What started with an innocent tweet from Jalen Brunson about a bet he lost with Luka Doncic ended up with an elite move on Doncic’s part when Brunson walked into the Mavericks’ most recent preseason game wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey.
While Brunson, a Philadelphia Eagles fan, was probably embarrassed enough to show up to a game wearing Cowboys threads, that wasn’t even the worst part. The jersey had the number 77 on it, which is of course Doncic’s Mavericks number, and when Brunson walked past the cameras, they could see that the name on the jersey was not Brunson or some former Cowboys player, but “Luka’s Son.”
The friendly beef between the two young Mavs started when Brunson tweeted asking what jersey he should have to wear for losing the bet. Brunson, probably thinking he was getting back at Doncic a little bit, made fun of Doncic for not knowing who Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens is. Doncic responded by saying he’d customize the jersey instead.
The result was way worse for Brunson than if he would have just suggested a friendly payback for the bet. Maybe a Tony Romo jersey or something. Instead, we will forever have video footage of Brunson wearing a jersey that labels him the son of his jokester teammate.
They say love is the greatest gift of all. And that gift usually comes in the form of calories and carbs during the holidays. So what better way to show you care than providing your loved ones with everything they need to turn that “amore” into “a-less.” Here are 10 great ideas for anyone looking to get into shape and have fun doing it.
1. TRX Suspension Trainers are blessedly simple and easy to set up. These straps fit right in your doorframe, and use your bodyweight to build muscle, strengthen your core and improve cardio. There are countless video tutorials and actual workouts online that will help guide you. There is no stopping to move equipment around during your workout, and you won’t need to buy anything else as you get stronger because it is all based on angles and bodyweight. This is truly one of my favorites.
topless man in black pants holding black and yellow exercise equipment
2.A classic punching bag. For those of you who just feel like punching something sometimes, I say (in the words the Italian Stallion in Rocky 3) “Go for it.” Nothing combines stress relief with exercise better than boxing. There are a number of heavy bags to choose from and bundles that include everything from wraps and gloves to speed bags and double end bags. This is the most fun you can have while getting in shape. Until the double end bag comes back and nails you in the face. Then it gets personal.
woman in black sports bra and black shorts leaning on orange and black boxing ring
3.Resistance bands are far more versatile and portable than dumbbells. Much like TRX straps, they offer a number of different exercises and have multiple tension levels depending on your level and type of work out you are looking for. They store easily for those living in small spaces and are a great way to tone muscles.
4. If you are into planks, then The Stealth Core Trainer is for you. It is a board you rest your elbows on and has a screen with games you can play so you can have fun while strengthening your core.
5. And if games are your thing, the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality system is for you. Even though it is a gaming system, it offers a number of fitness programs to help you meet your goals. Even games like Creed and Beat Saber will get your heart rate going. If you are looking to get in shape quickly, then some of the options on this list will be a better fit. It is pricier than other items, however, this is the perfect gateway for the couch potato to get moving and move into a more serious regiment.
6.Push-Up Stands.If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Push-ups have always been a great way to get in shape, and push-up stands make them even more effective. In addition to providing more range and motion to the exercise, this simple contraption also takes the strain off your wrists for those of you worried about carpal tunnel.
7.Ab Roller. If you are looking for an ab workout, an ab roller is your new best friend. This little guy will make your mid section the most popular hang out for abs. You will be turning abs away at the door due to capacity limitations. Or you could very well find abs that science doesn’t even know about.
8.Jump Rope. If your ceiling is tall enough, jumping rope 10 minutes a day will get you into shape real quick. Not only is it great for cardio, but it also works your upper and lower body. It is no wonder that it is a staple in workouts for boxers of all levels.
9. Foam Roller.Undoubtedly, if you are pushing yourself your muscles will be sore. For those of us without a personal masseuse at our beck and call, a foam roller is key. Use this handy gizmo to work out the knots, aches and pains that go hand and hand with working out. There are also a bunch of exercises you can do with this useful tool like working the abs, obliques and legs.
10.Magic Bullet and NutriBullet blenders. One of the most important aspects of building muscle is what you put in your body afterwards. Blenders like NutriBullet are a great way to give your muscles the protein and nutrients they need after a workout. Just pop the ingredients in and you have a delicious smoothy in seconds.
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Now that you have everything you need to shed those holiday pounds, I say go forth and carb like you have never carbed before. Because when January 1st comes (okay, let’s face it…January 2nd), it is time to get down to business and start your journey down Beach Body by April Boulevard.
This holiday season, we’d like to say thank you and send a gift to those who have made this year a little bit better for the people around them. We’re looking at all the frontline and essential workers, teachers, mail carriers, volunteers, and superstars in your life! 🙌
Gary, Indiana was once a jewel of America’s booming steel industry. Today, it’s among the nation’s most devastating examples of urban decay. This rust belt town was known as “The Magic City” in the roaring ’20s. By the ‘90s, the sustained assault of racial segregation, rising unemployment as the steel business rescinded, and the influx of drugs saw it dubbed a much more sinister and unwanted title, “murder capital of the nation.” As the economy plummeted so did the population: 175,000 in 1970 to 75,000 at the most recent count. Today, an estimated 20 percent of Gary’s buildings lie abandoned.
From these hardened boulevards blossomed Freddie Gibbs, a rapper of passionate verses, gruff gangsterisms, and flawless fundamentals. Gibbs’ history is colored by drug dealing and, for a brief period, pimping. Like a modern day Jesse James, he even robbed freight trains that stopped in the Gary rail yard. To street cred-hunting label executives, Gangster Gibbs must have turned their eyes to dollar signs, but they understood him about as well as The Fresh Prince’s parents understood their offspring. Freddie was dropped from Interscope in 2007 without releasing a record and began a long process of rebuilding his career. Thirteen years later, it’s about time we started talking about him in terms of the all-time greats.
Many components make up a great rap artist. You’ve got to have the flow, of course. A strong pen game is typically important. You need an ear for the right beats, and you’ve got to be able to put it all together over a full-length project. Not all great rappers make great albums. Then there’s Gibbs, on the kind of streak comparable to Run The Jewels, the 1960s Boston Celtics, and The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. The kind of streak where you can walk on water.
