Canadian soccer players pledge part of their salaries to Common Goal movement

Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod waves to fans after defeating Switzerland 1-0 in a FIFA Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match in Vancouver on June 21, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

By Neil Davidson

TORONTO (CP) May 21 — Canada will be helping others while going trophy-hunting at this summer’s Women’s World Cup.

Canada captain Christine Sinclair and 13 other national team players have followed veteran goalkeeper Erin McLeod’s lead in joining Common Goal, pledging one per cent of their salaries to the football-based charity movement.

This Day. English football salutes Nazi Germany

On this day, 14 May 1938, the players of the England football team raised their arms to give the Nazi “Heil Hitler” salute before a match in Berlin. They had been ordered to do so directly by the British Foreign Office. Reportedly the players at first refused, until the British ambassador and Football Association secretary intervened and ordered them to do so. At the time the British government had signed an agreement with Hitler permitting his annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia, and much of the British ruling class supported the dictatorships of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco as bulwarks against communism.

A victory for baseball

March 28, 1999, the Baltimore Orioles faced the Cuban national team in Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium, and on May 3, the two met under the lights in Camden Yards, a sports moment of fine art, despite the obstacles created | Oscar Sánchez 

Rugby eliminated as high school sport in Nova Scotia

Note: Since this story was published, rugby has been reinstated

Trump breaks Cuba-US baseball agreement

The agreement applauded by players and fans around the world was canceled to further the Trump administration’s increasingly confrontational policy toward Cuba | Oscar Sánchez Serra

It is not news that the Trump administration has canceled the agreement signed by the MLB and the Cuban Baseball Federation, on December 19, after three years of hard work by both parties.

And it is not because the agreement sought to end the human suffering of Cuban athletes.

IOC knew Russian athletes were clean, but concealed evidence of their innocence – lawyer

Staff of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dismantle a backdrop after a news conference after the Olympic Summit on doping in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 21, 2016 | Reuters / Denis Balibouse

Journalist in Ghana who exposed soccer corruption shot dead

FRANCIS KOKUTSE AND GERALD IMRAY, AP

ACCRA, GHANA January 17) – An investigative journalist in Ghana who helped expose a high-ranking official at world soccer body FIFA as corrupt was shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he drove home alone at night, police said on Thursday.