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1845: That's it for Wednesday's
Sportsday Live.
Chris Bevan
will be with you for all the
live action
on a night of Champions League football, and
Sportsday Live will return at
0800 BST on Thursday.
1841 GOLF: America's
Keegan Bradley wins the Grand Slam in Bermuda, the two-day event for the year's four major winners. He finished four under,
Charl Schwartzel is second on three under with
Rory McIlroy third at level par after a 75.
Darren Clarke came last at nine over after a 74.
1835 FOOTBALL: League One side Bournemouth are set to sign 23-year-old
Charlie Sheringham, son of former Manchester United and England striker
Teddy Sheringham, reports
BBC Radio Solent.
1830 COMING UP: Coming up on
Sportsday with
Olly Foster
on the
BBC News Channel,
at
1845 BST: Team news ahead of tonight's Champions league matches involving
Arsenal and
Chelsea, Formula One world champion
Sebastian Vettel's reaction to the tragic IndyCar death of
Dan Wheldon. The latest injury news from the England cricket squad, a round-up of today's events in court at cricket's spot-fixing trial and also news from the Rugby World Cup.
1813 TENNIS: Kevin Anderson of South Africa has beaten
Tommy Haas of Germany 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the Swedish Open.
1750 RUGBY UNION: Northampton Saints'
Roger Wilson has told
BBC Look East
that the team are back on-form ahead of the LV Cup clash against the "unpredictable" Ospreys.
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1736 RUGBY UNION: Head coach
Bryan Redpath says World Cup stars
Mike Tindall and
Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu
will be given clean slates
on their return to Gloucester.
1719 SWIMMING: Germany's
Paul Biederman beat 14-time Olympic champion
Michael Phelps in the 200m freestyle at the short course swimming World Cup. Biederman, 25, the short course world record holder, clocked one minute 43.15sec to finish 0.16sec ahead of the American swimming legend.
1713 FOOTBALL: Bristol City have appointed
Derek McInnes as their new manager.
1659 GOLF: Australia made 96-1 with the loss of opener David Warner, before bad light and rain interrupted play in the first one-day international against
South Africa in SuperSport Park. With Ricky Ponting currently unbeaten on 40.
1643 RUGBY UNION:
The International Rugby Board
have announced the six-man shortlist for the IRB Player of the Year 2011 award, with the winner to be announced in Auckland on Monday. France captain
Thierry Dusautoir and the New Zealand trio of scrum-half
Piri Weepu, flanker Jerome Kaino and centre Ma'a Nonu. The other two nominees are Australia's flanker
David Pocock and scrum-half
Will Genia. 1635 FOOTBALL: Martin Olsson has said he is confident
Blackburn can turn things around despite being rooted to the foot of the Premier League table. "You can't ignore the league table because you have to be realistic and know that you are in a bad position," he told
Lancashire Telegraph.
"We know it is important to pick up points but if we play like we did at QPR then we can pick these points up. We know that."
1628 GOLF: Jose Maria Olazabal is backing
Sergio Garcia to be part of his Ryder Cup team next September on the course where he became a world star.
1620 GET INVOLVED:
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1608 OLYMPICS: Great Britain rhythmic gymnastics coach
Sarah Binding has told
BBC London
that the discipline is seen as the "second sport" compared to their artistic counterparts as they try to make history by qualifying for
London 2012.
1554 FOOTBALL: Wales are to play
Norway in a friendly at Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday 12 November, the
Football Association of Wales have confirmed.
The fixture, will be the first time the sides have met since Wales recorded a 3-0 win at the Racecourse Ground in February 2008.
1452 MOTORSPORT: Formula One champion
Sebastian Vettel wants motor racing safety improvements following the death of IndyCar driver
Dan Wheldon, although drivers accept the dangers involved. The Red Bull driver called Wheldon's death a "big loss" but said risks can not be avoided.
1446 FOOTBALL: Swindon midfielder
Oliver Risser has told
BBC Wiltshire
he is ready to prove to boss
Paolo di Canio that he deserves a place in the team.
1441 GET INVOLVED:
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1340 FORMULA 1: Red Bull Team Prinicipal
Christian Horner also paid tribute to Indycar driver Dan Wheldon,
who was killed in a crash in America last weekend.
''I've had known Dan since he was 9 years of age. He was a phenomenal driver and a great loss to the sport.''
1326 FORMULA 1: Red Bull Team Prinicipal
Christian Horner has described
the team's double success
as a 'whirlwind' still taking time to sink in. Horner told BBC Look East it's down to his team's 'herculean' work ethic.
1319 FOOTBALL: Tottenham manager
Harry Redknapp is concerned about the influence of foreign owners of top-flight clubs, and claims it is only a matter of time before they insist competitive domestic matches are played abroad. "Eventually, you will end up playing loads of games around the world. They will take the games to where they want to play them. If you have owners from China, India, Russia, America, they will want to take their teams there to play."
1302 FORMULA 1: Ferrari team principal
Stefano Domenicali says the Formula 1 Teams' Association (Fota) faces a crucial few weeks ahead of a key meeting at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix regarding the future of the sport, plus more in
Wednesday's gossip column.
1252 HORSE RACING: Nine jump jockeys, including
Tony McCoy, who were banned for failing to pull up when a yellow flag was waved at Wetherby last Wednesday,
have lost their appeals.
