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Sport in brief: White granted wild card

Oxford frozen out | Kamui Kobayashi for Sauber | Chris Gayle wreaks havoc | Nigel Edwards appointed

Decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 40-21

Part four of The Times’s countdown includes tears, blood and other bodily fluids among the triumphs and disasters

The decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 60-41

Part three of our countdown, including the final act of an Ashes folk hero and humiliating exits for two England football managers

The decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 80-61

Part two of The Times’s countdown runs from South Korea to the Cotswolds, via Jamaica, Sydney, Cardiff and Singapore

The decade’s top 100 sporting moments: Nos 100-81

So how was the sporting decade for you? The staff of Times Sport have assembled their favourite memories of the past ten years

Sport in brief: Crusaders acquire dash of Witt

Mathieu Loree suspended for smoking marijuana | Lee Westwood named the European Tour’s Golfer of the Year for 2009

Top ten rugby league books

Christopher Irvine picks the best volumes available this Christmas

Eastmond refuses to rule out code switch

St Helens scrum half signs new two-year deal, but is tempted to make an eventual transition to playing union when time is right

RFL admits to concern over Crusaders

South Wales club are running out of time to confirm exactly where they will be playing their home games next season

Kear latest to rule himself out of England job

Wakefield coach follows Mike Ford and Shaun Edwards in distancing himself from becoming the successor to Tony Smith

Orford’s move to Bradford prompts anger

Bulls confident that signing of Manly Sea Eagles scrum half will not be disrupted by another Australian player’s protests

Crusaders face Leeds in Super League kick-off

Rhinos begin the defence of their engage Super League title against Crusaders at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham

Deacon accepts mentoring role at Wigan

The former Great Britain half back leaves Bradford Bulls on a three-year deal in which he will link up with Sam Tomkins

Australia clinch title with devastating finish

England 16 Australia 46: burst of 24 points in ten minutes wrecks hosts’ hopes of pulling off a shock in the Four Nations

Smith optimistic for England’s future

Departing England coach believes the young side he created can mature into world-beaters, despite the defeat by Australia

Smith resigns as England coach

The rugby league coach steps down 12 hours after the 46-16 loss to Australia in the Gillette Four Nations final at Elland Road

Battling England are swamped

England 16 Australia 46: loss of Michael Shenton triggers series of blistering tries as Kangaroos seize Four Nations

Young half-back duo can galvanise England

Unburdened by past hammerings, Sam Tomkins and Kyle Eastmond hope to end 36 years of misery against Australia in Four Nations final