If it's a monkey, talk football, if it's an elephant play dead... and other helpful ploys.

要那是一只猴子，可以谈论足球，要是一只大象那就装死…还有其它有用的伎俩。

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A Nigerian football player was declared dead in Sudan after collapsing during a league game, foreign media reported Sunday.

据外国媒体7日报道，在苏丹进行的一场足球联赛中，一名尼日利亚籍足球运动员与对手相撞后倒地身亡。

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A dead badger hefting a football for a winning pass.

死獾一瞧足球为打赢通过。

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Junior is the 19th player that I played with or knew personally from college and professional football who is dead, all before 50.

CNN: Junior Seau was hurting and didn't know how to say it

It was sparked by death sentences handed down by a court on 21 local football fans involved in riots that left 74 people dead at a football match in the city almost a year ago.

BBC: Egypt Army soldiers in Suez on

In Jenkins's 11 novels, including "Semi-Tough, " on pro football, and "Dead Solid Perfect, " on golf, his wisecracking central characters almost all hail from Fort Worth and attended Paschal High School, just like him and Hogan and, for that matter, me.

WSJ: Dan Jenkins, Finding the Humor in Golf | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport