Cricket (Sport)
The England and Wales Cricket Board is considering taking legal action against the Professional Cricketers' Association over allegations that the board's chief executive, David Collier, attempted to pressure the England captain, Andrew Strauss, and his players to sign a revised deal with Stanford. The controversy stems from
Professional soccer
The Football Association (FA) has announced that it will be contacting Everton this week to investigate alleged racist abuse by Newcastle United midfielder Emre following a melee during their 3-0 defeat at Goodison Park on Saturday. The incident involved Emre allegedly making comments to Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard and defender
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The third day of the Pakistan Premier Soccer League saw three matches unfold, with Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) playing out a 1-1 draw at KMC Stadium in Karachi. The match saw SAF Games Gold Medallist Muhammad Rasool open the scoring for KRL in the 19th
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Univision's 2006 FIFA World Cup coverage reached an estimated 50 million viewers across its three television networks, making it the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast of the tournament. The strong viewership was driven by the Hispanic audience, with 29 million Hispanics and 21 million non-Hispanics tuning in. The Univision Network&
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As the 41-day countdown to the 2006/2007 English Premier League (EPL) season begins, EPL Talk, a leading soccer web site outside the United Kingdom, announces several new activities to engage its growing fan base in North America. With weekly interviews with soccer celebrities, daily blog updates, the release of
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Major League Baseball has taken issue with claims made by former player and admitted steroids user Jose Canseco, who says the league is playing favorites with some big-name players when it comes to positive drug tests. Canseco, who last played in the majors for the Chicago White Sox in 2001,
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Jose Canseco, the former major league slugger, returned to professional baseball on Monday, just hours before taking the field for the San Diego Surf Dawgs in the independent Golden Baseball League. Canseco, who has written a book that helped persuade baseball to toughen its steroids policy, is now vowing to
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SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company, successfully delivered high-quality transmissions for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The company partnered with T-Systems, a leading provider of information and communications technology, under a framework agreement to provide transmission solutions and content delivery packages to international broadcasters. These packages included signal
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Hundreds of schoolchildren across the UK, who fell victim to a ticket scam, are set to enjoy an England World Cup quarter-final match in Germany after government talks with Fifa secured places for 320 youngsters and 30 teachers. The trip was made possible through the efforts of Premier League chairman
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Fans attending FIFA World Cup games in Kaiserslautern, Germany, have been introduced to a mobile couponing program that offers a unique way to save on beers. The program, developed by Gavitec AG - mobile digit, a NeoMedia Technologies company, in cooperation with FunkTicket AG, allows fans to receive a money-off
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Dutch football fans have become enthralled with wearing orange lederhosen to watch their team play in the World Cup, with a quarter of a million supporters donning the patriotic garb. However, officials from Fifa took offense to the lederhosen, which bore the name of a Dutch beer, Bavaria, not an
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China's largest broadcaster, CCTV, has partnered with TANDBERG Television to deliver high-definition coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Using TANDBERG's MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding and decoding solutions, CCTV is able to maximize the bandwidth of its DS3 international link and local delivery network,
