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SKY SPORTS host David Jones has been speaking to Express Sport about Manchester City, Gabriel Jesus and the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.

“I think we’ll enjoy the novelty of it,” he said. “Then you start reading the transfer news. There might be some tiredness at the back end of the season, a few injuries, anything can happen. “For him, obviously, he’s gone to Arsenal and hit the ground running in pre-season. Sky Sports host David Jones believes Manchester City are the favourites to win the Premier League title ahead of Liverpool this season. It never quite worked for him at Manchester City and, of course, that can happen when it’s not a natural fit.

The city will use its sport tourism strategy to attract international games. A two-day Sport Summit was just concluded in the metro where the lack of ...

The metro wants to invest in more infrastructures with a R35-million capital budget. The private sector needs to invest more in sport development in the city. The city will use its sport tourism strategy to attract international games.

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I didn't reflect a ton on how or why groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes existed until after I started grad school in American religious history.

Pope Francis visited Canada last week and worked to make amends for the Catholic Church’s role in the mistreatment of the country’s Indigenous communities. The Georgia Guidestones had to be taken down in July after a vandal set off a bomb at the foot of one of the slabs. People can and will land in different places on that, but I hope there’s more reflection and humility about the life that Christians lead and how we can work together for the common good. For many of us, prayer feels like a normal and good part of sports culture, but that’s obviously not the way everyone in the U.S. sees what is happening. What do you hope will happen in the months and years to come? In general, there was a presence of Catholic priests in the NFL, in particular, in the mid-20th century. I wanted to see their impression of what was at stake and what religious angles they were bringing to it. When an athlete who is bound up in a contest and locked in the zone experiences a moment of success, it makes perfect sense that someone who believes in a higher power would acknowledge and recognize God’s presence as they celebrate. Since about the 1970s, there’s been a group of scholars in the religious studies field who have looked at the question of is sports a religion. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes actually went to the National Council of Churches to ask to collaborate, but they were turned away. I didn’t reflect a ton on how or why groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes existed until after I started grad school in American religious history. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska. I was a preacher’s kid who loved sports and played basketball through high school and for a small Christian college.