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PDC final – Taylor bt van Gerwen to win his 16th title | PDC final – Taylor bt van Gerwen to win his 16th title | ||
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Daniel Sturridge moves from Chelsea to Liverpool | Daniel Sturridge moves from Chelsea to Liverpool | ||
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Kevin-Prince Boateng (AC Milan) walks off pitch due to racist chants, causing match against Pro Patria to be abandoned | Kevin-Prince Boateng (AC Milan) walks off pitch due to racist chants, causing match against Pro Patria to be abandoned | ||
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Hopman Cup final – Spain (Verdasco and Medina Garrigues) bt Serbia (Djokovic and Ivanovic) | Hopman Cup final – Spain (Verdasco and Medina Garrigues) bt Serbia (Djokovic and Ivanovic) | ||
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Four Hills Tournament – Gregor Schlierenzauer (Austria). Anders Jacobsen (Norway) wins two of the four events | Four Hills Tournament – Gregor Schlierenzauer (Austria). Anders Jacobsen (Norway) wins two of the four events | ||
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Puskas Award for best goal – Miroslav Stoch | Puskas Award for best goal – Miroslav Stoch | ||
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Fifa team of the year has five Barcelona players, five Real Madrid players, and Falcao (Atletico Madrid) | Fifa team of the year has five Barcelona players, five Real Madrid players, and Falcao (Atletico Madrid) | ||
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A record of 70 points for the longest tie-break in professional tennis is set at a Futures event in Florida when Monaco's Benjamin Balleret beat compatriot Guillaume Couillard 36-34. The record may not be official because of the lack of a chair umpire | A record of 70 points for the longest tie-break in professional tennis is set at a Futures event in Florida when Monaco's Benjamin Balleret beat compatriot Guillaume Couillard 36-34. The record may not be official because of the lack of a chair umpire | ||
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Blackpool manager Michael Appleton moves to Blackburn Rovers | Blackpool manager Michael Appleton moves to Blackburn Rovers | ||
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Colin Kaepernick (San Francisco 49ers) sets an NFL single-game record for most rushing yards by a quarterback | Colin Kaepernick (San Francisco 49ers) sets an NFL single-game record for most rushing yards by a quarterback | ||
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James Woods wins his second successive ski slopestyle World Cup event | James Woods wins his second successive ski slopestyle World Cup event | ||
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Sarah Taylor reveals she could play for Sussex men's second XI if required | Sarah Taylor reveals she could play for Sussex men's second XI if required | ||
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Uefa team of the year has four Barcelona players, four Real Madrid players, Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), and Andrea Pirlo (Juventus) | Uefa team of the year has four Barcelona players, four Real Madrid players, Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), and Andrea Pirlo (Juventus) | ||
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Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal won in 2000 | Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal won in 2000 | ||
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Gulf Cup of Nations final – UAE bt Iraq | Gulf Cup of Nations final – UAE bt Iraq | ||
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A shortened 48-game 2012–13 NHL season begins after the end of the 119-day lockout | A shortened 48-game 2012–13 NHL season begins after the end of the 119-day lockout | ||
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Leinster, Toulouse and Biarritz drop into the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-finals, as the best runners-up in the Heineken Cup pools | Leinster, Toulouse and Biarritz drop into the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-finals, as the best runners-up in the Heineken Cup pools | ||
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Sacramento Kings planning to relocate to Seattle | Sacramento Kings planning to relocate to Seattle | ||
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Capitol One Cup semi-final – Bradford City bt Aston Villa | Capitol One Cup semi-final – Bradford City bt Aston Villa | ||
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England's netball team claim a first series win against world number one side Australia | England's netball team claim a first series win against world number one side Australia | ||
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Semi-final – Djokovic bt Ferrer | Semi-final – Djokovic bt Ferrer | ||
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Sports journalist Frank Keating dies | Sports journalist Frank Keating dies | ||
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Togo vs Algeria delayed for 15 minutes after a player knocks the Algerian goal down by running into the back of the net | Togo vs Algeria delayed for 15 minutes after a player knocks the Algerian goal down by running into the back of the net | ||
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The Rock ends CM Punk’s reign of 434 days as WWE Champion | The Rock ends CM Punk’s reign of 434 days as WWE Champion | ||
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Jan 28 | Jan 28 | ||
Didier Drogba moves to Galatasaray | Didier Drogba moves to Galatasaray | ||
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Lionel Messi's streak of scoring in 16 straight matches ends | Lionel Messi's streak of scoring in 16 straight matches ends | ||
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American professional snowmobile racer Caleb Moore becomes the first person to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games | American professional snowmobile racer Caleb Moore becomes the first person to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games | ||
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Shelley Rudman becomes the first British woman to win skeleton gold in the world championships in St Moritz | Shelley Rudman becomes the first British woman to win skeleton gold in the world championships in St Moritz | ||
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World Bandy Championships – Russia | World Bandy Championships – Russia | ||
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Jacoby Jones scores two touchdowns, including a 108-yard kick-off return | Jacoby Jones scores two touchdowns, including a 108-yard kick-off return | ||
| − | + | Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis ends his 17-year career with a second Super Bowl win | |
Michael Oher, subject of the film ‘The Blind Side’, plays for Ravens | Michael Oher, subject of the film ‘The Blind Side’, plays for Ravens | ||
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World Cup of Darts final (Hamburg) – England (Taylor and Lewis) bt Belgium (Kim Huybrechts and Ronny Huybrechts) | World Cup of Darts final (Hamburg) – England (Taylor and Lewis) bt Belgium (Kim Huybrechts and Ronny Huybrechts) | ||
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Liverpool’s 2009 Champions League tie against Debrecen is alleged to be one of 380 European games under suspicion of match-fixing | Liverpool’s 2009 Champions League tie against Debrecen is alleged to be one of 380 European games under suspicion of match-fixing | ||
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ECB announces that Yorkshire Bank will become the new title sponsor of the domestic 40-over competition: the Yorkshire Bank 40 | ECB announces that Yorkshire Bank will become the new title sponsor of the domestic 40-over competition: the Yorkshire Bank 40 | ||
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Mike Golding becomes the first sailor to complete three Vendee Globe races | Mike Golding becomes the first sailor to complete three Vendee Globe races | ||
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Feb 8 | Feb 8 | ||
Women’s Super Combined – Maria Hofl-Riesch | Women’s Super Combined – Maria Hofl-Riesch | ||
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England hit 15 sixes in Twenty20 match against New Zealand | England hit 15 sixes in Twenty20 match against New Zealand | ||
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Fed Cup – GB bt Bulgaria and qualify for World Group II play-off match against Argentina in April | Fed Cup – GB bt Bulgaria and qualify for World Group II play-off match against Argentina in April | ||
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Feb 11 | Feb 11 | ||
Men’s Super Combined – Ted Ligety | Men’s Super Combined – Ted Ligety | ||
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Wrestling dropped from 2020 Olympic Games. It will now compete with seven other sports – baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports – for a place in the 2020 Games | Wrestling dropped from 2020 Olympic Games. It will now compete with seven other sports – baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports – for a place in the 2020 Games | ||
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Pankaj Advani becomes the first Indian player to reach the quarter-finals of a world-ranking snooker event, at Welsh Open | Pankaj Advani becomes the first Indian player to reach the quarter-finals of a world-ranking snooker event, at Welsh Open | ||
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Third-place play-off – England bt New Zealand. Charlotte Edwards 106, becomes the first woman to pass 5000 runs in one-day internationals | Third-place play-off – England bt New Zealand. Charlotte Edwards 106, becomes the first woman to pass 5000 runs in one-day internationals | ||
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FA Cup – Blackburn bt Arsenal | FA Cup – Blackburn bt Arsenal | ||
| − | Mo Farah wins 3000m at British Grand Prix in Birmingham. There are also wins for | + | Mo Farah wins 3000m at British Grand Prix in Birmingham. There are also wins for Holly Bleasdale, Shara Proctor, Michael Rimmer, Helen Clitheroe and Nigel Levine |
Mo Farah to run half the distance at this year’s London Marathon for £250,000 and the full distance next year | Mo Farah to run half the distance at this year’s London Marathon for £250,000 and the full distance next year | ||
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Women’s World Cup final (Mumbai) – Australia bt West Indies. Sixth win for Australia | Women’s World Cup final (Mumbai) – Australia bt West Indies. Sixth win for Australia | ||
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Andy Robinson appointed as director of rugby at Bristol | Andy Robinson appointed as director of rugby at Bristol | ||
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Feb 19 | Feb 19 | ||
Goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup | Goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup | ||
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Lindy Ruff, the active longest tenured coach in the National Hockey League, is fired by Buffalo Sabres after serving as the team's head coach for 15 seasons | Lindy Ruff, the active longest tenured coach in the National Hockey League, is fired by Buffalo Sabres after serving as the team's head coach for 15 seasons | ||
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2014 Giro d’Italia will start in Belfast | 2014 Giro d’Italia will start in Belfast | ||
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Jamie Carragher becomes the first Englishman to make 150 European appearances | Jamie Carragher becomes the first Englishman to make 150 European appearances | ||
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Football Association ambassador Paul Elliott resigns from all roles representing the organization following reports of a racism row | Football Association ambassador Paul Elliott resigns from all roles representing the organization following reports of a racism row | ||
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New Orleans half-marathon – Farah | New Orleans half-marathon – Farah | ||
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Feb 26 | Feb 26 | ||
Audley Harrison becomes the first two-time Prizefighter champion | Audley Harrison becomes the first two-time Prizefighter champion | ||
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Feb 27 | Feb 27 | ||
Mario Balotelli commissions a life-size bronze statue of himself which he plans to display in his home in Brescia | Mario Balotelli commissions a life-size bronze statue of himself which he plans to display in his home in Brescia | ||
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Lancashire's Old Trafford home is renamed as part of a 10-year partnership with airline firm Emirates. It will now be known as ‘Emirates Old Trafford’ | Lancashire's Old Trafford home is renamed as part of a 10-year partnership with airline firm Emirates. It will now be known as ‘Emirates Old Trafford’ | ||
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Rory McIlroy quits Honda Classic mid-round complaining of toothache | Rory McIlroy quits Honda Classic mid-round complaining of toothache | ||
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Tim Howard's run of 210 consecutive Premier League games ends | Tim Howard's run of 210 consecutive Premier League games ends | ||
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800m. Bronze – Muktar Mohammed | 800m. Bronze – Muktar Mohammed | ||
| − | 4x400m relay – GB ( | + | 4x400m relay – GB (Michael Bingham, Richard Buck, Nigel Levine, Richard Strachan) |
| − | Women’s 4x400m relay – GB (Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine | + | Women’s 4x400m relay – GB (Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine Ohuruogu, Perri Shakes-Drayton) |
World Open final – Allen bt Stevens | World Open final – Allen bt Stevens | ||
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Lauren Silberman becomes the first woman to try out for the National Football League, but her attempt to make a team ends after two kicks with an injury | Lauren Silberman becomes the first woman to try out for the National Football League, but her attempt to make a team ends after two kicks with an injury | ||
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Real Madrid bt Man Utd. Winning goal scored by Ronaldo. Nani sent off. Giggs’s 1000th competitive match | Real Madrid bt Man Utd. Winning goal scored by Ronaldo. Nani sent off. Giggs’s 1000th competitive match | ||
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Ex-London Welsh team manager Mike Scott banned for life from rugby union for falsifying documents to make it appear that New Zealander Tyson Keats was English | Ex-London Welsh team manager Mike Scott banned for life from rugby union for falsifying documents to make it appear that New Zealander Tyson Keats was English | ||
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BBL Trophy final – Sheffield Sharks bt Leicester Riders | BBL Trophy final – Sheffield Sharks bt Leicester Riders | ||
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Ryman Premier League match between Wingate & Finchley and Thurrock is abandoned as Wingate & Finchley have five players sent off | Ryman Premier League match between Wingate & Finchley and Thurrock is abandoned as Wingate & Finchley have five players sent off | ||
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Exceptional Achievement Award: Michael Phelps | Exceptional Achievement Award: Michael Phelps | ||
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Hurricane Fly becomes only the second horse after Comedy of Errors in 1975 to regain the Champion Hurdle | Hurricane Fly becomes only the second horse after Comedy of Errors in 1975 to regain the Champion Hurdle | ||
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| + | Quevega wins the Mares' Hurdle for a fifth successive time. The last horse to win the same race in five successive years was Golden Miller | ||
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Toby Flood kicks six penalties against Italy | Toby Flood kicks six penalties against Italy | ||
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National Hockey League officially announces it will realign into a four-division structure and a modified division-based playoff system starting next season | National Hockey League officially announces it will realign into a four-division structure and a modified division-based playoff system starting next season | ||
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Conor Murphy, a stable lad at Nicky Henderson’s yard, wins £1 million on an accumulator bet based on five of the yard’s winners | Conor Murphy, a stable lad at Nicky Henderson’s yard, wins £1 million on an accumulator bet based on five of the yard’s winners | ||
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Leading points scorer – Leigh Halfpenny (74 points) | Leading points scorer – Leigh Halfpenny (74 points) | ||
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Greek football player Giorgos Katidis is banned from the national team for life after giving a Nazi style salute | Greek football player Giorgos Katidis is banned from the national team for life after giving a Nazi style salute | ||
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Second Test (Wellington) England 465 (Compton 100, Trott 121) New Zealand 254 (Broad 6-51) and 162-2 | Second Test (Wellington) England 465 (Compton 100, Trott 121) New Zealand 254 (Broad 6-51) and 162-2 | ||
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World Baseball Classic – Dominican Republic | World Baseball Classic – Dominican Republic | ||
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Championship League Snooker final – Gould bt Carter | Championship League Snooker final – Gould bt Carter | ||
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Martin Brodeur of New Jersey Devils becomes the first NHL goaltender to score three goals | Martin Brodeur of New Jersey Devils becomes the first NHL goaltender to score three goals | ||
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In the CONCACAF, USA bt Costa Rica in near-blizzard conditions at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado | In the CONCACAF, USA bt Costa Rica in near-blizzard conditions at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado | ||
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Plan for a ‘Dream Football League’ in Qatar is a hoax | Plan for a ‘Dream Football League’ in Qatar is a hoax | ||
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League Two award – Tom Pope (Port Vale) | League Two award – Tom Pope (Port Vale) | ||
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World Cross Country Championships (Poland). Men’s – Japhet Korir (Kenya). Women’s – Emily Kebet (Kenya) | World Cross Country Championships (Poland). Men’s – Japhet Korir (Kenya). Women’s – Emily Kebet (Kenya) | ||
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Elite League champions – Nottingham Panthers | Elite League champions – Nottingham Panthers | ||
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Peter Siddle becomes the first batsman in a Test to make two fifties batting at number nine | Peter Siddle becomes the first batsman in a Test to make two fifties batting at number nine | ||
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Frank Williams’s daughter Claire lined up as his long-term successor | Frank Williams’s daughter Claire lined up as his long-term successor | ||
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Jesse Ryder is in a critical condition in hospital, after being severely beaten as he left a bar in Christchurch | Jesse Ryder is in a critical condition in hospital, after being severely beaten as he left a bar in Christchurch | ||
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Messi scores in 19th successive league game | Messi scores in 19th successive league game | ||
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Murray wins Sony Open in Miami to rise to number two in world rankings | Murray wins Sony Open in Miami to rise to number two in world rankings | ||
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Michael O'Leary donates €200,000 to a fund for JT McNamara | Michael O'Leary donates €200,000 to a fund for JT McNamara | ||
