Jim Lowe

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.

Join us. The time is now.

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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 🏒

A thread and a rant from a very frustrated grassroots junior sec and coach:

For the last 16 years, with the only exception being during Covid, York City's stadium (first Bootham Crescent, now the LNER) has hosted the Grassroots York FA Cup Finals, girls and mixed teams, through the age groups.

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Eleven iconic events. Five epic episodes. One podcast to rule them all.

Welcome to the month of May.

This is the Sporting Almanac Podcast.

It's done! Our (mammoth) episode 4 is live, blitzing the history of the NFL Draft.

Jack and Ben travel from Philly ballrooms of old through to this years Primetime spectacle, stopping off at Hall of Famers, American heroes, pioneers, triumph, tragedy - and why you always watch your game tape.

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OUT TODAY - Episode 3 of the Sporting Almanac.

The NBA Playoffs may be on the horizon but here Jack and Ben talking Rockets, Nuggets, Wizards, Warriors and Kings has nothing to do with basketball - this week, it's all about the World Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield!

Went to a pub quiz tonight, and the quizmaster asked the players to rank Joe, Fred, Steve and Geena Davis in order of how many World Snooker Championships they'd won.

No one else got it right, and truly if nothing comes of my career on the Sporting Almanac Podcast, I will always have that moment 🤌

And on that note, episode 3 out tomorrow - Jack and Ben on the history of the World Snooker Championship. Conveniently.

In the history of cinema I'm hard pressed to name anyone who's stolen every scene of a film they were in as comprehensively as Val Kilmer did in Tombstone. A wonderfully talented actor who probably should have got more roles and recognition than he did. Sad day.

OUT NOW.

And just like that, me and my best mate have a podcast.

Episode 1, previewing this Saturday at Aintree - why the Grand National is great, why often it isn't so great and who are some of the runners and riders who have helped made it great.

Available on a great many podcast providers.

And we are live! Ep. 1 up on Spotify, Apple Music and other providers, or accessible at the link quoted below.

Episode 1 - The Grand National, previewing this weekends 177th running of the legendary steeplechase at Aintree.

DM's are open for (nice) feedback and suggestions for future episodes!

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Our first episode is out tomorrow - previewing the world's greatest (and most controversial) steeplechase, the Grand National.

Join Jack and Ben as they talk jumps, jockeys called Bob, and have the shortest debate ever over who the Grand National GOAT is.

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If you'd have told 18 year old me there'd be a Harry Potter game and a full Harry Potter TV series out within a couple of years of one another, but that 36 year old me hadn't played the first and won't be watching the second, he'd be horrified.

But then, he didn't know JKR was a rancid cockwomble.

There's very little about what's going on that isn't sad, but this really hits home. I've been to about 20 parks over a few visits and met some amazing Rangers and support staff. Who the fuck wanted this, and if anyone genuinely did then why? So cruel, illogical and self defeating. Fuck them all.

To think "Making America Great Again" means gutting the National Park Service - its upkeep, emergency support, and staff - is beyond fucking stupid. The parks (and those who protect them) are without question one of the greatest things about the US. Fuck Trump, Musk and anyone backing this nonsense.

Finally deleted my X account after it had been dormant for months. Noticed I'd lost about a third of my followers I used to have - I tip my hat to those of you who clearly jumped before I did. Also, fuck Elon Musk. Again.

Amen to that final thought indeed.

And there's more. Vive la révolution comrades 😂

I know that AI likely takes its lead from the human it's interacting with, but I've got to say... ChatGPT is fucking based.

Who'd have thought the robots would be on our side in the revolution.

The world would be a far safer place is major news organisations called blatant ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing instead of cautiously quoting someone else who said it. There's no more important time to demand journalists simply do their fucking jobs.

Facebook is just something else now. Seeing overtly racist posts, reporting them and getting a response back in minutes saying they don't break any guidelines. And then, apparently, finding out that by clicking on that one racist post means the algorithm must think I love that sort of thing. Joyous.

Many thanks!

Yeah I'm the same, my wife is the Swiftie. She must be hacking into my Spotify though (or my brain, possibly).

I really don't like Jonathan Freedland.