The first choice in hooks are the extremely sharp Gamatszu hook in size eight. If these are not available, Owner hooks are just as good.

Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Simpson is encouraging local youngsters to involve themselves with football courses at Oteley Road.

Medals to be won on Wednesday 20 August

Results for Wednesday 20 August

British middleweight James DeGale secures at least a bronze after beating Kazakhstan’s Bakhtiyar Artayev 8-3.

Milton Keynes Dons sign French midfielder Flavien Belson on a season-long loan from FC Metz.

Aksana Miankova of Belarus claims hammer gold with a new Olympic record throw in Beijing.

South Africa striker Benni McCarthy backs coach Joel Santana and commits himself to the 2010 campaign.

Ebbsfleet United sign former Watford, Chester and Lincoln midfielder Jamie Hand on non-contract terms.

Newcastle Falcons name their academy squads for the tour of Holland.

Liudmyla Blonska faces a lifetime ban and could be stripped of her heptathlon silver medal after failing a drugs test.

Offensive positions are: quarterback, offensive line, running back, fullback, and wide receiver. The quarterback is the leader of the team. He gets the ball at the beginning of each play and he makes the decision whether to throw the ball or run it.

Middlesex host Leicestershire in a County Championship fixture, starting at Lord’s on Wednesday.

Essex host Worcestershire in a County Championship fixture, starting at Colchester on Wednesday.

"Wales are on the verge of history and mental stimulation"

Surrey host Sussex in a County Championship fixture, starting at The Oval on Wednesday.

Latest scores from Tuesday night’s first round County Antrim Shield matches.

Two women’s Twenty20 matches between England and South Africa will be played on Saturday as rain washes out a game at Chesterfield.

Scotland manager George Burley confirms James McFadden will form a strike partnership with Kenny Miller against Northern Ireland.

Penalties for amphetamine use are slightly less severe than for steroid use. Mandatory follow-up testing is dictated for the first offense with a 25 game suspension for the second offense. An 80 game suspension will be given for the third positive test and at the fourth offense the penalty is left up to the Commissioner, which could include a lifetime ban.

Ex-Welsh Rugby Union boss savaged Roger Lewis’ plans to reintroduce a fifth region in Wales.

Defending 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang apologises to the Chinese people after injury forced him to pull out of the Olympics.

Results for Tuesday 19 August

Results for Swimming, synchronised swimming and water polo

Fabio Capello will name his England captain on Tuesday, with Rio Ferdinand set to pip John Terry to the post.

An Olympic jury rejects a fresh protest from Spain and Italy against Denmark’s 49er gold medal.

List of British medal winners from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Finding debt negotiation help is becoming a need for more and more families as their finances are turned upside down by factors beyond their control. Job loss and uncovered medical bills are the biggest cause of out of control family debt. Further, credit card debt and interest rates are both rising. This is a double whammy for those families with adjustable rate mortgages and large credit card debt. All of these families are candidates for debt negotiation help. Many families do not know where to turn to gain real help with painful debt, which is slowly eating up their monthly earnings. Rising interest rates affect both mortgage and credit card interest rates. In the case of credit cards, the rate can be changed at any time.

The rest of the cycling world has watched Britain’s domination here with a
mixture of envy and admiration. It has been a particularly chilling
experience for the Australians, who were the powerhouses in Athens four
years ago, winning nine medals on the track (including five golds) and the
women’s road race. This year they have yet to win a medal.

When you have six Olympic medals you start to get choosy about the next one.
No sooner had Bradley Wiggins won his latest here tomorrow, helping Britain
to win gold in the team pursuit final with their second world record in 24
hours, than he was looking forward to tomorrow’s madison event, in which he
partners Mark Cavendish.

Yelena Isinbayeva, never exactly shy of the spotlight, lived out a dream of an
experience here today - first retaining her Olympic pole vault title and
then, as the only athlete left operating inside a full, steamy Bird’s Nest
stadium, improving her own world record to 5.05 metres. No wonder she
recalled her gymnastic past by performing a crowd-pleasing backflip on the
landing mat.

7. You are responsible for your actions: I mean you cannot blame any second or third party if you take steps that land you into disaster. You will be guided and advised but try to decide whether you really want to do as you have learnt about.

Defending 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang, face of the Beijng Olympics, is out of the Games after pulling out with injury.

Pictures from the 10th day of action in Beijing

American swimming star Michael Phelps will attend the Olympic handover event in London on Sunday, the BBC learns.

GB sailors Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield produce a superb medal-race performance to win silver behind Australia.

