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The Premier League may be in its off-season break but there will be little rest this summer for the country’s leading managers. With the challenges to come in the 2018/19 season already at the forefront of their minds, they will…
Not long after Colin Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began protesting systemic racism and police brutality, Malcolm Jenkins, the Philadelphia Eagles safety, decided to join the fight. But Jenkins did not sit during the national anthem,…
As a general rule, I try not to open P.R. e-mails. But a few weeks ago I received one that announced the arrival, in New York, of “FACEGYM, the world’s first gym for your face.” Face gym, I said out…
In 1987, the year before the release of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” the novel that would lead Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to declare a fatwah against the author, his younger sister Sameen roped him into a literary project of her own. She had…
Phil Healy is the toast of Irish athletics today after breaking one of the country’s blue riband national records. The Bandon AC athlete set a new women’s 100m national record of 11.28 seconds at the Dublin Championships in Santry, taking…
The videotaped rescue last month of a young child dangling from a balcony in Paris is a story both dramatic and heart-warming. And, yes, there’s the added twist that the rescuer, Mamoudou Gassama, dubbed “Spiderman,” is a refugee from Mali…
