Ryan Sidebottom held a monopoly on the second-day wickets as New Zealand were finally dismissed in the first npower Test at Lord's.

Manchester City will play in the UEFA Cup next season.

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete alongside able-bodied athletes for a place at the Olympics after winning his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted he will consider his Manchester United future after the Champions League final and would be tempted by a move to Real Madrid.

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez put the scouse heart back into his coaching staff on Friday by appointing Sammy Lee as his new assistant manager.

Joe Cole maintains Avram Grant is the right man to drive Chelsea on towards both European and domestic glory.

Huddersfield have confirmed the signing of Australian full-back Brett Hodgson on a two-year deal from Wests Tigers.

Dwain Chambers has taken what appears to be the first step in his bid to challenge the Olympic ban imposed upon him by the British Olympic Association.

Andy Murray insisted he could see improvement in his clay-court game despite being predictably outclassed by Rafael Nadal at the Hamburg Masters on Thursday.

Gloucester boss Dean Ryan has dismissed any notion of his team under-estimating Leicester in Sunday's Guinness Premiership play-off clash at Kingsholm.

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