Three of Milstein’s clients – Nikita Kucherov, Andrei Vasilevskiy and Alexander “Sasha” Volkov – won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning on 26 September, concluding a season marred by shutdowns and with the NHL season concluding in a bubble format, in two host cities – Toronto and Edmonton. The Russians in Tampa persevered through the lockdown, staying in game-shape at home, and months away from their families to win hockey’s most coveted prize, although now bringing it home is complicated by international restrictions and league protocols, Milstein said. When the NHL season was suspended on 12 March, players faced […]
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By Harut Sassounian for VTPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.com At the time of writing this analysis, on Oct. 5, 2020, the war between Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh on one side, and Azerbaijan, Turkey and Islamist mercenaries on the other, is continuing with countless deaths of soldiers and civilians, and widespread damage of cities and villages. This week, I will analyze the role of each of the key players in the conflict: AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, refusing to accept Nagorno Karabagh Armenians’ right to self-determination and following up on his numerous threats to solve the conflict militarily, launched a massive attack against […]
An oil rig towers over houses last week in Nigg, Scotland. Major players in the oil industry expect depressed oil demand and low prices to continue well into next year. Peter Summers/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Peter Summers/Getty Images An oil rig towers over houses last week in Nigg, Scotland. Major players in the oil industry expect depressed oil demand and low prices to continue well into next year. Peter Summers/Getty Images 2020 is shaping up to be an extraordinarily bad year for oil. In the spring, pandemic lockdowns sent oil demand plummeting and markets into a tailspin. At one […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0b/1080430394_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_59b6697fafd791b2a0ea495402cdeb43.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Ilya Tsukanov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202009111080430856-iranian-game-allows-players-to-have-fun-getting-revenge-against-us-for-killing-of-soleimani/ On January 3, 2020, a US drone strike assassinated Revolutionary Guard Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. Iran vowed revenge, and on January 8, launched over a dozen missiles at a pair of US bases in Iraq, injuring over 100 American military personnel. The Islamic Republic has reserved the right to further retaliatory operations. Center Games, a small Iranian mobile games maker known for several titles, has created a new mobile game enabling users to “take revenge” against fleets of “terrorist American” warships and aircraft carriers for the assassination of Gen. […]
Give the players credit. The first two teams to take the field for the 2020 NFL season—the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans— knew a lot of eyes would be on them Thursday night. After a summer of athlete protests, including postponed NBA, MLB and NHL games, they could have refused to play. They could have all taken a knee during the national anthem. But instead they played, and played it cool. The Texans stayed in their locker room during the playing of both the national anthem and “Lift Every Voice”—also known as the Black national anthem. Only one player on […]
The National Hockey League (NHL) has followed the NBA’s lead and put games on hold until at least Saturday, saying that the move was meant to honor the victims of police shootings, such as Jacob Blake and George Floyd. “After much discussion, NHL Players believe that the best course of action would be to take a step back and not play tonight’s and tomorrow’s games as scheduled,” The NHL said in a joint statement with the franchise’s players association, the NHLPA. The league said that the four games affected by the move would be played starting Saturday. The playing schedule, disrupted […]
Actor Terry Crews found a humorous way to needle NBA players for refusing to play games to protest this week’s police shooting of a black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, saying they should instead boycott a famous strip club. “Boycott Magic City,” Crews said Thursday on Twitter. The host of “America’s Got Talent,” who’s also black and a former National Football League player, used the hashtag #blacklovematters. The comment elicited strong backlash on Twitter, where Black Lives Matter supporters suggested that Crews was being “anti-black” and distracting from the importance of police brutality. Some used racial epithets to attack Crews, calling him […]
WNBA players with the Washington Mystics wore T-shirts with seven bullet holes for their game on Wednesday. The ladies also held a protest on the court locking arms and kneeling.The WNBA also cancelled their games on Wednesday night. Advertisement – story continues below The WNBA led the way. The Mystics pulled up today in shirts reading Jacob Blake, with bullet holes in the back. https://t.co/xxDQPlfTEv — Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) August 26, 2020 TRENDING: MUST SEE: Jacob Blake’s Mother Stuns Don Lemon After She Apologizes to President Trump for Missing his Call (VIDEO) Source link
NBA players have decided to resume the playoffs after boycotting games in protest at the police shooting of Jacob Blake, according to reports in the US. According to ESPN, three games on Thursday will also be postponed but players have decided against scrapping the season altogether and will resume the playoffs, possibly as soon as Friday. The news follows further meetings between players and NBA officials on Thursday. MORE TO FOLLOW Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/11/1080192813_0:65:3176:1851_1200x675_80_0_0_41ed0b3e7a295bc818d440966aacecf1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Advitya Bahl. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/sport/202008171080191851-sevilla-players-erupt-into-wild-celebrations-after-beating-manchester-united-in-europa-semis–video/ La Liga’s Sevilla made a historic comeback to defeat English giants Manchester United 2-1 in the semi-finals of the UEFA Europa league on Sunday night. A late goal from substitute Luuk De Jong sent the Spanish giants Sevilla into the finals of the UEFA Europa League. The English side took the lead after just seven minutes, thanks to a Bruno Fernandes penalty but Sevilla levelled the score 20 minutes later with a tidy finish from Suso. After winning the game, Julen Lopetegui’s men erupted into a “wild celebration” to mark the victory. […]
