Category Archives: Sports

May 15, 2012

Bolero – Torvill & Dean 1984 Olympic Winning Routine

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“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.” William Shakespeare


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May 3, 2012

Driver sues NASCAR, claims he was excluded from diversity program for being ‘too Caucasian’

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NASCAR and Access Communications are seeking to get the case, filed in January 2010, thrown out before it goes to trial. Attorneys for NASCAR and the company argued their side in a summary judgment hearing Wednesday in federal court in Charlotte.

An aspiring stock-car driver is suing NASCAR, claiming he was denied the opportunity to compete in NASCAR’s diversity program because he looks “too Caucasian.”

NASCAR argues that in trying to change the “face” of the sport, it has the right to select drivers for its diversity program based on skin color, attorneys for the sanctioning body and its former diversity program administrators have told a U.S. District court.


Michael Rodriguez, seen in a photo when he was 15, has had a dream of racing in NASCAR at an early age.

Michael Rodriguez, a driver from Pennsylvania, says in his complaint filed in U.S. District Court that he was denied the opportunity to compete in the 2005 and 2006 Drive For Diversity combines.

Rodriguez is suing NASCAR and Access Communications, which operated NASCAR’s diversity program from its inception in 2004 until 2008 and conducted the combines that are designed for teams in NASCAR’s regional series to scout minority drivers.

NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program was created to develop minority drivers and crewmen and help them advance through the NASCAR ranks with the goal of reaching the sport’s top series. Since 2004, the program has included 41 drivers, with most being selected multiple times. There currently are six drivers in the program racing in various NASCAR regional series.

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April 28, 2012

Baseball manager’s Castro love plays better in Hollywood

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“I love Fidel Castro … I respect Fidel Castro” for surviving “when a lot of people have wanted to kill him,” said the Venezuelan-born Ozzie Guillen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006.


Fidel Castro

Poor Ozzie Guillen. If only he were a Hollywood celebrity, he could be basking in the admiration of colleagues for publicly professing his affection for Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.

Instead, full of apologies and regret for what he describes as the worst episode of his life, the Marlins manager had to return to Miami yesterday with his tail between his legs ahead of the announcement today of his five-game suspension.

Clearly worried about their relationship with Miami’s nearly million-strong, baseball-loving Cuban-American community – which knows Castro all too well – the Marlins suspended Guillen for remarks he made to Time Magazine.

“I love Fidel Castro … I respect Fidel Castro” for surviving “when a lot of people have wanted to kill him,” said the Venezuelan-born Guillen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006.

While Guillen faces a call to be fired from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, some of America’s biggest names in entertainment seem to have suffered no ill effects professionally for praising Castro after being wined and dined in Havana.

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April 1, 2012

College football players arrested in campus rapes

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Police said Henderson and Jones held three students at gunpoint and sexually assaulted them at Bearcat Village, a campus housing apartment complex.


Bobby Henderson

WYFF has learned that two arrests have been made in the sexual assaults of three Lander University students.

The Lander University Police Department arrested Presbyterian College football players Bobby Henderson and Cameren Jones, both 19-years-old, on Friday.

Henderson and Jones are charged with criminal sexual conduct, burglary and kidnapping.

Police said Henderson and Jones held three students at gunpoint and sexually assaulted them at Bearcat Village, a campus housing apartment complex.

A source close to the investigation told WYFF News 4 that a male student, who was trying to be nice, swiped his card to let the men into the building. Then, the pair went to the apartment armed with guns and forced their way in, police said.

According to the incident report, one of the students said that there was a knock on the door, and she could only see a shoulder through the peephole. She said she asked who it was, and the person answered, “It’s a friend.” She said when she cracked the door open to see who it was, two men, one who pointed a handgun at her head, forced their way into the apartment.

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March 29, 2012

Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also….1984 in the U.K. (and the U.S.?)

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A 21 year-old student called Liam Stacey has just been sentenced to prison for 56 days for “inciting racial hatred” — actually just for writing “laughing out loud” [LOL] on a social media website after reading of the collapse of the Congolese player.


Fabrice Muamba

Recently in the UK, Fabrice Muamba, a Congolese playing for the Bolton Wanderers professional soccer team, collapsed after a heart attack. He has received medical attention and now looks likely to survive. But the incident has developed into further evidence of Britain’s emerging police state and its determination to suppress even trivial verbal resistance to the abolition of the historic nations of the British Isles through immigration policy.

Get this: A 21 year-old student called Liam Stacey has just been sentenced to prison for 56 days for “inciting racial hatred”—actually just for writing “laughing out loud” [LOL] on a social media website after reading of the collapse of the Congolese player (see Pictured: Student ‘troll’ who posted ‘racially offensive’ tweet about Muamba just hours after player suffered heart attack and Liam Stacey gets 56 days in jail for tweeting. When race becomes an issue, all sense goes out of the window, By Ed West, Telegraph, March 27, 2012). Stacey was dragged into further argument on the Internet. But his comments, while intemperate in tone (see video), did not seem to amount to an attempt to incite hatred in others. Additionally, he now seems set to be expelled from his university.

I personally don’t see the need to cheer anyone’s physical collapse. Any of us could suffer unexpected heart seizures. As you get older, you start to realise you are not immortal, and so to sympathise with other people’s health problems. No decent person could therefore be impressed by Twitter comments applauding someone’s ill-health.

On the other hand, it happens all the time—look at American leftists’ recent reaction to Dick Cheney’s heart transplant. Is anyone going to be imprisoned for that?

