0838 FOOTBALL: BBC Sport's Phil McNulty on Twitter: "Brighton v Liverpool tonight. Had the pleasure of The Goldstone Ground so looking forward to seeing the new surroundings."
0818 BOXING: Manny Pacquiao on Twitter: "Freddie Roach is now in my Baguio City camp. We are training hard for Juan Manuel Marquez. We will put an end to all questions, Nov 12."
0816 RUGBY WORLD CUP: England's Ben Youngs on Twitter: "Awesome session today, take it easy for the rest of the evening."
0801: Just to mark your card for later, there is commentary on the men's time trial at the World Road Cycling Championships from 1500 BST on 5 live sports extra, and 5 live's sister channel also has live commentary from the Carling Cup match between Chelsea and Fulham from 1940 BST. The main 5 live commentary match from 1945 BST comes from the south coast as Gus Poyet's Championship high-flyers Brighton take on Liverpool.
0800 BST FOOTBALL: Three snippets for you from Wednesday's Gossip Column:
Spurs playmaker Rafael van der Vaart is the subject of interest from AC Milan (talkSPORT) Highly-coveted Brazilian Neymar encourages Manchester City and Chelsea by denying he has signed a pre-contract agreement at Real Madrid (Metro) and under-pressure Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger tells reporters after the 3-1 Carling Cup win over Shrewsbury that having completed 14 years in charge he hopes to remain at the helm for another 14 years. (talkSPORT)
0831 FOOTBALL: Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr tells BBC Hereford and Worcester his team were outfought in the 5-2 defeat at Fleetwood.
0828 CRICKET: There are two matches involving English counties at the Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India, Leicestershire playing Ruhuna at 1130 BST and Somerset facing Kolkata at 1530 BST.
0822 RUGBY WORLD CUP: French forward Imanol Harinordoquy dismisses claims that a deliberately weakened team has been selected for Saturday's match with the All Blacks. "People are saying this is a France B team but there is no such thing. There is only the France XV," he insists. "We have changed our team for each of the two games in the World Cup so far and now the coach has made his choice for this game. The first choice is evolving."
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0812 FOOTBALL: Spurs boss Harry Redknapp on the Carling Cup defeat on penalties to Stoke: I had a feeling the game might go to extra-time and once it goes to penalties it's a lottery. We're disappointed to lose, of course. You don't want to lose any game and we came here to win, to stay in the competition."
0806 RUGBY WORLD CUP: New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter is declared fully fit from recent back trouble for Saturday's crunch encounter with France at Eden Park.
0804 RUGBY WORLD CUP: Wales will continue to monitor the fitness of Dan Lydiate, who suffered ankle ligament damage in Sunday's World Cup win over Samoa.
0802 CRICKET: Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves claims some county sides are in danger of financial collapse. "The problem we've got with the county game is that the majority of counties are struggling for cash. Unless we address that, there is definitely a risk of clubs going under," he tells the Yorkshire Post.
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0800: Welcome along to Sportsday Live on another busy day at the Rugby World Cup, plus another selection of intriguing Carling Cup ties.
0800 BST FOOTBALL: Three snippets for you from Wednesday's Gossip Column:
Spurs playmaker Rafael van der Vaart is the subject of interest from AC Milan (talkSPORT) Highly-coveted Brazilian Neymar encourages Manchester City and Chelsea by denying he has signed a pre-contract agreement at Real Madrid (Metro) and under-pressure Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger tells reporters after the 3-1 Carling Cup win over Shrewsbury that having completed 14 years in charge he hopes to remain at the helm for another 14 years. (talkSPORT)