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German-based manufacturer GoalControl to provide goal-line system at World Cup in Brazil | German-based manufacturer GoalControl to provide goal-line system at World Cup in Brazil | ||
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Challenge Cup final – Nottingham Panthers bt Sheffield Steelers | Challenge Cup final – Nottingham Panthers bt Sheffield Steelers | ||
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Apr 4 | Apr 4 | ||
Betfred Bowl – First Lieutenant (Mouse Morris) | Betfred Bowl – First Lieutenant (Mouse Morris) | ||
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Melling Chase – Sprinter Sacre (Barry Geraghty) | Melling Chase – Sprinter Sacre (Barry Geraghty) | ||
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Grand National – 1<sup>st</sup> Auroras Encore (Ryan Mania, 66-1), trained by Sue Smith, 2<sup>nd</sup> Cappa Bleu, 3<sup>rd</sup> Teaforthree | Grand National – 1<sup>st</sup> Auroras Encore (Ryan Mania, 66-1), trained by Sue Smith, 2<sup>nd</sup> Cappa Bleu, 3<sup>rd</sup> Teaforthree | ||
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Paris-Roubaix – Cancellara | Paris-Roubaix – Cancellara | ||
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Women’s Ice Hockey World Championships final – USA bt Canada | Women’s Ice Hockey World Championships final – USA bt Canada | ||
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Masters Par 3 Contest – Ted Potter | Masters Par 3 Contest – Ted Potter | ||
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England Rugby Sevens unveil psychedelic strip designed by Canterbury | England Rugby Sevens unveil psychedelic strip designed by Canterbury | ||
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Brian McDermott appointed as manager of Leeds | Brian McDermott appointed as manager of Leeds | ||
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Woods penalized two strokes for incorrect drop | Woods penalized two strokes for incorrect drop | ||
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Chinese GP – Alonso, Raikkonen, Hamilton | Chinese GP – Alonso, Raikkonen, Hamilton | ||
| − | Masters – Scott bt Cabrera in play-off to become first Australian winner. 3<sup>rd</sup> Day. Leading European – | + | Masters – Scott bt Cabrera in play-off to become first Australian winner. 3<sup>rd</sup> Day. Leading European – Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark) |
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Lee Johnson (Oldham) and Gary Johnson (Yeovil) are the first father and son to manage opposing teams in a Football League game since 1971 | Lee Johnson (Oldham) and Gary Johnson (Yeovil) are the first father and son to manage opposing teams in a Football League game since 1971 | ||
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Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks) wins NBA Scoring Title | Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks) wins NBA Scoring Title | ||
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New Orleans Hornets change their name to the Pelicans | New Orleans Hornets change their name to the Pelicans | ||
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Mike Denness dies | Mike Denness dies | ||
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England Hockey League Championship women’s play-off final – Reading bt Leicester | England Hockey League Championship women’s play-off final – Reading bt Leicester | ||
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Apr 21 | Apr 21 | ||
| − | London Marathon. Men’s | + | London Marathon. Men’s –Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia). Women’s – Priscah Jeptoo (Kenya). Tiki Gelana involved in a collision with Canadian wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy |
High bar. Silver – Sam Oldham | High bar. Silver – Sam Oldham | ||
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Hyundai A-League Grand Final – Central Coast Mariners bt Western Sydney Wanderers | Hyundai A-League Grand Final – Central Coast Mariners bt Western Sydney Wanderers | ||
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Van Persie hat-trick for Man Utd against Aston Villa. 20th title for Man Utd | Van Persie hat-trick for Man Utd against Aston Villa. 20th title for Man Utd | ||
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Wimbledon prize money increased by 40%. Retractable roof for Number One court by 2019 | Wimbledon prize money increased by 40%. Retractable roof for Number One court by 2019 | ||
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Kukri announce a deal to supply all delegation and teamwear for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for Commonwealth Games England | Kukri announce a deal to supply all delegation and teamwear for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for Commonwealth Games England | ||
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Dechawat Poomjaeng concedes a frame against Michael White by missing an open red three times | Dechawat Poomjaeng concedes a frame against Michael White by missing an open red three times | ||
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Women's Super League is expanded into two tiers of eight and 10 teams from 2014, an increase from the previous single division of eight. Manchester City Ladies replace Doncaster Rovers Belles in WSL1 | Women's Super League is expanded into two tiers of eight and 10 teams from 2014, an increase from the previous single division of eight. Manchester City Ladies replace Doncaster Rovers Belles in WSL1 | ||
| − | + | Conditional Jockeys’ Championship – Lucy Alexander | |
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Rolex Kentucky – Andrew Nicholson, riding Quimbo | Rolex Kentucky – Andrew Nicholson, riding Quimbo | ||
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Kim Little is inaugural winner of the PFA Women's Player of the Year | Kim Little is inaugural winner of the PFA Women's Player of the Year | ||
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Joao Havelange resigns as Fifa’s honorary president after a report ruled he had taken bribes | Joao Havelange resigns as Fifa’s honorary president after a report ruled he had taken bribes | ||
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Champions League semi-final – Bayern Munich bt Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate | Champions League semi-final – Bayern Munich bt Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate | ||
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Europa League semi finals – Chelsea bt Basle, Benfica bt Fenerbache | Europa League semi finals – Chelsea bt Basle, Benfica bt Fenerbache | ||
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Kentucky Derby – Orb | Kentucky Derby – Orb | ||
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Conference champions – Mansfield | Conference champions – Mansfield | ||
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Badminton Horse Trials – Jonathan Paget (New Zealand), riding Clifton Promise | Badminton Horse Trials – Jonathan Paget (New Zealand), riding Clifton Promise | ||
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Women's Super League (WSL) champions Arsenal are beaten 4-0 by Liverpool in the opening match of their title defence at Emirates Stadium, their first loss in the competition since July 2011 | Women's Super League (WSL) champions Arsenal are beaten 4-0 by Liverpool in the opening match of their title defence at Emirates Stadium, their first loss in the competition since July 2011 | ||
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San Francisco 49ers announce that Levi Strauss & Co. have purchased the naming rights to their new stadium in Santa Clara | San Francisco 49ers announce that Levi Strauss & Co. have purchased the naming rights to their new stadium in Santa Clara | ||
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Premiership Rugby Player of the Year –Tom Youngs (Leicester) | Premiership Rugby Player of the Year –Tom Youngs (Leicester) | ||
| − | + | Discovery of the Season – Joe Launchbury (Wasps) | |
| − | + | Director of Rugby of the Season – Mark McCall (Saracens) | |
Leading points scorer – Freddie Burns (Gloucester), 240 points | Leading points scorer – Freddie Burns (Gloucester), 240 points | ||
Leading try scorer – Tom Varndell and Christian Wade (both Wasps), 13 tries | Leading try scorer – Tom Varndell and Christian Wade (both Wasps), 13 tries | ||
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60th edition of BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be broadcast live from Leeds | 60th edition of BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be broadcast live from Leeds | ||
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Premiership semi-final – Leicester bt Harlequins | Premiership semi-final – Leicester bt Harlequins | ||
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IRB Sevens World Series – New Zealand. 5<sup>th</sup> Kenya. Top points scorer – Dan Norton (England) | IRB Sevens World Series – New Zealand. 5<sup>th</sup> Kenya. Top points scorer – Dan Norton (England) | ||
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British Speedway Championship – Tai Woffinden (Wolverhampton Wolves) | British Speedway Championship – Tai Woffinden (Wolverhampton Wolves) | ||
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2014 Europa League final will be held in Turin | 2014 Europa League final will be held in Turin | ||
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New owner Vivek Ranadive intends keeping Sacramento Kings in Sacramento | New owner Vivek Ranadive intends keeping Sacramento Kings in Sacramento | ||
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Barclays Player of the Season – Bale | Barclays Player of the Season – Bale | ||
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Preakness Stakes – Oxbow | Preakness Stakes – Oxbow | ||
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Ice Hockey World Championships final – Sweden bt Switzerland | Ice Hockey World Championships final – Sweden bt Switzerland | ||
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FIA rejects a proposal from Pirelli to go back to last year's tyres | FIA rejects a proposal from Pirelli to go back to last year's tyres | ||
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Pune Warriors India terminate their participation in IPL6 due to disagreements with their franchisee fees for the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) | Pune Warriors India terminate their participation in IPL6 due to disagreements with their franchisee fees for the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) | ||
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Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods after joking that he would serve him ‘fried chicken’ for dinner | Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods after joking that he would serve him ‘fried chicken’ for dinner | ||
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Professional Rugby Players Association player of the year and Young player of the year – Christian Wade (Wasps) | Professional Rugby Players Association player of the year and Young player of the year – Christian Wade (Wasps) | ||
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Southampton and Wales centre forward Ron Davies dies | Southampton and Wales centre forward Ron Davies dies | ||
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The use of broom-handle and belly putters will be banned from 2016 | The use of broom-handle and belly putters will be banned from 2016 | ||
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British Open squash – Men’s – Remy Ashour (Egypt), Women’s – Laura Massaro | British Open squash – Men’s – Remy Ashour (Egypt), Women’s – Laura Massaro | ||
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Rafa Benitez appointed as manager of Napoli | Rafa Benitez appointed as manager of Napoli | ||
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Yoshinari Matsushita killed at Isle of Man TT races | Yoshinari Matsushita killed at Isle of Man TT races | ||
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Championship play-off final – Newcastle Falcons bt Bedford Blues | Championship play-off final – Newcastle Falcons bt Bedford Blues | ||
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Mark Hughes appointed as manager of Stoke City | Mark Hughes appointed as manager of Stoke City | ||
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Australian Andrew Dodt becomes the first man in European Tour history to record two holes-in-one in the same round, at the Nordea Masters | Australian Andrew Dodt becomes the first man in European Tour history to record two holes-in-one in the same round, at the Nordea Masters | ||
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British Speedway GP (Millennium Stadium) – Emil Sayfutdinov (Russia) | British Speedway GP (Millennium Stadium) – Emil Sayfutdinov (Russia) | ||
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Scandinavian Masters – Mikko ''Ilonen (''Finland'')'' | Scandinavian Masters – Mikko ''Ilonen (''Finland'')'' | ||
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Neymar moves from Santos to Barcelona for £49 million | Neymar moves from Santos to Barcelona for £49 million | ||
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Japan becomes the first country to qualify for the 2014 World Cup | Japan becomes the first country to qualify for the 2014 World Cup | ||
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Buttler 47 in 16 balls in third ODI | Buttler 47 in 16 balls in third ODI | ||
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Mixed doubles final – Cermak and Hradecka bt Nestor and Mladenovic | Mixed doubles final – Cermak and Hradecka bt Nestor and Mladenovic | ||
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Robbie Keane becomes Ireland's most capped player (126 caps), scoring a hat-trick against Faroe Islands | Robbie Keane becomes Ireland's most capped player (126 caps), scoring a hat-trick against Faroe Islands | ||
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Belmont Stakes – Palace Malice | Belmont Stakes – Palace Malice | ||
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UK Open final – Phil Taylor bt Andy Hamilton | UK Open final – Phil Taylor bt Andy Hamilton | ||
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| − | Denesh | + | Denesh Ramdin receives a two-match ban for claiming a dropped catch against Pakistan |
Mourinho calls himself ‘the happy one’ on return to Chelsea | Mourinho calls himself ‘the happy one’ on return to Chelsea | ||
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Jesus Navas moves from Sevilla to Man City | Jesus Navas moves from Sevilla to Man City | ||
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David Warner attacks Joe Root in a bar in Birmingham and is suspended until the first Ashes Test | David Warner attacks Joe Root in a bar in Birmingham and is suspended until the first Ashes Test | ||
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Sangakkara 134 against England in Champions Trophy. All matched played at The Oval, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston | Sangakkara 134 against England in Champions Trophy. All matched played at The Oval, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston | ||
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Owen Coyle appointed as manager of Wigan | Owen Coyle appointed as manager of Wigan | ||
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OBE – Clare Balding, Paul Lawrie, Christian Horner | OBE – Clare Balding, Paul Lawrie, Christian Horner | ||
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Aegon Classic (Birmingham) – Hantuchova | Aegon Classic (Birmingham) – Hantuchova | ||
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Alec Stewart placed in temporary charge of Surrey after Chris Adams and Ian Salisbury are sacked | Alec Stewart placed in temporary charge of Surrey after Chris Adams and Ian Salisbury are sacked | ||
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Football League reveals six fixtures early to mark 125th anniversary | Football League reveals six fixtures early to mark 125th anniversary | ||
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British fencer James Davis wins bronze in the individual foil at the European Championships in Zagreb | British fencer James Davis wins bronze in the individual foil at the European Championships in Zagreb | ||
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Abby Wambach breaks the international record for career goals, passing the 158 of fellow American Mia Hamm | Abby Wambach breaks the international record for career goals, passing the 158 of fellow American Mia Hamm | ||
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Bernard Hunt dies | Bernard Hunt dies | ||
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Veronica Campbell-Brown tests positive for a banned diuretic | Veronica Campbell-Brown tests positive for a banned diuretic | ||
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IRB Junior World Championship final – England U20 bt Wales U20 | IRB Junior World Championship final – England U20 bt Wales U20 | ||
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Anthony Bennett is the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. First number one pick to be born in Canada | Anthony Bennett is the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. First number one pick to be born in Canada | ||
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Sebastien Loeb will drive a Citroen in the World Touring Car Championship from 2014 | Sebastien Loeb will drive a Citroen in the World Touring Car Championship from 2014 | ||
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Rachel Yankey breaks Peter Shilton's all-time record of 125 England caps | Rachel Yankey breaks Peter Shilton's all-time record of 125 England caps | ||
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Semi-final – Spain bt Italy | Semi-final – Spain bt Italy | ||
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Mercedes reprimanded by FIA for illegally using a current car in a Pirelli tyre test | Mercedes reprimanded by FIA for illegally using a current car in a Pirelli tyre test | ||
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Greyhound Derby – Sidaz Jack | Greyhound Derby – Sidaz Jack | ||
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US Women’s Open – Inbee Park | US Women’s Open – Inbee Park | ||
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Fourth round – Lisicki bt Serena Williams, Kanepi bt Robson | Fourth round – Lisicki bt Serena Williams, Kanepi bt Robson | ||
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Olympic rower Mark Hunter retires | Olympic rower Mark Hunter retires | ||
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Man Utd name Ryan Giggs as player-coach and Phil Neville as first-team coach | Man Utd name Ryan Giggs as player-coach and Phil Neville as first-team coach | ||
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Daryl Impey becomes the first South African leader of Tour de France | Daryl Impey becomes the first South African leader of Tour de France | ||
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Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva, ending his streak of the longest title reign in UFC history | Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva, ending his streak of the longest title reign in UFC history | ||
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French Open – McDowell | French Open – McDowell | ||
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Ewan McKenzie replaces Robbie Deans as coach of Australia | Ewan McKenzie replaces Robbie Deans as coach of Australia | ||
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| − | A spectator throws | + | A spectator throws urine at Mark Cavendish |
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Mohamed Al-Fayed sells Fulham to Shahid Khan, the owner of Jacksonville Jaguars | Mohamed Al-Fayed sells Fulham to Shahid Khan, the owner of Jacksonville Jaguars | ||
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Man Utd beaten by Singha all Stars in Thailand in David Moyes’s first match in charge | Man Utd beaten by Singha all Stars in Thailand in David Moyes’s first match in charge | ||
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Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell fail drug tests | Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell fail drug tests | ||
