In front of a capacity crowd of 81,600, a world record for a club match in rugby union, Wasps give their retiring captain
Lawrence Dallaglio a grand send-off by winning their fourth Premiership title in six seasons.
Gretna were demoted a further two divisions, due to their financial instability. They are scheduled to play their 2008–09 games in the Scottish Third Division, however this is not certain due to Gretna having no squad members.
The match between Japan and Singapore was a replay from 26 May. All other matches are replays from 28 May. The rained out matches will not be replayed. These matches conclude the group stage of the tournament.
Botswana vs. Japan-Match abandoned without a ball bowled
The ICC Event Technical Committee, as per 12.1.6 of the ICC World Cricket League Division 5 Playing Conditions,
decided not to replay all of group B's abandoned games(Afghanistan vs. Jersey,Bahamas vs. Singapore,Botswana vs. Japan). Group A's abandoned matches, along with a match between Japan and Singapore are to be played on 29 May.
Christian Reitz(
GER), the reigning World Junior Champion, equals the world record in
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol with 591 points and enters the final one point ahead of teammate
Ralf Schumann. Increasing the gap to the runner-up by over three points, he then raises Schumann's week-old final world record from 790.0 to 794.0.
Sonja Pfeilschifter(
GER) becomes the tenth woman to break maximum 400 points in the qualification round of
10 m Air Rifle, and sets a new final record after a score of 105.0 (out of the possible 109.0) in the final round.
The 36th edition of the U-21 tourny is shaping up as Chile and Japan have already qualified to the semi-finals from group A which included the host
France and the 2 time back to back U-21 Euro Champions Netherlands. Chile and Japan meet tomorrow to finalize the group A standings.
Cristiano Ronaldo kicks off the scoring for the Red Devils in the 26th minute, and
Frank Lampard answers for the Blues in the 45th minute. After a clean second half and scoreless
extra time, Ronaldo has United's third penalty kick saved by
Petr Čech. But
John Terry misses the fifth (and what would have been final) penalty kick for Chelsea to make it square again. The Red Devils seal the Champions League/
Premier League double when
Edwin van der Sar saves
Nicolas Anelka's attempt in the seventh round.
The
Chicago Bulls earn the first pick in the draft despite having only a 1.7% chance of winning the lottery. The
Miami Heat, with the league's worst record, draw the second pick.
The Spurs, with
Manu Ginóbili leading all scorers with 26 and
Tim Duncan picking up a
double-double, survive a furious fourth-quarter Hornets comeback
in New Orleans that saw a 17-point lead reduced to 3 within the last two minutes. They now travel to
Los Angeles to start the Western Conference Finals with the
Lakers.
Ralf Schumann(
GER), the three-time Olympic champion, wins the high-class
25 m Rapid Fire Pistol competition with a new final world record of 790.0 points, 1.2 points higher than his own year-old mark.
Ilya Kovalchuk scores his first goal of the tournament to tie the game with only five minutes left in regulation time, and his second in
overtime, giving Russia its second title (24th if combined with the Soviet Union). Silver medalist
Dany Heatley is named the tournament's most valuable player after a total of 20 points.
The Penguins comfortably win the Pennsylvania derby to win the
Prince of Wales Trophy as Eastern Conference champions, and clinch a place in the
Stanley Cup Finals.
Paul Pierce scores 41 points, including the clinching free throws with 7.9 seconds left, and the Celtics survive a 45-point onslaught from
LeBron Jamesat home.
Nwankwo Kanu's goal in the 37th minute is enough to give Pompey their first major trophy since winning back-to-back
league titles in
1949 and
1950 and their first FA Cup since
1939.
Big Brown becomes the fourth horse to complete the
Derby–
Preakness double while still unbeaten, winning by 5¼ lengths. He will be the eleventh horse to enter the
Belmont Stakes with a chance at the
Triple Crown since
Affirmed became the most recent horse to win it in 1978.
