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Australian Football League To Overhaul Laws Of The Games Committee05 / 17 / 13The Australian Football League "has proposed an overhaul of the Laws of the Games Committee," with the league's new football operations Manager Mark Evans "having detected club disenchantment with the rules process," according to Caroline Wilson of THE AGE. Club CEOs departed Thursday's CEOs meeting... |
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Australian's Ponting Ends Test Career
Australia's RICKY PONTING announced his retirement from int'l cricket on Thursday, telling a "stunned" news conference that "he would be calling time on his glittering 17-year career after this week's third test against South Africa," according to Nick Mulvenney of REUTERS. The former Australia ca ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture, Australia
Aussie GP CEO Loyal To Ecclestone
Australian Grand Prix CEO Ron Walker "has revealed that he will step down" when F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone gives up F1's driving seat, "and has warned that this could trigger an exodus of top race managers," according to Christian Sylt of AUTO WEEK. Walker, who is also chairman of the Formula One Prom ...
Tags: Events and Attractions, Australia
Super Rugby The Big Loser Of TV Report
As if the Australian Rugby Union did not have "enough problems on its hands with disgruntled five-eighth Quade Cooper, now comes a report that shows viewers are turning off the game in droves," according to Stuart Honeysett of THE AUSTRALIAN. Global sports research agency Repucom "has just finished ...
NRL, Clubs Discuss Players' Salary Cap
National Rugby League CEOs "are set to discuss calls for a bigger salary cap and club grant next season at a meeting in Sydney on Wednesday in a move that may help to resolve the futures of Israel Folau and Brett Stewart," according to Brad Walter of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Clubs "were allocated ...
Salvation In $400M Deal For Cronulla
The "wolf was finally banished" from National Rugby League Cronulla's front door when Chair Damian Irvine received a payment for a residential and business development at Sydney's Toyota Stadium valued at A$400M ($418M), according to Daniel Lane of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Irvine admitted the Shar ...
Crowe's Exit Will Not Impact Sponsors
National Rugby Leagues side South Sydney Rabbitohs CEO Shane Richardson said that "the imminent departure of Russell Crowe as a co-owner of the club would not have a detrimental impact," on the club, according to Daniel Lane of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Crowe's star power has been widely acknowledg ...
Tags: Franchises, Australia
NRL Appoints David Smith As New CEO
Flush with cash from the new broadcast deal, the Australian Rugby League Commission "has appointed departing Lloyds Bank CEO David Smith as the game's new CEO," according to Brad Walter of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. ARLC Chair John Grant has described Smith as a person who "knows business, who knows ...
Eels Bid To Bend Rules Falls Flat
Reaction to National Rugby League club Parramatta Eel's "bold plan to circumvent the A$5M ($5.2M) salary cap next season to accommodate Israel Folau was predictable but emphatic: the Eels' rivals would only welcome such a move if they were afforded the same concessions," according to Glenn Jackson o ...
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Eels Chasing Flexible NRL Salary Cap
National Rugby League Parramatta Eels is "believed to have pitched a radical proposal" to the NRL to have its salary cap spaced out over the next two years in "a last-ditch attempt" to sign player Israel Folau for next season, according to Stuart Honeysett of THE AUSTRALIAN. Time "is running out" fo ...
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Cricket Australia Releases Ashes Dates
England's second consecutive Ashes cricket series next winter "will begin at the Gabba" in Brisbane, Australia on Nov. 21, according to the PA. Cricket Australia released the dates for the five-Test portion of the '13-14 tour last week, which also contains "five one-day internationals and three Twen ...
