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
Read moreI sometimes write about sports. Yesterday my beloved Chelsea got the 2017-18 season off to a bad start. There’s good news, there’s bad news, there’s reason for concern but no reason to panic. Read all about it.
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A lot of people believe famous uppity negro CK7 would be a distraction, which tells you things about America you may not want to think about. You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting somebody talking about Colin Kaepernick. Will a team (now on the clock, the Baltimore Ravens) sign him or not? If not, is it because
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And by “girlfriend experience,” I don’t mean the prostitution/sugar daddy thing. I mean the kind of experience that Floyd Mayweather routinely lays on the women in his life. My initial reaction to the talk of a Floyd Mayweather/Conor McGregor match was bafflement: what the fuck are McGregor and Dana White thinking? He’s going to get beaten senseless. If it’s a pure
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The new Chelsea kits are disappointing, as predicted. But the Nike marketing and branding coup is the real story. Not long back I offered up some thoughts on the forthcoming dark years, as Nike was set to take over kit design for my beloved Chelsea FC. That has now happened, and my predictions were dead on in spots, close in
Read moreNew Chelsea/Nike is deal is good the wallet, bad for those who appreciate actual style. I absolutely, utterly and comprehensively loathe Nike’s soccer design group. So last year, when a new 15 year, £60 million/year kit deal was signed between Nike and my beloved Chelsea FC … well, damn.
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What should FIFA do now that the Arab world has had enough of Qatar’s bullshit? Double down, baby! A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. They say Qatar backs militant groups including so-called Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, which Qatar denies. The Saudi state news agency
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San Diego’s MLS hopefuls and Crayola ought to have learned from history. #NewCrayonColors It started innocently enough in 2012, when the geniuses at Mountain Dew decided to ask the Internet’s help in naming their new “green apple with attitude” flavor. The results included “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong,” “Diabeetus” and “Moist Nugget.” Shortly thereafter the Slovaks staged an Internet campaign to name a
Read moreWhat’s the longest an NFL GM has lasted without winning a playoff game, anyway? In case you missed it, the Green Bay Packers executed a miracle yesterday to get golf season started for the #1 seeded Dallas Cowboys. In the 1995-6 season Troy Aikman led America’s Team® to a 27-17 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XXX. In
Read moreDenver should be an appealing destination for nearly any coach. Here’s what we’d like to see. The speculation has swirled for a couple days, and this morning Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak made it official: he’s resigning. Gary Kubiak has stepped down as the head coach of the Denver Broncos, the team announced Monday morning.
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No, famous people won’t stop dying on January 1. But we lost too many bright lights this year and we hope that 2017 will be better. Here’s a list of noteworthy people who died in 2016. For the past several months a lot of us have been saying we can’t wait for this damned year to be over. 2016 gave us
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Here are your 8 tournament teams if we had a sensible college playoff system. The NCAA Football Selection Committee today will issue its final rankings, and in doing so they face some tough choices about who gets to play for the national title. This is because NCAAF, unlike every other sport, doesn’t allow everyone with a claim to settle it
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No, Pats fans, Tom Terrific doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame. Not unless he’s sweeping up. For years we Denver Broncos fans, who feel like former superstar running back Terrell Davis belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame, have heard a variety of arguments against his candidacy. One that has always struck me goes like this. Yes, Davis gained
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At some point the North Carolina legislature is going to capitulate on its “bathroom” law. Will the NCAA’s latest move be the tipping point? Much has been written and said about NC’s discriminatory “bathroom” law. And now even more is going to be written and said, thanks to the NCAA’s decision to yank seven college sports championship events from the
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