Arsenal agree terms with Manchester City for Samir Nasri, Samuel Eto'o becomes the world's highest-paid footballer, Mark Cavendish out of the Tour of Spain, plus more.
1843 CRICKET: Relegation-threatened
Yorkshirewere bowled out for 297 by a depleted Warwickshire attack on the first day of the LV County Championship match at Headingley.
1831 FOOTBALL: The Times football correspondent
Oliver Kay on Twitter: "
Wenger denies having made any approach for Lazio's Mauro Zarate. Says "we will be in the market regardless of result tmrw."
1828 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport correspondent
Dan Roan on Twitter: "
FC Anzhi spokesman tells me record-breaking €30m Eto'o pay-packet is worth it - "a good deal for the club", and the spending will continue."
1817 FOOTBALL: Blackburn striker
El-Hadji Diouf has
told BBC Radio Scotland that he wants to return to Rangers, where he spent the second half of last season on loan. He also revealed that he is surprised that
David Goodwillie chose Ewood Park above Ibrox.
1812 FOOTBALL: Real Madrid have
released a statement expressing surprise that the Spanish Football Association launched an investigation into the touch-line confrontations in their Spanish Super Cup final against Barcelona five days after the event.
1804 CYCLING: Bradley Wiggins on Twitter: "Sad to see Cav going home, going to miss our little chats in the peleton, see you in Copenhagen. #cavtowinworldsroadrace"
1749 TENNIS: Serena Williams is seeded 28th for the US Open, which is sticking with its policy of following the rankings instead of taking into account players' past performances. Williams has won 13 Grand Slam titles, including three at Flushing Meadows, and recently won consecutive hard-court tune-up tournaments at Stanford and Toronto. Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki is seeded number one, followed by Vera Zvonareva.
1743 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport's Phil McNulty on Twitter: "Wenger will be on the touchline for Arsenal's Champions League game with Udinese as he waits for Uefa to hear appeal. A bit of common sense at last."
1739 FOOTBALL: The Irish Football Association confirm
Gerry Armstrong has started work as the organisation's 'elite player mentor'. The former Tottenham and Real Mallorca striker has twice been assistant manager to the Northern Ireland side.
1734 FOOTBALL: Newcastle ask for details behind the decision to find the club guilty of failing to control their players in the match against Arsenal before considering their position. A Magpies statement read: "Newcastle United has requested written reasons for the decision from the chairman of the regulatory commission and will consider its position once these have been received."
1712 GOLF: Ryder Cup hero and former US Open champion Graeme McDowelllaunches his Foundation in New York tonight with the aim of supporting children's medical research in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States.
1700 GOLF: American Ryder Cup player
JB Holmes is to undergo brain surgery next week. Holmes, part of the winning team in Louisville three years ago, has been suffering from vertigo-like symptoms since May. "I know when people hear 'brain surgery' it conjures up all kinds of images, but this a relatively low-risk surgery and only takes about an hour and a half,"
Holmes told the PGA Tour website after withdrawing from the FedEx Cup play-offs starting this week in New Jersey.
1655 HOCKEY: BBC Sport's Ollie Williams on Twitter: "EuroHockey men: Update on Mark Pearn, sent home from England squad with knee injury. England Hockey say injury is not thought to be serious."
1640 FOOTBALL: German newspaper
Bild says Dutch winger
Arjen Robben has been ruled out of the second leg of Bayern Munich's Champions League playoff at FC Zurich on Tuesday with a recurrence of a back problem.
1628 FOOTBALL: Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni leaves James McCarthy, Marc Wilson and John Walters out of his squad for
next month's crunch Euro 2012 qualifiers against Slovakia and Russia.
1624 JUDO: Norwich player Colin Oates misses out on a medal at the
Judo World Championships in Paris, where he loses the bronze fight to
Musa Mogushkov of Russia.
1620 FOOTBALL: The Mexico Football Federation says it is ready to defend its decision to clear
five players who tested positive for the anabolic agent clenbuterol . The World Anti-Doping Agency said last week it would challenge the Mexico federation's decision not to ban the five players for doping. The federation argues that contaminated meat caused the positive tests.
1607 RUGBY UNION: England's quest for revenge will ensure
Saturday's final Rugby World Cup warm-up match against Ireland is anything but a friendly, according to scrum coach
Graham Rowntree. Five months ago, England had their Grand Slam ambitions shattered at the Aviva Stadium as Ireland produced a ferocious performance to win 24-8. "This game is definitely not a friendly," he said. "We have not forgotten what they did to us over there. It will be fuelling our fires at the weekend, that's for sure."