Gibbs’s early stuff is alright, but he didn’t exactly arrive fully formed like Nas. His bars were solid if sometimes punctuated with cliché. As he got older, Gibbs evolved into a pure vision of what hip-hop traditionalists love — technically ferocious, lyrically sharp, besotted with old soul loops — without shifting into the “What we’re gonna do right here is go back!” mindset of the retro revivalist. He’s sometimes compared to 2pac, but like Ghostface Killah and Action Bronson, it’s a comparison that falls apart once you peer beyond the outer shell.
When I interviewed Gibbs in 2019, he described himself as “very consistent since 2010.” It’s a fair way to date the beginning of his golden period. Yet hype enkindles slowly when you exist outside the main hip-hop epicenters, especially if you’re not drawn to making cameos for corny artists for the quick check or promise of radio play.
In 2009, Gibbs dropped “G.I. Pride,” a really fun song that depicted Gary as something of a Grand Theft Auto backdrop full of “Sex, drugs, and murder / Dirty politicians, dirty police, dirty burners.” Just one year later, he went much deeper. “National Anthem (F*ck The World)” was the greatest telling of the Gibbs’ origin story and the true beginning of his peak. Over producer L.A. Riot’s wet strings, the rapper takes you back to the embryonic stages of his musical dreams, wondering if he’d ever make it out from “beneath the streets of Gary,” and despairing at the issues that plague the city. Oh, and he raps magnificently — as the solemn instrumental moves up a gear, Gibbs injects the same urgency by effortlessly shifting into a sharp, double-time flow.
Gibbs’s achieved street rap perfection with the 2012’s Baby Face Killa, a lengthy gangster boogie of huster’s hymns, weed anthems, and endless hooks. But it was Bandana, the first of two full-length collaborations with Madlib, that really garnered him the attention of hip-hop day trippers. It was the kind of independent rap album that music critics love: sonically cohesive, narrative-driven, intensely lyrical. Dubbed a “gangster Blaxploitation film on wax,” Gibbs provides big-screen scope and side-street intimacy over Madlib’s grimy samples. On “Deeper,” he charts the relationship between a small-time criminal and an on-again off-again lover who becomes pregnant to another man. It’s a gritty portrayal of break-up troubles and the low-level grind. “Broken” is his depiction of coming from a fractured home. Over a top-tier Madlib beat that sees the Beat Konducta skin a sample of an old Issac Hayes joint that isn’t “Walk On By,” Gibbs talks about the empty promises he made to his grandmother to stay away from crime and reveals the complex feelings he has about a father who served in law enforcement. If the subject matter leaves you cold, Gibbs’ performance is a warming agent.
Gibbs does not stay still. When we spoke, he tried to communicate as respectfully as possible that he essentially had no Gary rap forefathers to look up to. This perhaps lent itself to style-hopping, and even today you’re as likely to find him on a dusty East Coast loop as a thick West Coast bassline. There’s a reason why Freddie was recruited to join California veterans MC Eiht and Kokane on “Welcome To Los Santos,” an official anthem of Grand Theft Auto 5’s Los Angeles stand-in.
So there’s been the more serious-toned noir of Shadow Of A Doubt (0n “Fuckin’ Up The Count,” Gibbs takes the entire universe of The Wire and recasts it in his own image), the confessional writing of You Only Live 2wice, the intense bangers of Freddie, the lean team-up with Curren$y and Alchemist Fetti, and a strong Madlib sequel in Bandana. Gibbs’ instinct for the right producers and ear for beats is worthy of middle era Ghostface.
Alfredo is Gibbs’ latest full-length one of his most impressive in his career for sheer sense of effortlessness. He’s made better records, but none that feel a product of Freddie being so completely in the zone. With Alchemist behind the boards, Gibbs delivers 10 expertly crafted, infinitely listenable rap songs like a man laid back in his study, a glass of hard liquor and cigar sitting on a place end table next to him, spilling loose ruminations on a dark night. Even when Gibbs does veer into triteness (another rap song about Frank Lucas?), it’s never hard on the ear.
“With this project, I laid down the music, but the beats get out of the way so he can do what he does,” Alchemist said about Gibbs. “I’m proud of the beats, but I know that he showed off.” Freddie was rewarded with the highest-charting album of his career.
The calm sounds of “Something To Rap About” invites cool-headed introspection. The title suggests the ease of which the writing is coming to Gibbs as he unleashes a cool verse that veers from sexual liaisons in Las Vegas to his hope he’ll live to old age. Great artists at the peak of their powers are capable of getting into these grooves. When they lose it, it’s almost impossible to rediscover.
In the aftermath of Alfredo, Gibbs inked a contract with Warner, giving him another crack at a major label. It’s tempting to call it the squaring of the circle, but that would suggest the deal is an endpoint in itself, rather than a mile-marker along Gibbs’ journey, and there’s no guarantee it will work out any better for him than his ill-fated stint on Interscope. After a decade on fire, the challenge is to keep beating expectations.
Stephen Colbert visited the home of Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, on Thursday night for a wide-ranging interview on the president-elect’s plans for America, given that Donald Trump will be removed from office. In a more light-hearted segment centered on the holidays, the Bidens shared their optimism for everyone having a “normal” Christmas next year, which dove-tailed into Dr. Biden revealing her husband’s strict rules for decorating the family tree.
Thanks to a tradition started by his father, every year Biden makes his wife help him whip homemade “snow” for the tree using Ivory Snow powdered soap, which the president-elect swears looks like real snow. After that, it’s time to put the tinsel on the tree, and in a surprisingly meticulous move, Biden insists that each strand is placed individually and not just tossed onto the tree like most normal people do. In fact, there’s a “pecking order” amongst his children for who gets to go first placing a strand. Biden also revealed that he’s up until 3 a.m. decorating the tree for Christmas morning to make it look like Santa did the job, and he still does it to this day.
The segment was a nice diversion from the heavier topic of the Republican attacks on the Bidens’ son Hunter, who’s currently under federal investigation for his business affairs. While the president-elect says he’s willing to look past the attacks on his son for the good of the country, he does consider the GOP’s tactics to be “kind-of foul play.”
