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West Bromwich Albion1 Southampton 1: Brunt lifts Albion to Premier heights

West Bromwich Albion last night celebrated a third promotion in seven seasons as Chris Brunt's late goal clawed a draw from the jaws of improbable defeat.

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Saracens 16 Munster 18: Hill's heroics not enough as Saracens fall short of summit

One of the great games. Again. You can set your timepiece by these Heineken Cup classics, so regularly have they occurred over the last 13 years. Munster, indisputably the finest exponents of European rugby in the British Isles, will meet Toulouse, the best exponents anywhere, in next month's final at the Millennium Stadium after surviving this tourniquet-tight tie in front of a 30,000-plus audience, but the story that demands to be written is the story of Saracens. It will be told in and around North London for ever and a day.

O'Brien's ascendancy restored by Duke

The skirmishing is over, the big push imminent, and yesterday the heavy artillery at last began their bombardment. Aidan O'Brien, who had saddled just two winners since the beginning of the month, began Guineas week by rolling out two of his big guns and each found an immediate range. True, Yeats was made to work pretty hard to win a listed race at Navan, but morale at Ballydoyle could only be fortified by news from Paris, where Duke Of Marmalade won the stable its first Group One prize of the year.

Clarke wins for first time since losing wife to cancer

Darren Clarke is back. That was the message that was making its joyous way through the world of golf last night following the Ulsterman's dramatic triumph at the Asian Open in Shanghai.

Nadal's clay mastery leaves Federer behind

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have played some thrilling tennis in their 15 meetings but the best that could be said of their final in the Monte Carlo Masters here yesterday was that the quality was variable. A match of occasional peaks and frequent troughs, particularly on the part of Federer, ended with Nadal maintaining his stranglehold on the clay-court game with a 7-5, 7-5 victory.

Raikkonen warns competitors Ferrari can go faster

Was Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya quite as close as the result seemed to suggest, with Kimi Raikkonen finishing 3.2s ahead of his team-mate Felipe Massa, who in turn led Lewis Hamilton home by 0.9s as the Englishman beat Robert Kubica to the line by 1.5s? Not according to Raikkonen.

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