My fellow San Franciscans, the time has come to celebrate, for Shaquille O’Neal—Overwatch guru and the guy from that bad genie movie—has officially announced the roster for San Francisco’s Overwatch League squad. “The squad is stacked! These boys are ready,” screamed Michael Strahan, a man with deep ties to the …
The Mets may have seemingly pushed dysfunction to a new level this season—poorly handled injuries, baffling management decisions, various public relations snafus—but, per a juicy new story from Marc Carig of Newsday, the situation was way worse behind the scenes.
Before Sunday’s Lions-Falcons game, eight Lions players took a knee during the national anthem. Defensive tackle Akeem Spence was among them, and today he said his father, who’s a contractor, was denied a job because of the demonstration.
Competitive video games are unique in that they offer an international field of play. Unlike soccer or football, video games let you play the best in the world without having to travel, creating an international dialogue of play and growth. For Splatoon 2 players though, the current matchmaking system hinders that…
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Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, No. 3 Tulsa.
The lottery reform proposal that was submitted to the NBA board of governors earlier this month has reportedly been approved. The new system, designed to curtail tanking, is unlikely to curtail tanking.
Hey, shitty teams. A humble request: How about you stop giving up the easiest goals imaginable, making enormous errors in some misguided effort to play “beautiful soccer” and build up play from the back, and instead just lump the ball forward when facing your betters? This scourge must be stopped.
This morning, Waylon Bates, the principal of Parkway High School in Bossier Parish, La., sent a letter to the students and parents of his school warning that any athletes who did not “stand in a respectful manner” during the pre-game national anthem would be subject to disciplinary action. He made it clear that he has…
Australia is in the midst of a two-month, mail-in vote to measure public opinion on gay marriage. This Sunday, Macklemore is scheduled to perform “Same Love”—a pro LGBT song—at the National Rugby League grand final. A lot of Australians who don’t think gay people deserve basic human rights are mad about this.
Pretty much every pro athlete in America is getting asked about Donald Trump these days, and though many have had interesting things to say, few have cut to the chase quite like Ben Simmons:
Here’s the new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, which stars a new character named Arthur Morgan and is set before the events of the first game, as has been rumored.
When Bayern Munich came to London last March to face Arsenal, following one 5-1 victory and just about to register another, everything seemed rosy in the kingdom of FC Hollywood. Sure, their football in the Bundesliga had hardly been edge-of-the-seat stuff, but Carlo Ancelotti spoke confidently, almost bullishly, of his team before the game in the press room at the Emirates Stadium.
He talked of his side approaching their physical best, and of their “real energy”. It felt like his plan to take them back to Champions League glory – the reason that he was appointed to replace Pep Guardiola in the first place – was coming together at the right time. It felt like Bayern could be becoming Ancelotti’s team at last.
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Continue reading...Playing out from the back can be good. It’s great to have a goalkeeper who is good with his feet and comfortable passing the ball around with opponents zipping at him. But this kind of dicking around on the ball and giving it straight to an opponent in literally the worst area of the pitch is unforgivable and deserves…
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“Irritable! Irritable!” shouted Deiton Baughman during his match Wednesday against Prajnesh Gunneswaran at the ATP Challenger Tiburon. After a forehand error to lose his serve at 7-6, 4-3, Baughman thumped a ball clean out of the court, earning a code violation. But that wasn’t his most inventive exclamation of the…
I don’t know much about Dimitri Oberlin other than he is a forward who plays for Basel and he has the kind of unlimited stamina and electric speed that can only be compared to superheroes. Here he is demonstrating this with a jaw-dropping run in yesterday’s Champions League match against Benfica:
At $8 per month (for Prime members), Amazon Music Unlimited was already more affordable than Spotify Premium or Apple Music, but Amazon’s sweetening the pot right now with a $10 Amazon.com credit when you sign up for a free trial with promo code MUSIC1.