South Africandouble-amputee sprinter
Oscar Pistorius, who had previously been disqualified from participating in the Olympic Games by the
IAAF because he uses prosthetic legs, has won an appeal of the decision to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport. The IAAF accepted the decision. He is cleared to qualify for individual events, and has already been selected for relay events.
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The
Oakland A's score an
unearned run off
Aaron Laffey in the second inning of their 4–2 loss to the
Cleveland Indians, ending the scoreless streak of Indians starting pitchers at 44⅓ innings. The streak was the longest of its type in the
Major Leagues in 34 years. Tribe starters still haven't given up an earned run in 50⅓ innings. (
AP via Yahoo)
Zenit break a scoreless tie in the 72nd minute with an
Igor Denisov goal, and the Russians put an exclamation point on their win with a
Konstantin Zyryanov goal in added time. The game is marred by
rioting among Rangers supporters in the Manchester city centre.
NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell, in a news conference following a three-hour meeting with former
New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh regarding the
Spygate affair, indicates that the league learned nothing new as a result of the meeting.
(AP via ESPN)
In the top of the fifth inning during the second game of a doubleheader, Indians
second basemanAsdrúbal Cabrera turns the 14th
unassisted triple play in MLB history, and the fourth turned by a second baseman. He started it by catching a line drive by
Lyle Overbay for the first out, then touched second base to bring the second out on
Kevin Mench, and tagged out
Marco Scutaro for the third out.
Avram Grant's side come up short in their title ambitions, after stuttering to a draw at home to Bolton.
Andriy Shevchenko had given the Blues the lead, but a late equaliser from
Kevin Davies helped to cement Bolton's place in the Premiership and diminish Chelsea's slim chance of the title.
Derby County finished the worst season for a Premiership member with one win, eight draws and 29 losses for a total of 11 points and a goal differential of minus-69 (with 20 goals scored as a team, were outscored by three players and 89 against, also premiership records) surpassing the 2003–04 and 2005–06 Sunderland teams, and their 29 losses tied the 2005–06 Black Cats' total losses.
The
ESPN series Outside the Lines reports that former
USC star
O. J. Mayo received thousands of
dollars in cash and merchandise from a runner for a
sports agent during Mayo's high school career and his only season at
USC. These benefits are against
NCAA rules.
(ESPN)
Behind a balanced attack that saw six players score in double figures, CSKA win their second Euroleague crown in three years and sixth overall. CSKA's
Trajan Langdon, who led the winners with 21 points, is named Final Four MVP.
Despite being blown out at the
TD Banknorth Garden, the Hawks were able to survive the Celtics at the
Philips Arena to force game 7 in which the Celtics easily won.
Dick Advocaat's side progress to their first major European final after a dominant performance over the former winners of the tournament. Goals from
Pavel Pogrebnyak (2),
Konstantin Zyryanov and
Viktor Fayzulin inflict the joint-worst defeat suffered by Bayern in European competition. Pogrebnyak will miss the final however, after picking up a yellow card for an elbow to the face of
Lúcio, having taken his scoring tally for the competition to 11.
Walter Smith guided his 10-man Rangers team to their first European final since 1972 after a hard-fought display in
Florence. Despite having
Daniel Cousin sent off in extra time, Rangers held out for the duration and took the game to a
penalty shootout. At first, things looked bad for the Scots, when
Sébastien Frey brilliantly saved
Barry Ferguson's penalty.
Kuzmanović,
Whittaker,
Montolivo and
Papac were all successful with their kicks to leave the score at 2–2. Fiorentina's third penalty-taker
Fabio Liverani then saw his penalty saved by
Neil Alexander to leave the shootout level.
Brahim Hemdani then scored to make it 3–2, which meant that
Christian Vieri had to score to keep the fate of the shootout in their hands. He ballooned the penalty over the bar, which left
Nacho Novo to score the winning penalty and see Rangers into the final.