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...different dates of the Western calendar each year, began on Aug. 21 in 2009, just in time for another event in Europe with near religious significance: the kickoff of soccer season. But the timing has sparked controversy in Italy, where in the past four days both a prominent coach and a team owner in the top Serie A league have linked the rigors of Ramadan's sunrise-to-sunset fasting to Muslim players' poor performance on the pitch...
...Just 30 minutes into his team's disappointing 1-1 tie Sunday with Bari, Inter Milan's Portuguese-born coach Jose Mourinho pulled midfielder Sulley Muntari, a practicing Muslim, out of his home debut. "He was clearly struggling," Mourinho said of the 25-year-old Ghanaian player during the postgame press conference. "It's the month of Ramadan, and that's what affected his performance, which is why I took him out." (See pictures from Euro...
...possible," as his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught up with Steven Oberfest, a personal trainer and martial-arts expert who bills himself as the industry's creator. The founder of Prison Coach, Oberfest - whose background includes a 15-month stint in a New York prison on racketeering charges - has been preparing wealthy convicts for their incarceration since 2002. He talked to TIME about the business of prison prep and the dos and don'ts of inmate etiquette...
...Monday, officials from the European Rugby Cup punished a gaggle of people from the storied London pro club the Harlequins for behavior that, even by modern standards, seems astonishingly under-handed. Harlequins staffers, the club's coach, and one player were banned from the sport for up to three years for staging a blood-gushing injury to help the team gain an illicit advantage over rival Leinster in the dying moments of a European Cup tournament quarter-final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that...
...Were discovery of that ruse not bad enough, investigations subsequently revealed that former England rubgy great and Harlequins coach Dean Richards - who has since resigned - had used the fake wound ploy on at least four previous occasions. But perhaps worst of all, the British media reports that as suspicion surged around the conveniently timed injury even before the match against Leinster had ended, Harlequins medical staffers rushed to slice a real gash inside Williams' mouth with a scalpel to cover their cheating...