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Ex-ManU CEO Gill Handed Power By UEFA To Ban Club From European Competition06 / 19 / 13Former ManU CEO David Gill "has been handed power by UEFA to recommend bans on clubs" such as rivals Man City and Chelsea, which may find themselves in breach of new European Financial Fair Play rules, according to Ian Ladyman of the London DAILY MAIL. Having stepped down from his post at Old Traffo... |
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EPL CEO RICHARD SCUDAMORE "is set to pocket £4M ($6.5M) next year." He earned £880,000 ($1.4M) last season but "is expected to receive a huge bonus for brokering the league's record-breaking TV deals" ( THE SUN, 12/28 ). ... Former MLB pitcher UGUETH URBINA returned to baseball on ...
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Official Grassroots Ambassador to the Chinese FA TOM BYER : "Just chatted with someone close to DB and he says China, not a chance! Lets see if he's wrong?" Sports Illustrated's GRANT WAHL : "US Soccer president Sunil Gulati is about to get a new round of questions over why USSF has voted for S ...
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Premiership rugby club Sale Sharks have sacked Social Media Exec HOLLEH NOWROUZ "for posting derogatory comments about the club's supporters on her Facebook page." She was dismissed by CEO STEVE DIAMOND following a "stringent disciplinary review." Nowrouz's remarks were posted in October "but on ...
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Canadian national team captain CHRISTINE SINCLAIR won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as the Canadian Press female athlete of '12 ( CP, 12/27 ). ... Two-time Olympic champion Soviet weightlifter ARKADY VOROBIEV "has died at the age of 88" ( RIA NOVOSTI, 12/24 ). ... Some of the "biggest names in ...
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Real Madrid forward CRISTIANO RONALDO : "The author of the most retweeted post from that 15 replies will be followed by me for 24 hours #Celebrate15M" Arsenal FC writer NICK AMES : "Being followed by a footballer for 24 hours on Twitter is now a “prize”? This is what we've sunk to?" ...
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Former French F1 driver JEAN ALESI has "announced his retirement from active racing" after 13 years in F1, five year in the German Touring Car Championship (DTM), two 24 Hours of Le Mans starts and one Indy 500 start ( AUTO BILD, 12/19 ). ... Dutch national team striker KLAAS-JAN HUNTELAAR "ha ...
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Serie A club AS Roma named sports business exec & attorney ITALO ZANZI its CEO ( AS Roma ). ... All India Football Federation President PRAFUL PATEL was "unanimously reelected" at its Annual General Meeting on Thursday. All of the members were elected unopposed. Goa-based industrialist SRIN ...
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AP's STEVE WILSON : "Doomsday front of Gazzetta dello Sport. "Judgement Day" w/ frescoes of Messi, Maradona, Bolt, Federer, Beckham et al" EPL Head of Public Relations PHILIP DORWARD : "As Scotland has already successfully survived one armageddon in 2012 I'm pretty confident the motherland will ...
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Ferguson Reveals His Managerial Style
ManU Manager ALEX FERGUSON "has revealed the dressing room secrets that have kept him at the top for a quarter of a century," according to Pete Bainbridge of the MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS. The Reds' boss "gave an astonishing insight into his managerial philosophy and psychology at Old Trafford, and ...
Vilanova Suffers Cancer Relapse
Barcelona head coach TITO VILANOVA has suffered a relapse on the cancer in his saliva glands, according to Oscar Zárate of MUNDO DEPORTIVO. A little over a year ago Vilanova had surgery to remove tumors in his glands and after his last checkup on Tuesday, doctors detected another "small tum ...
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