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  • Boxing Revenge for Carl Froch with unanimous decision over Mikkel Kessler

    Finally they met again, and the tension was enormous. Three years after a pitched battle had seen Nottingham's Carl Froch lose his WBC super-middleweight crown to Mikkel Kessler in his Danish homeland, the boxing buddies faced up to each other at London's O2 Arena in a much-hyped unification bout. And the fight did not disappoint. The intensity was exquisite, the punches kept on ...

  • The top ten American footballers names

    Each year the National Football League holds a three-day ceremony called "the draft", in which American football teams choose new players from the training grounds of college. This year's draft was once again a window on the mostly black American working-class tradition of invented first names, often with French influences, apostrophes and variant ...

  • For some of my players it was time to win something like this Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes celebrates Champions League victory

    Arjen Robben said that scoring the winning goal in the Champions' League final for Bayern Munich had finally erased his tag as a loser. Having missed a penalty in last season's final on Bayern's home ground against his former club Chelsea, Robben made the first goal at Wembley for Mario Mandzukic and scored the winner with 90 seconds to ...

  • Magician conjures up Derby threat

    Well, first Classic blood this Derby week to Ballydoyle. The Epsom showpiece is just six days away, and is shaping to be a match between Jim Bolger, who trains hot favourite Dawn Approach, and Aidan O'Brien. Yesterday the upwardly mobile Magician and Gale Force Ten gave the Co Tipperary maestro a one-two in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, with Dawn Approach's stablemate Trading Leather only ...

  • Decisions loom for in-demand Spanish pair Roberto Martinez and Rafa Benitez

    Roberto Martinez and Rafa Benitez are weighing up their options this weekend before deciding whether to move on to Everton and Napoli respectively. Of the two Spanish managers, Benitez has the more concrete offer, the Italian club's president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, having gone on record as wanting him on a two-year ...

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Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) [DVD]

In Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari), the titular blind masseur/swordsman, one of the most famous recurring characters in all of Japanese cinema, once again finds himself caught in a series of battles not of his own making. Although essentially peaceful, Zatoichi tends to find himself constantly enmeshed in violence--trouble follows him everywhere ... ...

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  • The sporting week ahead

    Yesterday's qualifying aside, the Monaco Grand Prix is one of Formula One's more boring creations. Qualify on pole position and you are bound to win, barring some self-inflicted disaster. But this year's ongoing kerfuffle over tyres means it could be less, er, tiresome, so it might not be a procession for pole-sitter Nico Rosberg this afternoon. In football, Celtic will be looking ...

  • Dylan Hartley faces anxious wait on Lions ban

    Dylan Hartley, the Northampton Saints and some-time England captain, is set to forfeit his coveted place on the British & Irish Lions tour of Australia after being shown the first red card in an English Premiership final, which Leicester Tigers won ...

  • Second Test Joe Root gives wobbly England some steel

    If Yorkshire are strong, runs the old maxim, England are strong. The county are renascent this season and yesterday at their historic old ground, the second Test against New Zealand was illuminated by two of their new ...

  • Ian Holloway When I dont get what I want Im not normally very nice

    After an eventful sojourn at Blackpool for three of the only four years in his entire 30-year career spent outside London or the West Country, one of the great characters of English football is back down south and slowly getting his bearings again. "Watford - we don't hate each other or anything, do we?" Ian Holloway enquires about Crystal Palace's opponents in ...

  • Local hero leaves Nick Compton with plenty to think about

    Andy Flower has never revealed whether he agrees with the theory of ironic processing, but the England coach's desire to limit the time spent discussing and contemplating the Ashes suggests he does not.Joe Root was virtually sure of his place in the team approaching this match, and he nailed it with a maiden Test century that united steel and silk. Root's anger at losing his wicket ...

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