3 Mar 12

Colts part ways with quarterback Peyton Manning

- Peyton Manning was released by the Indianapolis Colts after a 14-year stint with the franchise that included a Super Bowl win and four league National Football League MVP awards, the team said on Wednesday.

Manning, 35, missed the entire 2011 season after neck surgery last September and was due a $28 million bonus if the club had decided to keep him.

“We’re here to announce the conclusion of Peyton’s playing career with the Colts,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said during an emotional news conference in Indianapolis.

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3 Mar 12

Dicko’s out for rest of season

It’s agony – Liam Dickinson is carried off the pitch on Monday after breaking his ankle

SOUTHEND United’s top goalscorer Liam Dickinson has been ruled out for the rest of the season after breaking his ankle in Monday night’s 0-0 draw against Crawley Town.

Dickinson, who has hit the back of the net 12 times for Blues this season, was stretchered off in the 80th minute at Roots Hall after awkwardly going into a challenge with Crawley defender Warren Cummings.

And the striker (pictured right) will now be out of action for at least four months.

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29 Feb 12

Sherm Moments: Occy Being Frank

 

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This image is of Occy around ‘99 when he won his world title. And this is in Honolulu at the ASP banquet and he’s giving a speech thanking everyone. He was giving out props to all the legends and all the people who influenced him and he mentioned all the world champs. The

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24 Feb 12

Fergie fears Saha could haunt Man Utd

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes former Red Devils striker Louis Saha will pose a serious threat when his side face Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.

Louis Saha: Three goals in three starts

United travel to White Hart Lane for a difficult away match as they look to keep pace with Premier League leaders Manchester City, and Ferguson has said he would be happy to “survive” the fixture.

Third-placed Tottenham go into the game stung by an embarrassing 5-2 defeat in the North London derby against Arsenal, but Saha, who left United in 2008 to join Everton, scored the opening goal at the Emirates and faces his former side in a hot streak of form.

The France international has scored three goals in three starts since his January switch from Everton and Ferguson knows the 33-year-old could prove to be a handful.

“I don’t know the circumstances behind Louis Saha’s transfer but Everton were happy to let him go,” he told Inside United, “and then he goes to Spurs and scores two goals [against Newcastle].

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24 Feb 12

50 stunning Olympic moments No16: Dorando Pietri’s marathon, 1908 | Simon Burnton

On 24 July 1908, the final day of athletics at the Olympics, 100,000 people crammed into the stadium at White City in London to witness the conclusion to the marathon, with estimates putting the number locked outside at up to a million. If this seems an unusual amount of interest in viewing just the final 400 yards, or 0.87%, of what is widely seen now as the least explosive race in the Olympic lineup, it was to be fully justified.

“It would be no exaggeration,” the New York Times wrote the following day, “to say that the finish of the marathon at the 1908 Olympics in London was the most thrilling athletic event that has occurred since that Marathon race in ancient Greece, where the victor fell at the goal and, with a wave of triumph, died.”

When it came to drama, intrigue and occasional comedy, there was little to beat the early Olympic marathons.

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