Posts Tagged ‘sport’
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The FA is set to remove the England captaincy from John Terry, who is to stand trial for alleged racial abuse, BBC Sport understands.

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FA ‘to strip Terry of captaincy’
Tags: Abuse, bbc, cap, cia, racial-abuse, sport, stand-trial, terry
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
QPR have agreed a fee with Chelsea for Brazilian centre-half Alex, BBC Sport understands.

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QPR agree fee for Chelsea’s Alex
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Bolton defender Gary Cahill is in London for a medical at Chelsea on Saturday, BBC Sport understands.

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Cahill set for medical at Chelsea
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton is about to start a 500 mile trek across Antarctica to the south pole, to raise money for Sport Relief.

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VIDEO: Skelton to start polar challenge
Tags: 500-mile, antarctica, art, helen, helen-skelton, Money, peter, raise-money, relief, south, sport, start, the-south
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira transcended the sport through his involvement in Brazil’s pro-democracy movement.
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Sócrates, Brazilian Soccer Star, Dies at 57
Tags: border, brasileiro, brazil, deaths (obituaries), involvement, politics and government, ranscended-the-sport, soccer, socrates, souza-vieira, sport, the-sport, world cup (soccer)
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Martin O’Neill has agreed to succeed Steve Bruce as Sunderland manager, BBC Sport understands.
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O’Neill ‘says yes to Sunderland’
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Mark Hughes is the leading contender to replace Steve Bruce as Sunderland manager ahead of bookmakers’ favourite Martin O’Neill, BBC Sport understands.
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Hughes is ‘top Sunderland target’
Tags: art, bbc, book, hughes, leading, martin, sport, steve, steve-bruce, the-leading
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Friday, November 25th, 2011
England spinner Graeme Swann tells BBC Sport he would like to see one-day international cricket scrapped.

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One-day cricket should go – Swann
Tags: bbc, graeme, graeme-swann, international, see-one-day, sport
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement is so monumentally symbolic for the sport, and such a shock to our cynical systems, that millions of fans, accustomed to 35 years of labor warfare or steroid disgrace, may suffer from the same delighted whiplash. We hardly know how to cope with optimism in such unaccustomed quantities. Read full article > >
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Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement is a remarkable moment
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) is calling for mandatory ‘physical literacy’ tests in schools, alongside reading and maths.

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VIDEO: School ‘PE tests’ on trial
Tags: basem, british, cia, exercise, exercise-medicine, math, Medicine, physical-literacy, sport
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig made two announcements today at the close of the owners meetings that will significantly alter the competitive shape of the sport. By 2013, the league will have constant interleague play and perhaps as soon as next season 10 teams will make the postseason rather than eight. Read full article > >
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Houston Astros shifting to AL; wild-card teams added
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Last Thanksgiving Day, when 31.9 million people watched the New Orleans Saints play the Dallas Cowboys, 10.75 million of them were women. Overall, 44 percent of the National Football League’s fans are women. If you follow the sport, this is no revelation. The football widow is an anachronism; girls and women populate stadiums and sports bars, and have for years. In a recent Washington Post survey of D.C. sports fans , 53 percent of this area’s women said they care about the NFL, and 25 percent said they care “a great deal.” Read full article > >
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Flag football: It’s the girls’ turn to play
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
MERRILL, Iowa — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has promised to draw distinctions between himself, his main Republican opponent and President Obama. “ It is time for bold, bright colors , not pastels,” he often says. Perry delivered on that promise the moment he stepped out of his sport-utility vehicle at a hunting preserve here in remote northwestern Iowa shortly after dawn Saturday. The GOP presidential hopeful arrived in rubber camouflage boots, green nylon pants and an orange-shouldered vest. He had come to hunt pheasants — and he made clear he’s no novice. Read full article > >
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Rick Perry, on Iowa pheasant hunt, cites ‘long love affair’ with guns
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
He sits almost anonymously on the periphery of this World Series, like the parking lot beyond center field at Busch Stadium in St. Louis — the parking lot where the old Busch Stadium used to stand, the stadium where Mark McGwire once ruled the sport, the sport that, after a long exile, welcomed him back two years ago. Like that parking lot, McGwire is here now for his utility, not his glory. Read full article > >
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2011 World Series: For Cardinals’ Mark McGwire, blending into the background is just fine
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
Former England centre Jeremy Guscott tells BBC Sport his former international team-mate Martin Johnson has “come up short” as coach of the national team after their Rugby World Cup exit.
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Johnson came up short – Guscott
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