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(AFP) — Top-flight football in Germany kicked off again on the weekend, becoming the first major sports league in the world to resume play, as parts of Europe took more tentative steps towards normality after the devastation unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.

A New Jersey high school math teacher was purportedly caught on film telling a group of teens playing in a local park to “die a long, painful death” from the Coronavirus.

Football and golf fans who miss watching their favorite athletes compete, will reportedly have a chance to see four sports legends join forces to help raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Premier League football manager Jurgen Klopp declined to give reporters his opinion on the Wuhan coronavirus, saying the opinions of “famous people” on politics and pandemics are “not important”.

The early viewership numbers from the XFL’s opening weekend are beginning to come in, and they look very good for the new league.

Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s all-important fourth congressional district this year, has emerged as a cultural counterweight to the hatred that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has spewed for the last few years.

Trump shared a video posted by wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase featuring many of the players in their suits and ties dancing in the White House to the song “Get the Gat” by Lil Elt.

Trump was warmly greeted by football fans attending the NCAA college championship game on Monday. The president traveled with first lady Melania Trump to the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana for the game.

White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed that the president would attend the game for the third time since he was elected president.

A Texas high school football announcer was deeply moved by a kind gesture from the opposing team after a game in Lubbock November 29. 

Paradise High School’s football team in California is rising from the ashes after the deadly Camp Fire hit the area to score an 11-0 undefeated record.

A group of high school football players in Michigan, have been accused of using sticks to violate new players in a hazing incident, a report says.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former college football player suffering from early dementia was among those who urged New York state legislators on Tuesday to ban tackle football for children 12 and younger.

Two Texas high school football teams made sure the national anthem was sung at a game on Friday when none of the marching bands could be there to play it. 

A boy in Eudora, Kansas, will be the coolest kid on the block this Halloween thanks to a non-profit group that builds costumes for children in wheelchairs. 

Football commentator and former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson allegedly bullied rocker Janis Joplin when they were students at the same Texas high school, according to a new book.

Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.

A high school football player in Davidson County, North Carolina, is being praised for his quiet act of patriotism.

A referee was shot in the face by a cannon while officiating during a football game in Castine, Maine, over the weekend. 

U.S. Women’s National Soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe wants fellow players to “change the world” by being more involved in political and social issues through the global platform provided by their sport.

Dozens of police officers showed up to a 13-year-old boy’s football game after his father was killed in the line of duty.

A gunman in Forth Worth, Texas, wounded two when he opened fire following an argument at a peewee football game. 

Democrat presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is reaching out to sports fans as the top ten candidates take the debate stage on Thursday.

The Islamic monarchy of Qatar is yet to confirm Israeli soccer fans will be welcomed into the country for the soccer World Cup in 2022.

The Clemson University Police will be analyzing thousands of social media posts during an upcoming football game against Georgia Tech.

Led by a decline in football for the fifth straight year, participation in high school sports dropped in 2018-19 for the first time in 30 years, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Female soccer fans in Iran have been told they will no longer have to wear fake beards, mustaches and wigs to sneak into the crowd at competitive matches in the strict Islamic republic.

Lamine N’Diaye, the warden of the prison where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein allegedly committed suicide has not lost his job.

Andrew Yang was not one of the Democrat candidates on stage for Tuesday’s debate but he took a swipe at his competitors on Twitter.

French police arrested over two hundred people on Sunday following Algeria’s qualification for the final of the Africa Cup of Nations, which sparked scenes of joy as well as clashes with police in several large cities.

London-based fans of Algeria’s association football team celebrated its win in a match in the Africa Cup of Nations by pouring into the streets of the hyper-diverse British capital to block traffic, hurl fireworks, and trash police cars.

The French press have criticised the American team which is heading into the FIFA Women’s World Cup for association football (soccer) for being “mostly composed of white players”.

The chairman of Bradford City Women’s football club tendered his “immediate resignation” after someone complained about Facebook posts in which he suggested the Islamic burka should be banned.

The Vatican canceled a friendly soccer match between its new women’s team and a team in Vienna, after several Austrian players staged a protest against the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion.

Administrators of soccer’s 2022 World Cup have expressed exasperation with Iran after it reneged on promises to let female sports fans attend matches to cheer on the national team.

PARIS — Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a judicial official said Tuesday.