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Tyrone can finish job this time
13.06.2008 23:23
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ULSTER SFC DOWN v TYRONE: THE REPEAT scenario doesn't bode well for Down. In 2003 they held Tyrone in the Ulster final only to be emptied 0-23 to 1-5 in the replay. Add in the loss of full back Martin Cole and midfielder Dan Gordon and Ross Carr's men look to have an uphill challenge today.
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Counihan makes changes as Cork look ahead
13.06.2008 23:23
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MUNSTER SFC LIMERICK v CORK: ANYONE who witnessed Limerick beat Tipperary in the Munster quarter-final on May 25th can only hope for better here. Tipperary manager John Evans described it as "an awful game of football".
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CCCC hit Cork with fine
13.06.2008 23:22
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NEWS ROUND-UP: THE CENTRAL Competitions Control Committee has hit the Cork County Board with a €1,300 fine after the antics around the goalmouth during last Sunday's Munster hurling semi-final loss to Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
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Injured Poulter has a bogey too many and leaves
13.06.2008 23:22
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US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: NOTHING COMES easy in a major; but, in the US Open, where the test is more severe than anywhere else, the fickleness of a course like Torrey Pines - scenically set atop a cliff and seemingly demure to the eye, yet possessing devilish intent - can tease and torment to such an extent that even seasoned professionals can feel its wrath.
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US OPEN DIGEST
13.06.2008 23:22
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A round up of today's other US Open stories in brief...
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Teacht An Earraig has proved she can last the pace
13.06.2008 23:22
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RACING NEWS ROUND-UP: IT MAY not be a career-defining moment like New Approach's Derby victory but the Jim Bolger-Kevin Manning team can still pick up this weekend's feature courtesy of Teacht An Earraig at Cork tomorrow.
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Yeats faces top field in Gold Cup hat-trick bid
13.06.2008 23:22
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RACING NEWS: YEATS IS a heavy 6 to 4 favourite to complete an Ascot Gold Cup hat-trick on Thursday but Aidan O'Brien's star stayer will have to face down an international field in the day-three Ascot feature.
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Nadal survives barrage to advance
13.06.2008 23:22
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TENNIS NEWS: RAFAEL NADAL reached the semi-finals of the Queen's Club ATP tournament for the first time yesterday, absorbing a barrage of lethal serving from giant Croat Ivo Karlovic to post a 6-7 7-6 7-6 victory.
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Track elites keeping the Beijing project in perspective
13.06.2008 23:22
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ATHLETICS: DERVAL O'ROURKE attended a fashion show recently as the special guest of her sponsors, Spar. After the show she got to meet one of the supermodels that had strutted along the catwalk with daunting self-assurance, and who on hearing O'Rourke had qualified for Beijing seemed very impressed.
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Finnish duo gift lead to Loeb
13.06.2008 23:22
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MOTOR SPORT: THE FINNISH duo Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala gifted the lead to Citroen's Sebastien Loeb at the end of the first leg of the Rally of Turkey in a tactical ploy to ensure the Frenchman starts first on day two today.
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England thrive under pressure
13.06.2008 23:22
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CRICKET TWENTY20 MATCH: ENGLAND BEGAN the frantic scramble for Allen Stanford's millions by completing an emphatic NatWest International Twenty20 victory over New Zealand last evening.
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Botha confident of County's game plan
13.06.2008 23:22
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CRICKET WEEKEND PREVIEW: DEFENDING CHAMPIONS North County lead eight Leinster sides into battle in the second round of the Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup today when they take on North West side Brigade at Balrothery.
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Simple game leaves Ballack unmoved
13.06.2008 23:22
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SIDELINE CUT: THE MORE you see of Michael Ballack, the more it seems he is just not fully convinced by this whole football business. If you studied the big midfielder's demeanour after Germany's dramatic defeat to Croatia on Thursday evening, you saw not so much a man desperately disappointed as a man desperately trying to look disappointed.
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Sports Digest
13.06.2008 23:22
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A round up of today's other sports stories in brief...
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Babcock's share price tumbles amid debt review
13.06.2008 23:21
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EIRCOM'S IMMEDIATE owner, Babcock Brown Capital (BCM), saw its share price drop 14 per cent as its ultimate parent battled a collapse of investor confidence in the face of a likely review by its banks of A$2.8 billion (€1.7 billion) of debt.
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