1558 JUDO: British judo player
Colin Oates will fight for a bronze medal in the under-66kg category at the judo World Championships in Paris. The 28-year-old beat David Larose of France in his first repecharge match to set up a bronze medal match with world number four Musa Mugushkov from Russia. Follow
Olympic sport reporter Jessica Creighton on Twitter for the latest.
1556 FOOTBALL: Ex-Arsenal and current Barcelona player
Cesc Fabregas on Twitter: "Good luck to my friend @nanas08 [Samir Nasri] at his new club. One of the best players around."
1548 FOOTBALL: Yaroslav Rybakov will not defend his world high jump title because of a foot injury, the Russian said on Tuesday.
1532 FOOTBALL: Newcastle manager
Alan Pardew: "There are one or two big moves which could happen - I don't think they are going to happen last minute because the other clubs will want to do some business too."
1525 FOOTBALL: Patrice Evra said his new
Manchester United team-mate David de Gea should not worry about his transition to the Premier League. "Sometimes you have good days. Sometimes you have bad. I am confident because he has a big talent and we are going to help him."
1511 FOOTBALL: Arsenal midfielder
Jack Wilshere on Twitter: "Good luck to my friend @Nanas08 (Mr Nasri) learnt a lot from him. World class player! Will be missed!"
1505 FOOTBALL: Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm criticises USA coach
Jurgen Klinsmann for his style of management while he managed the Bavarian club. "After six or eight weeks, all the players already knew that it wasn't going to work with Klinsmann," he said.
1458 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport's chief football writer
Phil McNulty on Twitter: "If Arsenal are still 'a big club' - and I am convinced they are - then Arsene Wenger must prove it now with some major signings."
1447 FOOTBALL: Real Madrid manager
Jose Mourinho is to be investigated by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) following last week's Supercopa defeat to
Barcelona.
1441 HOCKEY: BBC Sport's
Ollie Williams on Twitter in Monchengladbach after watching England 3-1 Ireland: "England captain Kate Walsh: 'We were just asleep, not sharp enough. It's disappointing when we switch off. We all know that wasn't good enough.'"
1434 FOOTBALL: Motherwell name unchanged squad for the Scottish Communities League Cup second round game against
Clyde.
1431 FOOTBALL: Arsenal boss
Arsene Wenger talks to
BBC Sport about
Samir Nasri's departure to Manchester City: "The summer was very difficult because we had [Cesc] Fabregas and Nasri on permanent transfer negotiations and that is draining in the end. We lost two great players and that's a sad side of the story but at some stage it has to be over, because you want to focus on the future."
1425 FOOTBALL: Blackburn boss
Steve Kean on the signing of
Simon Vukcevic: "It's going to be difficult for him to be involved in [the Carling Cup] game because he has not even trained with us."
1419 FOOTBALL: Brazil legend
Zico is to coach the
Iraq national football team, the former player has told the
Folha newspaper.
1411 FOOTBALL: Blackburn manager Steve Kean confirms the signing of Simon Vukcevic on a three-year contract from Sporting Lisbon.
1406 SKIING: The
International Ski Federation (FIS) has upheld a charge that Estonia's twice Olympic 15 km cross country ski champion
Andrus Veerpalu tested positive for a banned growth hormone.
1357 FOOTBALL: Tuncay is set to make his
Bolton debut in the Carling Cup clash with Macclesfield after finally having his work permit granted.
1348 FOOTBALL: Everton boss David Moyes will check on the condition of Tim Cahill, Jermaine Beckford and Louis Saha ahead of Wednesday's
Carling Cup clash with Sheffield United. They are all doubts for the second round tie at Goodison Park.
1341 FOOTBALL:"Arsenal state that
Samir Nasri has been omitted from Arsenal's squad which flies to Udinese this afternoon and instead will travel north for a medical."
1331 FOOTBALL: There are five
Champions League play-off second leg ties on Tuesday: Apoel Nicosia v Wisla Krakow (agg 0-1), FC Zurich v Bayern Munich (agg 0-2), Genk v Maccabi Haifa (agg 1-2), Malmo v Dinamo Zagreb, (agg 1-4) and Villarreal v Odense BK (agg 0-1). All the ties kick off at 1945 BST.
1323 ATHLETICS: British 400m Olympic medallist
Katharine Merry on Twitter: "OMG... word coming out of the GB camp is that @ChristianM200 [Christian Malcolm] captains speech was a cracker...well done mate! "
1312 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creighton on Twitter in Paris: "
Colin Oates loses quarter-final tie against Leandro Cunha of Brazil, BUT can still win a bronze medal through the repechage system."
