England manager Roy Hodgson has told striker Daniel Sturridge that he must be prepared to adapt his game if he wants to play an important role at the World Cup.
Sturridge scored the only goal of the game as England beat Denmark 1-0 at Wembley Stadium earlier this week in their final friendly match before Hodgson names his 23-man squad for the tournament in Brazil.
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Manchester United manager David Moyes hailed the transformation by his players as they bounced back from a Champions League defeat with a 3-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion.
Goals from Phil Jones, Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck eased pressure on the under-fire Moyes as United moved into sixth place in the Premier League on Saturday.
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Briton Richard Kilty, only racing as a replacement for injured teammate James Dasaolu, was a shock winner of the men's 60m gold at the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Kilty, 24, made a storming start and held his form to time a personal best of 6.49 seconds for a remarkable gold and said he thrived on his underdog tag in the lead-up to the race.
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Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said "something is not right" with Lionel Messi after the Argentina forward vomited during an international friendly.
The 26-year-old Messi doubled-over and appeared to be sick during Argentina's 0-0 draw against Romania on Wednesday.
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As Bayern Munich close in on another Bundesliga title, coach Pep Guardiola admitted on Friday that there are unlikely to be many changes to his squad ahead of next season.
Guardiola was taken by surprise when asked about the club's plans for the summer as he prepared for Saturday's trip to play Wolfsburg.
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Formula One's latest changes mean the sexy purr of engines and the violent throttle of speed won't quite be what they used to be.
The usual title talk has surrounded preseason testing as usual, but the normally boisterous roar of F1's engines has been slightly subdued.
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Lleyton Hewitt scratched out a 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-3 victory over fellow Australian Matthew Ebden on Thursday in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open to move within one of joining the ATP Tour's 600-win club.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are the only active players to have reached the milestone. The 33-year-old Hewitt will face 17th-seeded Kevin Anderson in the second round.
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Carson Yeung, the part-owner of English Championship club Birmingham City, has been sentenced to six years in jail for money laundering.
Hong Kong District Court judge Douglas Yau handed down the sentence on Friday after Yeung was found guilty on Monday over the receipt of 721 million Hong Kong dollars ($93 million) using five bank accounts between January 2001 and December 2007.
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Dozens of Muslim students from the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir were expelled from their university and briefly threatened with sedition charges because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a televised match against arch rival India, police said Thursday, while the Indian state's elected leader called for leniency.
Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of northern Uttar Pradesh state, said he told state officials that such a serious charge as sedition, which carries a possible life sentence, should be not be used because the students probably didn't understand the gravity of their actions.
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Even after its heaviest Six Nations defeat in five years, France is still in the title race.
But with points differential likely to determine the champion, France has the worst of the four teams tied for the lead — plus one. Ireland, by contrast, was plus 42.
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