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In honour of the latter-day Robin Hood. The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people. Can get a little wild. Big fan of the outdoors, science, history and sport. Not a fan of Tories.
Bad Bunny deserves a lot of credit for his half time show being so wholesome, positive and powerful, that it left the only reason to dislike it being, basically, racism. Well played.
one of my favorite things about the winter olympics is when a skier or snowboarder blows my mind with athletic feats of daring that would literally kill regular folks. and then they remove their mask and are ALSO the Most Beautiful Person Alive
What an incredibly fucked up world we live in when we all see the Trump machine maneuvering its pieces to intimidate midterm voters, but so long as there's a crumb of doubt for MAGA folk to cling to, or the media to both-sides their arguments with, there's not a damn thing we can do that'll stop it.
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
Really do wish absolutely anyone in a position of power and influence would stand up and say "Donald Trump only wants to invade Greenland to weaken or destroy NATO, and that's only because he's Vladimir Putin's little bitch."
Having read the BBC's articles on the ICE shooting, I'd like to remind them of their duties by paraphrasing the old saying:
If some people say it's a justified killing and everyone else says it's coldblooded murder, it's not your job to quote both. Watch the fucking video and make up your own mind.
The ICE officers involved are expected to make a full recovery from their injuries.....which were mostly sustained when their pants set on fire as they gave their accounts of what happened
Obviously completely moot, because that bootlicker Gianni Infantino won this one by a mile for thinking it was a good idea to give Donald Trump a peace prize.
How's that going for you Gigi, you corrupt pillock?
Wonder if it's worth asking FIFA if they'll be taking that peace prize back?
While I'm sure there's powerful people who want oil, or the military used, or are in it ideologically, that ain't Donny.
Trump just wants his Bin Laden Obama moment. Just like he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama, or his name on the sides of buildings like Kennedy. It's ego, and it's pathetic.
Our next candidate for Villain of the Year is Gianni Infantino.
We didn't think FIFA could reach a new low but Infantino giving Donald Trump a peace prize basically to avert a tantrum, at the same time Trump's Secretary of War was performing extrajudicial killings in Venezuela... yeah, that did it.
This is mental illness.
When your childhood heroes become your adulthood heroes.
How is Enzo not offside here? Mosquera clears that without him being there.
"An outback bushwhack dream of a comeback."
While English cricket fans of almost any age have been here before, we also know we will stay watching, and keep dreaming.
Because 143 years of history means seeing the impossible made possible many times over.
Believe.
I, for one, am shocked.
What is Felipe Massa's endgame in his Crashgate court case?
Does he actually have a chance of winning it?
Is it all worth gambling an exceptional public image on?
Seeing these maneuvers whilst remembering how he handled missing out in 2008 is hard for us to reconcile.
Part 1 here.
The more I'm online recently the more I think: It's really ok to simply not post, reply or comment about what you believe the specifics of something are until all the facts about it are known. Not engaging is an absolutely ok choice sometimes.
The story of Emmett Till is not an easy one to hear, but it's one that needs to be told.
Taken from this week's episode, it puts the America Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe built their careers in in its starkest light.
As well as Ashe, it is impossible to talk about the US Open without discussing another incredible trailblazer - Althea Gibson.
Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina, brought up in poverty in Harlem but her talent and drive took her to the top of white, classist Tennis.
More in Ep. 21, out now.
Out soon - Ep. 21, Arthur Ashe and the US Open.
We tell the story of a man whose name is inseparable from the tournament, its first Open Era champion and first black men's Grand Slam winner.
From childhood tragedy to trailblazing success and a life cut short by illness - he was an incredible man.
No one should go to a sporting event and not come home.
On Sunday 21st November 1920, 14 people never returned from a Gaelic Football match at Croke Park, including a player, Tipperary captain Michael Hogan.
They were unarmed and killed by British forces indiscriminately, including three children.
How the hell can you justify relegating a story of people being slowly starved to death for anything, let alone for a matter of such irrelevance to the human race as this.
This is such a huge problem - until the media start treating this genocide with the prominence it deserves it isn't going away.
Thoughts and prayers.
In today's non-sporting news...
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
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Ben and Jack discuss a man they'd both very much like to buy a drink for - Golden State Warriors coach, Steve Kerr.
From Episode 10 of the Sporting Almanac Podcast, The NBA Finals. Available now on all good podcast providers.
Episode 8 of the Sporting Almanac Podcast, and one thing is certain - this is our best sounding intro yet.
They simply don't make cars that sound like this anymore...
Join us at 10am BST tomorrow for our latest episode on history and greatest stories of the Monaco Grand Prix 🇲🇨
Episode 7 is recorded - the FA Cup Finals, letting Jack and Ben talk about something they adore.
From working class takeover in the Men's to the Women roaring back from fifty years in the cold, it's a good one.
Here's Jack with a poetic intro - it's impossible not to get romantic about the FA Cup.
The introduction to episode 6, to whet your whistle.
Recorded, edited and ready to go - this time, Jack & Ben talk fighting and CTE, invasions and resistance, heartbreak and hope, and even find some time to just talk about Ice Hockey and its giant trophy too.
It will all be out Tuesday, 10am BST 🏒