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4 things we learned from the first trailer for James Bond ‘No Time To Die’

Here are things we learned from the trailer for the new James Bond film, “No Time To Die.”

The first trailer for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, was released on Wednesday morning. Daniel Craig is back as Bond, but this time the film is being directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who you might remember from the first season of True Detective. 

The film won’t be out until April 8, 2020, but in the meantime, we can enjoy this trailer and try to pick it apart to see what, exactly, we can learn from it. Other than that James Bond will shoot bad guys.

Let’s get to the trailer, then after the jump we’ll discuss four things we noticed.

Here’s what we learned:

1. Madeleine Swann is back and driving the plot

We last saw Swann in Spectre, and Lea Seydoux is now back to give the plot something to hinge on. Apparently she has a big secret, and it’s going to break James Bond when he finds it out. Which, sure!

This was always going to be the tough thing about the recent transformation of Bond from “cool guy with basically zero emotional depth” to “sad, broken man” that we saw once Craig came into the series. At a certain point, there’s only so much depth there. The last two films really dove into his past, his parents, his internal strife, and now … they gotta find something else for him to deal with emotionally. So it’s Swann!

2. Rami Malek!

Malek is the villain. Awesome. I am a Malek stan. I am THE Malek stan. That’s cool.

3. Cary Joji Fukunaga is borrowing imagery from previous films

Fukunaga is stepping in as the director of this film, and let’s just say he’s borrowing liberally from the last few films. The characters, the image of Bond trapped under the ice, the motorcycle race upon rooftops, Bond on an isolated island escaping his responsibilities, the use of fluorescent light … we’ve seen all of those in Skyfall, Spectre, Quantum of Solace, and Casino Royale.

Are these merely reference points? Meta statements on the infinite nature of Bond? This idea that he’s living out the same plot over and over again? We shall see!

4. Lashana Lynch is our new 00

Lynch is here as our new 00 agent, and seems to be there to kick ass and drop one liners about how old Bond is. I’ll take that. That sounds good to me.

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The 40 best sports quotes of all time

The 40 best quotes of all time from the world of sports, including quotes about winning, funny sports quotes, and inspirational quotes.

A good sports quote has the ability to inspire, to make you laugh, to challenge you to see the world in a new way. While some athletes have been veritable quote machines — we have an entire collection of Yogi Berra quotes — others may wait an entire career to say one line that can inspire fans around the globe.

Below we will look at 40 of the greatest quotes ever from the world of sports. Some are funny, some are inspirational, plenty are about winning and losing. Whether you’re working on a speech or just looking for a little pearl of wisdom to help you navigate a tough time, hopefully there is something here for you. Enjoy these quotes.

Inspirational Sports Quotes

1. “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” — Mario Andretti

2. “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played sever years without ever hitting the ball.” — Mickey Mantle

3. “I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.” — Martina Navratilova

4. “Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.” — Satchel Paige

5. “I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.” — Sandy Koufax

6. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

7. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi

8. “Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

9. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” — Joe Namath

10. “You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.” — Arthur Ashe

Funny Sports Quotes

11. “I love me some me.” — Terrell Owens

12. “Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.” — Vitas Gerulaitis, upon beating Jimmy Connors after 16 consecutive losses to him

13. “I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.” — Muhammad Ali

14. “I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating. I was going to sure her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.” — Charles Barkley

15. “A virgin.” — Peter Crouch, when asked what he would be if he wasn’t a professional soccer player

16. “[Soccer] is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans win.” — Gary Lineker

17. “I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.” — Jerry Rice

18. “When you’re rich, you don’t write checks. Straight cash, homie.” — Randy Moss

19. “They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.” — Oscar Gamble, former MLB outfielder

20. “I dunno. I never smoked any AstroTurf.” — Tug McGraw, on if he preferred grass or AstroTurf

21. “Because there are no fours.” — Antoine Walker, on why he shot so many 3-pointers

22. “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” — Joe Theismann

23. “I’m glad I don’t play anymore. I could never learn all of those handshakes.” — Phil Rizzuto

24. “I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn’t get there as fast.” — Eddie Bane

25. “I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.” — Pete Rose

26. “If you’re not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we’ll discuss your options afterward.” — Bill Shankly, former Liverpool manager, to one of his strikers

27. “The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.” — Jerry Tarkanian

28. “Vengeance is for God. I’m just here to play tennis.” — Serena Williams, when asked about avenging a 2002 loss to Kim Clijsters.

