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The best way to grow football is clearly through quality performances from the national team, as evidenced by the surge in interest after Pakistan’s victory. But the management doesn’t seem keen on that either. Della Penna said the board had been arguing with the players over their salaries in the months leading up to the World Cup.Fans just starting to get interested in cricket can tune in next week for the second season of Major League Cricket, the well-funded professional league, which kicks off at two venues in Grand Prairie, Texas, and Morrisville, North Carolina. Most of Team USA’s players,…
Lawrence Edmondson, F1 EditorJune 27, 2024 2:13 PMclose• Joined ESPN in 2009• FIA-accredited F1 journalist since 2011SPIELBERG, Austria — Formula 1 returns to Austria this weekend for the second of three European races. These days, no trip to the Red Bull Ring is complete without an in-depth discussion of one of the sport’s trickiest topics: track limits, so this is the ideal place to start this week’s paddock diary.- Watch F1 on ESPN networks all season longBeyond the BordersF1 has rarely been as ridiculous as it was at the Red Bull Ring 12 months ago, when it took the FIA…
Kawhi Leonard is expected to be ready for the U.S. when Olympic training camp begins next week. Coach Steve Kerr told reporters on Thursday that the U.S. team plans to have all 12 players in training camp, which begins on July 6. Leonard missed 12 of the Los Angeles Clippers’ final 14 games of the regular season and playoffs because of a knee injury. The United States Basketball Association announced its 12-player roster for the 2024 Olympics on April 17, three days after the end of the NBA regular season. Leonard had missed eight consecutive games at the time because…
Diplomats in Washington will be listening intently to tonight’s first debate between Biden and former President Donald Trump and plan to send a report back to the states highlighting Trump’s remarks and Biden’s self-presentation, multiple diplomats told CNN. “We will be watching what Trump says, what he says, what he puts into words, and in Biden’s case, his performance,” one Western diplomat said. Diplomats acknowledge that there are still more than four months until the presidential election, and some are intrigued by the possibility that this could be the only debate — with a second one scheduled for September –…
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday blocked an attempt by families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting to immediately recover assets from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, which is set to be sold.Judge Christopher Lopez of the Southern District of Texas sided with Christopher Murray, the court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of Jones’ estate. In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday, Murray accused certain family members of plotting a “value-destructive profit-making scheme” despite the fact that the company has yet to complete an “orderly winding-down” and sale of Free Speech Systems.Lopez agreed that Murray must continue to evaluate and…
KALAMAZOO, Michigan — Police are urging people to stop using water guns, known as “Orbees,” after a recent surge in people driving around and shooting at others with them.Kalamazoo’s Department of Public Safety said officers have noticed a “disturbing trend” of groups targeting unsuspecting residents in city neighborhoods with Orbees water beads.Police say this is a new trend in Kalamazoo, but has occurred in other cities in recent years.Some toy water guns are modified to look like real firearms. Anyone caught illegally firing or possessing one can be arrested and charged with assault, disturbing the peace, and possession of an…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Sabrina Phillips celebrated her divorce with a lavish party with friends in Miami. Ashley Huff Sabrina Phillips separated from her husband after about three years of marriage.To celebrate her divorce, she threw a $30,000 “divorce party” for 18 family and friends.During a mock liberation ceremony, Philip used a slingshot to launch his wedding ring into the ocean. This essay is based on a conversation with Sabrina Phillips. It has been edited for length and clarity.I never expected it to be so emotional, but the highlight of my divorce party…
Milwaukee has achieved the rare feat of hosting a major party convention during two consecutive presidential elections. It was set to host the Democratic National Convention in 2020, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in 2024, Milwaukee residents are worried that the Republican National Convention, scheduled to be held July 15-18, will also be a disappointment, according to The Reconvobulation Arena, a Milwaukee-based online publication. Cities typically clamor for the privilege of hosting a party convention, hoping that the large number of politicians and journalists who attend will have a positive impact on their economies. One…
Kinky Friedman, the firebrand literary figure, musician, author and one-time political candidate with a penchant for self-mythologizing and a deep lover of animals whose music and writings were beloved by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bill Clinton, died Thursday at the age of 79.Born Nov. 1, 1944, Freedman first came to the music world’s attention in the early to mid-1970s with his band, Kinky Freedman and the Texas Jewboys, featuring absurdist, folksy, cowboy-inspired satire with shocking titles like “Put the Biscuits in the Oven, the Bun in Bed” and “The Ballad of Charles Whitman.”Freedman signed with Vanguard Records in the…
A death row inmate scheduled for execution in Texas this week says he is a different person than he was when he raped and murdered an 18-year-old woman in 2001.Ramiro Gonzalez, 41, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for the death of 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, who was kidnapped, raped and shot to death on Jan. 14, 2001, at a ranch in Bandera, a small town in Texas Hill Country about 40 miles northwest of San Antonio.If executed, Gonzalez would be the second person executed in Texas this year and the eighth on death row nationwide.Gonzalez’s execution was originally scheduled for…