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Kentucky holds off hot-shooting Alabama 77-71

The Kentucky basketball team showed it could overcome truly foul shooting from the free-throw line, "merely" productive play from freshman star Anthony Davis and an opponent equipped to exacerbate Coach John Calipari's phobia about physical play.

Debt crisis: as it happened January 12, 2012

Think tank warns that UK economy barely grew in the final quarter of 2011, as ECB President says giving lenders access to cheap, three-year loans had eased "major funding constraints" among European ...

Manchester City 3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 – as it happened | Simon Burnton

Mario Balotelli miraculously avoids a red card and then scores a last-breath penalty winner for Manchester City Pre-preamble: Early arrivals were treated to Kevin McCarra's match preview. You can still read it, if you like: Manchester City are attempting to get closer to the Premier League title but in another sense they have been going backwards. Of late they have looked like last season's side ...

The Defence of the Book

To mark National Libraries Day, the novelist adds an extra scene to his 1998 satire England, England in which he imagines what happens when the 'National Coalition' closes every library down (As Sir Jack Pitman's project for a replica version of England on the Isle of Wight proves an enormous commercial success, the mainland, or "Old England" as it has come to be known, goes into sharp decline ...

Live - Africa Cup of Nations Day 5

All the Group A action as it happens from the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

Falkirk 1-3 Celtic | Scottish League Cup semi-final match report

• Falkirk 1-3 Celtic Celtic's impressive run is edging ever closer to returning tangible reward. Neil Lennon's team have now gone 18 domestic matches without defeat. Their deserved victory at Hampden, albeit over an impressively enterprising Falkirk side, secured a League Cup final meeting with Kilmarnock on 18 March. Celtic's run aside, the fact that Kilmarnock have competed in five finals in ...

Eric Angevine: 'Noles light up Tar Heels to headline upset-laden afternoon

Here's a roundup of Saturday's upset-laden day of college basketball:

Making sense of Saturday full of upsets

Here's a roundup of Saturday's upset-laden day of college basketball:

Europe Is Setting The Stage For The Mother Of All Black Swans

[Editor's note: Simon's friend Tim Price is a delightfully witty fund manager in the UK, one of the few free-thinking individuals in all of institutional finance. His recent thoughts below on the euro debacle, gold, and hyperinflation are some of the best ever written on the topics.]