By Duncan Mackay

September 8 - Andy Murray (pictured) failed to become the first British man for 72 years to win a Grand Slam title as Switzerland's Roger Federer beat him easily in the final of the US Open in New York tonight. 

SEPTEMBER 9 - A PAKISTANI weightlifted Naveed Ahmed Butt today became the first competitor to fail a doping test at the Beijing Paralympic Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced.

SEPTEMBER 9 - FORMER Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist and Sri Lankan star Kumar Sangakkara will tell cricket's powerbrokers tomorrow the sport's future growth is tied to the Olympics.

SEPTEMBER 9 - FIVE firms have been announced as contenders in the battle to build the London 2012 10,000-capacity handball arena, it was announced by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today.

SEPTEMBER 10 - A TOP official in Northern Ireland has claimed that the Province could stage matches in the Olympic football tournament in 2012 if a decision is made on building a new national stadium within the next month.

By an insidethegames reporter 

SEPTEMBER 10 - FIVE contractors have been shortlisted to build the £20 million White Water Canoe Centre for the London 2012 Games at the Lea Valley Regional Park showground site, on the outskirts of Waltham Abbey, it was announced today.

SEPTEMBER 12 - BRITAIN'S Shelly Woods (pictured) won her second medal of the Paralympic Games today in the re-run T54 5,000 metres final in Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium.

SEPTEMBER 12 - ST CHAD'S HEADLAND in Blackpool was today the host for the Nestea European Tour English Masters, one of the biggest and most prestigious beach volleyball events ever to be staged in Britain.

SEPTEMBER 11 - HAILE GEBRSELASSIE (pictured), Kenenisa Bekele and Paul Tergat, three of the greatest runners in history, have joined forces to lead a campaign to get cross-country reinsteated into the Olympics.

SEPTEMBER 13 - USA TRACK & FIELD'S chief executive Doug Logan (pictured) has set up a committee to look at the team's performances at the Olympics in Beijing after he described them as "mixed".

SEPTEMBER 13 - BRITAIN's Peter Norfolk and Jamie Burdekin (pictured) won bronze Paralympic Games wheelchair tennis quad doubles after a dramatic three-set play-off against the Dutch pair of Dorrie Timmermans-Van Hall and Bas Van Erp in Beijing tonight.

SEPTEMBER 13 - BRITAIN's Peter Norfolk and Jamie Burdekin (pictured) won bronze Paralympic Games wheelchair tennis quad doubles after a dramatic three-set play-off against the Dutch pair of Dorrie Timmermans-Van Hall and Bas Van Erp in Beijing tonight.

SEPTEMBER 12 - A REVIEW is to be held by the British Equestrian Federation (BEF) after the team failed to meet its target of winning three medals at the Olympics last month, they announced today.

August 24 - Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe (pictured) has apologised to his counterpart in India after England's withdrawal from the World Badminton Championships earlier this month.