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Sport News 24/7 By Noy Shani  @NoyShani  @TLE_Sport Match-fixing awareness is on the increase and a multitude of organisations are now involved in tackling the problem.  The London Economic’s Noy Shani was at a special match-fixing seminar at Birkbeck, University of London and came back optimistic. New-found optimism was at its peak.  Just ten minutes before the panellists and guests took their seats at the basement level of the Birkbeck University lecture hall, the formerly ‘immortal’ Sepp Blatter had shocked...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport And then there were two: the NBA finals will see Cleveland Cavaliers from the Eastern Conference face the Golden State Warriors of the Western Conference. This is where legacies can be made and destiny’s fulfilled.  Can the ‘King’, LeBron James, the best player in the NBA, bring biggest gift of them all back to his spiritual home in Cleveland?  The man attempting to stop LeBron is Golden State’s Stephen Curry, this year’s...

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport Who would be a Leeds United fan following a season like this?  Last season saw Leeds go through three full time managers, serious relegation concerns, followed by an upturn in form which then fizzled out in turmoil at the end of the season.  Tax evasion on yachts and Land Rovers, rumoured takeovers by Red Bull and Genting which never materialised, followed by Steve Thompson’s sacking and Neil Redfearn’s mistreatment have defined what...

Sport News 24/7 By Joe Heywood  @Joe_Heywood  @TLE_Sport If you look back to the end of the 2013-14 season, you would be forgiven for thinking Southampton were in disarray. Mauricio Pochettino had just left the south coast in favour of north London and Southampton was facing an exodus of its star players: Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Rickie Lambert, Calum Chambers and Luke Shaw all made big-money moves to rival Premier League clubs, after establishing key roles in the club’s eighth-place...

Sport News 24/7 By Max Bluer  @maxbluer  @TLE_Sport Football will resume across Argentina this weekend.  Reason to rejoice for the millions across the vast South American country who watch, listen to and above all discuss the beautiful game every weekend.  Argentina is a nation of football-philosophers; bars and cafes the fora for heated debate and rhetorical flourish that is rarely seen elsewhere. These most knowledgeable and impassioned of football fans will have been delighted, then, by the resumption of professional...

By Jack Peat, TLE Editor What a difference a week makes. In the run up to the first test match against New Zealand at Lord's the public vibe was almost unanimously negative. After a hugely disappointing World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, cricket fans in England could be forgiven for feeling a tad anxious about the arrival of the 2015 host nations on home soil. Andrew Strauss, seen as a conservative appointment as Director of Cricket, was facing heavy...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport Right.  That’s it.  The Premier League season is finally over.  No more football until…the FA Cup final next weekend.  But then after that it’s all finished for the summer…until the Champions League Final on the 6th of June.  And then there are European Championship qualifiers after that.  But then there’s a break, right?  Oh I forgot – the Copa America is happening this summer.  By the time that’s...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport So then there were four.  We have reached the Conference Final stages of the NBA season, which will see Houston Rockets play Golden State Warriors in the West.  Then, in the East, the Cleveland Cavaliers face the Atlanta Hawks. To start in the West, Houston Rockets turned around a 3-1 deficit against the LA Clippers to win the series 4-3 in dramatic style.  The Clippers are known as 'Lob City' for their...

Sport News 24/7 By Joe Heywood  @Joe_Heywood  @TLE_Sport Olivier Giroud is a fantastic striker.  He’s one of the best finishers in the league, can strike a ball with thunderous venom and his link-up play can be staggering sublime at times.  But should the Frenchman lead Arsenal’s attack next season? Like a lot of Arsenal players in the last five years or so, Giroud divides opinion.  On one hand, there are games where he completely dominates – he scores emphatic goals...