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David Beckham To Retire From Football May 26, Remembered As Sporting Icon05 / 17 / 13DAVID BECKHAM "has retired from football," according to Sarah Ebner of the LONDON TIMES. The 38-year-old, who "transcended the sport," has decided "to call it a day after winning the league title in France with Paris Saint-Germain." He is the first British player to win such a title in four differ... Tags: People and Pop Culture, United Kingdom, North America, Europe |
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DEL Winter Game Tops ServusTV Ratings
Austrian-based TV channel ServusTV scored high ratings for its live broadcast of the German Hockey League's (DEL) first outdoor game on Saturday. The five-hour broadcast of the DEL Winter Game between the Nuremberg Ice Tigers and the Eisbären Berlin from Nuremberg received a peak market share o ...
Serbian Open Dropped From ATP Tour
The Serbian Open, owned by Belgrade-native Novak Djokovic and run by his family, "has been dropped from the ATP World Tour calendar," according to Eben Novy-Williams of BLOOMBERG. The red clay tennis tournament will not be held this year after Family Sport, the event’s organizers, "decided to ...
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Qatar Tennis Federation President Nasser bin Ghanim al-Khelaifi said that a new tennis stadium will open in the country in "the next three or four years." Al-Khelaifi said, "I hope the QTF will host more important tennis tournament in the coming future as the new stadium with improved facilities wil ...
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Sky, Telekom Agree On Distribution Deal
German pay-TV channel Sky and telecom company Deutsche Telekom "have reached an agreement that will allow Telekom customers to continue to watch Bundesliga football in '13-14," according to the FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU. Sky Deutschland, which will be the sole TV rights holder of the 1st and 2nd Bundesl ...
Blatter Steps Into AC Milan Racism
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has given his support to AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who on Friday walked off the pitch during an exhibition match after being racially abused by spectators, but added that "such actions do not represent a solution and the only way to deal with racism in foo ...
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Panathinaikos Abandoned By Prince
Saudi Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud announced Saturday that "he is abandoning plans to buy out financially-troubled" Superleague Greece club Panathinaikos, according to the AFP. Faisal said he made the move after the Athens team's shareholders rejected "a very comprehensiv ...
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ARD, ZDF Post Top Winter Sports Ratings
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF "obtained top ratings with their winter sports broadcasts on Friday," according to Manuel Nunez Sanchez of QUOTEN METER. The third of four ski jumping events of the annual Vierschanzentournee from Innsbruck, Austria, which aired on ARD, "attracted an average of ...
Racist Chants Prompt AC Milan To Leave
Former Tottenham and Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng "left the field in protest after suffering what his club AC Milan described as racist abuse during a friendly" on Thursday, according to Richard Arrowsmith of the London DAILY MIRROR. The game between Milan and fourth division Pro Patri ...
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Rudi Völler Calls For More Sunday Games
Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen Sport Dir Rudi Völler "is calling for a schedule change in favor of more Sunday matches to help the Bundesliga's Europa League participants," according to KICKER. Only on five matchweeks per season does the Bundesliga allow three Sunday games. The German Footbal ...
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Niki Lauda Wants To Focus On Mercedes
Air Berlin said that retired triple F1 champion NIKI LAUDA has left its board "so he can devote more time to his new role with LEWIS HAMILTON 's Mercedes F1 team," according to Alan Baldwin of REUTERS. Austrian Lauda "was named as non-exec chairman of the British-based team's board when '08 cham ...
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