GAELIC GAMES: Dublin manager Tommy Lyons and his selectors have made six changes to the side for Sunday's O'Byrne Cup clash with Louth in Parnell Park, writes Ian O'Riordan.
Stephen Cluxton has been named in goal behind a completely new full-back line from the one which started against Westmeath last weekend.
Shane Ryan, Peadar Andrews and David Henry will be Dublin's last line of defence as they seek the four-point victory required to qualify for the semi-finals.
Andrews started at number six against Westmeath but was soon switched with Maghnus Breathnach, who now starts at centre-back.
Barry Cahill is retained at right half-back with Round Towers of Clondalkin's Caimin Keane coming in at left wing-back.
Elsewhere, John Madden will lead the attack with Liam ╙g ╙ h╔ineachain at wing forward.
CRICKET: Indian cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya pushed the world game closer to civil war yesterday by refusing to accept an International Cricket Council (ICC) deadline over the selection of a suspended player.
Dalmiya said ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed had no right to ask the Indian cricket board to decide by this morning Irish time whether or not Virender Sehwag would play in next week's first Test against England.
SNOOKER: Ken Doherty ended Stephen Lee's hopes of back-to-back world ranking titles at the £250,000 sterling European Open in Malta last night.
The Dubliner remained cool under pressure, after fearing he had blown his chance, to set up a semi-final with Stephen Hendry, a 5-4 conqueror of Ronnie O'Sullivan earlier in the day.
Trailing 2-0, Doherty engaged top gear as runs of 51, 80, 117 and 54 carried him 4-3 ahead. He also led by 60 in the eighth frame but he missed a vital red employing the rest. Lee kept the contest alive with a gutsy 60 clearance to steal it on the black and force a sudden-death decider.
"The eighth frame was unbelievable," said Doherty. "I was one pot away from winning and suddenly it was all square and I'd got to do it all again. I sat there between frames and just told myself that 4-4 was a fair reflection of how the match had gone considering I was 2-0 behind at one stage."
He coolly took the final frame with a break of 60.
