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"This is my third promotion, so I have some experience." "But the Championship is so hard because you have to play so many games, and it is so physical." "It is very difficult to play three games in a week, and you have to recover." "You have injuries, and it is not easy." "The division is totally different, you have to change half your squad (after relegation)." "You have to perform and win, and keep all the fans behind the team." "It has been a fantastic season, and we have to enjoy it for at least a couple of days." "We will try our best to win the title now." "We will play Cardiff and then see where we are, but we have achieved what we wanted to achieve." "After the first two games, people were asking us, ‘Do you want to be champions or will you be happy just to go up’." "Yes, we are happy." "Credit to Brighton because they are a good team." "But they have had the last four or five years in the play-offs so they have the experience and squad for this division." "We have had to put everything together quickly, but we did it." "So I say credit to our players, our staff and everyone in the club." "Some people don’t realise how difficult it is when you go to play against teams who are in the middle of the table and playing for nothing, but they still fight and compete because they are playing against Newcastle United, who are the top side in the division." “Or when they come here with 52,000 fans, and they run and work so hard." "It has been like that for every single game against us. We watched some teams and thought it might be easy against them, but then they were running double because they were playing us." "It was more difficult than ever, and we have had that situation every single week." "There have been some decisions I haven’t liked too much, so that has meant we have had to keep going, work hard and be strong mentally." "But even when there were signs of anxiety, we reacted well."

On Facebook live, there is a guy who has already killed fourteen strangers. Driving around, randomly getting out of his vehicle, walking up to unsuspecting random people telling them to say "Joy Lane", then shooting them in the face. Video is nauseating.

This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from grace for the former Everton, United and Real Sociedad manager who endured chants of “We want Moyes out” from all corners of an unusually hostile Stadium of Light during Sunderland’s 2-2 draw with West Ham United on Saturday. There were also choruses of “David Moyes had a dream, to fuck our football team” and boos when the home manager ventured from his dugout. Despite Sunderland’s position – bottom of the Premier league and nine points adrift of the 17th-placed Hull City – Ellis Short, the club’s owner, is not minded to sack the Scot, but may be forced to rethink should anger build during the remaining two home games, against Bournemouth and Swansea City. Moyes, meanwhile, has made it clear he has no intention of resigning and is determined to rebuild Sunderland in the second tier while challenging for immediate promotion. He maintains that he inherited a poisoned chalice at a club now around £140m in debt and who, in recent years, have consistently occupied the Premier League’s bottom five positions despite a top-10 wage bill. As Sunderland’s seventh manager in five years Moyes feels he is paying for predecessors’ recruitment mistakes, has been unlucky with injuries and wants time to conduct root and branch reform. His critics’ riposte is that his tactics have been unimaginatively one-dimensional and his prolonged marginalisation of Wahbi Khazri, arguably Sunderland’s most gifted individual, self-destructive. Above all, they have been dismayed by the persistently downbeat demeanour of a manager who, as early as last August, declared that a relegation battle beckoned, and underwhelmed by a series of low-key, low-impact signings including Darron Gibson and Donald Love, almost all of whom had played for Moyes at Everton or Manchester United. Reconstructing the squad will involve a major overhaul this summer as, by way of exacerbating the manager’s problems, his Italian forward Fabio Borini has revealed the dressing room has been fractured by internal divisions. Without a home league win since mid-December, Sunderland have long seemed destined for the Championship but, paradoxically, Saturday represented the team’s best performance for some time. Unfortunately for Moyes the crowd were able to use the fact that his side’s first goals in eight games were scored by Wahbi Khazri and Borini, two players he has persistently sidelined, as a stick with which to beat him. “Are you watching David Moyes,” they sang as Khazri, a Tunisian playmaker starting his first game since October, scored direct from a corner to equalise André Ayew’s early opener. James Collins restored West Ham’s lead before Borini, only brought off the bench as Billy Jones had been taken off with concussion, snatched an equaliser before celebrating, somewhat provocatively, with a knee slide in front of the home bench. Afterwards Borini revealed that there had been behind-the-scenes tensions within the squad this term. “We have not been as united as a group as in previous seasons, that’s what probably has been the problem,” the Italian said. “There have been a little bit of problems within the dressing room but that’s for us to deal with. To keep going now we have to be more united than ever before.” Remarkably, attendances at the Stadium of Light have averaged well over 40,000 per game this season and Saturday was the first time a hitherto extraordinarily loyal crowd have turned on the manager. “The chants were to be expected,” said Moyes, who will shortly discover whether he faces sanction from the Football Association in the wake of the unfortunate comments he directed towards the BBC’s Vicki Sparks last month. “The manager and the team are not doing well and they are entitled to take their frustration out on somebody. It’s nearly always the manager and I have no issue with that. I have to accept it. I just remember I’ve got the third or fourth best win record of any Premier League manager.” With Khazri most people’s man of the match, Moyes was asked why he had excluded a key player during Sunderland’s avoidance of relegation under Sam Allardyce last spring for so long. “I can only tell you my choice has been to play other people because of what I have seen,” said the 53-year-old who, earlier this season, turned down a chance to sign Dimitar Berbatov, the currently unattached former Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United striker. “But Wahbi was good today, much more disciplined.” Tellingly, when Khazri scored Moyes sat with his arms folded while the rest of Sunderland’s bench applauded. -Louise Taylor-

