ICC U19 Cricket World Cup

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBosLMQlttiKBa1dBYwkTyGfup6RKpBlZsHnHPFmPMBqwhrd65EDKyTwIQtC6KQZ6V-QN2fMipvdm-uF9hjl0w4IUNBNFkq_3Fuo62Q_D8RWSBGMVJmVyIH-IdYAW0u55UXQe2OiXqiw8/s1600/73400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBosLMQlttiKBa1dBYwkTyGfup6RKpBlZsHnHPFmPMBqwhrd65EDKyTwIQtC6KQZ6V-QN2fMipvdm-uF9hjl0w4IUNBNFkq_3Fuo62Q_D8RWSBGMVJmVyIH-IdYAW0u55UXQe2OiXqiw8/s400/73400.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>West Indies rode on its quick playing armory to win the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup surprisingly with a strained five-wicket triumph more than three-time victor India in the last in Mirpur on Sunday. <br /><br />The pace trio of Alzarri Joseph, Ryan John and Chemar Holder shone on a hot, dampness loaded pitch to destroy India's fancied batting line-up for 145 subsequent to choosing to field. <br /><br />Sarfaraz Khan played a solitary hand for the Rahul Dravid-drilled Indian group with 51, his fifth half-century in six matches, as Joseph and John grabbed three wickets each and Keemo Paul two. <br /><br />West Indies slipped to 77 for five in answer against the enduring India assault before Keacy Carty (52 not out) and Paul (40 not out) put on 69 for the unfinished 6th wicket to guide their group home with three conveyances to save. <br /><br />It was the main significant title for the West Indies at any level following Darren Sammy's senior group won the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in 2012. <br /><br />Captain Shimron Hetmyer's young men won the competition in the wake of crushing three sub-mainland groups – Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India – in the knockout rounds. <br /><br />"We shouldn't be the champions, but rather we did it," he said. "I feel great, words can't clarify how great I feel. The way the folks played demonstrated the amount we needed to win the tournament."The pace bowlers utilized the pitch further bolstering their good fortune and helped each other to keep the weight on the Indians. Originating from the Caribbean, we didn't expect such contributes Bangladesh. <br /><br />"I am charmed for both Carty and Paul. They are forceful players yet they conformed to the circumstance and kept a quiet head." <br /><br />It was just the second annihilation for India in the last 22 matches, finishing the unbeaten keep running in the competition. <br /><br />"I feel tragic today since we needed to win gravely," said India chief Ishan Kishan. "It was difficult to bat out there in the morning on the grounds that their quick bowlers truly utilized the conditions well. <br /><br />"We required associations which did not happen. I thought our bowlers welled however our handling let us down, including some dropped gets. We surely ought to have handled better." Dravid complimented the West Indies and said the annihilation will serve as a decent lesson for his young wards. <br /><br />"I am disillusioned for them. It is intense for these youthful children to lose a last," the batting awesome said. "Be that as it may, ideally this is the begin of a trip for them and each experience is an expectation to absorb information. <br /><br />"We have tasted a great deal of accomplishment with this group. Tragically, the main misfortune for them was the greatest amusement they have played. <br /><br />"Ideally they can go ahead to wind up better individuals, better cricketers. That is the genuine reason for this competition." <br /><br />Approached the purpose behind the West Indies achievement, Dravid said: "You need to give credit where it is expected. I thought they played truly at great lengths and great lines. <br /><br />"They kept up weight directly through the innings. At no stage did we feel they were giving us simple balls to hit. <br /><br />"In any case, I am pleased with the way our group returned and attempted to protect the aggregate till the last over. That truly made me sitting outside extremely glad." <br /><br />The following release of the competition will be held in 2018 in New Zealand with seventh-set Namibia, the most elevated positioned Associate part, qualifying straightforwardly alongside the 10 Test playing sides. <br /><br />The staying five qualifiers in the 16-country competition will be resolved through territorial qualifying rivalries. <br /><br />Joseph tore through the top-request in breathtaking style in the morning with the wickets of in-structure opener Rishabh Pant, Anmolpreet Singh and Kishan in his initial four overs. From 27 for three, India slipped to 50 for five in the eighteenth over as Washington Sundar and Armaan Jaffer were gotten off confounded drives. <br /><br />Hetymer knocked down some pins out Joseph's ten overs by the 27th, at which stage India had overseen only 84 keeps running for the loss of five wickets. <br /><br />Holder, then again, kept one end tight, surrendering only 15 keeps running in his opening spell of eight overs. <br /><br />At the point when Holder returned for his second spell in the 30th over, he hit with the primary conveyance to break a 37-run organization for the 6th wicket amongst Sarfaraz and Mahipal Lomror (19). <br /><br />Sarfaraz was eighth out at the aggregate of 120 in the 39th over when he missed an endeavored pull off John and was leg-before wicket. India was down to 123 for nine preceding Rahul Batham and Khaleel Ahmed included 22 significant keeps running for the last wicket. <br /><br />West Indies additionally started its answer severely, losing openers Gidron Pope and Tevin Imlach by the eighth over with the score at 28. <br /><br />Carty and Hetmyer conveyed the aggregate to 67 for two when left-arm spinner Mayank Dagar turned the diversion around with three wickets for the expansion of only 10 runs. <br /><br />In any case, Carty and Paul controlled their characteristic forceful senses to smoothly turn the last their group's way once more. <br /><br />India was left to mourn two dropped gets, the first by Sarfaraz when Paul was on 10 and the other by wicketkeeper Pant off Carty when the batsman was on 35. Dagar was the unfortunate bowler on both events. <br /><br />Bangladesh skipper Mehedi Hasan Miraz was named player of the competition. Mehedi, captaining Bangladesh in the second progressive ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, scored 242 keeps running in five innings, including four half-hundreds of years. He additionally brought 12 wickets with the ball.</i></div>