According to reports from sports lawyer Darren Heitner and ESPN, the federal prosecutors looking into college basketball corruption have now turned their focus to Nike. The FBI’s New York field office and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York reportedly served a subpoena to Nike’s Elite…
Descent Into Maddeness is a mini-series that follows football neophyte William Hughes as he attempts to understand the video game institution of Madden NFL. Every other week, William will dig into a different mode from the series’ latest iteration, Madden NFL 18, all in an effort to appreciate this chart-topping…
Taxes may be boring. And Donald Trump has done a lot of bad things. But in the long run—despite what I admit is stiff competition—his tax plan may do more harm than anything else.
When the selection of Ben Stokes for the Ashes tour becomes headline news, something’s up. At the moment we are assuming – no more than that – Stokes will be available for the start of it. Sadly that depends on the investigations of the Avon and Somerset police and the state of his right hand.
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Continue reading...It is the perfect or imperfect storm, depending on one’s outlook. The Presidents Cup does not create a flicker in the wider golfing consciousness through any given year, but this week focus will be intense.
The swell of sporting protest last weekend ordinarily would not resonate much in golf, commonly an individual sport, but this time it’s different for a tournament normally afforded little status or interest. A competition bearing the name of the president, which Donald Trump is even likely to attend, will see USA flags raised and an anthem sung when the opening ceremony takes place on Thursday.
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Continue reading...Sir Gubby Allen was not, in the delicate phrase of one of his biographers, a “naturally penitent man”. Allen, England captain and MCC president, was also the chair of selectors between 1955 and 1962. It was Allen who persuaded Peter May to recall Cyril Washbrook to play against Australia at Headingley in 1956. Washbrook was 41, and hadn’t played a Test in so long that he was serving as one of the selectors himself. “The press went to town,” Allen wrote, but Washbrook made 98, and England won. As Allen recalled it, the spectators raised three cheers for the chair of selectors after the match. Which must be one of the few recorded instances of a public display of gratitude for men who work one of the more thankless jobs in cricket.
Related: Tom Westley survives Ashes injury scare as England rivals forced to wait
Continue reading...The huge media attention generated by the England manager’s sacking has demonstrated women’s football is now operating at a different level
As spring drew to a close, many opinion pieces sang about this being the breakthrough summer for women’s sport. With Euro 2017, the women’s Rugby World Cup and the cricket World Cup taking place unobscured by a major men’s competition, coupled with some of the most competitive England teams in recent history, expectations were rightfully high. And the sport did not disappoint. Thrilling performances took place in all three as coverage of women’s sport reached an all-time high. Each England team came away from this summer with their heads held high. Rightfully, the relevant sporting bodies hoped to capitalise on an increase in interest in their sports at the domestic level.
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Continue reading...NYCFC’s ‘home’ game 110 miles from their temporary home ground reaffirmed the fact that one of the league’s star clubs are still without a permanent home
It was billed as a home game, but it was the loosest definition of the term. Even Patrick Vieira admitted as much. “We treated it like an away game,” the New York City FC head coach said.
On Saturday, New York City fans endured up to seven-hour round trips to East Hartford, Connecticut, for their ‘home’ game against the Houston Dynamo, a match they drew 1-1.
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Continue reading...Hughie Fury will not be getting a quick rematch against Joseph Parker – unless the Mancunian heavyweight’s promoter, Mick Hennessy, can deliver on his optimistic promise of having his points loss overturned, and the odds must be slim.
After winning over 12 close rounds at the Manchester Arena on Saturday night – and benefiting from outrageous 118-110 scores on two cards – to retain the WBO world title he inherited from Hughie’s cousin, Tyson, Parker said the British heavyweight he is way more interested in fighting is Anthony Joshua.
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Continue reading...How many other Premier League managers would have done what Marco Silva did? Watford were 1-0 up and looking comfortable against Swansea City on Saturday when half-time came. In the home dressing room at the Liberty Stadium, Paul Clement prepared two substitutions in an attempt to turn the game. In the away dressing room, Silva anticipated the changes and reacted by ditching the four-man defence Watford had used in every minute of the season so far to play three at the back.