Rioting in Berkeley. These costumes that these Trump supporters are running around in are depressingly hilarious.

New version used today.

One of you nerds will enjoy this immensely. 94 pages! https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3553590-NASA-responses-to-Trump-Transition-ART.html

Yes, please!

Dropped a MOAB in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. First ever combat use.

Mike Sarimsakci aka the Turkish Trump, on Tuesday told Dallas City Hall the Trump Organization's new Scion line of luxury hotels has failed. A previous effort to build a Scion hotel in St. Louis also failed after residents protested a $20 million tax break the city was considering for the project.

Wandrille Lefevre, a defender for the Montreal Impact, has been suspended for posting this. "Since Donald is in power, better safe than sorry” in French.

Ramage and Shaun Wright-Phillips have a new teammate. Drogba has announced he is to become the first owner/player after becoming part owner of US third tier franchise Phoenix Rising. They are one of twelve teams bidding for four new MLS franchises.

Bellends.

Is Donald Trump Making America Hate Golf Again? by Dylan Dethier The Masters wrapped in dramatic fashion on Sunday, with Sergio Garcia taking home the green jacket in a sudden-death playoff. But it’s worth noting that three of the nation's biggest golfers didn't tee off when the tournament began on Thursday. Tiger Woods, unable to practice, announced his absence a week prior. World-ranking No. 1 Dustin Johnson slipped on the stairs of his rental home the day before and was forced to withdraw on the very first tee. And the most famous golfer of them all, President Trump, announced that his Thursday hosting of Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago would involve no fairway diplomacy. China’s Communist Party, citing the game as a symbol of capitalist excesses and corruption, holds a longstanding scorn for golf—in 1949, Mao Zedong declared it the “sport for millionaires.” Xi’s disdain for the game echoes the sentiments that many share of our new president’s extremely pricey biweekly excursions to Florida. Of all the ways in which our inexperienced president should be spending his hours and his taxpayer money…golf?! In turns, he's taken a beating from news outlets, late night hosts, and Twitter users alike—much of it from the left but plenty from his supporters, too, who grow frustrated with the appearance of inaction. It raises the question: has Trump made America hate golf again? You could say that America has always hated golf—country clubs have been targets of disdain since their inception, and their exclusivity makes it rather easy. Augusta National is the sport’s nirvana but also the most obvious target for criticism: it’s situated firmly in slave country yet hosts a tournament called “The Masters,” and didn’t admit a black member until 1990—or a female member until 2012. (2012!) Anti-Augusta sentiment has been tempered somewhat in the years since the 1997 Masters, when a fiery, red-shirted, multi-racial Tiger Woods fist-pumped his way to his first major championship at age 21. Tiger as the face of golf signaled a major shift for the game. He was athletic, young, inspiring, hard-working, and a self-described “Cablinasian.” Though it didn't mitigate the transgressions of the sport’s exclusive, elitist history, it soothed their sting. The joy in watching him win was amplified by the fact that he was doing so in spite of a game whose institutions would have turned him away for so many years. But Tiger is gone now (no, not officially, but effectively, having played one PGA tour event since 2015), and Trump’s ascendency to the status of golfer-in-chief comes at a time when the sport is still struggling from