ICC U19 Cricket World Cup

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Full Race Wrap-Up

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0hiOa0qRxGF4QBIHcd02yd96M19K2qvSHsXQd7kiWybxQfxqiMGXqXcMavkFJ4EPuOmhM2CAEfRk4JEj-rzMiVdyUsXtPt96MAn70KhklV3dQqtphzc8Y7ADUE6JRch-xqts3HDSdlck/s1600/cvb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0hiOa0qRxGF4QBIHcd02yd96M19K2qvSHsXQd7kiWybxQfxqiMGXqXcMavkFJ4EPuOmhM2CAEfRk4JEj-rzMiVdyUsXtPt96MAn70KhklV3dQqtphzc8Y7ADUE6JRch-xqts3HDSdlck/s640/cvb.jpg" width="640" /></a>This weekend saw sensational dashing at the second Annual Outlaw Armageddon No Prep Invitational at Thunder Valley Raceway Park only south of Oklahoma City. This occasion stopped people in their tracks bigly the previous summer, setting the bar for the world's biggest no prep occasion in history this year. More than 200 autos were on the property this year prepared to fight for tremendous payouts and boasting rights including $30,000 to win huge tire and $20,000 to win little tire with an aggregate payout of over $80,000 in real money! <br /><br />This is a genuine no prep issue with totally zero footing compound connected to the dashing surface. All created elastic on the strip had been scratched off preceding the begin of the race, and autos were just permitted to do burnouts utilizing their favored blend of "pimp juice" which is normally a mix of footing compound and liquor. This blend is utilized to accomplish tire turn on the start of burnout while applying the footing compound to the beginning line amid the burnout procedure. Autos were arranged by the official starter, who lined them up to a painted imprint on the track surface. At that point, an electric lamp sends the autos off the line. Video replay was utilized as a part of near disasters both on the beginning line and complete line, to guarantee the right champs were picked. <br /><br />Names like Shawn Ellington in "Homicide Nova", "Daddy Dave" Comstock, Kye Kelley, Chuck Seitsinger, Jeff Lutz, Larry Larson and "Birdman" James Finney were naturally in the 32 auto shootout on Saturday by welcome, yet a solid field of Big Tire sections were in real life Friday night attempting to "race their way in" to the Saturday highlight in a Friday night all run eliminator. "Supported GT" Chris Hamilton, John Andrade Sr., "Kamikazi Chris" Day and numerous more make up the main events in the little tire unforeseen comprising of more than 50 sections from the nation over. <br /><br />Hustling began on Friday with True Street racers coming back from their obligatory 35 mile journey, then making a beeline for the paths for the first round pairings. Genuine Street rounds dwindled down to the last match, Stefan Slisz and Blake Hughes, however rain put off all residual hustling to Saturday. <br /><br />Slisz and Hughes squared off under shady skies and cool temperatures early Saturday evening in a stunning True Street last. Both autos were off the line clean yet started turning the tires close half-track. Slisz had the best handle on the track and controlled his way to the $5,000 pay day bringing home yet another huge cash no prep win to add to his great aggregates this year as of now. <br /><br />Enormous Tire "race your way in" drivers put on an exciting arrangement of rounds Friday night before downpour finished the activity in the semi-finals with three drivers remaining, including Gaylen Smith's screw blown "Texas Bounty Hunter" Pro Mod, Butch Demoss' "Texas Twister" blown Pro Mod from Oklahoma, and Brent Austin's insidious 1969 Camaro from Virginia. Austin took out Demoss in the main pair down the track on Saturday to move to the last round against Smith. Smith profited from the bye keep running in the odd numbered step to breeze into the last. <br /><br />The victor here not just scored a spot in the component 32-auto Invitational field, additionally cushioned their pocket with $10,000 in real money! At the hit of the electric lamp the autos were off the line together and Smith took a slight lead, winning by a thin, a large portion of an auto edge gaining his way into the Invitational, and gathering the $10K all the while. <br /><br />In Outlaw Street, Casey Rance and his turbo LSX-controlled 240SX, met Steve Sicking's "Blue Nightmare" blown 1926 Ford car in the last round. Rance took the dispatch, and never thought back, taking Outlaw Street respects by a few auto lengths, and gathering the $5,000 tote. <br /><br />In Small Tire, it came down to Joey Rabiola, in the "Boost12" Ford Mustang from Chicago, and Sergio "Flaco" Gonzales in his Chevy S-10 from Pasadena, Texas. At the hit, Gonzales spun. A solid mid-track charge got him close, however it wasn't sufficient to hold off the Mustang at the stripe, and the edge of triumph was only a couple of feet. The Small Tire crown went to Chicago as Rabiola counted another great no prep triumph to his resume. <br /><br />There were numerous miracles in opening round of the 32-auto Invitational field. Shawn Ellington's "Homicide Nova", John Andrade's "The Cutty", Jerry Johnston's "Evil Split Bumper" and Joe "Dominator" Woods all endured first round misfortunes. Top choices including Kye Kelley's "Stunner", Mike Murillo's "Lafawnda", David Jones "Terrible Bird", Ryan Taggart's "Marsh Thing", Brent Austin's "Megalodon", Jermaine "Boddie" and Korey Peters' "Hellanor" all additionally bowed out in the opening round. "Daddy Dave" Comstock, James "Birdman" Finney, James "Doc" Love, Larry Larsen, James Goad's "Harvester SS" and Chuck Peters "55" among others all met their destruction in the second and quarterfinal rounds. <br /><br />Heading into the semi-finals, three of the four autos remaining were "race your way in" sections that had wiped out the Invitational field. Mike Henson's Oklahoma based turbocharged 2002 Corvette, Plan B, matched up with Gaylen Smith's screw-blown "Texas Bounty Hunter" Pro Mod. In a nearby one, Smith's 1957 Chevy took the win by an auto and a half to secure his spot in the last round. The second semi-last combine saw Steve Wiley going head to head against Jerry Bird's nitrous helped Ford Probe. Feathered creature had dashed his way in Friday night, as well as took out an amazing heap of Invitational racers on his way to the semis. Wiley, who had likewise dashed his way in on Friday night, was the hands down most loved in view of torque alone and took the win by a few auto lengths finishing a strong keep running for Jerry Bird. <br /><br />A couple of Texas-based, screw-blown Outlaw Pro Mods were set for the finale of the Big Tire Invitational, which unquestionably wasn't what the neighborhood Street Outlaws fans anticipated before in the day. At the electric lamp, Wiley had a little beginning line advantage that he stretched out to take the win by an auto and-a-half. <br /><br />Wiley's group had put ten hard laps on the auto in a little more than 24 hours and those rounds weren't simple as the team had whipped to supplant a cylinder, sleeve, and a chamber head between cycle two and three on Saturday in under a 45 minutes. Wiley headed back home to Burleson, Texas $30,000 wealthier as their hard word had paid off well. <br /><br />"It's truly cool to win at an occasion as gigantic as Armageddon and it positively wasn't simple. There's a full field of truly speedy autos and extraordinary drivers here so for us to take the win today evening time truly feels great. Many individuals think this is simple, yet without an incredible team like mine, it simply doesn't <br /><br />Very quickly, smack talk ejected amongst racers and fans alike about whether Pro Mods ought to be allowed to contend in occasions this way, a firestorm Wiley himself kicked begin after his $50,000 win in March at San Antonio. Contentions from one side demand the Pro Mod style autos ought not be permitted to contend with the more conventional road style backhalf autos, while the other side supports a genuine bandit style methodology of run-what-you-brung. <br /><br />At the point when asked his sentiment, Wiley said, "I believe it's for the most part the folks who don't have racecars and have never hustled in their life that whine the most. The drivers and groups contending here are all great persevering people, and we needed to beat firm rivalry and various other Pro Mod style autos here today to gain the win. The genuine sportsmen here don't have an issue with who they need to race in light of the fact that to be the best, you need to beat the best, and that is the mentality I jump at the chance to convey to race day. There might be promoters who will begin constraining the blowers or including weight, however we will do whatever we are approached to do and be prepared for the following one." <br /><br />The level headed discussion over Pro Mods in no prep and little tire hustling is will just get louder before it's at last determined. There's probably Pro Mods absolutely commanded Outlaw Armageddon 2016, be that as it may. Congrats to every one of the victors and a major thumbs up to the promoters and staff at Thunder Valley Raceway Park on a fruitful weekend.</div> happen. I can't thank my group enough. I likewise need to give uncommon because of my patrons Pusher Racing, Jimmy Prescher Roofing, Clark Brothers Paint and Body, Brandt Electrical, Freight Central Logistics and Snow Man Mechanical," said Wiley.

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Golf Game Article

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs5D9h6rh82C9Gv7mc3jqHoelbw9XHoClo8sZZbL6Zp4LeLZ4v-9FWhgvSqjS4D3rUA2nfyN_jcT0tq6hwwVTJbAGVNFRM_3OnOVLMqnK4qC5kgQGXvyQYYBaBCEPffLIz4nGE2Pirno/s1600/kkk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs5D9h6rh82C9Gv7mc3jqHoelbw9XHoClo8sZZbL6Zp4LeLZ4v-9FWhgvSqjS4D3rUA2nfyN_jcT0tq6hwwVTJbAGVNFRM_3OnOVLMqnK4qC5kgQGXvyQYYBaBCEPffLIz4nGE2Pirno/s640/kkk.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br />Golf, a crosscountry amusement in which a player hits a little ball with different clubs from a progression of beginning stages (teeing grounds) into a progression of gaps on a course. The player who openings his ball in the least strokes wins. The starting points of the amusement are hard to learn, despite the fact that confirmation now proposes that early types of golf were played in the Netherlands first and after that in Scotland.From a to some degree dark vestige, the diversion accomplished overall fame, particularly in the twentieth century. Nothing is thought about the early diversion's most loved venues on the European mainland, however in Scotland golf was initially played on ocean side connections with their fresh turf and normal dangers. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Just later in the amusement's advancement played on downs, moorland, and parkland courses start. Golfers partake at each level, from a recreational diversion to well known broadcast proficient competitions. Regardless of its attractions, golf is not a diversion for everybody; it requires a high level of expertise that is sharpened just with incredible tolerance and dedication</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> .The cause of golf has for quite some time been faced off regarding. A few history specialists follow the game back to the Roman round of paganica, which included utilizing a twisted stick to hit a fleece or plume stuffed cowhide ball. As indicated by one perspective, paganica spread all through a few nations as the Romans vanquished a lot of Europe amid the first century bc and in the end advanced into the current diversion. Others refer to chuiwan (ch'ui-wan) as the forebear, a diversion played in China amid the Ming tradition (1368–1644) and prior and portrayed as "an amusement in which you hit a ball with a stick while strolling." Chuiwan is thought to have been brought into Europe by brokers amid the Middle Ages. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Be that as it may, upon close examination, neither one of the theorys is convincing.Other early stick-and-ball games incorporated the English round of cambuca (a term of Celtic source). In France the diversion was known as chambot and may have been identified with Irish throwing and Scottish shinty, or camanachd, and also to the French leisure activity (got from an Italian amusement) of jeu de mail. This amusement was thus traded to the Low Countries, Germany, and England (where it was called pall-shopping center, professed "willy nilly"). <br /><br />As right on time as 1819 the English voyager William Ousely guaranteed that golf slid from the Persian national round of chaugán, the progenitor of present day polo. Later, students of history, not minimum due to the likeness of names, considered the French crosscountry round of chicane to be a relative of chaugán. In chicane a ball must be driven with the least conceivable strokes to a congregation or patio nursery entryway. This amusement was portrayed in the books of Émile Zola and Charles Deulin, where it passed by the name of chole.Chicane nearly looked like the session of kolf, which the Dutch golf history specialist J.H. van Hengel accepted to be the most punctual type of golf. Numerous customs encompass the session of kolf. One relates that it was played every year in the town of Loenen, Netherlands, starting in 1297, to recognize the catch of the enemy of Floris V, number of Holland and Zeeland, a year prior. No confirmation bolsters this early date, in any case, and it would appear to be an unmistakable chronological error. <br /><br />In light of the confirmation, it might well be that golf appeared just a little before the fifteenth century.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  It might be imagined as a tamed type of such medieval recreations as football, in which the measure of the objectives and the ball was profoundly diminished and in which, as an outcome, the component of brutality needed to offer path to the component of aptitude. Seen from this point of view, golf would be the aftereffect of the procedure of human advancement as depicted in the work of German-conceived social scientist Norbert Elias.For numerous years it was trusted that golf started in Scotland. This conviction laid on three references in Scottish demonstrations of Parliament from the second 50% of the fifteenth century. In a determination of the fourteenth Parliament, gathered in Edinburgh on March 6, 1457, the recreations of football and golf ("futbawe and ye golf") were banned with a retaliation ("absolutely cryt done"). This boycott was rehashed in 1471 when Parliament thought it "practical [th]at… ye futbal and golf be abusit." In a determination went in 1491, football, golf, and different futile recreations were prohibited by and large ("fut bawis gouff or uthir sic unproffitable games"). Furthermore, these writings urged the Scottish individuals to practice toxophilism, a game which may be put to great use in shielding the country.In later times the legitimacy of these sources has been raised doubt about on two grounds. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> To begin with, pictorial confirmation now appears to indicate a mainland European source of golf. The most punctual playing golf picture is a scaled down in a book of hours earlier claimed by Adelaïde of Savoy, the duchess of Burgundy. Executed about the center of the fifteenth century (Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 76), it originates before the most punctual of the Scottish sources cited previously. The small from Adelaïde's book is, thusly, the precursor of the surely understood case from a book of hours in the British Library that is attributed differently to the workshops of two Flemish specialists, Simon Bening (c. 1483–1561) and Gerard Horenbout (c. 1465–1541), both of whom were dynamic in the Ghent-Bruges school in the principal half of the sixteenth century. There is yet another smaller than expected, from the book of hours of Philip I (the Handsome), the child of Emperor Maximilian I (Colegio Real de Corpus Christi, Valencia). Made in 1505, one year before Philip's demise, it demonstrates golfers during the time spent swinging and putting.</div>

