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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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Gai Waterhouse, John Singleton Charged
Australian racehorse owner John Singleton "was hit with a record" A$15,000 ($14,950) fine, and horse trainer Gai Waterhouse faces two charges relating to the treatment and fitness of More Joyous as the Racing New South Wales stewards inquiry "took another bizarre turn" Monday, according to Ray Thoma ...
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The German Football League (DFL) "will shortly open the tender process for an official game ball rights package starting with the '14-15 season." The official game ball rights package "will run for four years through the end of the '17-18 season and includes all league games of the 1st and 2nd Bunde ...
U.S. Rugby League Discussed
Premier Rugby Ltd., which represents the English Premiership clubs, and the NFL "are to jointly back an innovative rugby union plan in the U.S.," according to Tom Dart of the London GUARDIAN. London Irish "will play an exhibition game this summer" against a U.S. team "blending international stars an ...
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ASADA Will Only Interview Willing Players
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority remains prepared to interview any National Rugby League Cronulla player "willing to give evidence into investigations into alleged drug use at the club in 2011, but has scrapped plans to question every member of the club's squad that season," according to ...
DFB Sets New Membership Record
The membership figure of the German Football Federation (DFB) has reached the highest value in the federation's history. The federation has a total of 6,822,233 members, which is 22,105 more than the previous year. The DFB is divided into 21 state federations. The number of football clubs has remain ...
Barcelona To Remain Spain's Sole F1 Race
The head of Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya said that it "is ready to deal a blow to fellow Spanish city Valencia's hopes of a return to the Formula One calendar next year," according to Keith Weir of REUTERS. The track's Dir General Salvador Servia "played down suggestions that Barcelona, which ha ...
Doping Doctor To Sell 'Dirty' Secrets
Convicted sports-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is "threatening to reveal the dirty secrets of the world's major sporting events as he offers to sell his story to newspapers after being convicted on public health charges in Spain for his role in helping top cyclists to cheat," according to Giles Tr ...
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Indian Premier League Chair Rajeev Shukla has said that "discussions on inducting another team in the cash-rich Twenty20 league would be held soon after the end of the ongoing sixth edition of the tournament" ( PTI, 5/12 ). ... Athletics South Africa administrator Zola Majavu has made it clear the ...
Formula 1 Increasing Female Presence
F1, for decades "stuck in a '70s Playboy time warp, is waking up to sexual equality," according to Sathnam Sanghera of the LONDON TIMES. For the first time in the sport's 63-year history, there is a team "with a female principal" -- Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn. At the Bahrain Grand Prix two wee ...
ASADA Could Be Given More Powers
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority "could have the power to compel parties such as Stephen Dank to interviews by next week, with the federal Sports Minister increasingly confident that legislation to bolster the muscle of the government agency will be passed," according to Samantha Lane of ...
