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Spanish Basketball League's Conflict Will Go Before Superior Sports Council05 / 24 / 13The Spanish Basketball League (ACB) and Spain's Association of Professional Basketball Players (ABP) will meet Friday at 1pm local time at Spain's Super Sports Council (CSD) to "try to reach an agreement and avoid an indefinite strike ," according to Díaz-Guerra & Llorens of AS. CSD Pres... |
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IPL Pay Issue Could Disrupt U.K. Season
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Tags: Asia, Leagues and Governing Bodies
Future Of The Heineken Cup Still Unclear
Premiership Rugby "has raised the issue of creating a new competition with southern hemisphere Super Rugby clubs as an alternative to Heineken Cup," according to Gavin Mairs of the London TELEGRAPH. With the Heineken Cup agreement "due to expire at the end of next season, it is understood English cl ...
SFA Appoints Ex-Cop To Protect Game
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Ex-Senator: ACC Report 'Amateur Hour'
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Prior: ECB May Reconsider IPL Stance
English wicketkeeper Matt Prior has predicted "friction ahead unless there is a change in the England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) stance on the Indian Premier League," according to the London TELEGRAPH. The IPL "is the game's most high-profile domestic Twenty20 competition and highly lucrat ...
Postponed Pakistan League's MD Resigns
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Bundesliga Seeking The American Dream
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Answers Could Come At ACC Summit
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