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SINGER Johnny Cash burst onto the music scene in June, 1955, when his double A-side ‘Hey Porter’ and ‘Cry, Cry, Cry’ reached no 14 in the US country charts.

Racing Metro have signed Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

Racing Metro have signed Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

The head of the company promoting Michael Jackson’s ill-fated comeback concerts told jurors he never consulted a mental health professional to help the singer despite being urged to do so by two show bosses.

Damien Delaney has saluted play-off final hero Kevin Phillips after seeing him reap the rewards of his professionalism at the age of 39.

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Hooker Mike Sherry has revealed the lengths Munster are prepared to go to sort out their scrum infringements — including playing audio of referee engagement calls while they are training.

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Bayonne have suspended their Wales international scrum-half Mike Phillips until further notice.

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UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos said he expects Phillips Idowu to do “very well” at the London Olympics, even though head coach Charles van Commenee said he does not know if the triple jumper will be fit.

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VENGEANCE will have to wait.And with a year until Irelandmeet Wales again, the video tapes viewed today by the Ireland camp will fuel another sense of injustice to be added to the festering wounds Wales seem to inflict on Declan Kidney’s side.

AFTER 46 games and a weekend of semi-final action characterised by controversy, drama, incident and passion, the 2011 version of the World Cup has produced a carbon copy of what transpired here at the inaugural event 24 years ago — a final contested by New Zealand and France with Australia and Wales battling for the bronze medal.

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MARTIN JOHNSON insists England’s preparations for tomorrow’s clash with Romania will not be thrown off course by the arrival in Dunedin of Zara Phillips.

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Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips will be allowed to leave the Ospreys at the end of this season.

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THERE may not be any silverware on offer for Ireland at the Aviva Stadium but there is an awful lot besides resting on the outcome of their RBS 6 Nations finale with England this evening.

Declan Kidney refuses to allow his Ireland players to dwell on the injustice of Saturday’s 19-13 defeat by Wales.

Keith Earls has added his voice to the chorus of discontent led by Brian O’Driscoll by describing Ireland’s 19-13 RBS 6 Nations defeat by Wales as “sickening”.

DARREN BENT insists he has moved from Sunderland to Aston Villa for “footballing reasons” after completing a club record £18million (€21.5m) move to the midlands club.

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THE eldest grand-daughter of Britain’s queen, Zara Phillips, is to wed her rugby-playing boyfriend Mike Tindall, Buckingham Palace has announced, in a marriage of world-beating sports stars.

ON ONE hand, writing about Munster playing at home in the Heineken Cup is the simplest assignment in the world.

The US military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to abolish its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

A federal judge ordered the US military to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops immediately, bringing the 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished.

A US judge today moved to end the military’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger lost his cool during his post-match press conference after a late goal from Birmingham striker Kevin Phillips dented his side’s Barclays Premier League title hopes.

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LIONS assistant backs coach Rob Howley yesterday admitted that Irish trio Jerry Flannery, Stephen Ferris and Tomas O’Leary would have made their mark at Test level on this tour but for injury.

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The unassuming ship’s captain who escaped the clutches of Somali pirates made a triumphant return home, insisting he was no hero.

US president Barack Obama vowed to “halt the rise of piracy” as shipmates of the rescued American freighter captain called for tough action against Somali bandits.

Pirate hostages were feared at risk of a violent backlash from their captors today in the wake of the successful freeing of an American merchant captain.

AN American ship’s captain was freed unharmed yesterday in a US Navy operation that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a senior US intelligence official said.

FBI hostage negotiators joined US navy efforts yesterday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates.