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Montreal Canadiens Role Profiles: Arber Xhekaj

As we get into the dog days of summer and until training camp, thesickpodcast.com will profile Montreal Canadiens players based on their expected role for the 2026-27 NHL season. With training camp just under a month away, Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj remains unsigned, and his future with the team is uncertain as he continues […] The post Montreal Canadiens Role Profiles: Arber Xhekaj appeared first on The Sick Podcast .

Match Report: Everton 4 – 0 Leicester City

Recap Leicester City were thrashed by Everton by a score of 4-0 in City’s final match at Goodison Park. The Toffees opened the scoring on 10 seconds through Abdoulaye Doucoure and doubled the lead five minutes later when Beto got behind the defence. Beto and Ilman Ndiaye scored in injury time of the first and […]

Match Report: Tottenham Hotspur 1 – 2 Leicester City

Recap: Leicester City came from behind to beat Tottenham Hotspur by a score of 2-1 in London on Sunday. Richarlison’s headed goal gave the hosts the lead at the half. Within five minutes of the restart, the Foxes had scored twice, with Jamie Vardy and Bilal El Khannouss finding the back of the next. City […]

AC Milan Drop Points As Errors Define Match Against Cagliari

AC Milan opened their new year in Serie A with an uninspiring 1-1 draw against Cagliari. Sergio Conceicao quickly got a taste of the challenging nature of league football in Italy after two big wins against Juventus and Inter Milan in the Supercoppa in Riyadh. The Rossoneri struggled in the first half with sloppy passing […]

FSA DS Opening Coming ASAP!

Photo by DIRK WAEM/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images [Update Feb 5] It’s about to happen, I promise! And as suggested in the comment thread, with the site changes taking extra time, we are planning to start the competition with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, returning to our original format before the UAE Tour elbowed its way in. All due respect, World Tour points are a thing, but the real start of the season for many of us is when they roll out of Gent on March 1. I have never been a fan of Feb...

New Black Cyclones, by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe

Biniam Girmay | Alex Broadway / Getty Images Title: New Black Cyclones – Racism, Representation and Revolutions of Power in Cycling Author: Marlon Lee Moncrieffe Publisher: Bloomsbury Year: 2024 Pages: 212 Order: Bloomsbury What it is: Marlon Moncrieffe’s follow-up to Desire Discrimination Determination in which he again addresses the issue of racism in cycling and raises some challenging questions about the ways in which we might rid cycling of its colour bar Strengths : Moncrieffe ackno...

Fin

and some last 2025 FSA DS instructions This is it. I do not know when SBNation plans to turn the site off (read-only mode), but I assume it is by January 1. First things first, as I’ve signaled before, the FSA Directeur Sportif is cued up for another go-round. Not sure about 2026, but 2025 is on. I can’t deprive myself of the chance to price Tadej Pogačar after his megamonster year. Or deprive all of you of the dilemma that price will pose. I could never look Ursula in the eye again if I mis...

Cobbles Are Forever

Photo by Tim de Waele/Corbis via Getty Images A look back at the whole Flanders thing and what it meant to the Café This final* post is appropriately dedicated to, uh, for shorthand let’s call it Belgium and the Classics. Shorthand because it naturally includes France and the Netherlands to a significant degree, not to mention riders from around the globe. To the extent that concerns the thing I wrote about the most, that would be the cobbled classics, though it’s hard not to loop in the ...

Only At the Cafe...

A handful of things that made it unique around here I have no idea how to structure this post so I’m just gonna get into it. Things got kind of strange at times, probably a function of American fans in our Editors’ circle. When your favorite sport delivers the best it has before lunch, you have all sorts of time to indulge the ideas knocking around your head. Keep in mind that the online cycling content alternatives consisted of CyclingNews and VeloNews, not known for weird humor (stupid edito...