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Olympic sized Covid problems for Japan ahead of the Summer Games May 24, 2021 12:12 PM CDT By Al Neal
In this May 17, 2021, file photo, demonstrators protest against the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The IOC and Tokyo Olympic organizers start three days of virtual meetings Wednesday, May 19, 2021 and will run into some of the strongest medical-community opposition so far with the games set to open in just over eight weeks. | Koji Sasahara/AP
The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are now two months away, and the situation does not look good. Current polls show over 80 per cent of the population want the games cancelled. The results are not surprising following the extension of a Covid-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and nine other major cities.
One liberal sports writer is foaming at the mouth over a Pennsylvania
newspaper article celebrating the life of one their student athletes turned soon-to-be NFL player and praising his mother for choosing not to abort him.
Penn Live (the website for Harrisburg s
Patriot News)
published a piece on April 20 about the achievements of All-American Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons who’s on track to become an NFL first round draft pick. Not only did the paper recognize Parsons’ considerable athletic accomplishments, their story was written from the perspective of gratitude for the choice Micah’s mother made in not aborting him.
Nationalists and loyalists clash at Lanark Way in west Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
BELFAST, Northern Ireland The town of Carrickfergus, along with four other Union Loyalist towns and cities, has been beset with violence over the past weeks casting further doubts the current political stability in Northern Ireland will last much longer.
More troubling, however, is the involvement of youth, as young as 12-years-old, being forced into the violence, coerced into despicable deeds by adults with sinister motives.
Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People Koulla Yiasouma said those children were often the victims of gangs linked to sectarian paramilitary outfits still harboring past political grievances.
Arizona Basketball Coaching Hot Board 2.0
Arizona has made the decision to part ways with head basketball coach Sean Miller and will now look to hire a new coach. The hiring comes at a unique time because of the IARP and the fact that nobody knows what the future will hold.
The Arizona administration will have to navigate the results of the IARP that are likely coming next summer, firing of Miller, and hiring of a new coach. The public eye will likely be on the hire because of how everything has gone down and Arizona will have to convince a new coach that the punishment will not take away from the ability to move forward and build a successful program.
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Inside the Beltway sportswriter Thomas Boswell reaped the whirlwind for assuming that Major League Baseball knew the nation’s pulse when it took the 2021 all-star game away from Atlanta. He drew a hurricane blowback on Twitter for his outlandish claim that it was baseball’s best move since integrating the game in 1947.
Boswell has spent a long career writing for
The Washington Post, has written several baseball books, is a member of the National Sports Media Association s Hall of Fame and was a featured expert in Ken Burns’s baseball history series. Like all Post sports writers, he s an insufferable gasbag, so he deserves all the ridicule he s getting for this stupid tweet: