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ROME -- UEFA President Michel Platini has promised a ruling from the organizations disciplinary body over an alleged racist comment by the Italian football federations new leader. Carlo Tavecchio, a long-standing executive in Italian football, was elected president last month despite causing a stir over a reference to bananas when discussing the presence of foreign players in Italy. While the Italian federations internal prosecutor dropped his inquiry over the comment, UEFA is expected to issue a ruling in the coming days. "I do not want to revisit what (Tavecchio) said," Platini said in his opening remarks Wednesday at UEFAs Respect and Diversity conference. "But UEFA has decided to open an inquiry and the disciplinary body will hand down a decision based on its (anti-racism) rules." Using a hypothetical name, Tavecchio had said: "In England they select players based on professionalism, whereas we say that Opti Poba is here, he was eating bananas before and now hes starting for Lazio and thats OK." Tavecchio, who also has a UEFA role as a member of its youth and amateur football committee, apologized for his comment and insisted he is not racist. He has decided not to participate in any UEFA activities until the ruling and was not at the conference -- even though his federation was the host. UEFA could suspend Tavecchio for one to three months and fine him if he is found guilty. In other issues, Platini expressed displeasure that discriminatory issues inside stadiums were not addressed at this years World Cup in Brazil FIFAs task force against racism provided evidence of fans in Brazil chanting gay slurs, wearing black face make-up and carrying banners with far-right symbols -- none of which resulted in sanctions. "UEFA has a monitoring system for all high-risk matches and unlike at the World Cup in Brazil, zero tolerance is really put into practice," Platini said. "Gone are the days of football in Europe for middle-age white chauvinists." Ryan Braun Jersey .com) - John Wall supplied 24 points and 11 assists in leading the Washington Wizards to a 102-91 win over the New York Knicks on Christmas Day. Alex Claudio Jersey .com) - Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh called Joe Flacco the NFLs best quarterback last week. https://www.cheapbrewers.com/429y-greg-vaughn-jersey-brewers.html . The weekend at Oriole Park has been less kind, with three players suffering varying degrees of injury. The worst ailment of the three, at least optically, is the deep bone bruise suffered by Adam Lind when he fouled a pitch off the top of his right foot in the sixth inning of Saturdays game. Drew Pomeranz Jersey . "I never commented to anyone that I wanted out," he explained. "My heart is with this group and making the playoffs." Kesler added that the rumours are "completely false" that he asked to be traded - recently or ever. Trent Grisham Jersey . Justine finished first with a score of 22.44 while Chloe was second with 21.66 points. Defending champion Hannah Kearney of the U.S., was third at 21.49. A third Dufour-Lapointe sister, Maxime, failed to make the final group and finished 12th while Audrey Robichaud of Quebec City was 10th.Each day throughout the World Junior Championship, TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button brings important issues and topics surrounding the tournament to the forefront. HBI 1: Czechs Last Chance Czech Republic enters the final day of 2014 with a final chance to redeem itself. I had the Czechs placing second in Group B and reaching the semifinals in the playoffs. So far, they have been a major disappointment and their only hope of advancing is to upset Russia and hope Switzerland doesnt earn a point vs. Sweden. HBI 2: Life without Leon Should the Oilers have loaned Leon Draisaitl to Germany for the tournamennt? We assume that were he Canadian, he would have automatically been sent to the WJC.dddddddddddd But would this have served Draisaitls interests? Would he have been better off being asked to carry a weak team in the Canadian national spotlight? Probably not. HBI 3: The Great Dane(s) Shootout-scoring Oliver Bjorkstrand and tiny goalie Georg Sorenson are todays faces of the feel-good story of the tournament. Perhaps not since Kazakhstan upset Canada in 1998 to place seventh has a non-hockey power captured the imagination of tournament fans like Denmark which celebrated its first-ever Pool A win. ' ' '