American Football: The Tennessee Titans thrashed the Jaguars 33-14 in the AFC Championship to reserve their place in Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta next Sunday. They will face St Louis Rams who claimed the NFC Championship title with an 11-6 win over Tampa Bay.

The Titans trailed 14-10 at half-time, but quarterback Steve McNair led his side on a 76-yard scoring drive to give them a 17-14 advantage late in the third quarter. A further touchdown by McNair and Derek Mason sealed a comfortable victory. Meanwhile, in their game, Tampa Bay Buccaneers led 6-5 going into the fourth quarter after two field goals from Martin Gramatica cancelled out one from Jeff Wilkins for the Rams.

But St Louis secured victory when wide receiver Ricky Proehl latched onto a 30-yard pass from Kurt Warner in the end-zone.

Athletics: Gareth Turnbull warmed up for the world cross-country championships in the Algarve in March, by winning the short course event in the Durham international meeting on Saturday.

John Mayock, the race favourite, attempted to close the gap opened by Turnbull over the last 200 metres but failed as the Irish 800 metres champion covered the four kilometres in 11 minutes 33 seconds, a second faster than Mayock.

The long course race over nine kilometres, was won by the Ukranian, Sergey Lebid who beat Fita Bayesa (Ethiopia) and Kenya's Patrick Ivuti in a time of 25 minutes 37 seconds.

England's Paula Radcliffe could finish only fourth in the women's long course race, won for a second consecutive year by the Ethiopian, Gete Wami.

Boxing: Prince Naseem Hamed's advisers will spend this week searching for a new opponent for the WBO featherweight champion after his bout with Junior Jones was called off yesterday. The fight with the American on March 11th at London's Olympia fell because Jones stalled on signing the contract.