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Boxing times

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BtV3ehvwIeUVLneQrOQG_nt5Q3Wcte02kS64mBCggKKEJ2twOUEBLf_3dNN2almOagXfZwl5pgBjMt9raw78FFmmYPlC_Y9pdY6GscDJ2YbmtyV0TRe5DBEddMRcMgwRqkWVia2xJ-s/s1600/fff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BtV3ehvwIeUVLneQrOQG_nt5Q3Wcte02kS64mBCggKKEJ2twOUEBLf_3dNN2almOagXfZwl5pgBjMt9raw78FFmmYPlC_Y9pdY6GscDJ2YbmtyV0TRe5DBEddMRcMgwRqkWVia2xJ-s/s400/fff.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Boxing, sport, both novice and expert, including assault and resistance with the clench hands. Boxers normally wear cushioned gloves and for the most part watch the code put forward in the marquess of Queensberry standards. Coordinated in weight and capacity, boxing competitors attempt to land blows hard and regularly with their clench hands, each endeavoring to maintain a strategic distance from the blows of the rival. A boxer wins a match either by outscoring the rival—focuses can be counted in a few courses—or by rendering the rival unequipped for proceeding with the match. Sessions range from 3 to 12 adjusts, each round regularly enduring three minutes.The terms pugilism and prizefighting in current utilization are for all intents and purposes synonymous with boxing, in spite of the fact that the primary term demonstrates the old causes of the game in its determination from the Latin pugil, "a boxer," identified with the Latin pugnus, "clench hand," and got thusly from the Greek pyx, "with gripped clench hand." The term prizefighting underlines quest for the game for money related addition, which started in England in the seventeenth century.Boxing initially showed up as a formal Olympic occasion in the 23rd Olympiad (688 bce), however clench hand battling challenges should unquestionably have had their source in humankind's ancient times. The most punctual visual confirmation for confining seems Sumerian help carvings from the third thousand years bce. An alleviation model from Egyptian Thebes (c. 1350 bce) indicates both boxers and observers. The couple of surviving Middle Eastern and Egyptian portrayals are of exposed fisted challenges with, at most, a straightforward band supporting the wrist; the soonest confirmation of the utilization of gloves or hand covers in boxing is a cut vase from Minoan Crete (c. 1500 bce) that shows helmeted boxers wearing a solid plate strapped to the fist.The most punctual proof of guidelines for the game originates from old Greece. These antiquated challenges had no rounds; they proceeded until one man either recognized annihilation by holding up a finger or was not able proceed. Securing (holding an adversary around other people with one or both arms) was entirely taboo. Challenges were held outside, which included the test of extreme warmth and splendid daylight to the battle. Candidates spoke to every single social class; in the early years of the major athletic celebrations, a prevalence of the boxers originated from well off and recognized foundations. <br /><br />The Greeks considered boxing the most damaging of their games. A first century-bce engraving commending a pugilist expresses, "A boxer's triumph is picked up in blood." truth be told, Greek writing offers much proof that the game created deformation and, once in a while, even passing. An amazingly bleeding session is described by Homer in the Iliad (c. 675 bce):By the fourth century bce, the basic bull conceal thongs portrayed in the Iliad had been supplanted by what the Greeks called "sharp thongs," which had a thick segment of hard calfskin over the knuckles that made them into lacerative weapons. Despite the fact that the Greeks utilized cushioned gloves for practice, not unique from the current boxing glove, these gloves had no part in genuine challenges. The Romans built up a glove called the caestus (cestus) that is found in Roman mosaics and portrayed in their writing; this glove regularly had chunks of metal or spikes sewn into the calfskin. The caestus is a vital component in an enclosing match Virgil's Aeneid (first century bce). The account of the match amongst Dares and Entellus is superbly told in this entry from the pugilism article in the eleventh version of Encyclopædia Britannica:Roman enclosing occurred both the wearing and gladiatorial fields. Roman officers frequently boxed each other for game and as preparing for hand-to-hand battle. The gladiatorial boxing challenges generally finished just with the demise of the losing boxer. With the ascent of Christianity and the simultaneous decay of the Roman Empire, pugilism as diversion obviously stopped to exist for a long time.</div>

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The Real World Of The Fast And The Furious

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjremCP8IRPpmo75JCUxhtYCL3wFxQkBS5wb11jgKm4u6ZlsrjYpw1fKjg_FlbFUf2id9plyd8ga4_a8lXoMJfgqCl7r8wYejfzAUVdT-vx_fRY0bDAri_tIzDN9QsQEn4WfQKMBK6A-G0/s1600/aaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjremCP8IRPpmo75JCUxhtYCL3wFxQkBS5wb11jgKm4u6ZlsrjYpw1fKjg_FlbFUf2id9plyd8ga4_a8lXoMJfgqCl7r8wYejfzAUVdT-vx_fRY0bDAri_tIzDN9QsQEn4WfQKMBK6A-G0/s1600/aaa.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Road RacingIt's a Saturday night in the back boulevards of a substantial North American city. Sitting in the driver's seat of little import autos with motors revving are two young fellows gazing each other down. Their feet balanced over the gas pedals, they restlessly anticipate the thumbs up. Whenever given, the auto is dropped into apparatus, the pedal is hammered to the floor and the two autos are rapidly off, shrieking their tires and sending up dust storms. <br /> <br /> Sounds like a plot from a mid year blockbuster motion picture. It is, and it isn't. <br /> <br /> Autos and motion pictures have collaborated for some paramount movies throughout the years. Motion pictures like The Fast and The Furious have brought the powerful autos of today's road dashing scene to the wide screen. Yet, what a large portion of today's road racers will let you know is that it's not about going for broke. <br /> <br /> One racer lays out his guidelines of the street: "Don't race on occupied roads, be it day or night, particularly if there is a school in the range. On the off chance that you need to act cool before your companions, you shouldn't race. In the event that it's not your auto, you shouldn't race it. Know your range… on the off chance that you don't have the foggiest idea about the street or the zone, you are requesting enormous inconvenience. What's more, utilize judgment skills. Think before you go, and in the event that you don't believe it's protected, it's most likely not."These conclusions are resounded in numerous talk rooms and on message sheets that seem everywhere throughout the Web, facilitated and went by both road and lawful track racers. <br /> <br /> "Keep in mind that an auto can execute you in any circumstance and that a genuine man lifts off the throttle in a hazardous circumstance," says one racer referred to just as Dr. Disque. <br /> <br /> The racers are likewise extremely resolute about flying solo. <br /> <br /> "I won't race with somebody in my auto, no chance, never," says Turboed 2. "I comprehend what I am doing is moronic, and I ought to be the one and only to pay if something happens.""I never drive idiotic when I have a traveler in my auto," says noslow5oh. "Generally it's my better half and I couldn't live with myself on the off chance that I accomplished something that got her executed." <br /> <br /> They all concur that they flourish with the surge they get from pushing their autos, and their good fortune, as far as possible. <br /> <br /> "I race since it's a surge. I don't do drugs or any of that refuse, so hustling is my high for that minute," says Zakk, 19. "It's a surge running from the cops." he includes. <br /> <br /> A run of the mill racer is a male matured 17-24 and probably driving an import. Honda Civics and Camrys have been autos of decision due to their size and road taking care of. The cash being spent to supe up, redesign and refit these machines for the most part begins in the a great many dollars. <br /> <br /> "They're unquestionably spending a great deal of cash on equipping their autos," says Lee, 16, whose beau is a road racer. "Doing body occupations, painting, putting in frameworks, new tires, dark lights, stuff that way. Making the auto look decent is practically vital in this amusement." <br /> <br /> Yet, you can't disregard making the auto speedier by dropping in an effective motor and adjusted air-admission and fumes equipment."The sky is the limit with respect to the amount we spend on our autos," says Zakk. "I've presumably spent about $4,000 worth of mods into my auto. At $17,000, I've contributed around 20% of the first cost over into the auto. In any case, it is not remarkable to see kids dropping $10,000-$30,000 on elite engines, suspensions and styling enhancements."Race evenings can now and then draw in hordes of up to 400 or 500 individuals. The meets start with an assessment, by drivers and spectators, under the hoods of the autos. Well known meeting locales in Toronto are on the Queensway, Steeles and Kennedy, Finch and Weston, and the Tim Hortons at Woodbine and sixteenth Street as indicated by Toronto police. Another well known range to race is Ellesmere street. Police simply positioned the convergence at Warden and Ellesmere as Toronto's most perilous regarding mishaps. Another mainstream stretch, Gore Road, says Sgt. Ted Holtzheuser of the Toronto Police movement security program, even had begin and complete lines painted on it."Racers like to utilize avenues on jurisdictional fringes," said Holtzheuser in a Toronto Star article, "so they can vanish a couple pieces away, then resume when the cruiser turns around."Many of the racers like to utilize modern parks and nation streets "out in the stick," alluding to the farmland. Most, yet not all, say that dashing on principle roads is simply requesting trouble."A part of individuals perspective road hustling as these hellions who like to race amidst the city and jeopardize general society," says a racer known as LT, and includes, "In this, such as anything, you have your dolts [and] these individuals are your nitwits. Whatever is left of us go far out in the sticks to abstain from harming anybody and bringing about anybody trouble."Unfortunately, these "imbeciles" exist and individuals are getting executed. Such was the situation in Ottawa, Canada's capital. Two autos were hustling on a bustling road when one of the autos, a dark Acura conveying four high schoolers, lost control and crushed into a light standard. The driver was stuck in the driver's seat and kicked the bucket before police could get him out. A 18-year-old male was brought to doctor's facility with cracks. The other two young people were dealt with in healing center and discharged.</div>

