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This Bride Eating A Burger At A Hockey Game In Her Wedding Dress Is All Of Us

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“We’re just two people who enjoy hockey and burgers.”

Newlyweds Erica Skuta and Lewis Blake live in New Zealand, but they're still huge fans of Skuta's hometown hockey team, Minnesota Wild.

"We definitely miss going to the games and we always say that if we move back to Minnesota we will be season ticket holders," Skuta told BuzzFeed Life, adding that they stream Wild games in New Zealand.

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Such big fans, in fact, that they went to Minnesota for their Nov. 29 wedding and caught a Wild game after their reception ended.

"When we got engaged, we both joked how neat it would be to do something a little different and have an after-reception party at a Wild game," Skuta said. "When the schedule was released at the start of the season and the game fell on the same day as the wedding, we had to go for it."

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So Blake and Skuta, who clearly DGAF, sat in the stands of Xcel Energy Center, wedding dress and all.

Their bridal party and many family members also attended the game.

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While watching the Wild take on the Dallas Stars, Skuta devoured a burger — because who actually has time to eat at their own wedding?

While watching the Wild take on the Dallas Stars, Skuta devoured a burger — because who actually has time to eat at their own wedding?

Plus, stains and spillage don't matter once the reception's over, which is good, because she barely even takes her eyes off the game.

Skuta told BuzzFeed Life that they wanted to get on the Jumbotron — Blake had made a sign that said, "I flew 8,044 miles from New Zealand to be at this game (and to get married)," in hopes that they'd get a moment in the spotlight.

"After the sign was shown at the game we thought we were in the clear and I was excited to finally get a chance to eat some food... Little did we know everyone at home was watching us," she said.

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Brave New World Of "Gene Doping” Ahead, Scientists Warn At Conference

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Worries about “designer babies” might obscure the threat of far more likely abuses from a fast-moving genetic engineering method, researchers warned Tuesday at an international scientific summit.

An era of elite athletes doping their genes with muscle-builders intended for the elderly, or of genetic treatments intended to boost cognition in Alzheimer’s patients infiltrating the business world, were among the abuses conjured up at the International Summit on Human Gene Editing.

Held at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and co-sponsored by science academies of China and the United Kingdom, the international summit this week features scientific and ethical presentations devoted to the brave, new world of genetic engineering promised by a new gene editing biotechnology called CRISPR. CRISPR, cribbed from bacterial genes, allows scientists to easily tinker with or remove DNA.

CRISPR led to the first genetic engineering of human embryos, reported in April by Chinese researchers who, after doing their initial experiments, imposed a temporary moratorium on it. In September, a British scientist asked for permission from the the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to also attempt genetic modification of human embryos.

“Things are clearly moving very quickly and this deserves serious discussion,” said Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, who led the 2012 discovery of the gene editing method.

The summit came about because of deep concerns over the possibility of genetic tweaks to human embryos that would forever alter the “germline” DNA of babies in every cell of their bodies, including sperm and ovaries, with uncertain effects passed along to future generations.

But Harvard’s George Church said at the summit on Tuesday that worry about designer babies was overstated. The bigger risk, he suggested, is the use of this technology on so-called somatic cells, which are not passed on to offspring.

For example, Church said, this somatic editing could lead to gene doping in sports or of brain-boosting gene treatments, similar to abuse of stimulants in academia. “If we are going to worry about something in international competition, it will be somatic enhancement, not germline enhancement," he said.

Genetic tweaking in somatic cells is already happening in the medical realm. Researchers have applauded proposals to use CRISPR to treat diseases such as HIV, sickle cell anemia, and cancer, by editing the DNA inside of somatic cells in the blood. In March, Sangamo, one of at least three biotech firms pursuing gene editing of immune cells, launched a clinical trial that will tweak the genes of people with HIV.

Other meeting attendees echoed Church’s concerns. Bioethicist Insoo Hyun of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, said that genetically engineered immune cell treatments (such as those helping with muscle wasting in AIDS or cancer patients) could get in the hands of athletes for illicit use. Stem cell researcher George Daley of Boston Children’s Hospital acknowledged this was “a real worry” tied to FDA rules that allow doctors to prescribe “off-label” uses for prescription drugs. “We may want stricter rules in this case,” he said.

The FDA has already established regulations for older methods of gene editing that have been tried in human patients, bioethicist Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin said. Such rules “become rigid over time,” she said, making them hard to change.

