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| Rugby-Lions retain romantic appeal in commercial age Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT By John Mehaffey LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - A special romance still accompanies the British and Irish Lions on their four-yearly pilgrimages across the equator despite an annual schedule of rugby union tests fast approaching saturation point. One factor is the rarity of a Lions' visit at a time when the world's top teams play each other on a regular basis. This year's trip to Australia is part of a 12-year cycle during which the Lions visit the three southern hemisphere giants in turn. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-Australia squad for British and Irish Lions series Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - Preliminary Australia squad for the series against the British and Irish Lions: Backs: Israel Folau, Digby Ioane, Joe Tomane, Nick Cummins, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Rob Horne, Pat McCabe, Christian Leali'ifano, Berrick Barnes, James O'Connor, Will Genia. Forwards: Wycliff Palu, Michael Hooper, Liam Gill, Scott Higginbotham, Ben Mowen, Rob Simmons, James Horwill, Sitaleki Timani, James Slipper, Ben Alexander, Benn Robinson, Sekope Kepu, Stephen Moore, Saia Faingaa. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-British and Irish Lions squad Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT May 28 (Reuters) - British and Irish Lions squad for the tour of Australia: Backs: Leigh Halfpenny (Wales), Stuart Hogg (Scotland), Rob Kearney (Ireland); Tommy Bowe (Ireland), Alex Cuthbert (Wales), Sean Maitland (Scotland), George North (Wales); Jonathan Davies (Wales), Brian O'Driscoll (Ireland), Jamie Roberts (Wales), Manu Tuilagi (England); Owen Farrell (England), Jonny Sexton (Ireland); Conor Murray (Ireland), Mike Phillips (Wales), Ben Youngs (England). ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-British and Irish Lions v Australia test results Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - Results of British and Irish Lions test matches against Australia (year/result/venue): 1899 Australia 13 Lions 3 Sydney Australia 0 Lions 11 Brisbane Australia 10 Lions 11 Sydney Australia 0 Lions 13 Sydney 1904 Australia 0 Lions 17 Sydney Australia 3 Lions 17 Brisbane Australia 0 Lions 16 Sydney 1930 Australia 6 Lions 5 Sydney 1950 Australia 6 Lions 19 Brisbane Australia 3 Lions 24 Sydney 1959 Australia 6 Lions 17 Brisbane Australia 3 Lions 24 Sydney 1966 Australia 8 Lions 11 Sydney Australia 0 Lions 31 Brisbane 1989 Australia 30 Lions 12 Sydney Australia 12 Lions ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-How to win a Lions tour Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT (Attention coarse language in fifth par) By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - The difficulty of bringing together the best players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and turning them into successful Lions tourists is illustrated by how infrequently it has been achieved. Although every tour is different, there has developed a consensus over some of the elements that need to be in place for the tourists to have a fighting chance of success. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-British and Irish Lions test record since 1950 Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:00 AM PDT SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - A list of the British and Irish Lions tours and test records since 1950 (year/country/number of tests/series result): 1950 New Zealand 4 L 0-3 Australia 2 W 2-0 1955 South Africa 4 T 2-2 1959 Australia 2 W 2-0 New Zealand 4 L 1-3 1962 South Africa 4 L 0-3 1966 Australia 2 W 2-0 New Zealand 4 L 0-4 1968 South Africa 4 L 0-3 1971 New Zealand 4 W 2-1 1974 South Africa 4 W 3-0 1977 New Zealand 4 L 1-3 1980 South Africa 4 L 1-3 1983 New Zealand 4 L 0-4 1989 Australia 3 W 2-1 1993 New Zealand 3 L 1-2 1997 South Africa 3 W 2-1 2001 Australia 3 L 1-2 2005 New Zealand 3 L 0-3 ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-British and Irish Lions tour itinerary Monday, May 27, 2013 11:59 PM PDT May 28 (Reuters) - Itinerary of British and Irish Lions 2013 tour of Hong Kong and Australia: Lions v Barbarians Hong Kong June 1 Lions v Western Force Perth June 5 Lions v Queensland Reds Brisbane June 8 Lions v New South Wales/ Queensland Country invitational Newcastle June 11 Lions v NSW Waratahs Sydney June 15 Lions v ACT Brumbies Canberra June 18 Lions v Australia Brisbane June 22 Lions v Melbourne Rebels Melbourne June 25 Lions v Australia Melbourne June 29 Lions v Australia Sydney July 6 (Compiled by Patrick Johnson, editing by Clare Fallon) Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-Lions eye path to glory Down Under Monday, May 27, 2013 11:59 PM PDT By Nick Mulvenney SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - Australia is billing the British and Irish Lions tour as "12 years in the making" but the 37 tourists know that if they return with a series win, their names will live on in rugby folklore for a lot longer than that. Some fine players have pulled on the famous red jersey and some great matches been played on the tours to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the 16 years since Martin Johnson's side beat the Springboks 2-1 in 1997. ... Full Story | Top |