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Posted in Europe, Law & Courts, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Sports

March 19, 2012

Rabbi: Tebow Super Bowl Win Would Lead Christians to Burn Mosques & Banish Immigrants (Video)

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Hammerman writes that, should Tebow win the Super Bowl, the faithful (i.e. Christians) will “do insane things.“ The rabbi goes on to explain that a win would ”buoy [Tebow's] faithful” and lead to mosque burnings, gay bashing and the banishment of immigrants.

[Note: This article was originally posted on December 15th, 2011. The IFNM website was attacked by hackers and many articles are now gone from the archives. As a public service, IFNM is now reposting said articles.]

The Tim Tebow debate took a bizarre turn this week when a Connecticut Rabbi wrote a scathing, Onion-like article for Jewish Week, a newspaper serving the Jewish community in New York City.

The piece, which was written by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and seems more like a parody than a literal proclamation from a religious leader, claims that a Tebow Super Bowl win would lead to total and utter Christian-led chaos. And we’re not just talking angry football fans engaging in verbal outbursts — we’re talking mosque-burning hatred (among other purported antics).

Hammerman, the head spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Connecticut, leads the article by writing, “I’ve got a Tim Tebow problem.” After setting the 24-year-old football player up as “a poster boy of the Christian right,” Hammerman says, “Now tiny Tim has grown and is on track to possibly appear in this season’s Super Bowl – on the field – and that is what scares me.”

As the rabbi continues, he claims that the game of football is more popular than even God here in America (a point that many Americans would likely debate). His semi-lighthearted words quickly devolve. “When you combine the religion that is football with the religion that is religion, the mix can be dangerously flammable,” he writes.

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February 24, 2012

Delighted Obama raises cash with NBA celebrities

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An avid basketball fan, the president also lamented missing Thursday night’s highly anticipated NBA matchup in South Florida between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks — including the Knicks’ emerging superstar, Jeremy Lin. “I’m resentful I’m not going to the game tonight. I’m mad about that,” Obama joked. “It’s not right. It’s not fair.”

Reveling in his sporting element, President Barack Obama waded into the oversize embrace of some of the biggest names in professional basketball Thursday, raising money from current and former NBA greats and an intimate group of supporters drawn to this weekend’s All-Star game in nearby Orlando.

Obama indulged his NBA habit at the home of Dallas Mavericks guard Vince Carter where about 70 guests gathered for a $30,000-a-person fundraiser. Among those invited were former L.A. Lakers star Earvin “Magic” Johnson, former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning and Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Mark Cuban, the Mavericks’ owner, and Obama embraced warmly as the president entered.

The group gathered in Carter’s gymnasium, with the scoreboard showing 2012 on the clock and the score tied at 44, Obama being the 44th president.

“It’s a nice gym,” Obama observed, understatedly. “Vince said he left the other side open in case I wanted to get in a dunk contest with him. I told him I didn’t bring my sneakers, so not tonight.”

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February 20, 2012

Video: Muhammad Ali – The Greatest Speaks

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“It ain’t sad, ’cause I want my child to look like me. Every intelligent person wants his child to look like him. I’m sad because I (don’t) want to blot out my race and lose my identity?” Muhammad Ali


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February 9, 2012

Boss of football’s anti-racism group is branded a racist after calling Asian fan a ‘coconut’

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It stems from a coconut being brown on the outside and white on the inside. Mr Singh, a postman from the West Midlands, is appalled by Mr Powar’s comments and has branded him a ‘hypocrite’.

A leading force in football’s battle against racism has been criticised after he called an Asian supporter a ‘coconut’.

Piara Powar, who is the executive director of the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) organisation, has been a vocal figure in the game’s recent rows.

But an exchange on Twitter has left Mr Powar, who is also Asian, embroiled in a race controversy of his own making.


Outburst: In a Twitter exchange Piara Powar, executive director of the Football Against Racism in Europe, sparked fury by telling Asian football fan Parmjit Singh not to be ‘a coconut’

Liverpool fan Parmjit Singh, 34, tweeted @piarapower: ‘Interesting how u haven’t given your opinion on the news that a £mufc fan was arrested on Wednesday for alleged racial abuse.’

He received a staggering reply from Mr Powar, who used Twitter’s private messaging function to contact Mr Singh, which said: ‘Get lost Singh. Have no false consciousness. Don’t be a coconut.’

Mr Singh was referring to Manchester United fan Howard Hobson, 57, who was today fined £200 for chanting racist abuse at a black Stoke City player during a match on January 31.

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February 7, 2012

Rapper M.I.A. Flips 100 Million Americans the Bird During Super Bowl Halftime Show (Video)

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Earlier, Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert offered some pregame patriotism. Shelton and Lambert did a twangy duet on “America the Beautiful” and Clarkson, in a simple black dress, sang “The Star Spangled Banner” without a hitch after last year’s performer, Christina Aguilera, flubbed a line.

For all the pomp and excess of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most remembered.

The gesture, accompanied by a barely disguised expletive, came during a performance of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin.’” At the end of her lines, M.I.A. appeared to sing “I don’t give a (expletive),” although it was hard to hear clearly.

The incident was reminiscent of Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” eight years ago — a surprise risque moment in front of tens of millions of unsuspecting viewers. The brief exposure of Jackson’s nipple during the 2004 halftime show raised a storm of controversy and put CBS in hot water with the Federal Communications Commission.

The Super Bowl, shown on NBC this year, is routinely viewed by more than 100 million people, the biggest TV event of the year.

The screen briefly went blurred after M.I.A.’s gesture in what seemed like a late attempt to cut out the camera shot. The NFL, which produces the show, had no immediate comment.

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