MEN’S FOOTBALL: Larne opened up a three point lead at the top of the Irish Premiership with a 5-0 thrashing of bottom club Portadown after second-placed Glentoran had drawn 0-0 at Coleraine. Cliftonville won 2-0 at struggling Dungannon to stay third, a point ahead of Crusaders, who face Ballymena this evening. Robbie McDaid bagged an 85^th minute winner in Linfield’s 2-1 defeat of Glenavon and Newry thumped Carrick 4-1.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Celtic came from behind to see off Ross County 2-1 and lead the Scottish Premiership by nine points from Rangers who drew 1-1 at St Mirren. Aberdeen squeezed past bottom-club Dundee United 1-0 to remain third, Motherwell drew 1-1 at St Johnstone, Hibernian went down 1-0 at Kilmarnock for their sixth defeat in seven games and Josh Ginnelly’s injury time strike earned 10-man Hearts a 1-1 draw with Livingston.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Welsh Cup holders TNS saw off Caernarfon 2-1 and last year’s runners up Penybont won 3-0 at Conwy Borough to reach the fourth round, but Hakin United, the lowest ranked team left in the draw crashed out 5-1 to Holywell Town and Pill AFC lost 3-1 at Pontardawe. On a day of no upsets, even the Cymru Premier’s bottom club Broughton beat Trefelin 2-1 for only their second win this season.

WOMEN’S BOXING: Natasha Jonas won her third world title in just nine months when she defended her WBC and WBO light-middleweight titles and won the IBF belt beating Canadian Marie-Eve Dicaire with a unanimous points decision at the Manchester Arena on Saturday night. Jonas, 37, improved her career record to 13 wins and a draw from 16 bouts.