[OFF THE POST] Thierry Henry has unveiled plans to rebuild his north London house. They include plans for a four-storyfish tank that will cost $400,000 to build. The 5,500-gallon aquarium will cost almost $19,000 a year to maintain. The fish food alone will cost about $4,000. He is only one of many celebrity fishtank owners. […]
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“The second time I met him [Stan Kroenke] was when we were presented with our championships rings at the White House when we saw President [Barack] Obama. I had a little more dialogue withhim [Kroenke] there. He was quite quiet and reserved. He lets everybody get on with it – unfortunately so, because they got […]
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“So they sawed the queen-sized beds in half. Made two beds out of one.” — Schalke 04 general manager Horst Heldt explains what happened after the team complained to themanagement of the Czech hotel “Golden Fish” about there being only one bed in each of the rooms the club had booked for pairs of players […]
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Coach canned after two days
Brazilian team XV de Jau fired its coach, Nem, just two days after officially introducing him. After the team’s 3-1 loss to Flamengo in the third division of the Sao Paulo statechampionship left the club near the relegation zone, XV de Jau president Jose Construtor said “the team didn’t play well” and Nem “made poor […]
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Bayer Leverkusen players 'too eager' for Messi's jersey
Bayer Leverkusen sports director Rudi Voeller was not pleased about how eager the team’s players were to swap shirts with Lionel Messi on Wedesday, when Barcelonabeat Leverkusen, 3-1, in their first-leg, round of 16 game in Germany. Michal Kadlec, who scored Leverkusen’s only goal, had sought Messi’s jersey at halftime but wasbeaten to it in […]
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Del Piero reaches out to girl in coma
2006 World Cup winner and longtime Juventus star Alessandro Del Piero has been credited with waking a young girl from a coma. Giada Scalise, 12,suffered a brain hemorrhage while watching a Juventus match on television last month. After two weeks without a change to her condition, the Scalise family turned to Del Piero, who left […]
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Brazilian player attacks with camera stand
Alexandre Carioca, a midfielder for Brazilian regional club Aguia, was apprehended by police after he struck an opponent with a photographer’s camera stand. Carioca, a sub, picked up the monopod and hit Remo defender Aldivan in the back as players from both teams in the Para state league shoved each other near the sidelines. Carioca […]
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“Had it rained, the event would not have taken place. It didn’t rain on the ceremony, it was successful and I would use him again if I needed to.” — Ana Marta de Pizarro, an anthropologist who helped organize the closing ceremony at the 2011 Under-20 World Cup in Colombia, justifying the hiring of a […]
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Sunderland players arrested for vandalism
Sunderland players Nicklas Bendtner and Lee Cattermole have been arrested on suspicion of damaging cars parked just a few hundred yards from the stadium of bitterrivals Newcastle. Bendtner and Cattermole, both 23, were arrested on Thursday after Northumbria Police studied CCTV evidence of several cars being damaged on Dec. 6, only hours afterMartin O’Neill had […]
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The cruel side of Twitter
[OFF THE POST] That Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has 800,000 followers on Twitter prompted some of his teammates to start tweeting.Wayne Rooney began on Saturday and within two days had 180,000 followers. But midfielder Darron Gibson, who spends most of his time on the bench, closed his accountafter two hours because of a torrent […]