Rosberg joins Mercedes, Brawn rules out Schumacher - Summary
Stuttgart - Nico Rosberg is to join the new Mercedes GP team from next season, it was confirmed Monday. Rosberg, who leaves Williams after four years, will be the first German since Karl Kling and Hans Herrmann in 1955 to drive a works Mercedes silv...
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Bosnia's FA officials jailed for financial violations
Sarajevo - A Bosnian court Monday sentenced the country's Football Association secretary-general Munib Usanovic and finance secretary Miodrag Kures to five years in prison each for financial violations, local media reported. The officials were found ...
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FIFA names cities for World Cup fan fests
Johannesburg - Nine South African cities and seven cities over five continents will be host FIFA's official public viewing events for the 2010 World Cup. All nine South African host cities as well as Berlin, London, Mexico City, Paris, Rio de Janeiro...
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Extreme-race organizer on trial for Zugspitze deaths
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - The organizer of a 2008 extreme mountain race event denied in court on Monday that he was responsible for the deads of two participating runners. Peter Krinninger is charged with two cases of death caused by negligen...
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Del Bosque poised to extend his Spain contract
Madrid - Vicente del Bosque is poised to extend his contract as national manager of Spain, according to Spanish media reports on Monday. Del Bosque's contract is due to expire straight after the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, but the Spanish ...
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Balotelli expects fair treatment from Barcelona crowd - Feature
Rome - Mario Balotelli can look to playing a relaxed away game when Inter Milan tackle European champions Barcelona Tuesday in a high-class Champions League match. Often since his debut in the Serie A at age 17, the towering, talented, but at times i...
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Federer has a score to settle when he meets Murray in London
London - Cautious Roger Federer is determined to improve a modest 3-6 career record against high-flying Scot Andy Murray when the pair play in Group A Tuesday at the ATP World Tour Finals. Murray, who once stood second in the world briefly this seaso...
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UEFA to hold talks with federations in match-fixing probe
Hamburg - European football union UEFA is to hold talks this week with nine national federations affected by a match-fixing investigation. The federations have been called to UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland for the talks on Wednesday. ...
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Nine arrests in Italy match-rigging probe - Summary
Rome - Italian police arrested nine people including the president of Italian football club Potenza SC on Monday in a match-fixing investigation. Prosecuting authorities said the arrests were on charges of betting fraud and membership of a criminal o...
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