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Leicester's Jamie Vardy named Premier League Player of the Season

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 14 May 2016
He was also voted Player of the Year by the Football Writers' Association (FWA), an award he received at a dinner in ... Vardy was named in the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) team of the year but Leicester's Algeria international winger Mahrez won the PFA Player of the Year award. ....

Aaron Rodgers' younger brother to compete on 'The Bachelorette'

Edit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 14 May 2016
The former professional football player is one of 26 men who will vie for the affection of former “Bachelor” contestant JoJo Fletcher ... ....

Pop Warner bans kickoffs from youngest age divisions, per report

Edit Penn Live 14 May 2016
Pop Warner, a prominent youth football organization, has not been immune to the controversy that's hovered over the sport for the ... This comes as football fans continue to debate the dangers associated with repetitive hits to the head....

Media groups seek access to Sandusky insurance case records

Edit The Miami Herald 14 May 2016
... said former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abused them as children ... Judge Gary Glazer's opinion says Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Co....

Allan Massie: Only become tougher to get level playing field

Edit Scotsman 14 May 2016
At the top level of the European club game, rugby is going the same way as football went years ago ... This is a problem for the FFR but the club owners don't care, any more than the owners of football clubs in the English Premiership think that they have any responsibility to develop young players qualified to represent England ... All top professional ......

Interview: Pat Nevin on his tour of Morrissey’s mansion

Edit Scotsman 14 May 2016
The NME in its Christmas double-issue of 1983 acclaimed you as “the first post-punk footballer” ... A typically hectic and eclectic mash-up recently had him opining for radio about classical music, nipping over to Dublin for a football gig, then back to a Belle and Sebastian-organised festival in Somerset for a DJ set, spinning trusty post-punk favourites by the Associates, New Order and Josef K....

African Woman Named FIFA Secretary General

Edit Voa News 14 May 2016
veteran Samoura brings no sports experience to football's global ruling body ... The former secretary general, Jerome Valcke of France, was fired in January and banned from football for 12 years over misconduct in television deals and World Cup ticket sales — one of the many scandals that have hit FIFA ... He was later banned from football activities for six years by sporting authorities....

Ballet West artists prepare original works for 'Innovations' amid promotions

Edit Deseret News 14 May 2016
“At a time when most young people are trying to find themselves, dancers are fully ensconced in a professional career ... Besides showcasing the work of one up-and-coming professional choreographer, (this year, Jessica Lang’s celebrated “Lyric Pieces”), the “Innovations” program helps Ballet West dancers test the waters on “the other side”....

Former NFL top-10 pick contemplates comeback with Redblacks

Edit Toronto Sun 14 May 2016
Good, because Ottawa’s newest Canadian Football League franchise is trying to sign a defensive lineman who spent three months in a medically induced coma ... Okoye, who will turn 29 in early June, was the 10th pick overall in the 2007 National Football League draft by the Houston Texans ... He told the Houston Chronicle that doctors cleared him to resume football activity a year later....

The Latest: Wrestler Superfly's hearing continues next week

Edit The Oklahoman 14 May 2016
(AP) — The latest on a competency hearing for former professional wrestling star Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, accused of killing his girlfriend in 1983 (all times local). ... A Pennsylvania hearing to determine whether professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka is mentally competent to stand trial in the death of his girlfriend has been adjourned until next week....

MLB doping and nine dirty players Hall of Fame no vote for doping

Edit The Examiner 14 May 2016
Doping users are poor losers. Is this Major League Baseball or the Tour De France? The integrity of the sport is losing ... He was an athlete who was neve associated with doping and was never banned for dirty concoctions derived to make the ego and the hits drive over the fence ... We never heard about the damage concussions do to football players and the poor quality of life they have and suicidal tendencies for brain damage until recently ... ....

Crowds line streets to honor US Navy SEAL killed in Iraq

Edit Stars and Stripes 14 May 2016
(Associated Press) — Thousands of people — including motorcycle-riding combat veterans, schoolchildren waving flags and mothers with strollers — lined the streets of this military town Friday as the funeral procession of a Navy SEAL killed in Iraq passed by on its way to a national cemetery....

Hibs boss Alan Stubbs laments cruel defeat in play-off semi

Edit Scotsman 14 May 2016
A desolate Alan Stubbs last night faced up to the reality of another season of Championship football, although whether the manager will still be at Hibs when the new campaign begins remains to be seen ... The 53rd game of Hibs' epic campaign proved a match too far, losing 3-2 to Falkirk and 5-4 on aggregate ... And we'll be back in Monday and we'll gradually prepare them as the week goes on and see if we can sample a high in football.” ... ....
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