Another researcher at the summit, Jonathan Weissman of the University of California, San Francisco, suggested that gene editing might treat HIV, cancer, or other ailments without adding or removing DNA from cells in any way. Instead CRISPR can move around DNA markers that cells use to turn genes on and off.

He proposed giving people pills dosed with CRISPR proteins tuned in this way to deactivate a gene called CCR5 that makes people vulnerable to HIV, for example. Once they stop taking the pill, the gene would reactivate, obviating worries about permanent changes to genes.

Despite the progress in the field — illustrated by the journal Science releasing a paper on Tuesday reporting a way to improve the accuracy of CRISPR edits — scientists such as Nobel Prize Winner David Baltimore of Caltech cautioned that the basic biology of CRISPR needs more work before any of the promised benefits or worries will come true.

“The whole simplicity of the method is a little overhyped,” Baltimore said. “It’s not really something you can do in a garage.”

LINK: Chinese Study Of Human Embryos Raises Fears Of Designer Babies

LINK: The Pentagon Is Putting Big Money Into Synthetic Biology

LINK: Does Biotech Need Limits?

25 Genius Tweets Guaranteed To Make You Laugh If You're Clueless About Sport

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“My girlfriend was devastated to find out that my mates call me ‘The Love Machine’ because I’m terrible at tennis.”


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People Are Petitioning The BBC To Remove Tyson Fury From Award Shortlist Over "Homophobic" Comments

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Tyson Fury said homosexuality would lead to the apocalypse – but has denied he is homophobic.

A Change.org petition to remove heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist has reached 30,000 signatures in two days.

A Change.org petition to remove heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist has reached 30,000 signatures in two days.

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Fury beat Ukrainian fighter Wladimir Klitschko to become the world heavyweight champion on Saturday, and it was announced that he was on the Sports Personality shortlist on Monday.

Fury beat Ukrainian fighter Wladimir Klitschko to become the world heavyweight champion on Saturday, and it was announced that he was on the Sports Personality shortlist on Monday.

Tyson Fury (right) in the ring with Christian Hammer.

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But LGBT rights campaigners have called for him to be excluded from the list due to his recent comments on homosexuality.

The Manchester-born boxer told the Mail on Sunday in November, in the build-up to his fight against Klitschko, that there are three things that need to happen "before the devil comes home".

"One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia," he said. "Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalised?"

Human rights and LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell responded by labelling Fury "deranged".

Human rights and LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell responded by labelling Fury "deranged".

"Tyson is a brilliant boxer but a very bigoted and confused Christian," he told the Daily Mail.

"To equate same-sex love with abortion and paedophilia is deranged and offensive."

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Virender Sehwag Just Offered To Buy His Sons A Goddamn Ferrari If They Break His Record

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And it’s dad goals AF.

While speaking to Harsha Bhogle at the fourth test between India and South Africa, former opener Virender Sehwag said that if his sons break his 319-run record, he will gift them a Ferrari.

While speaking to Harsha Bhogle at the fourth test between India and South Africa, former opener Virender Sehwag said that if his sons break his 319-run record, he will gift them a Ferrari.

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A FERRARI, which costs approximately ₹2.27-3.37 crore in India.

A FERRARI, which costs approximately ₹2.27-3.37 crore in India.

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Sehwag's record, which he made in April, 2008 against South Africa, is the highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket.

Sehwag's record, which he made in April, 2008 against South Africa, is the highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket.

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In short:

In short:

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Oscar Pistorius's Sentence Upgraded To Murder

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The South African state won its appeal against the initial culpable homicide sentence handed to the athlete for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Oscar Pistorius listens to his original judgment in Pretoria, Oct. 21.

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Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius had his sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 upgraded to murder in South Africa's Supreme Court in Bloemfontein Thursday morning.

Appeal Judge Lorimer Eric Leach said the verdict by the case's original judge, Thokozile Masipa — which led to Pistorius being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter — in October 2014, was "fundamentally flawed."

"He ought to have been convicted not of culpable homicide, but murder," Leach said.

Judge Eric Leach delivers his judgement in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, Dec. 3

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In his opening remarks, Judge Leach said the case was a "human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions."

"A young man overcomes huge physical disabilities to reach Olympian heights as an athlete. In doing so he becomes an international celebrity, he meets a young woman of great natural beauty and a successful model, romance blossoms, and then, ironically on Valentine's Day, all is destroyed when he takes her life," he said, according to NBC News.


