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Leverkusen's Wolfgang Holzhäuser Calls Again For A Change To The Bundesliga Schedule06 / 20 / 13Three months before he will step down as managing director of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfgang Holzhäuser "has once again called for a change of the Bundesliga schedule," according to the SID. Holzhäuser said, "I continue to call for a semifinal and final match to determine the G... |
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BCCI Wants Small Town Test Matches
With attendance dwindling at major Test match venues across India, some Board of Control for Cricket in India working committee members "are batting in favour of staging Tests in smaller centres, a formula which seems to have worked with One-Day Internationals," according to Indrani Basu of the TIME ...
India Makes Threat Over Use Of DRS
India has again "struck down the latest attempt to bring more consistency to the implementation" of the Decision Review System by "threatening to pull out of any tour in which the host country insisted on using the technology," according to Nagraj Gollapudi of ESPN. At the Int'l Cricket Council exec ...
AITA Forms Committee To Resolve Crisis
The All India Tennis Association on Sunday "formed a three-member committee," including Justice Deepak Verma and former Davis Cup player Naresh Kumar, to resolve the issues with the rebel players, but its suggestions "apparently would not be binding on the national tennis federation," according to t ...
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Cricket Australia has written to the Int'l Cricket Council "to implore possibilities of relaxing its standards for the resumption of rain-affected matches," after being "embarrassed by the abandonment of last month's" One-Day Internationals against Sri Lanka at the Sydney Cricket Ground ( PTI, 1/2 ...
LFP Adopts New Rules To Curb Spending
The Spanish Professional Football League (LFP) has published details of rules to take effect from July 1 that aim to "rein in the overspending on players that has helped push many clubs into administration in recent years," according to REUTERS. The rules, drawn up by a joint commission created by t ...
Swimming Australia Name New CEO
Former British Swimming High Performance Dir Michael Scott "is expected to become" the new Swimming Australia CEO after turning down the role of high performance director at Athletics Australia, according to Nicole Jeffery of THE AUSTRALIAN. It "has been an open secret for the past month that Scott ...
ARB Vows Offenders Won't Get Rails Run
The Australian Racing Board has drawn a ''line in the sand'' by imposing harsher minimum penalties for jockeys betting in races in which they are riding and raceday tubing of horses, according to Patrick Bartley of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The ARB "announced stiffer penalties for several offences, ...
NRL, Players Close To New CBA Deal
Interim Australian Rugby League Commission CEO Shane Mattiske "is confident the long-awaited collective bargaining agreement with National Rugby League players will be signed off within the next week," according to the AAP. An in-principle agreement "was made with the Rugby League Players Associatio ...
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The Chinese Basketball Association "handed down one of the harsher penalties in recent memory" on Thursday. Zhejiang Golden Bull, of the women's league, "will be banned from playing home games" in its home city of Yiwu for one year, including any additional games in its series against the Shanxi Fla ...
RFU Review Calls For FA-Style Center
English rugby has been "urged to establish a proper national training centre" and appoint a head of int'l player development by '16 to "improve its chances of long-term success at Test level," according to Robert Kitson of the London GUARDIAN. The recommendation comes from an independent review cond ...
