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https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/mike-freeman/2024/10/31/joe-mazzulla-boston-celtics-nba-fighting/75941238007/ Mike Freeman    USA TODAY - 2024, October 31 Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla recently said something really bonkers. He later tried to clarify what he said but the clarification was still kind of bonkers. In saying what he said, Mazzulla demonstrated both a lack of historical knowledge of his own league, and how race works in America. During a Tuesday radio interview, Mazzulla said the NBA should bring back fighting. You read that correctly. It is true that Mazzulla is an odd bird who says some odd things, but this was wild even for him. It led to numerous headlines all across the country. Listen to that part of the interview yourself: "The biggest thing that we rob people of from an entertainment standpoint is you can't fight anymore. I wish we'd bring back fighting," Mazzulla said on NBC Sports Boston. "What's more entertaining tha...

Pressenti pour disputer la Coupe du monde 1958 avec la France, l’attaquant de Saint-Étienne, décédé hier à l’âge de 88 ans, avait préféré déserter pour rejoindre le FLN et militer pacifiquement balle au pied pour l’indépendance de l’Algérie. BERNARD LIONS 9 Nov 2024 - L'Équipe Les dernières fois où il a encore eu la force de revenir dans le théâtre de ses exploits, Rachid Mekhloufi, né le 12 août 1936, ne pouvait pas s’empêcher de lâcher un de ses sourires malicieux dont il avait le secret. Malgré le poids des ans qui avaient alourdi sa silhouette également et fini par le clouer carrément sur un fauteuil roulant, il se souvenait comme si c’était hier du mauvais tour joué à l’AS Saint-Étienne, quand il avait pris la fuite au milieu de la nuit, caché à l’arrière d’une Simca. La veille, il avait sauvé l’honneur devant Béziers (1-2) en marquant, associé comme deuxième attaquant au Camerounais Eugène N’Jo Léa, avec le Néerlandais Kees Rijvers en meneur de jeu.  Comment pouvait-il oublie...

By Jason Segedy Nov 21, 2018 at 2:58 pm Susan Montgomery / Shutterstock.com Gentrification (noun) - the process by which people of (often modest) means who were once castigated for abandoning the city are now castigated for returning to the city Gentrification. It is a word that we hear with increasing frequency in contemporary discussions about American cities. But what does that word really mean? And, even more importantly, what does it mean in the context of the region that I live in and love — the Rust Belt? Does gentrification mean the displacement of the poor — pushed aside to make way for the affluent? Or does it mean reinvestment in economically distressed neighborhoods that haven’t seen any significant investment in decades? It is important to be clear about the meaning of this increasingly ambiguous term, because what needs to happen in the vast majority of urban neighborhoods in the legacy cities of the Rust Belt is far less ambiguous. Despite over 50 years of well-intended ...

La Repubblica © - Edizione NAZIONALE 09/11/2024 - Pagina 8 di MICHELA PONZANI © Una notte di caccia all’ebreo, feroce e spietata, a colpi di coltello, pugni di ferro e persino uso di automobili per annientare i passanti . Proprio nel centro di Amsterdam , dove Anna Frank visse per due anni braccata con la sua famiglia in una soffitta, unico nascondiglio per sfuggire alle persecuzioni razziali e alla deportazione, un nuovo pogrom anti-ebraico risveglia l’Europa alla vigilia di quella “notte dei cristalli”, che tra il 9 e 10 novembre 1938 iniziò il precipizio verso l’orrore del mondo.  Il cancelliere tedesco Olaf Scholz si inchina a lucidare con un fazzoletto le due pietre di inciampo che ricordano le vittime della Kristallnacht , quando l’ossessione della purezza della razza marchiò per sempre la Germania con l’infamia di Judenfrei .  La nazione tedesca umiliata e distrutta dal diktat della pace di Versailles nel 1919, tradita e svenduta dai disfattisti della Repubblica di We...

