The fever overtook not only New Yorkers but sports fans everywhere when the undrafted Harvard graduate came off the New York Knicks bench to help win games and a spot in the starting line-up.

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Wing Jones missed Saturday's 32-23 win against Canada in Toronto with a knee injury and Cooper hobbled out of Saturday's win, but is fit to take a place on the bench.

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In other action on Sunday, Nikola Zigic came off the bench to earn Valencia a 1-0 win at Racing Santander.

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Leicester captain Martin Corry, who started the match on the bench, said the match was a "must-win game" for his side after their comprehensive defeat in Saturday's EDF Energy Cup defeat by the Ospreys.

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His last strike for Blues came almost a year ago when he came off the bench to hit the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Hull.

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Gloucester's Delve came off the bench in Bloemfontein to win his eighth cap, but is unsure whether he has earnt a starting place in Gatland's team, to be named on Thursday.

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In-form Rangers striker Kenny Miller, who was due to earn his 50th cap, had been dropped to the bench despite having scored in Scotland's last qualifier, a 2-1 win over Liechtenstein.

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His first league goal of the campaign was a fine solo effort coming off the bench in Everton's convincing 3-1 win over Sir Alex Ferguson's side and followed Dan Gosling's second-half strike which sent them into eighth spot in the Premier League.

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Alun Wyn Jones returns on the bench, following his successful recovery from a chipped elbow suffered in the dramatic Six Nations win over Scotland.

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