“We changed at half-time as we know they will do this change to three up front,” Silva reflected. “They started to react in the last minutes of the first half. They changed in the second half to two strikers with [Jordan] Ayew in behind – three strong players to challenge in duels. We changed things in half-time as well, to prepare for this situation.”
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Continue reading...The Steelers, Seahawks and Titans all decided to stay in the locker room and skip the national anthem completely on Sunday. Will other teams follow suit?
Whether they knew it or not the Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans were following a plan drawn by college basketball’s greatest coach when they refused to come onto the field for the national anthem on Sunday. Nearly 50 years ago, John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, winner of 10 national championships, kept his teams in the locker room during the anthem to support his players’ stands against racial intolerance.
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Clowney. TD.
Mocked Gronk.
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The son of Enrico Chiesa shone in Fiorentina’s draw with Atalanta to further justify optimism in Italy about the young talent emerging there
The bar has always been set high for Federico Chiesa. At 19 years old, he is a fixture of Fiorentina’s starting XI and has already played one unofficial friendly with the Italian national team. And yet, during an interview with La Repubblica, he suggested it may be some time before he considers himself a top-flight footballer. “My dad once told me: you become a Serie A player when you have made at least 300 appearances,” he observed.
An outrageous standard, albeit one founded on personal experience. Federico’s father Enrico played 380 games in the domestic top-flight, representing Fiorentina but also the likes of Sampdoria, Parma and Lazio. Along the way, he won 17 caps for the Azzurri and was named Serie A’s player of the year in 1995-96 by the magazine Guerin Sportivo.
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Continue reading...Sir Michael Stoute’s colt needs a dryish surface if he is to turn around the King George form with Enable on Sunday
I see that the ground at Chantilly, which will stage the Arc on Sunday, is being reported as ‘soft’ this morning by the International Racing Bureau and that’s hardly a surprise for the time of year. But I’m interested that the forecast for that area is dry and quite warm, with no more than 2mm of rain even on those days when rain is expected.
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Continue reading...After a season close to the abyss, Bayer Leverkusen’s rebuilding job has begun in earnest this season and is slowly showing signs of promise
For a long time, we’ve known exactly what Bayer Leverkusen are about. They impress, they entertain, they qualify for Europe and achieve to a certain level without actually getting it over the line. The old ‘Neverkusen’ epithet from the Klaus Toppmöller days has endured well.
Last season, and the summer that followed, changed all that. The Roger Schmidt era, which had given Die Werkself a firm on-pitch identity, fell to pieces and the club dropped the ball badly in appointing Tayfun Korkut as his successor – at exactly the point where a strong personality was needed to galvanise the players. In between wan performances, poor results and players meeting angry fans to appease them, Leverkusen came worryingly close to the drop.
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Continue reading...As good as Sheffield United were in trouncing their Steel City neighbours 4-2, Sheffield Wednesday’s tendency to disappear in big games is a concern
With a few minutes remaining of the first Sheffield derby in five years, Chris Wilder congratulated and high-fived everyone on the United bench. By that point the job was done, the scoreline at 4-2 and Wednesday’s spirit crushed: this was United’s most comprehensive derby win in 25 years and the first time they have scored four at Hillsborough.
Unsurprisingly Wilder, a Blades fan who watched his first derby from the terraces 37 years ago, described it as the proudest moment of his career.
