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American Football: Jets one step from the Super Bowl
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan outfoxed New England Patriots counterpart Bill Belichick with a defensive scheme that put his team on the brink of a Super Bowl with just one more championship quarterback waiting in their path.
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The biology of a record-breaker
Monday, 17 January 2011
Nick Duerden: Behind medal-winning performances on the track or in the pool, today's sports are driven by discoveries made in the laboratory.
Snooker: Ding keeps cool to capture Masters title
Monday, 17 January 2011
China's Ding Junhui was victorious in the first all-Asian major snooker final as he brushed aside Marco Fu, of Hong Kong, to win the Masters here last night.
Skiing: Kostelic increases lead in cup standings
Monday, 17 January 2011
Ivica Kostelic of Croatia extended his runaway start to 2011, winning a men's World Cup slalom yesterday for his fourth victory in 15 days.
Cycling: Goss avoids chaos for prelude first
Monday, 17 January 2011
Matthew Goss provided a home winner of the criterium prelude to the Tour Down Under yesterday while Lance Armstrong started his last professional event outside the United States with a safe 68th-place finish.
Inside Lines: Hearn reveals his table plan for new ball-grabbing showpiece
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Alan Hubbard: The ubiquitous Barry Hearn, having scored heavily with darts and given snooker the kiss of life, now has a new sporting squeeze on his arm.
Outside Edge: Slippery slope to sheer lunacy
Sunday, 16 January 2011
More 'elf and safety lunacy in the snow: a teacher at Cefu Hengoed School in Swansea has been sacked for showing his pupils how to go sledging.
Sport on TV: Blades of glory from Beharry but Vanilla Ice is cool customer
Sunday, 16 January 2011
So they kept the champagne on ice for a week. We will just have to wait a few more hours until the man they rather misleadingly described as a "cricket legend" struts his stuff in Dancing on Ice (ITV1, Sunday). The anticipation is agonising as we wait for Dominic Cork to pop out.
Hold The Back Page: 15/01/2011
Saturday, 15 January 2011
It's a big weekend for...Incongruous DerbiesHaving three of the Premier League derbies spread across tomorrow lunchtime is interesting enough in itself, but two of them come to in forms far removed from what we are used to.
Williams struggles on return to the ice
Saturday, 15 January 2011
The Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams returned to the ice for the first time since her famous triumph in Vancouver today with a 12th-place finish in the Skeleton World Cup race in Igls, Austria.
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