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Todd Bennett dies | Todd Bennett dies | ||
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State of Origin – Queensland bt New South Wales | State of Origin – Queensland bt New South Wales | ||
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Sky Bet to sponsor the Football League | Sky Bet to sponsor the Football League | ||
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Bert Trautmann dies | Bert Trautmann dies | ||
| − | + | Football Association launches its 150-year anniversary celebrations | |
Negredo moves from Sevilla to Man City | Negredo moves from Sevilla to Man City | ||
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Speedway World Cup (Prague) – Poland | Speedway World Cup (Prague) – Poland | ||
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Grand Depart for 2014 Tour will be in Leeds | Grand Depart for 2014 Tour will be in Leeds | ||
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Former boxing world champion Emile Griffith dies. Born in US Virgin Islands | Former boxing world champion Emile Griffith dies. Born in US Virgin Islands | ||
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Copa Libertadores – Atletico Mineiro (Brazil) | Copa Libertadores – Atletico Mineiro (Brazil) | ||
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World Games start in Cali, Colombia | World Games start in Cali, Colombia | ||
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Skrill is the new title sponsor for the Football Conference Leagues | Skrill is the new title sponsor for the Football Conference Leagues | ||
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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Novellist | King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Novellist | ||
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BMX World Championships (Auckland) – Liam Phillips (GB) | BMX World Championships (Auckland) – Liam Phillips (GB) | ||
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Former Birmingham City player Christian Benitez (Ecuador) dies after a cardiac arrest | Former Birmingham City player Christian Benitez (Ecuador) dies after a cardiac arrest | ||
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High dive. Silver – Gary Hunt | High dive. Silver – Gary Hunt | ||
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Doncaster Rovers sign One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson as a non-contract player | Doncaster Rovers sign One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson as a non-contract player | ||
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Woods 61 in second round of WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | Woods 61 in second round of WGC-Bridgestone Invitational | ||
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England drawn to play Australia in Melbourne on the opening day of the 2015 Cricket World Cup | England drawn to play Australia in Melbourne on the opening day of the 2015 Cricket World Cup | ||
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Andy North named as America’s Ryder Cup vice-captain | Andy North named as America’s Ryder Cup vice-captain | ||
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Roberto Soldado moves from Valencia to Spurs | Roberto Soldado moves from Valencia to Spurs | ||
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Shaun Tait hat-trick for Essex against Notts in FLt20 | Shaun Tait hat-trick for Essex against Notts in FLt20 | ||
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Hull City AFC to be renamed Hull City Tigers | Hull City AFC to be renamed Hull City Tigers | ||
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10,000m – Farah | 10,000m – Farah | ||
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US PGA (Oak Hill, Rochester) – Dufner. 2<sup>nd</sup> Furyk 3<sup>rd</sup> Stenson | US PGA (Oak Hill, Rochester) – Dufner. 2<sup>nd</sup> Furyk 3<sup>rd</sup> Stenson | ||
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Lara Prior-Palmer becomes the first Briton, first female rider and the youngest person to win the world's longest horse race, the 1000km Mongol Derby | Lara Prior-Palmer becomes the first Briton, first female rider and the youngest person to win the world's longest horse race, the 1000km Mongol Derby | ||
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Fourth Test (Chester-le-Street) England 238 and 330 (Bell 113, Harris 7-117) Australia 270 (Rogers 110, Broad 5-71) and 224 (Broad 6-50). England won by 74 runs | Fourth Test (Chester-le-Street) England 238 and 330 (Bell 113, Harris 7-117) Australia 270 (Rogers 110, Broad 5-71) and 224 (Broad 6-50). England won by 74 runs | ||
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Metalist Kharkiv disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions due to previous match-fixing. UEFA replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK | Metalist Kharkiv disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions due to previous match-fixing. UEFA replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK | ||
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High jump – Bondarenko | High jump – Bondarenko | ||
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Maria Sharapova dumps coach Jimmy Connors after just one match | Maria Sharapova dumps coach Jimmy Connors after just one match | ||
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Arlington Million – Real Solution, after The Apache is disqualified | Arlington Million – Real Solution, after The Apache is disqualified | ||
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Darren Barker (GB) wins IBF world middleweight title | Darren Barker (GB) wins IBF world middleweight title | ||
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Scott Parker moves from Spurs to Fulham | Scott Parker moves from Spurs to Fulham | ||
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Hope Powell sacked as manager of the England women's football team after 15 years in charge | Hope Powell sacked as manager of the England women's football team after 15 years in charge | ||
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Debuts for Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan in Fifth Test | Debuts for Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan in Fifth Test | ||
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is indicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd | Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is indicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd | ||
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European individual dressage – Charlotte Dujardin | European individual dressage – Charlotte Dujardin | ||
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First season of Caribbean Premier League won by Jamaica Tallawahs | First season of Caribbean Premier League won by Jamaica Tallawahs | ||
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World’s Strongest Man – Brian Shaw (USA) | World’s Strongest Man – Brian Shaw (USA) | ||
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Malaysia to host inaugural EurAsia Cup in 2014 | Malaysia to host inaugural EurAsia Cup in 2014 | ||
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Birmingham City's Lee Novak is allowed to score an unopposed equalizer after Yeovil manager Gary Johnson decided Bryon Webster's goal had been ‘ungentlemanly’. Webster had chipped into an empty net after the Birmingham goalkeeper had kicked the ball out following an injury | Birmingham City's Lee Novak is allowed to score an unopposed equalizer after Yeovil manager Gary Johnson decided Bryon Webster's goal had been ‘ungentlemanly’. Webster had chipped into an empty net after the Birmingham goalkeeper had kicked the ball out following an injury | ||
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Ginger-beer maker Crabbie's is named new sponsor of the Grand National and race festival for three years | Ginger-beer maker Crabbie's is named new sponsor of the Grand National and race festival for three years | ||
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From the start of the Aviva Premiership Rugby season, the league will be part of a global trial of a new scrum engagement sequence, aimed at enhancing player welfare by reducing impact on engagement. Referees will now say: ‘Crouch, Bind, Set.’ | From the start of the Aviva Premiership Rugby season, the league will be part of a global trial of a new scrum engagement sequence, aimed at enhancing player welfare by reducing impact on engagement. Referees will now say: ‘Crouch, Bind, Set.’ | ||
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Josh Lewsey appointed as Welsh Rugby Union head of rugby | Josh Lewsey appointed as Welsh Rugby Union head of rugby | ||
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US Open third round – Robredo bt Dan Evans (who had beaten Nishikori and Tomic) | US Open third round – Robredo bt Dan Evans (who had beaten Nishikori and Tomic) | ||
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Men’s eights – GB | Men’s eights – GB | ||
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Fourth round – Robredo bt Federer | Fourth round – Robredo bt Federer | ||
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FA chairman Greg Dyke says the England team should aim to reach the semi-final of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022 | FA chairman Greg Dyke says the England team should aim to reach the semi-final of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022 | ||
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Salford City Reds are relaunched as Salford Red Devils | Salford City Reds are relaunched as Salford Red Devils | ||
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Ross Barkley (Everton) wins first England cap, against Moldova | Ross Barkley (Everton) wins first England cap, against Moldova | ||
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Women’s doubles final – Hlavackova and Hradecka bt Barty and Dellacqua | Women’s doubles final – Hlavackova and Hradecka bt Barty and Dellacqua | ||
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Aparecidense physio Romildo Fonseca da Silva, known as 'Lefty', runs on the pitch and saves two shots in a match in Brazil | Aparecidense physio Romildo Fonseca da Silva, known as 'Lefty', runs on the pitch and saves two shots in a match in Brazil | ||
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Antonio Cairoli wins Motocross World Championship for fifth successive year | Antonio Cairoli wins Motocross World Championship for fifth successive year | ||
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Former fencing gold medallist Thomas Bach from Germany is elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee | Former fencing gold medallist Thomas Bach from Germany is elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee | ||
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Baruto Kaito, the first Estonian sumo wrestler to win the makuuchi (top division) championship in history, announces his retirement | Baruto Kaito, the first Estonian sumo wrestler to win the makuuchi (top division) championship in history, announces his retirement | ||
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England drop to 17th in Fifa world rankings | England drop to 17th in Fifa world rankings | ||
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Salford City Stadium, home of Salford Red Devils and Sale Sharks, is to be renamed The AJ Bell Stadium as part of a new sponsorship deal | Salford City Stadium, home of Salford Red Devils and Sale Sharks, is to be renamed The AJ Bell Stadium as part of a new sponsorship deal | ||
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Jim Furyk shoots 59 to equal the record for the lowest 18-hole score in PGA Tour history in round two of the BMW Championship in Illinois | Jim Furyk shoots 59 to equal the record for the lowest 18-hole score in PGA Tour history in round two of the BMW Championship in Illinois | ||
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Debut for Chris Jordan in fifth ODI. Watson 143. Stokes 5-61. Australia win series 2-1 | Debut for Chris Jordan in fifth ODI. Watson 143. Stokes 5-61. Australia win series 2-1 | ||
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Women’s county championship – Sussex | Women’s county championship – Sussex | ||
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Sue Barker steps down as a presenter of Sports Personality of the Year | Sue Barker steps down as a presenter of Sports Personality of the Year | ||
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Super League play-off – Huddersfield 76 Hull 18 | Super League play-off – Huddersfield 76 Hull 18 | ||
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Alex Rodriguez hits his 24th career grand slam, the most by any player in Major League Baseball history, passing Lou Gehrig's 23 | Alex Rodriguez hits his 24th career grand slam, the most by any player in Major League Baseball history, passing Lou Gehrig's 23 | ||
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YB40 final – Notts bt Glamorgan. Notts captain – Chris Read | YB40 final – Notts bt Glamorgan. Notts captain – Chris Read | ||
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All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final – Dublin bt Mayo | All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final – Dublin bt Mayo | ||
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Sam Tomkins will leave Wigan at the end of the Super League season to join NRL side New Zealand Warriors for a world record fee | Sam Tomkins will leave Wigan at the end of the Super League season to join NRL side New Zealand Warriors for a world record fee | ||
| − | + | England Test squad for Australia: Cook, Root, Trott, Pietersen, Bell, Balance, Carberry, Bairstow, Stokes, Prior, Broad, Swann, Anderson, Panesar, Finn, Rankin, Tremlett | |
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Scottish League Cup – Morton bt Celtic | Scottish League Cup – Morton bt Celtic | ||
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America’s Cup (San Francisco) – Oracle Team USA bt Team New Zealand 9-8, after being 8-1 behind. Skipper – James Spithill. Tactician – Ben Ainslie. As holders Oracle chose 72ft catamarans with rigid wing sails | America’s Cup (San Francisco) – Oracle Team USA bt Team New Zealand 9-8, after being 8-1 behind. Skipper – James Spithill. Tactician – Ben Ainslie. As holders Oracle chose 72ft catamarans with rigid wing sails | ||
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18-year-old Surrey’s Dominic Sibley becomes the youngest ever player to score 200 in a Championship innings, and the second-youngest player after W.G. Grace to score a first-class hundred in England. Student at Whitgift School | 18-year-old Surrey’s Dominic Sibley becomes the youngest ever player to score 200 in a Championship innings, and the second-youngest player after W.G. Grace to score a first-class hundred in England. Student at Whitgift School | ||
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Tiger Woods is named as the PGA Tour's Player of the Year for a record 11th time | Tiger Woods is named as the PGA Tour's Player of the Year for a record 11th time | ||
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All-Ireland Hurling Final replay – Clare bt Cork | All-Ireland Hurling Final replay – Clare bt Cork | ||
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Championship Grand Final – Sheffield Eagles bt Batley Bulldogs | Championship Grand Final – Sheffield Eagles bt Batley Bulldogs | ||
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Man of Steel – Danny Brough | Man of Steel – Danny Brough | ||
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England name three Burgess brothers in squad for rugby league World Cup | England name three Burgess brothers in squad for rugby league World Cup | ||
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Ryan Giggs makes 145th appearance in Champions League, breaking Raul’s record | Ryan Giggs makes 145th appearance in Champions League, breaking Raul’s record | ||
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Young Player of the Year – Ben Stokes | Young Player of the Year – Ben Stokes | ||
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2014 X-Games in Tignes will not happen as ESPN announce that they are scaling back the X-Games franchise and concentrating on events in the USA | 2014 X-Games in Tignes will not happen as ESPN announce that they are scaling back the X-Games franchise and concentrating on events in the USA | ||
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Speedway Grand Prix (world championship) – Tai Woffinden | Speedway Grand Prix (world championship) – Tai Woffinden | ||
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NRL Grand Final – Sydney Roosters bt Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | NRL Grand Final – Sydney Roosters bt Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | ||
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Bill Sweeney named as the British Olympic Association's new chief executive officer, replacing Andy Hunt who stepped down in February | Bill Sweeney named as the British Olympic Association's new chief executive officer, replacing Andy Hunt who stepped down in February | ||
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Gus Poyet appointed as manager of Sunderland | Gus Poyet appointed as manager of Sunderland | ||
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Hot Spot dropped for Ashes series | Hot Spot dropped for Ashes series | ||
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WNBA finals –Minnesota Lynx bt Atlanta Dream | WNBA finals –Minnesota Lynx bt Atlanta Dream | ||
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Andros Townsend scores on England debut, against Montenegro | Andros Townsend scores on England debut, against Montenegro | ||
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Timothy Bradley retains his WBO welterweight title with a victory over Juan Manuel Marquez | Timothy Bradley retains his WBO welterweight title with a victory over Juan Manuel Marquez | ||
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Winmau World Masters – Stephen Bunting | Winmau World Masters – Stephen Bunting | ||
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Elite League final – Poole Pirates bt Birmingham Brummies | Elite League final – Poole Pirates bt Birmingham Brummies | ||
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Paul Downton appointed as ECB managing director | Paul Downton appointed as ECB managing director | ||
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Roy Hodgson forced to apologize for ‘feed the monkey’ joke which was allegedly racist against Andros Townsend | Roy Hodgson forced to apologize for ‘feed the monkey’ joke which was allegedly racist against Andros Townsend | ||
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Germany finish top of the medal table | Germany finish top of the medal table | ||
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Italy bt England in Rugby League World Cup warm-up match | Italy bt England in Rugby League World Cup warm-up match | ||
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World Seniors Championship – Steve Davis | World Seniors Championship – Steve Davis | ||
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Middleweight. Bronze – Anthony Fowler (England) | Middleweight. Bronze – Anthony Fowler (England) | ||
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Ian Holloway leaves as manager of Crystal Palace | Ian Holloway leaves as manager of Crystal Palace | ||
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South Africa penalized five runs for ball tampering during the second Test against Pakistan | South Africa penalized five runs for ball tampering during the second Test against Pakistan | ||
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Suarez hat-trick against WBA | Suarez hat-trick against WBA | ||
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BMW Masters (Shanghai) – Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano | BMW Masters (Shanghai) – Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano | ||
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World Billiards Championship – David Causier (points), Peter Gilchrist (timed) | World Billiards Championship – David Causier (points), Peter Gilchrist (timed) | ||