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Continue reading...For the first time, Diego Simeone is playing the rotation game. It also reflects something deeper, something seen more as the beginning of a transition
At 9.30am, the same time they started serving breakfast at Atlético’s, Diego Costa walked into a Majadahonda clinic across the other side of Madrid, but he wasn’t going to be kept from them for long. He had barely been in the country 15 hours, touching down just before five on Friday, and he was only in the clinic 60 minutes or so, most of it spent getting reacquainted with familiar faces. There were no photos, shirt off, suckers on, thumbs up, and when he was asked if he had passed his medical he pointed to the doctor and said “I don’t know, he knows”, but he was beaming. He stopped for a snap with a Málaga fan nursing a broken and bandaged arm and leg, like something out of a cartoon, then climbed into the car and set off 33km round the M40.
Outside the Wanda Metropolitano some were still drinking hot chocolate and eating churros, offered in an attempt to get them there early ahead of the 1pm kick-off on Saturday, while others had moved on to beer. Not far away lay the plaques dedicated to Costa and everyone who had played for Atlético 100 times; he hadn’t seen his yet, but fans gathered taking photos. Inside, friends waited. As he had touched down the day before at Barajas – the only airport named after a member of the A Team – Costa said he was coming “home”. Tiago was at the gate, Diego Godín greeted him in the tunnel – “Welcome, my friend. You’re home now,” he tweeted – and Filipe Luís was delighted too. Afterwards, he said: “I’m immensely proud Diego has chosen Atlético.”
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Continue reading...The Yankess bopped three dongs against the Rays last night, and after each one an endearing scene played out in the dugout.
Exactly 20 years ago Newcastle Falcons were in the process of revolutionising English rugby. No club was quicker – thanks to Sir John Hall’s chequebook – to embrace the possibilities of professionalism and no side had ever lifted the domestic title within a year of being promoted. It lingers all the more clearly in the memory because the Falcons have achieved nothing like it since.
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Max Rushden and the panel review all the latest action, debate whether Harry Kane is world class and look ahead to the weekend’s Premier League fixtures
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Max Rushden reviews all the Champions League action after a dramatic round of second group game fixtures with Barry Glendenning, Paul MacInnes and Ted Knutson.
Continue reading...Have you ever played Pac-Man for an ungodly amount of time, and thought to yourself, “This would be even better if my savings were on the line”? First of all, are you OK? And second of all, the gambling industry is about to grant your wish.
Let’s cut through the sports angle and put in plain terms exactly what’s happening here:
The first rule for being a cool and chill ballgame attendee is don’t get blackout drunk and puke on people. The second rule is don’t pursue a home run ball as if you are a seagull that just caught site of a bread crumb. These fans in Arizona failed to follow the second rule last night:
Wednesday afternoon, MLB owners unanimously approved the sale of the Miami Marlins to Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman, setting up the $1.2 billion sale to close on Monday, after the conclusion of the regular season. This is Rob Manfred’s wet dream, and the rest of us are just living it.
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If you think it’s cool that you can buy a robot to vacuum your floors for $179, how would you feel if I told you this one mopped too?
The Senators’ brand of hockey, a 1-3-1, neutral-zone clogging formation that forces the puck out wide and limits odd-man rushes at both ends of the ice, is aesthetically unappealing, to the point where you find yourself rooting against them in the postseason just so you don’t have to watch them anymore. But it’s…
A high school football team in the Finger Lakes region of New York has forfeited its entire season after seven players took the painkiller oxycodone before a game.
Now that the NFL has a full slate of Thursday games, how hard is it for football players to recover and play on three days’ rest instead of six?
Running into other players at top speed is hard enough without cutting recovery time in half. Thursday night NFL games – called a ‘poopfest’ by Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman—present a challenge to players and coaching staffs as they try to prepare in three days rather than the standard six.
Critics, like Sherman, claim that the quality of play suffers when teams are left with less time to prepare a game plan. And though the NFL is quick to point out that injury rates are no greater for Thursday games, players also complain that for a league ostensibly concerned with safety, playing while fatigued heightens the risk of injury.
Continue reading...We’ve all had to throw away leftovers or cuts of meat and cheese that spent a little too much time in the fridge or freezer, but vacuum sealing your foods can keep them safe from freezer burn pretty much indefinitely, and dramatically extend their shelf life everywhere else.
Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino has become the first high-profile victim in the FBI’s investigation into college basketball corruption, but he won’t be the last
Rick Pitino, the Hall of Fame college basketball coach who over his 31-year head coaching career has led his teams to seven Final Fours and two national championships, has almost certainly coached his last game.
The University of Louisville placed Pitino, its figurehead for the last 16 years and the highest paid head coach in all of college basketball, on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday citing allegations of corruption detailed by the acting US attorney for the southern district of New York that implicated Pitino’s program and led to the arrest of 10 people including four assistant coaches at other major college basketball programs.
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Continue reading...This week’s roundup also features a mascot going rogue, a shirt tribute going wrong and Roger Federer teaming up with Rafa Nadal
1) Plenty of players have highlight reels of their best goals. Álvaro Recoba has a highlight reel of his best goals from corners. He wasn’t bad from more conventional angles, either. Staying with highlight reels, here’s one-man battering ram Joshua Tuisova.
2) Toronto’s Ryan Goins pulls out the old hidden ball trick to make the Yankees’ Todd Frazier look rather foolish:
WOW.
What one word do you have to describe this play?#PITvsCHI http://pic.twitter.com/mkfOyUNdXU
Outside of New Zealand not enough time is spent injecting players from a young age with the creative ability that could make rugby more fun
The day after Eddie Jones had sat in one of Twickenham’s few largely unadorned rooms and reflected on how he would like to see training grounds for age-group rugby turned into skilling fields, he was over the road at the Stoop watching two players turn back time as they looked to unpick the defence’s lock rather than stick a shoulder to the door.
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Continue reading...Chelsea’s Belgian playmaker responded in style to Antonio Conte’s call to raise his game at the elite level and left Atlético Madrid trailing in his wake
It was about two minutes after the final whistle, while Antonio Conte and his victorious players were still massing to acknowledge their fans’ delirious celebrations up in the gods, when the television cameras focused in upon their man. Diego Costa was sitting among the Atlético Madrid dignitaries, initially wearing the same haggard, disbelieving look as those immediately around him, before sinking his head into his hands. It was an image to sum up the locals’ dismal night but, deep inside, even the departed striker must have admired everything his former team‑mates had done here.
Conte had always seen this contest as a means of gauging Chelsea’s real capabilities back in the elite, concerned as he was that even a year-long absence might have blunted their pedigree. In inflicting Atletico’s first home defeat to English opposition – and their first reverse in their new arena – the Premier League side have laid down a marker. The last time they travelled here, in the first leg of the 2014 semi-final, they had attempted merely to suffocate, eventually squeezing out a goalless draw.
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Continue reading...Hugh Hefner, the man whose synthesis of cultural curation, in-depth interviews, and softcore pornography made Playboy one of the most iconic publications of the 20th century, has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hefner was ninety-one years old, and reportedly died of natural causes in his home, the famous…
Chargers superfan Dan Jauregui—better known as Boltman, the persona he’s adopted at games for decades—is, uh, extremely frustrated after briefly being told that he would be ejected if he did not remove his mask during his first game at the recently relocated team’s new home stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday.
“The process never ends,” said 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo during media day on Monday, and while those words sounded perhaps a bit conservative at the time, now that we’ve gotten a glimpse at his team in practice, Colangelo could be right.
Damn J.D. Martinez’s right foot. If the then-Tigers outfielder hadn’t sprained it back in Spring Training earlier this year, keeping him off the diamond until mid-May, who knows what kind of season he would have had. Watching Martinez smash the ball silly in Arizona—and seeing his home run total swell to something…
The fallout from the FBI’s NCAA sting has claimed another job: that of Alabama director of basketball operations Kobie Baker, who came to the school from a position with the NCAA as its assistant director of enforcement for basketball development. Yep.
