Category Archives: Sports

Golf Report: Old white guy calls 911 because black women aren’t playing fast enough

Steve-Chronister

Coulda asked to play through. Just saying. Did you see this bullshit? Man who called police on black golfers: No weapons involved “other than her mouth” YORK, Pa. — A man who called police on a group of black women golfers accused of playing too slowly at a Pennsylvania golf club denied to dispatchers that he was acting out of

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ESPN gargles Tiger Woods some more

Ladies and gentlemen, the deepest throat in the history of sports journalism. [sigh] Read yesterday’s rant. Then check this. Tiger is tied for 40th, 18 shots back, but that’s okay. He’s still the story. The only story. We’re assured, further down the screen, that [f]or Tiger, par 72 in Round 3 ranks as progress. Even better, if Patrick Reed wins, it will be

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S&R Honors: Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick

Justice. Fairness. Sacrifice. Service. Humility. Aren’t these qualities on which we Americans pride ourselves? Few people were more in the news in 2017 than former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the man who touched off a massive cultural battle over his decision to kneel for the playing of the national anthem during the 2016 season. Oddly, he continued to

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Messi and Ronaldo stay home? How to make sure all the best players go to the World Cup.

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As qualifying wraps up this week, we’re staring at the very real possibility next year’s FIFA World Cup will be staged without Lionel Messi and/or Cristiano Ronaldo. That the greatest competition in world sports, save possibly the Olympics, would fail to include the men most regard as the two greatest players alive (and certainly two of the greatest of all time), seems

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Premier League TV income impasse: are we on the brink of an all-Euro Super League?

European-Football-Super-League

Controversy over how to divvy up the revenues means uncertainty in England. The outcome of these deliberations could move us closer to a European SuperLiga including the big six Prem clubs (and maybe more than that)… A couple years ago I wrote about the prospects for a European football SuperLiga. This is hardly a new idea (with Marca suggesting it’s a when-not-if, and perhaps

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Nebraska fires AD; somewhere Frank Solich is laughing his ass off

Husker_Child Crying

Because 10 wins isn’t good enough. As a committed Husker Hater, I can’t stop laughing over this: Nebraska fired athletic director Shawn Eichorst on Thursday, calling for a higher level of competitiveness five days after the Cornhuskers football team lost to Northern Illinois. University chancellor Ronnie Green, who did not hire Eichorst, said in a statement that while Eichorst made

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Patriots give Trump Super Bowl ring

Sideshow Don not only got a jersey, he got bling. Patriots give President Donald Trump his own Super Bowl LI ring BOSTON — President Donald Trump has a Super Bowl championship ring — just like Vladimir Putin. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft gave Trump the diamond-encrusted ring. The sitting president usually receives gifts from sports teams during celebratory White

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