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Soccer dad arrested for attacking coach after daughter’s match – New York Post
The father of a female soccer player allegedly assaulted a coach after three teens were ejected for fighting during a game, prompting the man to confront an opposing coach in a parking lot, police said. Sherman Eagen, 47, of Wilton, Conn., was charged with third-degree assault, third-degree strangulation, second-degree unlawful restraint and second-degree breach of peace following Wednesday’s game between Wilton High School and Ludlowe High School in Wilton, the…
Bridge is not a sport and can’t have tax break, says European Court of Justice – Telegraph.co.uk
Bridge is not a sport, European Union judges ruled today, in a decision that dealt a blow to British clubs’ hopes of a VAT tax break. To be classified as a sport under EU tax law, the European Court of Justice said this morning, an activity must have a significant physical element. Duplicate bridge, while played competitively at national and international level, is a card game. The EU’s VAT Directive,…
NASCAR Champion’s Week schedule announced – Nascar
RELATED: Get a good look at the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Soon after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™ champion is crowned at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup will head to Las Vegas as NASCAR hosts its annual Champion’s Week festivities. Fans will gather in Las Vegas for events honoring the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Playoff Drivers,…
North Korea tensions prompt GB to prepare Winter Olympics … – The Guardian
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from the Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west. The British Olympic Association is “working on all possible contingency plans” because of the deteriorating situation in the region. Its assessment came hours before a North Korean official warned the world should take Kim Jong-un’s threat to detonate a nuclear device…
As playoffs third round begins, margin for error is small – ESPN
12:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Now it’s time to be both lucky and good. With the NASCAR Cup playoff field cut to eight drivers, advancing to be among the four drivers competing for the championship at Homestead will take strong performances and perhaps some good fortune. Even Martin Truex Jr. refuses to think he can avoid calamity even though he has nearly a one-race…
NASCAR Champion’s Week schedule announced – Nascar
RELATED: Get a good look at the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Soon after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™ champion is crowned at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup will head to Las Vegas as NASCAR hosts its annual Champion’s Week festivities. Fans will gather in Las Vegas for events honoring the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Playoff Drivers,…
North Korea tensions prompt GB to prepare Winter Olympics ‘evacuation’ – The Guardian
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from the Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west. The British Olympic Association is “working on all possible contingency plans” because of the deteriorating situation in the region. Its assessment came hours before a North Korean official warned the world should take Kim Jong-un’s threat to detonate a nuclear device…
NASCAR Champion’s Week schedule announced – Nascar
RELATED: Get a good look at the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Soon after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™ champion is crowned at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup will head to Las Vegas as NASCAR hosts its annual Champion’s Week festivities. Fans will gather in Las Vegas for events honoring the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Playoff Drivers,…
North Korea tensions prompt GB to prepare Winter Olympics ‘evacuation’ – The Guardian
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from the Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west. The British Olympic Association is “working on all possible contingency plans” because of the deteriorating situation in the region. Its assessment came hours before a North Korean official warned the world should take Kim Jong-un’s threat to detonate a nuclear device…
Guatemalan Soccer Executive Gets 8 Months in FIFA Corruption Case – New York Times
Judge Chen expressed little regard for the fact that Mr. Trujillo’s crimes were not considered crimes in his own country, noting that he had used the United States banking system and routed bribe money through a construction company in Seattle while also creating a sham construction contract, seeking to evade prosecutors even after the American case was announced in 2015. Still, in imposing a sentence that was less than a…
NASCAR Champion’s Week schedule announced – Nascar
RELATED: Get a good look at the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Soon after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™ champion is crowned at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup will head to Las Vegas as NASCAR hosts its annual Champion’s Week festivities. Fans will gather in Las Vegas for events honoring the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Playoff Drivers,…
North Korea tensions prompt GB to prepare Winter Olympics ‘evacuation’ – The Guardian
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from the Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west. The British Olympic Association is “working on all possible contingency plans” because of the deteriorating situation in the region. Its assessment came hours before a North Korean official warned the world should take Kim Jong-un’s threat to detonate a nuclear device…
Preview: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s final Martinsville run – Nascar
RELATED: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s complete history at Martinsville For his final full-time season as a driver, NASCAR.com will offer an analytical preview on Dale Earnhardt Jr. ahead of every remaining Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Race: First Data 500 Date: Sunday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m. ET (NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Previous five results at Martinsville: 34th, 14th, 4th, 36th, 1st RELATED: Recap all of Dale Jr.’s wins in the Monster Energy…
Acclaimed director shuts down NASCAR fans’ dreams of an Earnhardt documentary – For The Win
NASCAR fans get excited over just about anything related to the Earnhardt family, and with a quick Wikipedia edit, someone on the internet toyed with their emotions. Fans recently flew into a frenzy on Reddit’s NASCAR page when they noticed British filmmaker Asif Kapadia’s Wikipedia page included a film simply titled Earnhardt with a release date to be announced. Kapadia is the award-winning director behind the Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy,…
Darrell Wallace Jr. to drive iconic Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 – Nascar
RELATED: Key players in NASCAR’s Silly Season | Drivers of the No. 43 Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., who made four starts this year for Richard Petty Motorsports as a relief driver, will compete full-time for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series organization in 2018. RPM officials announced the move Wednesday. Wallace will replace Aric Almirola, who is leaving at the end of the 2017 season after a six-year stint driving…
Preview: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s final Martinsville run – Nascar
RELATED: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s complete history at Martinsville For his final full-time season as a driver, NASCAR.com will offer an analytical preview on Dale Earnhardt Jr. ahead of every remaining Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Race: First Data 500 Date: Sunday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m. ET (NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Previous five results at Martinsville: 34th, 14th, 4th, 36th, 1st RELATED: Recap all of Dale Jr.’s wins in the Monster Energy…
Anne Frank passage to be read before Italian soccer games in response to anti-Semitic acts – USA TODAY
Anne Frank(Photo: AFP/Getty Images) A passage from Anne Frank’s diary will be read before professional soccer matches in Italy this week, the Italian soccer federation announced on Tuesday. The move comes in response to anti-Semitic acts by Lazio fans earlier this week. The diary passage from Frank — a Jewish teenager and writer who died in the Holocaust — reads: “I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear…
North Korea tensions prompt Team GB to prepare Winter Olympics ‘evacuation plan’ – The Guardian
Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west. The British Olympic Association (BOA) admits it is “working on all possible contingency plans” because of the deteriorating geopolitical situation in the region after the recent North Korean missile tests and war of words between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and…
Chinese Soccer Isn’t Ready For A Uighur Superstar – Forbes
Chinese soccer fans cheering during the 2018 World Cup Asian qualifying match against Hong Kong in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong province, in 2015. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Avenues of voicing dissent are closing rapidly through China, and perhaps nowhere faster than in ethnic minority communities in the mountains and plains of the west. But a platform for now sidelined voices could soon emerge from Xi Jinping’s favorite pastime — soccer. Chinese…
How Amy broke the pregnancy news to Dale – Nascar
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