Author: Max Smith
All three judges scored the tight bout in Catterall's favour. [PA]Jack Catterall avenged a controversial defeat by beating Scotsman Josh Taylor on points in front of a raucous crowd in Leeds.All three judges awarded the bout to El Gato, with the scorecards reading it 117-111, 117-111 and 116-113.The Chorley-born fighter arguably landed the cleanest punches throughout the bout but had to withstand a brave fight back from Taylor to hand him only the second defeat of his professional career.”I can now close this chapter with Josh Taylor,” Catterall told BBC Radio 5 Live. “There was a bit of frustration but…
Inter Miami rested Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez but still managed to beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 on Saturday, extending their unbeaten streak in Major League Soccer to 10 games.With Miami's two star strikers, as well as his former Barcelona teammate, midfielder Sergio Busquets, absent from the trip to Canada, coach Gerard Martino deployed Ecuadorian forward Leonardo Campana and Finnish winger Robert Taylor up front, who provided the goals.Martino said none of the three former Barcelona players were injured but he thought it wise to rest them ahead of Wednesday's midweek match against Atlanta and avoid the 12-hour flight home.The…
According to federal prosecutors, the two men falsified the values of trading cards and defrauded people of $2 million. SEATTLE — Two Washington state men have been arrested on suspicion of defrauding customers out of more than $2 million by selling counterfeit sports cards and Pokémon trading cards, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Anthony Curcio, a 43-year-old man from Redmond, and Iosif Bondarchuk, a 37-year-old man from Lake Stevens, were indicted on charges of wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy. “As alleged, Anthony Curcio and Iosif Bondarchuk carried out a brazen, nationwide fraud scheme to defraud purchasers and the…
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For many immigrants who play cricket under Lebanon's “kafala” system, Sunday is their only day off. (Anwar Amro)In a Beirut parking lot, migrant workers cheer on their teams playing a cricket match, a moment of respite in crisis-hit Lebanon where working conditions are often harsh.”Sundays are very happy. We eat together, we laugh together,” said Pradipa Silva, 42, a cricketer from Sri Lanka, as he and his teammates prepared and shared coconut rice and other traditional dishes nearby.”The work is very exhausting” and workers are stressed and anxious, said Silva, who works six days a week as a housekeeper to…
The Celtics were leading 3-0, making this loss the Pacers' most painful to date (Photo by Stacey Revere/Getty Images)It was a tougher task than expected, but the Boston Celtics finished Game 4 with a 3-0 lead against an undermanned Indiana Pacers.Led by Jayson Tatum's 36 points, the Eastern Division's top seed overcame an 18-point deficit to post a heart-breaking 114-111 victory over the Pacers on Saturday in the Eastern Conference finals. Game 4 is scheduled for Monday at 8 p.m. ET.No team in NBA history has ever come back from a 3-0 series deficit.The Pacers were without Tyrese Haliburton, who…
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TEXAS TRIBUNE – Several Uvalde families are suing Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15-style rifle used by the 18-year-old shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School two years ago and wounded several more, according to lawyers.The victim's family also filed separate lawsuits Friday against California-based Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, and Activision, whose Daniel Defense gun appears in the best-selling video game “Call of Duty.”The lawsuit will accuse the three companies of negligence and wrongful death for selling semi-automatic rifles to the Uvalde shooter before he turned 18. The shooter purchased…
Bank of Japan Governor Ueda and Finance Minister Suzuki met over the weekend at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Italy.Suzuki said he had not met one-on-one with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, appearing to suggest there had been no discussion of coordinated yen intervention. Before the weekend, Suzuki's aide, Vice Minister for International Affairs Masato Kanda, the official who would instruct the BOJ to intervene if it deemed it necessary, had essentially said there was no need for a meeting.Earlier this month, Yellen did not encourage the idea.A few days later, Yellen offered an even cooler tone.Not wanting…
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