the vacuum he left behind (though the PGA Tour boasts an impressive roster of young talent—Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, Jason Day—none can or will approach Tiger’s transcendent star power). Golf’s important numbers are all in decline: TV ratings, player participation, total courses. An increasingly unpopular president is playing an increasingly unpopular sport. The cost and hypocrisy of Trump’s outings—Trump was among the most outspoken critics of Obama’s trips to the golf course, yet spends millions in taxpayer money every Mar-a-Lago weekend—are easy targets; every golf critic will tell you that the game takes too long and costs too much money. But perhaps Trump’s decriers are most incensed by his reinforcement of a third stereotype: that golf is the exclusive domain of the rich, white, and powerful—those who have always made the deals, but don’t have to live with their real-world consequences outside the country club walls. To his supporters, President Obama’s rounds seemed like another class and race barrier broken by the most powerful black man in history. Trump’s rounds, on the other hand, embody each disparagement of the game, and the surrounding conversation has ripped the Tiger blanket off golf’s problems, re-exposing old wounds. Trump ran as a populist. He positioned himself antithetical to the club of elites the Clintons belonged to (all while living in his own marble tower in midtown Manhattan). He defied and denounced political correctness, and promised candor and honesty. He was all in on the resurgence of West Virginia’s mines and Michigan’s manufacturing. His rounds feel like a betrayal: they benefit his own properties, he mingles only with those who have paid to join his clubs, and he’s escaping during a time of near-crisis for his young administration. That he campaigned on coal yet governs while golfing is an easy criticism to lob, and, inevitably, some of that outrage has rubbed off on the game itself. With the President now serving as the most famous golfer in the country, it makes sense the sport faces renewed criticism, the same type leveled by the party of President Xi: that golf, like government, continues to look like a game only for millionaires and crooks. On Saturday, as the tournament leaders teed off at Augusta, with President Xi headed back to China and Syrian airstrikes dominating headlines, Trump headed to familiar turf: Trump International Golf Club. I spent two years playing (mediocre) professional golf; I’ve seen courses at every corner of the U.S. and most of Canada. I spent a winter living in West Palm Beach, too; I worked and practiced at a private club not far from Mar-a-Lago. And yet my single trip to Trump International is seared in my memory—I’ve never been treated as so important, nor seen a practice area so impeccably manicured, nor hit into a backdrop as gaudy as the waterfall behind the 17th green. The clubhouse was a Floridian palace, littered with pictures of its founder. But most shocking of all was the trophy case at the end of the hall, showcasing the amateur course record: 66, held by Trump. A caddy accompanied our group, and I couldn’t wait to ask him: Was Trump really that good a golfer? "Oh, yeah, man," he told me. "He’s a good player, and a fun guy to be with, too. Plus a big tipper." "Did he shoot 66 here?" He laughed. “You saw that, huh? Look, he’s a good player. And he never gets a bad lie, if I’m with him. But 66? Not a chance." He paused. "Just don’t tell him I told you that." http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-golf-backlash

Putin: "We can say that the level of trust at a working level, particularly in a military level, has not improved but rather has degraded."

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