ATLANTA—Vince Dooley, the football coach who carried himself like a professor and guided Georgia for a quarter-century of success that included the 1980 national championship, died Friday. He was 90. The school announced that Dooley died peacefully at his Athens home in the presence of his wife, Barbara, and their four children, including former Tennessee…
Man Fatally Shot After California High School Football Game
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A man died in a California shooting Friday night in a Sacramento parking lot after a high school football game, police said. Investigators believe the shooting broke out after a disturbance involving about 20 people near the end of the game at Grant Union High School. Officers found a firearm and shattered glass in…
Skydiver Dies in Tennessee High School Football Pregame Jump
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn.—A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday, officials said. In a statement, Washington County Schools Superintendent Jerry Boyd said the diver jumped at the David Crockett High School football stadium in the northeastern Tennessee town of Jonesborough. David Crockett was…
The Workers Cup | Documentary
October 22, 2022
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This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature…
Mississippi State Football Player Suddenly Dies at Age 18, University Says
An 18-year-old Mississippi State University (MSU) student-athlete suddenly died on Wednesday just two days before his 19th birthday, the school said. Samuel Westmoreland, a Tupelo native, was an offensive lineman for the MSU Bulldog football team and an industrial technology major who attended and graduated from Tupelo High School. No cause of Westmoreland’s unexpected death…
Indonesia to Demolish Soccer Stadium Where Stampede Killed Over 130
JAKARTA—Indonesia will demolish and rebuild a football stadium where a stampede killed more than 130 people this month, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday as he vowed to “thoroughly transform” the sport in the soccer-mad nation. The president, popularly known as Jokowi, was speaking to reporters at the state palace after meeting Gianni Infantino, head…
Super Bowl Champion Eric Weddle Exemplifies Humility On and Off the Field
It was called everything from a male version of a Cinderella story to the greatest comeback in American sports history. It drew even those who are most uninterested in football to their television sets. Some football fanatics even couldn’t believe what they heard. Just three weeks before Super Bowl LVI took place in February 2022,…
3 Hurt in Shooting Outside Ohio High School Football Stadium
TOLEDO, Ohio—Police in Ohio said three people were wounded in a shooting outside a high school football game that sent people on the field and spectators in the stands running for cover. Police said the shots were fired behind the Whitmer High School stadium in Toledo at about 9:30 p.m. Friday during the game with…
Rise in UK Football-Related Violent Disorder Arrests After Lockdowns: Expert
English football has experienced a sharp rise in anti-social behaviour and violence following the end of lockdowns, according to government statistics. There were 2,198 football-related arrests in the 2021–22 season, up 59 percent from the last comparable pre-pandemic period in 2018–19, according to official statistics from the Home Office. Senior law lecturer Professor Geoff Pearson,…
‘Taking the Knee’ Seen as ‘Window Dressing’by Soccer Fans
August 28, 2022
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Almost two-thirds of English soccer fans now oppose players taking the knee before matches, seeing the anti-racism gesture as superficial, a paper co-authored by an academic from the University of South Australia (UniSA) has found. Starting in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in 2020 and the subsequent reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement,…
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