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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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Caribbean T20 League Launched
A new franchise-based Twenty20 cricket tournament, the Caribbean Premier League, "has been launched" by merchant bank Verus Int'l, according to IANS. The CPL will see each franchise team "being built around Caribbean players complemented by a few int'l stars." West Indies Cricket Board President Jul ...
German 3rd League Attendance Rises
The attendance numbers of Germany's 3rd League "are increasing again after the record-low of 4,562 per game in '11-12," according to the DPA. So far, 1,307,065 people have attended the games of the 3rd League, which is 6,165 per game. A major contributor to this number has been insolvent club Aleman ...
Sport England Gets Tough On Funding
Six sports in Great Britain have been warned that they will have millions of pounds in funding taken away "unless they can show they can improve participation figures in the next 12 months," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. Grassroots investment body Sport England revealed how £ ...
NZRU Sponorships To Help Spending
Embattled provincial unions "may be in for a financial leg-up from the New Zealand Rugby Union next year on the back of a better-than-budgeted profit," according to Toby Robson of the DOMINION POST. It has been a tough few years for the country's unions, with "spiralling player wage bills, falling g ...
South Africa FA Officials Suspended
South Africa was "plunged into crisis" just a month before it hosts the African Nations Cup finals with the suspension of its football association president and other top officials following a report into match fixing involving the national team, according to Mark Gleeson of REUTERS. South African F ...
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Baseball and softball leaders "have agreed on a name for the new unified int'l body seeking a place in the 2020 Olympics." The World Baseball Softball Confederation "will govern both sports in their joint bid for a return to the Games." The group "will be led by co-Presidents Don Porter and Riccardo ...
FIFA To Discuss Racism Fine With UEFA
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has said that he will "discuss the widely criticised sanction" levied on Serbia's Under-21 team with UEFA President Michel Platini, and called for "strong, harsh punishment when it comes to racism and discrimination," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. Plati ...
Evidence SA Friendlies Were Fixed
A FIFA report into match-fixing in the weeks before the 2010 World Cup has found "compelling evidence" that one or more friendly games involving host South Africa were fixed ahead of the the event, according to the AP. The South African Football Association conceded that it had been "infiltrated" tw ...
Blatter: Indonesia Needs To Shape Up
FIFA President Sepp Blatter described the organization's decision to grant Indonesia an extension to solve its football crisis as a "Christmas gift," urging the nation to get its "house in order," according to the AFP. Football in Indonesia has been "in turmoil for the past two years" because of a r ...
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NRL CBA Sent To Teams For Approval
Four National Rugby League players "stepped out of the headquarters of the NRL to state that they believed they had a deal," in a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, according to Glenn Jackson of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. A salary cap of about A$5.8M ($6.1M) next year, changes to the marquee playe ...
