AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — A mover-shaker type asked me an excellent playoff question at the ACC spring meetings this week. How do you avoid a Stanford-Oregon situation? As conference leaders across the country hammer out their playoff preferences during the next few weeks, that question will dominate the conversation. It seems clear leaders know what [...]
Once upon a time, in a world before Twitter, blogs and 14-team football conferences, there was this novel thing called "the offseason." Weeks would pass with no college football news of consequence save for the occasional police-blotter item. Schools didn’t hop conferences every other month, commissioners didn’t suddenly resign and coaches didn’t get into motorcycle [...]
Kolkata: One side has lost four matches on the trot in the Indian Premier League and now finds itself playing catch-up. The other is on a high, occupying second position after four back-to-back victories. But such dry statistics carry little significance for today’s marquee game between the Sourav Ganguly-led Pune Warriors and the Shah Rukh [...]
Abu Dhabi Al Jazira’s President’s Cup final win over Bani Yas on Monday has not only secured them a place in next season’s AFC Champions League, but has also kept alive their dreams of a domestic double this campaign. Though they had to survive some anxious moments before winning the final against Bani Yas 3-1, [...]
Dubai: Allegations of time-wasting, thrown at Ali Al Habsi by Arsene Wenger after Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat at home to Wigan on Monday, are not fair according the Latics’ Omani shot-stopper. Goals on seven and eight minutes from Franco Di Santo and Jordo Gomez ruled Thomas Vermaelen’s 21st minute effort obsolete, but it was the manner in [...]
Dubai: Back in December 2011, Victoria Azarenka practised for three weeks at the Elite Tennis Academy of Dubai (formerly Equelite Juan Carlos Ferrero Tennis Academy of Dubai) for her pre-season training for the Australian Open, a tournament which she went on to win and become the world number 1. She was joined by three men’s [...]
Baseball likes round numbers. Five-hundred homers. Batting .300. Ten-year anniversaries. The Team Health Reports hit one of those this year, with the 10th edition of the most accurate risk assessments in fantasy sports. It sounds like an advertising slogan to say "many imitators, no equals," but it’s true. For the uninitiated, what the Team Health [...]
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Baseball likes round numbers. Five-hundred homers. Batting .300. Ten-year anniversaries. The Team Health Reports hit one of those this year, with the 10th edition of the most accurate risk assessments in fantasy sports. It sounds like an advertising slogan to say "many imitators, no equals," but it’s true. For the uninitiated, what the Team Health [...]
Abu Dhabi: Organisers of the Al Gharbia Watersports Festival 2012 are expecting around 90,000 visitors for this year’s event — an increase of 20,000 over the last edition — as the Western Region gears up for the 10-day extravaganza which starts on April 12. The public beach in the fishing town of Mirfa is expected [...]