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Women’s world number one 25 year-old Belgian Justine Henin has said that she is retiring from professional tennis. The seven Grand Slam titles and four-time French Open winner, lost to Dinara Safina in the third round of the German Open last week and has pulled out of this week’s Italian Open citing fatigue.

The recent slump in her game is responsible for the decision which the 5 foot 5 inch player has taken, with immediate effect. Having lost four times in the last four months seems to have been the defining moment. This is how it looked this season: She lost out to Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open quarterfinals in January, then was thrashed by Serena Williams at the Sony …

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Kristjan Rummel is an Estonian poker player. According to his statistics from the Olympic Poker Club, he has participated in 450 tournaments and amassed 13220 ranking points. Following his success at the Olympic Open Championship held in Tallinn last week, he can now also call himself a Texas Terminator.

We still don’t know what that means.

We do know that, in addition to a truly awe-inspiring title, he won €3,089 but the money somehow feels irrelevant.

We just need to know: what the hell is a Texas Terminator?

Last week’s entreaties have, sadly, yielded no satisfactory answers, but thank you to the punter who suggested it is George Bush’s evil twin. (Ed – George is the good one??) We do, however, realise that it …

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Here we go again – it’s silly season in the football rumours department. Every summer there’s a transfer story that refuses to go away, and already, just a few days after the end of the Premier League, we’ve got one that looks like it’s got the legs to go all the way.

It’s Gareth Barry from Aston Villa to Liverpool. Call it ‘Barrygate’, if you like. Everyone else is.

Liverpool have already declared their interest in Villa’s captain and star midfielder, who has spent the last two seasons transforming Martin O’Neill’s team from mid-table plodders to top six material, and won a regular place in the England in the process. But Liverpool’s faxed offer – reckoned to be around £10million, way below …

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One down, one to go. Last night Bristol City booked their place in the world’s most lucrative club football match – tonight we’ll find out who they’ll play in the battle to win the £60million jackpot that is the Premier League.

Hull host Watford and, to be honest, they need to blow things big time to miss out on a place in the Championship playoff final. After last weekend’s 2-0 win at Vicarage Road – when Watford had their captain, John Eustace, sent off, and a goal disallowed with the scores at 0-0 – Hull have a huge advantage. Two goals up, and two away goals at that, it will need an almighty turnaround to prevent them booking a trip to …

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Sharon Osbourne’s cash register is kerchinging again and it’s not because she’s landed a new job working the tills at Asda, but we can dream.

Shazza, famous for being Ozzy Osbourne’s wife is demanding a not to be sniffed at £500,000 pay rise for her X-Factor role.  That would take her salary for the series to £2million.  £2million quid for sitting behind a desk and listening to a seriously whittled down list of non-entities wail and cry through a Ronan Keating song and then wail and cry about why they are ‘gonna be a massive star.’

Frankly anybody with half a brain can see the show and format is dying on its arse but unfortunately there are still several million members of the …

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Did you see Bristol City turn on the style to knock Crystal Palace out of the Championship play-offs on Tuesday night? Did you see the state of those two screaming goals scored by the amazing Lee Trundle and Michael McIndoe?

City manager Gary Johnson must be some kind of miracle worker to take his club to the brink of the Premiership on such scant resources. And what lovely football they play as well. How Johnson managed to turn that previously fat scouser Trundle into a left sided doppelganger of the legendary Hristo Stoichkov I´ll never know.

Viewers of Soccer AM will know that Trundle has always had a trick or two but now he really looks the part after shedding …

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