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A freshly showered horse after a morning run at Churchill Downs where preparation for the weekend’s Kentucky Derby is well under way.

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• Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland will take on Northern Ireland in June, but the FAI are not inviting anyone along to see it.
• Ireland under 20 coach Nigel Carolan has announced his squad to take on the world in this summer’s JWC in Italy.
• Two Dublin GAA stars have appeared in an advert calling for a Yes vote in next month’s referendum.
• Joe Brolly can smell the Championship air, so he went on the warpath last night to take on Cork.
• The Rebel hurlers have left the door open for Conor O’Sullivan to return to the setup.
• Meath hurlers are in the news too as they launched a new kit for the summer.

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• Albuquerqe police want to question UFC champion Jon Jones in relation to a car accident where a pregnant woman was injured.
• St Mirren captain Steve Thompson thought it would be ‘a laugh’ to launch a spiked pole at a teammate. The blood spurting out of John McGunn’s thigh told a different story.
• Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers says nothing less than five straight wins will do to get his side into the Champions League.
• Manchester United’s glorious march back into the top four could face a big speedbump amid fears Wayne Rooney has played his last game of the season.

The Best Thing We Shared Today

Jason Day is very good at golf. The42 is not.

Therefore, this gives us a bottomless source of Schadenfreude.

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On The Record

“I thought it was a bush-league play. I have no doubt in my mind that he did it on purpose.”

– Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers dislocated his shoulder and he want everyone to be clear about where the blame should lie. 

Where We Were Today

Fintan O’Toole was at Croke Park ahead of Sunday’s Cork-Waterford Allianz hurling league final.

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The Fixture List

Liverpool can close the gap to fourth-place Manchester United to just four points if they can win their game in hand away to Hull.

Long before then, there’s a Schools Junior A Football final in Clonmel where St Brendan’s (Killarney)  take on Good Counsel (New Ross) at 1pm.

Showbiz, Baby!

The artists formerly known as Marky Mark and Puff Diddy are betting a disgusting amount of money on this weekend’s big fight and they want you to know about it.

As long as we don’t have to talk to eachother…