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The football shirt used to be a piece of clothing worn by a) players while working and b) fans sported in the stands to show solidarity with the lads on the pitch.Now, seemingly out of the blue to the uninitiated, they have become the uniforms of British music festivals and the inspiration for major fashion houses.There were several moments in the 2010s that showed football shirts had become mainstream.For example, Canadian music artist Drake wore the pink away jersey of Italian giants Juventus for the 2015-16 season, sparking an online discussion among his fan base. Two years later, things changed…

By now, most of the anger has passed. The filming got cold and snarky, and all the jokes were about this stupid owner who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple. The Oakland Athletics will soon be history, which means it’s time to move on from the sadness of a funeral and toward a well-deserved celebration of life.In that spirit, it should be said: Oakland Athletics, thank you.For 57 summers, Oakland has had its own team. By extension, so did every kid like me who got more out of baseball than just a cute pastime. This…

Gisèle Pelicot waived anonymity to make public the trial of her former husband and the 50 men accused of joining him in raping her. The trial has revived the question of consent within French law and turned Ms. Pelicot into a feminist icon. Catherine Porter, an international correspondent for The New York Times based in France, explains.

Nearly three years ago, with the division title on the horizon, Baylor’s defense became a brick wall.Oklahoma State gained 2 yards and a go-ahead touchdown on four attempts in the final minute of the 2021 Big 12 Championship Game. The Bears allowed just 1 3/4 points, and Baylor won the Big 12 title in coach Dave Aranda’s second season.Saturday night at Colorado, Baylor needed another final-minute game to seal the game, with lower stakes (the team’s Big 12 opener) and more room to maneuver: 45 yards from defense, while Buffalo needed just Two seconds to cover them. But the scene…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kalel Mullins’ teammates often teased him because he didn’t look that fast.Mullings, a linebacker, is 6-foot-2 and 233 pounds. If Michigan’s skill position players line up at the goal line and rack up 100 yards rushing, he probably won’t win. He enters the season in the shadow of last year’s national championship star Donovan Edwards and hasn’t been mentioned as one of the best running backs in the Big Ten.Late in the fourth quarter against USC, Michigan ran out of options to revive its comatose offense, and the Wolverines finally found something that worked. They got…

This article is part of the Next Generation series. As greats like Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal become a thing of the past and Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek deal with the present, Competitor Discover the next generation: the rising stars tasked with securing the future of tennis.The ATP Next Gen Finals has carved a permanent place on the tennis calendar for the past seven years. When it started in Milan in 2017, there was a lot of excitement as a way to showcase 8 of the best players aged 21 and under from the season that just…

College football conference games are (mostly) underway, and the stakes will be raised accordingly. The sport will test the waters this weekend in ranked games across the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC, which include College Football Playoff favorites and some remaining question marks.Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week 4, starting with some honorable mentions and counting down.Honorable mentions: JMU at North Carolina, Rutgers at Virginia Tech, Memphis at Navy, TCU at Southern Methodist University, University of Iowa at Minnesota(All point spreads come from BetMGM; click here for live odds. All kickoff times are ET and Saturday unless…

new video loaded: ‘Transformers One’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘Transformers One’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe director Josh Cooley narrates a sequence from his film.Hi, my name is Josh Cooley. I am the director of “Transformers One.” “We need to hurry.” “I still think we have better odds fighting than outrunning them.” “Wait, we have cogs! We can transform now.” “That’s right.” This scene is about halfway in the middle of the movie when we see that our four characters who weren’t able to transform before get these transformation cogs. And so this is our first chance to be able…

Deepdale was the site of the longest penalty shootout in English football history on Tuesday night.In the third round of the Carabao Cup, after Fulham and Preston tied 1-1 in regular time, they scored a total of 34 penalty kicks, including an astonishing 31 goals. .With the exception of the FA Cup qualifiers, this is England’s highest-scoring penalty shootout in any major domestic competition. It surpassed Derby County’s Carabao Cup clash with Carlisle United in 2016, when both sides had a record of 14 wins and 13 defeats.It reflects a modern trend, with all five of the highest-scoring penalty shootouts…

The Kansas City Royals are great in baseball, and not just because they are a small-market team competing for a playoff spot, and not just because Bobby Witt Jr. is one of the brightest young stars in baseball. No, the Royals are good for baseball because they are a shining example of what every organization in professional baseball should do: try. You may recall that the Royals spent nearly $110 million on free agents this winter. The moves were popular but did not make national headlines. They didn’t spend half a billion dollars on two players like the texas rangers…