HBO Max debuted in May, but it’s already a must-subscribe (especially now that it’s on Roku). The streaming service is the home of The Flight Attendant, Harley Quinn, and Search Party, and next year, it’s gaining the Gossip Girl and The Boondocks reboots, the Friends reunion special, the Joss Whedon-less The Nevers, and Steven Soderbergh’s crime thriller No Sudden Move, starring Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm, Ray Liotta, Kieran Culkin, Brendan Fraser, and Amy Seimetz.
The promo for “HBO Max’s Epic Lineup” above — which shows off both HBO and HBO Max-only programs — also previews Wonder Woman 1984 and the Snyder Cut; new seasons of Insecure and Succession; the two-part Tiger Woods documentary, Tiger; the next Euphoria special; and the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.
There’s no new footage from the show (the fire-blasting dragon is taken from a Season 7 scene of Thrones), but there is a logo and a premiere… year. House of the Dragon will bow on HBO in 2022, assuming Dune director Denis Villeneuve hasn’t found an actual dragon and threatened to set fire to WarnerMedia’s headquarters by then.
House of the Dragon stars Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, and Emma D’Arcy, while Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal will serve as showrunners.
CBS All Access’ reboot of Stephen King’s The Stand is a mostly successful one and feels like an unlikely part of the antidote to this hellish year. However, there’s one group of people that isn’t too thrilled over a casting decision. The Deaf community is calling for a boycott of the Josh Boone-directed limited series, given that the show cast Henry Zaga, a hearing actor, to portray Deaf character (written as “deaf-mute” by King in his novel) Nick Andros, a member of the Boulder Free Zone.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals details of a statement from 70 signatories, who are calling the casting decision “not acceptable.” It’s not a new controversy, either, given that (in August 2019) model Nyle DiMarco expressed his anger over the casting of Zaga as Andros, which he believes is continuing evidence that “Hollywood takes pride in diversity to ensure representation & authenticity.., BUT CONTINUES TO EXCLUDE people with disabilities.” At the time, DiMarco said that his attempts at outreach on the issue (which he stated had begun two years prior, because he wanted to circumvent this role going to a hearing actor) went ignored. Fast forward to 2020, and the group of Deaf signatories quoted by THR are calling for a boycott:
“We will not endorse, watch, or support your miniseries on CBS All Access. We will share our displeasure of the casting decision and airing of the miniseries on CBS All Access with our Deaf community, signing community, friends, and family of Deaf individuals; together we make up 466 million worldwide.”
In conjunction with this letter, a #Standagainstthestand hashtag is trending, and users are stressing the importance of authenticity (as in, casting Deaf actors in Deaf roles) and representation.
The currently circulating letter further claims that “not one Deaf professional actor was called in to audition for the role.” Although this claim has not been fully corroborated, THR spoke with talent manager Robert Rossi (who represents many Deaf actors, including Dickie Hearts, who signed the letter), who confirmed that he wasn’t notified about the casting of The Stand. He found this to be unusual because “[u]sually SAG diversity office reaches out directly to me and the diversity casting department at networks.” Yet, Rossi stated, “Nobody reached out. It was already a done deal and here is the problem. Multiple deaf/native signers could have authentically portrayed this role.”
Previously (also in August 2019), the Daily Moth (an online program that uses American Sign Language and covers stories relating to Deaf culture) raised the issue while claiming that Josh Boone had participated in a vlog, in which the director stated that he intended to honor the character of Nick as written by King. Boone also reportedly explained that Henry Zaga was working to learn ASL worked with Deaf consultants, and Boone pointed out that Nick can hear within his dreams, so (as paraphrased by the Daily Moth) “it is okay to have a hearing actor because the character is both deaf and hearing depending on whether he is asleep or awake.”
THR reached out to The Stand producers and learned that the Deaf artists’ community that issued the statement will soon be meeting with CBS to discuss the issue.
It seems like ancient history by now, but the mark Jeremy Lin left on the NBA during his breakout season in 2011-2012, forever known as “Linsanity,” will be remembered by future generations of up-and-coming players who believe they have what it takes if only given a chance to shine.
Unfortunately, his career since then hasn’t been able to live up to the delirious joy of that magical stretch of games with the Knicks, and a rash of injuries eventually landed him out of the NBA altogether after his last stint with the Raptors during their championship season.
Lin has been plying his wares in China since then with the Beijing Ducks, but has long vowed to work his way back into the league. Now, it appears he’ll get that chance. And fittingly enough, it will be with the team where it all started.
Jeremy Lin is finalizing a deal with the Golden State Warriors, pending letter of clearance from Chinese Basketball Association, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA@Stadium.
Jeremy Lin is planning to sign with Golden State Warriors and then join their G League affiliate, Santa Cruz, as he continues to work toward NBA return. https://t.co/m7Ywoq8gEv
Even if Lin never quite recaptured the magic of that Linsanity run, he went on to become a serviceable point guard in several NBA stops and is hoping to do so again now. There is poetic justice in this latest signing, given that Golden State was where the undrafted Lin would get his start but would later be cut, paving the way for his run with the Knicks.
As noted above, however, Lin will have to work his way through the G League ranks first. Regardless of how it turns out, it’ll be nice to see Lin back in an NBA uniform this season.
Here’s a weird sentence to start a “best of” list with: The best beer of 2020 probably isn’t on this list. There are over 8,000 breweries in the United States alone. The European Union (comprised of 27 of the 51 countries on that continent) has another 10,000 breweries. Plus there are robust brewing scenes in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Australia … you get it.
If anyone claims they can name the “best” beers of 2020 with any sort of certainty, they’re lying. Period.
So, why are we here?
Well, we do drink a lot of beer around these parts. And while there’s no chance we got all of the best beers of the year, we have faith we nailed some of them. Most of our selections are brand new drops, brewed for the first time in 2020. In other cases, our picks are this year’s iteration of classic brew. Since beer is rarely expensive, the only real metric was taste, which, we know, is subjective. (Though a palate is something you can develop and expertise is a real thing!)
The list below is broken into two sections. The first 15 picks are from Uproxx Head Drinks Writer Zach Johnston (me) and lean heavily into Belgian and German brews, mostly because I live in Europe. The second 15 picks are from Senior Drinks Writer Chris Osburn, and focus on American craft brewing, both because he lives in the U.S. and because he has a passion for those beers.
We made sure to find a place where you can buy most of these bottles (linked), but remember, the search is half the fun. When in doubt, or if COVID conditions don’t permit you traversing the countryside to search for beer, we reccomend supporting your local brewers and bottle shops!
