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Sports Awards

US Open champions Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell - last year's Tele Sports Star of the Year - and Open champion Darren Clarke

Tele Sports Awards: Who will be our top stars?

It's been another stunning year for Northern Ireland sport. We have watched in admiration as our sporting heroes have delivered time and time again.
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Rugby throws weight behind Tele honours

Inside Sports Awards

Local Athletes Gear Up for 2012 Sports Awards Programme

Thursday, 26 July 2012

On the back of a vibrant summer sporting calendar and the London 2012 Games, organisers of top annual sports awards programme, the Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards are urging fans, clubs, schools and sporting organisations to consider what teams and individuals they would like to put forward for the 2012 Linwoods and Sport Northern Ireland supported gala event which will take place in January 2013.
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A call for heroes

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

The sensational summer of sport just keeps getting better and better and ahead of the Olympics in London, the organisers of the Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards are urging fans, clubs, schools and sporting organisations to consider what teams and individuals they would like to put forward for the 2012 Linwoods and Sport Northern Ireland supported event.
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In Pictures: Ryder Cup 2012

English Premier League

Irish League

Scottish Football

League of Ireland

World Cup Qualifers

Champions League

Columnist Comments

• Losing a sense of perspective

So much of GAA journalism is devoted to the art and science of winning. Such is the fetish for coming out on the right side of a result that losing is seen as a sin.

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• Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell fall short against US onslaught

Graeme McDowell was the hero of Europe's last great triumph and for a moment yesterday it seemed that he had started here under a blue and steely American sky pretty much as he had finished in the mist and the chill of a Welsh valley two years ago.

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• Players right to have an exclusion zone

The GAA rightly prides itself on being a family-orientated organisation. If clubs are viewed as representing the heartbeat of the country’s biggest sporting body, then families are the very blood that runs through its veins.

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• Expect Olazabal’s Europeans to tie up loose ends in Medinah

Expect a close-run thing in the 39th Ryder Cup, starting at Medinah, Chicago, today and hence 10/1 for the first tie in 23 years, a tempting proposition.

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• Cardiff rout just the tonic we needed

One can only imagine the atmosphere in the Ulster dressing room last Friday night before the game in Cardiff.

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• Spurs can reach top four under Andre Villas-Boas’ guidance

Tottenham: before I address Andre Villas-Boas, I must re-iterate that I didn’t understand why Harry Redknapp was ushered through the exit door in the first place.

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• Northern Ireland have to get a whole lot smarter

Another night at Windsor Park and another major disappointment.

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• Golden Boris goes out with a bang as Olympics ends again

Millions came to see those who had conquered the world at the Olympics and were then upstaged by a man who is undoubtedly as mad as a big box of hatters.