List of British medal winners from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Dimitar Berbatov has asked Spurs to let him join Man Utd, plus other rumours

Maybe I think a PG movie is okay for our 10-year-old because I dont want to see another Disney movie. You value exposure to age-appropriate language for our daughter. We can agree to go to more adult movies by ourselves and take turns taking her to Disney movies.

Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt is in action in the 200m heats, while Great Britain’s Helen Tucker goes for gold in the women’s triathlon.

Nadia Petrova clinches her first title for 18 months by beating unseeded Nathalie Dechy 6-2 6-1 to win the Cincinnati Open.

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi laughs off speculation he has met Chelsea’s Roman Abramovich over the sale of Kaka, plus other rumours

Sweden’s Carl Petterson holes three late birdies to win the Wyndham Championship by two strokes in North Carolina.

American international midfielder Maurice Edu has signed for Rangers in a five-year, 2.6 million deal.

King George winner Duke of Marmalade may not run in Tuesday’s Juddmonte International at York due to the likelihood of heavy ground.

Tyre controversy and Rossi upsets female drivers the world over

Bangor sailor Stephen Milne and his Irish team-mate Peter O’Leary have dropped to 11th place in the Star class after four races.

An injury-time point from Ruairi Boylan gives Glenullin a 0-14 to 1-11 draw with Slaughtneil in The Elk Derry SFC quarter-final at Dungiven on Sunday.

Billy Dodds analyses the weekend’s fixtures in the SPL

Bored with high school boys, best friends Cher and Dionne instead set their sights on college men. But the meddlesome Cher gets more than she bargained for when she gives a fashion-challenged student a makeover in hopes that her new friend will find love and happiness.

Justin Langer and Marcus Trescothick are among the run-makers as Somerset beat Hampshire by five wickets.

Colin Turkington wins one of Sunday’s three races in the British Touring Car Championship.

Joe Ledley will be assessed on Tuesday ahead of Wales’ vital Uefa Under-21 qualifier with Romania in Wrexham on Wednesday.

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick is forced to pull out of the England squad for Wednesday’s friendly with the Czech Republic.

Skipper Aaron Hughes, Kyle Lafferty and George McCartney will miss Wednesday’s friendly against Scotland in Glasgow.

Kelly Smith hits a hat-trick as Arsenal start the Women’s Premier League season with a thumping win.

Lancashire and Middlesex’s Pro40 Division One clash is called off without a ball being bowled.

North Korea’s Hong Un Jong wins her country’s second gold of the Games, in the women’s vault final.

Manchester City striker Valeri Bojinov faces six months on the sidelines after snapping his Achilles tendon before Sunday’s defeat by Aston Villa.

Australia come back from a poor first half to easily beat Russia and top women’s Group A in the women’s basketball.

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Great Britain has won four gold medals in sailing, rowing and cycling on another magnificent day for the Brits - follow it live!

Fabio Capello is looking for a performance from his England troops after stating the time to experiment is over.

Rebecca Romero became the first British woman to win medals in two different summer Olympic sports by claiming gold in the women’s pursuit.

Launch the skysports.com scorecentre for the latest from today’s three Pro40 matches.

Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase won Great Britain’s second rowing gold medal with victory in the lightweight men’s double sculls.

British sailor Ben Ainslie has won a gold medal in the Finn class for the second consecutive Games.

The final round of the SAS Masters is under way. Click here for the latest and watch live on Sky Sports 3 from noon.

Richard Scudamore doubts whether a Premier League game will be played on overseas soil during his lifetime.

Slowly, Brooks brings the strange amalgam of players together, many of them from competing colleges, to create a truly united team. Following a loss to Sweden in which his players are more focused on girls in the crowd than on winning the game, Brooks pushes his players through a series of conditioning drills. He literally pushes them to the brink of exhaustion, informing them that they dont have the talent to beat the Soviets, but they will be the best conditioned team on the ice.

The first Orange Bowl was played in 1935, when Bucknell defeated Miami 26-0. For 33 years, the Orange Bowl was basically an at-large bowl game, in that the bowl committee chose the best two teams it could attract. However, the Orange Bowl started its history of tie-ins in 1968 when it began to host the champion of the former Big 8 Conference every season.

Pictures from the eighth day of action in Beijing

Kelly Sotherton’s Olympic medal chances are in the balance after poor performances in the long jump and javelin.

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Your best pictures from the 2008 second week of the Games

Results for Saturday 16 August

Results for football

Results for athletics

Chris Hoy and Ross Edgar grab Olympic gold and silver medals for Great Britain with brilliant performances in the final of the men’s keirin in Beijing.

Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell win their 100m semi-finals but Tyson Gay fails to reach the final as he finishes fifth in the second semi-final.

Follow British success as it unfolds this Saturday and Sunday