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Motherwell boss Mark McGhee has been named Scottish Premiership manager of the month for March. McGhee, who took over at Fir Park from Ian Baraclough last October, has guided his side into fourth place in the table following five successive victories.The run, part of six wins from their last seven matches, is in stark contrast to this time last year when they languished bottom of the table and only preserved their top-flight status with a 6-1 aggregate drubbing of Rangers in the end-of-season play-offs. Speaking to Sky Sports News HQ, the former Celtic and Aberdeen striker, who also won the award in December, said: In February we had a lot of games where we lost when we should have drawn and drawn when we should have won. McGhee has led Motherwell to six wins in last seven games But we just kept going, kept doing the same things and now we are getting the breaks. On Saturday we scored a 93rd-minute winner (against Inverness) and those are the breaks we werent getting a few weeks ago.Motherwell were lying in ninth place in the table when McGhee took over but he refuses to take all the credit for the clubs remarkable rise over the winter months. Marvin Johnsons injury time winner against Inverness last weekend Staying in the top four until the end of the season would be credit to everyone at the club, not just me. Les Hutchison (owner) has backed me, the players have worked so, so hard, my staff behind the scenes, the medical staff, everyone, they have got the boys fitter, theyve got the boys stronger and theyve got the boys believing.And we have some good players. You dont win games without having good players Motherwells unbeaten run will be tested by SPFL leaders Celtic at the weekend but McGhee is refusing to rule out a repeat of the 2-1 victory over Ronny Deilas side at Celtic Park earlier in the season.You are always up against it when you play them, he said. But Celtic games are just games youve got to enjoy and we will go into the game trying to win it.We beat Aberdeen a couple of weeks ago and we will be doing everything we possibly can to keep this run going.Raith Rovers boss Ray McKinnon was named Ladbrokes Championship manager of the month for March.The Kirkcaldy club played seven games last month, winning five of them and suffering just one defeat, to all but seal a play-off place. Also See: Motherwell fixtures Motherwell stats Scottish Prem table Bet ￡5 Get ￡20 Free . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. . -- Charline Labonte couldnt have asked for a better homecoming. . Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. Argentina boasts Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria. .com) - Manchester City midfielder David Silva is expected to miss the next four weeks because of a calf problem. . The third-ranked Ivanovic, who won the event in 2008 and 10, served five aces and broke Wickmayer, also a former winner in 2009, five times. "The result looked easier than it really was," Ivanovic said. In a potentially controversial decision, the ISSF Athletes Committee has recommended mixed-gender team events for the Olympic Games. The committee, headed by Abhinav Bindra, has sought to replace the double-trap mens event with a mixed-gender trap event, convert the 50m prone mens event into a mixed-gender air rifle event and the 50m pistol mens event into a mixed-gender air pistol event.The move has been welcomed by female shooters in India, though there is some disquiet over the 50m pistol event -- one in which Indians are gaining strength -- being scrapped.The decision follows the International Olympic Committees (IOC) objective of international sport federations working towards a 50% female representation at the Games. Currently, shooting has nine mens and six womens events at the Olympics.In his statement announcing the recommendations, Bindra said that they were buoyed by the success of the 10m air mixed team events at the Youth Olympics. The guiding principle was to look at [the] situation in a holistic manner which would be beneficial in [the] long term for the shooting sport in order for us to maintain our presence in the Olympic movement, he said.In November 2015, the committee had recommended to the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) that the 50m rifle prone men, 50m pistol men and double-trap mens events be converted into mixed-gender events. Before arriving at a final decision, the Athletes Committee reviewed its stance taking into account factors such as current participation, youth participation and accessibility. This decision was then released by the ISSF Ad Hoc Committee.It is subject to a formal ratification at the ISSF governing council and executive committee meeting, to be held in New Delhi in February 2017.Nattional Rifle Association of India (NRAI) chief Raninder Singh told ESPN that the idea is to test out the mixed-gender team events at the World Cup to be held in Delhi two days after the ISSF meeting.ddddddddddddSince the format and rules of the mixed-gender event are still not clear, we will have to wait it out, he said. If things work according to plan, we can hopefully test the events out at the World Cup.While mixed-gender events in contact sports such as wrestling, boxing or football are understandably ruled out, gender segregation in a skill-based sport like shooting, which has little to do with physical strength or stamina, is harder to justify. Both sexes competed together at international competitions for decades in the past. At the 1976 Montreal Games, USs Margaret Murdock, a 33-year-old nurse, tied for gold in the small-bore rifle event against male teammate Lanny Bassham. Though Bassham was awarded gold for having scored three 100s to Murdocks two, at the medal ceremony he pulled his female teammate up to the first-place platform. Murdock was also the first woman to win an Olympic shooting medal. The rifle events were split into mens and womens events in 1984.Female shooters in India called it a long overdue measure. Though theres still ambiguity over the rules of the new event, Im both excited and intrigued to see how it pans out, Indian pistol shooter Heena Sidhu told ESPN. As a female shooter I have always wondered why men have more number of events than we do. Not only at the Olympics, an equality in terms of participation needs to be brought about in continental meets and world championships as well. ' ' '
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