Victory means Northampton, last season's European Challenge Cup winners, qualify for next season's Heineken Cup and keep their hopes of a treble alive.
Last season's fixture with Leeds was marred by crowd problems with visiting fans infiltrating the home end, and there are doubts whether this season's game will be played on the designated date.
The Dragons finished behind Ospreys, Cardiff Blues and Scarlets in this season's Magners League and they travel to face third-best Italian side Calvisano on Friday for a place in next season's Heineken Cup.
After a season's sabbatical Bayern won the race for his signature, but the 42-year-old might have a tough task on his hands if Bayern go on to pin down another two trophies between now and the season's end.
New boss Mackay has only 15 recognised first-team players at Cardiff after Conway's arrival as 12 players left the club after last season's failed play-off campaign, including last season's top scorer Jay Bothroyd and fellow striker Michael Chopra.
Bellamy was one of the top performers of last season's Premier League and scored his 18th Wales goal in their 5-1 friendly win over Luxembourg last week after admitting he "certainly wouldn't rule out" a move to last season's Championship play-off finalists.
Roles is British woman's number one discuss thrower and the 32-year-old's season's best of 58.63 metres ensures qualification for the Delhi showpiece.
Williams, 400m hurdles European bronze medallist at Gothenburg in 2006, won the Welsh championships in Cardiff in a time of 49.89 secs - just outside the 26-year-old's season's best.
Malcolm is also wary of Ramil Guliyev of Azerbaijan and Germany's Daniel Schnelting while fellow Brit Jeffrey Lawal Balogun's season's best is just shy of Malcolm's top time this year.
Norway's Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (20.31 secs), French pair Martial Mbandjock (20.38 secs) and David Alerte (20.49 secs) and Sebastian Ernst of Germany (20.38 secs) have all run faster than Malcolm's season's best of 20.50 secs this year.
That said, Benitez managed to secure the primary objective of the season, which was guaranteeing Chelsea's place in next season's Champions League.
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Gausman, who was Baltimore's first choice in last season's draft, will start the season at Double-A Bowie, manager Buck Showalter said.
West Brom will undoubtedly rise again while Cardiff's first season's win over one of the Championship's top six sides will be a morale-booster ahead of games against fellow play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough and Leicester City.
Both players were part of last season's off-season experiment which saw the Knicks gamble by moving on from younger players like Jeremy Lin by acquiring grayer, more experienced talent.
Replacement Richard Wigglesworth scored late on to secure Sale's place in next season's Heineken Cup.
The seven-times world champion will now face either Trowbridge's Lee, last season's Welsh Open winner, who beat David Roe 5-2.
Loomis was suspended without pay for the season's first eight regular season games, while assistant head coach Joe Vitt was suspended without pay for the first six regular season games.
And blackouts are rare anyway, occurring in only 16 of last season's 256 regular-season games, partly because some team owners and sponsors buy up unsold seats to get blackouts lifted.
So instead of Davies - a star of Fulham's charge to last season's Europa Cup final - being a Wales squad player, the Haverfordwest-born player informed the Welsh FA of his decision to retire.
Another unbeaten run came to an end as Barcelona's conquerors in last season's final, Chelsea , boosted hopes of reaching the last 16 after stealing a 3-2 win at home to Shakhtar Donetsk in the fourth minute of injury time.
The losing bonus point was the Welsh side's first in this season's cup and their competition is all but over, but Wasps will be seeking a four-try victory in next week's reverse fixture at Adams Park to make up their two-point deficit on Toulouse in the group.
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He joins Northwich Victoria's Paul Brayson and Gosport Borough's Jamie Laidlaw in this season's "Team of the FA Cup".
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Johnson's time surpassed the previous season's best run by Antonio Pettigrew last week by more than seven-tenths of a second.
But the title is now Kaymer's to lose after last season's European Tour leading money-winner maintained his outstanding form in Abu Dhabi.
Loomis was suspended without pay for the season's first eight regular-season games, while Vitt was suspended without pay for the first six regular-season games.
Rees, 29, was named as his country's 128th captain when last season's leader Ryan Jones was ruled out of the 6 November Test against Australia.
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Veteran Allen Johnson, 35, won the men's 110m hurdles in a season's best of 13.14 seconds, the former Olympic and world champion securing his sixth win in Zurich since 1997.
George Balanchine's classic dances dominated the season's opening weeks.
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But if there's an unofficial rule about crunch time in English soccer, it's this: As a season's worth of knocks begin to pile up, it sometimes pays to call in the cavalry.
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