Baseball is back, and I guess that’s nice. But it’s not so nice at all for one group of people—the nearly 40,000 stadium workers who won’t have jobs because there are no fans to be served and catered to. These people—some of whom work part-time, but some full-time throughout the year for different teams playing different sports in the same city—are just out of luck. For a column back in May, I spoke with Aisha Johnson, a stadium worker for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Eagles, and a shop steward for her Unite-Here local. Cleaning up after Phillies games and working […]
All players and coaches on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight. Thursday was the first night of Major League Baseball season, which began nearly 15 weeks later than scheduled due to the coronavirus. All players and coaches on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight @MarkZuckerman pic.twitter.com/mLai859LzN — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 23, 2020 TRENDING: UPDATE: Navy Is Investigating Uniformed Sailor Sarah Dudrey for Busting into Pro-Trump Rally, Harassing Protesters while Screaming “F**k Trump!” Players from both teams kneel together in unity before tonight’s National Anthem. #OpeningDay #NYYforNY pic.twitter.com/ptW2FgfzUe — New […]
A football match that had been hoping to attract hundreds of paying fans to watch players with the novel coronavirus take on opponents who were yet to be infected has reportedly been dashed after police discovered the plan. Local reports in Spain said that a 23-year-old had put up posters to promote a “coronavirus fundraiser” in the city of Pamplona, which is thought to be one of the hotspots for infections in a country where police have enforced punishments for breaking a stringent lockdown. The friendly match was billed as the “the Mendillori kickabout” – named after the district where the […]
Several members of the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics took pictures at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial during their Juneteenth celebrations. Members of the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics basketball teams rally at the MLK Memorial to support Black Lives Matter and to mark the liberation of slavery on June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC . Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images) The Martin Luther King statue in the photo was made in […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, is projected to witness a 13-15 percent sales decline as a side effect of slow production and ongoing tensions with China. To foreign tech players thriving in India, just when losses seemed near, the hope of profit came disguised as a rise in TV sales. Amid the lockdown, Chinese and South Korean tech players in India including Xiaomi, LG, and Samsung recorded substantial sales in the television category, a market analysis report by research firm Counterpoint said on Thursday. In the January to March quarter of 2020, Xiaomi managed […]
The Chinese Football Association has slapped six members of the country’s under-19 squad with a six-month suspension after they broke a strict Covid-19 curfew to go drinking. The players reportedly slipped away from a 35-man training camp in Shanghai at midnight to go boozing, only to be rumbled by officials. The six footballers will now be forced to sit out national team matches until the end of November, and could face further sanction from their club teams. “It was a severe violation of the team’s epidemic control regulations, and caused negative impacts on the whole team,” the Chinese FA said, according […]
Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular video games, has a new plugin enabling players to place blockchain assets directly into their servers. Built by gaming startup Enjin, EnjinCraft is an open-source blockchain plugin that enables players to spawn assets in the Minecraft Java Edition without the need to write any code. The tool works by dropping the EnjinCraft file into a player’s server “plugins” folder, where they can then begin integrating and distributing blockchain assets in the form of tokens. The plugin marks the second release by Enjin for Minecraft after it initially released DonationCraft in 2013 in collaboration with […]
Javier Tebas, CEO of Spanish football’s top flight, La Liga, has stated that players in his league have a duty to act responsibly after four Sevilla players flouted the Spanish government’s lockdown rules. Argentinian players Ever Banega, Lucas Ocampos and Franco Vazquez, plus Dutch striker Luuk de Jong, were photographed at a party with eight more people during the weekend in a photo that also featured a shisha pipe. Also on rt.com Not you too, Zizou? Real Madrid boss Zidane ‘defies Spanish lockdown rules to visit second home outside of Madrid’ – reports Incredibly, the photo came to light after being […]
Borussia Dortmund’s fabled ‘Yellow Wall’ may have been completely devoid of fans but that did not stop players celebrating in front of it as they picked up a 4-0 win in their first game back after the Covid-19 break. The eyes of the football world were on Germany on Saturday as the country’s top two tiers – Bundesliga 1 and 2 – became the first major leagues to return to action following the coronavirus lockdown. READ MORE: Socially distant goal celebrations & hot mics: Five things to expect when the Bundesliga makes its comeback from coronavirus It ended up being a […]
Arrest warrants have been issued for New York Giants’ DeAndre Baker and Seattle Seahawks’ Quinton Dunbar after the two men were accused by numerous witnesses of conducting an armed robbery at a South Florida party. Baker and Dunbar – who are both from Miami – are wanted on four counts each of armed robbery with a firearm, while Baker faces four additional counts of aggravated assault with the firearm following the Thursday incident at a residential community between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Reports state that Baker and Dunbar were attending a barbecue at a Miramar residence when a fight broke out. Baker, […]
By Rachana Pradhan and Fred Schulte | Kaiser Health News The Trump administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-related bailouts to health care providers with checkered histories, including a Florida-based cancer center that agreed to pay a $100 million criminal penalty as part of a federal antitrust investigation. At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that received $20 billion in emergency funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, have paid millions in recent years either in criminal penalties or to settle allegations related to improper billing and other practices, a Kaiser […]