The Real World Of The Fast And The Furious

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAlG2Pw3-U_DG4eRt1cPgexyVg2sJDampZrXKRX3cJx76lHLYWGjINftcQP3S0tBKKHzjkhl3EbxqwsduM4T1xgBpr1_Xzs09_IFkAjZvuySNJtkTe1GI-czixQ3IONtXiZj_DQx8QEY/s1600/asd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAlG2Pw3-U_DG4eRt1cPgexyVg2sJDampZrXKRX3cJx76lHLYWGjINftcQP3S0tBKKHzjkhl3EbxqwsduM4T1xgBpr1_Xzs09_IFkAjZvuySNJtkTe1GI-czixQ3IONtXiZj_DQx8QEY/s400/asd.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> SAN FRANCISCO — Ultimate Fighting Championship appeared for a considerable length of time to be a trinket, a corner sport for those inspired by seeing soldiers wallop each other in an octagonal confine. <br /> <br /> In any case, U.F.C. has turned into a worldwide games realm — and now charges an eye-popping sticker price. <br /> <br /> The class, which advances blended hand to hand fighting, is required to declare when Monday that it has sold itself to a gathering drove by the ability mammoth WME-IMG for about $4 billion, as per individuals with direct information of the matter. Backing the arrangement are the private value heavyweights Silver Lake, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and the speculation firm of the extremely rich person Michael S. Dell. <br /> <br /> The arrangement highlights the force and reach of the 23-year-old U.F.C., whose battles are presently appeared in more than 156 nations and happen in every one of the 50 states, and which claims millennials as somewhere in the range of 45 percent of its group of onlookers. <br /> <br /> For its new proprietors, the association speaks to a prime wellspring of substance, especially in the computerized field. Past its feature battles, which the organization affirms are the top of the line occasions on pay-per-view TV, U.F.C. over all creates approximately 2,000 hours of material every year, quite a bit of it accessible on its Fight Pass spilling administration. <br /> <br /> The exchange comes pretty much as U.F.C. finished up its most recent arrangement of battles, maybe the greatest in the association's history. (The occasion, U.F.C. 200, drew more than 18,000 fans to Las Vegas yet was damaged by some contention, including the nonattendance of stars like Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor and Jon Jones, the remainder of whom was evacuated in the wake of testing positive for an undisclosed substance. <br /> <br /> It will be a bonus for U.F.C's. essential proprietors, the long-term gambling club business people Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, however they will remain focused minority financial specialists. <br /> <br /> The siblings purchased U.F.C. in 2000 for just $2 million at a low point for the group, after the promoter put in years and a great many dollars fighting to win endorsement from state athletic commissions. <br /> <br /> Keep perusing the fundamental story <br /> <br /> Commercial <br /> <br /> Keep perusing the fundamental story <br /> <br /> Prior to the landing of the Fertittas, U.F.C. had started moving in prevalence, because of early stars like Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock and a notoriety for being barely short of enlightened. In any case, restriction lingered from Senator John McCain of Arizona, who scorned the game as "human cockfighting," and previous Governor George E. Pataki of New York, who banned the game from the state. <br /> <br /> The early years under the siblings — who maintain the business through an organization called Zuffa, the Italian word for "battle" — were still extreme, with million-dollar misfortunes weighing over the undertaking. <br /> <br /> However, the Fertittas took the brand to another level, with all the more publicizing, more successful online networking promoting and better conveyance through associations like the one with Fox. Permitting cash for computer games, garments and more started to come in. U.F.C's. income was about $600 million a year ago. <br /> <br /> Respectability joined principles intended to check the overabundances of early battles and getting endorsement from every state's athletic bonus. The last came for the current year, when New York lifted its prohibition on the game. <br /> <br /> What's more, cross-special TV programming like "The Ultimate Fighter" reality show lifted U.F.C's. nearness in popular society, transforming competitors like Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture into standard stars. Warriors started showing up on ESPN and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. <br /> <br /> Progressive eras of contenders, especially Ms. Rousey, turned out to be considerably greater big names. <br /> <br /> U.F.C. has shown gigantic computerized reach also, especially after the presentation of U.F.C. Battle Pass spilling administration in late 2013. <br /> <br /> Under the Fertittas, U.F.C. likewise gobbled up large portions of its rivals while pushing forcefully abroad, building up footholds in Europe, Asia and Australia. As a major aspect of that worldwide crusade, Zuffa sold a minority stake in the promoter to an arm of the Abu Dhabi government six years prior. <br /> <br /> Not all has been blushing for U.F.C., in any case. The group has confronted allegations that it comes up short on a hefty portion of its competitors. Also, it stays persistent by worries about the ruthlessness of some of its battles. <br /> <br /> Along the way, the Fertittas, husky battling aficionados why should bound settle business question with a jujitsu match, have effectively earned themselves a fortune and amassed extravagant workmanship accumulations. <br /> <br /> Bits of gossip around an offer of U.F.C. in a multibillion-dollar bargain have permeated subsequent to the spring. In May, the organization straight denied being available to be purchased. <br /> <br /> Its leader, Dana White, said, "We're not available to be purchased," however he yielded, "But rather let me let you know what. In the event that someone appears with $4 billion, we can talk." <br /> <br /> As of late as a week ago, Lorenzo Fertitta and Mr. White denied that they had sold the business. "We possess the U.F.C. We didn't offer the U.F.C.," Mr. White told The Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. (That is valid: The two sides consented to the arrangement throughout the weekend.) <br /> <br /> Such is the fame of the organization that it drew enthusiasm from various suitors, including enormous Chinese media players that allegedly incorporated the Dalian Wanda Group, which claims the AMC theater chain, and China Media Capital, which possesses stakes in ace games groups like the Manchester City soccer club. <br /> <br /> However, it was WME-IMG, which as of now speaks to stars like Ms. Rousey in media rights and has spoken to U.F.C. itself, that developed successful. For the Hollywood mammoth, which is driven by Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, obtaining U.F.C. is the most recent stride in making a gigantic stable intended to summon computerized media. <br /> <br /> The organization has increased monetary capability for such arrangements, taking ventures this year from the Japanese media communications goliath SoftBank and the shared asset titan Fidelity. <br /> <br /> WME-IMG has effectively stepped into the games world, purchasing the Professional Bull Riders group a year ago. Still, U.F.C. is a much greater stride in the office's objective to wind up a stage for substance, to which it can apply a large group of levers — from advertising to ability administration to TV and advanced circulation. <br /> <br /> Despite the fact that WME-IMG speaks to Ms. Rousey and different soldiers in their supports and motion picture bargains, the office won't get included in the real pay arrangements with competitors, as per the general population with direct information of the matter. <br /> <br /> Backing the organization are Silver Lake, which drove the merger of WME and IMG about three years prior and which has since quite a while ago pushed portfolio organizations to end up greater through acquisitions, and K.K.R., which has regularly worked with Silver Lake on real ventures like the takeovers of GoDaddy and the chip creator Avago. <br /> <br /> Both firms will claim minority stakes in U.F.C. <br /> <br /> Mr. Dell has been united with Silver Lake since the venture firm helped him take his PC realm private in 2013, and after that supported him in purchasing the information stockpiling organization EMC a year ago in what was the greatest ever takeover in innovation. Mr. Dell's firm, MSD Capital, will claim favored shares in the games alliance, which will basically pay out interest.</div>

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Brazilian Men Put Exclamation Point on Rio Games

