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2008-10-10 05:59:00

HULL, England (AFP) - Ten years ago, Hull City were propping up the entire English football league with 91 other teams separating them from the summit of the top flight. Incredibly, a decade later, the unfashionable team from the humble northern coastal t

2008-10-10 03:23:00

LONDON (Reuters) - The $20 million (11.6 million pound) winner-takes-all Twenty20 Stanford match between England and a West Indies' side in Antigua on November 1 will go ahead after an agreement was reached over sponsorship rights. A statement Thursda

2008-10-09 21:08:00

MOSCOW (AFP) - World number one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia battled through the pain barrier on Thursday to beat Russian Vera Dushevina and advance to the quarter-final of the Kremlin Cup, a 2.4-million-dollar joint ATP and WTA event. But there was no such

2008-10-09 20:03:00

BERLIN (AFP) - Four years after his last fight, former champion Vitali Klitschko is preparing to challenge Nigeria's Samuel Peter to win back the WBC heavyweight belt on Saturday and prove age is no object. Peter, dubbed the "Nigerian Nightmare" with a re

2008-10-09 19:51:00

MOSCOW (AFP) - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic, top seed of the Kremlin Cup, a 2.4-million-dollar joint ATP and WTA event, battled into the quarter-final round here on Thursday past Vera Dushevina of Russia. But Jankovic, 23, who is also world's number one, has

2008-10-09 19:29:00

GLASGOW (AFP) - Scotland midfielder Barry Robson believes George Burley's side should set their sights on finishing on top of their World Cup qualifying group. The Scots recovered from the shock of their opening defeat against Macedonia with a victory in

2008-10-09 19:04:00

LONDON (AFP) - John Terry looks set to miss England's World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan at Wembley on Saturday with a back injury. Terry suffered the problem in Chelsea's Champions League tie against CFR Cluj last week and played with a protective pa

2008-10-09 18:59:00

LONDON (AFP) - John Terry looks set to miss England's World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan at Wembley on Saturday with a back injury. Terry suffered the problem in Chelsea's Champions League tie against CFR Cluj last week and played with a protective pa

2008-10-09 18:38:00

LONDON (AFP) - Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu has given her support to the International Olympic Committee's decision to retest Beijing Games doping samples in a search for a new blood-boosting drug. The IOC are tracking a substance known as CERA, wh

2008-10-09 16:49:00

BANGALORE, India (AFP) - Skipper Ricky Ponting ended his run drought on Indian soil with a superb century as Australia came back strongly after a shock start in the first Test on Thursday. Ponting hit 123 to steer the tourists away from the first-over dis