Giants Super Bowl ring heist masterminded by Patriots fan

In June of 2008, a jewelry store in Attleboro, Massachusetts, was burglarized, and millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen — including Super Bowl rings for the Giants, who had beaten the Patriots four months earlier and chose a Massachusetts jeweler to make their rings. It was a professional operation that involved destroying the [more]

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Ivy League will announce its fall sports decision next Wednesday

The Ivy League has announced that an announcement is coming. “With return to campus protocols still being developed and introduced by Ive League institutions, the council of Ivy League presidents intends to announce a final decision regarding the status of intercollegiate athletic activity for the fall term 2020 on July 8,” the conference announced via [more]

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Messi scores 700th career goal but Barca's title hopes fade

Lionel Messi scored a wonderful panenka penalty to bring up his 700th career goal for club and country on Tuesday.

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Statue campaign launched for pioneering Black footballer

A campaign has been launched to build a statue for an English footballer who was supposedly denied the chance to play for his country because he was Black.

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Steven Sims wants to be another Steve Smith for Ron Rivera

When wide receiver Steven Sims heard that Ron Rivera was hired as Washington’s next head coach, he reached out to his agent for some information about the former Panthers head coach. Sims is listed at 5-10 and 176 pounds and he told Sam Fortier of the Washington Post that his agent told him that Steve [more]

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Adam Silver won’t guarantee that NBA season will be concluded

The NFL has been waiting and waiting and waiting (and waiting) to see how other sports operate in a pandemic. Meanwhile, none of the other major American sports have returned to play. On Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver declined to guarantee that his league will successfully complete its 2019-20 season via the “bubble” approach in [more]

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NFLPA president: Every answer leads to “three more questions”

The NFL and NFLPA continue to talk about how to open camps safely, but one of the problems they’re having is that the targets keep moving. Trying to plan around a virus that’s spreading at record levels in large swaths of the country makes things difficult, and that’s one of the problems the league and [more]

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