sports news a week after quitting his job as president of the german football federation reinhard grendel has now also stepped down from his two posts in international football grendel was vice president of european football's governing body you a fellow as well as a member of the fief council the main decision making body of broiled football his resignations come in the wake of reports that he accepted an expensive watch from a ukrainian official and failed to declare seventy eight thousand euros in income. when german basketball great derek know it's ski has announced his retirement the forty year old has been the national basketball association as most successful import and he was adored and still adored by fans in dallas texas levinsky led the mavericks to their only in be a title back in two thousand and eleven and was crowned the league's most valuable player in two thousand and seven he bid an emotional farewell after twenty one