Some News for Wed May 27

STARTERS

Does anyone know if Chris Pontius of DC United is related to Pontius Pilate of the Roman judicial system? I was talking to Christian Miles of Fox Soccer Channel about this, and we didn't know the answer. We figured one of you would.

dN

The BBC is reporting that Ellis Short has become the 4th American to buy an English Premiership team - he has bought out 100% of Sunderland.

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