A friend's death at the 2022 World Cup, and what grief can teach us
In his new book, Legs Hearts Minds: Loss and Its Remedies, award-winning sports journalist Chris Jones tells the story of how his life detonated — and how an improbable English soccer team helped keep him alive.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/legs-hearts-minds-book-excerpt-chris-jones-9.7222102?cmp=rss

Mon terrain, c’est une page blanche. Mon ballon, c’est un stylo.
Le reste ? Des histoires de football, de passion, de bruit de tribune et d’odeur d’herbe coupée. Et je ne me lasserai jamais de les raconter.
Et quand je peux le faire pour une boîte avec qui je travaille, c'est tout bénef !

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La Ligue 1+ arrive : Amazon casse le prix de l'abonnement d'un an, et tous les fans de foot peuvent en profiter

12,99 euros par mois pendant 1 an au lieu de 14,99 euros par mois, sans obligation d’avoir Prime. Amazon fait un prix pour accéder à la nouvelle chaine du

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One thing I've noticed is that #sports #sportsjournalist 's haven't made the move in general (at least, most of my sports follows over at the muskratsite...)

@Erindurant42 I would definitely be interested in learning more about your thoughts on the matter. I didn’t really become interested in #SportsGovernance until graduate school - and that was after being a #SportsJournalist and never really seriously investigating how issues like this are handled at the governing level. (That’s a continuously humbling thing to have to admit …)