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Leicester may be one of only two Premiership clubs with a squad to die for: Gloucester, who would like to be Leicester but are not quite good enough, are the other. But the Midlanders will still be concerned at the latest developments on the disciplinary front after losing Julian White, their international tight-head prop, to suspension for the next fortnight - the predictable consequence of the punch he landed on his fellow England front-rower Andrew Sheridan during last Saturday's fiery match with Sale.

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 7. AUSTIN Staab and Jimmy Feigen, the past two male high school swimmers of the year in Swimming World Magazine, join The Morning Swim Show Wednesday to talk about their swims ...

According to survey most cricket fans would back the return of live Test matches to freetoair television.

Joe Maddon 70 Manager Age: 55 Born/lives: Hazleton, Pa./Brea, Calif. Playing career: Played three seasons as Class A catcher.

Scout.com's Chris Steuber will host Scout NFL Radio every Tuesday from 6 - 8 p.m. EST. The phone lines will open during the broadcast; the number is 484-483-7448 and fans are encouraged to call in. If you have any questions for Steuber prior to the show, email him at: csteuber@scout.com.

North Carolina had lofty expectations to meet this season, but Monday's title romp showed it could live up to them, Mark Kriegel says.

There was much discussion on this site yesterday in dfrancon's FanPost about various blackouts that were, inexplicably, in place during yesterday's Opening Day telecast of the Cubs/Astros game. (I presume similar blackouts were in effect for other games, but I have no direct evidence of such.) Maury Brown of Biz of Baseball, who has written intelligently on this topic many times, posted again today on the subject, quoting MLB's blackout rules: * Local Live Blackout: ALL LIVE MLB.TV games will be blacked out in each applicable Club's home television territory (except for certain home television territories for which MLB.com may offer in-market subscription services) or in Japan. * National Live Blackout (Regular Season): Due to Major League Baseball national exclusivities, each Saturday until 7:00 PM EST (beginning May 17, 2008 and continuing for remaining Saturdays during the regular season) and each Sunday night (for games that begin after 5:00 PM EST), all scheduled webcasts of gam

Connacht travel to Franklins Gardens this Saturday to take on the mighty Northampton in the European Challenge Cup Quarter Finals. The game kicks off at 3pm and is not on television unfortunately. Galway Bay FM will carry Live Commentary and will provide the only link back home should things get interesting.

Read the transcript from our live chat with Raiders blogger Jerry McDonald, which was held Tuesday, April 7 on our 'Inside the Oakland Raiders' blog.

This week sees a break from Guinness Premiership Rugby to allow the return of the European Challenge Cup and a visit from Brive. This 1/4 final is going to be very much a international affair as the combined Brive and Worcester sides will be a veritable league of nations. Going by the last team Brive put out in the Top 14 against Toulouse and my predictionfor the Worcester side,