Новости за 11.07.2022

There are some NFL stadiums that are indelibly burned in your mind. The Packers play at Lambeau Field, the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium — and when it comes to the realm of corporate naming I think any football fan would be able to tell you in an instant that Gillette Stadium belongs to the Patriots, and Heinz Field is the home of the Steelers. At least, that was true until Monday morning.

This is bad, even by Commanders standards.

The Washington Commanders, who are good at literally nothing aside from creating scandals, rolled out the “Commander 90” over the weekend to add another 10 players to their list of the greatest in franchise history to commemorate the 90th year of the team.

If you thought this would go smoothly, or be rolled out well — then you just don’t understand the Washington Commanders. The biggest omission everyone noticed was the apparent pettiness in leaving off Trent Williams... Читать дальше...

This is like the plot out of a movie.

In the greatest sporting example of “fake it till you make it,” a group of farm hands and unemployed youth in a small town in Gujarat, India faked weeks of Indian Premier League cricket for an audience of Russian gamblers.

The “season” made it all the way to the quarterfinals, before police learned of the fake league and busted up the fraud. Still, for a few magical weeks, gamblers gave their money to the league, watched live streams of matches... Читать дальше...

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These were the most encouraging moments from James Wiseman’s summer league debut.