1301 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creighton on Twitter in Paris: "Bad news:
James Millar out of -60kg, losing to Euro champ Georgii Zantaraia. Good news:
Colin Oates through to last 8 v 2010 World runner-up."
1256 CRICKET: England's
Ian Bell moves up to share number three in the
Test world rankings, with team-mate Alastair Cook. Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen are also in the top 10, while in the Test bowling rankings James Anderson is second, Graeme Swann third and Stuart Broad fifth.
1253 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport's
David Ornsteinon Twitter: "Also understand Arsenal will definitely NOT go for M'Vila. Still very keen on Jagielka for his versatility but price the stumbling block."
1249 FOOTBALL: Algeria U-23 international striker
Mohamed Chalali is included in Aberdeen's squad for the Scottish Communities League Cup second-round clash with Dundee tonight after completing his move from Greek side Panionios.
1246 FOOTBALL: Ghana and Nigeria will meet in an international friendly at Watford's Vicarage Road on 11 October after the original fixture was postponed this month because of the London riots.
1240 CRICKET: Australia left-arm seamer
Mitchell Johnson climbs four places to number three in the
one-day international world rankings, with the Aussies consolidating their place at the top following a 3-2 series win over second-placed Sri Lanka.
1232 FOOTBALL: BBC London report that unsettled midfielder
Samir Nasri will travel to Udinese for Wednesday's second leg of the Champions League play-off but
Jack Wilshere will not as he is not fully fit.
1226 FOOTBALL: Bayern Munich dismiss speculation that they will sign Manchester City's
Carlos Tevez to replace their injured Croatia striker Ivica Olic.
1217 RUGBY UNION: Injured England scrum-half
Danny Care on Twitter: "Congrats to all the boys who made the squad! Would love to be out there with them...trying to get fit ASAP and then you never know..."
1210 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creighton on Twitter in Paris: "Britain's
Ashley McKenzie falls to -60kg world number four Yamamoto at the judo World Championships in Paris.
Craig Fallon (-66kg) also out."
1205 FOOTBALL: Chelsea goalkeeper
Petr Cech will miss the Czech Republic's 2012 European Championship qualifier against Scotland on 3 September after being left out of Michal Bilek's 30-man squad. Cech sustained
a knee injury in training with his club.
1158 HOCKEY: BBC Sport's
Ollie Williams on Twitter in Monchengladbach:
England team to play Ireland at EuroHockey: Hinch, Unsworth, Cullen, Richardson, Seymour, Walsh, Rogers, Danson, Twigg, Walton, Townsend. Macleod/Panter/Williams/Herbert/Ball
1152 FOOTBALL: Palermo president
Maurizio Zamparini insists his club have no chance of signing Manchester City forward
Mario Balotelli. Balotelli was born in the Sicilian city and was quoted as saying in
Gazzetta dello Sport: "You know where I'd like to play? Palermo. I'd love to go there. It's a nice place, and it's sunny."
1141 FOOTBALL: The latest
5 live Football Daily podcast includes post-match reaction from Tottenham boss
Harry Redknapp and Manchester Utd striker
Danny Welbeck after United's 3-0 win over Spurs.
1135 FOOTBALL: Bolton boss Owen Coyle expresses his relief that
Gretar Steinsson was diagnosed with nothing more serious than bruising after being forced out of
Sunday's defeat to Manchester City. Coyle is hopeful the 29-year-old will be available for Saturday's visit to Liverpool.
1126 FOOTBALL: European football writer
Andy Brassell on Twitter: "Suggested in yesterday's L'Equipe, confirmed today that Sochaux have reported Newcastle to FIFA for making illegal approach to Modibo Maïga. According to the L'Equipe version, Sochaux already officially contacted NUFC twice to ask them to stop making direct contact with Maïga."
1110 RUGBY UNION: Former England and Lions centre
Jeremy Guscotttells BBC Sport that "
Riki Flutey has only got himself to blame for his omission" from England's World Cup squad.
1102 FOOTBALL: Daily Mirror writer
John Crosson Twitter: "
Nasri trains for Arsenal. Traore and Djourou also training. Reckon Nasri will go but not sure he'll play...Wilshere not here training so likely to miss"
1058 FOOTBALL: Arsenal ask for a delay in the implementation of
Arsene Wenger's two-match touchline ban in the Champions League until his appeal has been heard. A decision over whether a stay of execution can be granted will be made by the chairman of UEFA's appeals body later today.
1052 RUGBY LEAGUE: Daily Mail writer
Ian Ladymanon Twitter: "Leon Pryce off to Catalan? Pryce, Graham, Eastmond. Will the last one out please turn off the lights?"
