Sport

SCG racism was just latest incident in history of Australian sport

Andreas Milano 4 weeks ago

An incident of alleged racial abuse at the SCG on Sunday was just the latest in a long history of racism in Australian sport.

Indian players complain to umpires of alleged racial abuse by spectators at the SCG (Image: AAP/Dean Lewins)

The alleged racial abuse aimed Indian players at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Sunday is just the latest incident in Australia’s various sporting codes. There is an investigation ongoing into the precise nature of the incident, but Australia’s history gives us no reason to doubt the Indian players’ claims.

To pick a handful of incidents: bananas were thrown

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The Limited-Edition Black Unity Sport Band Is Here

Andreas Milano 4 weeks ago

Apple is ringing in Black History Month 2021 with the release of a limited-edition Apple Watch colorway. 



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The Black Unity Apple Watch Series 6 is available exclusively via Apple and Target, but if you already own an Apple Watch, you can score the Black Unity Sport Band for just $49 on Amazon. As Forbes reports, the watch will only be available through the end of February, while the sport band should around all year long — however, stock is alreafy fluctuating.



You can grab it for just $49

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You can grab it for just $49

According to Apple,

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giving hope to the disadvantaged

Andreas Milano 4 weeks ago

The city of Philadelphia is poorer today for the passing of John Chaney, the legendary Temple University basketball coach, champion of the disadvantaged and lion of North Broad Street who died on Friday just eight days after his 89th birthday.



John Chaney talking on a cell phone: Photograph: Ronald C Modra/Getty Images

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Chaney transformed what was known primarily as a commuter school on the city’s rugged north side into an unlikely national power in the 80s and 90s, mostly by recruiting high school players from disadvantaged backgrounds who were overlooked, disregarded or unwanted by the sport’s traditional bluebloods. The Owls became a

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Bose Sport Open Earbuds review: Made for runners

Andreas Milano 4 weeks ago

As far as headphones go, Bose’s Sport Open Earbuds are pretty funky. Not to be confused with the company’s more traditional in-ear Sport Earbuds and QuietComfort Earbuds, they feature an open design without a tip, meaning the earpiece sits on top of your ear and doesn’t penetrate your ear canal. 

Geared toward runners and bikers who want their ears open to the world for safety reasons — or to people who don’t like to have any sort of bud in their ears — they sound surprisingly good. I ended up liking them, but their design isn’t for everybody, and how

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Kobe Bryant Helped Launch the Grooming Brand Art of Sport. Now It’s About to Be Everywhere

Andreas Milano 1 month ago

Once or twice a year, a new grooming brand emerges and I get an instinct like, “This one is gonna be big.” Not to brag, but I had that gut feeling with hims, Harry’s, Bevel, and V76. Whether it’s backing from big-time investors, beautiful design, or formulations from chemists with deep industry knowledge, each of these lines had some factor that made them a force as soon as it landed. 

When Art of Sport launched in 2018, that factor was Kobe Bryant’s involvement. He had signed on a a founding partner, and the brand seemed

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Politicians’ kids in sport Gaddafi’s son and Mussolini’s great-grandson as footballers, and Putin’s acrobat daughter

Andreas Milano 1 month ago

IF political power isn’t your thing, then a life in sport could well be.

Being an offspring of a politician doesn’t necessarily mean you have to follow in their footsteps.

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Saddam Hussein poses with his son Uday in 1988Credit: AFP – Getty
Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who became a professional footballer, was the son of the former Libyan leader

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Al-Saadi Gaddafi, who became a professional footballer, was the son of the former Libyan leaderCredit: AFP – Getty

These kids broke free from their more famous fathers’ rules to become a acrobatic rock ‘n’ roll dancer and a Serie A footballer.

While others reigned football federations in terror, just like daddy did.

Katerina Tikhonova

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