The Dallas owner resisted his base impulses in building a solid football team. But the Packers made sure the Cowboys suffered playoff defeat once againOn Sunday evening, in a scene that has become all too familiar, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stood in his team’s locker room and lamented another January gone awry. “There’s no moral victory here,” he said. Related: Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys on final play in NFL playoff thriller FACT: It doesn't get any better than this Jared Cook sideline grab.C-L-U-T-C-H. #GoPackGo #GBvsDAL #NFLPlayoffs https://t.co/N66Ir6sctr Related: Michael Bennett goes on expletive-laced rant after Seahawks lose to Falcons Time the F Out, shouts hoodie Belichickpic.twitter.com/3OTCWPcr7Y Continue reading...
If sport is a microcosm of life the ascent of Donald Trump is no different with LeBron James and Tom Brady among those speaking their minds from both sides of the debateThe noise cascaded down from the west end of Madison Square Garden. It started in low. Then it started to grow. Donald Trump had just emerged from a tunnel on to the arena floor during the undercard of the middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux, prompting a crescendo of boos from the crowd of more than 20,000 spectators that stuffed the midtown Manhattan arena to capacity. It was October 2015, four months after the real-estate mogul and reality TV star had announced his presidential bid with...
City Football Group insists NYC FC and Manchester City are separate clubs with separate identities, but doubt persist over the true nature of their partnershipCity Football Group and Major League Soccer were careful not to draw too many lines of association upon announcing the league’s 20th franchise back in May 2013. New York City FC, they said, would be “a transformational development that will elevate the league to new heights.” Their inception would create “an intense crosstown rivalry between NYC FC and the New York Red Bulls that will captivate this great city.” Manchester City, the European superpower anchoring the purchase, were barely mentioned. Related: Frank Lampard's legacy with New York City FC remains difficult to assess Related: Manchester City...
Rodgers has thrown for 22 touchdowns in the past eight games, and he can spoil the Cowboys’ season on Sunday. Plus, go for the Falcons, Patriots and SteelersTime for the real fun to begin? Wildcard weekend was a damp squib, with every home team winning exactly as it was expected to do. That this was a predictable outcome is evidenced by the fact that more than one third of our Pick The Playoff contestants did, quite literally, predict it. Related: San Diego refused to be bullied by the NFL and billionaire owners | Les Carpenter Continue reading...
The Chargers are moving to Los Angeles because the city chose to put its own needs before those of a sports franchise and its wealthy backersSooner or later the public welfare office for sports billionaires is going to close. American cities will look at the more than $7bn of taxpayer money spent in the last 20 years on football stadiums alone and say: “Enough!”On Thursday, the San Diego Chargers announced they will be leaving the city where they have played for the last 56 years, and will move to Los Angeles. They are doing this because the politicians and voters in San Diego did not give Chargers owner Dean Spanos the same golden gift Atlanta and Seattle and all the...