• My duty, understand, will be to pee in a cup some two hours from now.

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  • "Our best chance of doing anything is in a cup competition, " Bruce told BBC Newcastle.

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  • An iPad owner may be on a train when his favorite soccer team is playing in a cup final.

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  • Walker's wonder strike came two minutes into the second period of extra time in a cup final of epic proportions.

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  • Even as a kid, I never played in a cup final.

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  • So when a team is in a cup final while also being mired in a relegation battle, it's inevitable that some will blame the energy-sapping cup run.

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  • Tom Williams faked injury to allow fly-half Nick Evans to return to the field in a cup tie and director or rugby Dean Richards has since stood down.

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  • Contrary to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, there's no evidence that DDT causes cancer in humans--you are exposed to more carcinogens in a cup of coffee than from long-term exposure to DDT.

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  • When you go to Smoothie King looking for a snack and walk out with a 1, 500 calorie drink, which is close to a day's worth of calories in a cup, that's shocking.

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  • Last year South Africa beat Madagascar 1-0 in Durban in a World Cup warm-up and then narrowly edged the islanders in a penalty shootout in a Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final tie played at Port Elizabeth.

    BBC: SA to take on Madagascar

  • For more than an hour he had tried but failed to get his team Chelsea out of a big hole as the London team desperately attempted to turn their season round in a cup match against Welsh side Swansea City.

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  • But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.

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  • One of the best examples is Lung King Heen, the Michelin-starred restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, where chef Chan Yan Tak has added duck liver and black truffles to pork dumplings, and invented new dim sums, like abalone baked in a cup of flaky puff pastry.

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  • They did lose to Charlton on penalties in a Carling Cup match in October 2005 and suffered a 2-1 reverse to Barcelona in the first leg of a Champions League last-16 tie in February 2006.

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  • The creative midfielder will have to demonstrate that he can still play at the highest level given his last appearance for the national side was under Glenn Hoddle in a World Cup qualifier in Moldova in 1996 - a game in which he scored.

    BBC: Nick Barmby

  • The Tamworth-born midfielder made his first team debut in a Uefa Cup tie against CSKA Moscow in February 2009, a game that saw then manager Martin O'Neill controversially leave the majority of his senior players at home.

    BBC: Marc Albrighton

  • David Villa snatched a late winner to book Spain's first appearance in a World Cup semi-final as they beat Paraguay in a largely disappointing quarter-final tie that nonetheless boasted moments of incredible drama .

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  • His last appearance came against the Czech Republic in a World Cup qualifier in Prague on 14 October 2009.

    BBC: Damien Johnson calls time on Northern Ireland career

  • He acquired prominence after he scored the winning goal for Northern Ireland in their 1-0 victory over England in a World Cup qualifier in September 2005.

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  • Isner, with 98, and Mahut (95) have also both smashed the previous record for the most aces, the 78 set by Ivo Karlovic in a Davis Cup tie in 2009.

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  • Then the team plays in the Gold Cup, a tournament important to U.S. international hopes (the winner gets a spot in the Confederations Cup, a World Cup warm-up).

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  • New Zealand's only other appearance in a World Cup finals was in 1982 when they lost to Scotland (5-2), Soviet Union (3-0) and Brazil (4-0).

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  • Despite large sections of the vast Millennium Stadium being empty the match attracted 25, 000 fans, many more than the 14, 505 that saw Wales play Russia in a World Cup qualifier back in 2010.

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  • And with one eye on the Super League franchise, a win in a major cup competition would be a massive boost to Barrow's hopes of attracting interest from the Rugby Football League come 2012.

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  • Edwards, who scored 173 not out in a World Cup match against Ireland in 1997, will not be able to play any cricket this summer.

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  • He played 17 times on loan at Burnley in the Championship last season and went on to make his Australia debut in a World Cup qualifier against Japan in June.

    BBC: Williams hopeful of Boro chance

  • The Dutch, who have already reached the World Cup finals, play Scotland in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday and may be without Sneijder who picked up an injury in the win.

    CNN: Dubious penalty helps England to victory

  • Davies, who made his Wales bow debut in a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine in March 2001, last played for Wales in the friendly loss to Sweden in March but that had been his first appearance in almost a year because of injury.

    BBC: Fulham's Simon Davies calls time on Wales career

  • "We've learned it's important to set up vivid analogies, " said Lyle Tomlinson, a 24-year-old neuroscience graduate student from Brooklyn who's working as a teaching assistant, noting he used the effects of caffeine in a morning cup of coffee to begin a discussion on the nervous system.

    WSJ: Alan Alda wants scientists to cut out the jargon

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