England fly-half Danny Cipriani has signed a new two-year deal with Premiership side Sale Sharks.

The 27-year-old was out of contract in the summer and had been linked with a move to French Top 14 side Toulon.

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However, the former Wasps and Melbourne Rebels number 10, has extended his stay in the north west after scoring a try against Italy in the Six Nations.

"One of the main reasons I signed the was that we've got a tight squad and it embraces new talent," said Cipriani.

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport chief F1 writer

"Just over one hour into the first of four days of pre-season testing in Barcelona to end the week, and it is already good news for McLaren.

"The team, who had a troubled first test earlier this month with their new Honda engine, have been running from the start of the session and after 60 minutes Jenson Button was fourth quickest, behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Pascal Wehrlein, Mercedes reserve driver. German rookie Wehrlein impressed in the 2014 Force India, after he was invited to test for the latter for the first two days."

"There has already been one red flag - to recover the Lotus of Pastor Maldonado, stranded by a sensor problem."

The Barbarians will play Samoa in the first ever rugby match at London's Olympic Stadium on 29 August.

The venue is hosting five Rugby World Cup matches later this year, and the game will be part of England Rugby 2015's testing programme.

Amongst the World Cup matches at the Olympic Stadium are Ireland's pool match with Italy, and the Bronze final.

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Let's take a quick look at what's in the morning papers, with the Daily Mirror, external calling on Roman Abramovich to make a stand over the Chelsea fans involved in what appeared to be racist incident at a Metro station in Paris before the Blues Champions League meeting with PSG on Tuesday.

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport chief F1 writer

"Pre-season testing is an intense and time-constrained experience for all teams, but none has a bigger mountain to climb between now and the first race than McLaren.

"Their all-star line-up of Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button managed only 79 laps over four days at the first test as a result of recurring problems with their brand new Honda engine.

"McLaren and especially Honda, which is returning to F1 after a six-year absence, badly need a good, solid next four days in Barcelona to start getting things in order."

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Premier League Darts returns this evening and the pick of tonight's five round-robin matches in Liverpool sees the world champion go head-to-head with the world number one.

Gary Anderson and Michael van Gerwen have both won their opening two games, but one of them must lose their perfect start tonight.

Dave Chisnall, the only other player with a 100% record in the group stage, faces James Wade.

Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman only has a three-month contract with the Championship side, reports BBC Radio Nottingham.

The Scot, 40, was appointed as Stuart Pearce's successor on a reported 18-month deal in early February.

But Reds owner Fawaz Al Hasawi said: "We signed only for three months and in the end we will decide for both of us if he will continue for next season. To be honest, he wanted it to be like this, that we sign three months."

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport chief F1 writer

"Thursday is the fifth of just 12 pre-season test days before the start of the 2015 Formula 1 world championship iin Melbourne on 13 March.

"After the first test in Jerez in the south of Spain at the beginning of this month, the F1 circus has moved north to Barcelona's Circuit De Catalunya, which will host all the remaining days, this week and then again next.

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"To kick things off on Thursday, Mercedes' world champion Lewis Hamilton (pictured out on the track), McLaren's fellow Englishman Jenson Button and Williams's Scottish female test driver Susie Wolff are among the drivers action, with all nine confirmed teams entering this season taking part, starting from 0800 GMT.

"We will bring updates here in Sportsday live throughout the session, which ends at 1700 GMT."

But thank you to Burnley for they have provided the inspiration for today's Sportsday debate.

There have been some absolute shocking kits and outfits over the years - and not just in football.

I mean, how about this from Peter Wright and the world of darts...

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Enough to make you choke on your cornflakes.

Let us know the sporting kits you nominate to join our list at #myworstkit or the BBC Sport Facebook page.

Right, time to get down to the nitty gritty of what Sportsday is all about ... fashion.

Steven Reid has told BBC Radio 5 live that Burnley's away kit - which some, not us though you understand, might suggest looks like something you'd wrap around your turkey before putting it in the oven - as "a shocker".

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"To be honest we played in it against Sunderland and we were terrible that day," said Reid.

"Obviously I'm not going to blame the kit for that performance but its is a real shocker. The kit man has been getting all sorts of stick over the last few weeks about who chose it. Hopefully next season it'll be gone."

