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Win brings slight lift amid Black depression
08.06.2008 23:34
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RUGBY IS often said to be the heartbeat of New Zealand, and it badly needed a res 2000 torative pick-me-up in wet and windy Wellington on Saturday night. Not since the divisiveness of the rebel tours in the 1980s had the game been at a such a low ebb here. The prevailing mood is a mixture of anger and despair, amid some loyalty of course, and that much was evident in the rows of empty yellow seats that made a complete mockery of the official 32,000-plus attendance.
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Mediocre Wales brutally outmuscled
08.06.2008 23:34
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South Africa 43 Wales 17: SOUTH AFRICA'S drubbing of the Six Nations champions here on Saturday was a humiliating experience for the Wales coach, Warren Gatland. "Quite frankly, we were pretty embarrassed by that performance," he said. "Our handling was poor, as was our discipline in terms of the number of penalties we gave away."
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Hadden rues missed opportunities
08.06.2008 23:34
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Argentina 21 Scotland 15: SCOTLAND BOSS Frank Hadden rued his team's failure to take their chances in the first Test against Argentina in Rosario on Saturday. Fullback Chris Paterson - who became his country's leading all-time points scorer - missed a penalty late in the first half which allowed the Pumas to lead 12-10 at the break.
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Dublin in the mood to tantalise once again
08.06.2008 23:34
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LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL/Dublin 1-22 Louth 0-12: SINCE THE All-Ireland football championship was reimagined as a modern, television-friendly extravaganza, there is no doubt that the sight and sound of the great stadium near Dorset Street all but trembling under the weight of Dublin emotion has become the jewel in the crown of the association. It marries the best of the traditions belonging to the Kevin Heffernan era with the idea of the city team as a force that could make a sprawling capital city seem harmonious and unified.
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McEneaney is not one for the pub talk
08.06.2008 23:34
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THE GAA took another step into the modern era yesterday by asking amateur intercounty managers and players to conduct post-match reflections in the media room under the Hogan Stand that was primarily built for soccer and rugby internationals.
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Dolan's guile gives Westmeath the edge
08.06.2008 23:34
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LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL/Westmeath 2-11 Offaly 1-8: MIDSUMMER REPORT cards are in. Westmeath under Tomás Ó Flatharta can be marked "satisfactory". It was middle-of-the-road stuff against Longford and now Offaly but they have got the job done. The major examination comes on June 29th.
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Down simply refuse to give up
08.06.2008 23:34
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ULSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL/Down 2-8 Tyrone 2-8: THIS WAS one of those tense, cramped and fairly exhausting afternoons all so typical of Ulster football, some of those present just happy to get out of there in one piece. And that was only in the press seats. On the field it proved even more claustrophobic and in the end there wasn't even room to separate the teams. After a game where possession swung like a wrecking ball, first in Tyrone's favour and then in Down's, it finished with the only fair result.
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'We've had enough hard-luck stories' - Gordon
08.06.2008 23:33
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THE FIRST surprise in this afternoon of the unexpected was when Down manager Ross Carr appeared on the sidelines. Earlier in the day, Carr had somehow got a temporary lifting of his sideline ban stemming back to incidents in the league, apparently because he was not allowed proper time to pursue the full appeal process.
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Dublin do enough to book place in final
08.06.2008 23:33
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LEINSTER JFC/Dublin 0-11 Kildare 1-6: MICK DEEGAN'S Dublin team triumphed in yesterday's Leinster junior championship semi-final at Croke Park in what was a disappointing curtain-raiser.
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Tyrone turn it around
08.06.2008 23:33
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ULSTER MFC/Tyrone 0-16 Down 0-14: TYRONE overturned a Down team that had threatened to cause an Ulster minor football upset at Healy Park yesterday.
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Ryan goal gives lift
08.06.2008 23:33
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MUNSTER IHC/Tipperary 1-21 Cork 0-17: TIPPERARY PRODUCED a stirring last-quarter effort to reach the Munster intermediate final at Cork's expense at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.
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Tipperary stay calm to call time on Cork and 85-year jinx
08.06.2008 23:33
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MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL/Tipperary 1-19 Cork 1-13: HISTORY HAD its moment in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday. Tipperary, feisty and hopeful rather than out-and-out confident, went to Cork and dismantled the shackles of their 85-year losing run and dumped them into the Lee. For all the significance of the sequence stretching back over a surprisingly small number of matches, just eight, it was a businesslike dispatch by the Nat 2000 ional League winners and has surely rung time on a fine Cork team.
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Improving Tipperary answer bigquestion
08.06.2008 23:33
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The overall strength of Tipperary's panel proved vital as they finally ended an 85-year wait, writes Nicky English
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Sheedy tries to keeps the lid on a perfect day
08.06.2008 23:33
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LIAM SHEEDY, having masterminded a very Tipperary coup, tried hard to screw down the lid on his excitement. Beating Cork in the Park is one thing. Winning silverware is another. Still beating Cork in the Park is sweet even if not necessarily nourishing in the long term. "It was a good day for Tipperary," he said.
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Door finally opens as Singh holds on for title
08.06.2008 23:33
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AUSTRIAN OPEN: INDIA'S JEEV MILKHA SINGH thanked the golfing gods after taking a leaf from Nick Faldo's book to win the rain-shortened Austria Open in Vienna.
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