Their attorney, Jean-Louis Dupont said, “The indispensable fight against doping is not the issue here. The problem is the lack of proportionality of certain measures”.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ap-wada-wickmayer-malisse&prov=ap&type=lgns


Outrage on Limbaugh, not on Sterling?
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=dw-sterling110409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

With their annual clash with Ohio State looming this weekend, Michigan's athletic dept. has just admitted that coach Rich Rodriguez has just filed the CARA forms. Link:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-michigan-ncaa&prov=ap&typ

Your college team: is it going bowling?

The College football season is drawing to an end over the next few weeks. Then the annual BCS discussions and the arguments about having a playoff or tournament will soon take place. This has become as much of an annual tradition as Thanksgiving dinner, putting up the Christmas tree, engaging in Festivus feats of strength, or any of the other holidays' trappings. But, in the meantime, if your team is not BCS worthy, and is hovering near a 6-6 or 7-5 record, then you are probably wondering about bowl implications. Well, the lawyers at the NCAA can help shed some light on this for you. In easy to understand language, here's how it works:

Per NCAA Bylaw 30.9.2.1  an institution with a record of six wins and six losses may be selected for participation in a bowl game if 1) the institution or its conference has a primary contractual affiliation, which existed prior to the first contest of the applicable season, with
the sponsoring bowl organization. In the case of a conference contractual affiliation, all conference teams with winning records must be placed in one of the contracted bowl gamesbefore any institution with a record of six wins and six losses may be placed in a contractedbowl game; and 2) all contractual affiliations have been fulfilled and all institutions withwinning records have received bowl invitations (either through a contractual affiliation or as an at-large selection).

In the case of a conference contractual affiliation, all conference teams with winning records must be placed in one of the contracted bowl games before any institution with a record of six wins and six losses may be placed in a contracted bowl game. There shall be
no contingency agreements with other sponsoring bowl organizations intended to enable an institution with a record of six wins and six losses to become eligible for those contests.

For more information from the NCAA bowl handbook see the blog following link:
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/champ_handbooks/football/2008/
psfootball_handbook.pdf


Will your team be rewarded by going to Detroit for the Pizza Bowl?