NEW ORLEANS, Jan 28 (Reuters) – The Baltimore Ravens will fly into New Orleans on Monday to join Super Bowl rivals the San Francisco 49ers as the week-long build-up to America’s biggest and most celebrated game gets fully under way. The Harbaugh brothers, 49ers coach Jim and Ravens boss John, have five straight days of media conferences ahead of them, including a joint session on Friday as the NFL and an insatiable sports media takes full advantage of the fascination with the pair. …
Time Warner Cable to carry new LA Dodgers baseball channel
(Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc said on Monday it will carry the new Los Angeles Dodgers channel, outbidding Fox Sports, which held the rights to show Dodgers games for more than a decade. The Dodgers ownership group will control the chan nel, becoming the most recent sports franchise to own all or part of its own channel, ensuring ongoing TV profits in addition to the lucrative revenue from cable operators. The channel is scheduled to begin airing Dodgers games at the start of the 2014 baseball season. The channel will be available in southern California and Hawaii. … Cricket-Jayasuriya named Sri Lanka's chairman of selectors
COLOMBO, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Former Sri Lanka cricketer turned politician Sanath Jayasuriya was appointed chairman of selectors in a new-look five-member committee named by sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage on Monday. Jayasuriya, 43, is joined by 1996 World Cup winning team mate Pramodya Wickramasinghe. Former Sri Lanka players Hemantha Wickramaratne, Eric Upashantha and Chaminda Mendis were the other selectors appointed. Wickramaratne is the only surviving member of the previous committee headed by Ashantha de Mel whose extended term ends on Jan. 31. …
Assou-Ekotto agrees to end two-year Cameroon exile
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Tottenha m Hotspur defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto is set to play for Cameroon next month for the first time in two years. The left back was named on Monday in a 21-man squad for the friendly in Tanzania on February 6, the country's football federation said. Assou-Ekotto refused recent call-ups because he was unhappy with the way the Cameroon team was being run but he has been persuaded to come back following a meeting with coach Jean-Paul Akono. … Time Warner Cable to carry new LA Dodgers baseball channel
Jan 28 (Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc said on Monday it will carry the new Los Angeles Dodgers channel, outbidding Fox Sports, which held the rights to show Dodgers games for more than a decade. The Dodgers ownership group will control the channel, becoming the most recent sports franchise to own all or part of its own channel, ensuring ongoing TV profits in addition to the lucrative revenue from cable operators. The channel is scheduled to begin airing Dodgers games at the start of the 2014 baseball season. The channel will be available in southern California and Hawaii. …
Soccer-Assou-Ekotto agrees to end two-year Cameroon exile
YAOUNDE, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto is set to play for Cameroon next month for the first time in two years. The left back was named on Monday in a 21-man squad for the friendly in Tanzania on Feb. 6, the country’s football federation said. Assou-Ekotto refused recent call-ups because he was unhappy with the way the Cameroon team was being run but he has been persuaded to come back following a meeting with coach Jean-Paul Akono. …
Neymar unsure of future
Santos' Neymar has quashed talk that his next move has already been decided, despite reports that he is set to join Barcelona next year. Thanh An giành ngôi vô ??ch s?m m?t vòng ??u
Vòng lo?i World Cup c? vua khu v?c 3.3 FIFA, IOC send condolences to Brazil fire victims
FIFA and local organizers canceled an event celebrating 500 days to go until the 2014 World Cup because of a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people in southern Brazil on Sunday.FIFA said it maintained … Kick Off: Will USMNT lose another up-and-coming MLS star?
Will he or won't he? Identities of Chivas USA's mystery trialists finally revealed
CARSON, Calif. - Thirteen non-roster players suited up for Chivas USA in Saturday's preseason scrimmage against UC Irvine, providing new head coach José Luis "El Chelís" Sánchez Solá a look at some of the club's mystery men. 
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