Danny Care ruled out of rugby World Cup, Tottenham in talks with Manchester City over Emmanuel Adebayor, Arsene Wenger could face further disciplinary action, latest football rumours, plus more.
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2156: FOOTBALL - Full-time scores in the
Championship... Blackpool 0-1 Derby; Cardiff 1-3 Brighton; Leicester 1-2 Bristol City; Millwall 2-2 Peterborough.
2148: FOOTBALL -
Sky Sports News
report that
Tony Fernandes
has agreed a 66% takeover of
Queens Park Rangers, newly promoted to the Premier League this season.
2128: FOOTBALL - Derby are 1-0 up at Blackpool thanks to Craig Bryson's 69th-minute goal while Brighton are winning 2-0 at Cardiff.
2124: FOOTBALL - Nicky Maynard has restored
Bristol City's lead to put them 2-1 up at Leicester in the Championship while
Millwall are currently drawing 2-2 against Peterborough at the New Den.
2118: FOOTBALL - Ahead of the Spanish Super Cup second leg between
Barcelona and Real Madrid at 2200 BST,
Infostrada Sports on Twitter:
"RT @barcastuff: FC Barcelona starts with the same team as in the CL final at Wembley less than two months ago #elclasico #fcblive #supercopa"
2110: FOOTBALL - Queens Park Rangers are poised to make an £8m offer for West Ham's English midfielder
Scott Parker, reports the
London Evening Standard.
2059: GOLF - Reuters report that Japanese teenager
Ryo Ishikawa, widely considered one of the most exciting prospects in the game, has taken up special temporary membership on the
PGA Tour
for the rest of this year.
2047:
TENNIS
- Women's second round results from the
Cincinnati Masters: Nadia Petrova (Russia) beat 15th seed Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 6-3 7-6 [7-4] while Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) beat Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 6-3 6-4.
2038: FORMULA 1 -
Team Lotus driver
Heikki Kovalainen
ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix on August 28: "Good chat with my race engineers today, the team preparing flat out for the next race, I'm ready for it already, Spa is always fun!"
2025: BASKETBALL - Chicago Bulls French international
Joachim Noah has told the
BBC World Service's
Chris Mitchell that British fans shouldn't be too hard on his NBA team-mate Luol Deng, who hasn't shown up for the start of the Olympic Test Event. ''He's been through a lot this season and he needs time to rest,'' said Noah.
2022: FOOTBALL - Liam Trotter has given
Millwall a 1-0 lead against Peterborough
in the Championship,
while Bristol City are winning 1-0 at
Leicester City.
2013: RUGBY UNION - AFP report that flank
Jacques Burger, from English Premiership club Saracens, will captain rank outsiders Namibia at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
2004: OLYMPICS - South Africa will not bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, a government spokesman told Reuters.
Durban had been mooted as a possible candidate city. Rome, Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul have made public their interest in staging the 2020 Games.
1950: ATHLETICS: - Veteran
Merlene Ottey, 51, has failed to qualify for the World Championships in Daegu. The Jamaican-born sprinter,
running for her adopted country of Slovenia,
was part of a 4x100m realy team who missed the 44-second qualifying cut by 0.76 seconds.
1935: TENNIS - BBC 5 Live's
Phillip Studd in Cincinnati: "Not much in the way of quality out there and Murray looks tense. I'm not surprised as there is pressure on him to put a run together after
his early exit in Montreal."
1759: OLYMPICS - One of Great Britain's main gold medal hopes - diver
Tom Daley - insists he is more nervous about collecting his AS-level results tomorrow than he will be stood at the top of the 10m platform at the
London Olympics
next year. "Diving's more adrenaline and looking forward to it and more exciting, whereas the results are more like nerves and worrying about things," he said this afternoon.
1743: FOOTBALL -
Sky Sports News
report that Celtic have secured the services of goalkeeper
Fraser Forster on loan from Newcastle for another season.
