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Sports Direct names interim CFO following investor unrest – Telegraph.co.uk

Thursday, June 04, 2015

The appointment of an acting CFO marks an internal reshuffle, with Mr Pearson previously the company’s group financial controller, having joined the sporting goods retailer in 2007. The hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, Sports Direct’s third biggest shareholder On Thursday, Keith Hellawell, the company’s chairman, said: “After a thorough process and following soundings from leading institutions I am delighted that Matt has been appointed acting chief financial officer and is…

The Most Cursed Sports Cities in America – New York Times

Thursday, June 04, 2015

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Gossip column: Sterling, Falcao, Berbatov, Pogba, Pirlo, Cech – BBC Sport

Thursday, June 04, 2015

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are poised to make a £25m offer for Liverpool’s 20-year-old forward Raheem Sterling. (Mirror)  Chelsea want to sign striker Radamel Falcao on loan from Monaco. The Colombian, 29, only scored four goals in 29 appearances during a loan spell at Manchester United last season. (Daily…

Women’s World Cup 2015: China, an Early Power, Seeks a Way Back – New York Times

Thursday, June 04, 2015

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Why African Soccer Officials See FIFA Probe As ‘Imperialist’ – TIME

Thursday, June 04, 2015

More Russia and Qatar’s World Cups Under Scrutiny after FIFA Chief Resigns Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for 6 Linked to FIFA Probe How FIFA’s Sepp Blatter May Have Outmaneuvered Everyone The news of Sepp Blatter’s resignation on Tuesday drew outrage from the leading officials in African soccer. Only four days earlier, on May 29, they had helped keep him in power as president of FIFA, the sport’s international governing body,…

Why African Soccer Officials See FIFA Probe As ‘Imperialist’ – TIME

Thursday, June 04, 2015

More Russia and Qatar’s World Cups Under Scrutiny after FIFA Chief Resigns Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for 6 Linked to FIFA Probe How FIFA’s Sepp Blatter May Have Outmaneuvered Everyone The news of Sepp Blatter’s resignation on Tuesday drew outrage from the leading officials in African soccer. Only four days earlier, on May 29, they had helped keep him in power as president of FIFA, the sport’s international governing body,…

Ex-FIFA Official Chuck Blazer Admitted Accepting Bribes for World Cup Votes – New York Times

Thursday, June 04, 2015

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Parkland High baseball team rallies past Owen J. Roberts in PIAA 4A opener – Allentown Morning Call

Thursday, June 04, 2015

For a third straight season, Parkland fell behind a District 1 opponent in its PIAA opener. The Trojans refused to exit the state playoffs early again. Parkland twice erased one-run deficits against Owen J. Roberts before seizing the lead in the fourth inning. Chris Rabasco’s RBI single in the fifth added some insurance the Trojans needed to hold on for a 4-3 win in a PIAA Class 4A first-round baseball…

Section baseball playoffs come to an emotional end for Hermantown – Duluth News Tribune

Thursday, June 04, 2015

And on Tuesday, he and the emotionally drained Hawks finally ran out of gas in a 4-0, season-ending defeat to Duluth Marshall at Al Nyberg Field, less than a mile from where Sunday’s service was held. There’s no manual for any of that. But if there was, Hermantown coach Mike Zagelmeyer said through pursed lips, Zuidmulder “probably should be the author of it.” Kurt Zuidmulder, whose death was heart-related, was…

Highlands hurdles North Bullitt to reach first state baseball semifinals in 50 … – Lexington Herald Leader

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Local News 2-year-old boy killed in Laurel County house fire

CBS Sports Network signs deal to televise MAC football, basketball – CBSSports.com

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Teams like Northern Illinois and Bowling Green will be featured on CBS Sports Network. (USATSI) #MACtion is coming to the CBS Sports Network. The network and the MAC announced Wednesday an agreement that will see CBSSN air league football and basketball contests through the 2018-2019 season. Via a sublicense agreement with ESPN, the broadcasts will begin this fall with CBSSN carrying six football games and seven basketball games during the…

Women’s World Cup 2015: China, an Early Power, Seeks a Way Back – New York Times

Thursday, June 04, 2015

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NASCAR penalizes two drivers for walking on hot track – USA TODAY

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Jennifer Jo Cobb walks onto the track to confront Tyler Reddick.(Photo: Drew Hallowell, Getty Images) Trevor Bayne and Jennifer Jo Cobb were both fined and placed on probation Wednesday after each walked across a hot track during races last weekend at Dover International Speedway. Cobb walked angrily up the racetrack toward Tyler Reddick after she believed he spun her out during Friday’s Camping World Truck Series race. And Bayne got…

Why African Soccer Officials See FIFA Probe As ‘Imperialist’ – TIME

Thursday, June 04, 2015

More Russia and Qatar’s World Cups Under Scrutiny after FIFA Chief Resigns Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for 6 Linked to FIFA Probe How FIFA’s Sepp Blatter May Have Outmaneuvered Everyone The news of Sepp Blatter’s resignation on Tuesday drew outrage from the leading officials in African soccer. Only four days earlier, on May 29, they had helped keep him in power as president of FIFA, the sport’s international governing body,…

Waltrip: ‘A lot of unrest’ in NASCAR led to driver council – Yahoo Sports

Thursday, June 04, 2015

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR has never had much of an appetite for drivers uniting to create a single voice. The sanctioning body once banned Curtis Turner for trying to form a union in 1961. But times have changed, said Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip, who believes dislike of the current rules package has led to the creation of a driver’s council. The group of drivers elected by their peers…

Why armed drug cops took ‘every belonging’ from a Michigan soccer mom – Washington Post (blog)

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Annette Shattuck wasn’t home when the masked men entered her house and ransacked it. But her 56-year-old mother was, clipping coupons and watching over Annette’s four children under the age of 10, Shattuck recalled last week before the Michigan House of Representatives. “After they breached my door, at gunpoint, with masks,” she said, repeating what her family told her, “they proceeded to take every belonging in my house. And when I say every…

Marty Lees Named Head Baseball Coach – Washington State Athletics

Thursday, June 04, 2015

2016 Season Tickets Request PULLMAN, Wash. – Marty Lees has been named the Washington State University Head Baseball Coach, Cougar Director of Athletics Bill Moos announced Wednesday. Lees becomes the 15th head coach in program history after spending the last three seasons as the assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Oklahoma State and the previous 11 at Oregon State. In those 14 years he has coached 10 teams that have reached…

Lightning strikes and turns Tampa into a hockey city again – Los Angeles Times

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

This is the South, where football is still king, so the Tampa Bay Lightning must work harder to entrench itself than teams in longer-established sports or in traditional hockey markets. Jay Feaster, formerly the Lightning’s general manager and now its executive director of community hockey development, is reminded of that each time he visits a local school to introduce street hockey to kids in first through eighth grades. For many,…