Sports Quotes About Winning

29. “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi

30. “The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” — Bobby Knight

31. “When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” — Paul Brown

32. “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” — Billie Jean King

33. “Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.” — Paul “Bear” Bryant

34. “Losing feels worse than winning feels good.” — Vin Scully

35. “Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.”— George Steinbrenner

36. “For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.” — Emmitt Smith

37. “No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.” — Bill Parcells

38. “Winning solves everything.” — Tiger Woods

39. “Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.” — Billie Jean King

40. “I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.” — Michael Jordan

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10 things in sports we are thankful for

Happy Thanksgiving from the team at For The Win.

This is the online version of our morning newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning.

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and we’re feeling pretty appreciative here at For The Win. So while we work through digesting yesterday’s meal, and suspect you are doing the same, we wanted to write a quick note about what we’re thankful for this year.

1. We are thankful that we get to write about sports for a living. Like, what? How is that a job?

2. We are thankful for the stuffing we gorged on last night, and our families, and friends who are family.

3. We are thankful that we are alive to watch Lionel Messi play soccer. It’s cool to watch a genius, a real genius, someone who is better at something than anyone ever has been before. On this same token, we are thankful that we got to see Tiger Woods in his prime, and Simone Biles, and Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams and Roger Federer, and all the other GOATs we have gotten to witness.

4. We are thankful that the Egg Bowl exists, and we got to enjoy a player in that game pretending to pee on a field along with our pumpkin pie.

5. We are thankful for the Dallas Cowboys, because while our families may disagree with on politics, music, movies, and politics again, we can all come together and agree that Jason Garrett may stink, but Jerry Jones is the real problem there.

6. We are thankful for Klay Thompson. Just, him. All of him. Same for Bill Walton.

7. We are thankful for Lamar Jackson, who has taken over the league in the most fun way possible.

8. We are thankful for Stephen A. Austin for upsetting Duke. Well, our editor Nick Schwartz went to Duke, so he might have an issue with it, but the rest of us are very thankful.

9. We are thankful for Alex Trebek, a perfect man.

10. Mostly, we are thankful for you, our readers. Without you all, we’re just a group of people shouting things into the void. (We do that sometimes anyway with our weirder posts, but that’s fine.) Your feedback, humor, and readership is what gives this site life and makes it all worth it for us. So, thank you.

Now go enjoy that holiday weekend. There are sports to watch, and we’ll be watching them with you.

How many Super Bowl wins does every team have?

See the full list of Super Bowl wins by team.

There have been a total of 53 Super Bowls played since the first championship showdown between the AFL and the NFL on January 15th, 1967, and the bulk of the world championships awarded since that day have been won by a select group of highly successful franchises. More than a third of the teams in the NFL have never won a Super Bowl, and four franchises have never even appeared the title game.

Here’s the full team-by-team rundown of Super Bowl victories, led by the Patriots and Steelers.

At the bottom, you can read up on the poor franchises that haven’t yet even appeared in the Super Bowl.

