It’s Nice That spoke to Middle East Archive’s founder Romaisa Baddar about the archive’s new photography book, Football: Each image paints a vivid portrait of different expressions of the sport and its shared love in so many different spaces
Andy Cole built his ultimate striker for ESPN with a mix of old (Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer) and new (Kylian Mbappe).
Apparently, Lewis Hamilton is set to leave Mercedes and join Ferrari in 2025. I did not see this coming (mainly because I checked out of F1 after the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fiasco).
Highlights of Roger Federer vs. Steve Darcis at the 2015 US Open. Breathtaking tennis and you get a few SABRs in there too.
Football Palestine profiled Hani Al-Masdar, the Palestinian Olympic team coach who was murdered in an Israeli airstrike during Israel’s genocide of Palestine: Hani Al-Masdar’s passing comes at a time of great loss for Palestine and its people.
Useless snooker fact of the day: Matthew Stevens has only ever lost in the first round of the Masters or won it. His first round appearances were in 1996, 2001–2007, and 2012–2013 and his sole victory was in 2000.
The Smithsonian on the rise of pickleball: In 1965 on Bainbridge Island, two friends, Washington State Congressman Joel Pritchard and businessman Bill Bell, dreamed up pickleball on an old badminton court with a pair of ping-pong paddles.
London Falcons is soccer club aimed at – but not exclusively limited to – gay and bisexual men in London
and they have SEGA as a sponsor, with the company’s logo in rainbow on the shirt. I pray they get a friendly with Arsenal.
It’s Nice That profiled Craig Stronach’s creative project with the England Lionesses who played in the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico, better known as the Lost Lionesses.
Tom Mitcham is using ChatGPT to co-manage União de Lamas on CM 97/98. Follow along on cm9798.co.uk to see how he gets on.
Former Chelsea and Real Madrid winger Eden Hazard has announced his retirement from professional football: You must listen to yourself and say stop at the right time […] After 16 years and more than 700 matches played, I have decided to end my career as a professional footballer.
One of the great footballing entertainers.
South Africa could have their flag and anthem banned from major sporting events—including the Rugby World Cup—if they don’t update their anti-doping legislation: The country would also be prevented from hosting, or bidding to host, international competitions, among several other punitive measures.
They have until 13th October.
GQ on The Man Who Broke Bowling: Jason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.
TIL: Hunter actor Fred Dryer is the only NFL player to have scored two safeties in one game. Here’s footage of him doing it (the match in question was the LA Rams vs. the Green Bay Packers in Game 6 of the 1973 season).
How the Black Press Helped Integrate Baseball: Black newspapers often spoke to the conscience of the nation. As historian Bill L. Weaver notes, the Black press was ‘acutely perceptive and remarkably capable of assessing the importance of racial advances in the context of what the race ultimately hoped to achieve.’