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Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Awards 2017 World Championship To Germany, France05 / 20 / 13The 2013 Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Annual Congress allocated the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship to Cologne, Germany and Paris. The German-French bid received 63 votes from the delegates. The other bid with Copenhagen, Denmark and Riga, Latvia got 45 votes. Cologne is a well-known venue fo... Tags: Events and Attractions, Europe |
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Sam Rush Leaves Wasserman
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Kabel Eins Schedules First BBL Games
Munich-base free-to-air TV channel kabel eins has "scheduled the first two games of its Beko Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) coverage," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTENMETER.de. The BBL "recently announced that kabel eins will join Sport1 as the league's TV partner and show up to 10 games" during the ...
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Saturday night's first semifinal between Collingwood and West Coast "was the highest-rating television match" of the Australian Football League season, and it was rated higher than every match of the '11 season, except last year's grand final, according to Greg Denham of THE AUSTRALIAN. The game at ...
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No Bounce For British Newspapers
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The German Touring Car Championship (DTM) has "already equaled the attendance number of '11 with two races left in the '12 season." On Saturday, race organizers counted 71,000 fans at the eighth race of the season in Oschersleben, Germany. The high attendance has resulted in a total of 630,500 fans ...
Juvenuts FC Losses More Than $63M
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