Over the last year or so, Jack and his business partner Amer Abdallah — a former kickboxer — have committed themselves to helping refugees and children in war-torn countries such as Jordan and Syria. The Badou Jack Foundation — launched this year — is the vehicle in which Jack and Abdallah bring food and supplies to these places. MORE: Join DAZN and watch Canelo plus more than 80 fight nights a year...
She decided to launch an initiative, dubbed “Cakes for Kids.” Fresh cakes are baked and decorated for children celebrating their birthday while living in foster care. Although there have been some obstacles since the program was first announced in early 2020, the bakery recently delivered the program’s first cake to a child. As of September 30, 2019, approximately 423,997 children were living in foster care, according to the most recent national statistics published by the Child Welfare Information Gateway for fiscal year 2019....
The Real Madrid man struck during his side’s emphatic 3-1 defeat of BVB in Germany, sending his first-time volley flying past a helpless Roman Burki and into the top corner. But the Wales international wasn’t the only one to hit an impressive volley during the group stage, and faces some stiff competition for the prize. Sadio Mane will no doubt believe he has a strong claim to take the award following his acrobatic effort in Liverpool’s 7-0 destruction of Spartak Moscow....
In a study published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, a team of scientists from France, the United States and Turkey said they had found evidence for a previously unknown continent that once separated Europe from Asia. Earth is made up of a series of tectonic plates that move around, shifting the planet’s land masses over huge time scales. Around 250 million years ago, all the continents were joined under one supercontinent known as Pangaea....
Costa has been linked with a move to the Chinese Super League, with Tianjan Quanjian reportedly willing to pay the striker £400,000 a week. Xhaka denying racial abuse allegation The Spain international moved to Stamford Bridge in 2014, and has scored 47 Premier League goals in 74 appearances to date. Ballack believes that Costa should repay the faith shown in him by Chelsea, and needs to ignore talk of a move to China....
The awards return after a one-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A formal ceremony will be held in Paris and broadcast to a global audience. The best young men’s player (Kopa Trophy) and top men’s goalkeeper (Yashin Trophy) will also be recognized. Two new awards were also unveiled: Club of the Year and Striker of the Year. Lionel Messi could win a record seventh men’s Ballon d’Or, though Bayern Munich and Poland forward Robert Lewandowski is deemed deserving by many, especially after missing out last year when the Ballon d’Or was scratched....
Mahrez wins African Player of the Year The Italian striker was shown a straight red card in the 91st minute of the 0-0 draw at the Stade Matmut-Atlantique on December 21, during the final round of games before French football’s mid-season break. Nice are the surprise leaders at this stage of campaign, sitting two points clear of second-placed Monaco and five ahead of reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain. But they will be without the former Inter, Manchester City, AC Milan and Liverpool man due to his dismissal, which was prompted by a kick aimed at opponent Igor Lewczuk....
Rivere spoke earlier in December about the difficulty in being able to hold on to the Italian without the money provided by European football as Nice sit sixth in Ligue 1, two spots shy of a Europa League spot. Additionally, Balotelli himself admitted that he is hoping to get back to a top-level club when his current deal comes to an end, having rebuilt his reputation in France after failed spells at AC Milan and Liverpool....
After my performance, I approached a few of these counter-protesters and asked why they had come. In response, one of them began ranting about Antifa, gesticulating at a group of black-clad youth leaning against a low retaining wall on the other side of the police barricade. “They’re terrorists,” he said. “They look just like ISIS. Just look at them.” These kids, most of whom were clearly overheating behind the black bandanas impractically tied across their faces, seemed enigmatic and slightly silly to me; but nothing about their posture or behavior struck me as remotely menacing....
Overview of the Milan Conference of 1880 In 1880, there was a large multi-country conference of deaf educators called the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf. At this conference, a declaration was made that oral education was better than manual (sign) education. As a result, sign language in schools for the Deaf was banned. Here are the first two of eight resolutions passed by the convention: The Convention, considering the incontestable superiority of articulation over signs in restoring the deaf-mute to society and giving him a fuller knowledge of language, declares that the oral method should be preferred to that of signs in the education and instruction of deaf-mutes....
