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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.

Althea Gibson at West Side Tennis Club, 1950. Credit: Getty Images

Althea Gibson and 1947 champion Louise Brough after their second round match in 1950. Gibson would go on to win the title twice in 1957 and 1958, becoming the first black Grand Slam champion. Credit: Getty Images

Althea Gibson and doubles partner and friend Angela Buxton after winning the Ladies Doubles at Wimbledon in 1956. Credit: Getty Images

Althea Gibson, International Tennis Hall of Fame and International Women's Sport Hall of Fame member. Credit: The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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.

Arthur Ashe in childhood. Credit: AALC, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.

Arthur Ashe, 1968 US Open Men's Champion. The first black man to win a Grand Slam tournament. Credit: Getty Images

Arthur Ashe and Jimmy Connors shake hands after Ashe becomes the first black winner of the Men's Singles at Wimbledon. Credit: Getty Images

Arthur Ashe getting arrested outside the White House in 1992, protesting George Bush's policy of returning Haitian refugees to Haiti, five months before his death from AIDS related pneumonia. Credit: Ron Edmonds/AP Photos

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.

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 😂