Teams with the most Super Bowl wins:

Patriots: 6

Overall Super Bowl record: 6-5

Steelers: 6

Overall Super Bowl record: 6-2

Cowboys: 5

Overall Super Bowl record: 5-3

49ers: 5

Overall Super Bowl record: 5-1

Packers: 4

Overall Super Bowl record: 4-1

Giants: 4

Overall Super Bowl record: 4-1

Broncos: 3

Overall Super Bowl record: 3-5

Raiders: 3

Overall Super Bowl record: 3-2

Redskins: 3

Overall Super Bowl record: 3-2

Dolphins: 2

Overall Super Bowl record: 2-3

Colts: 2

Overall Super Bowl record: 2-2

Ravens: 2

Overall Super Bowl record: 2-0

Rams: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-3

Seahawks: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-2

Eagles: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-2

Chiefs: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-1

Bears: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-1

Jets: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-0

Buccaneers: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-0

Saints: 1

Overall Super Bowl record: 1-0

Most Super Bowl appearances without a win:

Vikings: 4

Bills: 4

Bengals: 2

Falcons: 2

Panthers: 2

Chargers: 1

Titans: 1

Cardinals: 1

Teams that have never appeared in the Super Bowl:

Cleveland Browns

Detroit Lions

Jacksonville Jaguars

Houston Texans

See all of For The Win’s NFL coverage here.

7 things we learned from the Colin Kaepernick workout

Answering the questions: How did Colin Kaepernick throw? Who attended? Why was it moved? What does it tell us about his chances to make the league?

Colin Kaepernick held an open workout on Saturday, organized by his own team after an NFL-sanctioned workout fell through.

Kaepernick has been effectively blackballed from the league since he protested police violence by kneeling during the national anthem on NFL sidelines three years ago.

Kaepernick was meant to throw passes in a closed workout on Saturday in front of scouts from a majority of NFL teams, an event hastily thrown together by the league, reportedly at the behest of Roger Goodell and Jay-Z, who has a business relationship with the league.

But when the NFL asked Kaepernick to sign what his representatives described as an “unusual” waiver, and the league refused to allow media to attend, Kaepernick walked away and held his own workout at an Atlanta-area high school.

The workout was open to media. There was a live stream of video.

We learned quite a bit from it. Let’s go through what takeaways we have, from how he played, to what it means, and whether or not he’ll be signed by a team going forward.

1. Kaepernick can still throw a football

The big question answered: Yes, Kaepernick can still throw a football. He looked in shape, showed good footwork, and showed that he can still make all the throws you want from an NFL quarterback.

Media in attendance were in agreement — he could throw the ball. He’s clearly still in shape.

2. Still, the workout won’t answer some questions

As Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar pointed out, the problem with a workout like this is that it won’t answer a lot of questions that NFL teams may have. How will Kaepernick deal with a pass rush? How is he at working through his progressions and finding the right receiver? He may be great at it, he may not be — there’s just no way of telling from the workout.

3. Kaepernick moved the workout when the NFL threw a curveball late

Kaepernick has apparently been in Atlanta since Thursday, but according to multiple reports, he was wary that the NFL would try to throw a curveball late, which is why he had a backup field ready to go.

The NFL did that — the league did not allow media to attend, and Kaepernick’s team also said that the league would take care of the video. According to ESPN’s Howard Bryant, Kaepernick was distrustful that the league wouldn’t doctor the video to show only his bad throws.

The NFL then asked Kaepernick to sign a waiver that would not allow him to make any employment claim against the league in the event he wasn’t signed. Kaepernick’s team just wanted him to sign an injury liability waiver. Things broke down at that point, and Kaepernick walked away.

4. The NFL has its own side of the story, and it sounds like a waiver broke the deal

The NFL released its own statement, saying it was more than fair with the process. They pointed out that they were going to let Kaepernick film an advertisement with Nike, which I’m not sure why that’s relevant, but still.

UPDATE: Welp, turns out Nike may not have had anyone even there. Yikes, NFL.

They also said the waiver they gave him was a standard one.

5. Most NFL teams left, but still: Some watched

The NFL claimed that “over three quarters” of the NFL teams were going to be represented at the workout. After the late change, somewhere between six and eight actually came to the workout Kaepernick organized.

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That’s not that many, but I’m actually surprised that even that many came once the league-sanctioned workout fell apart.