“Erasing books is insanity,” the website says. “Stand up for our common humanity.” The Banned Seuss website currently features And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, one of the six books from the author that will no longer be reprinted, in full. The website links to the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism’s site, a non-partisan organization that claims to be “dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans....
Josh Vaughan, a doorman and barback at Grand Prize Bar on Banks Street in Houston, repeatedly asked the man to wear a face covering to comply with COVID-19 rules at the bar on Monday night. When Vaughan approached the man after he took a trip to the restroom, he was assaulted. “Before he could even say ‘mask’ the guy just took the glass and smashed it over his head,” Lindsay Beale, the bar’s general manager, told KTRK....
Such barbed criticism used to be the norm, but lately the furor over executive pay seems to have died down. Why the relative silence? To start with, stronger corporate profits have satisfied shareholder groups. And many Americans assumed that top managers would get their comeuppance after President Clinton limited the tax deductions corporations could take for executive salaries to $1 million. Dead wrong. Total pay rose by more than 8 percent last year....
Goal understands that a loan switch is the most likely option for the 27-year-old, with a lack of playing time at Camp Nou making it difficult to generate interest in a permanent transfer. Goal 50: The best footballers of 2016 Barca is eager to recoup as much of the 18 million euro ($19.3M) paid Sevilla for Vidal in 2015 as possible, but is aware that it may fall a little short....
The Honduras international has spent the past two campaigns on loan at Tenerife from Tegucigalpa-based Olimpia, making 66 appearances and scoring 20 goals. Messi will sign after honeymoon Tenerife missed out on promotion to La Liga in 2016-17 with a play-off defeat to Getafe and Lozano could be set to extend his stay in Spain further with a switch to the Catalan giants. “Barca is the club that has shown the most interest and everything that is being discussed is true,” said Lozano in quotes reported by AS....
The 24-year-old forward received offers from several European clubs last summer to leave Porto Alegre, but decided to stay in his native Brazil. Barcelona win and BTTS v Sevilla 23/20 And, just hours before Luan and Gremio take the field in Wednesday’s Copa Libertadores semi-final, second leg against Barcelona of Ecuador, the club announced he had put pen to paper on a new contract. “We are very happy because this is what Gremio always wanted,” president Romildo Bolzan told reporters on Wednesday....
The Argentina international’s contract at Camp Nou still has 18 months to run but he has suggested he could leave the Catalan giants after falling down the pecking order under Ernesto Valverde. Mascherano, who has been struggling with injuries, has seen his playing time significantly reduced in 2017-18, making just 10 appearances in all competitions. He has suggested a move back to Argentina could be on the cards at the end of the current campaign, while Valverde has stressed his desire to keep the 33-year-old....
The league match was in grave doubt of being cancelled following scenes of violence around the city as Catalans attempted to go to the polls in an unofficial independence referendum. Barca & Las Palmas both to score 12/5 The club had requested that the game be called off, but it has gone ahead in an otherwise empty Camp Nou. Over 100 people have reportedly been injured by the police around Catalunya over the course of Sunday, when may, including Barca defender Gerard Pique, offered their ballots....
Barcelona started quickly, but couldn’t score early on. Athletic looked up to the task of defending, but they struggled to hold on to the ball. Villalibre didn’t have much support, and couldn’t make it stuck when the ball found him. The waves of Barcelona attacks seemed almost endless as the first half continued, and it felt like it would only be a matter of time before something went the way of the hosts....
Ed Robertson: Flashing for us happens every four or five shows. It’s not like a Kid Rock show where every third or fourth girl is flashing. We see naked guys as often as we see naked girls. I consider that to be a poor ratio. I would say 1 to 10 would be a better ratio, but we’re running about even Steven. I think people flash us ironically. I’ve been at Kid Rock and Metallica shows and the flashing is very like, “I’m a stripper, and these are my t— and I know you want to see them....