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Ervin Maccarty suffered through a rather unique shark attack earlier this month—one in which the shark just would not let the hell go of him. With the small nurse shark attached to his stomach, he climbed back on his boat off the coast of Florida, where his friends tried to help him. Some choice quotes from video of…
Zach Lowe had Kevin Arnovitz on his podcast Tuesday to discuss the five most puzzling teams in the NBA, one of which was the Charlotte Hornets. The Eastern Conference is a lukewarm soup of bad teams, mediocre teams, and the Cavs and Celtics, which means the Hornets could plausibly finish fourth or 10th in the…
The Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins decided to visit Donald Trump at the White House, in a statement that was released soon after the President uninvited the never-really-invited Golden State Warriors. Former NHL player Georges Laraque, who played for roughly two years in Pittsburgh over a 12-season career,…
Michy Batshuayi has never been Chelsea’s best striker in his year-plus of service for the Blues, but he’s been there when they’ve truly needed a goal, and he was able to cement an eternal place in club history when he scored the goal that won the Premier League last year.
Atlético Madrid en Chelsea leken in groep C van de Champions League elkaar in evenwicht te houden. In blessuretijd bepaalde Michy Batshuayi echter anders: 1-2.
Chelsea maakte de dienst uit in de eerste helft in het splinternieuwe stadion Metropolitano, maar scoren deden de Londenaren niet. Eden Hazard trof de paal, terwijl Álvaro Morata zijn kopbal door doelman Jan Oblak over de lat getikt zag worden.
Geheel tegen de verhouding in nam de thuisploeg vlak voor rust een voorsprong. Antoine Griezmann schoot een strafschop raak, na een overtreding van David Luiz. Saúl Niguez had er zelfs 2-0 van kunnen maken, maar hij mikte net naast uit een rebound.
In de tweede helft kwam Chelsea langszij. Morata knikte een voorzet van Hazard knap binnen. Een minuut later verzuimde Cesc Fabregas de wedstrijd geheel te doen kantelen door in kansrijke positie naast te schieten.
Beide ploegen kregen daarna nog enkele kansjes, maar de 1-1 bleef lange tijd op het bord. Pal voor het eindsignaal bezorgde de ingevallen Michy Batshuayi Chelsea toch nog de volle buit.
Eerder op de avond versloeg AS Roma debutant FK Qarabag met 2-1, waardoor de Italianen de tweede plek innemen achter Chelsea.
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Manchester United heerst in groep A van de Champions League. Na de 3-0 thuiszege op FC Basel werd er eenvoudig met 4-1 gewonnen bij CSKA Moskou.
De wedstrijd was na een half uur spelen van alle spanning ontdaan, met in de hoofdrol Romelu Lukaku. De Belgische spits kopte al na vier minuten de 1-0 binnen en nam ook de 3-0 voor zijn rekening. Tussendoor benutte Anthony Martial een penalty. De Fransman gaf bovendien de assists bij de doelpunten van Lukaku.
Lukaku had kort na de pauze zelfs de 4-0 op zijn schoen, maar dit keer redde keeper Igor Akinfeev. De aanvaller staat inmiddels op tien treffers in negen optredens voor Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan zorgde later alsnog voor de vierde Engelse goal. Konstantin Kuchaev redde de eer.
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Steph Curry didn’t mince words when asked about the cover of this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated, on which was photoshopped front-and-center and arm-in-arm with Roger Goodell and LeBron James under the (bullshit) guise of “unity.”
Met een 3-0 thuiszege op Bayern München in groep B heeft Paris Saint-Germain bewezen een favoriet te zijn voor de eindzege in de Champions League. Miljoenenaankopen Kylian Mbappé en Neymar waren goud waard voor de Franse topclub.
Al na anderhalve minuut was het raak in het Parc des Princes. Neymar startte een solo en vond uiteindelijk zijn landgenoot Dani Alves, die hard raak schoot. Voor de Braziliaan was het zijn tweede doelpunt in dienst van PSG.