6. It’s unclear if any will sign him

Will any teams sign him? Who knows. Kaepernick showed he can still throw a football really, really well. It’s unclear if that will make a difference.

7. No one’s mind will change

Here’s what I do know: However you felt about Colin Kaepernick going into today, you probably feel the exact same way now. Such is America!

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5 things we learned from USMNT vs. Canada

Gyasi Zardes did enough, and Gregg Berhalter gets a sigh of relief, but there are still questions after the USA’s 4-1 win over Canada.

Correction: This article originally stated the last match against Canada was a friendly. It was a CONCACAF Nations League Match.

The USMNT actually went and took care of business against Canada on Friday night, winning their CONCACAF Nations League match 4-1 in Orlando.

Gyasi Zardes bagged a brace, with Jordan Morris and Aaron Long each grabbing a goal for the USMNT. Canada’s Steven Vitoria got a consolation goal in the second half off a corner kick, but it wasn’t enough.

It was a much needed win for a USMNT that embarrassingly lost to the Canadians just a few weeks ago, a match that had people (including me!) grumbling that USA coach Gregg Berhalter wasn’t the right man for the job.

Do I still feel that way? Yep! Sure do. But this was a good result for Berhalter and will calm things down with a grumpy American fanbase.

Here are five things we learned, with some highlights tossed in for good measure.

1. USA didn’t embarrass themselves

This is the biggest takeaway from the game, and what will keep Gregg Berhalter’s seat from getting too hot in the near future. The Americans came out and competed early, going at the Canadians with energy and bagging a quick goal in the second minute when Jordan Morris capitalized on a ragged little set piece play that somehow worked.

The USMNT didn’t look … great, exactly, but they played well enough to take advantage of their chances. They got two goals off set pieces, which is what good USMNT squads have done in the past. Here’s the other set piece goal from Long.

Basically: They won, and they really needed to win. Sometimes analysis doesn’t get much more complicated than that.

2. Gyasi Zardes did enough to stay in the conversation

Zardes scored two goals, ran the lines well, and looked tough to deal with for the USMNT. For right now, it’s clear he’s doing what Berhalter wants from his striker.

Watching him take rough touches can be frustrating, especially for people who want to see what Josh Sargent can do, but Zardes understands Berhalter’s system.

Zardes runs all day, and gets in good spots. He took his chances on Friday. It ain’t always pretty, but if that’s what Berhalter wants, we’re going to have to wait to see Sargent.

3. Sergiño Dest is SAUCY

Dest became cap-tied to the United States with the game last night, which might be the most important thing that happened. The young Ajax right back was dazzling for much of the game, going at Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies time and time again.

It was awesome.

Davies was similarly fantastic, and he and Dest looked like they were playing an entirely different game from the other 20 guys on the field. They’re both 19 years old (born just a day apart, weirdly!) and already look heads and shoulders ahead of everyone else in this game. Watching these two go at each other for the next decade plus is going to be so fun.

4. Weston McKennie should be better

This wasn’t McKennie’s best game for the USMNT. This wasn’t even close to his best game. He was fine, but for someone I expect to see at the level of Dest/Davies, he didn’t do enough.

This could be tactical — Berhalter may have given him a command to hang in the midfield and shore things up (probably smart given how overrun the USMNT has been in midfield at times), but he wasn’t able to get forward and put his mark on the game.

5. We need to see the full team

It’s so hard for me to judge anything about this side because I haven’t seen our top team out there yet. I want to see what McKennie can create when he’s paired with Tyler Adams, and what our attack can look like with Pulisic and Morris running off the striker.

The most important thing about the addition of Dest is it might force Berhalter to drop this whole ridiculous Tyler Adams as hybrid RB-CM thing he seemed hellbent on implementing, and just play the best center midfield we have. Jackson Yueill showed us on Friday he isn’t the answer. Wil Trapp has showed us that already. Michael Bradley is on the tail end of his career.

When Adams is healthy, I want to see what this team can do.

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