Erik ten Hag and Jürgen Klopp have called for an end to “tragedy chanting” before Sunday’s Premier League meeting of Manchester United and Liverpool at Anfield.
In a heartfelt plea, the rival managers insisted that chants and online abuse about the Munich air crash on the one hand and the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters on the other have to cease. They have urged supporters in a joint statement to “keep the passion and lose the poison”.
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Ten Hag said: “The rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool is one of the greatest in world football. We all love the passion of the fans when our teams meet, but ther…
Another year, another trophy for Lionel Messi.
With two goals in a 3-2 win over the defending MLS Cup champions, Columbus Crew, on Wednesday, Inter Miami’s global superstar secured the MLS’s Supporters’ Shield – awarded each year to the team with the best regular season record.
It’s the 39th club trophy in Messi’s cabinet, so the temptation is to mark it as simply business as usual. It may actually be one of his most unexpected club titles to date.
Most of Messi’s big moments in MLS have been triumphs of validation – including of MLS’s own ambition. The league still isn’t very close to its goal of being one of the world’s elite competitions, but Messi’s signing has b…
For those used to the United States women’s national team dominating the globe, this edition of the Women’s World Cup has come as a shock. Those who don’t tune in every four years expected turbulence, but the level of bumps and lumps the Americans have taken in Australia and New Zealand has already exceeded the damage thought possible heading into the knockout rounds. There’s no better diagnosis of how the Stars and Stripes’ plan to win an unprecedented third-straight World Cup has gone off-script than a Round of 16 showdown with fellow world power Sweden. Two of the top three teams in the FIFA rankings are guaranteed not to make the quarterfinals, alongside half of the top eight, at least. The group stage of this World Cup will be best remembered for the parity. Germany defea…
Paul George, who broke his leg a week ago during a Team USA scrimmage, will be given a roster spot no matter what for the 2016 Olympics. Here's what Jerry Colangelo, the managing director of USA basketball, said Thursday: "We've told him we have a spot for him in '16," Colangelo told NBA.com at festivities Thursday in advance of the Friday enshrinement of the Hall of Fame class. … "We thought it's the right thing to do," Colangelo said. "That's it…. We didn't give thought to all the detail. Just that when a guy goes down and all these things, the circumstances, his career passes before him, he's out for a year, a year-plus, he's not able to participate now with us — we wanted to throw that out and say, 'We&#…
We have all manner of business to get to before digging into the Funbag, the most pressing of which is that WHY YOUR TEAM SUCKS begins soon. That means you should send your entries into the email link above, and you should do it sooner rather than later because I’ve been having to close submissions earlier every year to avoid having a panic attack. For those of you new to class, here are the guidelines for your entries: This is about why YOUR team sucks, not some random team you hate. If your Steelers entry starts off, “As a Ravens fan,” I will find you and torch your house. Put “WYTS” and your team name in the subject heading. Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation, or else I will skip your entry and then kick you into a river. Personal anecdotes and eviden…
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group.
Your team: Tennessee Titans
Your 2013 record: 7-9. Quick! Remember something that happened in a Titans game last year!
(Scanning … scanning … scanning …)
Nope. I have nothing. This team is football wallpaper.
Your coach: Ken Whisenhunt. Yes, it was the Titans who won themselves the Great Whiz Sweepstakes of '014. Sorry, Detroit! You'll just have to make do with Other Stonefaced Retread!
You Titans fans will now get to experience the joy, in real time, of quickly realizing that Ken Whisenhunt is a horrible coach when he doesn't have Kurt Warner around to bail his…
We continue our week-plus look at this year's Sportshuman Of The Year nominees with the athletic embodiment of our financial crisis: Lenny Dykstra. Handsome devil, and charming too. Lenny Dykstra
Featured black men on the cover of his magazine.
Charged charter flight to his mother's credit card.
Hammered by HBO. (Finally.)
Filed for bankruptcy.
Played dirty.
Slept in car.
Pawned the rest of his belongings. PREVIOUS NOMINEES
Erin Andrews …
Yes, we know Wimbledon started yesterday. Did you? Honestly — did you? It doesn't get really interesting until Thursday, anyway, so, shhh. Here's Deadspin's tennis correspondent, the deuce-dropper himself, Dylan Stableford, to let you know what is the what. Why, hello, tennis fans! And welcome to the 2010 Deadspin Wimbledon Preview. Sure, there are plenty of compelling storylines that will unfurl over the next two weeks, but only a rarefied few discerning Deadspin readers really care about. Here's a rough guide to the funky fortnight: Will Venus Williams wear lingerie and/or skin-colored panties?
Answer: Lingerie? Not likely. After causing an international incident at the French Open with her naughty maid outfit (CBS News' headline: " Venus Williams'…
data-mm-id=”_bq6g5z5y5″>Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal will still be fighting at UFC 244 next weekend. After publicly announcing he was off the card on Thursday, Diaz received word on Friday he was eligible to compete at the event. The fight is ON!!! I 100% knew Nate wasn't taking anything to cheat. #UFC244 November 2, MSG. #BMF pic.twitter.com/U9VEOPT0Ul— Dana White (@danawhite) October 26, 2019Diaz took to Twitter on Thursday and announced he had tested positive for "elevated levels" of a banned substance. In the statement he pulled himself off the card and denied taking anything that could have led to the positive test, even accidentally. On Friday evening, ESPN's Brett Okamoto announced the fight with Masvidal was back on after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency rule D…
data-mm-id=”_10x2xjrs4″>The final week of the NFL season has arrived and, gotta be honest, it's been a solid year for The Big Lead staff, with all but two people above .500. Now it all comes down to Week 17, where there are a lot of road favorites and some big playoff implications. Here are our staff picks for the final week of the regular season based on lines from Westgate Superbook on Tuesday. Season Record: Stephen Douglas 87-68-4; Ryan Glasspiegel 86-67-4; Brian Giuffra 79-66-4; Ryan Phillips 82-73-4; Bobby Burack 76-78-4; Liam McKeone 70-86-4.Titans (-4) at TexansGiuffra: Texans 30, Titans 28McKeone: Titans 24, Texans 21 Burack: Texans 31, Titans 23Glasspiegel: Texans coverPhillips: Texans 31, Titans 28Douglas: Texans winBrowns (-3) at Bengals Giuffra: Browns 27, Bengals 20M…