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Australian Bookmaker Sportingbet Accuses Bookmaker Waterhouse Of Damaging Industry05 / 23 / 13Australia's largest corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, "has backed calls for a complete ban" on promoting live odds in sports broadcasts and launched "a withering attack" on bookmaker Tom Waterhouse, according to Heath Aston of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Sportingbet "joined market leader Tabcorp... |
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RFU Raises National Rugby Players' Salary
The Rugby Football Union "has agreed an inflation-busting pay deal with the England squads for the next four years designed to prevent a repeat of problems before the 2011 World Cup, when players threatened to boycott events in a dispute over remuneration for commercial activities," according to Pau ...
Women's Cricket World Cup To Relocate?
Pakistan Cricket Board Chair Zaka Ashraf has suggested moving the Women's World Cup from Mumbai, India to South Africa, following "simmering tensions on the Indo-Pak border,", according to the PTI. The Board of Control for Cricket in India has sought the Int'l Cricket Council's help "in taking a fin ...
Match-Fixing Worries FIFA
FIFA Head of Security Ralf Mutschke revealed that organized criminal gangs are targeting around 50 national football leagues for "possible match-fixing and any country is vulnerable regardless of its record on corruption," according to Brian Homewood of REUTERS. Mutschke said that a convicted match- ...
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Korea Association of Athletic Federations Chair Oh Dong-jin "is open to naturalising foreign athletes to lift marathon's standard" in South Korea. Oh said, "I've had extensive discussions with experts in the field on how to revive our marathon. To help improve our national record, giving South Korea ...
ATP Chief To Step Down With Illness
ATP World Tour Exec Chair & President Brad Drewett shockingly announced that he would soon resign because he has been diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease). Drewett, who has been in his role for more than a year, but with the ATP for 35 years in some for ...
Clark Wants Review Of Cricket NSW
Former Test seamer and departing Sydney Sixers GM Stuart Clark "has ruled himself out of the running" to be Cricket New South Wales' next CEO but "has launched a stinging critique of the game in the state, saying a review was 'essential,'" according to Andrew Wu of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Clark a ...
Blatter Critical Of Foreign Player Policy
FIFA President Sepp Blatter "has criticised Premier League teams for holding back the England team by playing too many foreign players in key positions," according to Paul Kelso of the London TELEGRAPH. Blatter said that while he admired the "absolutely outstanding marketing" of the Premier League a ...
Review Urges More Drug Testing For CA
An independent review of cycling in Australia recommended that officials "extend drug testing and establish an ethics panel in the wake of the doping scandal surrounding U.S. rider Lance Armstrong," according to the AFP. It calls for "extending drug testing, on a random and targeted basis, to events ...
ICC Can't Promise Security For Pakistan
A top official of the Int'l Cricket Council believes that it "is not in a position to convince cricketing nations to resume playing in Pakistan," according to the AP. Pakistan has not hosted any major test-playing nation since the '09 attack on the Sri Lanka team bus that killed six police officials ...
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The All India Football Federation "might consider reducing the two-year ban on Mohun Bagan, besides giving the club a breather as far as imposing financial sanctions is concerned, when the federation’s executive committee meets in Delhi on Tuesday." Conceding that the ban was harsh on the club ...
