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West Brom boss Tony Pulis is expected to speak to chairman Jeremy Peace about a new contract in the summer. The pair will to hold wide-ranging talks which will include discussions over Pulis' future, according to the Press Association. 

Pulis will have a year left on his deal at the end of the season.

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Aston Villa have made no approaches to anyone to fill the vacant manager's job and it may be some time before they do so.

The four-man football board will meet before Saturday's match against Bournemouth to exchange views and next week the focus will be sharper on specifics. 

The initial qualifications for candidates remain the same - British and experience of Championship football. So the likes of Nigel Pearson, David Moyes, Steve Bruce, Mick McCarthy, Sean Dyche and Gary Monk will be under consideration.

Men's tennis is heading back to Eastbourne after a reshuffle in the pre-Wimbledon grass-court schedule for 2017. 

The Lawn Tennis Association has announced that the men's ATP 250 tournament will leave Nottingham after only two years.

Top-four finish could secure Zlatan Ibrahimovic signing, Cristiano Ronaldo could return for £48m and other Manchester United gossip.

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Former Wigan three-quarter Stefan Marsh has become the fifth Widnes player in a week to commit his future to the Vikings. 

Marsh, 25, who joined Widnes on a permanent deal in 2013 following two loan spells, has followed team-mates Chris Dean, Joe Mellor, Charly Runciman and Eamon O'Carroll in signing a two-year contract extension which ensures he will stay at the Halton Stadium until at least the end of 2018.

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To commemorate the opening round of the Masters today, here is a timely reminder of a young(er) Rory McIlroy, who in 2011, carded a seven-under-par 65 to hold the lead after the first day of the Masters at Augusta. 

However, as we all know, the Northern Irishman's victory bid would ultimately end in disappointment when he blew a four-shot lead heading into the final round to finish 10 strokes behind winner Charl Schwartzel. Better luck this year Rory!

Transgressing, slightly, but still good. 

Finishing 10th at the World Indoor Championships recently was a "massive disappointment", says GB high jumper Isobel Pooley.

In her latest blog for BBC Sport, she reflects on her time in Portland, looks ahead to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and talks about how to unwind between competitions and training.

Read it here.

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This was from the 2010 Champions League semi-final against Inter Milan, where the Barcelona midfielder was caught by Inter's Thiago Motta and made a meal of it between glances at the referee. Motta received a second yellow card and was sent off. 

Bee Elle Double-You: Can't remember the Newcastle player who handled the ball on the line but went down like he got shot.

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"For me, anything that is not banned by Wada is fair game. Otherwise we enter some kind of limbo state where no one really knows what is acceptable. There seems to be a completely arbitrary method of deciding that something is morally wrong in sport."  

So says former British Olympic badminton player Susan Egelstaff in this fascinating piece, external about what constitutes "performance-enhancing".

Well worth five minutes of your day...

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The National is a handicap chase, with each runner allotted a different weight to carry by the official handicapper Phil Smith.

Some trainers are faced with the tricky task of trying to ensure their contenders perform well enough to get a rating which guarantees a run, without landing a big weight that hampers their chances.

Pineau De Re is now in the twilight of his career, at the age of 13, and his rating has dropped. No horse of that age has won the National since Sergeant Murphy in 1923.

The British Horseracing Authority has indicated it is open to reviewing the entry system ahead of next year's National.

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South Korea's Park Tae-hwan, who won gold in the 400m freestyle at the 2008 Olympics and completed an 18-month doping ban in March, will not compete at the Rio Games.

The Korean Olympic Committee has opted against amending a rule that adds three more years onto doping suspensions.

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic is happy that Cheikhou Kouyate's red card was rescinded after the midfielder was dismissed in the 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace. 

Bilic said: "It was a good and proper decision to overrule it. It was never a sending off."

The Croat manager also says defenders James Collins and Sam Byram are going to train with the team on Friday, but making Saturday's squad is "too early for them". 

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Hammers boss Slaven Bilic says his team is "confident" of beating Arsenal on Saturday as they attempt to reach next season's Champions League.

West Ham are three points behind fourth-placed Manchester City, having beaten the Gunners at Emirates Stadium in the first Premier League game of the season. 

"It was a major surprise at the time," Bilic said. "But we've shown throughout the season that it wasn't a one-off. Make no mistake, we'll do everything to win the game and stay in the race for the top four."

Former England bowler Matthew Hoggard has challenged the current crop of players to build on a prosperous past few months and write their names into the history books in all formats of the game.

He said: "I think we can go very far. The world's at their feet. The more cricket they play, the better they're going to get but it's up to them to write their history. 

"Every time you put on that Three Lions shirt you've got a chance of making history and I think they've got every opportunity now to go on and challenge the best in the world across all formats."