Nov 21
The college football landscape always has at least one upset that shocks the college football world.
Read the original post: College Football Upsets: Michigan Over Wisconsin and 5 Week 12 Shockers
Nov 21
Less than two weeks before FIFA chooses the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, Sepp Blatter said on Friday that collusion between voters was inevitable but he expected no more corruption cases to emerge. The FIFA president stressed that his 22-man executive committee understood that the world was watching before the Dec.
The rest is here: Blatter: Collusion inevitable in World Cup votes
Nov 21
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has praised Australia’s bid for the 2022 World Cup, suggesting the lack of controversy surrounding it to be a strength, Australia?€™s media reported on Saturday.
See original here: FIFA boss praises Australia’s bid to host 2022 World Cup
Nov 21
Star Chinese athlete Liu Xiang will bid to use the Asian Games as a stepping stone to bigger and better things at the 2011 Daegu world championships and the London Olympics a year later.
See original here: Liu looks for Asiad stepping stone to worlds, Olympics
Nov 21
England and Australia’s bids to host football’s World Cup in 2018 and 2022 may suffer from clashes with local sports events, including tennis at Wimbledon and Australian rugby league, FIFA indicated.
View original post here: Football: Wimbledon, rugby cast shadow over World Cup bids
Nov 21
GENEVA (AP) ?€” FIFA says the United States bid needs stronger guarantees of federal government support and Qatar’s desert heat could put players’ health at risk at a 2022 World Cup.
Read this article: FIFA evaluates US ability to host 2022 World Cup
Nov 21
FIFA president Sepp Blatter kicked off an executive committee meeting on Friday in a bid to turn the page on a damaging World Cup bidding scandal that prompted a ban on two of its members.
Go here to see the original: FIFA seeks to turn page on World Cup bid scandal
Nov 21
2 teams are off this week, so don’t expect any earth-shaking changes at the top of the college football world this weekend. But do expect a lot of conference races to begin to sort themselves out and do expect some entertaining football …
Read the rest here: Week 12 College Football Matchups – NYTimes.com
Nov 21
Helsinki Finland June 10, 2009
See the rest here: Finland vs Russia – National anthems – Football World Cup 2010 Qualification
Nov 21
Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie plans to run at the 2012 Olympics in London after reversing his decision to retire. The 37-year-old marathon world record holder pulled out of the New York Marathon with a knee injury this month and immediately said he wanted to stop running, only to go back on the decision eight days later.
Read the original here: Gebrselassie puts 2012 Olympics back on schedule
Oct 25
FIFA has promised a zero tolerance approach to unethical behaviour in the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Read more: World Cup 2010 – FIFA vow ‘zero tolerance’ of corruption
Oct 25
FIFA could leave England’s 2018 World Cup bid waiting after ‘cash for votes’ allegations
football, soccer No Comments »FIFA could come under pressure to postpone the race to host the World Cup as they extend their investigation into cash for votes to include allegations by former general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen.
Read more here: FIFA could leave England’s 2018 World Cup bid waiting after ‘cash for votes’ allegations
Oct 25
FIFA is reeling from another scandal related to the World Cup bids after the dust settled on the Adamu-Temani affair. The countries that are involved in the most recent scandal are Qatar and Spain/Portugal. The person who reported the latest scandal is Michel Zen-Ruffman, a former Secretary General of FIFA. Mr. Zen-Ruffman also accused certain executive committee members of selling their votes …
See the article here: FIFA World Cup: 2018/2022 Bids Receive More Fuel to Vote Fixing Scandal
Oct 23
A Sunday Times report of alleged vote-selling will be dealt with by the world body?€™s ethics committee, says U.S. official Chuck Blazer.
More here: FIFA world Cup vote unlikely to be delayed, says official
Oct 23
Fifa officials have confirmed they are investigating claims that two of their committee members offered to sell their votes for who will host the next World Cup.
Oct 23
FIFA is unlikely to delay its decision on which countries will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups following a report into alleged vote-selling, FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer said on Sunday.
Oct 23
With some minor exceptions, American football has not caught on with the rest of the sports-crazed world, due in part, I think, to the fact that it uniquely reflects our unique national character (well, maybe the same case could be made …
Originally posted here: Sorry to say, football will never be injury free …
Oct 23
The race to host the 2018 Winter Olympics is set to take center stage at the start of a meeting of national Olympic committees from around the world.
See original here: Winter Olympics bid cities prepare to state cases
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