The Korean Baseball Organization said that it will "retain its current free agency system and shelve discussions on putting a cap on the length and value of free agent contracts, among other proposed changes." The KBO "suggested limiting the maximum length of a free agent deal to four years and capping the monetary value" at 8B won ($7.2M). The league also "offered to reduce the number of seasons a player must put in before becoming a free agent" (YONHAP, 11/8).
A second regional federation has "withdrawn its support" for New Zealand Football's exec committee, as the "fallout from the Muir review continues." Auckland Football Chair Bob Patterson "outlined his board's position" in a letter to ExCo President Philip Barry. Patterson wrote, "We do not have confidence in the current membership of the ExCo to lead New Zealand Football through the vital period of change required in the coming months and years" (STUFF, 11/8).
The Int'l Cricket Council will have four independent experts analyze sessions of play in matches "alleged to have been fixed by a betting syndicate." A documentary broadcast last month by Al Jazeera "claimed to have uncovered evidence of 26 spot fixes in 15 matches" from '11-12. Al Jazeera has "refused to hand over any information to the ICC," but its anti-corruption unit will have the sessions of play analyzed by experts from the betting industry and two independent statisticians in "an attempt to discover whether there was anything unusual" (London TELEGRAPH, 11/8).
