James, sporting a mop-style haircut, was called into action early on when he palmed away David Jones's free-kick before the England international's face came to the rescue as he blocked Geoffrey Mujangi Bia's fiercely struck shot from 10 yards.

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"If I were to tell a Labrador person to have more flash and dash, they'd probably stone me, " said James Reynolds, the 2011 Sporting judge at Westminster.

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At age 16, Branson launched a youth-culture periodical called Student Magazine, sporting columns and interviews from novelists James Baldwin and Alice Walker and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Chief executive James Sutherland expects an unprecedented demand for tickets and is confident the cricket contest will be the biggest sporting event in Australia since the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

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