AN experienced Ipswich Town reserve side recorded a 4-1 win over Leyton Orient in a behind-closed-doors reserve game at Playford Road this afternoon.

FAST-RISING Australian youngsters Cameron Heeps and Rohan Tungate will both make their first Showground appearances in Peterborough’s eagerly-anticipated season-opener on March 19.

CARLOS Edwards is growing increasingly frustrated with Ipswich Town’s continued indecision over his future at the club.

ANDY Schleck has been awarded the 2010 Tour de France title, following the Court of Arbitration’s decision to strip Spaniard Alberto Contador of the crown, but the new recipient is not happy.

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PAUL Jewell’s popularity at Portman Road might have gone up in the last seven days.

COLCHESTER United boss John Ward has predicted that club stalwart Karl Duguid will continue to don a U’s shirt for a few more seasons yet.

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COPDOCK & Old Ipswichians have signed an international all-rounder as they prepare for life in East Anglia’s top league.

CHOOSING dinner menus and learning about flower arranging are not normally activities you associate with a county cricketer.

Michael Chopra and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas’ goalscoring heroics against Coventry have earned the pair a place in the Championship team of the week.

PETERBOROUGH and King’s Lynn have changed the start times for their Sky Sports Elite League matches on Good Friday (April 6).

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador has been banned from the sport for two years by the Court of Arbitration, after his positive test for clenbuterol, according to the International Cycling Union.

THE league table might look a lot better than it did this time last week.

KIERAN Clements scooped a silver medal at the South of England Cross Country Championships, held over a brute-of-a-course at Stanmer Park in Brighton.

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Former Colchester youth player Alex Day played for the final nine minutes as England kicked off their Under-20 Six Nations campaign with a 59-3 victory over Scotland, on Friday night.

Great Britain missed out on a first gold medal at the World Champions Trophy after they were beaten 1-0 by favourites, Argentina, in the final in Rosario.

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BRITISH veteran badminton Nathan Robertson has admitted he is facing a tough battle in his quest to qualify for this summer’s London Olympics.

Talk about a Suffolk punch – Mark Royal and Katherine Rednall delivered the old ‘one-two’ for the county in the national Champion of Champions singles championships at Warners Lakeside in Hayling Island at the weekend.