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Headlines (15 September) :
Ashley looks for Toon exit
Billionaire Mike Ashley is set to sell his interest in
Newcastle just 16 months after staging a £134.4million takeover.
Villa boss hopes to extend Young stay
Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill is confident winger
Ashley Young will join midfielder Craig Gardner in signing a new
long-term contract "sooner rather than later".
Moyes urges patience over new boys
David Moyes pleaded with Everton supporters to be
patient with new signings Marouane Fellaini and Segundo Castillo,
after the midfielders were handed a baptism of fire on their debuts
at Stoke.
More than a game for Azinger
Without naming any names this time Paul Azinger has
once again made gamesmanship a talking point ahead of this week's
Ryder Cup.
Warriors snatch dramatic win
Worcester snatched a dramatic 11-10 victory over Wasps
with a penalty from replacement fly-half Loki Crichton 10 minutes
into injury time.
Hamilton happy after tough weekend
Lewis Hamilton has admitted a potential Italian Grand
Prix victory ended up turning into a damage limitation exercise.
Adams steps down on a high
Sussex clinched the NatWest Pro40 Division One title
with a thrilling two-wicket win over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge
- and then heard Chris Adams announce his retirement as their
captain.
Ronaldo unfazed by return
Cristiano Ronaldo does not expect a hostile reception
from Manchester United supporters after failing to secure a move to
Real Madrid.
Fans being turned off by game
Premier League clubs may be courting Arab
trillionaires but it is a different story for their supporters, the
majority of whom are being priced out of watching live football on
television, according to a new survey.
Roberts set for tough fifth gold bid
Swimmer David Roberts faces a battle to add to his
Beijing bounty of four gold medals after Great Britain's men's 4x100
metres medley relay team squeezed through to Monday night's
Paralympics final at the National Aquatics Center. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 14 September 2008
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Stoke 2 Everton 3
Coca-Cola Championship
QPR 4 Southampton 1
RUGBY UNION
The Magners League
Munster (19) 50 Newport-Gwent D'gons (3) 6
Guinness Premiership
Newcastle (6) 32 Northampton (12) 22 Wasps (7) 10
Worcester (8) 11
RUGBY LEAGUE
National League One Grand Final Series
Keighley (24) 26 Rochdale (10) 32 Oldham (16) 20
Doncaster (18) 32
GOLF
Mercedes-Benz Championship
Collated final round scores & totals in the
European Tour Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Larchenhof GC,
Hahnenstrasse, Cologne, Germany(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
275 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 67 69 68 71 277 Francesco
Molinari (Ita) 71 71 65 70 279 Ross Fisher 68 73 68 70, Michael
Campbell (Nzl) 71 70 68 70, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 72 73 68 66
281 Richard Finch 66 73 70 72, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 73 69 67 72 282
Soren Hansen (Den) 73 67 73 69, Marcel Siem (Ger) 72 68 72 70, Martin
Kaymer (Ger) 74 70 68 70 284 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 73 70 73 68,
Marc Warren 72 69 72 71, David Dixon 72 71 71 70
Bell Micro LPGA Classic
Collated final round scores & totals in the LPGA
tour Bell Micro LPGA Classic, RTJ Golf Trail, Mobile, Alabama, United
States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
277 Angela Stanford 70 67 67 73 278 Shanshan Feng
(Chn) 67 73 70 68 280 Kim Hall 70 74 67 69 281 Katherine Hull (Aus)
71 69 68 73, Danielle Downey 69 78 64 70, Hee Young Park (Kor) 71 70
70 70 282 Mollie Fankhauser 71 69 72 70, In Kyung Kim (Kor) 74 70 68
70, Kristy McPherson 70 74 67 71 284 Reilley Rankin 70 69 72 73,
Cristie Kerr 69 66 76 73, Anna Rawson (Aus) 67 73 75 69, Suzann
Pettersen (Nor) 73 71 72 68, Nicole Castrale 68 76 72 68, Hye Jung
Choi (Kor) 71 73 67 73 285 Paula Creamer 78 69 67 71, Irene Cho 68 72
74 71, Sarah Jane Kenyon 73 69 71 72, Angela Park (Bra) 68 73 69 75,
