Steven Naismith believes Everton can go all the way and win the Europa League this season.

The Blues reached the last-16 with a comprehensive aggregate win over Young Boys and face Dynamo Kiev with the first leg at Goodison Park on Thursday. Lifting the Europa League this season offers a side a place in the qualifying phase of the Champions League next term.

"We believe we can go all the way to the final in the Europa League and win it but we are at the stage now where every team is quality and dangerous going forward," says Naismith. "So we will need to be very solid, get the crowd behind us, and get a good result to take into the second leg."

Everton manager Roberto Martinez and forward Steven Naismith are in front of the media. The Blues take on Dynamo Kiev in the Europa League last-16 on Thursday.

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Naismith says: "We have shown we are taking the league and Europe equally as seriously this season. The Europa has gone very well, league has been a bit tougher. We wanted to build on what we did last season but the demands of league and European football is what we need to sort if we are to become the successful team we want to be."

Everton have slipped to 14th in the Premier League, six points above the relegation zone.

BBC Sport horse racing reporter Frank Keogh, external reports that some bookmakers are already paying out on Willie Mullins being top trainer at Cheltenham.

His incredible run continued in the second race of day two as Don Poli took victory under the ride of Bryan Cooper, a fifth win for Mullins with just nine races gone so far since the Festival started on Tuesday.

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Eighteen races to come.

Some of Queens Park Rangers' finest are taking their eye of a relegation battle by enjoying the Cheltenham Festival on Wednesday.

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Both Charlie Austin and Joey Barton are avid racing fans.

Rangers, 18th in the Premier League, travel to 12th place Crystal Palace on Saturday.

European judo champion Loic Korval has been suspended for 10 months by the French federation after missing three doping tests.

Korval, 26, who won the continental title last year in the men's 66kg division, will be ineligible to defend his title at June's European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, following three no-shows in less than 18 months.

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Trainer Willie Mullins says he feels "numb" as he equals his Cheltenham Festival record with a fifth winner at this year's meeting already.

Favourite Don Poli gets up to claim the RSA Chase from Southend Theatre.

"He did that very well," Mullins tells BBC radio 5 live. "It looked like he was waiting the whole way up the straight, ears pricked, waiting for something. "We are a bit numb really. If we had one or two winners we would be celebrating. It has gone way beyond our expectations."

Result Cheltenham 14:05 GMT: 1 Don Poli (13-8 fav); 2 Southfield Theatre (13-2).

Spanish newspaper AS, external: Tottenham have joined Malaga and Celtic in the race to sign Danish winger Michael Krohn-Dehli on a free transfer when his contract at Celta Vigo runs out in the summer.

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A fight several years in the making and a sporting event which will probably be talked about for a generation will seem all the more real tonight when Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather sit down for their only news conference ahead of the 2 May fight.

How much will these men earn? It depends not only on your conversion rate but on who you believe. One thing is for sure, they will have a hard time spending it all.

Will someone get the upper hand in the news conference? Will Floyd the talker have too much for his often quiet opposite number?

We will run a live text on the entire news conference this evening.

Metro, external: Arsenal will take the chance to assess 24-year-old centre-back Aleksandar Dragovic when his Dynamo Kiev side take on Everton in the Europa League on Thursday ahead of a possible £15m summer bid.

Yorkshire bowler Ryan Sidebottom has become the latest to have his say on England's dire World Cup campaign.

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Talking to BBC Look North, Sidebottom, who played 22 Tests and 25 one-day matches for England, said: "We've been typical English and left it until late to pick a World Cup team. People say it's been four years in the planning but it hasn't really looked like that.

"It's disappointing and I'm sure there'll be lots of questions but it's up to the players and the ECB to sort it out.

"I think we've been left behind a little bit in terms of one-day and T20 cricket. We invented T20 and now you have the Big Bash and the IPL, I think we need a Premier League for it here to enhance the game here."

Rishi Verma: 25 years after THAT upset (defeat to Buster Douglas), Mike Tyson, surely? Never the same fighter since; time in jail; oh, and a mild spot of cannibalism.