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Ross Brawn to leave Mercedes | Ross Brawn to leave Mercedes | ||
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Rohit Sharma becomes only the third man to score a double century in one-day international cricket, smashing 209 from 158 balls for India against Australia. His 16 sixes breaks Shane Watson's previous ODI record of 15 | Rohit Sharma becomes only the third man to score a double century in one-day international cricket, smashing 209 from 158 balls for India against Australia. His 16 sixes breaks Shane Watson's previous ODI record of 15 | ||
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Ding Junhui secures his third ranking title in a row with victory in the final of the International Championship in Chengdu | Ding Junhui secures his third ranking title in a row with victory in the final of the International Championship in Chengdu | ||
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Billingham Town play with the minimum-allowed number (seven) in order to avoid a fine for forfeiting the match against Stockton Town in the Durham Challenge Cup but lose 14-0 | Billingham Town play with the minimum-allowed number (seven) in order to avoid a fine for forfeiting the match against Stockton Town in the Durham Challenge Cup but lose 14-0 | ||
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Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane appointed as the Republic of Ireland coaching team | Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane appointed as the Republic of Ireland coaching team | ||
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Royal London to sponsor 50-over county cricket competition next year | Royal London to sponsor 50-over county cricket competition next year | ||
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Under-17 World Cup final (Abu Dhabi) – Nigeria bt Mexico | Under-17 World Cup final (Abu Dhabi) – Nigeria bt Mexico | ||
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Top scorer and MVP – Muriqui (Guangzhou Evergrande, born in Brazil) | Top scorer and MVP – Muriqui (Guangzhou Evergrande, born in Brazil) | ||
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CAF Champions League – Al-Ahly (Egypt) | CAF Champions League – Al-Ahly (Egypt) | ||
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Massa to replace Maldonado at Williams next year | Massa to replace Maldonado at Williams next year | ||
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Cartier racehorse of the year – Treve | Cartier racehorse of the year – Treve | ||
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Kevin Magnussen will replace Perez at McLaren next year | Kevin Magnussen will replace Perez at McLaren next year | ||
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Heiki Kovalainen will replace Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus for the final two races of the season after Michael Schumacher turned down the opportunity | Heiki Kovalainen will replace Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus for the final two races of the season after Michael Schumacher turned down the opportunity | ||
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Raimondo D'Inzeo dies | Raimondo D'Inzeo dies | ||
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Paddy Power Gold Cup – Johns Spirit | Paddy Power Gold Cup – Johns Spirit | ||
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Jimmie Johnson wins his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup championship title | Jimmie Johnson wins his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup championship title | ||
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Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award – Peter Uihlein (USA) | Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award – Peter Uihlein (USA) | ||
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England 0 Germany 1 (Mertesacker). First time since 1977 that England have lost two consecutive home games (against Wales and Scotland) | England 0 Germany 1 (Mertesacker). First time since 1977 that England have lost two consecutive home games (against Wales and Scotland) | ||
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Demolition of Don Valley Stadium starts | Demolition of Don Valley Stadium starts | ||
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Richard Hannon to retire at the end of the year | Richard Hannon to retire at the end of the year | ||
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Scott Quigg retains his WBA super-bantamweight title | Scott Quigg retains his WBA super-bantamweight title | ||
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Japan Cup – Gentildonna | Japan Cup – Gentildonna | ||
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Michael Clarke is fined 20% of his match fee for warning England's James Anderson to ‘expect a broken arm’ | Michael Clarke is fined 20% of his match fee for warning England's James Anderson to ‘expect a broken arm’ | ||
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T20 competition to be called NatWest T20 Blast next year | T20 competition to be called NatWest T20 Blast next year | ||
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FA criticized for failing to act after £1 million was staked on Asian betting exchanges on Conference match between Billericay Town and Welling | FA criticized for failing to act after £1 million was staked on Asian betting exchanges on Conference match between Billericay Town and Welling | ||
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Women's team – Sweden | Women's team – Sweden | ||
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Assem Allam, the Egyptian-born businessman and owner of Hull City, tells the club's fans, whom he refers to as hooligans, that they can "die as soon as they want" following protests against his plans to rename the club Hull Tigers | Assem Allam, the Egyptian-born businessman and owner of Hull City, tells the club's fans, whom he refers to as hooligans, that they can "die as soon as they want" following protests against his plans to rename the club Hull Tigers | ||
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BBC African Footballer of the Year – Yaya Toure | BBC African Footballer of the Year – Yaya Toure | ||
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PGA Tour Player of the Year – Woods. Rookie of the year – Jordan Spieth (USA) | PGA Tour Player of the Year – Woods. Rookie of the year – Jordan Spieth (USA) | ||
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McDonald Bailey dies. Born in Trinidad. Won bronze medal in 100m for GB at 1952 Olympic Games | McDonald Bailey dies. Born in Trinidad. Won bronze medal in 100m for GB at 1952 Olympic Games | ||
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Young Sportswoman of the Year – Becky James | Young Sportswoman of the Year – Becky James | ||
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Bristol Academy boss Mark Sampson is appointed as the new head coach of the England women's team | Bristol Academy boss Mark Sampson is appointed as the new head coach of the England women's team | ||
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MLS Cup final – Sporting Kansas City bt Real Salt Lake | MLS Cup final – Sporting Kansas City bt Real Salt Lake | ||
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Matt Prater (Denver Broncos) sets NFL record with 64-yard field goal | Matt Prater (Denver Broncos) sets NFL record with 64-yard field goal | ||
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Ex-Portsmouth player Sam Sodje is secretly filmed by the Sun on Sunday describing how he punched an opponent in a League One game to get a red card in exchange for £70,000 | Ex-Portsmouth player Sam Sodje is secretly filmed by the Sun on Sunday describing how he punched an opponent in a League One game to get a red card in exchange for £70,000 | ||
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International Tennis Federation World Champions – Djokovic and Serena Williams | International Tennis Federation World Champions – Djokovic and Serena Williams | ||
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Adrian Sutil to drive for Sauber next year | Adrian Sutil to drive for Sauber next year | ||
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Man City 6 Arsenal 3 | Man City 6 Arsenal 3 | ||
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Unsung heroes – Joe and Maggie Forber (basketball coaches) | Unsung heroes – Joe and Maggie Forber (basketball coaches) | ||
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George Bailey equals the world record for the most runs scored off a Test over, scoring 28 off James Anderson | George Bailey equals the world record for the most runs scored off a Test over, scoring 28 off James Anderson | ||
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FIFA Club World Cup semi-final –Raja Casablanca bt Atletico Mineiro | FIFA Club World Cup semi-final –Raja Casablanca bt Atletico Mineiro | ||
| − | + | Giuseppe Sannino replaces Zola as manager of Watford | |
Djokovic appoints Becker as head coach | Djokovic appoints Becker as head coach | ||
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PDC World Championship second round – Michael Smith bt Taylor | PDC World Championship second round – Michael Smith bt Taylor | ||
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FIFA Club World Cup Final (Marrakesh) – Bayern Munich bt Raja Casablanca | FIFA Club World Cup Final (Marrakesh) – Bayern Munich bt Raja Casablanca | ||
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Laura Renwick is crowned the leading rider at the London International Horse Show at Olympia. Ben Maher wins grand prix finale | Laura Renwick is crowned the leading rider at the London International Horse Show at Olympia. Ben Maher wins grand prix finale | ||
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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning breaks the NFL record for touchdown passes in a season | Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning breaks the NFL record for touchdown passes in a season | ||
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Ron Noades dies | Ron Noades dies | ||
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King George VI Chase – Silviniaco Conti | King George VI Chase – Silviniaco Conti | ||
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Stefan Edberg joins Roger Federer's coaching team | Stefan Edberg joins Roger Federer's coaching team | ||
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Cook becomes youngest batsman to reach 8000 Test runs | Cook becomes youngest batsman to reach 8000 Test runs | ||
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Anelka celebrates goal for WBA with quenelle gesture (inverted Nazi salute) | Anelka celebrates goal for WBA with quenelle gesture (inverted Nazi salute) | ||
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Jacques Kallis retires. Scored 13,289 Test runs. Scored his 45th Test hundred in his final match, against India | Jacques Kallis retires. Scored 13,289 Test runs. Scored his 45th Test hundred in his final match, against India | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 24 July 2021
January
Jan 1
Antwerp is the European Capital of Sport 2013 (Cardiff in 2014)
Christopher Martin-Jenkins dies
PDC final – Taylor bt van Gerwen to win his 16th title
Jan 2
New Zealand bowled out 45 by South Africa (Philander 5-7)
Kallis – 13,000 Test runs
Daniel Sturridge moves from Chelsea to Liverpool
Jan 4
Demba Ba moves from Newcastle to Chelsea
Kevin-Prince Boateng (AC Milan) walks off pitch due to racist chants, causing match against Pro Patria to be abandoned
Jan 5
Welsh Grand National – Monbeg Dude (Paul Carberry)
FA Cup third round – Macclesfield bt Cardiff, Luton bt Wolves
Defending champion Christian Kist is knocked out of the BDO World Darts Championships in the opening round by Robbie Green
Hopman Cup final – Spain (Verdasco and Medina Garrigues) bt Serbia (Djokovic and Ivanovic)
Jan 6
First round – Jimmy Hendricks (Netherlands) bt Martin Adams
Four Hills Tournament – Gregor Schlierenzauer (Austria). Anders Jacobsen (Norway) wins two of the four events
Jan 7
Doncaster manager Dean Saunders replaces Stale Solbakken at Wolves
Ballon d’Or – Messi wins for the fourth time
Coach of the Year – Vicente del Bosque
Women's Player of the Year – Abby Wambach
Puskas Award for best goal – Miroslav Stoch
Jan 8
Fifa team of the year has five Barcelona players, five Real Madrid players, and Falcao (Atletico Madrid)
Jan 9
A record of 70 points for the longest tie-break in professional tennis is set at a Futures event in Florida when Monaco's Benjamin Balleret beat compatriot Guillaume Couillard 36-34. The record may not be official because of the lack of a chair umpire
Jan 11
Blackpool manager Michael Appleton moves to Blackburn Rovers
Jan 12
Jon Walters of Stoke scores two own goals for Chelsea
Owen Farrell kicks 10 penalties for Saracens against Racing Metro
BDO women’s final – Dobromyslova bt Lisa Ashton
Bobby George’s son, Richie, beaten by Scott Waites in semi-finals
Colin Kaepernick (San Francisco 49ers) sets an NFL single-game record for most rushing yards by a quarterback
Jan 13
BBL Cup final –Leicester Riders bt Newcastle Eagles
BDO final – Scott Waites bt Tony O’Shea 7-1
James Woods wins his second successive ski slopestyle World Cup event
Jan 14
Sean O’Driscoll replaces Derek McInnes as manager of Bristol City
Rory McIlroy unveiled as Nike's new brand ambassador
Sarah Taylor reveals she could play for Sussex men's second XI if required
Jan 15
Gordon Strachan appointed as manager of Scotland
Paul McGinley is named as Europe's captain for the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles
Judd Trump wears £845 Christian Louboutin Rollerboy Spikes at Masters
Jan 16
Bayern Munich announce that Pep Guardiola will become their coach this summer when Jupp Heynckes retires
Frank Rijkaard sacked as coach of Saudi Arabia
LeBron James becomes the youngest player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points
Gussie Moran dies
Uefa team of the year has four Barcelona players, four Real Madrid players, Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), and Andrea Pirlo (Juventus)
Jan 17
New York Knicks bt Detroit Pistons at O2 Arena
Australian Open second round – Robson bt Kvitova
Lance Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal won in 2000
Jan 18
Nigel Adkins sacked by Southampton and replaced by Mauricio Pochettino
Gulf Cup of Nations final – UAE bt Iraq
Jan 19
Michael Owen scores 150th goal in Premier League, for Stoke
Australian Big Bash Twenty20 final – Brisbane Heat bt Perth Scorchers. Man of the tournament – Aaron Finch
Dakar Rally (Lima to Santiago) – Stephane Peterhansel wins in a Mini Countryman, his fifth win in cars category, eleventh win overall. Motorbikes – Cyril Despres wins for the fifth time
A shortened 48-game 2012–13 NHL season begins after the end of the 119-day lockout
Jan 20
Masters final – Selby bt Robertson. Sponsored by Betfair
Short-track speed skater Elise Christie wins her second title at the European Championships in Malmo
Fourth round – Djokovic bt Wawrinka 12-10 in final set
Abu Dhabi Championship – Jamie Donaldson
Leinster, Toulouse and Biarritz drop into the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-finals, as the best runners-up in the Heineken Cup pools
Jan 21
Johan Clarey of France sets a World Cup speed record of 100.6mph in the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen
Sacramento Kings planning to relocate to Seattle
Jan 22
Capitol One Cup semi-final – Bradford City bt Aston Villa
Jan 23
Quarter-final – Sloane Stephens bt Serena Williams
Capitol One Cup semi-final – Swansea bt Chelsea. Hazard sent off for kicking ball boy Charlie Morgan
England's netball team claim a first series win against world number one side Australia
Jan 24
World Indoor Championship final – Rebecca Field (aged 22) bt Alison Merrien
Semi-finals – Azarenka bt Stephens, Li Na bt Sharapova
Semi-final – Djokovic bt Ferrer
Jan 25
Women’s doubles final – Errani and Vinci bt Barty and Dellacqua
Semi-final – Murray bt Federer
Wilfred Zaha moves from Crystal Palace to Man Utd
Uefa announces details of Euro 2020: it is to be held in 13 cities across Europe
Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell sign for Wiggle Honda
Sports journalist Frank Keating dies
Jan 26
Women’s final interrupted by fireworks for Australia Day
Final – Azarenka bt Li Na
Men’s doubles final – Bryan and Bryan bt Haase and Sijsling
Victor Chandler Chase – Sprinter Sacre
FA Cup fourth round – Norwich 0 Luton 1 (Scott Rendell). First non-league team to beat top-flight opponents in the FA Cup since Sutton United beat Coventry City in 1989
Qatar Masters – Chris Wood. First European Tour title
Togo vs Algeria delayed for 15 minutes after a player knocks the Algerian goal down by running into the back of the net
Jan 27
Final – Djokovic bt Murray
Mixed doubles final –Ebden and Gajdosova (Australia) bt Cermak and Hradecka
Olympic silver medal-winning cox and double Boat Race winner Acer Nethercott dies
Casey Stoner moves from MotoGP to V8 Supercars in a deal with Red Bull
Scottish League Cup semi-final – St Mirren bt Celtic
FA Cup – Leeds bt Spurs, Oldham bt Liverpool
Bell 113 in final ODI. India win series 3-2
Allianz Park hosts its first ever Saracens match, against the Cardiff Blues. First artificial pitch in English rugby union
World Indoor Bowls Championship final – Stewart Anderson (Scotland) bt Paul Foster (Scotland)
World Men's Handball Championship final – Spain bt Denmark
James Woods wins bronze medal in slopestyle at Winter X Games in Aspen
The Rock ends CM Punk’s reign of 434 days as WWE Champion
Jan 28
Didier Drogba moves to Galatasaray
Jan 30
Alex Thomson finishes third in Vendee Globe
Philippe Coutinho moves from Inter Milan to Liverpool
Final group tables –
Group A – South Africa, Cape Verde, Morocco, Angola
Group B – Ghana, Mali, DR Congo, Niger
Group C – Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Zambia, Ethiopia
Group B – Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia, Algeria
Lionel Messi's streak of scoring in 16 straight matches ends
Jan 31
Beckham signs a five-month deal with Paris St-Germain and will donate his salary to a local children’s charity
Balotelli moves to AC Milan for £19 million
Christopher Samba moves from Anzhi Makhachkala to QPR
Jack Butland moves from Birmingham to Stoke
Danny Graham moves from Swansea to Sunderland
American professional snowmobile racer Caleb Moore becomes the first person to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games
February
Feb 1
Sri Lanka hit a six off the last ball to beat England by one wicket at the Women's World Cup
Shelley Rudman becomes the first British woman to win skeleton gold in the world championships in St Moritz
Feb 2
Hartley and Poole score for Hartlepool against Notts County
Six Nations captains – Chris Robshaw, Sam Warburton, Jamie Heaslip, Kelly Brown, Pascal Pape, Sergio Parisse
Six Nations coaches – Stuart Lancaster, Rob Howley, Declan Kidney, Scott Johnson, Philippe Saint-Andre, Jacques Brunel
Billy Twelvetrees scores try on debut for England against Scotland
Berdych and Rosol (Czech Republic) bt Wawrinka and Chiudinelli (Switzerland) in longest Davis Cup match in history, 7 hours 2 minutes. Final set 24-22
Mario Balotelli scores twice in the 2–1 win over Udinese on his AC Milan debut
West Brom's Goran Popov is sent off for spitting at Kyle Walker
World Bandy Championships – Russia
Feb 3
Dubai Desert Classic – Stephen Gallagher
Super Bowl XLVII (Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans) – Baltimore Ravens bt San Francisco 49ers. MVP – Joe Flacco. Coach – John Harbaugh
Jacoby Jones scores two touchdowns, including a 108-yard kick-off return
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis ends his 17-year career with a second Super Bowl win
Michael Oher, subject of the film ‘The Blind Side’, plays for Ravens
49ers coached by Jim Harbaugh, younger brother of John
Half-time entertainment – Beyonce and Destiny’s Child, followed by a 34 minute power cut
Super Bowl XLVIII will be held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
World Cup of Darts final (Hamburg) – England (Taylor and Lewis) bt Belgium (Kim Huybrechts and Ronny Huybrechts)
Feb 4
Leading Cheltenham Champion Hurdle fancy Darlan suffers a fatal fall
German Masters final – Carter bt Fu
Pakistan 49 (Steyn 6-8) vs South Africa. AB de Villiers' 11 dismissals equals the Test record set by Jack Russell at the same Wanderers ground in Johannesburg in 1995. Graeme Smith becomes the first cricketer to captain in 100 Tests
