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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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Evans Confident Bombers Are Innocent
Australian Football League club Essendon Chair David Evans has declared he is "more and more confident" his players were not administered illegal supplements last season, according to Jon Pierik of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. While "the joint Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority-AFL investiga ...
Saudi Arabia OKs School Sports For Girls
Girls in Saudi Arabia "are to be allowed to take part in school sports for the first time in the latest sign that the Islamic kingdom is inching forward on the contentious issue of women's rights," according to Lubna Hussain of NBC NEWS. The official Saudi Press Agency announced Sunday that female s ...
Blatter To Look At Asia World Cup Quota
FIFA President Sepp Blatter called for "more berths for Asian teams at future stagings of the World Cup," and said that the issue "would be addressed at a meeting later this month,'' according to the AFP. Blatter said that more Asian teams "should enter the tournament, at the expense of European and ...
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BCCI Accused Of Exchange Violations
An appellate tribunal is set to hear the Board of Control for Cricket in India's appeal against a Rs 52.24 crore ($10M) fine "levied in February by the Competition Commission of India for irregularities in the grant" of Indian Premier League franchise rights, media rights and sponsorship rights, acc ...
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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