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Sixteen FIFA Officials Charged With Corruption

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Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout — two high-ranking Latin American officials — were detained in dawn raids in Zurich Thursday.

The FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 20.

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Two top FIFA officials have been arrested in dawn raids in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday morning on suspicion of taking "millions of dollars" in bribes related to marketing rights for Latin American soccer tournaments, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said in a statement.

Later Thursday, the department revealed in another statement that the two officials were Alfredo Hawit — the Honduran president of Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and a FIFA vice-president; and Juan Angel Napout — the Paraguayan president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), who is also a FIFA official.

Juan Angel Napout, left; Alfredo Hawit, right.

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They were arrested at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, who are carrying out an investigation into corruption at world soccer's governing body.

The DOJ announced Thursday "a 92-count superseding indictment was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging an additional 16 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with their participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer."

During a press conference, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the DOJ will continue to take on "pervasive and long running conspiracies in the world of organized soccer."

"The scale of corruption of alleged is unconscionable," Lynch said. "The message of this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade this ongoing investigation: You will not wait as out and you will not escape our focus."

The sixteen officials indicted Thursday are as follows, per DOJ release:

CONCACAF officials:
Alfredo Hawit (CONCACAF president); Ariel Alvarado; Rafael Callejas (Former President of Honduras); Brayan Jiménez; Rafael Salguero; Héctor Trujillo; Reynaldo Vasquez.

CONMEBAL officials:

Juan Ángel Napout (CONMEBOL president); Manual Burga; Carlos Chávez; Luîs Chiriboga; Marco Polo del Nero; Eduardo Deluca; José Luis Meiszner; Romer Osuna; Ricardo Teixeira.

Eight FIFA officials took plea deals on corruption charges, the DOJ announced as well.

Early Thursday a statement was released on the arrests of Hawit and Napout: said:

The two FIFA officials were arrested by the Zurich cantonal police today in Zurich. The detention orders issued by the FOJ are based on arrest requests submitted by the United States Department of Justice on 29 November 2015. In the light of further investigations conducted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, these individuals are now also suspected of having received bribes. The high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have taken the money in return for selling marketing rights in connection with football tournaments in Latin America, as well as World Cup qualifying matches. According to the arrest requests, some of the offences were agreed and prepared in the USA. Payments were also processed via U.S. banks.

The arrests took place at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where other FIFA officials were arrested in May, the New York Times reported. FIFA officials had gathered in the city to vote on reforms to the scandal-hit organization.

In response to the arrests, FIFA released a statement saying it would "cooperate fully" with the investigation.

FIFA became aware of the actions taken today by the U.S. Department of Justice.

FIFA will continue to co-operate fully with the U.S. investigation as permitted by Swiss law, as well as with the investigation being led by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General.

FIFA will have no further comment on today's developments.

At a press conference after the FIFA meeting where the reforms were discussed, the organization's reform committee chairman Francois Carrard said the arrests were "an important step," the BBC reported.

"Fifa is going through a major crisis - a crisis is a unique opportunity for change, for renewal," he said.

Carrard also announced a raft of reforms for FIFA, and a comprehensive reorganization of the body's structure.

He said that, in future, FIFA would increase the number of women involved in decision making to at least one per continental federation. He also announced term limits for senior officials, whose salaries would be made public.

FIFA has posted the full slate of reforms in detail here.

The reforms will be ratified by 209 member associations Friday. However, a proposal to increase the number of teams competing at the World Cup from 32 to 40 has been deferred to a future date, pending further study.


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NBA Jerseys Look Way Better As Soccer Kits

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Graphic designer Alexandre De Sève says he’s a big fan of both sports and wanted to try something he’s never been done before.

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Atlanta Hawks

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Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics

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Brooklyn Nets

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Charlotte Hornets

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Man Arrested After Posting Photo Of Toddler On Facebook With Caption "Next Fuck"

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Former AFL player agent Ricky Nixon has been arrested and then released "pending further investigation" after posting a photo of a small child with the caption "next fuck" on his Facebook, The Guardian reports.

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Victoria Police confirmed a 52-year-old man was arrested in relation to alleged telecommunications offences.

It is believed Nixon posted the comment while arguing with a woman on Facebook about his tell-all book, My Side, which chronicles his fall from grace.

