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League Notes: Langer Is CA's Leading Candidate To Become Coach

Justin Langer "remains the leading candidate" to replace Darren Lehmann as Australia's national cricket team coach but he will not "be appointed this week." Cricket Australia "moved quickly" on Wednesday to deny a report out of Western Australia that Langer's appointment would be ratified at Friday's CA board meeting. Langer is believed to be "one of several people who have had informal discussions with CA" about taking over from Lehmann, who quit in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal (THE AUSTRALIAN, 4/19).

A reduction in clubs but an expanded fixture list has given this year's Northern Ireland Football League Women's Premiership "an extra dimension." The new season begins on Friday. The extra matches are "being hailed by players as a reward for the improved quality across the league" (BBC, 4/16).

Spain's Olympic track cycling team from Atlanta 1996 was reportedly supplied banned substances by Lance Armstrong's former doctor, Michele Ferrari. According to a '16 testimony from Spanish doctor Luis García del Moral, the Spanish Cycling Federation "took part" in a doping program between '93 and '98. Del Moral, who was the track cycling team's medical manager at the time, told the Court of Arbitration for Sport in '16 that Ferrari "provided banned doping products" (SPORT24, 4/17).

A team from Tasmania could play in the North East Australia Football League in '19 if an option being considered by the Australian Football League's steering committee into the "future directions of Tasmanian football" is adopted. The committee met on Wednesday to discuss "potential ways to improve the pathway for talented players in Tasmania" as well as the future of the Tasmanian State League, which has run in its current form since '09 (THE AGE, 4/18).

The National Rugby League "locked in an inaugural six-team elite touch football premiership with games to act as curtain-raisers for first grade over the middle of the season." In the new-look competition, six yet-to-be announced clubs will play in amateur men's and women's leagues, "with links to NRL franchises and the goal to eventually turn semi-professional" (AAP, 4/18).

Five Spain rugby internationals were given bans for "confronting the referee after their team's controversial World Cup qualifying defeat by Belgium in March." Rugby Europe banned Guillaume Rouet and Sebastien Rouet for nine months and more than 10 months, respectively, for physical and verbal abuse of Vlad Iordachescu. Pierre Barthère, Lucas Guillame and Mathieu Bélie were banned for three-and-a-half months for "threatening actions/words" to the official (BBC, 4/18).

Fans voted for Son of Dreams to be the official mascot of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019. The mascot was officially unveiled on Wednesday in Beijing. Son of Dreams was brought to life by way of a hologram and video (FIBA).

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