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Are you looking for more athletics content in your feed? Here are some great feeds to follow (we call these topical collections Magazines):

(U.S.) Football from CBS Sports: @football-cbssports

Soccer (non-U.S. football) from ESPN: @soccer-espn

Women's Sports from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @women-s-sports-thesportsdesk

(U.S.) Basketball from Bleacher Report: @basketball-BleacherReport

MMA from ESPN: @mma-espn

The Player's Tribune: @the-players-tribune-PlayersTribune

(U.S.) College Football from CBS Sports: @college-football-cbssports

Major League Baseball from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @major-league-baseball-thesportsdesk

Golf from ESPN: @golf-espn

NHL (North American hockey) from Flipboard's Sports Desk: @nhl-thesportsdesk

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PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pe-coach-pairs-unmotivated-students-to-run-with-shelter-dogs-adoptions-soar/

PE Coach Pairs Unmotivated Students to Run with Shelter Dogs–Adoptions Soar

A California gym coach who was looking for ways to drum up motivation for the students on his cross-country running team as they went away for the summer break came up with a brilliant idea: pair them with shelter dogs.

^{Andy Corbley (Good News Network)}

I'm not a big sports guy, but The Replacements (2000) is a movie that I've watched countless times. It's such a fun movie.

#movies #football #sports

Peter "Palantir" Thiel and a load of other venture capitalists are sponsoring an openly pro-doping sports event 🤮

"Organisers of the Enhanced Games, which has been backed by venture capitalists including the billionaire Peter Thiel, have called their event the Olympics of the future. They argue that drug use in sport should be called a demonstration of science."

This says everything about their priorities and attitude to humanity...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/11/its-a-joke-enhanced-games-swimmer-should-face-life-ban-says-aquatics-chief

#Sport #Sports #Doping #Athletics #Olympics #VC #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalism

‘It’s a joke’: Enhanced Games swimmer should face life ban, says aquatics chief

Brent Nowicki said ‘You cross that bridge, you don’t come back’ after hearing James Magnussen’s plans to dope to break world record at Enhanced Games

^{Sean Ingle (The Guardian)}