ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed a rule for elections to FIFA Council seats, allowing Olympic powerbroker Sheik Ahmad of Kuwait to be a candidate.Elections in May for FIFA positions will be conducted under the terms of the FIFA regulations which allows any member association to nominate a candidate, the AFC said on Thursday after an executive committee meeting.That is different from AFC election rules which require that candidates shall be proposed by his football association.Kuwaits national soccer body is barred from nominating candidates while suspended by FIFA in a dispute over government interference.Sheik Ahmad has continued his duties for FIFA and the IOC, which also suspended Kuwait last year, as an individual while the dispute between the government and sports bodies has continued.The AFC previously said the seat held by Sheik Ahmad would be for another two-year mandate rather than the usual four-year term.The elections being held in Bahrain were originally scheduled in September, then delayed twice. Three more seats on the 37-member FIFA Council must also be filled in polls of FIFAs member federations in Asia.The AFC executive committee also hopes to launch a competitive bidding process next year for the commercial rights to its competitions from 2021 onward.The current eight-year deal awarded by previous AFC leadership to Singapore-based World Sports Group without an open tender was criticized as undervalued.It is very important that we have a transparent process to choose the right model and partner for our next cycle, AFC President Sheik Salman said in a statement.The 2013-2020 master rights deal for AFC competitions was valued at $1 billion with at least $600 million coming to the Asian soccer body then led by Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar.However, after Bin Hammam was banned by FIFA, an AFC-appointed review of its finances by accountancy firm Pricewaterhouse Cooper said no financial due diligence was performed before the rights deal was agreed in 2009.The WSG agency has since been brought under the banner of its French-based parent group as Lagardere Sports.On Thursday, the AFC also launched an integrity project called Do the right thing, with renewed commitment to encourage whistleblowers.Sheik Salman said the Kuala Lumpur-based AFC wanted member federations to help identify and recruit a head of integrity. 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Radwanska, making her debut in the Seoul tournament, hit eight aces in a match that lasted 1 hour, 4 minutes at Olympic Park tennis stadium. "It was definitely a very good match -- I was playing really good tennis," Radwanska said. CLEVELAND -- At this point, whenever the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers meet, theres only one overriding topic: The Streak. Wednesday afternoon at Progressive Field, the two teams will play the final game of their three-game series, and it will be the Tigers last chance until September to halt their losing streak to Cleveland, which currently stands at 11 games.The Indians are 11-0 against the Tigers this season. Theyve outplayed us, said Detroit manager Brad Ausmus. We havent played that bad, but theyve played better than us, pitched better than us and hit better than us.In winning all 11 games between the two teams, the Indians have outscored the Tigers 77-24. So not only has Cleveland won every game, many of them have been blowouts. Among Clevelands 11 wins have been victories by scores such as 10-1, 9-4, 6-0, 9-3, and 12-1.Nevertheless, Ausmus says his players arent dwelling on their inability to beat Cleveland this year.You go into very game thinking anyone can win. Its just that weve lost the last 11 in a row, he said. But when we take the field tomorrow none of our guys will be thinking about the streak.Indians manager Terry Francona says the streak is a part of a bigger picture, which is what concerns him most.I dont spend a lot of time thinking about (the streak), Francona said. You just worry about playing the next game and trying to win.Making the streak even better for Cleveland and more miserable for Detroit is that the two teams are in the Central Division. So eeach outcome has added importance in the division race.dddddddddddd The first-place Indians currently lead the second-place Tigers by 7 1/2 games.In Wednesdays matchup, the Tigers will send impressive rookie Michael Fulmer (8-2, 2.17) to the mound. Fulmer may give the Tigers their best chance yet at halting the streak. The 23-year-old right-hander has allowed one or no runs in each of his last eight starts, which is the longest such streak by a Tigers starter since at least 1913. Over his last eight starts, Fulmer is 6-1 with a 0.53 ERA. Since May 21, Fulmer leads all major league pitchers with a 0.53 ERA and .133 opponents batting average.Cleveland will start right-hander Josh Tomlin, who can throw some impressive statistics onto the table as well. Tomlin is 9-1 with a 3.21 ERA. He leads the American League with an average of 0.9 walks per nine innings. Tomlin also leads the AL with 6.40 strikeouts per walk.Fulmer has only lost two of his 13 starts, but one of those losses was to the Indians. On May 5 at Progressive Field, the Indians beat Fulmer 9-4. In that game, Fulmer pitched five innings and gave up five runs and 10 hits.Nine of Tomlins 15 starts this season have been against AL Central teams. In those games, he is 7-0 with a 3.17 ERA. This will be Tomlins fourth start against the Tigers this season. In his first three, he was 3-0 with a 2.61 ERA. ' ' '
