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Schwartzel celebrates as golf's power struggle deepens
AFP, Published on 12/06/2022
» ST ALBANS (UNITED KINGDOM) - Charl Schwartzel's victory at the first event of the rebel LIV Golf series brought the curtain down on one of the most dramatic weeks in the history of a sport now in deep turmoil.
Blatter: Platini payment was 'gentleman's agreement'
AFP, Published on 09/06/2022
» BELLINZONA: Sepp Blatter struck a "gentleman's agreement" with Michel Platini to pay him a million Swiss francs ($1.02 million) a year as an adviser, the former world football chief told their trial on Thursday.
US PGA bans LIV Golf 'rebels' as Saudi-backed breakaway event starts
AFP, Published on 09/06/2022
» ST ALBANS: No sooner had players competing in the breakaway LIV Golf Invitational London , the most lucrative event in the sport's history, teed off Thursday than they were suspended by the US PGA Tour.
'Ghost Games' a taste of what's to come for few months
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/05/2020
» One observer likened football being played behind closed doors to "going to a nightclub without any music, or a pub with no beer," but the Bundesliga restarted the season last weekend in an effective and trouble-free manner, despite the eerie lack of atmosphere in the empty stadiums.
US judge grants early release to Brazilian in FIFA corruption scandal
AFP, Published on 31/03/2020
» NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York on Monday granted the release from prison on humanitarian grounds of an 87-year-old former senior Brazilian football official tarnished by the FIFA corruption scandal.
Judge 'honoured' to sentence pervert US gymnastics coach
Associated Press, Published on 25/01/2018
» LANSING, Michigan: The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison by a judge who proudly told him, "I just signed your death warrant."