Gives U.N.-Arab League envoy full support.

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Russia Commits to Syrian Peace Plan

For Iraqi diplomats and officials, a three-day meeting of the Arab League is a banner moment for a country emerging from decades of war, occupation and diplomatic isolation.

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With Meeting of Arab Leaders, Iraq Seeks to Shift its Image

The debate around the New Orleans Saints’ pay-for-performance system initially centered around the prevalence of such programs and their propriety within the NFL. But the NFL’s punishments of the team revealed something else: a discord among current and former players not only over the bounty program and the league’s response but in the manner in which they became public. Read full article > >

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NFL bounty scandal: Players debate whether it should have stayed in locker room

During the NFL’s year without a salary cap in 2010, the league’s 32 teams were told emphatically not to structure player contracts to gain an unfair competitive advantage when the salary cap returned. As the year unfolded, however, the Washington Redskins ignored those instructions, restructuring deals that violated the spirit — if not the letter — of the NFL’s wishes. Read full article > >

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Redskins’ salary cap actions angered NFL

A pub landlady has won her court fight with the English Premier League over using a Greek TV decoder to screen games.

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Pub landlady wins TV court case

MIAMI — Already considered the league’s biggest villain, the black-suited Miami Heat shut down basketball’s most beloved underdog Thursday night to bring an end to a breathless, occasionally hysterical 17-day run. Read full article > >

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Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks can’t keep up with LeBron, Miami Heat in 102-88 loss

Backers of an Arab League peace plan said Friday that they were seeking new ways to aid opponents of President Bashar al-Assad and to ensure next week’s conference puts additional pressure on him.

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Arab League Aims to Increase Pressure on Syria

At a meeting of the League’s foreign ministers on Sunday, the group called on Arab nations to sever diplomatic relations with Syria in an effort to pressure it to end the violence there.

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Arab League Requests U.N. Peacekeepers for Syria

After Arab League meeting.

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U.N. Asked to Send Team to Syria

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says the Arab League plans to revive its mission to Syria and accuses Damascus of stepping up “war on its own people”.

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Arab Syria mission ‘may resume’

Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American Harvard graduate, couldn’t find a role in the league. Then he scored 53 points in two games for the Knicks.

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Jeremy Lin Has Burst From N.B.A. Novelty Act to Knicks Star

Seven England players and Ireland batsman Kevin O’Brien fail to attract bids at the Indian Premier League auction.

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England players go unsold at IPL

The Arab League says it is suspending its controversial monitoring mission in Syria because of the upsurge in violence.

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Arab League halts Syria mission

Heavy bloodshed was reported Friday as Arab League monitors expressed exasperation and the United Nations made a step toward a possible resolution condemning the government.

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Violence Rises Sharply in Syria, Flustering Arab League Monitors

The visit, truncated by worries about volatile areas, revealed the limitations of the Arab League’s mission as the conflict shifted to clashes between armed groups and government security forces.

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In Syria, Arab League Monitors Face Severe Limits