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Sport in brief May 17 with Jamie J

Sports round-up 

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: Glasgow sealed the United Rugby Championship title with a narrow 26-22 win at Ulster and will face Connacht in the play-offs. Second-placed Leinster thrashed Ospreys 68-14 to set up a last-eight match with Johannesburg. Leigh Halfpenny celebrated his retirement as Cardiff saw off Cape Town 22-16 and will meet the same opposition in South Africa for their play-off clash. Pretoria host Munster in the other quarter-final.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Harry Kane bagged his fourth hat-trick of the season, taking his tally to 36 goals in 31 Bundesliga games, as
champions Bayern Munich brushed aside Cologne 5-1 to finish 16 points clear of second-placed Borussia Dortmund. Kane has finished as the Bundesliga’s leading scorer for the last three seasons since his move from Tottenham. Munich are up against holders Stuttgart in next weekend’s German Cup final.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Cleveland Cavaliers are at Detroit tomorrow morning with the scores level at 3-3 in their best-of-seven NBA
Eastern Conference semi-final. Tomorrow’s winners will face New York Knicks in the Eastern final after they eased to a 4-0 series win over Philadelphia. In the west defending champions and odds-on favourites to retain the national title Oklahoma City will take on the San Antonio Spurs over seven games starting on Tuesday.

MEN’S ATHLETICS: Letterkenny-born Mark English became the first Irishman to win a Diamond League event when he
squeezed home ahead of Botswana’s Kethobogile Haingura and the USA’s Brandon Miller in Saturday’s 800 metres race in Shanghai. English is a two-time European bronze medallist at the same distance, has competed at the last three Olympics and won a silver and two bronze European Indoor Championship medals.

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