Brittany Lang 72 73 67 73
Albertsons Boise Open
Collated final round scores from the Nationwide Tour's
Albertsons Boise Open Presented by Kraft at Hillcrest Country Club in
Boise, Idaho (USA unless stated, par 71)
264 Chris Tidland 69 65 66 64 268 Scott Piercy 67 68
72 61 269 Greg Owen 71 68 65 65 270 Peter Tomasulo 68 70 66 66 271
Matt Bettencourt 66 71 66 68 272 Hunter Haas 68 68 66 70, Spencer
Levin 67 66 69 70, Bill Lunde 66 65 69 72, Clay Ogden 71 68 70 63,
Michael Putnam 65 71 66 70, Tag Ridings 67 66 70 69, Lee Williamson
67 67 68 70 273 Brendon De Jonge 70 67 67 69, Alex Prugh 69 68 68 68,
Brendan Steele 69 66 70 68
Greater Hickory Classic
Collated final round scores & totals in the USPGA
Champions Tour Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, Rock Barn Golf
& Spa Club, Conover, North Carolina, United States of America(USA
unless stated, par 72):
200 R.W. Eaks 61 68 71 204 Tom Jenkins 64 65 75, Tom
Kite 66 71 67 205 Mark Wiebe 67 67 71, Mark McNulty (Irl) 67 69 69,
Tom McKnight 66 69 70 206 Gil Morgan 67 66 73, Bruce Vaughan 66 70
70, Bob Gilder 69 68 69 207 Gene Jones 68 68 71, Fred Funk 65 71 71,
Jay Haas 68 69 70 208 Bruce Fleisher 70 68 70, Dan Forsman 66 71 71
209 Kirk Hanefeld 69 70 70, Loren Roberts 71 69 69, Lonnie Nielsen 69
71 69
TENNIS
Fed Cup World Group Final
Spain v Russia
Rubber 3: Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Anabel Medina
Garrigues (Spa) 5-7 6-3 6-4
Rubber 5: Ekaterina Makarova (Rus) & Elena Vesnina
(Rus) bt Nuria Llagostera Vives (Spa) & Carla Suarez-Navarro
(Spa) 6-2 6-1 Russia beat Spain 4-0
ATP BCR Open
Final: (2) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt (6) Carlos Moya (Spa)
6-3 6-4
WTA Commonwealth Bank Classic Final:
(2) Patty Schnyder (Swi) bt Tamira Paszek (Aut) 6-3 6-0
FORMULA ONE
ITALIAN GRAND PRIX
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1hr
26mins 47.494 secs
2 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren 1:27:00.006
3 Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 1:27:07.965
4 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 1:27:11.397
5 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 1:27:15.242
6 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:27:16.310
7 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 1:27:17.411
8 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:27:19.542
9 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:27:26.894
10 Nelson Piquet Jr (Bra) Renault 1:27:41.894
11 Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 1:27:46.294
12 Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams 1:27:49.494
13 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 1:27:53.394
14 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams 1:27:56.094
15 Jenson Button (Gbr) Honda 1:28:00.794
16 David Coulthard (Gbr) Red Bull at 1 lap
17 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Honda at 1 lap
18 Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso at 1
lap
19 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India at 2 laps
PARALYMPICS
Swimmer David Roberts faces a battle to add to his
Beijing bounty of four gold medals after Great Britain's men's 4x100
metres medley relay team squeezed through to tonight's Paralympics
final at the National Aquatics Center. The 28-year-old from
Pontypridd won his 11th Paralympic gold in the men's S7 50m freestyle
last night to equal Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson's haul.
ATHLETICS
Commonwealth champion Kelly Sotherton finished
runner-up in the heptathlon at the IAAF World Combined Events meeting
in Talence. Sotherton, a disappointing fourth at the Olympics last
month, lost out by just 34 points to Hyleas Fountain - the American
silver medallist in Beijing. Last year's world bronze medallist did
push Games champion Natalya Dobrynska into third place, with a score
of 6,439 points to 6,429pts.
MOTOR CYCLING
Leon Camier and Leon Haslam took the victories in the
10th round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Croft,
where Shane Byrne fell six points short of sealing his second title
success in five years. |