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A woman was teasing NIxon for blocking her son when he responded by posting a picture of her granddaughter he had gotten from her Facebook with the comment "next fuck."

In 2010 and 2011 Nixon had a relationship with then 17-year-old school girl Kim Duthie and recently went to court against Duthie to defend the inclusion of the relationship in his book.

Following the court case, Nixon has been on social media attempting to promote his book.



Regular People Try To Catch Passes From An NFL Quarterback

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“I do CrossFit…so yeah, I can catch a pass…”

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Coldplay To Headline Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show

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Chris Martin said the band was “honored and thrilled” to play the show. The Super Bowl will take place on Feb. 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Coldplay will be the halftime performer during Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California, the NFL announced Thursday during the Packers-Lions game.

Coldplay will be the halftime performer during Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California, the NFL announced Thursday during the Packers-Lions game.

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Incidentally, all NFL 50 yard lines this season are painted, well, yellow.

Coldplay has a new album out Friday, called A Head Full of Dreams. The Verge reported the band will follow the leads of Taylor Swift and Adele in keeping their album off ad-supported streaming music services like Spotify.

The Super Bowl will take place on Feb. 7 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Early rumors had suggested Maroon 5 would get the Super Bowl 50 headline bill.

Recent Super Bowl performers, including Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, and Beyonce, have been slated for appearances during the extended halftime.

In a video posted on YouTube, Chris Martin said the band was "honored and thrilled" to play the show.

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How Well Do You Really Know These Champions League Clubs' Logos?

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Can you spot the difference between the real Champions League teams’ badges, and the fake badges we’ve created?

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Can You Name ALL 14 English Football Teams With "United" In Their Name?

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From Premier League down to League Two, there are 14 teams to find. (Hint: One is obviously Manchester United).

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How Well Do You Know These Premier League Kit Sponsors?

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Do you know as much as you think you do? It’s time to get kitted up and find out.

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37 Of The Most Hilarious Shaq Tweets Of All Time

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Random acts of Shaqness indeed.

Shaq's first tweet was pretty basic, but there were hints that greatness was coming.

Shaq's first tweet was pretty basic, but there were hints that greatness was coming.

Starting a tweet with a comma and ending in all caps with NO punctuation? Bold strategy, Shaq.

Twitter: @SHAQ

For instance, Shaq loves making fun of himself.

For instance, Shaq loves making fun of himself.

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Floyd Mayweather Got A Tiger As A Christmas Gift

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The boxer shared a photo of him holding a leash around the tiger cub’s neck.

On Thursday, boxer Floyd Mayweather shared a photo on social media of "a rare and exotic tiger from India" he said he had received as a gift.

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"I want to thank my family here in Moscow, Russia for the hospitality and my early Christmas present, a rare and exotic tiger from India," he wrote.

"Any suggestions for a name for this two-month old, female tiger?"

On Facebook, though, people were not pleased. The top comments were mostly negative:

On Facebook, though, people were not pleased. The top comments were mostly negative:


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U.S. Women's Soccer Team Cancels Game, Decrying Unequal Treatment

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US goalkeeper Hope Solo. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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The U.S. women’s soccer team refused to play in an international game Sunday because of unsafe field conditions — turning a battered, rock-filled artificial turf field into a symbol of a gulf between the treatment of men and women at the highest levels of soccer.

“Our federation continues to put us into subpar and unsafe playing conditions compared to the men, and we decided it was time to stand against that,” Hope Solo, the team’s goalkeeper, told BuzzFeed News of the decision to cancel the game, a match against Trinidad and Tobago that was part of the team's victory tour following their World Cup win. “This is bigger than one game for us. We decided to take a stand that this cannot go on.”

The field intended for Sunday’s game, Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, was made from artificial turf — a surface that players consider inferior, and that men's international teams almost never play on. In the days leading up to Sunday's match, players complained that the turf itself was in dangerously poor condition. The surface in front of the goal was run through with a long, gaping seam that could be lifted from the ground. Small, sharp rocks were mixed into the rubber pellets of the field, Solo said, and hard, painted lines every 10 yards — remnants of the football field — created a tripping hazard.

"At the end of the day, we expect to be treated equally as our male counterparts," the team wrote in a post on the website The Players' Tribune. "We hope that, in the future, our fields and our venues will be chosen and inspected at the standard of an international match — whether it’s men or women playing on the field."

