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In Gaza, one organization struggles to keep children playing“Now, everything is completely gone,” Tamara Awartani tells me of the afterschool programs her organization, Palestine Sports for Life (PSFL), had established in Gaza for young children (especially girls) who otherwise had no access to football or physical education. “I was able to check on one girl...

Does Algeria Really Plan On Donating Their World Cup Winnings To Gaza? Yesterday, a story surfaced claiming that Algeria striker Islam Slimani said his team would be donating all of their World Cup prize winnings—$9 million was the reported amount, which is accurate for a team eliminated in the Round of 16—to Gaza. That's an extremely generous gesture. It also appear...

This Week's Signs Of The ApocalypseFor nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....

Yes, Gaza Strip Parkour Is Seen As A Distraction From "Violence And Militancy"

Mohammed and Abdallah are apparently "Gaza's leading practitioners of parkour" which they see as "set apart from political and religious factionalism, from violence and militancy."...