NO SILVA LINING | Scots outclassed by Spain October 11, 2011 SPAIN (3) vs SCOTLAND (1) SCOTLAND’S hopes of reaching a first major tournament since 1998 ended in Alicante after being outclassed by European and world champions Spain at the Estadio Jose Rico Perez. Craig Levein’s side needed a win to guarantee a Euro 2012 play-off spot in Group I, or at least match Czech Republic’s result [...]
EURO 2012 | THE PERMUTATIONS October 11, 2011 Group winners: Germany, 3-1 winners over Belgium in Dusseldorf, Italy, who spoilt outgoing Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington’s farewell, Holland, England and Spain had already cemented their place at next summer’s tournament, alongside co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, before last night’s matches. Joining them will be France, who required a Samir Nasri penalty 12 minutes from time to [...]
Borthwick may prove last piece of the jigsaw October 11, 2011 IT WOULD be wrong to draw too many dramatic conclusions from England’s warm-up matches in India, but it seems pretty clear to me that we’ve unearthed a couple of very exciting talents. Jonny Bairstow’s century yesterday, coupled with his match-winning cameo on debut against India last month, suggests this is a guy who has the [...]
Bairstow blitz steers England to routine win October 11, 2011 ENGLAND youngster Jonny Bairstow showcased his boundary hitting prowess with a 53-ball hundred against the Hyderabad CA XI yesterday as Alastair Cook’s side finished their preparations for Friday’s one-day international against India with a crushing 253-run win. Yorkshireman Bairstow, whose unbeaten 41 from 21 balls on debut against India last month in Cardiff cemented his [...]
Klitschko talks delay Haye retirement October 11, 2011 FORMER heavyweight champion David Haye could postpone his anticipated retirement for one last fight against WBC title holder Vitali Klitschko, according to the Ukrainian’s promoter. Londoner Haye, who lost to Klitschko’s brother Wladimir in July, looked set to hang up his gloves after telling governing body the BBBC he did not want to renew his [...]
St Andrews to host 2015 Open October 11, 2011 GOLF: St Andrews has been named as the host venue for the 2015 Open Championship. The 144th Open will take place from July 16 – 19 at the Old Course, which last staged the tournament in 2010 when South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen won by seven shots.
NBA cancels first two weeks October 11, 2011 BASKETBALL: A row between players and team owners over revenue share and salary caps has resulted in the cancellation of the first two weeks of the NBA regular season. Representatives from the players’ union and the teams’ owners met yesterday for extensive talks, but afterwards, NBA commissioner David Stern described the two sides as “very [...]
GB women gymnasts thrive October 11, 2011 OLYMPICS: Great Britain’s women achieved their best-ever result as they finished fifth at the World Gymnastics team final in Tokyo. “We’ve been training so hard and the qualification [where Britain scraped into the final in eighth place] was really tense for us,” said Beth Tweddle, who performed strongly on the bars in the team final.
Tuilagi set for Leicester talks October 11, 2011 RUGBY UNION: Disgraced England centre Manu Tuilagi is set for crunch talks with his club Leicester Tigers with regards to his future conduct, following his now infamous ferry leap in Auckland. “We will sit down with him and take in the need to protect the image of the game,” said Tigers’ chief operating officer Simon Cohen.
Tuilagi ferry leap was just a bit of banter, claims Youngs October 10, 2011 ENGLAND scrum-half Ben Youngs has defended under-fire team-mate Manu Tuilagi by laughing off his infamous leap from an Auckland ferry boat as nothing more than “a bit of banter”. Samoan-born centre Tuilagi was fined £3,000 and warned about his future conduct by embattled England manager Martin Johnson for the incident which saw the 20-year-old repirmanded [...]