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Argentine Football Club Chair Daniel Angelici Will Protest Playing Late Games05 / 21 / 13Argentine football club Boca Juniors Chair Daniel Angelici made "strong statements to protest Boca playing next weekend against Newell's at 9:30pm local time," according to CLARIN. Angelici said that Tuesday, he will make a suggestion in the Argentine FA against the decision made by Football For All... |
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The third edition of the Head Coaches Forum will take place in St. Julians, Malta on Saturday. Head coaches, national event coaches and team leaders will first reflect on the success of the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and the '12 season, including European performances at the London ...
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NBA To Play London Regular Season Game
The NBA revealed that it will return to London with its third regular-season game in Europe featuring the three-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons and the two-time champion New York Knicks. NBA London Live 2013 will take place on Jan. 17 at The O2, which will host its seventh NBA game, including four ...
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Dubai Will Host Women's Rugby
Dubai will host the first round of the new IRB Women's Sevens World Series at the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens, according to GULF NEWS. Dubai is "the first of four global stops on the inaugural women’s series," which pits the best sevens teams from around the world against each other ah ...
Ski Jumping Inside A Stadium
The Int'l Ski Federation (FIS) has "plans to host a World Cup Ski Jumping event" at the recently opened football stadium in Warsaw, Poland, according to SKISPRINGEN.com. Ski Jumping Race Dir Walter Hofer visited the stadium this week and "seems convinced of the idea." Hofer said, "It fits our plan o ...
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European Tour Wants Playoffs
The European Tour is expected to announce "its own playoff-type series," to debut in '13, according to Alex Miceli of GOLFWEEK.com. The series will most-likely be fashioned after the FedEx Cup playoffs, which have "blossomed into one of the most-exciting events in golf." Euro Tour CEO George O'Grady ...
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Cup Construction Worries Pelé
In a visit to Mexico for promotional campaigns, former Brazilian footballer Pelé said that he was "preoccupied by the delay in 2014 World Cup stadium constructions," according to the EFE. Pelé said, "The biggest concern is that some of the construction work is running late. That is wor ...
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No Problems For New Jersey's F1 Race
The U.S. F1 race in New Jersey in '13 "has not yet been confirmed by FIA," however, organizers of the race "are not worried about their grand prix," according to Stefan Ziegler of MOTORSPORT-TOTAL.com. F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone recently said that the contract with New Jersey "has been terminated," wh ...
ATP Discontinues World Team Cup
After 35 years the ATP World Team Cup "will not return to Dusseldorf, Germany in '13, as the men's tennis organization sold the WTC license to a Rumanian businessman," according to Michael Ryberg of DER WESTEN. German tennis great Boris Becker's former Manager Ion Tiriac, who is worth €600M ($7 ...
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Australian Open Raises Prize Money
The Australian Open has "announced the single biggest prize-money jump in its history, with a record pool of A$30M ($30.8M) -- up A$4M from this year -- on offer at next year's event," according to Linda Pearce of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The move is designed to "avoid the mooted strike from the w ...
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S. Africa Lands Big-Money Golf Event
South Africa has secured the hosting rights for golf's new, $8.5M Tournament of Hope for 10 years, according to Jason Humphries of REUTERS. The event, announced in February and sanctioned by the world's leading tours, will have a prize fund “second only to the Players Championship,” whi ...
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