1047 RUGBY UNION: Gloucester have
confirmed Luke Narraway will be the club's captain for the forthcoming season. "Very few men are handed the privilege of being club captain at a club like Gloucester, and I will give it everything I have to make sure I don't let anyone down," said the 27-year-old.
1039 NEWS: "We need truth, not just for James but for the 95 other fans that died alongside him,"
Margaret Aspinall, whose son died in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, tells BBC 5 live. A
petition calling for the full release of government papers relating to the disaster has passed the 100,000 signatures required to be discussed by MPs.
1023 FOOTBALL: Daily Express writer
Matt Lawon Twitter: "David Hytner writes in Guardian that
Samir Nasri has asked not to go to Italy - I've heard the same thing. Open training at 11am and then we fly.."
1015 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Britain's 2nd 60kg fighter James Millar wins his 2nd round fight against Manolis Savvidis. Faces Tobias Englmaier of Germany next."
1004 FOOTBALL: More gems from statistical gurus
Opta. "Everton's defeat against QPR was their 100th loss at Goodison Park in the Premier League - the first team to three figures. Science."
1001 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "A clash with world number four Hirofumi Yamamoto of Japan (-60kg) now awaits Britain's Euro U-23 champ Ashley McKenzie."
0957 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Britain's Ashley McKenzie looking strong with 2nd round win over Brent Law of Malta with Yuko, Waza-ari & Seoi Ippon."
0950 FOOTBALL: Speaking at his pre-match press conference
Bolton manager
Owen Coyle reveals that
Joe Riley will make his full debut in Wednesday evening's Carling Cup tie against Macclesfield Town at the Reebok Stadium.
0946 FOOTBALL:West Brom academy product George Thorne agrees his second contract of the summer, signing a new-and-improved three-year deal, plus a further year's option in the club's favour.
0927 FORMULA ONE: Organisers of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix are expecting a full house for the race on 30 October after tickets worth 12.5m rupees (approximately £165,000) were bought in the first three hours of sales.
0919 FOOTBALL: Manchester United have allowed their opponents more shots on target from outside the box (seven) than any other team in the Premier League so far, according to statistical impresarios
Opta. 0915 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport's
Phil McNultyon Twitter: "Man Utd's young generation lay down a marker as Redknapp wrestles with Modric dilemma.
Read more in my blog "
0911 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Craig Fallon is out. Intriguing story: World champ back in 2005, recently back from 2-year judo break, lost funding, new weight category."
0905 FOOTBALL: Keep up-to-date with all the evening's 16 Carling Cup ties on
5 live tonight from 1945 BST.
0845 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Fallon receiving treatment, bandage to the head. He looks like a true warrior now. Presumably from a clash of heads. 2:30 left on the clock."
0841 RUGBY LEAGUE: Leeds have moved to end speculation over the future of prop
Ryan Bailey by admitting they forgot to announce the contract he signed last year, which covers this season and next.
0839 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Britain's last World champ Craig Fallon up now. Already 10-0 up against Martin Ivanov of Bulgaria."
0832 CRICKET: In a parody of the
legendary Sporting Times article of 1882, Indian tabloid newspaper
Mid-Day display a large gravestone with the epitaph: "RIP Indian cricket. In affectionate remembrance of Indian Cricket which died at The Oval on August 22, 2011. Deeply lamented by a large circle of 1.2 billion friends and acquaintances. The body will be cremated and the ashes remain at The Oval. Forever."
0823 JUDO: BBC Sport's
Jessica Creightonon Twitter: "Euro U-23 champ Ashley McKenzie gets 1st win for Brits, beating Kang Ho Song of N.Korea by Waza-ari (throwing opponent on back & holding)"
0817 CRICKET: Former South Africa coach Mickey Arthur, currently in charge of Western Australia, expresses an interest in leading the Australian national team.
0801 FOOTBALL: James McCarthy, Ben Watson and Emmerson Boyce have all signed new long-term contracts at Wigan.
0801 FOOTBALL: - Manchester United defender
Phil Joneson Twitter: "What a great performance last night by all the lads. Especially in the 2nd half. The fans were magnificent too!!!"
0800 BST: -
Top transfer stories from
Tuesday's gossip column: Manchester City misfit Craig Bellamy is being tracked by Liverpool ahead of a potential Anfield return. (Daily Mail)
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish is keen to sign Birmingham defender Scott Dann for £8m. (Daily Star)
Tottenham have failed with bids for Ashley Young, Phil Jones and Stewart Downing. (Metro)
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