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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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CAS Investigating CAF Rules
The "power struggle to determine who can and who can't challenge for the top job in African football is being taken all the way to sport's highest court of law," the Court of Arbitration for Sport, according to Andrew Warshaw of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Two months ago, the Confederation of African Foo ...
IRB Upgrades UAE Rugby Membership
The Int'l Rugby Board said that it is committed to ensuring the UAE "grow on the world stage" after confirming the national federation has been made a full member of the sport's world governing body, according to Paul Radley of THE NATIONAL. The UAE Rugby Federation "took over running the game" afte ...
SFA Looking To Build Football Center
Scottish FA Performance Dir Mark Wotte "reckons Scotland must mirror the English FA's £105M ($168.3M) St. George's football centre and hopes to have a project ready in four years," according to Alan Marshall of the Scotland DAILY RECORD. SFA bosses are "desperate for Scotland to have a similar ...
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India's Kolkata city police believe that "they have busted a big-time betting racket that may have made crores on the recent India-England Test match in Mumbai." A senior investigator confirmed that gambling was going on "during the England-India Test." The investigator said, "The result of the matc ...
Champions League Overhaul Considered
UEFA President Michel Platini has said that expanding the Champions League to 64 teams and scrapping the Europa League is "an option amid a wide-ranging debate over the future of its club competitions," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. Platini said that a proposal "was under discussi ...
Brazilian Police Questions FIFA Member
Police briefly detained one of Brazilian football's most-powerful men on Monday after searching his home in what it said "was an investigation into criminal organisations practising extortion, corruption and financial crimes," according to Andrew Downie of REUTERS. Brazilian Football Confederation ( ...
Players Win Case Against Asian Tour
Four professional golfers "forced the Asian Tour to pay back fines and legal costs and let them play on the rival OneAsia circuit after winning a lengthy court battle on Tuesday," according to the AFP. The players -- Australia's Terry Pilkadaris and Matthew Griffin, Manila-based Dutchman Guido van d ...
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DFB Supports Platini's Euro 2020 Idea
The German Football Federation (DFB) said that "a plan to stage the 2020 European football championships across the entire continent instead of one or two countries enjoys wide support among national federations," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. Ahead of two days of meetings in Brussels, B ...
Garber Talks State Of MLS Post Beckham
Major League Soccer L.A. Galaxy's David Beckham " may be on his way out, " but Commissioner Don Garber was clear during Monday's state of the league conference call that the league is "in a far different place than it was back when the English icon signed nearly six years ago," according to Brian St ...
NRL, Clubs Discuss Players' Salary Cap
National Rugby League CEOs "are set to discuss calls for a bigger salary cap and club grant next season at a meeting in Sydney on Wednesday in a move that may help to resolve the futures of Israel Folau and Brett Stewart," according to Brad Walter of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Clubs "were allocated ...
