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Richard McCaw will captain the All Blacks against Wales on Sunday morning, with Wellington's Piri Weepu set to make his test debut at halfback.
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Striker Louis Saha returns to the Manchester United squad for Saturday&#39;s game at Birmingham City to give manager Alex Ferguson the choice of four front-line strikers for the first time this season.
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The England head coach Andy Robinson&#39;s midfield problems worsened yesterday when Will Greenwood was ruled out of the Six Nations Championship after an operation on his shoulder, enhancing the prospect of Jonny Wilkinson returning to the side at centre.
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England&#039;s selectors are set to reveal how they will cope without star all-rounder Andrew Flintoff when the squad for next week&#039;s first Test against Pakistan at Lord&#039;s is announced.
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Though manager Terry Francona wasn't willing to discuss his playoff rotation in the wake of last night's 7-3 win over Oakland, he did allow that there is some wiggle room in the way things are currently set up, with Daisuke Matsuzaka and Curt Schilling following Josh Beckett .
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CHICAGO CUBS_Announced Wendell Kim, third base coach, will not be retained. Reassigned first base coach Gene Clines to hitting coach and hitting coach Gary Matthews to first base coach with the additional
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Defenseman Paul Mara, newly acquired from the Boston Bruins, did not arrive in time to aid in the New York Rangersâ victory over the Montreal Canadiens.
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England captain Michael Vaughan is ruled out of Friday's match with Australia while James Anderson is returning home.
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Glenn Robinson and Samuel Dalembert have been demoted from the Philadelphia 76ers&#39; starting lineup, coach Jim O&#39;Brien announced Tuesday as he put the first stamp on his new team.
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Shane Warne and Darren Lehmann have been recalled to Australia&#39;s squad for next week&#39;s first test against New Zealand after the selectors dropped Simon Katich and Nathan Hauritz.
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Caron Butler goes back to Washington to get his back examined by team doctors and Coach Eddie Jordan says his availability for Miami on Wednesday is unknown. Antawn Jamison is ruled out against Miami.
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Embattled England manager Steve McClaren suffered two injury blows on Tuesday ahead of Friday&#39;s friendly with Brazil and next week&#39;s crucial Euro 2008 qualifier with Estonia as both Rio Ferdinand and Michael Dawson withdrew because of groin injuries.
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Captain Darren Lockyer and goalkicker Craig Fitzgibbon have been ruled out of Australia&#39;s Tri Nations rugby league Test against Great Britain this weekend.
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Celtic captain Jackie McNamara will be ruled out for at least a month due to an ankle ligament damage sustained in the Scottish champions&#39; 3-1 Champions League defeat to Barcelona on Tuesd ay.
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Sport: Tour of South Africa in danger of descending into disarray as quartet are ruled out of Saturday's game.
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Jason Robinson has become the first former rugby league player to captain England&#39;s rugby union team. The Rugby Football Union appointed Robinson on Monday as captain for Saturday&#39;s test against Canada at Twickenham.
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That's Fausto, like oust-o. And like one of their supposed aces, the Cleveland Indians could soon be kicked out of the postseason. Maybe they should be. Because the pitiful-playing squad that showed up Saturday night for Game 6 of the AL championship series at Fenway Park doesn't deserve to go anywhere else this October but home.