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHnGW9vCn8xd998ixYEo2OF8OIhUy2NkIgwM4Zpx0SqvnqRd1TWu5G7q7GEDIBKmX4gL7HB1KEcxj45Kv94kmhUjiAC3BZK31MK1csO0d_nv-5PrZZk03bBwZmS8Fp50NWnDS6OcCkvs/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHnGW9vCn8xd998ixYEo2OF8OIhUy2NkIgwM4Zpx0SqvnqRd1TWu5G7q7GEDIBKmX4gL7HB1KEcxj45Kv94kmhUjiAC3BZK31MK1csO0d_nv-5PrZZk03bBwZmS8Fp50NWnDS6OcCkvs/s320/download.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> RIO DE JANEIRO — The last day of the Rio Games was a miserable blend of mists and rain, however it was something else altogether inside the Maracanãzinho volleyball field. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a taking off, energetic setting, the commotion caroming off the field's dividers, Brazil caught the gold decoration in men's indoor volleyball one day after it won the gold award in men's soccer at the neighboring Maracanã stadium. It was a decided consecutive triumph for the host nation, with triumph coming in the two games it thinks most about as the Olympics attracted to a nearby. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The volleyball gold on Sunday was won in midafternoon, hours before the end function started nearby. Yet, that was intended to be an arranged issue, a lot of it worked out early. Inside Maracanãzinho, there was no script.What there was, rather, was a serious fight amongst Brazil and Italy, neither of which could isolate itself from the other. The score was regularly tied, and when one group every so often assembled a 2-point lead, or perhaps 3, it was immediately wiped away. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But then by one means or another in this standoff, with volleyballs being violently spiked, with players jumping over the floor to keep those spikes from transforming into focuses, with the group frequently shouting, Brazil won everything in straight sets, 25-22, 28-26, 26-24. The gold was the Brazilians', after they needed to settle for silver in 2008 and 2012."We merited this award so much," said Bruno, the Brazilian chief and the child of the group's long-term mentor Bernardo Rezende. "It's a great deal more uncommon to do it at home." </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Sérgio, the group's 40-year-old librero, or shield, sobbed amid the gold award service and, at a certain point, was tossed into the air by his commending colleagues. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "I simply need to thank volleyball for giving me such a large number of companions," Sérgio said, including, "The best of all is presently backpedaling to an ordinary life and having the capacity to get my children from school."Rezende now has a second gold to run with the one he won with the 2004 group. His postgame acclaim included compliments for his child, whom he called "a warrior, the mind of the group," and for Wallace de Souza, who jumped close to the net again and again to crush right-gave shots at the Italians and who played with such power that at a certain point, he pummeled the ball into the court toward the end of a play, leaving the prompt impression that Brazil had recently lost the point. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> All things considered, Brazil had quite recently won it. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Despite the fact that Brazil started the diversion with an endless home-court advantage, it additionally needed to manage the way that it had lost to the Italians in four sets amid the preparatory round. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Furthermore, in the principal set Sunday, Italy jumped out to an early lead before Brazil got up to speed, proceeded, almost lost the lead and after that at last won, every one of this going on while Neymar, the legend of Brazil's soccer triumph, was close by to give a shout out to his compatriots.The second set soon turned out to be more crazed than the first. It was 14-14, 15-15, 16-16, 17-17, 18-18, and it simply continued going that way. Extraordinary plays would exchange with overambitious serves that went long or crushed into the net. In the long run, it was 25-25, then 26-26, and apparently headed who knows where when Brazil could score 2 focuses in succession and go up by two sets to none. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The third set was business as usual, Brazil proceeding to once in a while substitute for its six players on the court. At the end of the day, it was 18-18, 19-19, straight up through 24-24, when Brazil went up a point and, with Wallace serving, finished it off. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The triumph implied that Brazil's men caught each of the three of the gold awards in soccer, volleyball and shoreline volleyball, while its ladies did not win any. However, that appeared like an Olympics reference as the decoration presentation occurred and the group sang and droned and indicated thoughtfulness toward every one of the competitors who were on the court, not only the Brazilians.The Americans were cheered as they ventured to the platform to get their bronze awards; the Italians were cheered much louder as they got the silver, with their most fearsome player, Ivan Zaytsev, getting the loudest praise. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At that point came the Brazilians, who were given their gold. For reasons unknown, a great deal of the pregame open location cheerleading had been done in English and was as uproarious and stupid as in any baseball stadium in the United States. It proceeded, on occasion, amid the match, as well. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In any case, now that the Brazilians were the champions, it was all Portuguese on the sound framework. Their dialect, their gold, their minute. Furthermore, a fine approach to close the Olympics.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Brazilian Men Put Exclamation Point on Rio Games

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U.S. Dominates Serbia in Gold Medal Basketball Game

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwfEfZg4ND01wpXXxfG9axvYFq0vtfyU4jFXoyIpeY9d2G5zw_XjTQG6Ovv4rNH7XZjA8BWppwQvQYZOQhX7fPKRqqDM8Q9DatRhU1vOcpFj8dbx-2tazc5klxQR7-THNrHu92SRW16M/s1600/22BASKETBALL-4714-master1050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwfEfZg4ND01wpXXxfG9axvYFq0vtfyU4jFXoyIpeY9d2G5zw_XjTQG6Ovv4rNH7XZjA8BWppwQvQYZOQhX7fPKRqqDM8Q9DatRhU1vOcpFj8dbx-2tazc5klxQR7-THNrHu92SRW16M/s640/22BASKETBALL-4714-master1050.jpg" width="426" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5c9FF49dfDnJqEX4Q-dyjQpVJCaSa8u58WImN_Sq93918WIkeQRCpGsHqk4zoaNAaZo33Tm7dnqm-JuV-kalja1zL40efKP3F9AGuRnPU_E8Es9ac_5-eOJ7dH2ng0v_60xrik3j84Ew/s1600/22BASKETBALL-4714-master1050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><b><span style="color: #741b47;">The United States got its first gold of the Rio Games from an adolescent who wasn't relied upon to decoration and its last from the men's b-ball group, an All-Star accumulation of N.B.A. players who came into the Olympics as the mind-boggling top pick</span></b><b><span style="color: #741b47;">. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Like the 19-year-old Ginny Thrasher, who opened the finals of the 10-meter air rifle occasion with a bull's-eye on her way to the resentful triumph, the Americans, drove by Kevin Durant, were flawless, at any rate on paper, topping off a 8-0 battle with a 96-66 whipping of Serbia in Sunday's gold-decoration amusement. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">With the triumph, the Americans developed their triumphant streak in the Olympics to 52 recreations and sent Mike Krzyzewski into his Team U.S.A. retirement as the principal mentor to win three Olympic gold decorations. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">The Serbians did not have a scorer achieve twofold figures until late in the final quarter. They had given the Americans one of their hardest tests in the preparatory rounds, coming quite close to sending the diversion into extra minutes before succumbing by 94-91. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Regardless of early foul inconvenience, Serbia was inside four purposes of the Americans after the primary quarter. The U.S. squad earned few style focuses amid the competition with its segregation offense, however it began to move the ball better as the diversion went on and shrewdly got it in the hands of Durant, who completed with 30 focuses. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Durant, who left the Oklahoma City Thunder a month ago to join his U.S. Olympic partners Klay Thompson and Draymond Green on the Golden State Warriors, assumed control over the amusement in the second quarter. His highlight reel incorporated a marvelous 8-0 keep running in the range of not exactly a moment that included consecutive challenged 3-pointers and a take that he completed decidedly with a dunk. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">At halftime, Durant had 24 focuses, five less than Serbia, which trailed by 52-29. "I simply attempted to go out there and be who I am," Durant said, including that in the initial few diversions of the competition, "I was making a decent attempt to yield and make the additional pass and it was detracting from my amusement." </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Durant was done for the night prior to any Serbian player achieved twofold figures. "We simply needed to play a decent amusement," Durant said, including, "To turn out there and play and also we did against a group that had ventured up its level too demonstrates that we met up at the ideal time." </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">The Serbian guard that had secured Australia, holding its elimination round rival to 14 focuses in the principal half, couldn't moderate the Americans, who made a few shots with hands in their appearances. The United States shot 44 percent from the field. Serbia, which shot 38 percent, was driven by Nemanja Nedovic's 14 focuses on 10 shots. Durant, at the asking of his group, had 19 endeavors. As Krzyzewski kidded, "It's known as a definitive green light." </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">The Serbian mentor, Aleksandar Djordjevic, said that from the second quarter on, "Our confidence was going down."The Americans' edge of triumph in their initial seven diversions was 21.4 focuses, which sounds great until measured against the best quality level set by the 1992 group, the first to incorporate N.B.A. players, which beat its rivals by a normal of 44 focuses. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">The U.S. mission to win gold took into consideration couple of frivolities. Refering to the vitality channel of blending and blending with different Olympians, the American men and ladies players kept focused voyage ship, shunning the competitors' town, where they may have keep running into Usain Bolt, whose individual star power eclipses the Americans' aggregate distinction. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">This isn't to imply that the men lived in an air pocket. The Knicks' Carmelo Anthony wandered into a favela to play get b-ball with youths and the Pacers' Paul George met and had his photo brought with the Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Anthony, scrutinized for his failure to bring a N.B.A. title to Denver or New York, now has three golds to run with his bronze from 2004 as an individual from the main U.S. men's group subsequent to 1992 that neglected to win. </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Anthony had seven focuses furthermore completed with seven bounce back for a profession aggregate of 125 to pass David Robinson as the untouched U.S. pioneer. He attempted to corral his feelings a while later as he mirrored the voyage that has seen him turn into the most embellished male player in Olympic b-ball history. Anthony, who said this was his last diversion for Team U.S.A., said, "I don't think I can clarify how I feel comfortable exact second." </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #741b47;">Amid the decorations function, Anthony practiced his administration part one final time, calling attention to his partners where the banner was amid the playing of the national song of praise. "I just let them know take a gander at the most elevated banner," he said.</span></b></div>

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Cesaro vs. Sheamus: Winner and Reaction from WWE SummerSlam 2016

