Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock Manager ALLAN JOHNSTON has made a "surprise announcement he will leave his post in the summer." The 41-year-old "just made my mind up before I came in" to a press conference ahead of Saturday's game with Hamilton. He said the sale of ROBBIE MUIRHEAD to Dundee United on Monday was a "factor behind his decision." Johnston: "I never found out Robbie was away until five past 12 [on deadline day]. Stuff like that, it is not the way things are done" (BBC, 2/5). ... A son of FIDEL CASTRO and a "prominent Washington, D.C.-based attorney
will help campaign for the return of baseball and softball in the
Olympics." The World Baseball Softball Confederation said that ANTONIO CASTRO will serve as its "global ambassador." The WBSC added that EDWARD COLBERT, an intellectual property attorney with
Washington firm Kenyon & Kenyon and brother of comedian STEPHEN COLBERT, will be its general counsel (AP, 2/3). ... Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President ÁNGEL MARÍA VILLAR "has decided to run for reelection after his current term ends" in '16. He announced this at a RFEF meeting on Jan. 28, "but until now his intentions had not leaked out." The Federation announced the news in its monthly review. Villar was first elected president in '88 and has since been reelected seven times (MUNDO DEPORTIVO, 2/5). ... ManU Manager LOUIS VAN GAAL has been charged by the FA over comments he made to the media after last month's FA Cup fourth-round match at Cambridge United. The FA charge states the Dutchman's words "allege and/or imply bias on the part of the match referee and/or bring the game into disrepute" (BBC, 2/4).