The U.S. Soccer Federation, the team wrote, had not inspected the field in the months before the match — a protocol that is in place for the men's team, according to Julie Foudy, a former soccer player and writer for ESPN. U.S. Soccer did not return multiple calls from BuzzFeed News seeking comment.

Alex Morgan, the team’s most visible player, told Fox Soccer that the conditions in Hawaii were “horrible."

“I think the team needs to be a little more vocal about whether this is good for our bodies and whether we should be playing on it if the men wouldn't be playing on it,” Morgan said.

Days before, one of the team's star players, Megan Rapinoe, was seriously injured on a grass training field in Hawaii that players said was itself in poor shape, with pieces of plastic and sewer plates on the sidelines.

The team, Solo told BuzzFeed News, saw the conditions of the field as the culmination of frustrations with the American soccer federation. Fresh off of winning a World Cup that was itself played on artificial turf, the team was sent to play virtually their entire victory tour, eight of nine games, on artificial fields.

The men’s team, by contrast, did not play a U.S. soccer game on turf all year; when they toured to a turf stadium, a layer of sod and grass was laid above the artificial surface.

“I think our fans can read between the lines and see it's not about one game, it’s a matter of equity in all conditions,” Solo said. “That’s the salary, the standards of our training facilities, the marketing, what’s put into selling tickets. The amount of money that goes into the men’s team compared to the amount of money spent on the women’s team is very unbalanced.”

When the women's team won the World Cup this July, it took home a prize of $2 million — less than a quarter of the $9 million that the U.S. men's team received for losing in the tournament's first knockout round. The men's World Cup winners, Germany, received $35 million.


FBI Investigating FIFA President Sepp Blatter's Role In $100m Bribery Scandal

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Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter

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The FBI is investigating outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter's role in a $100 million bribery scandal after he was implicated by his predecessor, according to reports.

A letter obtained by the FBI and sent to Swiss authorities detailed how former FIFA president João Havelange said Blatter had full knowledge of all activities,” and was “always apprised to them," a BBC investigation has uncovered.

Sports marketing company ISL paid a total of $100 million to officials including Havelange and ex-FIFA executive Ricardo Teixeira in the early 1990s.

In return the company was given lucrative television and marketing rights throughout the 1990s. Blatter has consistently denied knowing about the bribes.

In another document obtained by the BBC, and seen by the Guardian, the FBI requested information from an earlier Swiss investigation into the ISL scandal.

The note said: “Among other things, the prosecutor is investigating Havelange’s statements implicating Blatter and appearing to exculpate Havelange’s son-in-law, [Ricardo] Teixeira, in the ISL matter.”

Sepp Blatter, Joao Havelange and Michel Platini chat during the 1998 World Cup match

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In the letter from Havelange, which is believed to have been written in 2010, he claims ISL payments to him were above board.

“During the period of time in which I was FIFA president, Mr Joseph Blatter was the secretary general, I maintained commercial relationships with sports marketing companies which were under my economic control, and, as a result of these relationships, I received remuneration, in accordance with FIFA regulations, and this was the object of a judicial proceeding settlement in Switzerland without acknowledgement of any guilt.

“I clarify that all expenses for the mentioned proceeding, including attorneys, were paid by FIFA. I emphasize that Mr Joseph Blatter had full knowledge of all activities described above and was always apprised to them.”

Havelange resigned as honorary FIFA president in 2013 after an ethics committee report confirmed he and Teixeira had taken bribes over an eight-year period.

Blatter’s lawyers failed to respond to a request for comment when the BBC contacted them.

We Rated The West Midlands' Football Match Pies

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Who will score the points in Birmingham’s Football Pie League?

Travelling up and down the country, a group of pie-loving friends and I chart the country's pie ratings on Pierate. For over five years now, we've been rating pies at the football matches we've attended following our local team, Wycombe Wanderers. We've rated over 500 pies so far!

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There should be plenty of filling inside the pastry (who wants to pay for an air gap?!) and content that is flavoursome and made of quality ingredients. The meat should be tender and the pastry crisp and enjoyable, not doughy or soggy.

Finally, you want consistency with the pie filling (not just one big chunk of meat in a sea of gravy), and the pie should be good value for money (cheapness). When it comes to a pie at a football match, I wouldn't want to pay more than £3 for a mass-produced pie or £3.50 for a more artisan option.


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