Style: Fruited Lambic ABV: 6% Average Price:$35.99, 750ml bottle
The Beer:
Brussel’s famed Cantillon has become one of the most coveted beers in the world. It was a brewery that legions of beer fans were willing to travel for before 2020. Even if you can’t get there, you can still enjoy their beers. This year’s Fou’ Foune (apricot infused) release was a stellar example of why someone would want to travel so far to drink a beer at its source.
Tasting Notes:
300 grams of Bergeron apricots are infused into every liter of lambic to make this brew, creating a real sense of stone fruit from the first sniff. There’s a gentle balance of creamy sours, tart edges, and a well-rounded apricot nature. There’s a yeast-driven dryness that adds a crisp nature to all the fruit, sour, and hint of funk that works wonders on the tongue.
Bottom Line:
This is a real “ah-ha” beer. The balance of fruit and sour, combined with the body of the beer draws you in holds you tight.
3 Fonteinen Zwet.Be
3 Fonteinen
Style: English Porter ABV: 7% Average Price:$6.99, 12-oz. bottle
The Beer:
3 Fonteinen is world-renowned for brewing some of the best lambics and gueuze in the world. What makes this beer so special is that they’re making an old-school porter with their in-house lambic yeast. That baseline takes the style in a new direction while still holding onto the beauty of a great porter.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a ridiculous balance of creamy chocolate pudding cut with espresso beans, vanilla, and malts next to the light acidic tartness and an almost creme fraiche sour creaminess. The bitterness, choco-maltiness, and sourness mingle on the palate in harmony as the semi-dry and ever-so-lightly smoked finish leave you wanting more.
Bottom Line:
At $7 a bottle, is it worth buying a six-pack of this? Yes. This is also a great candidate to lay down in a cellar and let age for a handful of years. Drink one for NYE 2021 and another in ’22, ’23, and so on!
Cloudwater Hoppy Little Lager
Cloudwater Brewing
Style: Indian Pale Lager ABV: 3% Average Price:$4.69, 440ml can
The Beer:
Leaving Belgium for England, Cloudwater Brew Co. achieved a nice hit this year with a low-ABV lager that went down like a well-crafted pale ale. The three percent brew was built as a bridge between the crushable world of summer lagers and the more accentuated world of hoppy ales.
Tasting Notes:
This is fresh. There’s a lightness at play but it’s not thin. The taste drifts between bright lemon citrus, tart fruits, and floral hops and a real sense of malts lurking beneath it all. It’s crisp, tasty, and very crushable.
Bottom Line:
You’re probably not going to find this very easily outside of the U.K., EU, and New York. Still, if you do come across a can from Cloudwater, give it a shot. Their beer tends to always be dialed-in and delicious.
Prairie Artisan Ales Weekend
Prairie Ales
Style: American Imperial Stout ABV: 13% Average Price:$7.49, 12-oz. bottle
The Beer:
This annual summer drop from Prairie Artisan Ales out in Oklahoma is always a welcome addition to any yearly lineup. The beer is one of those imperial stouts that’s packed with sweet and bitter flavor notes that shouldn’t work but just keeps getting better year after year.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a real sense of the dark chocolate malts next to toasted coconut on the nose with a hint of campfire-singed marshmallow. The palate delivers on those aromas while learning into a bespoke dark chocolate Mounds bar feel and taste, next to light coffee bitterness. It all sounds cloying but it’s somehow light, refreshing, and balanced.
Bottom Line:
This is a great beer to share, given the high ABVs. It’s also really easy to drink, making it dangerous due to those same high ABVs.
Gueuzérable Tilquin 2017/2018
Gueuzerie Tilquin
Style: Gueuze ABV: 10% Average Price:$38.49, 750ml bottle
The Beer:
This beer has been resting for about three years and is pouring really nicely in 2020. The brew is the blend of lambics that you get in Gueuze Tilquin à l’Ancienne that’s then dosed with fermented maple syrup from Quebec which starts the secondary fermentation in the bottle. The result is a beer that really wows.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a real sense of lambic funk next to creamy sours that work with the light touch of maple. The taste carries on with that idea while adding in bushels of apples packed in wet straw, barn wood, citrus zest, nuts, slight umami forest mushrooms, and an almost maple cookie maltiness and sweetness. The body is light, slightly dry, and very sippable.
Bottom Line:
This is actually a great pairing for a big pancake brunch with plenty of bacon, sausage, mushrooms, cheese, pastry, and so on. Though, fair warning, you won’t be leaving that brunch sober.
Augustiner Bräu Maximator
Augustiner-Bräu
Style: Doppelbock ABV: 7.5% Average Price:$14.99, six-pack
The Beer:
The season’s batch of Maximator from the oldest brewery in Munich is another classic. The brew is a high-ABV delight that’s designed to be drunk as the snow falls and the wine gets mulled. Basically, you’re getting the refinement of an outstanding Augustiner Helles in a wintry format.
Tasting Notes:
The malts shine through with hints of dried and candied fruits, nuts, and an almost rum-molasses underbelly. Little notes of vanilla, dark berries, and, dare we say, black pepper peek in on the palate of this well-rounded sipper.
Bottom Line:
This has become a mainstay of end-of-the-year beers that seems to be getting (slightly) deeper and easier to drink recently.
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock
Brauerei Heller-Trum Schlenkerla
Style: Smoked Lager ABV: 6.6% Average Price:$5.49, 0.5l bottle
The Beer:
This smoked beer from Bamberg is brewed every summer so it can rest for a few months and be enjoyed “fresh” right about now. The smoky brew spends its time resting in local oak in cellars hewn from the rocky hills around the northern Bavarian town. It’s a truly special bottle of beer.
Tasting Notes:
There’s an almost perfect balance of sweet caramel malts and fatty, smoked meats akin to a pork belly. The sweetness leans into the rich toffee territory as the smoke has the thinness of a campfire in the distance. Caramelized sugars, hints of vanilla, rushes of charred oak, and a touch of bacon fat round this crushable beer out.
Bottom Line:
This is a great beer to have while you bundle up next to a fire. It’s really, really well put together and grows on you the more you drink it.
