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- SNP hail city businessman backing
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Sport
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John Huggan: Bubba Watson’s win was pleasing end to an absorbing – and often annoying – Masters
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Richard Bath: ‘The debate surrounding Bahrain shouldn’t be about safety, it should be about whether it’s right’
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Aidan Smith: Bricking it as the Holy Grail returns into view
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Tom English: ‘Every time Kenny Dalglish does an interview he looks a year older and is even more truculent’
Favourite Edgardo Sol fails to take hurdle in stride
THE chief supporting race to the Coral Scottish Grand National was the Isle of Skye Blended Whisky Scottish Champion Hurdle, which proved a disappointment to favourite-backers as Edgardo Sol ran his race the way a fish bicycles.
John Huggan: Scottish golf should look at itself before playing blame game
SCOTTISH golf is blaming all kinds of things for a decline in membership, but clubs should take a look in their own overgrown back yard first
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Olympics: Susan Partridge hunts taste of Games
CONFRONTED with an almost impossible athletic choice, Susan Partridge admits she will act on instinct this morning rather than pre-determine her fate.
Branden Grace moves into top gear in the Volvo
SOUTH African Branden Grace took a three-shot lead in the Volvo China Open after a sparkling eight-under-par third round of 64 left him on 18 under.
Snooker: Liang Wenbo allows John Higgins back into frame
DEFENDING snooker world champion John Higgins took a narrow lead into last night’s concluding session of his first-round clash with Liang Wenbo at the Crucible – but it was almost a very different story.
Football
Tom English: ‘If Bill Miller’s statement doesn’t galvanise Paul Murray and his cohorts then nothing will’
WHEN do you know that this Rangers story is playing an unhealthily significant part in your life? When you start dreaming about it, that’s when. When you find yourself sitting in the black chair at Mastermind answering John Humphrys’ questions on your specialist subject – Bill Miller and the battle for Rangers football club.
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Aidan Smith: Ticket? Being a chancer would be a fine thing...
WELL, my voice is still hoarse on account of not having done much shouting recently.
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Interview - Eamonn Bannon, former Hearts and Hibernian player
EAMONN Bannon lost four finals but his derby record gives him a special insight into the capital’s biggest-ever clash
7 commentsJames Forrest to put Celtic before Team GB
CELTIC’S James Forrest has all but ruled himself out of competing in the London Olympics for Team GB.
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Tom English: Olympic football offers insight into stars of the future
PITY the marketing manager for Oman versus Senegal at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry tomorrow night. Imagine getting that gig? A match to decide the final qualifying spot for the Olympic football tournament and not a star to be found. Senegal’s Demba Ba? Nah. Papiss Cisse, his Newcastle mate? Like Ba – the wrong birth date. Too old, you see. And probably not too interested either.
Rugby
The good Boks: Ulster’s faith in South Africans is being rewarded
THERE does not seem any immediate connection between the slate grey province of Northern Ireland and the sun-kissed, cultural kaleidoscope that is the Republic of South Africa but, in a bid to bring back the glory years, Ulster Rugby persuaded four of the Springboks’ finest to join their crusade.
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Ripping up the rule book may prove the right move for Edinburgh’s radicals
GENTEEL and Georgian, Edinburgh was at one time known for producing nonconformists who blazed their very own trail, and now the capital’s rugby club have torn up every rule in the book on their way to next Saturday’s Heineken Cup semi-final in Dublin.
Hawick win own sevens event for fifth straight year
Hawick made it five titles in a row after winning their own tournament at Mansfield Park yesterday with a 36-7 win over Jed-Forest in an unexpectedly one-sided final.
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Interview: Grant Gilchrist, Edinburgh lock
BORN in Alloa, a spell in New Zealand was the making of the young lock, says Iain Morrison
Fit-again Van der Merwe keen to do an Italian job for Glasgow
SEAN Lineen admitted the other day that every game for Glasgow is now must-win and his side’s match against Treviso in Italy this afternoon is no different.
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Golf
Borders player breaks duck as Craig Howie gets hands on title
CRAIG Howie, a 17-year-old from Peebles, is the first player from a Borders club to win the Scottish Boys’ Championship after rounding off a week of comebacks to crush St Andrews’ Ewan Scott by 7 and 6 in the final of the Paul Lawrie Foundation-sponsored event.
Malaysia Open: Steven Gallacher weathers the storms to hold second spot in Malaysia
SCOTLAND’S Stephen Gallacher was lying in second place at the Malaysian Open when play was abandoned for the day due to storms yesterday.
Masters 2012: Tiger Woods says sorry
Woods apologises for kicking club and swearing during dismal second round
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Masters 2012: Happy Couples thrives on course he loves
RORY McIlroy was not even three when Fred Couples won the 1992 Masters, but yesterday they were locked in battle at Augusta National.
Rory McIlroy Masters any fear of Augusta
THE road to redemption began almost immediately for Rory McIlroy after his meltdown at last year’s Masters. Instead of allowing his final-round collapse to haunt him, the Northern Irishman used it for motivation, writes Julian Linden.
Other sports
Snooker: Stephen Hendry back with a bang
STEPHEN Hendry shrugged off the effects of a 10,000-mile round trip to China as he fired in a thrilling 147 maximum break on day one of the Betfred.com World Championship.
Ivan Lendl wants Andy Murray to be a bullyboy
DON’T tell his mother, but Andy Murray is turning into a bullyboy. He is not very good at it yet – it is not really in his nature – but, under the tutelage of Ivan Lendl, he is trying to become a bit of a thug.
Davis Cup: Fleming and Hutchins take tie into last day with doubles win
Davis Cup captain Leon Smith lavished praise on Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins after the doubles pair kept alive Britain’s slim hopes of beating Belgium in Glasgow.
Scots forced to take long route to final
Scotland just failed to take the direct route to today’s final at the World Men’s Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland, as they went down to a 6-7 extra end loss to Canada in yesterday’s play-off game. As a result, they now face Sweden in the semi-final.
Richard Bath: Forget bad boy Balotelli – here’s ten sportspeople who truly deserved a daily slap
ROBERTO Mancini’s revelation that he told unfeasibly irritating and divisive striker Mario Balotelli that “if you played with me, ten years ago, I give to you every day one punch in your head!” got us thinking.
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- Rangers administration: Fans hit out at SFA
- Rangers administration: ‘We would welcome application from Rangers to rejoin the SFL’
- Scots take more pride in Billy Connolly than the Queen, says survey
- Arlene Fraser murder trial: Estranged husband called to testify
- Scots take more pride in Billy Connolly than the Queen, says survey
- Yes, I agreed to lobby for News International, admits Alex Salmond
- FMQs: Rupert Murdoch played Alex Salmond like a fool, opponents say
- Scottish council elections: Holyrood favours east coast, insists west
- The Rumour Mill: Wednesday’s football news and gossip
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