Published on Wed Jun 08 07:10:38 BST 2011 ‘WHO’D be a referee?’ It’s a saying that often comes up when criticism comes from all areas to the man in the middle of a football pitch on a Saturday afternoon. The job of the referee and his assistants is widely regarded as the hardest in...
By Rick Cantu AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type CAMERON — The pain of a last-minute loss in the state football championship game still stings nine players on the Cameron Yoe baseball team. Fueled by that 33-27 gut-wrenching defeat in December, the Yoemen are at the brink of a...
COMMENTARY Bubba Starling can change baseball in Kansas City forever, and if that sounds like an unfair burden to put on an 18-year-old kid, thats too bad, because its also reality. The movie script can happen in real life now, and it can alter the course of an entire major-league baseball franchise. A boy...
GREG GROWDEN Blues over Highlanders’ new green jersey Refs bloopers need second screening McAlister’s mixed bag gives selectors the blues Dicko should be stewing over his bad day at office Rugby model in desperate need of revamp Hullabaloo ignores pressures on referees Highlanders had bigger issues than...
By Chip Towers The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DESTIN, Fla. — Something is going to happen regarding over-signing and the SEC’s new “roster management” proposals for football this week. But exactly what, nobody is sure just yet. According to South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, the league’s football coaches took a 12-0 vote to the conference athletic...
BRIAN HOMEWOOD Four of FIFA’s six biggest sponsors raised pressure on Sepp Blatter to accept reform of football’s scandal-torn governing body, as the president welcomed delegates due to re-elect him with jugglers and folk dancing. While Blatter was opening the 61st FIFA Congress today at a party in an ice-hockey arena, English soccer chiefs...
Commentary By Simon Zekaria AFP/Getty Images FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during a press conference on May 30, 2011. Football’s transformational shift into a global multi-billion dollar business ever-increases and so it is apt that a surprise intervention by some of the biggest consumer companies in the world into a debate over corruption threatens...
CRISIS, what crisis? As two of FIFA’s biggest sponsors expressed concern about ongoing scandals, a defiant Sepp Blatter echoed an old Fianna Fail adage as he denied world football is in serious trouble. Adidas and Coca Cola have today gone public with their concerns about allegations of bribery and corruption at the top of...
Enlarge Image duane burleson / the associated pressThe Bombers covet Central Michigan wide receiver Kito Poblah, right, so much they might sacrifice a draft pick to get him. (CP) It’s Paul LaPolice’s job to coax and to prod his Winnipeg Blue Bombers squad one moment and then throw an encouraging arm around it the...
One-dimensional Meath surrender Leinster title at the first obstacle
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