UK Sports Staff

bees

Science Has Figured Out How to Get Bees to Play Soccer (Finally!)

Researchers at the Queen Mary University of London​ were curious if bees were capable of learning complex tasks and then—bam!—bees were playing soccer.
Sean Newell
UK Sports Staff
2.24.17
FIGHTLAND

Olympic Taekwondo Champion Jade Jones Would Consider Switch To MMA

Jones, who recently won Wales’ Sports Personality Of The Year award, has been thinking about her future after Tokyo 2020, and MMA is on her radar.
UK Sports Staff
12.9.16
glorious juche football

Kim Jong-un Reportedly Wants North Korea To Produce The Next Lionel Messi

The Supreme Leader has got bored with intercontinental ballistic missiles, and is now focussing on nurturing North Korea’s answer to Lionel Messi instead.
UK Sports Staff
11.16.16
Srebrenica

Greek Football Federation Calls Srebrenica Banners Displayed By Fans “Despicable”

During Greece’s World Cup qualifying match against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday, a number of Greek fans displayed a banner that read: ‘Knife, Wire, Srebrenica’.
UK Sports Staff
11.14.16
the king does not approve

Anthony Stokes Pleads Guilty To Assaulting Elvis Presley Impersonator

The former Celtic forward, now at Blackburn Rovers, is in court on a charge of assaulting a man dressed as Elvis outside a Dublin nightclub, which is apparently a crime.
UK Sports Staff
11.11.16
fatim jawara

Goalkeeper For Gambian Women’s National Team Confirmed To Have Died During Mediterranean Crossing

Fatim Jawara, thought to have been 19 years old, is reported to have been aboard a boat that floundered during a crossing from Libya to Europe.
UK Sports Staff
11.3.16
crowd violence

Arrests Made as Crowd Violence Erupts at Another West Ham Fixture

West Ham's move to the former Olympic Stadium is under the spotlight yet again after crowd trouble marred their League Cup win over Chelsea on Wednesday night.
UK Sports Staff
10.27.16
homosexuality in football

Gay Premier League Players Would Suffer "Significant Abuse", Says FA Chairman

The chairman of the English FA says that it would be impossible for a Premier League footballer to come out because they would be subjected to "significant abuse".
UK Sports Staff
10.17.16
atlantic league

FC Copenhagen Director Substantiates Rumours Of Potential ‘Atlantic League’

Anders Horsholt has confirmed that discussions over an international league have taken place, with teams from Scotland, Denmark and Holland to take part, amongst others.
UK Sports Staff
10.13.16
bad times for tyson fury

Tyson Fury’s Boxing License Suspended Pending Investigation Into Anti-Doping Issues

The British Boxing Board of Control has confirmed that Fury has lost his license, in an already turbulent month for the Mancunian boxer.
UK Sports Staff
10.13.16
qatar world cup scandal

Dutch Trade Union to Sue FIFA Over Modern ‘Slavery’ in Qatar

FNV, the largest trade union in the Netherlands, has decided to take action through the Swiss courts together with a worker from Bangladesh.
UK Sports Staff
10.11.16
shit! did you see that?

Cardona, Guerrero, Wee Joe Allen: Vice Sports Goals Of The Week

Helping to get you through the unbearable monotony of the international break, here are some magnificent goooooals!
UK Sports Staff
10.7.16
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