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The Black Cats registered a much needed win over the weekend, but lost the 23-year-old striker in the opening 15 minutes of the game. Bendtner was accidentally caught in the face by Angel Rangel and had to be replaced by Connor Wickham.

Sunderland issued an update according to which Bendtner had suffered a fractured nose and was currently being monitored. The scans revealed his facial injuries had been much more serious that initially thought because of which he was ruled out of action.

Dr Glen Rae, the head of Sunderland’s medical department, said while speaking to reporters:

“The results of the scans have been received and Nicklas will now undergo further treatment.

Sunderland Royal Hospital provided a first-class response and I would like to thank them for their assistance.”

After graduating to the senior team at Arsenal in 2005, Bendtner formed a highly successful partnership with Arturo Lupoli in the reserve team. He we

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Tuesday night’s college hoops schedule is posted at Cappers Info, and we are taking a close look at some of the best games on the slate and making our NCAA basketball picks for the duels ahead.

College Basketball Matchup: Kentucky Wildcats @ Georgia BulldogsDate: Tuesday, January 24th, 9:00 ETLocation: Stegeman Coliseum, Athens, GACollege Basketball Odds: Kentucky -12.5College Basketball TV Schedule: ESPN, ESPN3.com

Tonight’s contest is Athens is the equivalent of the Super Bowl for the Bulldogs, who really would love to prove that they can play with some of the elite teams in the SEC. The problem is that they really have just gotten slaughtered by most of the best teams in this conference, and this is the biggest team of the bunch. Ken

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A roundup of key economic and financial market news for those looking at spread betting the markets today. Barclays Q1 has missed analysts’ forecasts, pre-tax profit fell 9% to £1.655bn on total income of £7.4bn a decline of 8%.BP Q1 replacement cost profit fell to $5.481bn with debt levels up $2.3bn to $27.5bn. The oil giant said higher taxes impacted profit with effective tax rate for Q1 of 37%. The board has declared a dividend of 7 cents per share.The FTSE 100 is down 12.2 points to 6,057.1 in early trading.Those who took a long spread betting position on the the Dow Jones yesterday will be sitting pretty after the index rose 115.5 points to 12,595.4 points after positive earnings reports.The Nikkei 225 jumped 133.2 points to 9,691.8 a gain of 1.39%.Brent crude oil has opened down 28 cents to $123.86 per barrel on continued unrest in Syria and Libya.Game Group has reported EPS of 4.51p and will pay a final dividend of 3.9p per share. G

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Published January 16, 2012 | By Rory

Liverpools record signing Andy Carroll has been attracting interest from Aston Villa, who hoped to tempt the reds with Darren Bent. Reports suggest that the enquiry has been dismissed but watch this space.

Carlos Tevez, whose nightmare at Manchester City seems never ending, could finally be offered an option by oil backed French side, Paris Saint Germain.

Revel Morrison of Manchester United is an 18 year old, little known midfielder who Arsenal and Barcelona are said to be keeping tabs on.

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The pressure cooker that is Big Brother is offering up its usual combination of egotistical behaviour which is intriguing now that the format is a seriously aged one. All those who have watched the show, and you would hope those participating would be included, should know by now that bragging about your career, divulging inside stories about other celebrities or showing a lack of humour is never popular, however the current housemates seem to have paid little heed to what is popular or simply cannot behave appropriately because their true character will not allow them to.

For this reason it was only a surprise to Natasha Giggs that she went this weekend not to anyone else.

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