<div class="ui-droppable" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>Sheamus drew first blood in his best-of-seven series against Cesaro on Sunday night at WWE SummerSlam, picking up a victory at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.Cesaro and Sheamus faced off on a couple of occasions during the lead-up to SummerSlam, one of which resulted in the winner earning a title shot. The Swiss Superman was victorious and attempted to take the United States Championship from Rusev but lost when Sheamus interfered.That made the feud between Cesaro and The Celtic Warrior heat up even more, and they nearly came to blows when Cesaro cost Sheamus a match against Sami Zayn on the go-home episode of Raw prior to SummerSlam.</b></i></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR96tvyPXXasKUbC-WBtmztNVdLHsKaJuMySpVrLNg0rUVPF0y-B5BJQzGAnhJlGQmf5oJKIFTTbLfS0b50BmCO8-HvulGMaEnhs1CEKs3pRfJcZtmv1I865ch3TieEQLB4YisFJypjIo/s1600/hi-res-a7601b5d5163b3184b758089c30681c6_crop_north.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><b><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR96tvyPXXasKUbC-WBtmztNVdLHsKaJuMySpVrLNg0rUVPF0y-B5BJQzGAnhJlGQmf5oJKIFTTbLfS0b50BmCO8-HvulGMaEnhs1CEKs3pRfJcZtmv1I865ch3TieEQLB4YisFJypjIo/s1600/hi-res-a7601b5d5163b3184b758089c30681c6_crop_north.jpg" /></b></i></a></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>In an effort to diffuse the situation, Raw general manager Mick Foley announced a best-of-seven series between the European Superstars, with the first match taking place at SummerSlam.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>In an effort to diffuse the situation, Raw general manager Mick Foley announced a best-of-seven series between the European Superstars, with the first match taking place at SummerSlam.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>Following his selection in the WWE draft, Cesaro cut a promo that suggested he was unhappy both with how long he lasted in the draft and the fact that he went to Raw rather than SmackDown.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan added some fuel to the fire when Foley invited him to Raw, as he made it clear that he believed the former U.S. and tag team champion was underutilized on the red brand.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>Foley attempted to prove Bryan wrong by giving both Cesaro and Sheamus a platform to showcase their in-ring skills.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>They did so Sunday, but it was merely the beginning of what promises to be a long and arduous battle.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>A best-of-seven series could end after four matches, but they tend to go the distance within the realm of professional wrestling, which means Cesaro and Sheamus figure to lock horns on a weekly basis for the foreseeable future.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>They put on an entertaining, hard-hitting match Sunday, but the big challenge will be keeping things fresh and ensuring that the fans are invested over the course of several bouts.</b></i></div> <div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><b>Source: <a href="http://articles/2658492-cbleacherreport.comesaro-vs-sheamus-winner-and-reaction-from-wwe-summerslam-2016" target="_blank">bleacherreport.com</a></b></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><br /></b></i></div> <div class="article-video full-width youtube" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 0px !important; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 50px !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; overflow: visible !important; padding: 0px 0px 354.375px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><br /></b></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><br /></b></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><br /></b></i></div> <div class="article-video full-width youtube" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); 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Bloody Ending To WWE SummerSlam Main Event Adds To Brock Lesnar's Mystique

<div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Brock Lesnar left another WWE arena with bloodshed and doctors in his wake at SummerSlam.</i></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDm059Vl_7BL1Yj0MYZ3HL3jFwGRgGnJ5df_4P0IGJcmWrS_LvMw5P9o9k-aeaIke8KAe65C60blsoxw1QUE-RWAScT9jxdo7y4URhR5UgLPtpSgFeFglNDRFRDI3ggzas-AUMEgVflpY/s1600/Brock_Orton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDm059Vl_7BL1Yj0MYZ3HL3jFwGRgGnJ5df_4P0IGJcmWrS_LvMw5P9o9k-aeaIke8KAe65C60blsoxw1QUE-RWAScT9jxdo7y4URhR5UgLPtpSgFeFglNDRFRDI3ggzas-AUMEgVflpY/s400/Brock_Orton.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div> <br /> <div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Often promoted as the most realistic athlete in a PG world, Lesnar once again proved himself as an athlete with no equal when he earned a rare TKO victory over a bloodied Randy Orton. An announced attendance of over 15,974 made SummerSlam a sellout event in the Barclays Center for the second consecutive year. And for the third consecutive SummerSlam, Lesnar was in the main event.</i></div> <div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Just two years after dominating John Cena in the 2014 main event, Lesnar suplexed and pummeled his way to another one-sided victory over Orton, after a seemingly improvised finish once Orton was busted open the hard way.<span style="font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.4em;">WWE officials and doctors scrambled to tend to Orton and there seemed to be a sense of panic in Brooklyn. It all served as a microcosm of the disarray that comes with a Brock Lesnar match.</span></i></div> <div article-ad-inbody="inread" class="inread ng-isolate-scope inread-active" id="article-0-inread" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 17.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 17.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17.6px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>WWE has placed a lot of emphasis on wrestler safety in recent years, with no more blood, more emphasis on concussion protocol and very active ringside doctors liable to stop a match when necessary. But a seemingly planned spot for Orton to bleed, while it was closely supervised, is certainly on the reckless side. <span style="font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 24.64px;">Still, the very realistic fear and chaos created from Lesnar’s attack is what will separate him as a once-in-a-lifetime prizefighter.</span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">The Beast Incarnate took a lengthy hiatus from WWE after beating Dean Ambrose at the biggest show of the year, but he has remained busy, as he emphatically defeated Mark Hunt in the main event of UFC 200.</span></i></div> <div class="article-video full-width youtube" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; height: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 50px !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; overflow: visible !important; padding: 0px 0px 354.375px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>His victory didn't come without controversy, as it was later revealed that he <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/brock-lesnar-fails-second-drug-test-this-one-on-the-day-of-ufc-200/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #003366; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">failed a pair of drug tests</a> before the fight. But that didn't impact his WWE status, and he returned as scheduled for WWE's summer spectacular.It was announced several weeks ahead of the pay-per-view that Lesnar would face The Viper, who had been out of action for nine months due to a shoulder injury.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>The Conquerer was drafted to Raw and The Apex Predator was drafted to SmackDown as part of the brand extension, but that didn't stop them from building up to their match in an entertaining fashion.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>In interviews for Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel at Battleground and The Miz's Miz TV on SmackDown, Orton insisted that he would take Lesnar to "Viperville" and that he needed only one RKO to put The Beast out of commission.</i></div> <div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>It was announced several weeks ahead of the pay-per-view that Lesnar would face The Viper, who had been out of action for nine months due to a shoulder injury.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>The Conquerer was drafted to Raw and The Apex Predator was drafted to SmackDown as part of the brand extension, but that didn't stop them from building up to their match in an entertaining fashion.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>In interviews for Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel at Battleground and The Miz's Miz TV on SmackDown, Orton insisted that he would take Lesnar to "Viperville" and that he needed only one RKO to put The Beast out of commission.Orton's decision to sneak attack Lesnar didn't go unpunished, as Brock made an unadvertised appearance on SmackDown to interrupt The Viper's match against Fandango and hit him with a retaliatory F5.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>With the rivalry between Lesnar and Orton at a fever pitch, there was plenty of excitement and anticipation surrounding their match at SummerSlam, which is something that seemed unlikely when it was first announced, considering Lesnar's status as a part-time Superstar.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>While Lesnar and Orton had one previous televised singles match against each other on SmackDown in 2002, they are far different competitors now, which made their SummerSlam clash feel like the first time they ever locked horns.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>The creative team had an interesting choice to make in terms of either giving Orton the win, since he appears weekly and is one of the faces of SmackDown, or giving Lesnar the win, since he is their top draw and keeping him credible likely helps the bottom line.WWE decided to go with the latter and the big-money possibilities Lesnar presents moving forward.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Perhaps the biggest key will be the manner in which Orton is handled in the coming weeks and months, but if he is booked strongly on SmackDown and moved into the title scene in the near future, he shouldn't have much of an issue rebounding from Sunday's loss.</i></div> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 80px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i style="color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">Source: </i><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><i><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2655605-brock-lesnar-vs-randy-orton-winner-and-reaction-from-wwe-summerslam-2016" target="_blank">bleacherreport.com</a></i></span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

