We'll Leave It There So: Numbers crunch Taylor, Harrington goes for gold and all today's sport

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Kellie Harrington was in imperious form again at the World Championships today, beating Sara Kali to give her a place in tomorrow’s final.
The news wasn’t quite so good for Katie Taylor, who was scored to have drawn her semi-final bout with Estelle Mossely by three judges and lost the deciding vote that followed.
Damien Shaw is hot on the heels of the Rás leader.
Ireland Women’s Sevens will send a development squad to Amsterdam this weekend.
Shamrock Rovers’ Mikey Drennan opened up about his depression.
Martin O’Neill admitted concern over the match fitness of midfielder Darron Gibson.

Away

White smoke from Old Trafford, kind of. It’s probably in the hearth and still making its way up the chimney. Jose Mourinho is reportedly signed and sealed, but it hasn’t been announced yet.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic played coy about making the move to Manchester himself, but he’s confident Mourinho will do a decent job.
The Springboks will be without veteran flanker Schalk Burger when Ireland visit next month.
Worcester Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan absolutely can not wait to have Ben Te’o in his ranks.
Wales’ Nigel Owens will be the referee for Saturday’s Pro12 final.

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On The Record

This Mayweather-McGregor shit – that’s just a big old publicity stunt to hide the fact that he got his ass whooped.”

Nate Diaz might just be onto something.

Where We Were Today

Paul Fenno Fennessy was in Ireland’s pre-Euro 2016 camp to hear from Big John O’Shea and Martin O’Neill.

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The Fixture List

Kellie Harrington will fight for gold against China’s Wenlu Yang at around 12.15 the World Championships in Astana tomorrow. Martin O’Neill’s Boys in Green face the Netherlands at 19.45 in Aviva Stadium, Michael O’Neill’s boys in green will take on Belarus in Windsor Park at the same time.

Showbiz, Baby!

After being on the wrong end of a 116-78 hammering in the eastern conference final against Cleveland, things only got worse for Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry the longer he looked at the stat sheet.
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