Mahr’s Bräu aU Ungespundet Naturtrüb
Mahr
Style: Lager/Kellerbier ABV: 5.2% Average Price:$11.49, 4-pack
The Beer:
This unfiltered lager is one of those beers that slaps no matter the season. On the first sip, it feels like the perfect summer sipper. Then as the weather turns cold, you realize it’s also an excellent beer to warm you up while still being light and crushable. In the end, it’s the mountaintop of great, all-around German beers.
Tasting Notes:
Nutty and caramel malt notes greet you, paired with a grassy sense of hops, a touch of citrus, and a hint of spice. The body of the beer is rounded with zero rough edges as the malts edge more bready than sweet and the hops take on a mild floral note leading towards a wisp of pine resin.
Bottom Line:
The word “quaff” could have an image of this beer next to it in the dictionary. It’s really hard not to drink a lot of this stuff in one sitting, especially if you’re lucky enough to get it fresh from the barrel in Bamberg.
Cantillon Rosé de Gambrinus 2020
Brasserie Cantillon
Style: Fruited Lambic ABV: 5% Average Price:$19.80, 375ml bottle
The Beer:
Heading back to Belgium and Cantillon, we’d be remiss not to call out this year’s Rosé de Gambrinus. The brew utilizes Serbian raspberries at a ratio of 200 grams of berry to every liter of beer. The berries rest in the beer for around two or three months, imparting color and flavor into the sour lambic. Then the beer is blended with a one-year-old lambic and bottled for secondary fermentation.
Tasting Notes:
It’s interesting in that you do get raspberry up front, but it’s more a complete raspberry experience with the leaves, stems, and even a bit of the dirty roots layered into the beer. The creamy sourness and tart citrus of the beer is the perfect counterpoint to the body, tart, and sweetness of the berry, with hints of grass and minerals mingling underneath it all.
Bottom Line:
This is actually a little more interesting if you drink it young. The raspberry “experience” comes through like beams of light through stained glass on the vintage from this year. If you cellar this, that berry nature fades away, leaving more of the sour and funk of the base beer.
Schneeeule Alte
Muted Horn
Style: Berliner Weisse ABV: 6% Average Price:$47.50, three 750ml bottles (EU only)
The Beer:
Schneeeule (snow owl) is making probably the best Berliner Weisse in the world right now. The small-op craft brewery in Berlin is devoted to not only the craft of making Berliner Weisse but it’s history and preservation as the “Champagne of the North.” Their Alte release spends eight months mellowing before bottling, where it rests another five months.
The result is a touchstone of the style.
Tasting Notes:
This is like a summer breeze, thick with floating cotton and heather rolling through your senses. The sour lacto-creaminess of the style is present but dialed way back (thanks to that aging), allowing dark fruit, bright citrus, and freshly cut grass to shine through. It’s light, sharp, and deeply satisfying.
Bottom Line:
Look, you’re not going to be able to find this easily in the U.S., if at all. Still, this is a perfect example of the style and worth trying one day, even if just at a tasting.
Evil Twin Brewing and Westbrook Brewing OFYMD Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Evil Twin Brewing
Style: American Imperial Stout ABV: 12.8% Average Price:$32.99, four-pack
The Beer:
This collab beer is built to marry fruity rum with savory coconut desserts. It’s another beer that sounds like it’s going to be overwrought, with too much going on. Yet here we are.
Tasting Notes:
The keyword here is “balance.” Dark chocolate covered salted caramels balance with bourbon vanilla, maple syrup, charred wood, bitter espresso beans, and a hint of toasted coconut. Those notes carry on into the taste with an almost fatty bread with salted butter, charred pineapple, and fatty chili spice not unlike dried chorizo.
We know, it sounds like a lot but it all just works.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those beers that stick in your memory and keeps calling you back. It’s also a great beer to share given the ABVs are on par with red wine.
Upslope Hazy IPA
Upslope
Style: NEIPA ABV: 6.6% Average Price:$9.99, six-pack
The Beer:
Upslope just announced that this much-beloved beer is moving from their seasonal line-up to a year-round release starting this month (December 2020). The new release is the product of years of tinkering to get the formula just right, creating a hazy IPA that’s uniquely Colorado in nature.
Tasting Notes:
The nose marries tropical fruits with dark rushes of orange oils and pine resin. The taste leans into stonefruits as the resins calm down to a mild hoppy bitterness that’s underpinned by a slight caramel maltiness. There’s real lightness at play in both texture and feel as the tropical fruit, oils, resins, and malts interplay on the palate.
Bottom Line:
For now, this has a small regional distribution through the Rockies and Southwest. But given it becoming a year-round release, expect to see it on more specialty shelves in 2021.
Alaskan Limited Edition 2020 Smoked Porter
Alaskan Brewing
Style: Smoked Porter ABV: 6.5% Average Price:$9.84, 22-oz. bottle
The Beer:
This yearly limited release from Alaskan Brewing continues to wow both as a new release and a solid beer to age. The beer is an homage to the smoked beers of Bamberg (see above). Alaskan uses Alderwood to smoke its malts before brewing with Alaskan glacial water and Pacific Northwest malts and hops.
Tasting Notes:
Notes of bacon, campfires, roasted marshmallows, hot dogs on sticks, and damp wool blankets greet you. The molasses sweetness of the smoky malts balances wonderfully with the fatty bacon and bitter, ashen notes, all of which are accented by a smoked gouda creaminess and nuttiness.
Bottom Line:
Get a six-pack. Drink one this year. Then drink one every year for the next five years to see how this beer ages and blooms into something new and different.
Elysian Contact Haze
Elysian Brewing Company
Style: NEIPA ABV: 6% Average Price:$11.99, six-pack
The Beer:
This new beer from Elysian is all about the hops, sure. But the beauty of this beer is how it makes an otherwise overly-hopped and overly-juicy category of beer accessible to the average beer drinker. This beer is all about the classic hazy attributes while keeping them squarely in the “mild” lane.
Tasting Notes:
You’re greeted with the familiar citrus and tropical fruit but then those notes veer towards red berries, tart berries, and caramel malts. The taste dials-in the tropicals to passion fruits and guava while still holding onto those dark berries and a pine resin hopiness that undercuts the whole thing with a refreshing edge.
Bottom Line:
Look, NEIPAs can be and often are overdone and overblown. This brings all the nuance that’s often lost to a hazy juicy bomb and adds in some new notes and depth.