Liverpool’s 2009 Champions League tie against Debrecen is alleged to be one of 380 European games under suspicion of match-fixing
Feb 5
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships start in Schladming, Austria
Women’s Super-G – Tina Maze
ECB announces that Yorkshire Bank will become the new title sponsor of the domestic 40-over competition: the Yorkshire Bank 40
Feb 6
Men’s Super-G – Ted Ligety
England 2 (Rooney, Lampard) Brazil 1 (Fred). Ronaldihno misses a penalty. Ashley Cole wins his100th cap. England’s first win against Brazil since 1990
Scotland bt Estonia in Strachan’s first match as manager
Mike Golding becomes the first sailor to complete three Vendee Globe races
Feb 8
Women’s Super Combined – Maria Hofl-Riesch
Feb 9
Ireland Women bt England Women in rugby union – first defeat in 17 games
Men’s downhill – Svindal
Hennessy Cognac Irish Gold Cup – Sir Des Champs
Third place play-off – Mali bt Ghana
England hit 15 sixes in Twenty20 match against New Zealand
Feb 10
Women’s downhill – Marion Rolland (France)
Final (Johannesburg) – Nigeria 1 (Sunday Mba) Burkina Faso 0
Player of the Tournament – Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso)
Top scorer – Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria)
Fed Cup – GB bt Bulgaria and qualify for World Group II play-off match against Argentina in April
Feb 11
Men’s Super Combined – Ted Ligety
Feb 12
Team Event – Austria
Wrestling dropped from 2020 Olympic Games. It will now compete with seven other sports – baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports – for a place in the 2020 Games
Feb 14
Women’s Giant Slalom – Tessa Worley (France)
Pankaj Advani becomes the first Indian player to reach the quarter-finals of a world-ranking snooker event, at Welsh Open
Feb 15
Men’s Giant Slalom – Ted Ligety
NG Dragons 3 Glasgow Warriors 60
Serena Williams becomes the oldest world number one, aged 31
Hales and Lumb put on 143 for first wicket in third T20 international against New Zealand. England win series 2-1
Third-place play-off – England bt New Zealand. Charlotte Edwards 106, becomes the first woman to pass 5000 runs in one-day internationals
Feb 16
Women’s Slalom – Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)
Tour of Oman – Chris Froome
FA Cup – Blackburn bt Arsenal
Mo Farah wins 3000m at British Grand Prix in Birmingham. There are also wins for Holly Bleasdale, Shara Proctor, Michael Rimmer, Helen Clitheroe and Nigel Levine
Mo Farah to run half the distance at this year’s London Marathon for £250,000 and the full distance next year
Feb 17
Men’s Slalom – Marcel Hirscher
USA wins most gold medals (4)
Austria wins most medals (8)
Anderson surpasses Botham's record (528 wickets) as England's leading international wicket-taker
Welsh Open final – Maguire bt Bingham
Women’s World Cup final (Mumbai) – Australia bt West Indies. Sixth win for Australia
Feb 18
Paul Ince appointed as manager of Blackpool
Andy Robinson appointed as director of rugby at Bristol
Feb 19
Goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup
Feb 20
World Track Cycling Championships start in Minsk
Former Portsmouth players Boeteng and Muntari score for AC Milan against Barcelona in Champions League
Lindy Ruff, the active longest tenured coach in the National Hockey League, is fired by Buffalo Sabres after serving as the team's head coach for 15 seasons
Feb 21
Women’s team pursuit – GB (Trott, King, Elinor Barker)
Scratch race – Martyn Irvine (Ireland)
Play in WGC in Arizona halted by snow
2014 Giro d’Italia will start in Belfast
Feb 22
Keirin – Jason Kenny
Points race – Simon Yates
World Club Challenge – Melbourne Storm bt Leeds Rhinos. Man of the match – Cooper Cronk (Melbourne)
Chicago Blackhawks set a new NHL record for earning points in the first 17 consecutive games of a season
Jamie Carragher becomes the first Englishman to make 150 European appearances
Feb 23
England win ODI series against New Zealand for first time in 19 years
Tualagi scores only try for England against France
Sprint – Becky James
Football Association ambassador Paul Elliott resigns from all roles representing the organization following reports of a racism row
Feb 24
Capitol One Cup final – Swansea 5 Bradford City 0. Man of the match – Nathan Dyer. Bradford goalkeeper Matt Duke sent off
WGC Matchplay final – Kuchar bt Mahan
Third-place play-off – Day bt Poulter
Danica Patrick secures the best ever finish for a woman in the Daytona 500 by finishing eighth, after becoming the first woman to secure pole position
Kierin – Becky James
New Orleans half-marathon – Farah
Feb 26
Audley Harrison becomes the first two-time Prizefighter champion
Feb 27
Mario Balotelli commissions a life-size bronze statue of himself which he plans to display in his home in Brescia
Feb 28
Lancashire's Old Trafford home is renamed as part of a 10-year partnership with airline firm Emirates. It will now be known as ‘Emirates Old Trafford’
March
Mar 1
European Indoor Athletics Championships start in Gothenburg
Rory McIlroy quits Honda Classic mid-round complaining of toothache
Mar 2
Women’s pole vault – Holly Bleasdale
60m. Silver – James Dasaolu
Don Valley Stadium to close
Shinji Kagawa becomes first Asian player to score hat-trick in Premier League, for Man Utd against Norwich
Suarez hat-trick for Liverpool against Wigan
Tim Howard's run of 210 consecutive Premier League games ends
Mar 3
Women’s 400m – Perri Shakes-Drayton. Silver – Eilidh Child
400m. Silver – Nigel Levine
800m. Bronze – Muktar Mohammed
4x400m relay – GB (Michael Bingham, Richard Buck, Nigel Levine, Richard Strachan)
Women’s 4x400m relay – GB (Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine Ohuruogu, Perri Shakes-Drayton)
World Open final – Allen bt Stevens
Norway's Marit Bjorgen wins five medals in FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Italy
Martin Fourcade (France) retains Biathlon World Cup
Lauren Silberman becomes the first woman to try out for the National Football League, but her attempt to make a team ends after two kicks with an injury
Mar 5
Real Madrid bt Man Utd. Winning goal scored by Ronaldo. Nani sent off. Giggs’s 1000th competitive match
Mar 6
Nick Dempsey becomes the first man to win two windsurfing World Championship titles
Lionel Messi gold foot worth £3.5 million unveiled in Tokyo
Juventus bt Celtic
Yorkshire will be known as the Vikings in one-day cricket this season
Mar 8
Ex-London Welsh team manager Mike Scott banned for life from rugby union for falsifying documents to make it appear that New Zealander Tyson Keats was English
Mar 9
Peterborough 0 Ipswich 0. Peterborough's last goalless draw came against the same opponents in December 2009. They have since played 156 league games (171 in all competitions) without a 0-0 result
Stirling Albion 9 East Stirling 1
Lionel Messi scores in his 17th successive La Liga game, breaking a world record which has stood since the 1930s
Panamanian pitcher Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, MLB's all-time saves leader, announces he will retire at the end of the 2013 Major League Baseball season
48-year-old Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to win IBF Light Heavyweight title
Saracens prop Mako Vunipola makes England debut against Italy
Halfpenny kicks seven penalties against Scotland
Ireland draw with France
Tevez hat-trick against Barnsley
BBL Trophy final – Sheffield Sharks bt Leicester Riders
Mar 10
First Test (Dunedin) England 167 and 421-6 (Cook 116, Compton 117) New Zealand 460-9 (Hamish Rutherford 171 on Test debut)
Finn bats for 4 ¾ hours, the second longest innings by an England nightwatchman
WGC-Cadillac Championship – Woods
Tina Baun (Denmark) wins women’s singles at All England Open Badminton Championships for a third time
Ryman Premier League match between Wingate & Finchley and Thurrock is abandoned as Wingate & Finchley have five players sent off
Mar 11
Brian McDermott sacked by Reading
Laureus Sports Awards (Rio de Janeiro) –
World Sportsman of the Year: Usain Bolt
World Sportswoman of the Year: Jessica Ennis
World Team of the Year: Europe Ryder Cup
World Breakthrough of the Year: Andy Murray
World Comeback of the Year: Felix Sanchez
Lifetime Achievement Award: Sebastian Coe
Action Sportsperson of the Year: Felix Baumgartner
World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability: Daniel Dias (Brazilian swimmer)
Exceptional Achievement Award: Michael Phelps
Mar 12
Champion Hurdle – Hurricane Fly (Ruby Walsh), trained by Willie Mullins
Hurricane Fly becomes only the second horse after Comedy of Errors in 1975 to regain the Champion Hurdle
Arkle Trophy – Simonsig
Quevega wins the Mares' Hurdle for a fifth successive time. The last horse to win the same race in five successive years was Golden Miller
Mar 13
Champion Chase – Sprinter Sacre (Barry Geraghty), trained by Nicky Henderson
Bayern Munich bt Arsenal
Cyprus Cup final (women’s football) – England bt Canada
Toby Flood kicks six penalties against Italy
Mar 14
World Hurdle – Solwhit (Paul Carberry), trained by Charles Byrnes
National Hockey League officially announces it will realign into a four-division structure and a modified division-based playoff system starting next season
Mar 15
Gold Cup – Bob’s Worth (Barry Geraghty), trained by Nicky Henderson. 2nd Sir Des Champs, 3rd Long Run
Nicky Henderson's 50th Festival winner
Leading jockey – Ruby Walsh
Leading trainer – Willie Mullins
Conor Murphy, a stable lad at Nicky Henderson’s yard, wins £1 million on an accumulator bet based on five of the yard’s winners
Mar 16
Shikhar Dhawan makes the fastest debut hundred in Test history (85 balls) for India against Australia
Italy beat Ireland for first time in Six Nations
Wales 30 England 3. Alex Cuthbert scores two tries
Six Nations final table – Wales, England, Scotland, Italy, Ireland, France
Leading try scorer – Alex Cuthbert (4 tries)
Leading points scorer – Leigh Halfpenny (74 points)
Mar 17
Formula 1 teams –
Red Bull – Vettel, Webber
Ferrari – Alonso, Massa
McLaren – Button, Perez
Lotus – Grosjean, Raikkonen
Mercedes – Hamilton, Rosberg
Sauber – Hulkenberg, Esteban Gutierrez (Mexico)
Force India – Di Resta, Sutil
Williams – Maldonado, Valtteri Bottas (Finland)
Toro Rosso – Ricciardo, Jean-Eric Vergne
Caterham – Pic, Giedo van der Garde (Netherlands)
Marussia – Jules Bianchi (France), Max Chilton (UK)
Tyre compounds – hard (orange), medium (white), soft (yellow), super-soft (red), intermediate (green), full wet (blue)
Harder tyres are ‘prime’ – they give the least grip but are the most durable
Final year that Formula 1 uses the current 2.4 litre V8 engine configuration; a 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 engine formula is to come into force for 2014
Australian GP – Raikkonen, Alonso, Vettel
LV= Cup Final – Harlequins bt Sale
Lampard scores 200th goal for Chelsea
Scottish League Cup final – St Mirren bt Hearts
Ireland Women win Grand Slam. Scotland Women scored 3 points and conceded 203
Players Tour final (Galway) – Ding Junhui bt Robertson
Skiing World Cup –
Men’s overall – Marcel Hirscher. Downhill – Svindal
Women’s overall – Tina Maze. Downhill – Vonn
World Figure Skating Championships (London, Ontario). Men’s – Patrick Chan (Canada), Women’s – Kim Yu-Na (South Korea)
Greek football player Giorgos Katidis is banned from the national team for life after giving a Nazi style salute
Mar 18
Second Test (Wellington) England 465 (Compton 100, Trott 121) New Zealand 254 (Broad 6-51) and 162-2
Mar 19
Michael Appleton sacked by Blackburn
World Baseball Classic – Dominican Republic
Mar 20
Winter X Games start in Tignes
Championship League Snooker final – Gould bt Carter
Mar 21
Martin Dwyer banned for two months by Indian racing authorities
Pietro Mennea dies
Greg Dyke to replace David Bernstein as FA chairman
Martin Brodeur of New Jersey Devils becomes the first NHL goaltender to score three goals
Mar 22
West Ham will be anchor tenants for the Olympic Stadium
Six Nations player of the championship – Leigh Halfpenny
San Marino 0 England 8. Defoe is only player to score two goals. Match played in Stadio Olimpico in Serravalle
In the CONCACAF, USA bt Costa Rica in near-blizzard conditions at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado
Mar 23
Caerphilly Castle Ladies resigns from Women’s Welsh Premier League after scoring one goal and conceding 219 in ten matches
Michael Owen to retire at end of season
Plan for a ‘Dream Football League’ in Qatar is a hoax
Mar 24
Malaysian GP – Vettel, Webber, Hamilton
Hong Kong Sevens final – Fiji bt Wales
World Women's Curling Championship final (Latvia) – Scotland bt Sweden. Skip – Eve Muirhead
FA Trophy final – Wrexham bt Grimsby
Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Gregor Schlierenzauer (Austria)
Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Sara Takanashi (Japan)
Football League Player of the Year –Matej Vydra (Watford)
League One award – Matt Ritchie (Bournemouth)
League Two award – Tom Pope (Port Vale)
Outstanding managerial achievement – Phil Parkinson
World Cross Country Championships (Poland). Men’s – Japhet Korir (Kenya). Women’s – Emily Kebet (Kenya)
Mar 25
Tiger Woods returns to the top of the world rankings after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational
Third Test (Auckland) New Zealand 443 (Fulton 136, Finn 6-125) and 241-6 (Fulton 110) England 204 (Boult 6-68) and 315-9 (Prior 110)
Stuart Broad sets a new Test record for the longest time at the crease without scoring, needing 103 minutes to get off the mark
Elite League champions – Nottingham Panthers
Mar 26
Nigel Adkins appointed as manager of Reading
Peter Siddle becomes the first batsman in a Test to make two fifties batting at number nine
Mar 27
Frank Williams’s daughter Claire lined up as his long-term successor
Mar 28
All-weather jockeys’ championship – Adam Kirby
Jesse Ryder is in a critical condition in hospital, after being severely beaten as he left a bar in Christchurch
Mar 30
JT McNamara is paralyzed by injuries sustained in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival
Lincoln Handicap – Levitate
Dubai World Cup – Animal Kingdom
Messi scores in 19th successive league game
Mar 31
China Open final – Robertson bt Selby
Paolo di Canio replaces Martin O’Neill as manager of Sunderland
159th Boat Race – Oxford. Umpire – Matthew Pinsent. Oxford cox Oskar Zorrilla caught swearing on BBC
Murray wins Sony Open in Miami to rise to number two in world rankings
April
Apr 1
Irish Grand National – Liberty Council (Ben Dalton)
Hull KR 6 Wigan 84
Neil Warnock leaves Leeds United
Michael O'Leary donates €200,000 to a fund for JT McNamara
Apr 2
Declan Kidney sacked as head coach of Ireland
German-based manufacturer GoalControl to provide goal-line system at World Cup in Brazil
Apr 3
Challenge Cup final – Nottingham Panthers bt Sheffield Steelers
Apr 4
Betfred Bowl – First Lieutenant (Mouse Morris)
Apr 5
Melling Chase – Sprinter Sacre (Barry Geraghty)
Apr 6
Grand National – 1st Auroras Encore (Ryan Mania, 66-1), trained by Sue Smith, 2nd Cappa Bleu, 3rd Teaforthree
Apr 7
Davis Cup (Ricoh Arena) – GB bt Russia
JP Trophy final – Crewe bt Southend
Scottish Challenge Cup final – Queen of the South bt Partick Thistle
Elite League play-off final – Nottingham Panthers bt Belfast Giants
Texas Open – Martin Laird
World Men’s Curling Championship final (Canada) – Sweden bt Canada
Paris-Roubaix – Cancellara
Apr 9
Ian Millward sacked by Castleford Tigers
Women’s Ice Hockey World Championships final – USA bt Canada
Apr 10
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Compton, Amla, Kallis, Steyn, Samuels
Leading Cricketer in the World – Clarke
150th edition of Wisden is published
Masters Par 3 Contest – Ted Potter
Apr 11
Hawkeye to be used in Premier League next season
Hole-in-one for Jamie Donaldson in Masters
England Rugby Sevens unveil psychedelic strip designed by Canterbury
Apr 12
14-year-old Guan Tianlang penalized one stroke for slow play
Brian McDermott appointed as manager of Leeds
Apr 13
FA Cup semi-final –Wigan bt Millwall
World Championship third qualifying round – Kurt Maflin (Norway) bt Steve Davis
Woods penalized two strokes for incorrect drop
Apr 14
FA Cup semi-final – Man City bt Chelsea
World Championship final qualifying round – Milkins bt White, Selt bt Doherty
Chinese GP – Alonso, Raikkonen, Hamilton
Masters – Scott bt Cabrera in play-off to become first Australian winner. 3rd Day. Leading European – Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark)
Apr 16
Lee Johnson (Oldham) and Gary Johnson (Yeovil) are the first father and son to manage opposing teams in a Football League game since 1971
Apr 17
Black Caviar retires unbeaten after 25 wins
Dean Ryan replaces Richard Hill as director of rugby at Worcester
Real Madrid overtakes Manchester United as the world's most valuable football club, according to business magazine Forbes
Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks) wins NBA Scoring Title
Apr 18
Chris Hoy retires
New Orleans Hornets change their name to the Pelicans
Apr 19
John Terry refuses handshake from FA chairman David Bernstein
European Gymnastics Championships (Moscow) –
All-around. Silver – Max Whitlock
Pommel horse – Daniel Keatings. Bronze – Max Whitlock
Portsmouth out of administration and deducted 10 points
Mike Denness dies
Apr 20
Floor – Max Whitlock
Scottish Grand National – Godsmejudge (Wayne Hutchinson)
Barnet play final match at Underhill
England Hockey League Championship men’s play-off final – Beeston bt Surbiton
England Hockey League Championship women’s play-off final – Reading bt Leicester
Apr 21
London Marathon. Men’s –Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia). Women’s – Priscah Jeptoo (Kenya). Tiki Gelana involved in a collision with Canadian wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy
High bar. Silver – Sam Oldham
Monte Carlo Masters final – Djokovic bt Nadal
Fed Cup – Argentina bt GB
Bahrain GP – Vettel, Raikkonen, Grosjean
Spanish Open – Raphael Jacquelin, at ninth play-off hole
Hyundai A-League Grand Final – Central Coast Mariners bt Western Sydney Wanderers
Apr 22
Van Persie hat-trick for Man Utd against Aston Villa. 20th title for Man Utd
Apr 23
Brett Lee takes wicket with first ball of IPL tournament
Royal Challengers Bangalore 263 in IPL match against Pune Warriors. Gayle 175, setting a new record for the fastest century in professional cricket (30 balls)
Wimbledon prize money increased by 40%. Retractable roof for Number One court by 2019
Apr 24
Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark hits six sixes in one over in a second XI game against Yorkshire, to become the fifth player to achieve the feat in professional cricket and the first Englishman
Suarez banned for 10 matches for biting Ivanovic
Lewandowski scores four goals for Borussia Dortmund against Real Madrid in Champions League semi-final
Reanne Evans wins ninth successive women's World Championship snooker title
Matt Le Tissier makes his debut for Guernsey
Kukri announce a deal to supply all delegation and teamwear for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for Commonwealth Games England
Apr 25
World Snooker Championships first round – Milkins bt Robertson
Peter Ebdon equals Steve Davis by featuring in 22 consecutive appearances in the World Snooker Championships, second only to Stephen Hendry's record of 27
15 Godolphin horses suspended for six months. Mahmood al Zarooni banned from racing for eight years for doping
Danny Cipriani hit by a bus in Leeds
Dechawat Poomjaeng concedes a frame against Michael White by missing an open red three times
Apr 26
Graeme Dott receives a number of electric shocks from the table
Anthony Fry to succeed Dave Richards as chairman of the Premier League
Women's Super League is expanded into two tiers of eight and 10 teams from 2014, an increase from the previous single division of eight. Manchester City Ladies replace Doncaster Rovers Belles in WSL1
Conditional Jockeys’ Championship – Lucy Alexander
Apr 27
Manchester-born Menelik Watson selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the NFL Draft
Champion jockey – McCoy. Runner-up – Jason Maguire
Champion trainer – Nicky Henderson
Second round – Hawkins bt Selby
Newcastle 0 Liverpool 6
Heineken Cup semi-final – Clermont Auvergne bt Munster
Rolex Kentucky – Andrew Nicholson, riding Quimbo
Apr 28
BBL play-off final – Leicester Riders bt Newcastle Eagles
Heineken Cup semi-final (Twickenham) – Toulon bt Saracens. Jonny Wilkinson kicks 24 points
Tour de Romandie – Chris Froome
Frank Lampard equals Andy Cole's record of scoring against 38 different teams in the Premier League
Lawrence Okoye signs for the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent
