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Australian Football League To Overhaul Laws Of The Games Committee05 / 17 / 13The Australian Football League "has proposed an overhaul of the Laws of the Games Committee," with the league's new football operations Manager Mark Evans "having detected club disenchantment with the rules process," according to Caroline Wilson of THE AGE. Club CEOs departed Thursday's CEOs meeting... |
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V'landys: Attend Waterhouse Inquiry
Racing New South Wales CEO Peter V'landys "has warned that any person directed by stewards to attend Monday's More Joyous inquiry who doesn't could be warned off," according to Chris Roots of THE AGE. V'landys said, ''The integrity of racing is much more important than any individual. There is a rea ...
Platini Happy With Euro 2016 Progress
UEFA President Michel Platini said that France "is making good progress in its preparations for the Euro 2016 finals," according to the AFP. Platini said, "For UEFA, things are progressing well. Today there were plenty of green lights, and some that were more amber. I was making a reference to four ...
DFB, DFL Extend Basic Treaty Until '17
The German Football Federation (DFB) and the German Football League (DFL) have extended their basic treaty for another four years until June 30, 2017, according to the SID. The basic treaty, which has been in effect since '01, "regulates the relationship between the DFB and the league as well a ...
ASADA, NISU Get Financial Boost
Australia's Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy admitted on Saturday that she thought the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority investigations "would have proceeded further than they have, as she announced a financial boost for the anti-doping body and the National Integrity of Sport Unit," acco ...
Hockey India Secretary Barred From IOC
Indian Hockey Federation Patron & Chief Advisor K.P.S. Gill on Saturday applauded Indian Olympic Association acting Chief V.K. Malhotra's decision "not to include Hockey India Secretary General Narinder Batra in the four-member delegation" for a meeting with the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland ...
Sheikh Salman Is AFC President
Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain has been elected the new president of Asian Football Federation "after receiving a two-third majority in the first round of voting," according to Ahmed Rizvi of THE NATIONAL. Sheikh Salman received 33 of the 46 votes, "two more than th ...
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ASC Offers $2M For Athletics Merger
The Australian Sports Commission is dangling a A$2M ($2.05M) "carrot in front of athletics to encourage a long-desired merger between Athletics Australia and Little Athletics Australia, the two leading bodies for the sport," according to Nicole Jeffery of THE AUSTRALIAN. The division of the sport be ...
IIHF World Championship To Kick Off
The first puck of the 2013 Int'l Ice Hockey Federation World Championship will drop in Helsinki, Finland on Friday at 4:15pm local time. The tournament will end with the gold medal game at Stockholm's Ericsson Globe arena on May 19. The IIHF's 77th annual world championship will feature the world's ...
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The Badminton World Federation announced that the Indonesia Open "will be the first Superseries tournament to embrace an instant review system to allow players to contest line calls." The system "will be tested at next month's Sudirman Cup in Kuala Lumpur and fully initiated at the Indonesian Open" ...
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WADA Disappointed With Puerto Verdict
The World Anti-Doping Agency has "voiced its disappointment" with Tuesday's decision by the judge in Spain's "Operation Puerto" doping trial to destroy all the evidence from the case instead of making it available to other sports bodies, according to Iain Rogers of REUTERS. WADA added that it is "co ...
