santa Clara Grand Prix on Friday.
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Natalie Coughlin broke her own American record in the women's 100 freestyle while finishing second at the Santa Clara Grand Prix on Friday.
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King Juan Carlos can't rule the Medcup
Just as King Canute proved to fawning courtiers that he could not control the tide, so King Juan Carlos demonstrated yesterday that a royal presence on the race course cannot whistle up an un-cooperative wind.
The Independent – 3 hours, 10 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Just as King Canute proved to fawning courtiers that he could not control the tide, so King Juan Carlos demonstrated yesterday that a royal presence on the race course cannot whistle up an un-cooperative wind.
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How the batsman's rod caused Martin-Jenkins to split his sides
The veteran cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins "corpsed" live on air yesterday after he referred to a batsman's "rod" on Radio 4's Test Match Special (TMS).
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
The veteran cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins "corpsed" live on air yesterday after he referred to a batsman's "rod" on Radio 4's Test Match Special (TMS).
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Double amputee wins right to race in the Olympics – but is he fast enough?
A double amputee is preparing to make Olympic history after he was given the green light to compete for a place in races against able-bodied athletes at this summer's Beijing games.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
A double amputee is preparing to make Olympic history after he was given the green light to compete for a place in races against able-bodied athletes at this summer's Beijing games.
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Stan Hey: 6-5 against
It is the pub quiz final – which team was the only one outside England to win the FA Cup? (Cardiff City in 1927); which team won the Cup then held it for seven years? (Portsmouth in 1939 – there were no further finals until 1946). Neither club has won since, so today's final has a distinctly old-fashioned feel to it.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
It is the pub quiz final – which team was the only one outside England to win the FA Cup? (Cardiff City in 1927); which team won the Cup then held it for seven years? (Portsmouth in 1939 – there were no further finals until 1946). Neither club has won since, so today's final has a distinctly old-fashioned feel to it.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Sport on TV: Write or wrong, Dunphy outshines dull Rangers
Eamon Dunphy, Millwall midfielder turned acerbic controversialist, is always good value – and so it proved on last Sunday's South Bank Show (ITV 1). In one of his occasional sporting forays Lord Bragg of the Big Quiff, Carlisle United fan turned Arsenal season-ticket holder, was exploring David Peace's dark, gritty novel about Brian Clough's 44 days in charge at Leeds, The Damned United.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Eamon Dunphy, Millwall midfielder turned acerbic controversialist, is always good value – and so it proved on last Sunday's South Bank Show (ITV 1). In one of his occasional sporting forays Lord Bragg of the Big Quiff, Carlisle United fan turned Arsenal season-ticket holder, was exploring David Peace's dark, gritty novel about Brian Clough's 44 days in charge at Leeds, The Damned United.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Federer finds form to join Djokovic in semi-finals
Roger Federer cruised to a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 win over Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals of the Hamburg Masters yesterday.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Roger Federer cruised to a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 win over Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals of the Hamburg Masters yesterday.
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Chris McGrath: Phoenix Tower offers distraught Cecil the prospect of reparation in Lockinge Stakes
Let us hope that he has not been relying too heavily on something so precarious. But the anguish in Henry Cecil was so obvious at York on Thursday that you have to fear otherwise.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Let us hope that he has not been relying too heavily on something so precarious. But the anguish in Henry Cecil was so obvious at York on Thursday that you have to fear otherwise.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Point-to-Point: Lady Myfanwy a strong attraction
That tough Welsh mare Lady Myfanwy (2.30) looks set for her 10th win from 11 starts this season in the ladies' open at Bredwardine, Herefordshire, today. The seven-year-old's sole defeat came in a Leicester hunter chase won by Minouchka and the winner and third (Rydal Park) have won five races between them since.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
That tough Welsh mare Lady Myfanwy (2.30) looks set for her 10th win from 11 starts this season in the ladies' open at Bredwardine, Herefordshire, today. The seven-year-old's sole defeat came in a Leicester hunter chase won by Minouchka and the winner and third (Rydal Park) have won five races between them since.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Rugby risks becoming a different ball game
It is not easy to imagine Kevin Keegan as a rugby man: he would not have been a fat lot of use in the line-out, and even at scrum-half, a position specifically designed for the vertically challenged, his temperament would have worked against him. Remember the anti-Manchester United diatribe a few years back? Had he lost his rag like that against the All Blacks – or even against those amateur teams who draw their players from the less salubrious areas of Gloucester – he would have been left to contemplate life as a public laughing stock from his hospital bed.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
It is not easy to imagine Kevin Keegan as a rugby man: he would not have been a fat lot of use in the line-out, and even at scrum-half, a position specifically designed for the vertically challenged, his temperament would have worked against him. Remember the anti-Manchester United diatribe a few years back? Had he lost his rag like that against the All Blacks – or even against those amateur teams who draw their players from the less salubrious areas of Gloucester – he would have been left to contemplate life as a public laughing stock from his hospital bed.
The Independent – 3 hours, 11 minutes ago ¦ comment?