Maracana stadium reopens after three years of renovations
Gareth Bale is named both Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year
Kim Little is inaugural winner of the PFA Women's Player of the Year
Apr 29
Leinster's Joe Schmidt to take over as head coach of Ireland
Aston Villa 6 (Benteke 3) Sunderland 1
Apr 30
Warburton named as captain of British Lions
Champions League semi-final – Borussia Dortmund bt Real Madrid
Joao Havelange resigns as Fifa’s honorary president after a report ruled he had taken bribes
May
May 1
Chesney Hughes carries his bat for 270 not out for Derbyshire against Yorkshire
Champions League semi-final – Bayern Munich bt Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate
May 2
Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year – Bale
China's Ye Wocheng, 12, becomes the youngest player in European Tour history, in the China Open
Olympic Stadium will host five games at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which is being held across 13 venues
Yorkshire 677-7 (Root 236) against Derbyshire
Monterrey (Mexico) win third successive CONCACAF Champions League title
Europa League semi finals – Chelsea bt Basle, Benfica bt Fenerbache
May 4
Semi-finals – O’Sullivan bt Trump, Hawkins bt Walden
2000 Guineas – Dawn Approach (Kevin Manning), trained by Jim Bolger
Saracens finish top of Premiership. London Welsh are relegated
FA Vase – Spennymoor Town
Kentucky Derby – Orb
May 5
1000 Guineas – Sky Lantern (Richard Hughes), trained by Richard Hannon
Conference play-off – Newport bt Wrexham
Conference champions – Mansfield
May 6
PFA Scotland Player of the Year – Michael Higdon (Motherwell)
Final – O’Sullivan bt Hawkins 18-12. O’Sullivan hits six centuries and becomes the first player to retain the title since Hendry in 1996
Highest break – Robertson (143)
Badminton Horse Trials – Jonathan Paget (New Zealand), riding Clifton Promise
May 7
Women's Super League (WSL) champions Arsenal are beaten 4-0 by Liverpool in the opening match of their title defence at Emirates Stadium, their first loss in the competition since July 2011
May 8
Salford City Reds fined £10,000 for fielding an extra man against Castleford Tigers
James Allison to step down as Lotus technical director
Vijay Singh is to sue the PGA Tour for banning him from competition without a test for using deer antler spray
NBA Coach of the Year – George Karl (Denver Nuggets)
Madrid Open second round – Grigor Dimotrov bt Djokovic
San Francisco 49ers announce that Levi Strauss & Co. have purchased the naming rights to their new stadium in Santa Clara
May 9
Alex Ferguson to retire at end of season
David Moyes appointed as manager of Man Utd on a six-year deal
Premiership Rugby Player of the Year –Tom Youngs (Leicester)
Discovery of the Season – Joe Launchbury (Wasps)
Director of Rugby of the Season – Mark McCall (Saracens)
Leading points scorer – Freddie Burns (Gloucester), 240 points
Leading try scorer – Tom Varndell and Christian Wade (both Wasps), 13 tries
May 10
Olympic yachtsman Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson dies when the catamaran he was aboard capsized during training for the America's Cup as part of the Swedish team, Artemis Racing
60th edition of BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be broadcast live from Leeds
May 11
Frank Lampard breaks Bobby Tambling’s Chelsea goal scoring record with 203rd goal
FA Cup final – Wigan 1 (Ben Watson) Man City 0. Man of the Match – Callum McManaman. Zabaleta sent off. Wigan captain – Emmerson Boyce
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan broke his leg playing for Blackburn Rovers in the 1960 FA Cup final against Wolves
Premiership semi-final – Leicester bt Harlequins
May 12
Paul Scholes retires
Spanish GP – Alonso, Raikkonen, Massa
Premiership semi-final – Northampton bt Saracens
Challenge Cup – Catalans Dragons 92 York 8
Sturridge hat-trick for Liverpool against Fulham
Players Championship – Woods
Euroleague Basketball – Olympiacos Piraeus
IRB Sevens World Series – New Zealand. 5th Kenya. Top points scorer – Dan Norton (England)
May 13
England Cricketer of the Year – Matt Prior
England Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Katherine Brunt
FA Youth Cup final – Norwich bt Chelsea
Roma fined €50,000 after racist chants from their fans halted a match at AC Milan
SPL Player of the Year – Leigh Griffiths (Hibs)
SPL Manager of the Year – Stuart McCall (Motherwell)
British Speedway Championship – Tai Woffinden (Wolverhampton Wolves)
May 15
Europa League final (Amsterdam Arena) – Chelsea 2 (Torres, Ivanovic) Benfica 1
Chelsea become first team to hold both European titles. Benfica’s seventh loss in a European final since their last win in 1962
2014 Europa League final will be held in Turin
May 16
Beckham to retire at end of the season
Premier League Darts final – Van Gerwen bt Taylor
Three Rajasthan Royals players are arrested along with seven bookies on charges of spot-fixing in the IPL6 tournament
New owner Vivek Ranadive intends keeping Sacramento Kings in Sacramento
May 17
British & Irish Cup final – Leinster A bt Newcastle
Anderson takes 300th Test wicket (Peter Fulton)
Amlin Challenge Cup final (RDS Arena, Dublin) – Leinster bt Stade Francais. Man of the match – Sexton
Copa Del Ray final – Atletico Madrid bt Real Madrid. Ronaldo sent off
Barclays Manager of the Season and LMA Manager of the Year – Ferguson
Barclays Player of the Season – Bale
May 18
League Two play-off – Bradford bt Northampton
Promoted – Gillingham, Rotherham, Port Vale, Bradford
Relegated – Barnet, Aldershot
Leading scorer – Tom Pope (Port Vale), 31 goals
Ronan O’Gara retires to take up a coaching post with Racing Metro
Heineken Cup final (Aviva Stadium, Dublin) – Toulon bt Clermont Auvergne. Jonny Wilkinson kicks 11 points. Man of the match – Mathieu Bastareaud (Toulon)
Jessica Ennis marries Andy Hill
Preakness Stakes – Oxbow
May 19
European Player of the Year – Jonny Wilkinson
World Match Play final (Bulgaria) – McDowell bt Thongcai Jaidee (Thailand)
League One play-off – Yeovil bt Brentford
Promoted – Doncaster, Bournemouth, Yeovil
Relegated – Scunthorpe, Bury, Hartlepool, Portsmouth
Leading scorer – Paddy Madden (Yeovil), 24 goals
Cal Crutchlow overcomes a broken leg to take second place – the best result of his MotoGP career – in French GP at Le Mans
WBA 5 (Lukaku 3) Man Utd 5. Alex Ferguson’s 1500th and final game in charge
Kevin Nolan hat-trick for West Ham against Reading
Final table – 1st Man Utd, 2nd Man City, 3rd Chelsea, 4th Arsenal
Relegated – Wigan, Reading, QPR
Leading scorer – Van Persie (26)
Leighton Baines was the only outfield player to play every minute of every match
Jamie Carragher retires
Referee Mark Halsey retires
Final table – 1st Celtic, 2nd Motherwell
Leading scorer – Michael Higdon (26)
Relegated – Dundee
Scottish First Division – Partick Thistle
Scottish Second Division – Queen of the South
Scottish Third Division – Rangers
Highland League – Cove
First Test (Lords) England 232 and 213 (Southee 6-50) New Zealand 207 and 68 (Broad 7-44)
Principality Premiership Grand Final – Llanelli bt Pontypridd
Scottish Premiership – Ayr
Ulster Bank All-Ireland League – Lansdowne
Euro Hockey League – HC Bloemendaal (Netherlands)
Ice Hockey World Championships final – Sweden bt Switzerland
May 20
FIA rejects a proposal from Pirelli to go back to last year's tyres
May 21
Tony Pulis leaves Stoke City
Pune Warriors India terminate their participation in IPL6 due to disagreements with their franchisee fees for the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)
May 22
Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods after joking that he would serve him ‘fried chicken’ for dinner
May 23
Women’s Champions League final (Stamford Bridge) – Wolfsburg bt Lyon, ending Lyon's run of 118 competitive games without defeat, other than on penalties
Professional Rugby Players Association player of the year and Young player of the year – Christian Wade (Wasps)
May 24
Stage 19 of Giro d'Italia cancelled because of snow in the Dolomites
2007 Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca of Italy tests positive for Erythropoietin (EPO)
Mick McManus dies
Brian Greenhoff dies
Jockey Eddie Ahern banned for 10 years for corruption
Gibraltar accepted as 54th full member of Uefa
Southampton and Wales centre forward Ron Davies dies
May 25
Aviva Premiership final – Leicester bt Northampton. Dylan Hartley sent off. Man of the match – Anthony Allen (Leicester)
RaboDirect Pro12 final – Leinster bt Ulster
Rosberg gains third successive pole position
Champions League final (Wembley) – Bayern Munich 2 Borussia Dortmund 1. Winning goal scored by Robben. Man of the match – Robben. Dortmund manager – Jurgen Klopp
2014 Champions League final will be held in Lisbon
Millennium Magic Weekend at Etihad Stadium
Carl Froch retains IBF super-middleweight crown against Mikkel Kessler at O2 Arena
Netball Superleague Grand Final – Team Bath bt Celtic Dragons
The use of broom-handle and belly putters will be banned from 2016
May 26
BMW PGA – Matteo Manassero
Dylan Hartley banned for 11 weeks. Replaced on Lions tour by Rory Best
Scottish Cup final – Celtic bt Hibernian
FA Women's Cup final – Arsenal bt Bristol Academy
Women’s Premier League – Sunderland
Bill Beaumont County Cup final – Lancashire bt Cornwall
Monaco GP – Rosberg, Vettel, Webber
Indy 500 – Tony Kanaan (Brazil)
Giro d’Italia – Vincenzo Nibali. Red jersey – Cavendish
Freddie Burns scores 20 points for England against Barbarians
French Open first round – Ursula Radwanska bt Venus Williams
IPL6 final – Mumbai Indians bt Chennai Super Kings
Mumbai captain – Rohit Sharma
Man of the series – Shane Watson
Leading run scorer – Michael Hussey
Leading wicket taker – Dwayne Bravo
British Open squash – Men’s – Remy Ashour (Egypt), Women’s – Laura Massaro
May 27
Championship play-off final – Crystal Palace 1 (Phillips) Watford 0
Promoted – Cardiff, Hull, Crystal Palace
Relegated – Peterborough, Wolves, Bristol City
Leading scorer – Glenn Murray (Crystal Palace), 30 goals
Clermont Auvergne coach Vern Cotter appointed as manager of Scotland from June 2014
Rafa Benitez appointed as manager of Napoli
May 28
Reanne Evans qualifies for the final stages of the Wuxi Classic in China
Second Test (Headingley) England 354 (Root 104) and 287-5 (Cook 130) New Zealand 174 and 220 (Swann 6-90)
Yoshinari Matsushita killed at Isle of Man TT races
May 29
Squash, baseball/softball and wrestling beat off five other sports to remain in contention to be added to the Olympic Games programme in 2020. The IOC drops wushu, wakeboarding, roller sports, karate and sport climbing from the shortlist
England 1 (Lampard) Ireland 1 (Long)
Championship play-off final – Newcastle Falcons bt Bedford Blues
May 30
Mark Hughes appointed as manager of Stoke City
May 31
Oaks – Talent (Richard Hughes), trained by Ralph Beckett
Falcao moves from Atletico Madrid to Monaco. Plays for Colombia
Serie A – Juventus
La Liga – Barcelona
Bundesliga – Bayern Munich
Liga Sagres – Porto
Ligue 1 (Le Championnat) – Paris St Germain
Eredivisie – Ajax
Australian Andrew Dodt becomes the first man in European Tour history to record two holes-in-one in the same round, at the Nordea Masters
June
Jun 1
Coronation Cup – St Nicholas Abbey
Derby – Ruler of the World (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. 2nd Libertarian 3rd Galileo Rock. Dawn Approach finishes last
Lions bt Barbarians in first tour match, in Hong Kong
Top 14 final – Castres bt Toulon
British Speedway GP (Millennium Stadium) – Emil Sayfutdinov (Russia)
Jun 2
New Zealand 359-3 (Guptil 189) in second ODI against England
Spain's Tommy Robredo becomes the first player since Henri Cochet in 1927 to come back from two sets down in three consecutive Grand Slam matches
Ponting 192 on debut for Surrey against Derbyshire
Brazil 2 England 2. Match played in the Maracana Stadium despite safety concerns
Scandinavian Masters – Mikko Ilonen (Finland)
Jun 3
Neymar moves from Santos to Barcelona for £49 million
Jun 4
Quarter final – Tsonga bt Federer
Graham Napier takes four wickets in four balls for Essex against Surrey in YB40
Japan becomes the first country to qualify for the 2014 World Cup
Jun 5
Buttler 47 in 16 balls in third ODI
Jun 6
Semi-finals – Sharapova bt Azarenka, Serena Williams bt Errani
Man City sign Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho from Shakhtar Donetsk
Usain Bolt beaten in Diamond League 100m in Rome by Justin Gatlin
Mixed doubles final – Cermak and Hradecka bt Nestor and Mladenovic
Jun 7
Semi-finals – Nadal bt Djokovic, Ferrer bt Tsonga
Isle of Man Senior TT – John McGuinness, denying Michael Dunlop a record-equaling fifth win of the week
Donna Hartley-Wass dies
Robbie Keane becomes Ireland's most capped player (126 caps), scoring a hat-trick against Faroe Islands
Jun 8
Kyle Edmund becomes the first British winner at the French Open since 1982, in the boys' doubles
Samoa beat Scotland for the first time
Final – Serena Williams bt Sharapova
Men’s doubles final – Bryan and Bryan bt Llodra and Mahut
Bottas placed third in qualifying for Canadian GP
Andrew Selby becomes first British fighter to defend a European amateur boxing title
James Anderson overtakes Darren Gough’s total of 234 to become England’s top ODI wicket taker
Ben Maher wins inaugural Grand Prix of London at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Belmont Stakes – Palace Malice
Jun 9
Final – Nadal bt Ferrer, to become the first person to win the same Grand Slam event eight times. Final disrupted by an intruder leaping onto the court while brandishing a flare
Women’s doubles final – Makarova and Vesnina bt Errani and Vinci
Criterium du Dauphine – Chris Froome
Yorkshire's Matthew Fisher, aged 15, becomes the youngest post-war cricketer to play in one of England's county competitions
Canadian GP – Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton
LPGA – Inbee Park bt Catriona Matthew in a play-off
UK Open final – Phil Taylor bt Andy Hamilton
Jun 10
Denesh Ramdin receives a two-match ban for claiming a dropped catch against Pakistan
Mourinho calls himself ‘the happy one’ on return to Chelsea
Jun 11
Henry Cecil dies
Jesus Navas moves from Sevilla to Man City
Jun 12
European U-21 Championship final tables –
Group A – Italy, Norway, Israel, England
Group B – Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Russia
England lost all three group matches and only scored one goal, a penalty by Craig Dawson against Norway
David Warner attacks Joe Root in a bar in Birmingham and is suspended until the first Ashes Test
Jun 13
Sangakkara 134 against England in Champions Trophy. All matched played at The Oval, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston
Jun 14
Malaga manager Manuel Pellegrini moves to Man City. Born in Chile
Essex bowled out for 20 by Lancs. Chapple 5-7, Hogg 4-11
South Africa tie with West Indies in Champions Trophy
International Origin Series – England bt Exiles
Owen Coyle appointed as manager of Wigan
Jun 15
U-21 semi-finals – Spain bt Norway, Italy bt Netherlands
Brazilian Alan Oliveira becomes the world's fastest amputee after breaking Oscar Pistorius's 100m T43 record
Japan beat Wales for the first time in rugby union
Marland Yarde scores two tries on England debut against Argentina
Jose Froilan Gonzalez dies. Argentine racing driver, notable for scoring Ferrari's first win in a Formula One World Championship race at the 1951 British Grand Prix
Queen’s Birthday Honours –
OBE – Clare Balding, Paul Lawrie, Christian Horner
Jun 16
Kyle Mills becomes leading wicket taker in Champions Trophy
Aegon Championships final – Murray bt Cilic
US Open (Merion) – Rose (+1). 2nd Day, Mickelson
Rose becomes the first Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970
Hole in one for Shawn Stefani
Nottingham Challenge – Baltacha
Aegon Classic (Birmingham) – Hantuchova
Jun 17
Hearts to go into administration
Champions Trophy final tables –
Group A – England , Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Australia
Group B – India, South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan
Alec Stewart placed in temporary charge of Surrey after Chris Adams and Ian Salisbury are sacked
Jun 18
ACT Brumbies bt Lions. Shane Williams plays for Lions
U-21 Final (Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem) – Spain 4 (Thiago 3) Italy 2
De Gea makes record 27th appearance for Spain
Pearce to leave as England U-21 coach
St James’s Palace Stakes – Dawn Approach
Football League reveals six fixtures early to mark 125th anniversary
Jun 19
Kent chase down 326 by Sussex in YB40 to set new record for a 40 over match
Semi-final – England bt South Africa
Prince of Wales’s Stakes – Al Kazeem
British fencer James Davis wins bronze in the individual foil at the European Championships in Zagreb
Jun 20
NBA finals – Miami Heat bt San Antonio Spurs 4-3. Finals and regular season MVP – LeBron James
Mediterranean Games start in Mersin, Turkey
Semi-final – India bt Sri Lanka
Ponting to retire from all forms of cricket in October
Gold Cup – Estimate (Ryan Moore), trained by Michael Stoute. First time that the race has been won by a reigning monarch
Ribblesdale Stakes – Riposte, trained by Lady Jane Cecil, who has been granted a temporary training license
Messi summoned over Spain tax fraud
Northants bowled out for 62 (Hogg 7-27) by Lancs
Abby Wambach breaks the international record for career goals, passing the 158 of fellow American Mia Hamm
Jun 21
Coronation Stakes – Sky Lantern
Bernard Hunt dies
Jun 22
Diamond Jubilee Stakes – Lethal Force
Thomas Chippendale dies after Hardwicke Stakes win
Leading jockey at Ascot – Johnny Murtagh
Leading trainer at Ascot – Aidan O’Brien
First Test (Brisbane) – Australia 21 Lions 23. Kurtley Beale misses a penalty with the last kick of the game
Eastbourne tournament. Men’s – Feliciano Lopez. Women’s – Elana Vesnina
Luis Alberto moves from Sevilla to Liverpool
Danish driver Allan Simonson killed during Le Mans race
European Team Athletics Championships (Gateshead) 1st Russia, 2nd Germany, 3rd GB
Veronica Campbell-Brown tests positive for a banned diuretic
Jun 23
Champions Trophy Final (Edgbaston) – India bt England by 5 runs. Match played over 20 overs. Man of the match – Ravi Jadeja
Golden bat, for most runs in the tournament – Shikhar Dhawan
Golden ball, for most wickets in the tournament – Ravi Jadeja
Gus Poyet sacked as manager of Brighton
Confederations Cup final tables –
Group A – Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Japan
Group B – Spain, Uruguay, Nigeria, Tahiti
Tahiti lost 6-1 to Nigeria, 10-0 to Spain, 8-0 to Uruguay
Le Mans – Audi (Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Loic Duval)
Wuxi Classic final – Robertson bt Higgins
British Jumping Derby (Hickstead) – Phillip Miller (GB) riding Caritiar Z
British National Road Race Championships. Men – Mark Cavendish, Women – Lizzie Armitstead
IRB Junior World Championship final – England U20 bt Wales U20
Jun 24
Wimbledon first round – Steve Darcis (Belgium) bt Nadal
Stanley Cup – Chicago Blackhawks bt Boston Bruins 4-2
Finals MVP – Patrick Kane (Chicago)
Regular season MVP – Alexander Ovechkin (Washington Capitals)
Anthony Bennett is the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. First number one pick to be born in Canada
Jun 25
First round – Robson bt Kirilenko (No. 10 seed)
Darren Lehman replaces Micky Arthur as coach of Australia
Former Ireland fast bowler Boyd Rankin makes his debut for England in T20 defeat to New Zealand at the Oval
Carlo Ancelotti takes over as Real Madrid manager, with Laurent Blanc replacing him as coach of Paris St-Germain
Sebastien Loeb will drive a Citroen in the World Touring Car Championship from 2014
Jun 26
Second round – Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) bt Federer
Tsonga, Cilic and Darcis retire through injury
Larcher De Brito bt Sharapova
Azarenka retires through injury
Semi-final – Brazil bt Uruguay
Somerset lose six wickets for no runs against Australia
Simon Mignolet moves from Sunderland to Liverpool
Rachel Yankey breaks Peter Shilton's all-time record of 125 England caps
Jun 27
Mark Webber to leave Formula 1 at the end of the season to join Porsche in sports cars
Semi-final – Spain bt Italy
Jun 28
Cal Crutchlow becomes the first British MotoGP rider to win pole position since Northern Ireland's Jeremy McWilliams at the Australian Grand Prix in 2002
Mercedes reprimanded by FIA for illegally using a current car in a Pirelli tyre test
Jun 29
Orica-GreenEdge team bus becomes wedged on the finish line at the end of stage 1 of the Tour de France in Corsica
Irish Derby – Trading Leather
Second Test (Melbourne) – Australia 16 Lions 15. Only try scored by Adam Ashley-Cooper. Leigh Halfpenny misses a penalty with the last kick of the game