| Swann takes four to bowl England towards victory Monday, May 27, 2013 11:48 PM PDT By Justin Palmer LEEDS, England (Reuters) - New Zealand again found Graeme Swann a difficult conundrum as the off-spinner bowled England towards another convincing victory in the second and final test on Monday. Swann confirmed he was back to his best after elbow surgery by adding four wickets to his quartet from the first innings and leave the tourists hoping for forecast rain to arrive and save them on the final day on Tuesday. Set an improbable 468 to win at Headingley, New Zealand limped to 158 for six at the close with Ross Taylor's determined 70 glueing together another fragile innings. ... Full Story | Top |
| Superstitious Djokovic hopes to avoid French Open mishap Monday, May 27, 2013 11:47 PM PDT  PARIS (Reuters) - A day after Rafa Nadal suffered a first-round scare at the French Open, world number one Novak Djokovic will look to avoid any mishap as he starts his Roland Garros campaign against Belgium's David Goffin on Tuesday. The Serbian top seed will be second on Court Philippe Chatrier after local favourite Marion Bartoli, the 13th seed, opens proceedings against Belarussian Olga Govortsova. Perhaps because of superstition, Djokovic has requested his team and reporters to make no mention of future rounds. ... Full Story | Top |
| Woods to play in new $7 million Turkish Open Monday, May 27, 2013 11:45 PM PDT  By Tony Jimenez (Reuters) - World number one Tiger Woods is to compete in the inaugural Turkish Open in Antalya in November, the European Tour said on Tuesday. The $7 million event at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek will form part of the new Final Series on the Race to Dubai, Europe's lucrative end-of-season equivalent of the U.S. Tour's FedExCup competition. Fourteen-times major winner Woods also featured in last year's unofficial World Golf Final in Turkey played at the nearby Antalya Golf Club. ... Full Story | Top |
| Reuters Sports Schedule at 0600 GMT on Tuesday, May 28 Monday, May 27, 2013 11:00 PM PDT Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Tuesday: - - - - TENNIS French Open, Paris (to June 9) Top seed Djokovic opens French Open campaign PARIS - Serbian top seed Novak Djokovic starts his Roland Garros campaign against Belgium's David Goffin on Court Philippe Chatrier after local favourite Marion Bartoli, the 13th seed, opens proceedings against Belarussian Olga Govortsova. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball-Darvish strikes out 14 but Rangers lose Monday, May 27, 2013 10:51 PM PDT May 27 (Reuters) - Texas ace Yu Darvish struck out 14 batters but it was not enough to give the Japanese pitcher his eighth win of the season as the Rangers lost 5-4 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. With Texas leading 4-2 in the eighth inning, Didi Gregorius hit a game-tying two run home run to chase Darvish from the mound, before Cliff Pennington added the winning single for Arizona in the ninth. Both Darvish and Arizona starter Trevor Cahill took no-decisions. Cahill allowed four runs over eight innings. Arizona also beat Texas 5-3 in the opener of a doubleheader between the teams. ... Full Story | Top |
| CA-SPORTS Summary Monday, May 27, 2013 10:25 PM PDT Nadal narrowly survives bad day at the office PARIS (Reuters) - Daniel Brands ensured it was no regular Monday at the office for Rafa Nadal when the Spaniard came desperately close to being shown the door after walking on to Chatrier Court to begin his hunt for an eighth French Open title. Nadal reached the second round but his 4-6 7-6 6-4 6-3 win over the inspired German, who had never won a main-draw match at Roland Garros before, was fraught with danger as the 11-times major winner flirted with the unthinkable. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former pole vault champ Bubka to run for IOC top job Monday, May 27, 2013 10:25 PM PDT  By Karolos Grohmann Saint Petersburg (Reuters) - Former Olympic pole vault champion Sergei Bubka will announce his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, a source close to the Ukrainian has told Reuters. "He will be making his announcement later today," the source told Reuters on Tuesday. Bubka joins Germany's Thomas Bach, Singapore's Ng Ser Miang, C.K. Wu of Taiwan, Puerto Rican Richard Carrion and Swiss Denis Oswald in a six-way race for one of the biggest jobs in world sport. (Editing by Peter Rutherford) Full Story | Top |
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