Match of the season? Not quite. It takes two sides to make a real contest and Manchester City were so unimpressive in this early title showdown it made a mockery of the games’s first v second billing. Result of the decade? Quite possibly. Leicester still have to keep going – they have the small matter …
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How Donald Trump, with pizazz and bluster, took on the NFL
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump was known in New York by 1984 as a flashy newcomer to Manhattan real estate. But football, not business, was what drew 60 young women to the Trump Tower in early January of that year. The women had come to audition for the Brig-A-Dears, the cheerleading squad of the New Jersey …
Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS: The Story of Anna Therese Day
On Valentine’s Day, Anna Therese Day’s luck ran out. It had held for five years and 20 days as a freelance American journalist documenting the frustrated aspirations of the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS. But in Bahrain earlier this month, while covering the fifth anniversary of the Persian Gulf kingdom’s violently quashed 2011 …
Liverpool draw old foe Manchester United in Europa League last-16
The other English side in the competition, Tottenham Hotspur, will face off against German side Borussia Dortmund. SINGAPORE: Long-time English rivals Liverpool and Manchester United will square off for a place in the quarter-finals in the Europa League, while the remaining English side Tottenham Hotspur will tackle Germany’s Borussia Dortmund. In the draw on Friday …
150+ Classic Jokes About New York and Los Angeles
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photo by Getty Images LA / NYC Give me an L.A. Joke Give me an NYC Joke Or, click to see the full list ↓ NEW YORK JOKES “New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time — most, unsolved.” —Johnny Carson “It’s so cold here in New …
Boris Johnson joins campaign to leave EU
David Cameron takes his battle to keep Britain in the EU to MPs on Monday after hitting the most serious political obstacle yet when Boris Johnson announced on Sunday that “after a huge amount of heartache” he is to back the leave campaign. The prime minister will publish a white paper on his EU reform …
Manchester United find their swagger at last to blow Shrewsbury away
In the end the outcome was thoroughly predictable as Manchester United strolled into the FA Cup quarter-finals and Louis van Gaal cherished the breathing space and respite that a routine victory provided. There were no expletive-laden chants from the travelling fans or calamitous defensive errors on the pitch on this occasion as United emphasised the …
Larry David lifts all boats on a great
“I’m not an actor, I’m a [comedy legend/failed SNL writing] star!” With Larry David returning to host SNL tonight, it’s tempting to view it as a victory lap. After all, back in the 1984-85 season, David, having already cut his teeth with some conceptually ambitious work on ABC’s SNL clone Fridays, no doubt thought he’d …
The best and worst moments of the Super Bowl halftime show
After a brutal two-hour fumbling match between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos, the sports-ball goddesses granted us a brief reprieve of artistic genius (and a few seconds of failure). Chris Martin and his band Coldplay headlined the Super Bowl 50 halftime show and blessed us by bringing out both Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. …
Manchester United see off Midtjylland with Marcus Rashford’s debut double
An almost unrecognisably callow Manchester United made life difficult for themselves against the footballing midgets of Midtjylland by going behind and then missing a series of chances, including a first-half penalty, before the day was saved by 18-year-old Marcus Rashford, a reserve who found out he was playing only a few minutes before kick-off. Rashford …