Jamie Baker retires from tennis
Doncaster Belles lose WSL demotion appeal
Robson becomes first British woman to reach second week of Wimbledon since Sam Smith in 1998, and the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1987 to enter the WTA's Top 30
Carlos Tevez moves to Juventus
Greyhound Derby – Sidaz Jack
Jun 30
British GP – Rosberg, Webber, Alonso. Five cars had tyre punctures
Diamond League (Alexander Stadium, Birmingham). Wins for Farah, Shakes-Drayton, Ohuruogu, and Jessica Judd (800m)
Irish Open – Paul Casey
Third place play-off – Italy bt Uruguay
Confederations Cup final (Maracana) Brazil 3 (Fred 2, Neymar) Spain 0, ending Spain’s 29 match unbeaten run
US Women’s Open – Inbee Park
July
Jul 1
Fourth round – Lisicki bt Serena Williams, Kanepi bt Robson
Jul 3
O’Driscoll dropped from deciding Lions Test
Olympic rower Mark Hunter retires
Jul 4
Compton guests for Worcs against Australia
Semi-finals – Bartoli bt Flipkens, Lisicki bt Radwanska
Man Utd name Ryan Giggs as player-coach and Phil Neville as first-team coach
Jul 5
Semi-finals – Djokovic bt Del Potro in the longest-ever semi-final (4 hours 43 minutes), Murray bt Janowicz
Daryl Impey becomes the first South African leader of Tour de France
Jul 6
Final – Bartoli bt Lisicki. Bartoli’s 47th Grand Slam event
BBC apologizes after John Inverdale’s ‘You’re never going to be a looker’ comment about Marion Bartoli
Men’s doubles final – Bryan and Bryan bt Dodig and Melo and now hold all four Grand Slam titles
Women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Peng bt Barty and Dellacqua. Hseih becomes the first player from Taiwan to win a Grand Slam event
Paulinho moves from Corinthians to Spurs
Third Test (Sydney) – Australia 16 Lions 41. Man of the series – Halfpenny, who scored a record 49 points. Lions captained by Alan Wyn Jones
Eclipse Stakes – Al Kazeem
Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva, ending his streak of the longest title reign in UFC history
Jul 7
European Darts Championship final (Germany) – Lewis bt Whitlock
Final – Murray bt Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. Murray lost three Championship points
Murray beat Becker, Lu, Robredo, Youzhny, Verdasco, Janowicz, and Djokovic
Mixed doubles final – Nestor and Mladenovic bt Soares and Raymond
French Open – McDowell
Jul 9
Four clubs involved in two play-off matches that ended 79-0 and 67-0 respectively have been suspended in Nigeria
Ewan McKenzie replaces Robbie Deans as coach of Australia
Jul 10
A spectator throws urine at Mark Cavendish
Jul 12
Adam Gemili wins gold in the 100m at the European Athletics Under-23 Championships in Finland
Bell – 6000 Test runs
Broad refuses to walk after umpire Aleem Dar missed an obvious edge
Mohamed Al-Fayed sells Fulham to Shahid Khan, the owner of Jacksonville Jaguars
Jul 13
James Dasaolu clocks 9.91 seconds in the 100m semi-finals at the British Championships in Birmingham to become the second fastest Briton in history
Sharapova to be coached by Jimmy Connors
U20 World Cup final (Istanbul) France bt Uruguay. A ‘vanishing spray’ makes its FIFA debut during this tournament, with referees using it to denote the ten-yard mark for an opposing defence at time of free kicks
Man Utd beaten by Singha all Stars in Thailand in David Moyes’s first match in charge
Jul 14
First Test (Trent Bridge) England 215 (Siddle 5-50) and 375 (Bell 109) Australia 280 (Anderson 5-85) and 296 (Anderson 5-73). England won by 14 runs
Agar and Hughes 163 for final wicket in first innings. Ashton Agar 98 on debut. Highest Test score by a number 11
Australian Open final – Fu bt Robertson
Scottish Open (Castle Stuart) – Mickelson
Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell fail drug tests
Jul 16
Edinson Cavani moves from Napoli to Paris Saint-Germain for £54 million
BBC and BT Sport to show FA Cup from 2014–15
Papiss Cisse pulls out of Newcastle’s pre-season tour after refusing to wear shirt with Wonga logo on religious grounds
Todd Bennett dies
Jul 17
State of Origin – Queensland bt New South Wales
Jul 18
Bell scores century in third successive Ashes Test
Sky Bet to sponsor the Football League
Jul 19
Bert Trautmann dies
Football Association launches its 150-year anniversary celebrations
Negredo moves from Sevilla to Man City
Jul 20
The Open. Third round leader – Westwood
Isle of Man finish top of medal table in Island Games, held in Bermuda
Paralympics World Championships start in Lyon
Speedway World Cup (Prague) – Poland
Jul 21
The Open (Muirfield) – Mickelson (-3), 2nd Stenson, 3rd Westwood, Poulter, Scott
Mickelson caddie – Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay
Silver medal – Matthew Fitzpatrick
2014 tournament will be held at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake
Second Test (Lords) England 361 (Bell 109, Harris 5-72) and 349-7 (Root 180) Australia 128 (Swann 5-44) and 235. England won by 347 runs
Bournemouth 0 Real Madrid 6
100th Tour de France – Froome (Team Sky) 2nd Nairo Quintana (Colombia)
Points – Peter Sagan
King of the Mountains – Nairo Quintana
Young Rider – Nairo Quintana
Team – Team Saxo-Tinkoff
First ever night finish in Paris
Grand Depart for 2014 Tour will be in Leeds
Jul 23
Former boxing world champion Emile Griffith dies. Born in US Virgin Islands
Jul 24
Gerardo Martino replaces Tito Vilanova as manager of Barcelona
Mo Farah breaks Steve Cram’s British 1500m record
Anne Keothavong retires
Copa Libertadores – Atletico Mineiro (Brazil)
Jul 25
Viktor Troicki banned for 18 months for failing to provide a blood sample during a mandatory drugs test at the Monte Carlo Masters
World Games start in Cali, Colombia
Jul 26
London Anniversary Games (Diamond League meeting) sponsored by Sainsbury’s
Skrill is the new title sponsor for the Football Conference Leagues
Jul 27
Bolt runs for Racing Track Club in 4x100m relay at London Anniversary Games
Challenge Cup semi-final – Wigan 70 London Broncos 0
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Novellist
Jul 28
Hungarian GP – Hamilton, Raikkonen, Vettel
World Matchplay final (Blackpool) – Taylor bt Lewis. 14th title
Alan Oliveira breaks the T43 100m world record at the Paralympic Anniversary Games in London
Uefa Women’s Championship final (Stockholm) – Germany bt Norway. Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer saves two penalties. Sixth successive victory
England drew with Russia, and lost to Spain and France
British Senior Open – Mark Wiebe (USA)
CONCACAF Gold Cup final – USA bt Panama
BMX World Championships (Auckland) – Liam Phillips (GB)
Jul 29
World Swimming Championships (Barcelona) – Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) breaks the 100m breaststroke world record. Katie Ledecky breaks the 1500m world record
Usain Bolt accepts Mo Farah challenge of 600m track duel
Former Birmingham City player Christian Benitez (Ecuador) dies after a cardiac arrest
Jul 31
Sussex Stakes – Toronado
High dive. Silver – Gary Hunt
August
Aug 1
Goodwood Cup – Brown Panther, part-owned by Michael Owen
Doncaster Rovers sign One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson as a non-contract player
Aug 2
Broad – 200 Test wickets
Woods 61 in second round of WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Aug 3
RideLondon Women's Grand Prix – Laura Trott
Super Rugby final – Chiefs bt Brumbies
Erik Zabel admits to doping
England drawn to play Australia in Melbourne on the opening day of the 2015 Cricket World Cup
Aug 4
Women’s British Open (St Andrews) – Stacy Lewis (USA)
Fran Halsall wins GB’s only medal in the pool – bronze in 50m freestyle
Missy Franklin claimed a record-setting six gold medals. Katie Ledecky was named ‘female swimmer of the meet’ after setting two world records and winning four gold medals. China's Sun Yang won three gold medals (400m, 800m and 1500m) and won ‘male swimmer of the meet’
Final medal table – 1st USA (15-10-9) 34, 2nd China (14-8-4) 26
London-Surrey Classic – Arnaud Demare (France)
Royal International Horse Show. King George V Gold Cup – Ben Maher
Bill Hoskyns dies. British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games, winning two silver medals in 1960 and 1964
Andy North named as America’s Ryder Cup vice-captain
Aug 5
Third Test (Old Trafford) Australia 527-7 (Clarke 187, Swann 5-159) and 172-7 England 368 (Pietersen 113) and 37-3. England retain the Ashes
Alex Rodriguez suspended for 211 games in the wake of a doping investigation. He will, however, be allowed to play while the suspension is under appeal
Walter Smith resigns as chairman of Rangers
Roberto Soldado moves from Valencia to Spurs
Aug 8
Shaun Tait hat-trick for Essex against Notts in FLt20
Aug 9
Man Utd play Sevilla in Rio Ferdinand testimonial. David Moyes’s first home match
Hull City AFC to be renamed Hull City Tigers
Aug 10
World Athletics Championships start at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow. Mascot – a sparrow
GB captain – Ohuruogu
First gold medal won by Kiplagat in women’s marathon
10,000m – Farah
Aug 11
Community Shield – Man Utd 2 (van Persie 2) Wigan 0
JP Morgan Premiership 7s – Gloucester
100m – Bolt. Silver – Gatlin. Bronze – Carter
US PGA (Oak Hill, Rochester) – Dufner. 2nd Furyk 3rd Stenson
Aug 12
Women’s 400m – Ohuruogu
Women’s 100m – Fraser-Pryce. Silver – Ahoure (Ivory Coast). Bronze – Jeter
Lara Prior-Palmer becomes the first Briton, first female rider and the youngest person to win the world's longest horse race, the 1000km Mongol Derby
Aug 13
400m – Lashawn Merritt
Women’s pole vault – Isinbayeva
U-21 international – England 6 Scotland 0
Fourth Test (Chester-le-Street) England 238 and 330 (Bell 113, Harris 7-117) Australia 270 (Rogers 110, Broad 5-71) and 224 (Broad 6-50). England won by 74 runs
Aug 14
Women’s Ashes Test (Wormsley) England drew with Australia. Heather Knight 157
Stewart Downing moves from Liverpool to West Ham
50km walk – Rob Heffernan (Ireland)
England 3 Scotland 2. Winning goal scored by Rickie Lambert on England debut
Metalist Kharkiv disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions due to previous match-fixing. UEFA replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK
Aug 15
Marion Bartoli retires
High jump – Bondarenko
Aug 16
Adam Gemili becomes second British athlete to run 200m in under 20 seconds. Record held by John Regis
5000m – Farah
Women’s 200m – Fraser-Pryce
Maria Sharapova dumps coach Jimmy Connors after just one match
Aug 17
Premier League shirt sponsors. Aston Villa – dafabet, Cardiff City – Malaysia, Crystal Palace – GAC Logistics, Fulham – Marathon bet, Hull City – Cash Converters, Sunderland – bidvest, Swansea City – GWFX, Tottenham – hp, West Ham – Alpari
First goal in Premier League – Daniel Sturridge
FLt20 finals (Edgbaston). Semi-finals – Northants bt Essex, Surrey bt Hampshire. Final – Northants bt Surrey. David Willey 60 off 27 balls and a hat-trick
Gary Ballance century for England Lions against Australia. Born in Zimbabwe
Nathan Cleverly loses his WBO light-heavyweight title to Russian Sergey Kovalev
GB win 55 medals, including 18 golds, at IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. Ukraine finish top of medal table. 2015 competition will be held in Glasgow
Anna Nordqvist hits the first hole-in-one in Solheim Cup history
Women’s 100m hurdles – Brianna Rollins (USA). Silver – Pearson. Bronze – Porter
Women’s 4x400m relay. Bronze – GB (Child, Cox, Adeoye, Ohuruogu)
200m – Bolt
Arlington Million – Real Solution, after The Apache is disqualified
Aug 18
Solheim Cup (Colorado Golf Club) – Europe 18 USA 10
Caroline Hedwall (Sweden) becomes the first player in the history of the trophy to win all five of her matches. 17-year-old Charley Hull played for Europe
Matt Fitzpatrick becomes the first Englishman to win the US Amateur Championship
Women’s 4x100m relay. Bronze – GB (Asher-Smith, Nelson, Lewis, Jones), following France’s disqualification
Men’s 4x100m relay – Great Britain finish the race in third place but are disqualified after passing the baton outside the takeover zone on the second changeover
Russia win most gold medals (7). USA win most medals (25)
Gold medal winners – Russia, USA, Jamaica, Kenya, Germany, Ethiopia, GB, Czech Republic, Ukraine, France, Poland, Colombia, Croatia, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobabo, Uganda
Darren Barker (GB) wins IBF world middleweight title
Aug 19
Monty Panesar moves from Sussex to Essex
Scott Parker moves from Spurs to Fulham
Aug 20
Hope Powell sacked as manager of the England women's football team after 15 years in charge
Aug 21
Debuts for Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan in Fifth Test
Aug 22
Gareth Southgate appointed as England U21 manager
European Showjumping Championships (Denmark). Gold – GB (Ben Maher, Michael Whitaker, William Funnell and Scott Brash)
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is indicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd
Aug 23
European individual dressage – Charlotte Dujardin
Aug 24
Challenge Cup final – Wigan 16 Hull 0. Lance Todd Trophy – Matt Smith
Wigan’s 19th win
Women’s EuroHockey Nations Championship final (Belgium) – Germany bt England
Modern Pentathlon World Championships (Taiwan) –
Men’s. Silver – Nick Woodbridge (GB)
Women’s team. Gold – GB
World’s Strongest Man – Brian Shaw (USA)
First season of Caribbean Premier League won by Jamaica Tallawahs
Aug 25
Fifth Test (The Oval) Australia 492-9 (Watson 176, Smith 138) and 111-6 England 377 and 205-5. Match drawn. England win series 3-0. Men of the series – Bell and Harris
Leading run scorer – Bell. Leading wicket taker – Swann
Haddin sets new record of 29 dismissals in a five-Test series
Belgian GP – Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton
Cardiff win first match in Premier League, against Man City
Team New Zealand defeat Italy's Luna Rossa in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals to set up the 34th America's Cup clash with holders Oracle in San Francisco
Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship final – Germany bt Belgium
Johnnie Walker Championship – Tommy Fleetwood (England)
World’s Strongest Man – Brian Shaw (USA)
Aug 26
Hugh Morris quits as managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board and is appointed as the county's chief executive and managing director of Glamorgan
Malaysia to host inaugural EurAsia Cup in 2014
Aug 27
Capitol One Cup – Bristol City bt Crystal Palace
Birmingham City's Lee Novak is allowed to score an unopposed equalizer after Yeovil manager Gary Johnson decided Bryon Webster's goal had been ‘ungentlemanly’. Webster had chipped into an empty net after the Birmingham goalkeeper had kicked the ball out following an injury
Aug 28
Minor Counties Trophy final – Berkshire bt Shropshire
Special Olympics start in Bath
Ginger-beer maker Crabbie's is named new sponsor of the Grand National and race festival for three years
Aug 29
Cliff Morgan dies
T20 international (Southampton) Australia 248-6 (Finch 156, including 14 sixes) England 209-6
Austria Wien will make their debut appearance in the Champions League group stage
From the start of the Aviva Premiership Rugby season, the league will be part of a global trial of a new scrum engagement sequence, aimed at enhancing player welfare by reducing impact on engagement. Referees will now say: ‘Crouch, Bind, Set.’
Aug 30
Uefa Super Cup (Prague) Bayern Munich bt Chelsea. Romelu Lukaku missed in penalty shoot-out. Ramires sent off
Josh Lewsey appointed as Welsh Rugby Union head of rugby
Aug 31
World Rowing Championships (South Korea)
Women’s pair – GB (Helen Glover and Polly Swann)
T20 international (Chester-le-Street) England 195-5 (Hales 94) Australia 168-9
England win Women’s Ashes series by 12 points to 4
US Open third round – Robredo bt Dan Evans (who had beaten Nishikori and Tomic)
September
Sep 1
British MotoGP – Lorenzo
Wales Open – Gregory Bourdy
League leaders shield – Huddersfield
Bale moves to Real Madrid for £85 million
Women’s BMX downhill world championships – Rachel Atherton
Canoe sprint World Championships (Duisburg) –
K2 200. Silver – GB (Liam Heath and Jon Schofield)
Men’s eights – GB
Sep 2
Arsenal sign Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid for £42.4m
Marouane Fellaini joins Man Utd from Everton for £27.5m
Liverpool sign centre-backs Mamadou Sakho and Tiago Ilori for a combined fee of £25m
Everton sign Wigan midfielder James McCarthy for £13m
Everton sign Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea and Gareth Barry from Manchester City on loan
Daniel Ricciardo to replace Mark Webber at Red Bull next season
Fourth round – Robredo bt Federer
Sep 4
Oracle Team USA docked two points and have three crew members banned from America’s Cup
FA chairman Greg Dyke says the England team should aim to reach the semi-final of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022
Sep 5
Quarter-final – Wawrinka bt Murray
Men’s doubles semi-final – Paes and Stepanek bt Bryan and Bryan
Ollie Rayner has match figures of 15-118 for Middlesex against Surrey
Salford City Reds are relaunched as Salford Red Devils
Sep 6
Final Diamond League meeting held in Brussels
Overall winners –
100m – Gatlin
200m – Weir
400m – Merritt
Women’s 100m and 200m – Fraser-Pryce
Women’s 400m – Montsho
Discus thrower Sandra Perkovic (Croatia) was the only unbeaten athlete
Only British winner was Shara Proctor
Mixed doubles final – Miryni and Hlavackova bt Gonzalez and Spears
Semi-finals – Azarenka bt Pannetta, Williams bt Li Na
Ross Barkley (Everton) wins first England cap, against Moldova
Sep 7
2020 Olympic vote (Buenos Aires) – 1st Tokyo, 2nd Istanbul, 3rd Madrid
Semi-finals – Djokovic bt Wawrinka, Nadal bt Gasquet
Women’s doubles final – Hlavackova and Hradecka bt Barty and Dellacqua
Sep 8
Wrestling reinstated as an Olympic sport for the 2020 and 2024 Games after being voted in ahead of baseball/softball and squash
Michael Clarke 105 in second ODI
Italian GP – Vettel, Alonso, Webber
European Masters – Bjorn
Men’s doubles final – Paes and Stepanek bt Peya and Soares
Burghley Horse Trials – Andrew Nicholson. Jonathan Paget was stripped of his title after his horse failed a drugs test
Walker Cup (Long Island) – USA 17 GB & Ireland 9
Final – Williams bt Azarenka. 17th Grand Slam singles title
Aparecidense physio Romildo Fonseca da Silva, known as 'Lefty', runs on the pitch and saves two shots in a match in Brazil
Sep 9
Greg Abbott, the third longest-serving manager in English football, is sacked by Carlisle
Final – Nadal bt Djokovic. 13th Grand Slam singles title
Antonio Cairoli wins Motocross World Championship for fifth successive year
Sep 10
Lampard wins 100th England cap, against Ukraine
Luxembourg bt Northern Ireland
Former fencing gold medallist Thomas Bach from Germany is elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee
Sep 11
Raikkonen will replace Massa at Ferrari next year
Matthew Hoggard to retire at end of the season
Trapattoni leaves as Republic of Ireland manager
Widnes chief executive James Rule becomes a part-owner of the club. The disgraced former Hull boss got a two-year suspension in 2011 for his conduct in the botched Martin Gleeson drug test cover-up
Baruto Kaito, the first Estonian sumo wrestler to win the makuuchi (top division) championship in history, announces his retirement
Sep 12
England drop to 17th in Fifa world rankings
Sep 13
Salford City Stadium, home of Salford Red Devils and Sale Sharks, is to be renamed The AJ Bell Stadium as part of a new sponsorship deal
Sep 14
Women’s ITU World Triathlon title – Non Stanford (GB). 2nd Jodie Stimpson (GB)
England bt Australia in fourth ODI. Hat-trick for Clint McKay
St Leger – Leading Light (Joseph O’Brien), trained by Aidan O’Brien
Jim Furyk shoots 59 to equal the record for the lowest 18-hole score in PGA Tour history in round two of the BMW Championship in Illinois
Sep 15
Chris Horner (USA) becomes the oldest ever Grand Tour winner with victory in the Vuelta a Espana at the age of 41
Great North Run – Bekele. 2nd Farah
ITU World Triathlon title – Javier Gomez. 2nd Jonathan Brownlee
Evian Championship – Suzann Pettersen
Inbee Park won three of the five women’s majors
Gareth Bale scores on his Real Madrid debut against Villarreal
Davis Cup – GB bt Croatia
David Florence becomes the first canoe slalom paddler to win both the C1 and C2 world titles in the same year
Marin Cilic suspended for nine months after testing positive for a banned substance
Debut for Chris Jordan in fifth ODI. Watson 143. Stokes 5-61. Australia win series 2-1
Sep 16
Women’s county championship – Sussex
Sep 18
Sue Barker steps down as a presenter of Sports Personality of the Year
Sep 19
Ken Norton dies
Super League play-off – Huddersfield 76 Hull 18
Sep 20
Alex Rodriguez hits his 24th career grand slam, the most by any player in Major League Baseball history, passing Lou Gehrig's 23