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A peep into Indian cricket’s rich legacy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcH51X7mhh3zAMlJMMiq58ViEseF0hveuYuQ2V-drFhYVJ4Y0EjOjhph1mP1wTT__COLTDMbuQiU1vzTOBXZHXRbFDgWPtGoUWjbwnz_SA23AZ7PZGFBJ4OJRN5PZuUWlwJ2HyNGmbREU/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcH51X7mhh3zAMlJMMiq58ViEseF0hveuYuQ2V-drFhYVJ4Y0EjOjhph1mP1wTT__COLTDMbuQiU1vzTOBXZHXRbFDgWPtGoUWjbwnz_SA23AZ7PZGFBJ4OJRN5PZuUWlwJ2HyNGmbREU/s400/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i>Rajesh Deo was eight years old in 1969, but clearly remembers sitting with his older brother and listening to live commentary on radio as Gundappa Viswanath made a century on Test debut against Bill Lawry’s Australia in Kanpur. That series got Deo hooked to the game, and he has been a loyalist since then. One of his dreams came true last Saturday (August 14) when he got a chance to interact first-hand with some eminent personalities of the game, and also visited the dressing-rooms at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai for the first time in his life.</i></b><b><i>Deo sat on one of the chairs that used to be Sachin Tendulkar’s in the home dressing room, and stood on the player’s balcony visualising the 2011 World Cup final when Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit the winning six to give India the title after 28 years. He had lunch at the adjacent Cricket Club of India, visited the Esplanade Ground where the Parsees first started playing cricket in Mumbai in the 18<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century, and the nets at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana where Ramakant Achrekar groomed Tendulkar to be a world-beater. Being an avid supporter of Mumbai cricket, he was also delighted to see the replica of the 41 Ranji Trophy titles showcased at the Mumbai Cricket Association office inside the premises of the Wankhede.</i></b><b><i>He also heard cricketing lores from people like Madhav Apte, Nari Contractor, Milind Rege, Kenni Jayantilal, Amol Muzumdar, Ayaz Memon and Harsha Bhogle, among others.</i></b><b><i>“It was one of the best days of my life. It was a thrilling experience,” Deo tells <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wisden India</span> over telephone, his excitement evident. “I mean, to be in that dressing room and just to know what players, especially Sachin, do gave me goose-bumps. It was surreal. It can’t get better for a cricket fanatic like me.”</i></b><b><i>Deo was among a group of 36 people from different cities and six journalists who had booked themselves for India’s first-ever Cricket Heritage Tour (CHT), conceptualised by Theo Braganza, owner of Marine Sports – a very popular outlet for sports books in Mumbai — and Yajurvindra Singh, the former Test cricketer.</i></b><b><i>The day started at <span data-term="goog_373040007" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">8am</span> at Police Gymkhana before ending with dinner at the Middle Income Ground in Bandra. Apart from covering Wankhede, CCI and Shivaji Park, there were visits to Wilson College, Bandra School, Hindu Gymkhana, Islam Gymkhana, Parsee Gymkhana, Bombay Gymkhana, Oval Maidan, Cross Maidan, Azad Maidan, Port Vijay, Press Club and Sportsfield among other destinations – all significant landmarks in Mumbai and Indian cricket.</i></b><b><i>The organisers had to skip going to MCA’s state-of-the-art indoor facilities at the Bandra Kurla Complex because of time constraints. At different venues, there were different speakers to entertain the guests. Like Contractor and Apte at CCI before lunch, and Memon and Bhogle over high tea at the Press Club. The guests, who were given attractive merchandise, also heard Pranab Mukherjee, a good friend of Subhash Gupte, speak exclusively about the legendary legspinner.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">“I got the idea two years back and drew up the plan. Sunny Singh (Yajurvindra) liked the concept and gave the cricketing and commercial touches to it. I had thought of a two-day tour because there is so much to see in Mumbai, but he made it a one-day programme, and it was the right decision because everyone was tired by the end of the tour,” Braganza tells </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">Wisden India</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">. “This could not have come together without the support of our anchors Milind Wagle and S Kishore, and all eminent guests who took out time from their schedule on a long weekend and spoke with passion.”</span></i></b><b><i>“There are so many things happening in Mumbai and every time overseas fans like Barmy Army come on a cricket tour, they enquire about ways through which they can experience the rich history of Indian cricket,” Yajurvindra says. “That is what inspired me to get involved.”</i></b><b><i>As you can imagine, it was not an easy tour to put together. It took some effort to bring all stakeholders together — many speakers dropped out at the last minute — and get all the necessary permissions. The organisers needed at least 40 people on the air-conditioned bus to match their estimated expenditure of Rs 2 lakh, which they could not achieve.</i></b><b><i>A state cricket association, who Braganza doesn’t want to name, confirmed 50 seats, but the calculations went haywire when they cancelled their plan just three days before the day of the tour.</i></b><b><i>“That association representative came over to Mumbai to negotiate with us and based on their word I booked an extra bus, but they opted out at the last minute,” Braganza adds. “I cancelled that bus, but we had to curtail our giveaways by almost half. We had not approached sponsors this time because we did not have a product on hand. For the next time, we will have something concrete with which to approach corporates.”</i></b><b><i>Braganza and Yajurvindra want to take the concept pan-India and extend it to children, as they believe kids are the right target market for the legacy of India’s cricket culture to stay on the positive side of the ledger. They could not accommodate kids this time because of rules at various clubs such as the CCI, who don’t permit kids to enter certain areas.</i></b><b><i>Their immediate targets are Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, cities with strong cricketing roots. They also want to make the Mumbai chapter a regular affair, with the second one planned for <span data-term="goog_373040008" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">October 30</span>. While there is no dearth of optimism in their step, the duo is completely aware that there is a lot of ground to be covered before scaling things up. And, the support from the Board of Control for Cricket in India is the least they will need.</i></b><b><i>“Frankly, it was quiet disappointing that everyone like CCI, MCA, other clubs and former cricketers showed interest and bought into our passion, but nothing came from BCCI,” Yajurvindra reveals. “We wrote to them, but got no response. It would have been such a wonderful thing to take the guests to BCCI’s first-floor office at Wankhede and show them the major trophies India has won.”<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">As an isolated event, the CHT counts for little in the milieu of events that dot the urban landscape, but in the larger context, it is yet another independent venture towards reviving cricket history in the country. Add the CHT to</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> </span>Rohan Pate’s Blades of Glory cricket museum<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">in Pune, PR Man Singh’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> </span>private collections in Hyderabad<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">and  </span>Jayantilal Mahendra’s Cricketer’s Hut<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">in Chennai, and there is a lot of meat in the movement to fill in an unfortunate void.</span></i></b><b><i>Yajurvindra feels that there is scope for such experiential ideas to be a part of mainframe cricket consumption in India, like it is in Australia and England.</i></b><b><i>“Indians love history. We have always liked it, as is evident in the popularity of Gita, Mahabharata and Ramayana,” he shares. “When you are in cricket groups, you can feel the enthusiasm. Everyone necessarily need not have played cricket, but it’s the enthusiasm that counts. Because of our population, the percentage of people in India who want to go in-depth is big. We need to exploit that and spread the word about what cricket was, and how it came about to Virat Kohli at the end of the day.”</i></b><b><i>“There is enough cricket literature in this country, but we have strayed away,” adds Braganza. “Whoever has the literature is in the 50-plus age-group. There is no encouragement from the board either. The last book the BCCI produced was for the golden jubilee. The platinum jubilee was totally forgotten.”</i></b><b><i>This brings us to a pertinent question. When will the BCCI smell the coffee? It was reported in 2013 that Adam Chadwick, the curator of the Lord’s Cricket museum in London, would start work on the BCCI’s museum, which was estimated to cost Rs 10 crore. Nothing seemed to have moved, and the museum committee was scrapped in November last year.</i></b><b><i>Till the parent body takes up the mandate of spreading cricket literature across the country as a priority, more power to the likes of CHT, Blades of Glory and Cricketer’s Hut.</i></b></h4> <div> <b><i>Source: <a href="http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/a-peep-into-indian-crickets-rich-legacy/220063" target="_blank">wisdenindia.com</a></i></b></div>

A peep into Indian cricket’s rich legacy

Rajesh Deo was eight years old in 1969, but clearly remembers sitting with his older brother and listening to live commentary on radio as...

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Essential to change the mentality of players: Garner

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">There are very few people in the world who have the option of not looking up to Joel “The Big Bird” Garner. And most of them are hustling ball in the National Basketball Association league in the United States of America. At 6’ 8”, Garner is, to put it mildly, an imposing figure.</span></i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPv7Gar5DTZI9X78gB8ZF9Bmg_ta2qDERS1QghQ6k9riC_6opYSBnzEwHZuTYkUdWpc8F1JMV1oVHLqKz-3KVKpAdpd3D8BW_7e0yrLKZyL6LUE_y0mat4ckV6I0dpVHcUtlBO2h7oUkg/s1600/q.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPv7Gar5DTZI9X78gB8ZF9Bmg_ta2qDERS1QghQ6k9riC_6opYSBnzEwHZuTYkUdWpc8F1JMV1oVHLqKz-3KVKpAdpd3D8BW_7e0yrLKZyL6LUE_y0mat4ckV6I0dpVHcUtlBO2h7oUkg/s640/q.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></i></b></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">At 63, and currently manager of the West Indies team, Garner is the epitome of the gentle giant characterisation, although batsmen who faced him between 1977 and 1987 would disagree vociferously. Generating steep bounce from a good length from an action that some said had the effect of releasing the ball from the clouds and then breaking toes with a yorker that was decades ahead of its time, Garner was more than a handful in an era when fast bowling was at its most fertile.</span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">He only claimed seven five-wicket hauls in 58 Tests, but that was because the wickets were shared so equitably among the fearsome West Indian quartets of the day. His average of 20.97 is testament to how difficult batsmen found it to score off him, and 259 scalps is no reflection of the clear and present danger he posed. If he was excellent in Tests, Garner was unplayable in One-Day Internationals, the shortest format of the game around in his time. Garner picked up 146 wickets at 18.84 apiece and batsmen managed just 3.09 runs per over against him in the long run.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">Today, the manager of the West Indies team is also the president of the Barbados Cricket Association and a director of the West Indies Cricket Board. And, while he did not have much to say to batsmen back in the day – and why would you, when a cold stare could send blood pressure soaring – Garner is now outspoken on a number of issues.</span></span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">The major one plaguing the West Indies at the moment is the proliferation of Twenty20 leagues and cricket at the cost of the longer forms of the game, especially Test cricket. “I think everybody looks at the Twenty20 cricket and they want to play that format of the game as opposed to playing the longer version of the game, and, you know, it is a matter of choice. Why work for five days if you can work for three hours?” asks Garner. “I think that that’s the mentality and it’s something that we’ve got to try and change in terms of how our players look at the cricket and the type of cricket our players want to play.”<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">In Barbados, where Garner can actually put in play some changes to stem the rot, it has not been easy. “My challenges are different from the rest of the region. If you look at the budget for Barbados, it’s maybe five-and-a-half million, six million dollars. If you look at all the other territories which play cricket, you can look at their budgets and you can see how much money they are spending on the developmental stages. My challenges are, in that, we have systems and everything in place, but like everything else, I think that is a lot of organised cricket,” explains Garner.</span></span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">“I don’t think that the players take that little bit extra to do things on their own, and I don’t think that everything can be structured or everything can be done in a… I think that what you have to do is that, it is a responsibility that we have to take where it’s a culture that we have to change and a culture that we have to grow from within the team, where training is an integral part of what we do. When you look at our cricket, we are challenging maybe up to Under-19. If you look at every world competition, when you look at them, West Indies is there. Where we have the challenge is when we go away.”</span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">Garner is not entirely sure what can be done to change the landscape, although he is sure that the time to act is now. “Drastic situations call for drastic measures and I think that while T20 cricket is a money-spinner, and a money-earner, if we really want to be on top of the world, we might have to do things a little differently. We must get used to playing the longer version of the game, get people to become more professional, and I think that if we can get them to become more professional, then performances will improve,” he said. “We are fortunate that we can play 10 games now as opposed to five. Is 10 games enough in a year? When I played, I played 20-something or 40-something games in a year playing County cricket, and that is where the strength of the cricket is – the more you play, the more you get accustomed to it, the harder the cricket is, and the more professional you become.”</span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b><i><span style="color: #444444;">It’s fairly unusual for anyone in the West Indies to call for professionalism in any walk of life, leave alone cricket. And when the call comes, the question is, is anyone listening?</span></i></b></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"> <b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">Source: </span></i></b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b><i><a href="http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/essential-to-change-the-mentality-of-players-garner/219659" target="_blank">wisdenindia.com</a></i></b></span></span></div>

Essential to change the mentality of players: Garner

There are very few people in the world who have the option of not looking up to Joel “The Big Bird” Garner. And most of them are hustling b...

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Brazil Gets an Ounce of Revenge on Germany

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXoS3oBbtielMjSfjXsZIs670X1tgdnLJIFotfVVx2VusMAc9SkkgI8er15u03u74M0xy3e-PAPeToQOduUwoxFn89mUN8X8z2pit39Rqc2j1Rx2j87qbMqLP2Q9AFpi9RjyC1e23JHzA/s1600/21neymarwins-superJumbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><i><b><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXoS3oBbtielMjSfjXsZIs670X1tgdnLJIFotfVVx2VusMAc9SkkgI8er15u03u74M0xy3e-PAPeToQOduUwoxFn89mUN8X8z2pit39Rqc2j1Rx2j87qbMqLP2Q9AFpi9RjyC1e23JHzA/s400/21neymarwins-superJumbo.jpg" width="400" /></b></i></a></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="246" data-total-count="246" id="story-continues-1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 10px auto 20px; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>RIO DE JANEIRO — An Olympic gold medal in soccer for Brazil will not undo the embarrassment of the 2014 World Cup. Perhaps nothing will. But Saturday provided a dramatic recovery, a tense rekindling of joy where before there was national shame.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="345" data-total-count="591" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Maracana Stadium filled with celebration and relief as Brazil won its first Olympic soccer title, defeating Germany, 5-4, on penalty kicks after the match remained tied at 1-1 through 120 minutes. The victory provided some redemption from, if not erasure of, a humiliating 7-1 defeat to Die Mannschaft at home in the semifinals of the World Cup.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="162" data-total-count="753" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>When the Brazilian goalkeeper Weverton dived to his left to save a penalty kick by Germany’s Nils Petersen, the anxiety of the evening exploded into liberation.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Neymar, the star forward, then approached the ball for the winning penalty kick. He did a stutter step then shot high and assuredly. Brazil has won five World Cups but never until that moment of release an Olympic gold medal.</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="231" data-total-count="1209" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Neymar went to his knees, then onto his stomach, his hands covering his face, struggling to control his emotions. His teammates, who had been on their knees at midfield, as if praying, began running toward him in a jubilant sprint.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="269" data-total-count="1478" id="story-continues-4" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>“Champions!” roared the crowd of about 78,000 at Maracana. A Brazilian fan ran from the stands into the group hug of players. He wore a national flag like a cape, as if superhero effort had been needed to reverse the traumatic outcome against Germany two years ago.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">“Nothing will replace 7 to 1,” said Roberto Artiaga, 39, a Brazilian fan. “It’s impossible. But it eases the pain. We will hurt a little less.”</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="115" data-total-count="1746" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Saturday’s victory came with far different rosters and under far different circumstances from the 2014 World Cup.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="284" data-total-count="2030" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>The Olympic tournament is for players under 23 years of age, with three older players allowed per team. It is a youth tournament, so that FIFA, soccer’s governing body, can protect the singularity of the World Cup, which it considers the most important international sporting event.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Neymar, 24, sat out that shocking loss to Germany in 2014 with a broken vertebra in his back. Matthias Ginter, a central defender who made one of Germany’s penalty kicks Saturday, was the youngest player on Germany’s World Cup roster but did not leave the bench.</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="272" data-total-count="2568" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>“Nobody here played in that final,” Weverton, the Brazilian goalkeeper told reporters before Saturday’s match. “What happened in the past is in the past. Nothing is going to change that, even if we win by seven goals. We have a chance to create our own history.”</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="137" data-total-count="2705" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>The Olympics might be a lesser tournament, but Saturday’s gold-medal match possessed the same stressed, edgy feel of a World Cup final.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">“We are very excited, very scared and afraid, too,” Mariana Canuto, 33, a Brazilian fan, said beforehand.</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="178" data-total-count="2992" id="story-continues-11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>In the 27th minute, Neymar curled a free kick off the underside of the crossbar and into the upper left corner, giving Brazil a 1-0 lead. But this exorcism would not come easily.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="106" data-total-count="3098" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>In the 59th minute, Max Meyer swiveled on a crossing pass and tied the score at 1-1 with a low, hard shot.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Still, Brazil kept its resolve at Maracana, a storied arena, but also the site of one of Brazil’s most heartbreaking defeats, a 2-1 loss to Uruguay in the decisive game of the 1950 World Cup before a crowd reported to be 199,854.</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="101" data-total-count="3430" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>The stadium has been downsized, along with certainty about Brazil’s superiority as a soccer nation.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="254" data-total-count="3684" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>That World Cup loss to Germany seemed to rob Brazil of its assurance that individual skill and flair could trump collective organization by an opponent. Then, in June, Brazil bombed out of Copa America in group play and Dunga was fired as national coach.<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Many have begun to compare Brazilian soccer to the country’s ongoing political and economic crises, with corruption and stagnant management in the national soccer federation and a development program that exports young players overseas.</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="330" data-total-count="4252" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Meanwhile, the longing and heartache in Brazil have been refracted through a lens of German success. Germany won the 2014 World Cup at Maracana, defeating Lionel Messi and Argentina by 1-0 in the final. The German women’s team won an Olympic gold medal there this week and the German men were seeking gold of their own Saturday.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="261" data-total-count="4513" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Mauro Betig, a commentator and reporter for Fox Sports Brasil, said before the tournament that Brazil’s players would start tentatively, knowing that “in every beginning of a game, every time they make a mistake, they will think, ‘It’s 7-1 coming.’”<span style="line-height: 1.6;">Even if Brazil won a gold medal, Betig projected, “At the same time that the team will be running the victory lap, thinking, ‘We finally won the Olympics,’ fans in Maracana will say, ‘You’ve lost 7-1.’ Neymar, you can be the star of the Olymics, but in the World Cup you were not there.’”</span></b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="38" data-total-count="4855" id="story-continues-18" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Brazilian fans are like that, he said.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="85" data-total-count="4940" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>“Soccer fans are cruel and were most cruel on the defeat to Germany,” Betig said.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="356" data-total-count="5296" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Before the tournament, the news media criticized Neymar, Brazil’s captain, for partying too much while on vacation during Copa America. And after Brazil failed to score a goal during its first two Olympic matches, some fans mocked him with “missing” posters. Others screamed “Marta!” as if they preferred the star of the Brazilian women’s team.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="277" data-total-count="5573" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>But fans can be as forgiving as they are cruel. Neymar scored a goal and a penalty kick on Saturday, and kept Brazil from losing its confidence. The crowd chanted his name in appreciation, and he became the first Brazilian captain to wear an Olympic gold medal around his neck.</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="247" data-total-count="5820" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>“Brazil is five times champion of the World Cup and we had never had a gold medal before, so against any team it would have been great,” said Manoel Santos, 56, a Brazilian fan. “But, O.K., being against Germany made it that much sweeter.”</b></i></div> <div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="247" data-total-count="5820" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; text-align: justify; width: 540px;"> <i><b>Source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/sports/olympics/soccer-brazil-germany-neymar-live-score.html?ref=sports&_r=0" target="_blank">nytimes.com</a></b></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Brazil Gets an Ounce of Revenge on Germany

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