Royal Troon Golf Club is to hold a "comprehensive review" of its membership policy.

Since St Andrews voted to end its 260-year-old male-only membership policy in September, the spotlight has fallen on the other three courses on the Open Championship rota - Troon, Muirfield and Royal St George's - with the same rules.

Troon has always pointed towards the fact it shares facilities with the Ladies Golf Club, Troon and the two clubs will share the responsibility of hosting The Open in 2016.

Bath have awarded new contracts to hooker Tom Dunn and lock Charlie Ewels.

Ewels, 19, made his starting debut in the European Champions Cup game against Toulouse and has captained the first team in the LV= Cup, while 22-year-old Dunn has made 22 senior appearances.

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William Kearney:, external Neil 'he ate all the pies' Shipperley for Brentford. At that stage of his career he almost had to be rolled on to the pitch.

Matthew Smith:, external For Boro, if someone had maybe suggested spending £12.7m on Afonso Alves wasn't so smart, that would have helped us a lot.

Geoff Naylor:, external Justin Fashanu was brought in to replace Trevor Francis at Forest. That says enough I think. Since then it's been downhill.

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A few weeks after playing in front of more than 60,000 people in the Indian Super League, defender Jamie McAllister is back in the UK and set to sample the delights of League Two with Exeter City.

BBC Sheffield sports editor Andy Giddings:, external Understand Uche Ikpeazu is travelling to Doncaster now, ahead of a proposed loan deal from Watford.

BBC Sport's Simon Stone reports: "Wigan Athletic are refusing to comment on reports that Adam Forshaw is going to sign for Middlesbrough. Forshaw was signed from Brentford by former boss Uwe Rosler at the start of the season, signing a four-year contract."

Adam Jones might have retired from international rugby after being left out of Wales' 2015 Six Nations squad but former Wales centre Tom Shanklin believes the Cardiff Blues tight-head will add to his 95 caps.

Splendid news... Andy Murray's semi-final against Tomas Berdych on Thursday morning will be live on BBC2, 5live sports extra (with updates on 5live), and the BBC Sport website. Coverage starts at 08.30 GMT.

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Continuing our trawl through the BBC's FA Cup archive, we've stumbled upon the 1979 final between Arsenal and Manchester United.

Alan Sunderland 89th-minute goal won the trophy for the Highbury club, who had conceded twice in the final three minutes.

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STV in Glasgow are reporting, external that Partick Thistle have accepted a £100,000 bid from Blackpool for defender Stephen O'Donnell. The 22-year-old right-back is out of contract in the summer and had been interesting Dundee United.

Castleford Tigers head coach Daryl Powell has acknowledged his side need competitive games to regain the form shown in last season's Super League.

Tigers, who were Challenge Cup runners up and finished fourth in 2014, begin the new season at home to Wakefield, having won all four of their warm-up matches.

"I don't think we're anywhere near where we were last year," Powell told BBC Radio Leeds. "That's going to take a few competitive games."

Portsmouth boss Andy Awford will stay in charge for the time being after his position was discussed by the board on Monday, BBC Radio Solent reports. However, it is understood that the board stopped short of guaranteeing his job is safe for the foreseeable future.

Awford's side were booed off after Saturday's 2-1 loss to Southend, their seventh defeat in 11 matches, which saw them drop to 18th in League Two, and have not won since 22 November..

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BBC Sport Scotland:, external Rangers accept £10m loan from Mike Ashley's Sports Direct.

Just confirming a story we reported earlier on. It might not mean much to anyone not immersed in the saga but it is an important development.

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In 2013, Novak Djokovic beat Andy Murray 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-2 to win the Australian Open title.

Could they reprise that meeting on Sunday in the final of this year's tournament?

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South Korea's first Olympic swimming gold medallist, Park Tae-Hwan, has failed a doping test.

The test was administered before the Asian Games in September in Incheon, the Korea Swimming Federation said, with Park's management attributing the failed test to an injection for chiropractic treatment.

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Ben Stokes posted this on Instagram:, external So this actually is the swimming pool at our hotel...

The all-rounder is with England Lions in South Africa.

The Daily Express, external report that Manchester United's talks with Athletic Bilbao defender Aymeric Laporte, who is also thought to be wanted by Arsenal, have been confirmed by Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.

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Chris Parker:, external Sunderland: Tore Andre Flo, 4 goals costing £2.5m each

Iain Wilson:, external As a Man Utd fan I wish we'd been stopped from signing Bebe!

Kenneth Barr:, external (Crystal Palace fan) You want just one?

BBC Wiltshire Sport:, external Swindon's Massimo Luongo made two assists and was named man of the match as he helped Australia into the final of the Asian Cup final.