Guinness Imperial Stout Aged In Bourbon Barrels
Guinness
Style: American Imperial Stout ABV: 10.3% Average Price:$19.99, four-pack
The Beer:
Have you ever wondered what Guinness would taste like if it was aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels? Thanks to the Guinness team in Baltimore, we have that answer and it’s surprisingly a good one.
Tasting Notes:
The bourbon comes through via vanilla and oak with dried fruits and Christmas spices dancing in the dark brew. Dark cacao, almonds, caramel, and toasted coconut mingle on the palate, creating an almost crafty chocolate shop Almond Joy underneath the bitterness and creaminess Guinness is known for.
Bottom Line:
Upon hearing about this release this year, there was a bit of “if it ain’t broke…” sentiment. That disappeared as soon as this beer hit our lips. It’s Guinness means bourbon. What more could you want in life?
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New Belgium Voodoo Ranger 1985
New Belgium
Style: NEIPA ABV: 6.7% Average Price:$10.99, six-pack
The Beer:
You’ve probably heard about New Belgium’s well-known Voodoo Ranger IPA and all of its many incarnations. This summer, the brand dropped a throwback brew that appealed to fans of 80s nostalgia who have a taste for contemporary, hazy brews. New Belgium Voodoo Ranger 1985 pays homage to the year that brought us Back to the Future and Teen Wolf (it was a banner year for Michael J. Fox) with a boatload of Citra and Simcoe hops and tons of juicy tropical fruit flavors.
Tasting Notes:
This highly crushable, sweet, borderline nectar-like beer is filled with fresh, citrus, and floral hop flavors and juicy mango, guava, and pineapple flavors.
Bottom Line:
This juicy, hazy, flavorful beer is perfectly suited to be paired with a snap bracelet and a viewing of The Goonies.
Springdale Kölsch Money
Springdale Beer
Style: Kölsch ABV: 4.8% Average Price:$12.99, four-pack
The Beer:
Jack’s Abby’s off-shoot Springdale is consistently cranking out amazing, high-quality beers. One of its best of the year is Kölsch Money. Kölsch was created to pay tribute to the brewers of Cologne (or Köln), Germany, who dared make another beer to rival the lagers everyone else was making hundreds of years ago. The style is still made today, and this crisp, low-ABV Kolsch is a great American version of the German staple.
Tasting Notes:
This sessionable Kolsch is light, fresh, very crisp, and filled with flavors like baked bread, dry grapes, and astringent citrus.
Bottom Line:
This is a truly special beer. It’s so light, refreshing, and effervescent that it appeals to wine and beer drinkers alike. It’s a great summer beer but is perfect for any time of year.
Firestone Walker Chocolate Cherry Stout
Firestone Walker
Style: American Stout ABV: 5.5% Average Price:$10.99, six-pack
The Beer:
This limited-release stout from the folks at Firestone Walker is indulgent, sweet, rich, and somehow not too high in alcohol. While we’ll rarely turn down a barrel-aged stout, we don’t need to drink four 12 percent ABV beers. This stout was brewed with cherries and cocoa nibs to give it a unique, sweet, and malty flavor perfect for wintertime.
Tasting Notes:
You might be concerned that a cherry and chocolate stout would be a little… overpowering. Well, the sweet cherry flavor is subtle and pleasing and it melds perfectly with the rich dark chocolate and roasted malt flavors.
Bottom Line:
Launched this fall, this brew is the perfect winter warmer without being ridiculously high in alcohol content. Don’t feel bad if you crush a few cans of this tasty brew.
Pure West
Pure Brewing
Style: American IPA ABV: 6.5% Average Price:$19, four-pack
The Beer:
This tribute to the West Coast IPA is made with hand-selected Mosaic, Simcoe, and Nelson hops. It’s fresh, unfiltered, and has a great sweetness to bitter ratio. Unlike many famous West Coast IPAs, this one isn’t a bitter bomb.
Tasting Notes:
The trio of hops creates a nice kick of resinous, citrus flavor that moves into tropical flavors like pineapple and grapefruit before ending in a nice crisp, refreshing finish.
Bottom Line:
It has the bitterness of a West Coast IPA, but it’s not in your face and should appeal to IPA fans who normally stray away from the bitterest of all the big IPA styles.
Brewery Ommegang Idyll Days
Brewery Ommegang
Style: Pale Lager ABV: 5% Average Price:$9.99, four-pack
The Beer:
Ommegang is a unique brewery. It’s located near the quaint town of Cooperstown, New York (home to the Baseball Hall of Fame), but it looks like it belongs in the Belgian countryside. Even the beer tastes like it was shipped in from Europe. One of its best, new offerings is Idyll Days, an unfiltered, Belgian-style pilsner made with floor-malted Czech barley and fermented with Belgian lager yeast before being cellared.
Tasting Notes:
This hazy, light, delicate brew is a nice mix of sweet grains, honey, subtle yeast, and crisp hops. It’s low in alcohol, soft, and refreshing.
Bottom Line:
This unfiltered offering is well suited for the hazy summer days at the end of August, but it’s clean and fresh enough to enjoy all year long.
Jack’s Abby Shipping Out of Boston
Jack
Style: Amber Lager ABV: 5.3% Average Price:$11.70, six-pack
The Beer:
Jack’s Abby makes lagers and it makes them well. One of its 2020 releases was Shipping Out of Boston, an amber lager made to pay tribute to the city of Boston’s history of manufacturing. It’s a great combination of German specialty malts and resinous hops.
Tasting Notes:
Similar to a kellerbier, this German-style lager is malty, refreshing, and has flavors of sweet, rich caramel, dried fruits, and just a hint of bitter, floral hops.
Bottom Line:
As long as you’re not a Yankees fan, this should be enjoyed while you gaze lovingly at a photo of Nomar Garciaparra while eating clam chowder.
Allagash Cross Path
Allagash
Style: Belgian Pale Ale ABV: 5.5% Average Price:$12.99, four-pack
The Beer:
This beer was brewed to highlight the varied organic grains available in Allagash’s home state of Maine. It’s the iconic brewery’s first-ever certified organic beer and collaboration with organic oats manufacturer GrandyOats. It’s a Belgian-style golden ale brewed using buckwheat, base malt, hops, and granola.
