Andy Murray, once again, starts his conquest, today (Wednesday the 31st August), to win his first grand slam in the shape of the US Open 2011. Murray is trying to make it a double header of victories after his Cincinnati Masters success earlier this month – however, it’s a big ask of Britain’s Number One.

Murray is playing on his favourite surface – hard court – and must be confident going in to the Flushing Meadows with that Cincinnati final victory over the World’s Number One – Novak Djokovic – in his back pocket. Victory could have been sweeter for Murray if Djokovic hadn’t retired with injury in the second set – still, you take these triumphs where you can and build from them.

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It’s time for the first ever eviction on Celeb Big Brother 2011 and the unlucky (or lucky housemates, depending on your point of view) ones whose heads are on the voting chopping block are Kerry Katona, Speakers Wife Sally Bercow and male model Bobby Sabel.

The twist to this year’s Big Brother phone voting is that Channel 5 have decided that viewers must call to save their favourite housemate – rather than the C4 version of voting to get the person you like least booted out the house.

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Wembley welcomes the final of the Carnegie Challenge Cup this Saturday (27th of Aug) in what has been billed as a classic encounter between Leeds Rhinos and Wigan Warriors. The Carnegie Cup is Rugby League’s oldest cup knockout competition and this time Leeds Rhinos will be expectiong to go one better than last year’s losing finalists.

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And so, it’s back… Big Brother once again invaded our privacy last night as Channel 5 relaunched the show with previous Big Brother winner, Brian Dowling, taking the place of Davina McCall’s tonsils.

Big Brother 2011 crammed it’s house full of celebrities (stretching the definition of the word celebrity a lot here) and straight away got to giving one of the new housemates a secret task.

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It’s no secret that Rory McIlroy fancies his chances of winning the 93rd PGA Championship. According to the bookies, they agree strongly as well, as Rory McIlroy is given the roll of pre-championship favourite in the US PGA Championship Golf Betting 2011.

It’s been a topsy turvy season for the Northern Ireland youngster. His famous last day crash at the Masters back in April wobbled McIlroy somewhat, yet he bounced back to win the U.S. Open in June with some truly wonderful golf. Then he faded in the rain and wind of St.Georges at The Open Championship. Now, McIlroy feels in bouyant mood ahead of the US PGA Championship.

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The 2011/12 Premier League is back this weekend and also on Monday evening. After a ten week break, it’ll be a welcome return to what many claim as the best league in the World.

Of course, one thing that makes this league tougher than any other is that Premier League Betting 2011-2012 is never straight forward.

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New Zealand will welcome rugby nations from the North and South Hempispheres to compete for the 7th Rugby World Cup starting on the 10th of September 2011. Over seven weeks, the best players from the world of rugby union will have rugby world cup betting fans getting behind their national country and roaring them on to success.

New Zealand joint hosted the first ever Rugby World Cup back in 1987 with Australia. They successfully won that tournament back then, however, the All-Blacks have never repeated that achievement since. Although they did make the final only to be defeated by South Africa in 1995.

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Glasgow Rangers head to Malmo fighting for their Champions League existence with the season barely begun after losing the 1st leg at Ibrox 0-1. New manager, Ally McCoist, couldn’t have wished for a worse start to his managerial career and now must hope that his side can overcome Malmo FF and claim their first away win in the Champions League since they beat Lyon 0-3 back in 2007.

It really has been a tepid start for Rangers new season, they’ve played 3 times so far and have 1 Win 1 Loss and 1 Draw for their efforts. Compare this with Malmo who have played half of their season so far and sit mid-table in the Allsvenskan after 17 games played.

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