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Switzerland's Xhaka and Shaqiri charged by Fifa over Serbia goal celebrations

Via: bob-nelson • Sports • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri after they celebrated their goals during a 2-1 World Cup win over Serbia in Kaliningrad by...

What’s so important about the Le Mans 24 Hours race? - 17 Jun 2016

Via: dave-2693993 • Sports • 107 Comments • 6 years ago

On the face of it, the Le Mans 24 Hours seems like a pretty niche race. It’s hosted in a small city in the French countryside and pits strange-looking cars driven by largely unknown drivers...

Crazy People

Via: dave-2693993 • Sports • 110 Comments • 6 years ago

For anyone interested the Isle of Man TT is this week and Le Mans is the 16th and 17th. The things people will do. Sometimes the need for the challenge and thrill wont let go.

We Had To Choose Between Trump And The Philadelphia Eagles. We Chose The Eagles.

Via: bob-nelson • Sports • 67 Comments • 6 years ago

The Eagles have shown that the only way to lose a fight with Trump is by caring about his trash talk in the first place. Rich Schultz / Getty Images The only place to start this story...

Sterling Brown and the tasing of the black American dream

Via: bob-nelson • Sports • 21 Comments • 6 years ago

Milwaukee police didn’t just assault a basketball player, they damaged the hopes young people of color have of a better life A nother day, another black man violently assaulted by...

DERSHOWITZ TO SUE AGAINST ISRAELI FLAG BAN AT SPORTS EVENTS IN ARAB STATES

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Sports • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

DERSHOWITZ TO SUE AGAINST ISRAELI FLAG BAN AT SPORTS EVENTS IN ARAB STATES “It starts with sports, but it won’t end there,” Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz warned. “We won’t allow the Jewish...

Trump Grants Posthumous Pardon To Boxing Heavyweight Jack Johnson

Via: johnrussell • Sports • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

Trump Grants Posthumous Pardon To Boxing Heavyweight Jack Johnson by Summer Concepcion via All TPM News WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has granted...

Welcome to impossible: The Golden Knights and the NHL miracle that makes no sense

Via: spikegary • Sports • 4 Comments • 6 years ago

Source Las Vegas’s new team will play for the Stanley Cup. It’s quite possibly the most surprising, unprecedented and confounding story in the history of the NHL. So what just happened? On...

Indian Country Relay Racing, No place for old men or wimps...

By: kavika • Sports • 32 Comments • 6 years ago

The season start of ''Indian Relay Racing'' will be on full display this coming week. The basic rules of Indian Relay Racing.. The rules of Indian relay racing, generally simple, can vary...

End Of The Road For One Of The Greatest Baseball Players Of All Time

Via: johnrussell • Sports • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

Leaderboarding: Breaking down the Hall of Fame career of Ichiro Suzuki by the numbers Matt Snyder 55 mins ago We can't exactly call it a retirement just yet, but it sure seems like is done...

Boston Marathon 2018: Americans dominate both races; Desiree Linden, Sarah Sellers finish 1-2

Via: tfargo • Sports • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

From WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/04/16/boston-marathon-2018-live-how-to-watch-viewers-guide-and-race-times/?utm_term=.1bece92a34a1 Desiree Linden celebrates her...

Wagner, Michigan end Loyola's run 69-57 in Final Four

Via: randy • Sports • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

By RALPH D. RUSSO From Associated Press March 31, 2018 11:46 PM EST SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Staring down a 10-point, second-half deficit against an underdog that seemed nothing short of...

Stop The Season Now - Chicago Baseball Teams Hit 9 Home Runs On Opening Day !

Via: johnrussell • Sports • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

End it right now and let's see the Cubs and White Sox in the World Series. On opening day 2018, the Cubs hit three home runs in an 8-4 win over the Florida Marlins. The White Sox hit six home...

How Do You Destroy the Hopes and Dreams of 92% of People From All Over America?

By: spikegary • Sports • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

You beat Tucson. I mean, besides beating them, you have Buffalo beat them. And beat them like a red-haired step-child. Only 8% picked Buffalo to win.....that should thin out the bracket pool a...

After Showing Almost All Of The Women's Super G Skiing Competitors, NBC Failed To Show The Winner, Because She 'Didn't Have A Chance'

Via: johnrussell • Sports • 44 Comments • 6 years ago

America's Lindsey Vonn was the first one to go down the Olympic Super G ski course in the women's final Friday night. Vonn made a mistake in the lower part of the course, veering too far to the...

Charlie Weis: McDaniels rebuffing Colts 'unbelievable'

Via: larry-hampton • Sports • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

Josh McDaniels decided to stay in New England on Tuesday despite reaching an agreement with the Indianapolis Colts to be their next head coach. Most in the NFL -- from players to former...

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!

By: kathleen • Sports • 133 Comments • 6 years ago

Tell us what team you are rooting for! Also, what will be the score at the end of the game...take a guess and lets see if anyone wins! If you predict the same score as someone else, that is...

How the New England Patriots Success is Bad for the NFL

Via: ender • Sports • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

We've seen dominant, dynastic runs before in the modern sports era. The entire decade of the 1980s was owned by Magic Johnson 's Lakers (nine Finals trips in 12 years) and Larry Bird 's...

Vikings Win Playoff Game On 61 Yard Touchdown Pass As Clock Runs Out

Via: johnrussell • Sports • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

This is Respecting the Anthem????

Via: trout-giggles • Sports • 71 Comments • 6 years ago

link President Donald Trump, the national anthem's most vocal defender, doesn't appear to even know the lyrics. Trump attended the NCAA championship football game in Atlanta on Monday, where...

Expanding the College Football Playoff from 4 teams

By: thomas-craig • Sports • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

I have been a proponent for making a College Football Playoff since the days of the BCS championship game. My idea has been to have a 32 team playoff with each bowl game set up as a playoff...

College Football Playoff

By: bluestride • Sports • 17 Comments • 7 years ago

Who is in the final week? Who will win games this weekend? Auburn v Alabama? Georgia v Gerogia Tech? Clemson v South Carolina? Some good games coming up this week. Will the U stunble on the road...

How Reggie Miller Taught Me to Empathize with Trump Supporters. ... Red Rules apply.

Via: bob-nelson • Sports • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

Like most folks who lived in Indianapolis during the 1990s, I have a soft spot in my heart for Reggie Miller. Before Peyton Manning took the Indianapolis Colts to the upper echelon of the...

Former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay killed as plane crashes in Gulf of Mexico

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Sports • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay killed as plane crashes in Gulf of Mexico By Marc Lancaster, Sporting News, November 7 2017 Former major league pitcher Roy Halladay died Tuesday when the...

Who is ready for college football?

Via: bluestride • Sports • 41 Comments • 7 years ago

I cannot wait. I even have a countdown going on it. https://days.to/until/ncaa-season Who is your team? How do you think they will do this year? I am a Sooners fan. I...

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