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• NFL makes difficult decision on Monday's Vikings-Rams playoff game in LA as fires continue to ravage area

  10-01-2025 01:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NFL has been monitoring the situation with the fires in Los Angeles ahead of Monday's Wild Card playoff matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and hometown Rams.
  
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• Football set for MAJOR change on alcohol rules with trial set to be rolled out until the end of the season

  10-01-2025 10:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drinking alcoholic beverages in the stands and in view of the pitch at men's games in the top five divisions in the country has been banned since the Sporting Events Act 1985.
  
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• Ex-Arsenal star Carlos Vela's £3.3m Malibu home destroyed in LA fires as his wife shares emotional update

  10-01-2025 10:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vela's wife revealed on Thursday that their $4million (£3.3m) 5,121-square-foot Malibu home burned down in flames that have wrecked havoc in the affluent LA suburb.
  
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• Luke Littler and his sister surprise friends in Benidorm as the teenage star jets off to spend his £500,000 winnings after World Championship triumph

  10-01-2025 10:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Littler, 17, overcame Michael van Gerwen 7-3 in last Friday's final at Alexandra Palace, as he went one better than 12 months earlier when he was beaten by Luke Humphries in the final.
  
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• Novak Djokovic refuses to answer questions about bombshell 'poisoning' claims while in vaccine 'jail' in 2022 in acrimonious pre-Australian Open press conference

  10-01-2025 09:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MELBOURNE:A reporter shouted out, demanding that Djokovic address what is becoming a big topic in Australia, but the 38-year-old was already walking towards the door.
  
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• Ally Pally's first transgender player QUITS darts for a period for mental health reasons - after calling female stars who tried to ban her 'toxic b***hes'

  10-01-2025 09:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dutch star Noa-Lynn van Leuven, 28, made her World Championship debut last month as she lost in the opening round at Alexandra Palace to her fellow countryman Kevin Doets.
  
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• Northampton's England tyro HENRY POLLOCK on Luke Littler, marathons in the desert and the eight Under-20 stars vying to burst into Steve Borthwick's team

  10-01-2025 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON: In the rugby world, England's Under 20 World Cup winners are demonstrating their own prowess at senior level. Pollock is one of the shining lights, invited down to Twickenham this week.
  
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• Fergie's killjoy nepo baby: Sir Alex Ferguson's son Darren is slammed for denying Ashley Young his 'dream' by refusing to play his son against him - after his own famous father handed him 'lucky' break

  10-01-2025 09:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  No father and son have ever played against each other in 154 years of English's football oldest competition, but that looked set to change at Goodison Park.
  
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• Spanish football WAGs claim they were harassed and 'touched without consent' by men during Real Madrid's Super Cup semi-final win over Mallorca in Saudi Arabia

  10-01-2025 09:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cristina Palavra, the spouse of Mallorca midfielder Dani Rodriguez denounced the harassment she and a section of the team's supporters suffered.
  
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• Newcastle fan, nine, is caught out skipping school for key match after Sky's cameras showed him beaming with delight at Geordie win

  10-01-2025 09:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sammy Scott, aged nine, travelled to London with dad Mark for the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium as they told his school he would be off ill.
  
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• Gary Lineker's Match of the Day replacement Kelly Cates reveals how she deals with social media - and it's VERY different to her predecessor's controversies

  10-01-2025 09:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The highly-regarded broadcaster, daughter of Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish, will head to the BBC at the end of the season following the departure of Gary Lineker.
  
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• PLAY TEAMSHEET: Can YOU remember the Arsenal team that clinched the Premier League title against Tottenham in April 2004?

  10-01-2025 08:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Every day we'll challenge you to name a different starting XI from the Premier League era. We'll give you a team's rough formation, and the number of letters in each player's name. Then it's up to you!
  
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• Ronnie O'Sullivan admits REGRET over extraordinary X-rated 'sort your f***ing life out' rant at Ali Carter - after defeating his old rival in last year's Masters final

  10-01-2025 07:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ronnie O'Sullivan put his explosive, expletive-laden rant at Ali Carter down to 'heat of the moment stuff' but admitted regret over the outburst.
  
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• Warriors' Steve Kerr opens up on 'unfathomable' destruction in LA after childhood home is destroyed by fire

  10-01-2025 07:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Palisades Fire continues to wreak havoc on Los Angeles County. The house where he grew up and his mother, Ann Kerr, still resides is one of the countless structures destroyed so far.
  
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• Katie Boulter reveals the only thing she DOESN'T like about being an honourary Aussie

  10-01-2025 07:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain's top-ranked woman has noticed a change in the way she's received Down Under since she got engaged to Alex De Minaur - but one thing about Australia still doesn't sit well with her.
  