Tasting Notes:
This unique beer has a ton of sweet, granola flavor up front that works its way into the banana and clove flavors of Belgian yeast. But that’s not all. This brew ends with spices like nutmeg, clove, as well as spicy, bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
Whether or not you care about organic grains shouldn’t change your opinion of this yeasty, fresh beer that pairs well with smoked meats and aged cheeses.
Sierra Nevada Dankful IPA
Sierra Nevada
Style: American IPA ABV: 7.4% Average Price:$11.99, six-pack
The Beer:
What are you “dankful” for this year?
Well, we’re thankful for this piney, subtly bitter, refreshing West Coast IPA. On top of it being a great beer, it was created to supports nonprofit organizations fighting for social equality, economic sustainability, and the environment.
Tasting Notes:
Sierra Nevada knows how to make a great IPA and this West Coast IPA is no different. It has a nice mix of sweet malts, flavorful ale yeast, and a cacophony of subtly bitter, floral, resinous hops (Columbus, Chinook, Mosaic, Ekuanot, Nelson Sauvin, Zappa, and Idaho 7).
Bottom Line:
This is a great, hoppy, refreshing brew and you can feel even better enjoying it because of the non-profits it supports.
Rogue Newport Daze
Rogue Ales
Style: American Pale Ale ABV: 5.5% Average Price:$12.58, six-pack
The Beer:
This hazy pale ale is the other side of the coin that also includes Newport Nights (a 9.8 percent West Coast Imperial IPA). It was created to be a beer to drink at the beach (hence the image on the can). It’s hazy, light, fruity, and perfect for hot days in the sun.
Tasting Notes:
This hazy, fresh brew is filled with juicy tropical flavors like peach, pineapple, and mango. It also features a nice, subtly bitter, floral hop presence perfectly suited for a day at the beach.
Bottom Line:
While this hoppy, juicy, hazy beer was crafted to be the perfect accompaniment to a day at the beach, it’s also a great respite from darker stouts and porters during the winter months.
Founders KBS Maple Mackinac Fudge
Founders
Style: American Imperial Stout ABV: 11% Price:$23.99, four-pack
The Beer:
If you’re a fan of barrel-aged beers, you’ve probably enjoyed a pint or two of Founders beloved Kentucky Breakfast Stout. Last year, the brand upped the ante by dropping KBS Espresso, and this year the world was given the indulgently-named KBS Maple Mackinac Fudge. Using real Mackinac fudge and maple syrup, this is like a wintry dessert in a glass.
Tasting Notes:
If you enjoy flavors like rich, dark chocolate, roasted coffee beans, buttery fudge, and pure maple syrup then this is the beer of your dreams.
Bottom Line:
This stout isn’t for everyone and that’s not such a bad thing. If you prefer your beer to taste more like corn-filled fizzy water, keep on walking.
Tröegs Haze Charmer
Troegs
Style: American Pale Ale ABV: 5.5% Price:$11.99, six-pack
The Beer:
This hazy pale ale took more than six months in the Hershey, Pennsylvania brewery’s small-batch Scratch Brewhouse to perfect. This hazy pale ale was brewed with pale malt, malted wheat, raw wheat, oats, and honey malt as well as Citra, Lotus and El Dorado hops.
Tasting Notes:
This is a truly well-rounded beer. It starts with subtle resinous pine flavors that meld with dry-hopped flavors of peaches, grapefruit, and mango and ends with a crisp, subtly bitter flourish.
Bottom Line:
If you can find a six-pack, buy it. Even if you’re not a fan of hazy beers, you’ll love this crushable, juicy, overall thirst-quenching brew.
Harpoon Midnight in Manhattan
Harpoon Brewing
Style: American Brown Ale ABV: 8% Average Price:$19.79, four-pack
The Beer:
In May, Boston’s Harpoon Brewery collaborated with New York’s famed Kings County Distillery to create a limited-edition beer that bridges the gap between whiskey and beer. It’s called Midnight in Manhattan and it’s pretty much a Manhattan cocktail in beer form. The flavor of the iconic mixed drink is created with a brown ale base with chestnuts and tart cherries before being aged in bourbon and rye barrels.
Tasting Notes:
When you first see that this beer tastes like a Manhattan, you might think that it would be overpowering. It definitely isn’t. It has the usual, warming whiskey flavor you expect from barrel-aged beers along with hints of sweet cinnamon, velvety caramel, and charred oak.
Bottom Line:
It’s unlikely you’ll be able to find any of this limited-edition beer, but let’s hope the folks at Harpoon and Kings County (or another distillery) team up again to make another cocktail-inspired beer. How about a boulevardier or mint julep next?
Bell’s Light Hearted Ale
Bell
Style: American IPA ABV: 3.7% Average Price:$21.99, 12-pack
The Beer:
Bell’s Two Hearted Ale is one of the most acclaimed IPAs in America. Playing on that beer’s success, the Michigan-based brewery launched a low-calorie, low-alcohol, light version this year. While technically a light beer, this hoppy brew (Centennial and Galaxy hops are used) is high in flavor.
Tasting Notes:
This easy-drinking, low-guilt beer arrived to lead the way in the new world of light beers with its well-rounded citrus and floral hints and refreshing, thirst-quenching flavors.
Bottom Line:
Instead of drinking the macro-brewed light beer that every commercial tells you to drink while you watch football, grab a sixer of this light IPA, and enjoy all the flavor without the alcohol content or calories.
This brewing swap with American Solera in Tulsa, Oklahoma consisted of Jester King brewing this double IPA and American Solera brewing Jester King’s O.G. Black Metal Imperial Stout at their brewery. Made using local malted barley, oats, and wheat as well as dry-hopped Galaxy hops, this is a great beer for fans of hops and collaborations.
Tasting Notes:
This single hop brew is filled with lemon and grapefruit flavors as well as the piney, resinous flavor you expect from Galaxy hops. It has a nice amount of sweetness and malts to make the hop presence not overwhelming.
Bottom Line:
Good luck finding this limited-edition beer. Hopefully, this recipe swap and others across the country will continue well after the end of the COVID pandemic.