Shades of Sir Alex Ferguson and that grey kit excuse at Southampton in the 90s. Listen to the full clip with Reid here - it is most entertaining.

Some breaking news this morning... Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will lead a six-strong British Skeleton squad into the skeleton and bobsleigh world championships in Winterberg, Germany.

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Yarnold will be seeking aiming to compete a career quadruple - adding the world title to the Olympic, European and last season's overall World Cup titles she has already attained.

The championships - which run from 23 February to 7 March - will also feature 14 British Bobsleigh athletes, including two-time Team GB Olympic sprinter Simeon Williamson.

Good to see Andy Murray didn't suffer sense of humour failure loss about the leaking of a set of motivational quotes written before last week's Rotterdam Open quarter-final defeat by Gilles Simon.

It contained tips like "be good to yourself", "try your best" (a given, surely?), and my personal favourite "be intense with your legs" (whatever that means).

The notes were leaked on Twitter, external, but Murray showed he's a good sport by retweeting much of the subsequent messages sent to him, including things like this...

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And this...

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Just in case you slept under a rock yesterday (in which case you must have terrible cramp today - it can't have been comfortable), Darren Clarke was named as Europe's Ryder Cup for next year's event in Minnesota.

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He's been giving interviews about what a "huge honour" it is. "It's up there with anything I've achieved in the professional game," said the 2011 Open champion.

You can see what else the man himself has to say here.

Now then - and given it's all about the Europa League later today - may we be so bold as to point you in the direction of a terrific feature written by BBC Sport's Luke Reddy.

It examines the question of whether playing in the competition, and all those pesky extra matches it brings, damages a club's chances of success in the Premier League.

Reddy speaks to Phil Neville, Preston striker Kevin Davies (who played in two Europa League campaigns for Bolton), West Brom boss Tony Pulis and Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins about the matter.

The results are intriguing - check it out here.

In Wednesday night's other Champions League action, Cristiano Ronaldo ended a three-game goal drought as Real Madrid took control of their Champions League last-16 tie with Schalke in Gelsenkirchen.

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The forward's form was questioned before kick-off but he headed in Dani Carvajal's cross to open the scoring.

He also created the second goal which arrived moments after Schalke's Felix Platte had smashed against the bar.

Marcelo capitalised, driving into the top corner, and the holders will take a healthy lead to Madrid on 10 March.

No British clubs in Champions League action last night but a British man did take centre stage in what action there was.

Referee Mark Clattenburg had a lively night in charge of a heated last-16 tie between FC Basel and Porto.

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Clattenburg ruled out a Porto goal before awarding a late penalty, and also booked nine players in the round of 16 first-leg match.

The English official disallowed a Casemiro goal after a long delay - but replays showed he was correct as two other Porto players were offside.

Derlis Gonzalez gave Basel a first-half lead, but Danilo equalised from the spot after Walter Samuel handled.

Full report here.

There are also four British clubs in Europe League action later. Full live text commentary right here on the BBC website.

Here's who is in action - not the early kick off time for Roberto Martinez's Toffees.

BSC Young Boys v Everton (16:00 GMT)

Celtic v Inter Milan (20:05 GMT)

Liverpool v Besiktas (20:05 GMT)

Tottenham v Fiorentina (20:05 GMT)

We mentioned that half a dozen Premier League managers are facing the media today. We'll bring you the best of what they say, here's who is speaking when.

QPR (Chris Ramsey) 09:45 GMT; West Brom (Tony Pulis, standing obviously) 12:00.

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Newcastle (John Carver) 13:00 GMT, Burnley (Sean Dyche) 13:00.

Swansea (Garry Monk) 14:00 GMT, Crystal Palace (Alan Pardew, if he's recovered from the sore throat which laid him low last week) 14:00.

Six Premier League managers giving news conferences, Europa League fixtures involving Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham and Celtic, the Cricket World Cup, the Ryder Cup, and several coffee cups - for caffeine is what we'll need to power us through what is going to be one heck of a hectic Sportsday.

Sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labour. Now for a quick sip of coffee - ah, lovely - here's what's coming up...