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• Los Angeles Rams star is charged with drunk driving days before playoff opener against Minnesota Vikings

  10-01-2025 06:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A key Rams player has been charged with drunk driving just days before the team's playoff opener against the Minnesota Vikings - a game that has been moved from LA to Glendale, Arizona.
  
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• Legendary WWE announcer Jim Ross says ex-wrestler Tammy Sytch offered to 'take care of him' after wife's death

  10-01-2025 06:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the latest episode of his Grilling JR podcast, the 73-year-old shared that Sytch, known by her in-ring name Sunny, wanted to cook for him and take care of him in the bedroom.
  
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• Nervous 9999s: Steve Smith rues milestone miss as he backs teenage tyro to be a hit

  10-01-2025 05:48 via theguardian.com
  
  35-year-old one run short of 10,000 Test runs ahead of Sri Lanka tourAustralia stand-in captain to guide Sam Konstas to play his own waySteve Smith has conceded he thought “too much” about reaching the 10,000 Test runs milestone against India before falling one run short in the fifth Test. The stand-in captain will head to Sri Lanka needing a single to join Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh in an exclusive Australian cricket club.Smith, famously fidgety and a poor sleeper d
  
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• Notre Dame beats the flu, Penn State on miraculous last-second field goal to advance to national championship

  10-01-2025 05:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A flu outbreak among Notre Dame players proved insignificant at Thursday's Orange Bowl in Miami, where the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish pulled out a miraculous win over Penn State.
  
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• Nick Kyrgios says he's back to rescue tennis from 'boring' stars - as he sheds light on whether new injury will wreck his Australian Open

  10-01-2025 05:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People love him or hate him - and a crowd-pulling controversy magnet has been sorely missing from the tour, according to Kyrgios, who is under an injury cloud before his home grand slam.
  
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• See the shocking moment cricket star KILLS a seagull as the unfortunate bird leaves viewers stunned in distressing scenes at the MCG

  10-01-2025 05:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Big Bash cricketer James Vince is renowned for his powerful hitting when at the crease for the Sydney Sixers - and it was brutally evident on Thursday night at the MCG versus the Melbourne Stars.
  
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• UFC legend Ronda Rousey and Travis Browne welcome new baby girl amid fears over raging Los Angeles fires

  10-01-2025 05:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents in Southern California have evacuated over the past week due to the apocalyptic circumstances of the fires.
  
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• Famous footy pundit Mark Robinson is branded a 'polarising figure' who is 'not loved' by many in the AFL world after his shock retirement aged just 57

  10-01-2025 04:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Over a career spanning four decades, Robinson built a reputation as one of the strongest voices in footy. He was the subject of many tributes when he retired - but one stands out.
  
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• Haunting Frank Wycheck interview resurfaces after family reveals late NFL star's CTE diagnosis

  10-01-2025 03:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frank Wycheck knew he was losing a battle with a degenerative brain disease years before the Tennessee Titans' famed H-back was killed in a fall at his Chattanooga, Tennessee home in 2023.
  
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• NFL moves Monday's Vikings-Rams playoff game from LA's SoFi Stadium to Arizona Cardinals' field amid fires

  10-01-2025 03:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The NFL has been monitoring the situation with the fires in Los Angeles ahead of Monday's Wild Card playoff matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and hometown Rams.
  
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• Huge money divide in tennis exposed: How a local star has to buy second-hand clothes for the Australian Open while Aryna Sabalenka wears a $230,000 watch

  10-01-2025 03:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The astonishing money divide in world tennis couldn't be clearer when you compare women's world number one Aryna Sabalenka to Aussie junior prodigy turned battler Destanee Aiava.
  
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• The future of English rugby HENRY POLLOCK on emulating Luke Littler, marathons in the desert and the eight Under-20 stars ready to burst into Steve Borthwick's team

  10-01-2025 03:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON: In the rugby world, England's Under 20 World Cup winners are demonstrating their own prowess at senior level. Pollock is one of the shining lights, invited down to Twickenham this week.
  
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• Why Man City are spending £50m on Omar Marmoush: The Mo Salah similarities, his free-kick party trick... and the reason Nottingham Forest rejected him

  10-01-2025 03:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TOM COLLOMOSSE: Marinakis should feel very happy with his recent transfer business but the Nottingham Forest owner must wince every time he hears the name of City's next £50million striker.
  
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• Future NBA stars Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper aren't enough as Rutgers falls to Purdue

  10-01-2025 02:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAKE FENNER IN NEW JERSEY: Rutgers is a team led by two bonafide NBA lottery picks in Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper. But star power couldn't overcome a more balanced Purdue team.
  
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• Fan sinks hole-in-one over Bryson DeChambeau's mansion to win $100k on his fifth try

  10-01-2025 02:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DeChambeau's viral hole-in-one challenge had fans tuning in last year. For 16 days, the LIV star attempted to hit a golf ball over his home and into his backyard golf hole.
  
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