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Roger Black, the 1996 Olympic 400m silver medallist, says Lord Coe is the right man for the job but admits he has questions to answer.

"Wada chairman Dick Pound endorsed Seb Coe is a contradiction as the report says anyone involved must have had at least an inkling of what was going on and that must include Coe," said Black.

"We're British so there is a degree of bias here but who else would do this job?

"The sport is in an absolute mess though and it has to be done rigorously and properly to turn it round and it's going to take a long time.

"I can't think of a better person to do the job than Seb Coe though - he's got the respect, the political nous and understanding of the sport."

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Nottingham Forest's David Vaughan has been suspended for three games after the appeal against the red card shown to the midfielder in Tuesday's draw with Birmingham City was upheld. 

The 32-year-old was sent off in the second half of the Championship game at the City Ground for an apparent high tackle on Clayton Donaldson. 

He will be banned for league games against Bolton, Middlesbrough and QPR.

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Has Jonjo Shelvey's transfer to Newcastle started a trend of moves between relegation-threatened clubs?

Well Swansea are interested in re-signing Scott Sinclair from fellow strugglers Aston Villa, according to the Birmingham Mail., external

Sinclair, who has three-and-a-half years left on his deal at Villa, left Swansea to join Manchester City in 2012 after two years at the Liberty Stadium.

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Athletics is still in a grip of a huge crisis and the report shows deep-rooted corruption within the IAAF.

Lord Coe says he is the right man to lead the organisation but given the report said the ruling council, which Coe was a member of, could not have been unaware of doping problems, that is going to be a significant issue for him.

Yet that backing from Wada chairman Dick Pound is crucial because without it Coe would be facing a tougher task to keep his role as IAAF president.

Now he has a bit of political capital to take forward.

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The NBA's shortest ever player, the 5ft 3in Muggsy Bogues, says attitude is key to making it in professional basketball. 

The 51-year-old is in the UK for Thursday's NBA Global Games match between Orlando Magic and his former team Toronto Raptors. 

"You've got to have the skills. You've got to have a great attitude because if you don't, nobody [will] want to deal with you," he tells Newsbeat.

Chris GL Lovell: If football really wants to fix its image it must give out meaningful fines, £249,000 and £622,000 is nothing to these clubs.

Ged Lynam: Real Madrid's bank will be pleased, no need to extend the rumoured €600M overdraft facilities further.

Richard Ramsey: It's not as if Real Madrid really need too many new players anyway.

You can read more about the problems facing the two Madrid clubs here.

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After scoring in Wednesday night's 3-1 victory over Norwich, Stoke striker Joselu has a fan in Potters boss Mark Hughes. 

"We are really pleased - of late he has been really adding to the team," said Hughes.

"His contribution is quite marked at the moment. He is either creating chances or scoring them.

"I haven't been able to give him too many opportunities, but I just sensed of late he is getting to grips with what is required."

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The Orlando Magic take on the Toronto Raptors at the the O2 Arena in London at 20:00 GMT.

The is the sixth time the NBA has visited London as part of their Global Games expansion series.

Magic centre Nikola Vucevic has urged his side to "take a stand" to maintain their hopes of reaching the play-offs.

And BBC Sport has interviewed NBA commissioner Adam Silver about how his sport learns from the Premier League.

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Newcastle's Aleksandar Mitrovic has proven he's a fully paid-up member of the striker's union after coming to the defence of Wayne Rooney against the Manchester United captain's critics.

"They are crazy,” said Mitrovic. “They are people who don’t watch football.

“If he doesn’t score in a few games, then the team don’t play well and he cannot play well.

“You can see on the pitch the way he plays during the whole game, how easily he plays. I think he can play for 10 years more."

Reacting to the Wada independent commission report into doping cover-ups at the IAAF, Roger Black, the 1996 Olympic 400 metre silver medallist, has told BBC News that athletics needs to consider life bans for drug cheats.

He said: "The thing that really angers me is that the corruption is from the very, very top positions.

"As a lover of sport, you don't know what you're watching. We have to get the public's trust back in the sport and the sport has to be much tougher than before.

"We have to consider life bans now. We have to defend clean athletes otherwise the sport doesn't have a future." 

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Senegal striker Dame N’Doye joins Sunderland from Turkish side Trabzonspor on loan until the end of the season.

The 30-year-old appeared for Hull City in the Premier League last season after joining in February, only to leave once the Tigers were relegated.

Black Cats boss Sam Allardyce said: “Dame will bring something different to our forward options.

"Having already played in the Premier League he should have no problems in hitting the ground running too, which is very important at this stage of the season”.

IAAF president Lord Coe has spoken to BBC sports editor Dan Roan after a Wada independent commission report said "corruption was embedded" within the organisation.

He said: "We have to make sure we redouble our efforts, to be clear to people we are not in denial.

"My responsibility is to absorb the lessons of the past and to shape the future. The changes I am making will do that. The road back to trust is going to be a long one."

Coe said he was aware of the “seriousness of the situation” and that he “feels it very personally.”

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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced the six hosts to compete in the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League this summer.

The six successful sides are: Hampshire, Lancashire, Loughborough University, South West, Surrey and Yorkshire.

All six teams have been awarded hosting rights for four years from 2016-2019 inclusive, with this year's tournament starting on 30 July.

The MCC and Middlesex also submitted a joint bid but were unsuccessful, saying in a statement that they hope to "play an active part in the tournament in the years ahead".

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Swansea City are interested in signing Everton striker Steven Naismith, according to interim manager Alan Curtis.

The 29-year-old Scotland international has started only four league matches this season and was set to join Norwich but that deal appears to have stalled.

"I think he's on a list [of transfer targets]," said Curtis. "Like all good players, if we can afford to bring him in, then we will be interested."

Defending champion Heather Watson has been knocked out of the Hobart International by Sweden's Johanna Larsson in the quarter-finals.

She lost 3-6 6-4 6-4 to Larsson, ranked one place below her at 54 in the world.

It was Watson's second match of the day after she earlier wrapped up a three-set win over Romania's Monica Niculescu.

That match had taken three hours and 13 minutes over two days to complete.

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Day one of the third Test between South Africa and England in Johannesburghas just concluded and there's not much in it with the hosts closing on 267-7.

Ben Stokes and Steve Finn took two wickets apiece as South Africa fell from 117-1 to 225-7.

However, a stubborn unbroken partnership of 42 between Chris Morris and Kagiso Rabada saw them through to the close.

Read our developing report here.

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* It was "completely improper governance" to allow supervision of suspected Russian doping cases to be separately managed by the IAAF president's personal legal counsel. 

* The IAAF council could not have been unaware of the extent of interference with normal functions within the medical and anti-doping department. 

* Recommends a "forensic examination" of the processes behind the awarding of the 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene in the United States. 

However, Dick Pound, whose report damned IAAF governance, said he "can't think of anyone better" than Lord Coe to lead it.  

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Ronnie Sullivan has beaten Mark Selby 6-3 to progress to the semi-finals of the Masters snooker.

The Rocket produced a masterful clearance from 70 points behind in the ninth frame to clinch the tie.

Along the way, O'Sullivan also claimed his 60th Masters century break since 1994.

You can watch our live coverage of the Masters here.