1739: TENNIS - Some results from the Cincinatti Masters, where
Andy Murray is set to face David Nalbandian
in the second round soon. Seventh seed
Mardy Fish (USA) beat Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-0 6-2, while
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) beat Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 6-1 6-4.
1731: CRICKET - LV County Championship division one update:
Yorkshire v Sussex at Scarborough on day one of four, the visitors won the toss and decided to bat, they are now
300 for 5 (after 86.0 overs).
1720: GOLF -
Graeme McDowell
on Twitter: "Big congratulations to North Coast of Ireland golfers Alan Dunbar and Paul Cutler for making the Walker Cup Team. #goGB&I #bigfutures"
1712: GOLF -
Tom Lewis, the 20-year-old from Welwyn Garden City who led the Open with an amateur record 65 last month, is one of five English players name in the Britain and Ireland side for the Walker Cup match against the United States at Royal Aberdeen on 10-11 September.
1659: ATHLETICS - World high jump champion
Blanka Vlasic could miss the world championships - which start in the South Korean city of Daegu later on this month - because of a hamstring injury,
the Croatian announces on her website.
1652: FOOTBALL -
BBC sports news correspondent
Dan Roan
on Twitter: "QPR call press conference for 2pm [BST] tomorrow and promise statement regarding ownership in morning"
1638: ATHLETICS - Men's 800m world champion
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi will not defend his title at the upcoming world championships because of a hamstring injury that will keep him out for the rest of the year. "I need to take this injury seriously so I can be ready for the Olympics next year," said the South African.
1629: CYCLING - Tour de France green jersey winner
Mark Cavendish will bid to win the road world championships in Denmark next month supported by seven Great Britain team-mates, the
International Cycling Union has announced.
The Manxman will be aiming to emulate Tom Simpson, who won the rainbow jersey in 1965, with Bradley Wiggins likely to be one of the riders in support.
1620: WINTER SPORTS - Torquay skier
Cameron Thomas has
finished fourth overall in the British Indoor Grand Prix Series.
At the last round of the Series in Castleford, the 13-year-old came third in the under-15 age group. Alongside his podium finish in the series, Thomas took third place in the British Indoor Championship race.
1612: HORSE RACING -
BBC Sport's horse racing correspondent
Cornelius Lysaght
on Twitter: "#Ebor: Henry Cecil heaped praise on winning jockey Ian Mongan; nice touch as Tom Queally (on Midday) shook Mongan's hand after finish"
1604: CRICKET - LV County Championship division one update:
Lancashire v Worcestershire at Blackpool, on day one of four, where the visitors won the toss and decided to field... the
hosts have now made 251 for 5
(after 59.3 overs).
1554: RUGBY UNION: France coach Marc Lievremont has recalled veteran France centre
Aurelien Rougerie after a long injury lay-off on Saturday in the World Cup warm-up match with Ireland.
1545: HORSE RACING: Twice Over beats stablemate Midday to give trainer Sir Henry Cecil victory in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York. You can follow all the latest racing results on the
BBC Sport website.
1518: HORSE RACING: On the opening day of York's Ebor Festival, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Sea Moon is a very impressive winner of the Great Voltigeur Stakes under Richard Hughes, and is now hot favourite for next month's St Leger at Doncaster. You can follow all the latest racing results on the
BBC Sport website.
1508: ATHLETICS: Reigning world high jump champion
Blanka Vlasic of Croatia says she's doubtful for the upcoming world championships because of injury.Vlasic said on her
official website
that she has a partially torn muscle in her left leg and that she will make a decision Friday on whether to travel to South Korea.
1500: RUGBY LEAGUE: Wigan prop forward Eamon O'Carroll will make his comeback from a career-threatening sternum injury against Bradford on Friday - their last game before the Challenge Cup final.
1419: RUGBY UNION: Ireland team to play France: (15 to 1) Felix Jones (Munster); Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Brian O'Driscoll (Leinster, capt), Gordon D'Arcy (Leinster), Keith Earls (Munster); Jonathan Sexton (Leinster), Tomas O'Leary (Munster); Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), David Wallace (Munster), Sean O'Brien (Leinster); Paul O'Connell (Munster), Donncha O'Callaghan (Munster); Mike Ross (Leinster), Rory Best (Ulster), Cian Healy (Leinster) Replacements: Jerry Flannery (Munster), Tom Court (Ulster), Mike McCarthy (Connacht), Stephen Ferris (Ulster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster), Ronan O'Gara (Munster), Luke Fitzgerald (Leinster)
1400: FOOTBALL: Hearts manager Paulo Sergio is relishing the challenge posed by Tottenham in Thursday's Europa League play-off first leg at Tynecastle. "The game on paper is one thing - on the pitch is another. Nobody should be thinking we can't win, that we are defeated - we are not. Nobody's going to bet on us, but the guy that's going to bet on us is maybe going to win big money."
1349: RUGBY UNION: -
BBC Sport's Alastair Eykyn on Twitter:
"All the v best with surgery & recovery @dannycare, was pushing hard to start - time for Wiggleswth/Simpson to step up as back-up for Youngs."
1339: FOOTBALL: - Celtic manager
Neil Lennon has confirmed that
a deal for Newcastle's Fraser Forster
has been agreed and he is hopeful of including goalkeeper for the match against Sion on Thursday. "There are a few little snags to overcome but we hope to have him registered in time," he said.
1322: RUGBY UNION: - England team manager Martin Johnson,
via the RFU's Twitter feed
, on Danny Care being ruled out of the World Cup: "We are all hugely disappointed for Danny who has worked extremely hard and has been an important part of the squad."
1316: RUGBY UNION: - England scrum-half
Danny Care is ruled out of the World Cup after injuring his toe joint.
1306: NEWS: - Plateau state police commissioner
Emmanuel Dipo Ayeni has told the Associated Press that he expects
the abduction of Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi's father
to be resolved soon. "I'm very hopeful that we'll make progress; we'll make a breakthrough at the end of the day," he said earlier today.
1254: CYCLING: - German veteran
Andreas Kloeden of RadioShack has said he is not aiming for victory in the Tour of Spain, which starts Saturday, after suffering heavy falls on last month's Tour de France. "I don't go for the GC (General Classification) in the Vuelta Espana, the back is better, but not 100 percent,"
he tweeted.
1226: RUGBY UNION: - Argentina
will be captained by Felipe Contepomi
in their World Cup warm-up match against Wales on Saturday.
Juan Fernandez Lobbe and
Juan Manuel Leguizamon are in the back row.
1211: FOOTBALL: - Fulham have confirmed on
the club's official Twitter feed
that defender
Carlos Salcido has joined Mexican Primera División team Tigres de la UANL on a season-long loan.
1202: FOOTBALL: - Tottenham manager
Harry Redknapp has said that a prospective move for Manchester City striker
Emmanuel Adebayor
is out of his hands.
"The chairman is talking to Man City about the player. Where they are at, I genuinely don't know," he said.
1158: FOOTBALL: - The opening games of
La Liga
on Saturday look increasingly likely to be delayed after the Spanish league and players' union failed to agree to a deal to avoid a work-stoppage.
1148: FOOTBALL: -
BBC Sport's Sam Lyon on Twitter:
"Not quite the 'marquee signing' many Spurs fans crave, but Adebayor would be a top arrival. Perfect fit in a 4-2-3-1 ahead of Van de Vaart."
1145: RUGBY UNION: - Australian newspaper
the Daily Telegraph have reported
that Matt Giteau has been excluded from Australia's 30-man World Cup squad. The player himself has
tweeted:
"Really wanna thank everyone for the support! Was a huge honour to get the chance to represent my country as often as I did."
1123: FOOTBALL: - Former Arsenal goalkeeper and coach
Bob Wilson has defended Arsene Wenger's adherence to a strict wage structure despite the fact he believes that it could cause midfielder
Samir Nasri to leave for Manchester City. His interview is available on the
BBC 5 Live Football Daily podcast.
1059: FOOTBALL: Maxi Rodriguez insists he is pleased by the signings Liverpool have made this summer - even though the task of securing a first-team place has grown tougher as a consequence. "Competition for places is always a positive thing for the club and I think it's great that the signings who have arrived are of such high quality with a great level of skills and technique. "It means the manager has to decide what he thinks is his best 11 but that is something he will decide and we will all be hoping we are in it.
1052: FOOTBALL: Marseille sporting director Jose Anigo has warned that midfielder Lucho Gonzalez will not be allowed to leave the club amid reported interest from Arsenal. Anigo told
L'Equipe:
"It's not even a debate. We do not want him (Gonzalez) to leave. The transfer window closes in less than 15 days and I don't see how that would be enough time to find a suitable replacement."
1047: CRICKET: Jimmy Anderson has bowled in the nets at the Oval this morning ahead of Thursday's fourth Test against India. "Perhaps not off his full run up, but certainly at pace and without any visible reaction. He then undertook a series of sprints on the outfield watched by the england medical staff," reports BBC Sport's Joe Wilson at the Oval.
1020: FOOTBALL: Leeds United chairman Ken Bates has blasted fans who staged protests against his chairmanship as "morons", telling them he "ain't going anywhere" in the programme notes from Tuesday night's clash with Hull.
1013: FOOTBALL: Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna thinks
Aaron Ramsey's performance
in last night's win over Udinese
proves that Arsenal will be able to survive without Cesc Fabregas. "Cesc is a great player,he was one of our best players but that's part of football.I will miss him of course but Aaron Ramsey did very well and he will show he is a great player as well."
1007: FOOTBALL: Non-league sides
Ascot United and Wembley FC will kick off this season's
FA Cup
on Friday night, with the game being streamed to a potential audience of 700 million people. Social networking site Facebook are 'televising' the match.
0935: FOOTBALL: BBC Sport understands Newcastle United are continuing in their bid to bring in PSV defender Erik Pieters despite reports to the contrary that are linking the club with a loan move for Manchester City's Wayne Bridge.
0920: FOOTBALL: Rangers have been dealt a double defensive blow ahead of their Europa League qualifier against Maribor with the news that David Weir and Kyle Bartley have not travelled.
0838: FOOTBALL: Former Arsenal manager
George Graham on
Arsene Wenger's possible probe by Uefa for passing messages to the touchline
when sat in the stands: "It's all a bit childish, he's been banned and passing messages down to the bench happens all the time. It's a lot of nonsense," Graham told BBC Radio 5 live. He added: "There's a lot a negativity around the club at the moment. It was good to get a victory, but it was not a great performance."
0820: FOOTBALL: Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton says he his convinced that
new Red Devils keeper David de Gea
will prove to be a good signing for the club. "Alex will work his magic and the staff will work their magic, and he will be one of the great players by the end of the season, definitely," said Charlton.
0814: FOOTBALL:
Arsene Wenger may face further disciplinary action from Uefa
after communicating with the Arsenal bench during the 1-0 Champions League play-off first-leg win over Udinese. The Arsenal boss was in the stands serving a one-match touchline ban and was sending messages to assistant Pat Rice via coach Boro Primorac.
0810: FOOTBALL: Arsenal midfielder
Samir Nasri has revealed he did not write disparaging comments about his possible departure from the club on Facebook. Nasri, who is expected to leave for Manchester City before the end of the transfer window, was reported to have written he would soon leave Arsenal with "anger and bitterness". The France international has, however,
used his official Twitter page
to reveal he does not have a Facebook account.
0800 BST: -
Top transfer stories from
Wednesday's gossip column:
Championship club West Ham have revived their interest in Newcastle's controversial midfielder Joey Barton. (Daily Mirror)
Chelsea target Kevin De Bruyne, a 20-year-old midfielder who plays for Genk, has revealed he is confident that a deal can be struck with the west Londoners before the end of the month. (Inside Futbol)
Tottenham are closing in on a season-long loan deal for Manchester City's unsettled striker Emmanuel Adebayor. (Daily Star)
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