Free agency for European soccer had little effect, study says
The overall effects of European soccer's "Bosman ruling" appear to have been fairly minor, a new University of Illinois at Chicago study finds.
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Mar 14, 2012
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Weight, height, and experience key to Rugby World Cup success
Rugby teams with the tallest backs, heaviest forwards, and greatest amount of collective experience are likely to be the most successful at World Cup level, reveals research published online in the British Journal of Sports ...
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Feb 20, 2012
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Record 10,000 tweets per second at Super Bowl
Twitter said users were firing off a record 10,000 tweets per second in the final three minutes of the Super Bowl.
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Feb 6, 2012
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China lifts Great Firewall for golf World Cup
International golf stars, spectators and media at the World Cup on the southern Chinese island of Hainan are enjoying uncensored Internet access denied to 1.3 billion Chinese.
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Nov 25, 2011
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Sport tourism development book reveals new insights on growing leisure activity
When we travel for sport -- whether to play it or watch it -- we can develop strong bonds with the place we visited to do that. Sport tourism is a fast-growing research area that's intrigued Dr. Tom Hinch since his youth. ...
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Oct 4, 2011
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Robots may dominate rugby by 2050
Elite athletes with bionic implants, built-in chips to monitor their performance and shirts embedded with nanotechnology medicines to heal minor injuries could be taking the field for the 2051 Rugby World Cup.
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Sep 6, 2011
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Women's World Cup final breaks Twitter record
(AP) -- The Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States set the record for tweets per second, eclipsing the wedding of Prince William and Kate and the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Jul 18, 2011
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World Cup Twitter ban for All Blacks
All Blacks players have been banned from communicating directly with fans via Twitter during this year's World Cup, amid fears the microblogging website will prove a distraction during the tournament.
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Jun 17, 2011
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Qatar figures out novel way to cool crowds for 2022 World Cup
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what should be viewed as a contender for some sort of science prize for originality, researchers at Qatar University have come up with an idea whereby artificial clouds might be used to hover over stadiums ...
World Cup for tweet generation
Desperate appeals in the aftermath of the New Zealand earthquake, cheeky match predictions or just reporting the day-to-day minutiae of a very long tournament.
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Mar 7, 2011
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