A brief round-up of some of the day's other sports news.
BOXING: Ulsterman Eamonn Magee last night revealed his boxing career is over. WBU welterweight champion Magee suffered a broken leg and a fractured knee after a brutal assault at the weekend in Belfast, when he was beaten with baseball bats.
Magee said: "I'm so disgusted. I was to sign to fight Sharmba Mitchell this week but I can guarantee that I will not fight again." The 32-year-old is keen to either start training or even managing boxers once he fully recovers.
Magee's coach John Breen, who took him to the Commonwealth light-welterweight title and WBU welterweight belt, said : "I feel so sorry for him and I just can't take it in."
EQUESTRIAN: Robert Splaine, one of the five riders named for this year's Athens Olympics, was yesterday presented with the Irish Field show jumper of the year award for the 2003 season by the Minister for Sport, John O'Donoghue, in Dublin.
The Co Cork rider scored two victories on the Spanish Sunshine Tour last March before going on to lead the Irish to success in the St Gallen Nations Cup two months later.