Sep 21
YB40 final – Notts bt Glamorgan. Notts captain – Chris Read
Sep 22
Tour of Britain – Wiggins. Cavendish wins three stages
Singapore GP – Vettel, Alonso, Raikkonen
Paolo Di Canio sacked by Sunderland
Henrik Stenson becomes the first European winner of both the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup titles, and wins the £6.3 million FedEx Cup bonus
EuroBasket – France
Italian Open – Julien Quesne (France)
Shanghai Masters – Ding Junhui
All-Ireland Gaelic Football Final – Dublin bt Mayo
Sep 23
Sam Tomkins will leave Wigan at the end of the Super League season to join NRL side New Zealand Warriors for a world record fee
England Test squad for Australia: Cook, Root, Trott, Pietersen, Bell, Balance, Carberry, Bairstow, Stokes, Prior, Broad, Swann, Anderson, Panesar, Finn, Rankin, Tremlett
Sep 24
Canadian Michael Downey succeeds Roger Draper as chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association
Road World Championships (Italy) –
Women’s time trial – Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands)
Scottish League Cup – Morton bt Celtic
Sep 25
Men’s time trial – Tony Martin. 2nd Wiggins
Stephen Lee banned for 12 years after being found guilty of seven match-fixing charges
London to host 2016 Track World Championships
League Cup – Birmingham bt Swansea
Rugby League Writers’ Association Player of the Year – Danny Brough
America’s Cup (San Francisco) – Oracle Team USA bt Team New Zealand 9-8, after being 8-1 behind. Skipper – James Spithill. Tactician – Ben Ainslie. As holders Oracle chose 72ft catamarans with rigid wing sails
Sep 26
18-year-old Surrey’s Dominic Sibley becomes the youngest ever player to score 200 in a Championship innings, and the second-youngest player after W.G. Grace to score a first-class hundred in England. Student at Whitgift School
Sep 27
County Championship – Durham. Captain – Paul Collingwood
Relegated – Derbyshire. Surrey
Promoted – Lancashire, Northants
Most runs – Moeen Ali (Worcs)
Most wickets – Graham Onions (Durham)
Brian Cookson elected president of the International Cycling Union
Tiger Woods is named as the PGA Tour's Player of the Year for a record 11th time
Sep 28
Cambridgeshire Handicap – Educate
Women’s road race – Vos
Leyton Orient become last team to lose 100% record
Nigel Clough sacked as manager of Derby
AFL Grand Final – Hawthorn bt Fremantle
All-Ireland Hurling Final replay – Clare bt Cork
Sep 29
Women’s Super League – Liverpool Ladies
Men’s road race – Rui Costa (Portugal)
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – David Howell
Berlin marathon – Wilson Kipsang, in a world record time of 2:03:23
Vikings bt Steelers at Wembley
Championship Grand Final – Sheffield Eagles bt Batley Bulldogs
Sep 30
Steve McClaren appointed as manager of Derby
Roberto Mancini appointed as manager of Galatasaray
Jos Buttler moves from Somerset to Lancashire
Man of Steel – Danny Brough
October
Oct 1
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final – D.C. United bt Real Salt Lake
England name three Burgess brothers in squad for rugby league World Cup
Oct 2
Ryan Giggs makes 145th appearance in Champions League, breaking Raul’s record
Oct 3
World Gymnastics Championships (Antwerp) –
Men’s all-around – Kohei Uchimura (Japan) wins his fourth straight title. 4th Max Whitlock
PCA Player of the Year – Moeen Ali
Young Player of the Year – Ben Stokes
Oct 4
Afghanistan will play in the World Cup for the first time in 2015 after beating Kenya in their final qualifying match
Continental Cup final – Arsenal Ladies bt Lincoln
Women’s all-around – Simone Biles (USA)
2014 X-Games in Tignes will not happen as ESPN announce that they are scaling back the X-Games franchise and concentrating on events in the USA
Oct 5
Super League Grand Final – Wigan bt Warrington. Harry Sunderland Trophy – Blake Green
Pommel horse. Silver – Max Whitlock
Floor – Japan's Kenzo Shirai wins gold and becomes the first athlete to perform a quadruple twist
Rugby Championship – New Zealand
Speedway Grand Prix (world championship) – Tai Woffinden
Oct 6
Seve Trophy (St-Nom-La-Breteche)– Continental Europe bt Great Britain & Ireland
Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Treve (Thierry Jarnet)
Vault. Bronze – Kristian Thomas
President’s Cup (Muirfield Village, Ohio) – USA bt Internationals
Champions League T20 final (Delhi) – Mumbai Indians bt Rajasthan Royals
NRL Grand Final – Sydney Roosters bt Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Oct 7
Bill Sweeney named as the British Olympic Association's new chief executive officer, replacing Andy Hunt who stepped down in February
Oct 8
Gus Poyet appointed as manager of Sunderland
Oct 9
Hot Spot dropped for Ashes series
Oct 10
Tendulkar will retire from all forms of cricket after playing his 200th Test next month
WNBA finals –Minnesota Lynx bt Atlanta Dream
Oct 11
Formula 1 reserve racing driver Maria De Villota is found dead in a hotel room in Seville
Andros Townsend scores on England debut, against Montenegro
Oct 12
Cesarewitch – Scatter Dice
Timothy Bradley retains his WBO welterweight title with a victory over Juan Manuel Marquez
Oct 13
Japanese GP – Vettel, Webber, Grosjean
Alonso breaks Schumacher’s all-time F1 points record
Portugal Masters – David Lynn
Ironman World Championships (Hawaii). Men – Frederik Van Lierde (Belgium)
Women – Mirinda Carfrae (Australia). 2nd Rachel Joyce GB) 3rd Liz Blatchford (GB)
World Grand Prix final (Dublin) – Taylor bt Dave Chisnall
League of Ireland – St Patrick's Athletic
Winmau World Masters – Stephen Bunting
Oct 15
British racing driver Sean Edwards dies in a crash at the Queensland Raceway in Australia
England bt Poland to qualify for football World Cup
Harry Wilson becomes Wales’s youngest-ever player, aged 16
Elite League final – Poole Pirates bt Birmingham Brummies
Oct 16
India (362-1) pull off the second-highest run chase in one-day internationals, against Australia
PGA Grand Slam of Golf (Bermuda) – Adam Scott. 2nd Justin Rose
Paul Downton appointed as ECB managing director
Oct 17
Roy Hodgson forced to apologize for ‘feed the monkey’ joke which was allegedly racist against Andros Townsend
Oct 18
Indian Open final – Ding Junhui bt Aditya Mehta, the first Indian player to make the last four of a major ranking event
Toulouse bt Saracens at Wembley in front of a crowd of 61,428 – a record for a Heineken Cup pool game in Britain
European Track Championships (Netherlands) –
Men’s team pursuit – GB
Women’s team pursuit – GB
Omnium – Trott
Germany finish top of the medal table
Oct 19
Bristol's British and Irish Cup game at Aberavon is abandoned after a deep hole appeared on the Talbot Athletic pitch
Gerrard scores 100th goal in Premier League
Champion Stakes – Farhh
Italy bt England in Rugby League World Cup warm-up match
Oct 20
Roy Hodgson and Rio Ferdinand join FA commission
World Superbike Championship – Tom Sykes (GB), riding a Kawasaki
Indy Car series title – Scott Dixon (New Zealand)
World Seniors Championship – Steve Davis
Oct 21
Russian Daniil Kvyat, aged 19, will race for Toro Rosso next season
World Amateur Boxing Championships (Kazakhstan) –
Flyweight. Bronze – Andrew Selby (Wales)
Middleweight. Bronze – Anthony Fowler (England)
Oct 23
Ian Holloway leaves as manager of Crystal Palace
Oct 25
South Africa penalized five runs for ball tampering during the second Test against Pakistan
Oct 26
Suarez hat-trick against WBA
Oct 27
Indian GP – Vettel, Rosberg, Grosjean. Fourth consecutive world title for Vettel
WTA Championships final (Istanbul) – Serena Williams bt Li Na
49ers bt Jaguars at Wembley
BMW Masters (Shanghai) – Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
Oct 28
Fiji play rugby league world cup match in Rochdale. Fijians have played for Rochdale since 1961
World Billiards Championship – David Causier (points), Peter Gilchrist (timed)
Oct 30
World Series – Boston Red Sox bt St Louis Cardinals 4-2. Series MVP – David Ortiz
Bale scores first two goals for Real Madrid in 7-3 win against Sevilla
Ross Brawn to leave Mercedes
November
Nov 2
Man City 7 Norwich 0
Begovic scores for Stoke against Southampton
Ryan Hall overtakes Sam Tomkins to become England’s all-time leading rugby league try scorer
Saracens’ ex-rugby league centre Joel Tomkins makes his England debut against Australia
Rohit Sharma becomes only the third man to score a double century in one-day international cricket, smashing 209 from 158 balls for India against Australia. His 16 sixes breaks Shane Watson's previous ODI record of 15
Nov 3
Fed Cup final – Italy bt Russia
Abu Dhabi GP – Vettel, Webber, Rosberg
WGC-HSBC Champions tournament (Shanghai) – Dustin Johnson
World Championship squash final (Manchester) – Nick Matthew bt Gregory Gaultier
Ding Junhui secures his third ranking title in a row with victory in the final of the International Championship in Chengdu
Nov 4
Billingham Town play with the minimum-allowed number (seven) in order to avoid a fine for forfeiting the match against Stockton Town in the Durham Challenge Cup but lose 14-0
Nov 5
Melbourne Cup – Foirente
Negredo hat-trick for Man City against CSKA Moscow
Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane appointed as the Republic of Ireland coaching team
Nov 7
AP McCoy rides Mountain Tunes to victory at Towcester, to become the first jump jockey to ride 4000 winners
Royal London to sponsor 50-over county cricket competition next year
Nov 8
Under-17 World Cup final (Abu Dhabi) – Nigeria bt Mexico
Nov 9
ATP World Finals group standings –
Group A – Nadal, Wawrinka, Berdych, Ferrer
Group B – Djokovic, Federer, Del Potro, Gasquet
Champion jockey – Richard Hughes
Champion apprentice jockey – Jason Hart
Champion trainer – Richard Hannon
BT Sport wins the rights to show all Champions League and Europa League matches from 2015
AFC Champions League – Guangzhou Evergrande. First Chinese winners
Top scorer and MVP – Muriqui (Guangzhou Evergrande, born in Brazil)
Nov 10
MotoGP final standings – 1st Marc Marquez (Honda), 2nd Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha), 3rd Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
Marquez (Spain) is youngest MotoGP champion, aged 20
Constructors’ champion – Honda
Moto2 – Pol Espargaro
Moto3 – Maverick Vinales
Semi-finals – Djokovic bt Federer, Nadal bt Wawrinka
CAF Champions League – Al-Ahly (Egypt)
Nov 11
Final – Djokovic bt Nadal
Doubles final – Marrero and Verdasco bt Bryan and Bryan
Massa to replace Maldonado at Williams next year
Nov 12
Cartier racehorse of the year – Treve
Nov 13
Pride Park to be renamed the iPro Stadium
Kevin Magnussen will replace Perez at McLaren next year
Nov 14
Heiki Kovalainen will replace Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus for the final two races of the season after Michael Schumacher turned down the opportunity
Nov 15
England debuts for Adam Lallana, Jay Rodriguez, and Fraser Forster in home defeat to Chile
Frank Lampard wins 100th cap
Tendulkar 74 (c Sammy b Deonarine) in 200th and final Test, against West Indies in Mumbai
Birmingham to host 2018 World Indoors Athletics Championships
Raimondo D'Inzeo dies
Nov 16
Launchbury scores England’s only try against New Zealand. Dan Carter wins 100th cap
World Athletes of the Year – Bolt and Fraser-Pryce
Paddy Power Gold Cup – Johns Spirit
Nov 17
Davis Cup final – Czech Republic bt Serbia. Stepanek bt Lajovic in deciding rubber
Wales Rally GB – Sebastien Ogier
World championship – Ogier (Volkswagen Polo R)
World Tour Championship (Dubai) – Stenson, who becomes the first man to win the Race to Dubai and FedEx Cup in the same year
Hurricane Fly sets a world record for Grade One victories (17)
United States GP (Circuit of the Americas, Austin) – Vettel, Grosjean, Webber
Grand Slam of Darts final (Wolverhampton) – Taylor bt Robert Thornton
Jimmie Johnson wins his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup championship title
Nov 18
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award – Peter Uihlein (USA)
Nov 19
Matchroom Sport revives Champion of Champions to replace Premier League Snooker. Last won in 1980 by Doug Mountjoy
Gibraltar draw with Slovakia in first-ever match
England 0 Germany 1 (Mertesacker). First time since 1977 that England have lost two consecutive home games (against Wales and Scotland)
Nov 21
Pietersen – 100 Test matches
National League MVP – Andrew McCutchen (Pittsburgh Pirates). American League MVP – Miguel Cabrera (Detroit Tigers)
Demolition of Don Valley Stadium starts
Nov 22
Richard Hannon to retire at the end of the year
Nov 23
World Cup semi-finals – New Zealand bt England, Australia bt Fiji
Tony Pulis appointed as manager of Crystal Palace
Carl Froch retains his WBA and IBF super-middleweight titles with a controversial stoppage of George Groves at Manchester Arena. Referee – Howard Foster
Scott Quigg retains his WBA super-bantamweight title
Nov 24
First Test (Brisbane) – Australia 295 (Broad 6-81) and 401-7 (Warner 124, Clarke 113) England 136 and 179 (Johnson 5-42). Australia won by 381 runs
Champion of Champions final (Ricoh Arena) – O’Sullivan bt Bingham
Man City 6 Spurs 0
World Cup of Golf (Melbourne) – Australia (Scott and Day). Individual – Day
Brazilian GP – Vettel, Webber, Alonso
Vettel equals Ascari’s record of nine consecutive wins
Vettel equals Schumacher’s record of 13 wins in a season
Button breaks Coulthard’s UK record of 246 GPs
Max Chilton becomes the first driver to finish every race of his rookie season
Final standings – 1st Vettel 397 points, 2nd Alonso 242, 3rd Webber
Constructors – 1st Red Bull, 2nd Mercedes, 3rd Ferrari
Grey Cup – Saskatchewan Roughriders bt Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Japan Cup – Gentildonna
Nov 25
Bill Foulkes dies
Jonathan Trott leaves the Ashes tour of Australia because of a long-standing stress-related condition
Michael Clarke is fined 20% of his match fee for warning England's James Anderson to ‘expect a broken arm’
Nov 26
Shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year award – Ainslie, Bell, Cockroft, Farah, Froome, Halfpenny, McCoy, Murray, Ohuruogu, Rose
Jonathan Paget is set to lose his Burghley title after his horse failed a drugs test
T20 competition to be called NatWest T20 Blast next year
Nov 28
WTA Tour Player of the Year – Serena Williams
FA criticized for failing to act after £1 million was staked on Asian betting exchanges on Conference match between Billericay Town and Welling
Nov 30
William Hill Sports Book of the Year – ‘Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang’, Jamie Reid
World Cup final (Old Trafford) – Australia 34 New Zealand 2. Man-of-the-match Jonathan Thurston kicks 14 points
Hennessy Gold Cup – Triolo d’Alene
European Curling Championships (Stavanger) –
Men's team – Switzerland
Women's team – Sweden
December
Dec 1
Australian Open – McIlroy
Nedbank Golf Challenge – Thomas Bjorn
Rene Meulensteen replaces Martin Jol as manager of Fulham
Scottish Cup – Hearts 0 Celtic 7
Players Championship final – Van Gerwen bt Taylor
Assem Allam, the Egyptian-born businessman and owner of Hull City, tells the club's fans, whom he refers to as hooligans, that they can "die as soon as they want" following protests against his plans to rename the club Hull Tigers
Dec 2
British Figure Skating Championships. Men – Matthew Parr. Women – Jenna McCorkell
BBC African Footballer of the Year – Yaya Toure
Dec 3
IRB Awards –
World Player of the Year – Kieran Read (New Zealand)
Team of the Year – New Zealand. Won all 14 Tests in 2013
Coach of the Year – Steve Hansen
Hulkenberg to rejoin Force India next year
Adidas unveil official 2014 World Cup ball named Brazuca
PGA Tour Player of the Year – Woods. Rookie of the year – Jordan Spieth (USA)
Dec 4
Suarez scores four goals against Norwich and has now scored 11 in last four matches against Norwich
Trainer Gerard Butler banned for five years for doping offences
McDonald Bailey dies. Born in Trinidad. Won bronze medal in 100m for GB at 1952 Olympic Games
Dec 5
Sunday Times and Sky Sports Sportswomen of the Year – Ohuruogu
Young Sportswoman of the Year – Becky James
Dec 6
World Cup draw – England will play Italy (Manaus), Uruguay (Sao Paulo), and Costa Rica (Belo Horizonte) in Group D
Bristol Academy boss Mark Sampson is appointed as the new head coach of the England women's team
Dec 7
Selby makes the 100th 147 break in the history of professional snooker, against Walden
MLS Cup final – Sporting Kansas City bt Real Salt Lake
Dec 8
World Challenge – Zach Johnson
Statoil Masters final (Albert Hall) – Rafter bt Henman
Legends final – McEnroe bt Wilander
European Cross Country Championships (Belgrade) –
Women’s – GB. Individual silver medal – Gemma Steel
Men’s individual bronze medal – Andy Vernon
UK Championship final – Robertson bt Selby
Matt Prater (Denver Broncos) sets NFL record with 64-yard field goal
Dec 9
Second Test (Adelaide) – Australia 570-9 (Clarke148, Haddin 118) and 132-3 England 172 (Johnson 7-40) and 312. Australia won by 218 runs
Formula 1 to award double points at the final race of the season from 2014
Ex-Portsmouth player Sam Sodje is secretly filmed by the Sun on Sunday describing how he punched an opponent in a League One game to get a red card in exchange for £70,000
Dec 11
Galatasaray vs Juventus played over two days due to snow
Barcelona 6 (Neymar 3) Celtic 1
Dec 12
Soldado hat-trick for Spurs against Anzhi Makhachkala
Force India replace Paul di Resta with Sergio Perez
Sam Egerton (Oxford) becomes the first player in Varsity Match history to be sent off
International Tennis Federation World Champions – Djokovic and Serena Williams
Dec 13
ICC Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year – Michael Clarke
London Broncos agree a groundshare with Barnet
Adrian Sutil to drive for Sauber next year
Dec 14
Man City 6 Arsenal 3
Dec 15
Steve Clarke sacked as manager of WBA
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (First Direct Arena, Leeds) 1st Murray, 2nd Halfpenny, 3rd McCoy
Overseas Personality – Vettel
Coach – Gatland
Team – British and Irish Lions
Young Personality – Amber Hill (15-year-old skeet shooter)
Diamond Award – Alex Ferguson
Helen Rollason award – Anne Williams (Hillsborough justice campaigner)
Unsung heroes – Joe and Maggie Forber (basketball coaches)
Dec 16
Villas-Boas sacked as manager of Spurs
George Bailey equals the world record for the most runs scored off a Test over, scoring 28 off James Anderson
Dec 17
Third Test (Perth) – Australia 385 (Smith 111) and 369-6 (Warner 112, Watson 103) England 251 and 353 (Stokes 120). Australia won by 150 runs
European Tour Golfer of the Year – Stenson
FIFA Club World Cup semi-final – Bayern Munich bt Guangzhou Evergrande
Shane Shillingford banned from bowling by the ICC
Dec 18
FIFA Club World Cup semi-final –Raja Casablanca bt Atletico Mineiro
Giuseppe Sannino replaces Zola as manager of Watford
Djokovic appoints Becker as head coach
Dec 20
PDC World Championship second round – Michael Smith bt Taylor
Dec 21
IBF world bantamweight title – Stuart Hall (GB)
David Coleman dies
Duel in the Pool (Glasgow) – USA bt Europe
FIFA Club World Cup Final (Marrakesh) – Bayern Munich bt Raja Casablanca
Dec 22
Graeme Swann retires
Gloucester vs Worcester delayed after a giant inflatable rugby ball broke one of the crossbars
Royal Trophy – Europe bt Asia
World Women's Handball Championship – Brazil
South Africa fall eight runs short of a world-record run chase against India by finishing on 450-7
Laura Renwick is crowned the leading rider at the London International Horse Show at Olympia. Ben Maher wins grand prix finale
Dec 23
Tim Sherwood appointed as manager of Spurs
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning breaks the NFL record for touchdown passes in a season
Dec 24
Ron Noades dies
Dec 26
Record crowd for a Test match of 91,092 at first day of Melbourne Test
King George VI Chase – Silviniaco Conti
Dec 27
Malky Mackay sacked as manager of Cardiff City by chairman Vincent Tan
Stefan Edberg joins Roger Federer's coaching team
Dec 28
Welsh National – Mountainous
Hull 6 Fulham 0
Cook becomes youngest batsman to reach 8000 Test runs
Dec 29
Clarke – 8000 Test runs
Fourth Test (Melbourne) – England 255 (Johnson 5-63) and 179 (Lyon 5-50) Australia 204 and 233-2 (Rogers 116). Australia won by 8 wickets
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race – Wild Oats XI
Michael Schumacher suffers a head injury while skiing in Meribel, France
Anelka celebrates goal for WBA with quenelle gesture (inverted Nazi salute)
Dec 30
Jacques Kallis retires. Scored 13,289 Test runs. Scored his 45th Test hundred in his final match, against India
Dec 31
New Years Honours –
CBE – Ann Jones, David Bernstein, Karren Brady
OBE – Dave Bedford, Rachel Yankey, Geoff Miller
MBE – Katy McLean (England rugby union captain)