Campionato-Europa e ritorno. Senza soluzione di continuità. Neanche smaltito l'hangover emotivo per la "Chacho Night" - Sergio Rodríguez nella Hall of Fame dell'Olimpia - e il super esordio milanese di Nico Mannion nel rigenerante successo sul Real Madrid, il secondo in fila in Eurolega, Milano torna al Forum per ricevere Venezia, ferma a quota sei in campionato e reduce dal -28 di Eurocup sul neutro bulgaro di Samokov contro l'Hapoel Gerusalemme. Battuto il Maccabi Tel Aviv, mai banale rematch della finale persa a Strasburgo '81, la Virtus archivia la prima vittoria stagionale in casa in Eurolega e si rituffa in un'altra classica: insidioso testacoda a Varese, che ha sconfitto solo Pistoia, viene dal -26 di Trieste e sarà alla prima senza il "Red Mamba" Mannion, ora rosso-Olimpia. Metodo-Brera e punti alla mano però il big-match della settima giornata sarà a Trento. L'Aquila (con Bologna l'unica imbattuta) a quota 12 in campionato arriva...

https://capovelo.com/donald-trump-the-man-who-brought-world-class-cycling-to-america/ 06Nov2024 - In THE GREAT RACE Because most people nowadays only view Donald J. Trump in a political context, many are unaware of the fact that he was the man who once brought world-class cycling to America. The idea of creating a world-class cycling race on these shores was initially conceived by NBC reporter John Test, who had covered the Tour de France in 1987. As the story goes, after returning to the United States, he presented the idea to basketball entrepreneur, Billy Packer, who in turn approached the Atlantic City Casino representatives for sponsorship. This almost immediately captured the interest of Trump, who stepped in with the offer to become the race’s main principal. At last, after having his name on skyscrapers, casinos, shopping malls and even airlines, the future US president would now see his name stamped on a bike race that would enter upon the cycling world stage. Indeed, drawing ...

https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/commentary-meeting-the-donald-at-the-tour-de-trump/?scope=anon For part of an afternoon back in 1989, I belonged to the inner circle of Donald Trump. Updated Apr 3, 2020 Samuel Abt Photo: Gary Newkirk Editors’ Note: Author Samuel Abt was a long-time sports journalist and columnist for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He covered the Tour de France and other professional cycling events for more than 30 years. A resident of the Paris area, Abt retired several years ago. Below, he recounts an encounter he had with Donald Trump at the inaugural Tour de Trump bicycle race. For part of an afternoon back in 1989, I belonged to the inner circle of Donald Trump. The reason was an erroneous remark I made before the start of the inaugural Tour de Trump, the 10-stage, 837-mile race on the East Coast, which he was bankrolling for $750,000. Years later, the Tour de Trump became the Tour du Pont, but back in 1989, it was still ...

https://www.suiveur.it/storie/dal-gruppo/le-tour-de-trump/ Quando Donald Trump organizzò una corsa di biciclette lungo la East Coast. Davide Bernardini Dal gruppo   4 Novembre 2019 Nell’America della seconda metà degli anni ottanta il ciclismo sta guadagnando un credito sempre maggiore: Greg LeMond e Davis Phinney vincono classifica generale e frazioni del Tour de France; Andrew Hampsten conquista il Giro d’Italia 1988; Steve Bauer, il quale essendo canadese viene comunque da quella parte di mondo, ha sfiorato la vittoria alle Olimpiadi, ai campionati del mondo, al Giro delle Fiandre e alla Parigi-Roubaix; Lance Armstrong è di lì a venire. Tuttavia, l’unico grande evento ciclistico americano, la Coors Classic, muore nel 1988. C’è bisogno di una corsa a tappe che ne prenda il posto. L’idea viene in mente a John Tesh, un giovane reporter che ha seguito il Tour de France 1987 per la CBS . Non volendo però impegnarsi in prima persona, Tesh si rivolge a Billy Packer, che non è soltanto ...

The cover of the 1989 Tour de Trump program (Image credit: Tour de Trump) https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/when-president-trump-inaugurated-the-1989-tour-de-trump/ By Peter Joffre Nye published April 29, 2020 Extract from Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing , second edition Comments Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States, is a controversial figure, but decades ago he put his name behind a professional cycling event. Riders from more than 12 nations competed in the 837-mile cavalcade through five states in the 1989 Tour de Trump. In this excerpt from the book Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing , second edition (University of Nebraska Press), Peter Joffre Nye describes how the race came to be. Billy Packer, familiar to millions of basketball fans for commentary on network television college basketball, had an idea to share in late 1988 with New York real estate developer Donald J. Trump. Through business contacts, Packer wr...