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Daniel Farren: Scandal shattered Tiger Woods image, who could have known that years on his game still wouldn't have recovered? Will it ever?

Oomar Jaunmohamud: Ronaldinho. Fell so deep down the well, but what a player he was.

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Newcastle Evening Chronicle, external: Winger Jonas Gutierrez says he does not expect to be shown any favour by Newcastle manager John Carver after returning to the first team since recovering from testicular cancer.

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BBC Sport at the Cheltenham Festival

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"Davy Russell delivered a Cheltenham masterclass as he steered an inside line and pushed clear to win on the impressive Windsor Park, for trainer Dermot Weld, in the opener.

"Russell won the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year on Lord Winderemere in the same purple and yellow silks of owner Dr Ronan Lambe.

"Windsor Park is a son of the Flat racing super stud Galileo, himself winner of the Derby at Epsom in 2001."

A booming, thrilling, close-fought opener at Cheltenham and Davy Russell keeps his cool at the last with several horses primed to pounce as he guides Windsor Park home at 9-2.

It is a first win of 2015 for Windsor Park and when Vyta Du Roc crashed into the last, Dermot Weld's horse had to only hold off the challenge from those coming from further back.

Parlour Games under AP McCoy - yet to win at the Festival - had a good go but came in second, with favourite Nichols Canyon in third.

Ireland now has six wins at the Festival to Great Britain's two.

Wales defender Sam Ricketts says he may have to leave Wolves to prolong his international career.

Ricketts, 33, has not featured for the Championship promotion contenders since November.

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The former Swansea City full-back is out of contract at Molineux this summer.

"I would like to play for as long as I can and it's looking like I will have to find a new club to do so," Ricketts told Sport Wales.

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas is excited at the prospect of resuming his partnership with Nemanja Matic in midfield when they meet Paris St-Germain later.

Matic has missed two games for his dismissal against Burnley in February but returns as Chelsea seek a place in the Champions League quarter-finals with the tie poised at 1-1.

"Obviously we need the best out of everybody against PSG but we do definitely need the best out of him (Matic) because he is the one that gives the balance to the team offensively and defensively," Fabregas says., external

"He is a key player for us and it's good that he recovered well and he can be on top of his game. Midfielders have to attack and defend and when he plays he gives us this ability to control games offensively and defensively very well."

Abbey Clancy on Twitter:, external Haha just found this! Love having my own sporty Ken doll.

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Clancy is, of course, married to the Stoke and former Liverpool frontman.

The first race of the day will be off at 13:30 GMT at Cheltenham and Nichols Canyon goes for the trainer-jockey combination of Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh in the Neptune Novices' Hurdle.

The five-year-old will start as favourite. Faugheen, a winner for Mullins-Walsh yesterday, won this race last year.

Jockey Barrie Geraghty was on target with a winner on Tuesday and saddles Vyta Du Roc, a horse with four wins and a second place in its five runs.

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"Punters are putting their faith in 2013 winner Sprinter Sacre recovering his old magic in the Queen Mother Champion Chase (15:20 GMT) after a heart scare.

"The horse, trained by Nicky Henderson, was cut to 7-2 from 4-1 by race sponsors Betway after sustained support.

"Others popular today include Aux Ptits Soins, something of a talking horse down at the Somerset stables of Paul Nicholls, at about 10-1 in the Coral Cup (14:40) and Tony Martin's contender Blackmail in the same race."

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Incredibly, an email has dropped in our inbox telling us that eight months after the fantastic World Cup in Brazil, the road to the 2018 tournament in Russia will start on Thursday.

With over three years to the tournament, such a long build-up may seem bizarre, but 209 nations desperate to take part have to be cut down.

Each of the nations involved in preliminary qualifying get around £200,000 to cover flights, accommodation and logistics.

On Thursday, six two-legged ties begin and will be concluded on 17 March, they are: India v Nepal; Yemen v Pakistan; Timor-Leste v Mongolia; Cambodia v Macau; Chinese Taipei v Brunei Darussalam; and Sri Lanka v Bhutan.

You will see from our trusty map that Nepal v India is a bit of a derby geographically at least while Timor Leste is an island located north of Australia. You learn something every day.