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On This Day in Sport (05 September 2008):

1826: John Wisden, the man who first published what is now known as 'The Cricketer's Bible' was born.
1951: Maureen Connolly won the US Open tennis title at the age of 16 years and 11 months.
1961: Aston Villa beat Rotherham in the second leg of the inaugural League Cup final to win 3-2 on aggregate.
1970: Austrian motor racing driver Jochen Rindt - who became the sport's only posthumous world champion - was killed when his Lotus swerved and hit a guard rail during practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
1971: Peter Gethin, driving a BRM, took the chequered flag in the closest world championship race in history, winning by 0.01 seconds from Ronnie Peterson at Monza. Just 0.61secs separated the first five cars to finish.
1998: Tottenham parted company with manager Christian Gross - the man who had arrived on the tube - after 10 turbulent months at White Hart Lane.
2006: Randy Lerner took full control of Aston Villa after taking his shareholding to 85.5 per cent.

Headlines (05 September) :

Prior poised for dual role
Matt Prior is favourite to reclaim the wicketkeeping position in England's Test side following his impressive displays during the NatWest Series rout of South Africa.
Murray enjoying centre stage
Andy Murray is relishing his return to Arthur Ashe Stadium for Saturday's US Open semi-final showdown with world number one Rafael Nadal.
Warren eager to see 'untouchable' Khan
Frank Warren is looking forward to seeing the new, improved Amir Khan when he defends his WBO Intercontinental lightweight title against Breidis Prescott at Manchester's MEN Arena on Saturday night.
Bentley keen to repay supporters
David Bentley believes England players owe their fans after failing to qualify for Euro 2008 - and he wants to start paying them back with performances against Andorra and Croatia.
Scolari shrugs off Robinho loss
Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has insisted he is happy with his squad despite seeing the club miss out on Robinho as the transfer window closed.
Taylor calls for leniency for Barton
Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has urged the Football Association to be lenient with Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton when he appears before a disciplinary panel on Friday.
Bilic plays down Hammers link
Slaven Bilic appears to have ruled himself out of the running for the West Ham vacancy after committing his future to Croatia until 2010 at least.
Magpies rocked by Keegan resignation
Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is going back to the drawing board with his dream for the club in tatters in the wake of Kevin Keegan's resignation.
Federer battles into last four
Roger Federer kept his bid for a first Grand Slam title of the year alive with a straight-sets quarter-final victory over qualifier Gilles Muller at the US Open on Thursday.
Tigers pounce to sign Hudson
Castleford have signed their former captain Ryan Hudson from Huddersfield on a four-year deal.

International Results Roundup

Dateline 04 September 2008

FOOTBALL
European Under-21 Championship Qualifying
Group Six
Scotland U21 3 Slovenia U21 1
Blue Square Premier
Kidderminster 1 Torquay 0
GOLF
Telkom PGA Pro-Am
Collated second round scores & totals in the Sunshine Tour Telkom PGA Pro-Am, Centurion Country Club, Centurion, South Africa(Rsa unless stated, Par 72):
131 Michiel Bothma 66 65 133 Tyrone Ferreira 67 66, Merrick Bremner 63 70 135 Jaco Van Zyl 66 69, Dean Lambert 66 69, Garth Mulroy 63 72 136 Charl Coetzee 68 68 137 Alex Haindl 69 68, Des Terblanche 66 71, Grant Muller 67 70 138 Theunis Spangenberg 72 66, Trevor Fisher Jnr 67 71, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 70 68, Keith Horne 68 70 139 Kevin Stone 70 69, Jbe'Kruger 72 67, George Coetzee 71 68, Chris Williams 67 72
Canadian Tour Championship
Collated first round scores in the Canadian Tour Championship Presented by The Dominion, Barrie, Ontario, Canada(USA & Can unless stated, Par 72):
64 Daniel Im 65 John Ellis, James Hahn 66 Tom Stankowski, Graham DeLaet 67 Dustin Risdon, Michael Wilson, Scott Gibson, Hoyt McGarity 68 Lee Williamson, Wes Heffernan, George Bradford, Barrett Jarosch, Dale Vallely, Mike Grob, Andrew Johnson (Aus), Doug Batty (Nzl), Ryan Cairns (Zim) 69 Jim Lemon, Garrett Frank, Tim Wood (Aus), Liam Kendregan 70 Richard Gilkey, Stuart Anderson, Marc Lawless, Adam Speirs, Richard Scott, Justin Smith (Aus), Nick Manfre, Justin Madison, Kris Wasylowich, Eugene Smith, Wil Collins, Clayton Rask, Warren Pineo, Ben Bunny (Aus)
TENNIS
US OPEN
Men's Singles Quarter-final:
(1) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Mardy Fish (USA) 3-6 6-1 6-4 6-2 (6) Andy Murray (Gbr) bt (17) Juan Martin Del Potro (Arg) 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-1) 4-6 7-5
Women's Singles Quarter-final:
(6) Dinara Safina (Rus) bt (16) Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 6-2 6-3 (4) Serena Williams (USA) bt (7) Venus Williams (USA) 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (9-7)
Men's Doubles Semi-final:
(7) Lukas Dlouhy (Cze) & Leander Paes (Ind) bt Maximo Gonzalez (Arg) & Juan Monaco (Arg) 6-2 6-0 (2) Bob Bryan (USA) & Mike Bryan (USA) bt Tommy Robredo (Spa) & Sergio Roitman (Arg) 6-2 6-1
Women's Doubles Quarter-final:
(1) Cara Black (Zim) & Liezel Huber (USA) bt (8) Zi Yan (Chn) & Jie Zheng (Chn) 6-4 6-3 (5) Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spa) & Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa) bt Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) & Abigail Spears (USA) 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7-2)
Boy's Singles 2nd rd:
Peerakit Siributwong (Tha) (15) bt Dan Smethurst (Gbr) 6-3 6-2 (6) Guillaume Rufin (Fra) bt Marcus Willis (Gbr) 3-6 7-5 6-4
Boy's Doubles 2nd rd:
Daniel Cox (Gbr) & Dane Propoggia (Aus) bt Takanyi Garanganga (Zim) & Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (Egy) 6-3 6-3
Guido Pella (Arg) & Cesar Ramirez (Mex) bt (8) Dan Smethurst (Gbr) & Marcus Willis (Gbr) 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 10-4
EQUESTRIANISM
Oliver Townend topped the leaderboard ahead of William Fox-Pitt at the end of the first day of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials.