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Premier League Round-up 15th October
Manchester United drop points at Liverpool and top-spot in the Premier League to their City rivals who end Aston Villa’s undefeated start to the season. Chelsea and Norwich put three past Everton and Swansea respectively. Bolton climb off the bottom of the league with a win at Wigan. QPR and Blackburn play out a score draw whilst Stoke returned to winning ways with a home win against Fulham. … Read entire article »
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Premier League Preview 15th/16th October
The Premier League returns from the international break on Saturday lunchtime at Anfield when Liverpool play host to Manchester United. Fergie’s hometown rivals City are at home to Aston Villa while Chelsea hope to take the points at Stamford Bridge against Everton. Two of the new teams clash when Swansea travel to Norwich and QPR, the other promoted team, take on strugglers Blackburn. Fulham make the trip north to Stoke and the … Read entire article »
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Merge network reopens to U.S. players
New players from the U.S. are being accepted on the Merge network once more. On June 1st 2011 the network stopped anyone living in the U.S. from signing up at their sites due to the backlog of new members and cashouts that it was experiencing post Black Firday. The hiatus was expected to last about a month, but now they are confident that their systems are robust enough to handle the increased volume, … Read entire article »
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Button signs new contract with McLaren
McLaren Mercedes have announced the re-signing of Jensen Buttons contract with the team. It is not known exactly how many years the contract is for, but is reported to be for “Multiple years”. Vettel was unstoppable this year as he virtually cruised to his second world championship, but McLaren hope that next year will be a different story and having Jensen Button in the Team will help boost the teams chances of beating Vettel. … Read entire article »
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Olympic Stadium’s uncertain future
Costing a whopping £500 million to build, the 2012 Olympic Stadium has finally been completed. The big question now is, what will happen to this half billion complex once the 2012 Olympics is over? With a £500 million price tag one would assume that the Olympic committee and local councils have some kind of plan formulated. Is the Stadium for sale? If so, Who would buy it? Or is this just another Millenium Dome? … Read entire article »
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Double Vision Sunday comes to PokerStars
Double Vision Sunday comes to PokerStars on October 16th where there will be twice as many chances to win the two major tournaments of the week. The Sunday Million will be run twice at it’s usual start time of 14:30 ET and then 30 minutes later, a second one will kick off. Both tournaments will have a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million! The Sunday Warm-up will also be getting an extra run next Sunday. The first … Read entire article »
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Vettel wins back-to-back world titles
Sebastian Vettel has won back-to-back World Championships but it was Jenson Button who won the race at the Japanese grand prix. From the start it was an incindent-packed race with Vettel being investigated by the stewards for pushing Button onto the grass before the first corner. He moved across to cut short a great start by the McLaren driver who had to take evasive action to avoid contact. By going onto the grass Button allowed Hamilton … Read entire article »
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Japan grand prix – Vettel on pole again
It’s a fine line between success and failure in sport but there are not many whos players are separated by thousandths of a second. Jenson Button was on the wrong side of the line in qualifying for the Japanese grand prix today as he lost out by 0.009 of a second to Sebastian Vettel. Lewis Hamilton was in first place after the first run and his decision to abort his second left Vettel and Button to … Read entire article »
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Montenegro v England – Selection worries for Capello
Despite a selection nightmare for manager Fabio Capello, England are still odds-on favourites to win tonight in their final Euro 2012 qualifier in Montenegro. … Read entire article »
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Can Tiger Woods Find A Return To Form This Week?
For many people Sunday 15th November 2009 wasn’t a significant day, but for Tiger Woods it was the last time he lifted a trophy for winning on the US tour. In his personal life he has been to hell and back what with injuries and the breakdown of his marriage. On the course he has been adjusting to a new swing and getting used to working alongside Joe LaCava, his new caddy. … Read entire article »
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