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Australian Football League Essendon CEO Steps Down In Wake Of Supplements Scandal05 / 24 / 13Australian Football League side Essendon's supplements crisis "has claimed its biggest scalp so far," with Essendon CEO IAN ROBSON resigning, according to Brodie & Niall of THE AGE. Robson said that "he had offered to resign as soon as the extent of the club's supplements crisis was revea... Tags: People and Pop Culture, Australia |
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Lotus F1 Team driver ROMAIN GROSJEAN "has been suspended for the Sunday's Italian F1 Grand Prix after causing a first-corner crash at Belgian F1 race." The 26-year-old French native "also received a €50,000 ($62,850) fine" ( DPA, 9/2 ). ... U.S. swimmer MICHAEL PHELPS "won $100,000 at a p ...
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Manchester Evening News' Mike Keegan : Comments leavers on our website never cease to amaze me. Today they have turned the Nike/England story into an #mcfc #mufc row. The BBC presenter Gary Lineker : It's completely ridiculous that a new manager's job can be under threat after 3 games. Patience ...
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Russian Volleyball Coach Found Dead
Russian women's volleyball Coach SERGEI OVCHINNIKOV , who coached the team at the London Games, was found dead on Wednesday, "prompting speculation that he committed suicide," according to Gennady Fyodorov of REUTERS. Ovchinnikov's club team Dynamo Moscow posted on its website, "Sergei Ovchinnikov ...
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Executive Transactions
Nike appointed DANIEL EPPLER as new GM for the AGS Region (Austria, Germany and Switzerland). Starting in September, the 43-year-old Swiss native will succeed MARK PINGER , who "will take over the position of GM for Western Europe" for basketball, men’s athletic training and tennis ( HORIZ ...
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Barcelona's ANDRES INIESTA held off "a strong challenge" from LIONEL MESSI and CRISTIANO RONALDO to be named UEFA's Best Player in Europe last season. The 28-year-old won the live poll, conducted by journalists from each of UEFA's 53 member countries during the Champions League draw ceremony ( ...
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Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl : "Cristiano Ronaldo gives the McKayla Maroney Face as Andrés Iniesta wins UEFA player of season" The Independent's Sam Wallace : "It's cold as ice up there on the stage between Messi & Iniesta on one side & Ronaldo on the other. I do love a grudge ...
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Strauss Resigns From Cricket
England Test captain ANDREW STRAUSS has retired from cricket, with immediate effect, according to Patrick Kidd of the LONDON TIMES. The 35-year-old ended his final press conference "to a spontaneous outburst of applause," saying "much for his accomplishments" in the past three years and for the "g ...
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Bollywood filmmaker SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI is working on a movie about Indian boxer and mother-of-two MARY KOM , whose London Games Bronze Medal "cemented her status as a national hero." Bhansali said Tuesday that he was "moved by the story of Kom," a poor farmer's daughter from the remote northea ...
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Football Transfers
EPL club Tottenham Hotspur agreed to pay a transfer fee of £15M ($23.5M) to Fulham for MOUSSA DEMBELE . The 25-year-old Belgium int'l midfielder will join in time for Tottenham's league game "this weekend subject to a completing a medical" ( THE NATIONAL, 8/29 ). ... Young Boys Berne strike ...
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Footballer Wayne Rooney : "Thanks for all the messages of support. Gutted to be out for a while but my leg will be ok which is the main thing." The BBC's David Bond : "Real shame to see how pressures of England captaincy have again taken their toll on the man in the hot seat. Strauss has been a ...
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