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A new Gallup poll finds that the game of football is still America’s most popular sport, but that its popularity has slipped six points since 2007.

TEL AVIV – Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi was picked as the most valuable player in the Chinese Super League on Saturday after scoring the most goals of the league.

A Marine stationed overseas found out the gender of his baby through a surprise gift from his wife.

Republicans should simplify the tax proposal, focusing on the reduction in the corporate tax rate, while repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate and ending tax benefits for employers who hire illegal aliens.

ROME — Racist chants at every opportunity. A Lazio banner in the intra-city derby nearly 20 years ago aimed at Roma supporters that read: “Auschwitz Is Your Homeland; The Ovens Are Your Homes.”

A southern California high school canceled their football game Friday night after a brawl broke out in the stands before the start of the game.

Main Street Patriots are rallying fellow citizens to show their support across the United States for the American flag and the national anthem on Veteran’s Day weekend as a way to send a message about the importance of standing and saluting during the playing of the national anthem at NFL football games.

Members of the University of New Hampshire community are up in arms after administrators decided to use part of a $4 million gift from one of their late library staffers to install a new scoreboard at the school’s football stadium.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A top Emirati security official has said the only way for “Qatar’s crisis” to end is if Doha gave up hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, his comments coming amid the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the energy-rich nation and four Arab countries.

A group of students chanted “build the wall” at a Utah high school football game over the weekend and some people are not happy about it. In a 10-second video, students from Woods Cross High School, a school located just

GENEVA — FIFA fined the German soccer federation 32,000 Swiss francs ($33,000) on Monday because fans chanted Nazi slogans at a World Cup qualifying game in the Czech Republic.

NEW YORK – Israel’s top tennis player quit in the middle of a tennis match in order to observe Yom Kippur, potentially costing him $34,000 in prize money.

The National Football League (NFL) may have more than a passing controversy on its hands as it continues to grapple with fans’ reaction to the players and staff “take a knee” protest during the national anthem before games.

A Tennessee businessman is pulling TV advertisements for his business that air during NFL games for the rest of football season, citing the “unpatriotic” NFL protests surrounding the national anthem.

“In my opinion, the NFL has to change, or you know what’s going to happen? Their business is going to go to hell,” Trump told reporters

President Donald Trump signaled a small victory over the NFL after the Dallas Cowboys stood for the National Anthem at the beginning of their Monday night football game.

After President Trump finally spoke up for tens of millions of voiceless Americans disgusted over spoiled NFL crybabies disrespecting the American flag and anthem, the controversy finally erupted over the weekend.

The act of NFL players taking a knee during the National Anthem has gone from being a stunt to a plague that is infecting the whole league. When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell responded to President Trump’s criticism by defending the players, he showed that he not only has no clue why NFL viewership is in the tank, he also has no clue what the National Anthem is all about.

Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) is urging all NFL players to kneel during the National Anthem Sunday to protest President Trump.

Coaches got in a fight over the weekend at a youth football game in Tulsa, OK, but the fight was not between two teams. Union was beating Bixby 31-6 when News9 says a Union coach pulled another coach’s son out of

A football game between two Las Vegas high schools got out of hand Friday. Per Las Vegas Review-Journal, tensions escalated at the game between Canyon Springs and Basic out of the Clark County School District as the two teams piled up a total of

Anti-Semitic chants by Chelsea FC fans during Saturday’s win at Leicester have been condemned by the club.

While speaking with Outkick the Coverage’s Clay Travis at the International Football Betting Conference in Costa Rica over the weekend, Johnny Manziel said he believed fellow free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still good enough to be in the NFL.

Defensive tackle Vince Wilfork is leaving the NFL in style. Monday, the 35-year-old posted an ad on Twitter featuring himself in overalls, smoking a cigar and grilling ribs for Kingsford. “No more cleats. I’m moving on to smoke meats, fellas. Peace

Aug. 2 (UPI) — A Virginia football player who won a $100,000 lottery jackpot using his grandma’s license plate number said all he bought was a pair of designer flip-flops.

Pope Francis met with a delegation from the National Football League in the Vatican Wednesday, joking that where he comes from, football is played “very differently.”

The Saudi Arabian football (soccer) team has refused to line up and respect a silence held to remember the victims of the London Bridge attack, claiming “it is not in keeping with our culture”.

On Tuesday, Shaun King, the “senior justice writer” for the New York Daily News, announced his boycott of the National Football League. The former black lives matter spokesman, deposed when it was discovered that he is white, not the African American he claimed to be, accused the NFL of being “bigoted” against black people.

TEL AVIV – Amid the international soccer governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s annual congress, a tournament named after the terrorist responsible for the murder of 125 Israelis took place under the auspices of the Palestinian Football Association – the same group that is demanding that Israel’s FIFA membership be revoked.

More than 30 Israeli families who have lost relatives to terrorist attacks have signed a letter to FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, accusing the Palestine Football Association (PFA) and its president, Jibril Rajoub, with severe violations of its statutes, including incitement to terrorism.

If ever there was a non-politician poised to follow Donald Trump’s path to an executive office, it was Tommy Tuberville, who went an incredible 5-2 against Top 5 teams during his football coaching career.

Nothing says “ugly American” quite like getting kicked out of a posh Italian mall for playing catch with a pigskin.

Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh took his football team to Italy for spring practice. While over there, a Nigerian refugee asked the coach why the sport is called “football” when feet are barely used. “If you throw it by

On the day before the champion New England Patriots visited the White House to celebrate their winning Super Bowl game, Politico published a hit piece smearing the team as representatives of the racist, white nationalist “alt-right” movement.

LONDON (AFP) – Leicester are working with UEFA and local authorities in Spain to discover why their fans were involved in crowd trouble before the Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid.

A longstanding and well-regarded member of staff at Manchester United, who has worked at the club’s Old Trafford ground for some 30 years, has been fired after putting his hand around a female colleague and calling her “love”.