NEW YORK (AP) Major League Soccer would implement goal-line technology quickly if it’s approved in July by the sport’s rules-making body.

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Garber says MLS would use goal-line technology (The Associated Press)

This baseball season, one of the game’s most beloved and bygone traditions will try for a comeback: the baseball card. For men (and some women) of a certain age, baseball cards evoke childhood memories of stuffed shoeboxes stored beneath the bed and the flutter of cards clipped to bicycle wheels.

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Apps Take Positions in the Topps Baseball Lineup

By KEN THOMAS | Associated Press  –  WASHINGTON (AP) — Basketball fan-in-chief President Barack Obama is giving British Prime Minister David Cameron a front-row seat to March Madness, taking his European partner to an NCAA tournament basketball game in Ohio , an election swing state. Obama and Cameron are attending a “First Four” matchup in Dayton, Ohio, between Mississippi Valley State and Western Kentucky on Tuesday night, a gesture of goodwill during Cameron’s official visit to the United States and a way for an incumbent president to reach sports fans in an election year. The White House said the trip to the NCAA tournament game was intended to showcase the special relationship between the two key allies during Cameron’s three-day visit

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Obama, Cameron to attend NCAA tournament game

The Crusaders and the All Blacks are both up for Laureus sports awards at what will be a glittering affair in London early on Tuesday morning. The Crusaders have been nominated for Comeback of the Year following their efforts in making the final of the 2011 Super Rugby competition, despite the earthquakes in Christchurch, which ruled out the use of their home AMI Stadium and sent them on the road for the entire season. The All Blacks have been nominated for World Team of the Year after winning the World Cup which put an end to a 24-year drought following their victory in the inaugural tournament in 1987

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Rugby: All Blacks and Crusaders up for global awards

The regularity of this tournament is what makes it so special. Like a river running through rock, it has carved out a deep groove in our sporting consciousness since its founding in 1883 – the same year that the Ashes urn was first presented

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Rugby's rivalry can be a uniting force

RUGBY captain Jordan Moran will put aside a recurring hand injury in order to play in his side’s Whitney Cup clash with RSL-Colts at Lady Cutler Oval on Sunday. The two clubs will do battle in both first and second grade, with the Danny Bower Cup up for grabs.

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Rugby and Colts to play for Danny Bower trophy

30 December 2011 Last updated at 19:08 ET From left to right; Martyn Williams, Joan Ruddock, Dannie Abse, Bob Owen Wales rugby star Martyn Williams has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list. The Wales and Cardiff Blues flanker becomes an MBE for services to rugby. Poet and playwright Dannie Abse becomes a CBE, as does entrepreneur Peter Thomas and former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lord Carlile.

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Rugby veteran and poet honoured

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Rugby World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Graham Henry has been awarded a knighthood in New Zealand ‘s annual New Year Honors List as the rugby-mad nation continues to celebrate its first world title in 24 years. The 65-year-old former school teacher, who resigned the All Blacks coaching job after the World Cup final in October, is now Sir Graham Henry and the latest of a handful of former players or coaches to receive one of New Zealand’s highest honors.

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New Zealand knights World Cup-winning rugby coach

Afghanistan kicked off its first official rugby tournament on Friday, with organisers hoping the game will one day be as popular as buzkashi , a kind of polo played with the carcass of a headless goat.

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Afghanistan kicks off its first rugby tournament

Panaji, Nov 21 ( IANS ) The rough and tumble sport of rugby is on the verge of creating its own version of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Promoters of rugby in India feel that the success of cricket via the IPL medium could be successfully replicated in the sport of rugby and that Goa would be an ideal choice for being the favoured pitch for the sport in India .

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Rugby wants to climb IPL escalator to popularity in India