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Headlines (22 March) :
Giants win in London
Leroy Cudjoe scored a hat-trick of tries as
Huddersfield moved into third place in the Engage Super League with a
32-18 victory over a gutsy Harlequins side at The Stoop.
Bell brings up classy ton
Ian Bell recorded his 10th Test century as England
moved within a hundred of Bangladesh's first-innings score on the
third afternoon of the second Test.
Benitez left looking for positives
For the 10th time in the Barclays Premier League this
season Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was left trying to accentuate
the positives after a defeat.
Ferguson makes case for defence
Sir Alex Ferguson is confident Manchester United's
defence will provide the platform for a record 19th league title this
season.
Mallinder satisfied with trophy triumph
Northampton completed the first stage of a possible
trophy treble this season that left Saints boss Jim Mallinder
satisfied with mission accomplished.
Hamilton wary of Red Bull speed
Former world champion Lewis Hamilton believes Red Bull
will be the team to beat in Melbourne this weekend as the cars are
"ridiculously faster" than anyone else on the grid.
Woods 'nervous' ahead of comeback
Tiger Woods is feeling the tension ahead of his return
to golf after four months in self-imposed exile.
Mancini expecting fight until the end
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini expects the race
for the final Champions League place to go down to the wire after his
side kept pace with their rivals with victory over Fulham.
No room for error for Chelsea
Carlo Ancelotti admitted Chelsea cannot afford another
slip-up if they want to stay in the title race.
Murray back up to third
Andy Murray has climbed back to number three in the
world rankings despite his quarter-final exit at the Masters 1000
event in Indian Wells last week. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 21
March 2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn 1 Chelsea 1 Fulham 1 Man City 2 Man Utd 2
Liverpool 1
Coca-Cola Championship
Cardiff 3 Watford 1 Leicester 2 Coventry 2
Co-operative Insurance Cup Final
St Mirren 0 Rangers 1
Blue Square Premier
Tamworth 0 Oxford Utd 0
CRICKET
New Zealand v Australia Test Series at Wellington
New Zealand 157 all out 59.1 ovs 369 - 6 124 ovs
Australia 459 - 5 dec 131 ovs Close of play
Bangladesh v England Test Series at Mirpur
Bangladesh 419 all out 117.1 ovs England 425 - 6 146.5
ovs In Progress
RUGBY UNION
LV= Cup Final
Northampton (20) 30 Gloucester (14) 24
The Championship Pool B
Nottingham (5) 20 Exeter (9) 9
GOLF
Transitions Championship
Collated final round scores & totals in the USPGA
Tour Transitions Championship, Innisbrook, A Salamander Golf &
Spa Resort, Tampa Bay, Florida, United States of America(USA unless
stated, par 71):
271 Jim Furyk 67 68 67 69 272 K J Choi (Kor) 69 69 67
67 273 Bubba Watson 70 65 70 68 275 Nick Watney 73 70 65 67 276
Retief Goosen (Rsa) 67 68 70 71 277 Luke Donald (Eng) 71 68 67 71,
Stephen Ames (Can) 69 71 70 67 278 Steve Stricker 70 66 71 71, Carl
Pettersson (Swe) 67 68 70 73, Jonathan Byrd 67 70 70 71, Nick O'Hern
(Aus) 72 68 67 71, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 69 65 72 72
TENNIS
ATP/WTA BNP Paribas Open Men's final:
(20) Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt (7) Andy Roddick (USA) 7-6
(7-3) 7-6 (7-5)
Women's final:
(6) Jelena Jankovic (Ser) bt (2) Caroline Wozniacki
(Den) 6-2 6-4
ATHLETICS
Zersenay Tadese fulfilled his pre-race promise and
broke the world record at the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon. The
28-year-old Eritrean struck 11 seconds from Sammy Wanjiru's
three-year-old previous best mark with a time of 58 minutes 22 seconds.
Britain's Mara Yamauchi
has won the New York half marathon. Yamauchi, using the event as a
final preparation before the Virgin London Marathon in five weeks'
time, claimed victory in a course record time of one hour nine
minutes 17 seconds.
Sylvester Teimet scorched to a lifetime best and
course record of two hours six minutes and 49 seconds to win the
Seoul International Marathon today. Teimet headed a Kenyan clean
sweep of the podium places ahead of Gilbert Kirwa and Paul Kirui, who
clocked times of 2hrs 6mins 59secs and 2:07:35 respectively.
MODERN PENTATHLON
Britain's David Atkinson finished 29th as he competed
in his first modern pentathlon World Cup final on Sunday in Cairo.
The 24-year-old from Liverpool was Britain's sole representative in
the men's final after qualifying from Friday's semis. Atkinson found
the fencing at his first World Cup final tough, winning 10 of his 35
bouts for 640 points and he followed that up with a swim of 2:25.06
to add a further 1060 points to his total. |
