Football - Page 8

Aug. 2 (UPI) — A Virginia football player who won a $100,000 lottery jackpot using his grandma’s license plate number said all he bought was a pair of designer flip-flops.

The Saudi Arabian football (soccer) team has refused to line up and respect a silence held to remember the victims of the London Bridge attack, claiming “it is not in keeping with our culture”.

On Tuesday, Shaun King, the “senior justice writer” for the New York Daily News, announced his boycott of the National Football League. The former black lives matter spokesman, deposed when it was discovered that he is white, not the African American he claimed to be, accused the NFL of being “bigoted” against black people.

TEL AVIV – Amid the international soccer governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s annual congress, a tournament named after the terrorist responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis took place under the auspices of the Palestinian Football Association – the same group that is demanding that Israel’s FIFA membership be revoked.

If ever there was a non-politician poised to follow Donald Trump’s path to an executive office, it was Tommy Tuberville, who went an incredible 5-2 against Top 5 teams during his football coaching career.

Nothing says “ugly American” quite like getting kicked out of a posh Italian mall for playing catch with a pigskin.

Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh took his football team to Italy for spring practice. While over there, a Nigerian refugee asked the coach why the sport is called “football” when feet are barely used. “If you throw it by

LONDON (AFP) – Leicester are working with UEFA and local authorities in Spain to discover why their fans were involved in crowd trouble before the Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid.

A longstanding and well-regarded member of staff at Manchester United, who has worked at the club’s Old Trafford ground for some 30 years, has been fired after putting his hand around a female colleague and calling her “love”.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors are shelving their investigation into an alleged plan by Islamic extremists to attack a Germany-Netherlands football match in 2015.

NFL free agency is now underway and teams are moving quickly on their top targets. One big name not drawing much interest is Colin Kaepernick, who opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers following the team’s dismal 2016 season.

Egypt has added Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the most successful African soccer players of his generation, to its terror watch list on suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood, his lawyer said Tuesday.

The four British soccer federations were fined Monday by FIFA for displaying poppies at World Cup qualifying matches in November to honor their war dead.

Army brings out the big guns for its hype video just ahead of the next Army-Navy game by deploying WWII General Eisenhower’s D-Day message to energize players.

President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to attend the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, according to Trump’s transition team.

JERUSALEM – An Israel-Spain World Cup qualifying match will be played in the northern Spanish city of Gijon, prompting outrage among Israeli officials because of city’s blanket boycott of Israel.

Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has taken a knee for the national anthem before each game this season, had one of the worst performances in the history of the National Football League Sunday against the Chicago Bears.

LONDON (AFP) – Fifty-five league and non league clubs have been referred to police in the child sex abuse scandal that has shattered English football’s image a source told The Observer newspaper on Sunday.

Sunday, “NFL Red Zone” host Scott Hanson took a shot at San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick after showing a highlight of Kaepernick scrambling for a first down against the Patriots. “Boy, he’s got some speed — not weighed down

TMZ Sports released a clip of an upcoming interview with President-elect Donald Trump discussing New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady on Fox News Channel’s “OBJECTified: Donald Trump,” set to air at 10 p.m. ET. Trump said Brady is “totally

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against England and Scotland for displaying poppies on their kits during a World Cup qualifier on Armistice Day.

A Kosovo court on Friday ordered seven people suspected of plotting Islamist terrorist attacks to be detained for a month, officials said, as media reports said they planned to attack a weekend football match involving Israel.

British soccer team Liverpool Football Club, one of the most prestigious teams in the world, has suggested that Israel sign a sponsorship package which will see an Israeli logo featured on giant billboards in the stadium of Anfield as well as on the sleeves of the shirts worn by the players.

Four people were arrested in Albania on suspicion of plotting to place bombs at a soccer match between the Israeli and Albanian national teams, scheduled for the weekend.

Rebuild America Now has unleashed a new ad appealing to football fans who favor the Washington Redskins keeping their name. The ad takes aim at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for wanting to change the team’s “insensitive” name. The voiceover

England’s interim manager Gareth Southgate believes it will be fitting for his and Scotland’s players to wear commemorative poppies during Friday’s World Cup qualifier at Wembley, he said on Monday.

FORT DODGE, Iowa — Campaigning took an interesting turn for Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence when a delay at New York’s LaGuardia airport led to football tossing next to a tarmac where the Trump-Pence plane sat waiting to take off.

A new poll of NFL fans shows that many believe the league’s TV ratings have cratered because of the now ubiquitous anti-American national anthem protests happening each week across the league.

Week eight witnessed a major upset engineered by Penn State, a shockingly dominant performance by Auburn, and Alabama pull away from a top-ten team to show why they remain number one for the foreseeable future.

An Ole Miss student was arrested during the University’s football game against the University of Memphis Tigers where he was heckled for carrying the Mississippi State Flag.

KENNER, Louisiana – A number of Louisiana police officers are refusing to work patrols at Bonnabel High School football games after a majority of players knelt during the National Anthem, taking the gesture from NFL player Colin Kaepernick.

LONDON (AFP) – England manager Sam Allardyce has been secretly filmed giving advice on how to circumnavigate transfer rules and mocking his predecessor Roy Hodgson’s voice, the Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.

In an apparent move to censor supporters of the Mississippi state flag, University of Mississippi officials confiscated signs and flags from attendees at the Ole Miss/Alabama football game.

Astronomically high parking prices outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for patrons headed to Los Angeles Rams games could be just the thing the city needs to combat congestion and encourage fans to use trains and buses, public transportation activists say.

A Florida sheriff’s office will no longer escort the Miami Dolphins to their football games until the team stands for the national anthem.

Images of two opposing NFL teams standing for the national anthem and holding a giant American flag have taken the Internet by storm.