Prachtgoal Cavani
Bayern, dat speelde zonder de gevestigde namen Arjen Robben, Franck Ribéry en Mats Hummels, nam vervolgens het initiatief. Thomas Müller schoot net naast en een afstandsknal van Javier Martinez werd door keeper Alphonse Areola uit de bovenhoek getikt. Aan de andere kant miste Edinson Cavani een grote kans.
PSG counterde naar hartenlust en kwam na iets meer dan een half uur op 2-0. De pijlsnelle Kylian Mbappé werd weggestuurd en bediende Cavani. De afronding van de Uruguayaan was fenomenaal: hij schoot de bal vanaf de rand van het strafschopgebied hard en geplaatst achter de kansloze Sven Ulreich .
Na rust leek er van de goede bedoelingen van Bayern weinig meer over. PSG genoot van de ruimte die het van de Duitsers kreeg. Mbappé zette Neymar vrij voor het doel, maar de duurste speler aller tijden (220 miljoen) schoot wild naast. Niet veel later mikte de Braziliaan na een mooie individuele actie net over de kruising.
Een derde Parijse goal hing in de lucht en viel na ruim een uur. Met een fijne sleepbeweging zette Mbappé zette zijn directe tegenstander te kijk, waarna de bal met enig geluk bleef liggen voor de voet van Neymar: 3-0.
Invalbeurt Robben
Twintig minuten voor tijd werd Robben het veld ingebracht door Bayern-coach Carlo Ancelotti, die na een stroeve start in de Bundesliga nog verder onder druk zal komen te staan. Maar ook de Nederlander kon het verschil niet maken voor de ‘Rekordmeister’. Een doelpunt van Arturo Vidal werd afgekeurd wegens buitenspel.
“Vandaag was het me niet gegeven”, zei Robben tegen Ziggo Sport. “Paris Saint-Germain kwam snel op voorsprong. Dat was voor ons het slechtst denkbare scenario. In de counter zijn zij levensgevaarlijk en dodelijk effectief. Daarna kregen we wel veel voorzetten en corners. Het zat er niet in.”
Nederland speelt over anderhalve week in de WK-kwalificatie tegen Wit-Rusland, en drie dagen later is het beslissende duel met Zweden. Robben: “Fysiek ben ik beter dan een maand geleden. Dat gaan we meenemen.”
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FC Barcelona heeft ook zijn tweede wedstrijd in groep D van de Champions League gewonnen. De ploeg van coach Ernesto Valverde versloeg Sporting CP met 1-0 in Lissabon.
Barça had de overhand, kwam er voor rust geregeld doorheen, maar een treffer bleef in de eerste helft uit. Vlak na rust viel die goal toch.
Na een vrije trap van Lionel Messi kopte Luis Suárez in de 49ste minuut richting het doel en via Sporting-verdediger Sebastián Coates werd het een goal.
Invalbeurt Dost
Bas Dost mocht kort voor rust invallen bij Sporting. Hij verving de bij een schwalbe geblesseerd geraakte Seydou Doumbia. Dost viel goed in en bood ploeggenoot Bruno Fernandes een grote kans, maar laatstgenoemde zag zijn inzet gekeerd worden door doelman Marc-André ter Stegen.
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Despite being this year’s installment of what the Steam store description calls “the highest rated annual sports title,” NBA 2K18 has a “Mostly Negative” rating with over 3,000 reviews and counting. I investigated. The psychedelic spectacle it unfurled unto me shocked me to the core of my guts. I’m speechless.
“I CAN GIVE YOU MASSIVE ARMS, BROAD SHOULDERS, AND A GIANT SIZED CHEST IN JUST FOUR WEEKS,” the Body-Tone pamphlet promises. It is the “World’s Fastest Strength and Muscle Building System.” It cost $20 in the late 1950s, but today the program is available for free in the Stark Center Archives. I am ready to begin.
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