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I guess the French football federation realizes it has a problem. France has been plunged into a fresh race crisis after claims that football officials tried to limit black and Arab players on youth training schemes to make the French team more white. The French football federation has...

Roger Federer is the defending champion (he beat Murray in the final) and on a bit of a high after beating Rafa Nadal in London last month. On the women's side defending champion Serena Williams is not playing. Caroline Wozniacki is the #1 seed but is yet to win a grand slam. Already in the...

As most soccer fans know the vote on who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be held on Thursday 2 December. The USA is one of the front runners for 2022. The US bid's honorary committee chairman is Bill Clinton and it is supported by Obama and all celebrities like Spike Lee. Today...

An article at Pajamas Media points out that despite this being a golden age with Federer and Nadal the sport of tennis has declined in the US. For the first time since the early 70s there are no American men in the ATP top 10. In the late 70s Wimbledon finals got between 7 and 9 million viewers...

Wimbledon has begun and as I type this defending champion Roger Federer is two sets to one down and down a break in the fourth against Alejandro Falla of Columbia. For Fed do go out in the first round at Wimbledon would be one of the great shocks in sport in recent years.

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As you can see at the link below bookies are making Nadal the favourite over Federer. Rafa the favourite It'll be interesting to see if his knees hold up. Federer has never beaten Nadal at the French. On clay Nadal has had his number. Edited by: Matra1

With the best players in the world representing their countries the Olympic hockey tournament is, in effect, a world cup of hockey. Since NHLers started taking part in 1998 the winners of gold have been: the Czech Republic (Nagano); Canada (Salt Lake City 2002); and Sweden (Turin 2006)...

Here we go with another controversy: Bikinis with swastikas My attempts to upload the image in this post failed. But here's a link to a larger photo.

Move over typical DWFs we've got an even bigger chump. Derek Schmidt, the fiance of one of Tiger's sluts, Jamie Junger: Her relationship with Woods, 33, began when she was at a party at the exclusive Bellagio Hotel in Vegas. He sent across a messenger to ask her to join him and his entourage...

Looks like this is going to be the biggest story for the next few days, maybe weeks. Woods car crash The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods, 33, hit the hydrant and a tree after pulling out of his driveway in his 2009 Cadillac sports utility vehicle. The patrol reported his injuries as...

France has qualified for next year's WC in South Africa thanks to a blatant hand ball by Thierry Henry in extra time which led to France's only goal of the match. (To make matters worse it was also offside). Cheater Thierry Henry Ex-Ireland international Tony Cascarino says Henry's...

The greatest female tennis player of this generation, Justine Henin of Belgium, is set to follow Kim Clijsters out of retirement. if the speculation in Belgium is accurate and Henin says tonight on Belgian television that she is joining the list of the women's tour's 'unretired' - as...

I'm not a basketball fan but I heard LeBron James wasn't very gracious when his team got knocked out. I was at a sports business website when I saw a link to this column from Yahoo. An excerpt below (Note: Sometimes when I come to CF the quotation function isn't available - other times it is...

Here's an interesting story about Blue Jays coach Cito Gaston. In 1997 he accused a sport talk radio host of racism. In 1997 Cito Gaston called me a racist. When confronted on the legitimacy of such a claim his sole response was, "Whatever has been said, whatever has been written, if it has...

...in South Africa. Jackie Pretorius is the latest victim of South African crime. Like his wife, Shirley, before him, he died following a savage assault at his Johannesburg home. Apparently he is the third white South African racing car driver, after Meyer Botha and John McNicol, to...

This topic has come up again. This article by Greg Wyshynski claims the NHL is gaining on the NBA and also says there may be an 'Enthusiasm Gap' favouring the NHL. Read it. (Includes informative chart comparing NBA and NHL attendance in the same cities). It is a welcome change from the...

Issues at the All England Club for 2008: Is Roger Federer done? Yes, I know it is ridiculous but every day now I'm reading news stories like this one arguing that he is fading. Incidentally he won his first round match easily but was pestered by ESPN about his "bad year" in the interview...

Euro 2008 starts this Saturday (June 7) at noon EST when co-hosts Switzerland take on the Czech Republic. (The other host Austria play Croatia on Sunday). This tournament is without doubt the biggest sporting event of the year - including the Olympics - as far as the people of Europe are...

Like many fans of the sport I was left scratching my head when I found out my childhood favourite team - Glasgow Rangers - would be playing a Russian team I'd barely heard of called Zenit of St Petersburg. Glasgow Rangers are, of course, renowned as possibly the team with the most politically...

I'm completely shocked by this result. I'm also disappointed. I suggest CFers avoid mass media for the next week or so unless you like hearing media whores laugh at Bill Belichick. At least Eli got his moment. But will he get any credit for the victory?Edited by: Matra1

As you may know Kyle Turley - offensive tackle for the KC Chiefs - is donating one game's salary ($25k after tax) to the pension fund for ex-NFLers as many of these former players are living in poverty. As far as we know no other player has announced plans to donate their one game salary. A...

Joe Queenan has to be the most overrated writer of his generation. Last month he once again repeated his claim that the appeal of Rocky is racism: "The Rocky films merely sublimate the racist fantasies of fantastic racists: 'Wouldn't it be great to live in a parallel universe where white...

The only build up to this year's Open I've heard on US TV was the PTI guys giving % probabilities on whether one of the Williams sisters will win. Other possible stories (off the top of my head): Will the lovely Maria Sharapova repeat or is Justin Henin - six time tournament winner this...

I was watching the Padres-Giants game earlier when the commentator announced that this week is "Heritage Week" in MLB. Monday night is for the Irish. Tuesday - Italians. Wednesday is for Jews, Thursday "Native Americans", Friday is African-American night. And I believe there's a Latino day on...