ZURICH – With FIFA facing its worst scandal in its 107-year history, a seething Sepp Blatter denied his organization is in crisis Monday as he moved closer to a fourth term as president of soccer’s ruling body and the crisis spread to the vote for the 2022 World Cup.
Archive for March, 2011
Blatter rejects crisis talk as FIFA scandal widens (AP)
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Swansea hit English Premier League jackpot (AFP)
Saturday, March 12th, 2011LONDON (AFP) – Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers admits his club have hit the jackpot as they clinched a lucrative promotion to the Premier League with a 4-2 victory over Reading in the Championship play-off final.
Rodgers’ side will play in the top-flight for the first time in 28 years thanks to Scott Sinclair’s hat-trick and a Stephen Dobbie strike at Wembley on Monday.
James gets a better finals shot as Heat face Mavs (AP)
Thursday, March 10th, 2011MIAMI – Even those critics who hated “The Decision” might understand why LeBron James made it.
Or maybe they don’t, because so few of them bothered to watch the 2007 NBA finals.
James was a one-man team swatted away by three great players, his Cleveland Cavaliers held to the worst offensive performance in finals history and swept aside by the San Antonio Spurs. The series drew the worst TV ratings ever and ended with James admitting his team was simply overmatched, that nothing could have been done to change the outcome.
England adds to Blatter’s problems (AP)
Friday, March 4th, 2011ZURICH – England escalated the crisis at FIFA on Tuesday by calling for a postponement of the presidential election amid a burgeoning bribery scandal that led to the withdrawal of incumbent Sepp Blatter’s only challenger for the top job in soccer.
Murray comes back to beat Troicki at French Open (AP)
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011PARIS – Lethargic at times and brooding at others, Andy Murray worked his way into the French Open quarterfinals by coming back to beat Victor Troicki 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 on Tuesday in a match that started a day earlier.