I hate Franchise FC for what they did to Wimbledon, but 20+ years at one club is impressive for anyone.
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At 15 years and 271 days old, Monga became the second-youngest player to play in the competition behind Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri, who debuted at 15 years 181 days in September 2022.
But because Leicester’s home kit is sponsored by BC.GAME, an online cryptocurrency gaming platform, the England Under-16 winger could not wear it.
A review in 2020 of the Gambling Act 2005 - which the Premier League is committed to follow - prohibits players under the age of 18 from wearing kits displaying gambling sponsors.
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I liked it because there were successful players who looked like average shlubs who ate too many hot dogs and drank beer and didn’t look particularly athletic.
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You should watch the early rounds of the English FA Cup and the Scottish Cup. You get amateur and semi-professional teams playing against professional teams, hoping to get through to the later rounds where they might get a game against one of the big teams like Celtic or Man City. Those players don’t just look like average shlubs, they are average shlubs.
And sometimes, those average shlubs beat the big teams professional athletes.
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MLB umpire calls ultra-rare ‘perfect game’
“Ultra-rare”, they say… which means MLB definitely needs balls and strikes to be called by the latest pitch-track.
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A back-and-forth battle is also tense, with the lead repeatedly changing hands. Also, no-hitters/perfect games are tense even if the winning team has a blowout score, and especially if the home team is the one winning; the crowd hangs on every pitch after the 5th inning. Even simple in-field grounders in the late innings are colon-tightening mini-dramas; no defensive player wants to be the one to screw things up.
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Hamilton Academical Football Club (the “Club”) have today (17 April) received a 15**-**point deduction and been fined £9,000 after the Club was found to have breached multiple SPFL Rules by an independent SPFL disciplinary tribunal.
The ruling is correct, but the timing is bullshit. 15 points deducted means that the Accies go from being almost certainly safe from relegation to needing to win their three remaining games and hoping Airdrie lose theirs, just to get to the relegation play-off.
I’m still hoping that Hamilton make it, Airdrie fans make Rangers ultras look progressive.
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The Daily Show is one of my main sources of sportsball news. This segment about a new baseball team logo almost made me spit out my coffee!
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Brought to you by gambling! Tons of cultures sleep outside.
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TBH, those breaks with their takes on/jokes about gambling are sometimes the best part of the Sports War segments.
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Damn it Sparky, stop giving me hope.
That was the toughest of the remaining games, next up is
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I don’t understand how anyone can take professional sports seriously when gambling on them is legal. I mean, there goes a main virtue for many, the idea that those sports aren’t corrupt, and all the players really are trying to do their best.
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I get what you mean. Even moving from amateur to professional players and teams changes the outlook of everyone involved. Decisions being made based on money vs. the love of the sport or performance alone must mess with a lot of players and fans. Betting exposes players to abuse, too:
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