1246 FOOTBALL: Arsene Wenger believes the biggest danger for his Arsenal side when they take on Marseille in the Champions League on Wednesday evening is
being caught on the counter-attack.
1219 FOOTBALL:
Sebastien Bassong and
Younes Kaboul are Tottenham's only fit central defenders for tomorrow's Europa League clash against Rubin Kazan at White Hart Lane. On Sunday, Ledley King (groin) joined Michael Dawson (Achilles), Vedran Corluka (foot) and William Gallas (calf) on the Spurs injury list.
1208 FOOTBALL:
Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has told BBC Radio Stoke
that
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was one of main transfer targets during the summer. Pulis wanted to sign the 18-year-old winger from Southampton, but realised that he would struggle to do so once Manchester United and Arsenal declared their interest. Oxlade-Chamberlain joined Arsenal for an initial £12m in August.
1156 CRICKET: Pakistan, replying to
Sri Lanka's first-innings score of 197, reached 174-1 at tea on the second day of the first Test at Abu Dhabi stadium. Taufiq Umar is unbeaten on 65.
1149 CRICKET:
Former England fast bowler Simon Jones
has agreed a two-year deal to rejoin
Glamorgan. Jones left the Welsh side in 2007 to join Worcestershire, before going on to play for Hampshire last year.
1122 FOOTBALL: QPR striker
DJ Campbell faces up to two months on the sidelines with a fractured metatarsal.The 29-year-old picked up the injury during a training session last Thursday.
1107 FORMULA 1:
Australia's Mark Webber
has admitted he had interest from rival teams before he re-signed with Red Bull for 2012.
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1054 CRICKET: Opener
Lendl Simmons has been called into the West Indies squad for the upcoming Test series with Bangladesh at the expense of injured
Adrian Barath. 1041 RUGBY LEAGUE: England coach
Steve McNamara names three debutants for Friday's
Four Nations
warm-up against France in Avignon. Castleford's Man of Steel Rangi Chase, Jack Reed of Brisbane Broncos and Chris Heighington of Wests Tigers have all been included.
1035 FOOTBALL: Leeds United manager Simon Grayson confirms that goalkeeper
Andy Lonergan will be out for six weeks after undergoing surgery on a fractured finger.
1029 FOOTBALL: Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish admits on loan Spurs midfielder
Jermaine Jenas is still "three or four games away" from being ready to make his debut for the midlands club. The former England international was initially laid low by a thigh injury and then an Achilles problem.
1013 CRICKET: Test great
Shane Warne tells Australian Associated Press that he has not ruled out a return to professional cricket in Australia's revamped
Big Bash Twenty20
tournament starting in December, saying he's the fittest he's ever been. Warne formally retired from top-class cricket in May after the Rajasthan Royals' last game of the 2011 Indian Premier League.
1005 TENNIS: Moscow-born
Alex Bogomolov Jr has said he would consider playing for Russia in the Davis Cup, according to Russian media reports. The 28-year-old world number 37 was brought up in the United States but has yet to play a Davis Cup match for the US team.
0945 HORSE RACING: Multiple Group One winner
Dream Ahead has been retired to stud, according to reports in America. The David Simcock-trained colt earned champion sprinter-elect honours this year with victories in the
July Cup,
Sprint Cup and Prix de la Foret, where he beat star mare
Goldikova.
0921 FOOTBALL: England are up to seventh in
the latest Fifa world rankings.
Wales are back in the top 50 for the first time in eight years thanks to their victory over Switzerland which puts them at 45th. The
Republic of Ireland are 25th,
Scotland are 51st while
Northern Ireland drop 14 places to 84th.
0903 RUGBY UNION: New Zealand great
Jonah Lomu surprised Australia's players by dropping in on a training session in Auckland on Wednesday ahead of their World Cup third place play-off match against Wales.
0842 HORSE RACING:
BBC Sport's Joe Wilson says
adjustments to the sport's new whip regulations appear inevitable as the British Horseracing Authority looks to find a solution to end the dispute with jockeys.
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0829 RUGBY UNION: The International Rugby Board has announced the six-man shortlist for its
Player of the Year award. The All Blacks have three players included - flanker
Jeroke Kaino, centre
Ma'a Nonu and scrum-half
Piri Weepu. France captain
Thierry Dusautoir and Australia flanker
David Pocock and scrum-half
Will Genia make up the list.
0822 CRICKET: Seamer
Chris Woakes has been ruled out of the remainder of England's one-day international tour of India with a thigh strain. He will be replaced by
Graham Onions.
0818 RUGBY LEAGUE: Canberra Raiders have announced the appointment of former
Hull KR head coach
Justin Morgan to their backroom staff on a two-year deal. Morgan stepped down from Rovers last month after more than six years in charge.
0815 RUGBY UNION: The
International Rugby Board has deferred the election of its chairman and vice-chairman positions until December. Former England captain and current IRB vice-chairman
Bill Beaumont was due to stand against incumbent chairman
Bernard Lapasset at Wednesday's IRB Council meeting in Auckland. An election has to be held before 1 January.
0800: FOOTBALL - The latest from
Wednesday's gossip column:
Boca Juniors rule out re-signing unsettled
Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez on loan because they cannot afford his wages (Daily Mirror).
Former Arsenal midfielder Robert Pires hopes to extend his playing career in Qatar or Russia (The Sun),
Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has become a surprise transfer target for Serie A giants Juventus (talkSPORT).
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