Urban South Snoball Juice
Urban South
Style: NEIPA ABV: 7% Average Price:$11.34, four-pack
The Beer:
This hazy, juicy IPA from Louisiana’s Urban South Brewery is hopped to the heavens with five pounds of Idaho 7, Vic Secret, El Dorado, and Citra hops. It’s spawned alternative versions including Tiger Blood and Coconut Cream.
Tasting Notes:
Juice, hazy, sweet, citrus, floral, these are just a few of the flavors you’ll find with this complicated, complex beer. Hints of grapefruit, mango, guava, and juicy peach are at the forefront with a nice kick of subtly bitter hops at the end.
Bottom Line:
This taproom favorite was rolled out as a yearly release this year. You still might have to travel to get your hands on some or have a kind friend in Louisiana mail you some.
What goes through your brain when you hear the phrase “the beautiful game?” You obviously think of soccer, but go a little deeper than that — what does that phrase represent in your mind? Is it the crisp, intricate passing of Spain’s national team during its heyday? Is it Lionel Messi getting the ball at his feet and, within fractions of a second, figuring out every way he could break down a defender before putting them all through some sort of internal algorithm and determining the optimal way to make that happen? Is it a tournament like the World Cup, which for all of its flaws is a unique, legitimate celebration of the sport played at the absolute highest level?
For me, “the beautiful game” is a phrase that alludes to soccer’s ability to transcend any and all barriers. No special equipment is needed to play the game, just some space, a ball that can be kicked, and some sort of makeshift goal that said ball can be kicked through. It is a sport that transcends class, race, gender, and any other burden that groups in power can impose on others.
This hasn’t always been the case with soccer in the United States. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of children play the sport, soccer has long had a reputation for being a fairly exclusive sport as you go up the ladder. Following the United States men’s national team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, this “pay to play” system — one that, essentially, meant that money served as a barrier to entry for many youngsters to pursue this game with any level of seriousness — was excoriated by just about everyone who cares about the sport in America. It doesn’t take someone with Messi’s celestial grasp of the sport to understand what this means: Like most hyper-capitalistic entities, if you do not come from a background of privilege, the odds of you being recognized for the talent you possess are slashed exponentially.
Two seconds of thought about this entire system makes you realize it is wholly insane, particularly in a sport where the United States — and to be clear, this is exclusively on the men’s side — is behind the 8-ball. But even taking a step back, what this says to young people from marginalized backgrounds is that their pursuit of some sort of dream does not deserve to happen because of circumstances outside of their control. And because of just the nature of how class works in this country, those circumstances are oftentimes outside of the control of their parents or guardians, too.
All of that comes back to the original point: While the beautiful game’s low barrier for entry exists worldwide, that’s not necessarily the case in our corner of the world. This year, the newly-formed Black Players for Change took on the challenge of facing this head-on. The organization, launched on Juneteenth, released a statement indicating that its goal is to combat racism in the sport and society more broadly. A snippet:
This is a new organization that will address the racial inequalities in our league, stand with all those fighting racism in the world of soccer, and positively impact black communities across the United States and Canada.
We pledge to help bridge the racial equality gap that exists in our league by lobbying for initiatives like implicit bias training, cultural education courses, and diversification hiring practices. Beyond addressing these overlooked systemic issues around soccer in this country, the BPC is committed to tackling the racial injustices that have prevented black people from having an equitable stake in society. Among the many goals we will strive to achieve in our black communities, some will include targeted spending, educational advancement initiatives, and mentorship programs.
“We also want to make soccer a sport for Black kids to feel comfortable in,” Portland Timbers standout and BPC board member Jeremy Ebobisse said in an interview. “We feel like that’s an avenue for success. I know growing up for me, personally, there was a lot of talk all over that my place was as a basketball player, as a football player. And I think that that’s due to the lack of engagement that our professional sports world has with the Black community. And so we’re looking to target investment in education and in other mechanisms, but also, specifically, in developing the game, whether that’s building courts, showing up on a consistent basis in these communities to show that the sports teams that a lot of our teams are built around actually care about them. There’s a fluid conversation on how to specifically target and get the most out of it, but we’re focused on the development of the game within the Black community and hoping that we can continue those efforts with some of those elder players, some of those guys that have come through and helping them get established in these organizations.”
In all, the BPC consists of more than 170 MLS players, coaches, and staff members, all of whom are driven to create the sport and society as a whole more equitable.
According to its website, “BPC is committed to tackling the racial injustices that have limited Black people from having an equitable stake in the game of soccer and society.” It is not limited to individual who were born within our country’s borders, because battling the forces that oppress is not a uniquely American fight. The “more than an athlete” phrase gets thrown around a ton thanks to LeBron James, but everyone involved in this organization sees that many of the overarching, impossible to ignore societal issues that need remedied cannot help but impact sports — the BPC launched less than a month after George Floyd became the latest Black man to be killed by a police officer who took an oath to serve and protect.
This is not to say that racism is unique to football in America — earlier this month, for example, a Champions League tie between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir stopped mid-match and was postponed due to an official referring to a coach as, per a translation from Romanian, “the Black guy.” What BPC is looking to do, however, is take on the institution of racism at home, both in the game and beyond. The structural inequities upon which the United States and soccer are built upon are abhorrent, and calling it commendable that athletes are using their platforms to challenge them head-on is an understatement.
Through actions like installing 12 mini-pitches to give children of color a safe place to play the game, BPC is making accessibility to a game that has long suffered from an accessibility problem a top priority.
And who knows? Perhaps the work that will begin with BPC in the United States and Canada will eventually spread across the Atlantic as the seeds they plant begin to blossom. Think, for example, of Weston McKennie — who came up in the FC Dallas system before jumping to German side Schalke and is now a member of Italian giant Juventus — using his platform following Floyd’s killing to wear a “Justice for George Floyd” armband, or RB Leipzig’s Tyler Adams writing the same sentiment on a pair of cleats. They were, of course, joined by a number of non-American athletes, many of whom have forcefully denounced racism in football and pledged to do whatever it takes to get it out.
Barriers, whether they be a broad concept like racism or a specific barrier to entry a la pay to play, are man-made. Toppling them is an incomprehensibly difficult task, as entire institutions are built upon them. In soccer as a sport and society as a whole, though, Black Players for Change are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure both become more equitable. The myriad of reasons why it decided to form in 2020 could not be more tragic, but the work they will do will one day make sure the beautiful game comes closer and closer to living up to its name.
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