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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Barcelona’s presidential elections have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the club said Friday.

The Texas School for the Deaf’s (TSD) football team is eager to play against its rivals on Friday night in hopes of winning a state championship.

A female football star in Utah has shifter her focus from the gridiron to the courtroom, in her quest to force school districts to offer a girls only football program.

“It’s great to be back in Ohio to celebrate the return of Big Ten football with a big victory today for the Buckeyes,” Trump said after taking the stage.

A family in Stow, Ohio, got the surprise of a lifetime during a high school football game over the weekend.

The Swedish women’s national soccer team took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement during a European cup qualifier match with Hungary this week.

A German soccer team has been thrashed 37-0 because its players insisted on observing rules about ‘social distancing.’

President Donald Trump celebrated the news Wednesday that the Big 10 college football conference had decided to play games in October.

English Premier League (EPL) footballers obeyed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on the launch day of the 2020/21 season, with players taking a knee in all four of Saturday’s top-flight fixtures.

“We want a governor that’s going to let Michigan play Big 10 football this year,” Trump said, referring to Whitmer.

“We have looked at Lou’s life and his career and what he’s done for charity, and the football is obvious,” Trump said. “He was a great coach, but what he has done beyond even coaching.”

Democrats abandoned John F. Kennedy’s “what can I do for my country?” theme, said Lou Holtz, former football coach, during his RNC speech.

LONDON (AP) – Players in English football will be banned for six to 12 games for discriminatory conduct under new Football Association sanctioning guidelines.

Kelly Stafford, wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, blasted the NFL for making her family’s life a “nightmare” over the last few days after the league publicly placed her husband on the COVID-IR list after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus — a result that later proved to be false.

For the first time in 75 years the Rose Parade is canceled because of fears that the coronavirus will still be a threat on the first day of 2021.

Phillip Blanks, a former college football player and ex-Marine, made the greatest catch of his life when he saved a child thrown from a burning building over the weekend.

A month ago, you could scarcely move for politicians, sportsmen, luvvies and other assorted wankerati flaunting their allegiance…

England’s Premier League Football has attempted to distance itself from the “political movement” of Black Lives Matter, after the sporting body had devoted games to the far-left organisation by taking the knee and wearing shirts that replaced players’ names with ‘Black Lives Matter’.

A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.

Lancashire police have said their investigation into the flying of the banner over a football match has found “no criminal offences”.

Burnley Football Club has condemned an “offensive” banner saying “White Lives Matter Burnley!” which was flown over a match after three white people were stabbed to death in Reading, and vowed to “work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible”.

The University of Georgia announced this week that its marching band will no longer play a song from the 1939 film Gone With the Wind during football games. The song “Tara’s Theme” has been the band’s signature song up to this point. The classic Victor Fleming film has recently come under fire over claims that it sanitizes racial and ethnic prejudice.

President Donald Trump on Friday defended the NFL’s plans to return in the fall to play football despite the coronavirus pandemic.

(AFP) — Top-flight football in Germany kicked off again on the weekend, becoming the first major sports league in the world to resume play, as parts of Europe took more tentative steps towards normality after the devastation unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.

A New Jersey high school teacher is under investigation for allegedly yelling that she hopes kids she saw playing football in a city park would die “a long painful death” from the coronavirus, for violating stay-at-home orders.

A New Jersey high school math teacher was purportedly caught on film telling a group of teens playing in a local park to “die a long, painful death” from the Coronavirus.

Football and golf fans who miss watching their favorite athletes compete, will reportedly have a chance to see four sports legends join forces to help raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Premier League football manager Jurgen Klopp declined to give reporters his opinion on the Wuhan coronavirus, saying the opinions of “famous people” on politics and pandemics are “not important”.

JERUSALEM – Thousands of Israeli soccer fans and high school students were instructed to go into quarantine after being exposed to coronavirus as the total of confirmed cases in the country climbed to 15 on Wednesday.

The early viewership numbers from the XFL’s opening weekend are beginning to come in, and they look very good for the new league.

Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s all-important fourth congressional district this year, has emerged as a cultural counterweight to the hatred that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has spewed for the last few years.

Trump shared a video posted by wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase featuring many of the players in their suits and ties dancing in the White House to the song “Get the Gat” by Lil Elt.

“You’ve had a lot of presidents behind the Resolute Desk, some good, some not so good,” he said. “You’ve got a good one now, even though now they’re trying to impeach the son of a bitch. Can you believe that?”

Trump was warmly greeted by football fans attending the NCAA college championship game on Monday. The president traveled with first lady Melania Trump to the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana for the game.

White House spokesman Judd Deere confirmed that the president would attend the game for the third time since he was elected president.

A Texas high school football announcer was deeply moved by a kind gesture from the opposing team after a game in Lubbock November 29.