Bullets Star test.

BASKETBALL: Peugeot Bullets will face dangerous outsiders Solent Stars in next season's uni-ball League Trophy group games.

Solent, the National League champions are led by veteran player coach Alan Cunningham who has won the title four times, the last occasion with London Towers in 1997.

Birmingham's group is completed by Derby Storm and Greater London Leopards with the top two qualifying for the quarter finals.

Ebbe for Dons

SOCCER: Aberdeen hope to announce Ebbe Skovdahl as their new coach by the middle of next week.

After being turned down by Jim Jefferies, Alex McLeish and Stuart Baxter, the Dons have targeted Brondby coach Skovdahl as the man to lead the club back into the higher reaches of the Scottish Premier League.

Scots get strict

RUGBY UNION: Scottish Rugby Union disciplinary panel secretary Iain Goodall has vowed to eradicate foul play from the game north of the border.

Cumbernauld prop Gerry Rush was banned sine-die this week and two other players received 26-week bans in a new SRU purge.

Clough award

SOCCER: Brian Clough is to be honoured by Nottingham Forest - six years after he left the club.

A stand is to be renamed after the man who led Forest to two European Cup successes in 1979 and 1980 in his 18-year spell as manager.

Saq signs

CRICKET: Surrey have re-signed Saqlain Mushtaq on a two-year contract and the Pakistan off-spinner will join up with the club again after the World Cup.

Saqlain made his debut for the county in 1997 and will now remain as their overseas player until the end of next season.

Bristol swoop

RUGBY UNION: Second Division champions Bristol have signed hooker Barry Williams and prop Darren Crompton from Richmond on three-year contracts.

Welshman Williams, 25, won the first of his 12 caps against France in 1995. Crompton, 26, played for Bath between 1993 and 1996 before moving to Richmond.