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Long term, megabucks FA contract is dead
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 04/03/2018
» What do the Dodo bird and the long term, megabucks MLB free agent contract have in common? Each is extinct.
Thailand deny match-fixing
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 08/09/2017
» Thailand's SEA Games team coach Worrawoot Srimakha has dismissed match-fixing claims after a report on suspicious betting behaviour during the tournament surfaced.
Opening-day woe for Leicester
Published on 12/08/2017
» LONDON: Thai-owned Leicester let a chance for victory slip away as Arsenal came from behind to win 4-3 in a thrilling English Premier League season opener on Friday night.
Barnes on Coutinho, his Liverpool stint
Sports, Published on 30/07/2017
» 'When I signed for Liverpool, I became the first £10,000-a-week player in the country and the newspaper headlines were 'Football's gone mad'. But now some of the players are earning £300,000 and £400,000 a week."
Why China's grand football academy project could fail
AFP, Published on 21/12/2016
» HONG KONG - China is hoping to produce a generation of top footballers by building thousands of academies, but experts question the project and warn it may be a waste of time.
Petanque fever kindles passion of world champs Madagascar
AFP, Published on 11/12/2016
» ANTANANARIVO - It's not even midday in the middle of the work week, but already the clacking of steel balls colliding on a makeshift pitch rings out in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo.
Brazil firm reveals World Cup stadium cartel: authorities
AFP, Published on 06/12/2016
» BRASíLIA - Brazilian authorities said Monday a construction firm had admitted that a "cartel" of firms fixed bidding for contracts to do work on stadiums for the 2014 football World Cup.
Ayodhya set to welcome host of stars
Sports, Published on 30/11/2016
» The Amazing Kingdom of Thailand: World Club Championship 2016 will be held from Dec 7-9 at Ayodhya Links in Ayutthaya.
Rio Olympic golf course eerily empty three months on
AFP, Published on 26/11/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Just three months after the Olympics ended, Rio's beautiful but controversial golf course is eerily quiet with birds' squawks far louder than the whack of balls.
Bobby Fischer and the 'K's: a history of modern chess
AFP, Published on 10/11/2016
» PARIS - US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation.