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Saints alive – By SKIP BANDELE Scrum half Sean Long became the first player in the history of the Powergen Challenge Cup to win the coveted Lance Todd trophy for

TRANSFER MARKET: Top moves  By – SKIP BANDELE ALTHOUGH NOT yet completed, Ashley Cole’s protracted move from Arsenal to Chelsea is set to be finally completed this week for a fee

Escaping the bunker Officially, bunkers are called hazards, and the original idea was that if a player hit their ball into a sand bunker, they would lose between a half

INTERNATIONALS: New faces  By SKIP BANDELE THE POST-2006 World Cup era kicked off with three Euro’2008 qualifying games and a host of friendly matches barely five weeks after the last penalty

White Heart samba Wales will play a friendly international against five times world champions, Brazil in London on September 5. The match at Tottenham’s White Heart Lane will take place

Gothenburg face-saver – BY SKIP BANDELE Great Britain’s athletes narrowly avoided becoming the first team from these shores to return home without a single gold medal in the 68-year history

Hoops Ahead of the Basketball World Cup, to be held in Japan, the United States easily beat China 119-73 in Beijing, with LeBron James contributing 23 points. In a further

Stroll in the sunshine – BY SKIP BANDELE The ATP Senior Tour may have to rethink its qualifying criteria, as Chile’s Marcello Rios continued to dominate the season in general

Rising star – BY SKIP BANDELE Andrew Murray continued his good form ahead of the US Open by reaching the semi-final of a Masters Series event for the first time

European Championships Britain’s women added the 4×100 metre Medley Relay title to the individual gold medal won by Kirsty Balfour in the 200 metre breaststroke final. The Scot, who also