Nov 28
Christine Ohuruogu will today seek a place at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as she tries to overturn a lifetime ban from the Games at a personal hearing.
The world 400 metres champion, who in August completed a year’s suspension for missing three scheduled drug tests, has been given a personal hearing by the Sports Disputes Resolution Panel over whether the life ban the British Olympic Association gives to all who earn a significant doping suspension should be reversed.
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Nov 28
Toronto FC
CHICAGO – Toronto FC midfielder Maurice Edu and defender Marvell Wynne were named Wednesday to the U.S. squad that will travel to China in preparation for Olympic qualifiers.
This will be the first time the U.S. under-23 team has gathered since Peter Nowak took over as coach in August.
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Nov 28
Marshall Faulk
St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) – Marshall Faulk, who spent the last seven years of his 12-year NFL career with the St. Louis Rams, will have his jersey retired by the team.
The club announced Wednesday that the ceremony will take place at halftime of the Rams’ December 20 contest against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Nov 28
The Samaritans were collecting at Pride Park – mindful, perhaps, of poor Billy Davies and his sieve of a defence, which big teams like Arsenal (five goals) and Liverpool (six) have been so partial to this season. But by the time the Derby faithful drifted away, Davies was rattling a tin of his own. It was one which, by his own reckoning, will need all the loose change in the land – and more – if Derby are not to give up the ghost before January is out.
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Nov 28
Great news for Boca Juniors as Juan Roman Riquelme is set for a return from Villareal. They really need the services of Riquelme who led them to the Copa Libertadores title last year. Boca has looked like a shadow of a club this season. With Riquelme in their ranks they can look forward to the Clausura.
Riquelme fell out of favour with Villareal manager Manuel Pellegrini last December and has not played with the club since his return.
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Nov 28
Duke figured out how to make up for its size disadvantage against Wisconsin: Turn up the tempo.
Greg Paulus scored 13 of his 18 points during the decisive first half, and No. 7 Duke ran No. 20 Wisconsin right out of Cameron Indoor Stadium in an 82-58 rout Tuesday night.
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Nov 28
Indian world No.31 Sania Mirza gave a lengthy interview for IBN Live, and although the whole interview is worth reading, there are two parts that are exceptionally interesting.
Firstly, the interviewer’s lack of knowledge, which can surely irritate some people, but hahaha, I’m still laughing. Please read this:
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Nov 28
              
After the upstaging, the opting-out and all of the one-upsmanship, posturing and the circuitous route travelled toward an upcoming 10 year marriage, 3rd baseman Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees finally seem to be walking the isle in easily the most mutually lucrative deal in all of organized professional sports history.
The deal; $275 million for 10 years, plus another $30 million if he cracks Barry Bonds’ all-time home run record. But that is just the simple take on the depth and breadth of this deal.
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Nov 28
Just a day or so into the post-Doba era, and Crimson faithful are starting to basically endorse their guys. And Paul Wulff is getting a lot of buzz. Cougfan had a story yesterday that highlighted the early chatter as Wulff, Mike Price and Bobby Hauck as the most prominent names in the rumor mill thus far.
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Nov 28
Brad Fritsch
The Canadian golfers entered in the final stage of PGA Tour qualifying school offer a pretty good cross-section of the field as a whole.
You’ve got a veteran trying to get back to the top (Ian Leggatt), a Nationwide Tour player looking to take the next step (Brad Fritsch) and two unheralded pros hoping to win the equivalent of golf’s lottery (Lee Curry, Bryan DeCorso).
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