I played a few sports:
-midfielder/defender in soccer (Uni we went to the finals!).
-wide receiver in football (that's American football for you Europeans) in high school. I was fast and had good hands but the safeties hit ****in hard, such a brutal game, didn't play beyond high school...1 concussion, 1 torn biceps, 2 separated shoulders, that's enough
-weight-lifting, getting back into it more now, started at age 14 when a kid called me skinny. Next year he stopped calling me skinny
I'm more into getting cut than getting big.
-table tennis, I reached finals in high school.
-bowling, I scored a 225 as my best score.
-chess...it's a sport according to Palinca so...
As for news, I don't trust news media outlets, they are mostly scummy and shady. BBC (bbc.com) seems to be fairly unbiased, but that's from my perspective. cbc.ca is also good (Canadian, and we are fairly unbiased).