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“Aaron Pryor vs. Alexis Arguello wasn’t the biggest fight I ever did, but it was the greatest fight I ever did.” That’s the take of Hall of Fame sports commentator Barry Tompkins, who called “Battle of the Champions” for HBO Sports at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Nov. 12, 1982. For the uninformed, Tompkins, who now works for Showtime, has been calling world championship action for six decades and provided commentary for Leonard-Hearns, Hagler-Hearns, Hagler-Duran, and Hagler-Leonard, among others....

If the Gunners are to maintain their interest in the title, it is a fixture that they surely must win, as they lie four points behind Jose Mourinho’s men, who are in turn eight behind neighbours Manchester City. Both teams enjoyed positive experiences in midweek, though United’s 4-2 win over Watford was not the ‘get the cigars out’ experience that the Portuguese might have wished for. Meanwhile, Arsenal saw off Huddersfield 5-0 with few problems, albeit they lost striker Alexandre Lacazette due to injury....

Yet despite the 31.8 million pound forward’s eye-catching goals, pace and industry, his early performances for the Londoners have not totally convinced Arsene Wenger. Goal UK has learned that Sanchez has been dropped by the manager from the starting XI for Arsenal’s last two Premier League matches for slowing down the team’s well-established passing game. Wenger reacted to Arsenal’s limp 2-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League opener a fortnight ago by axing Sanchez and replacing him for the trip to Aston Villa with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain....

Young turnips with their greens are in the markets in spring and fall. The two together make a delicious soup or side dish. Remove the greens from: 2 bunches of young turnips with greens Trim and discard the stems from the greens. Wash and drain the greens and cut them into 1/2-inch strips. Trim the roots from the turnips. If needed peel the turnips (taste one to judge if the skins are tough), and slice thin....

Smith had been pulled out of her training midsession in March 2002 to be told that her job had disappeared as part of the heavy-equipment manufacturing company’s reduction in forces. “I literally started shaking,” says Smith, a 40-year-old mother of two teenage sons. Within hours, she’d cleaned out her desk and bid goodbye to the workers on the assembly line she’d supervised for more than four years. At first, Smith tried to remain optimistic; she had years of production-line experience (she’d also worked at the nearby Chrysler plant) and had risen though the ranks to management....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have become podcasters, TV producers, authors, vaccine equity champions, public speakers and now bankers. The couple performed their final royal duties in March 2020 before moving to California for a new life as high-earning celebrities. Over a year and a half they committed to a fast-growing list of projects with their latest roles at investment firm Ethic announced Tuesday. Impact Partners at Ethic Harry and Meghan invested with the ethical finance company earlier in the year and have now joined as impact partners....

But the return of the game in 2014, after it was played here in ’08, serves as a reminder of the active role the league has tried to play in the revitalization of New Orleans in the wake of the devastation left behind by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. MORE: East beats West | Box score | Cavs’ Irving is MVP | Kobe update “It is wonderful to see,” said NBA veteran player and coach Avery Johnson, a New Orleans native who also served as one of the hosts for the All-Star game....

Tuesday’s show will see 12 acts take to the stage of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to impress the judges and audiences at home. While the judges Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Howie Mandel and Heidi Klum have the power to kick acts off the stage if all four press their red buzzers, the decision on which five acts will be automatically sent through to the final lies in the hands of the public....

The Duchess of Sussex is taking on one of the U.K’s highest circulation tabloids after it published a “private and confidential” letter she wrote to Thomas Markle Sr., 75. Court papers say the note detailed her “deepest and most private thoughts and feelings” about her father following “a time of great personal anguish and distress.” In the dramatic days before her wedding, her father suffered a heart attack and subsequently missed the big day....

Over the next few days, it is possible to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn simultaneously with the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune can be observed with binoculars or a telescope. “These nights, we can see all the planets of our solar system at a glance, soon after sunset,” Gianluca Masi, an astronomer with the Virtual Telescope Project told Newsweek. “It happens from time to time, but it is always a spectacular sight....

Disney+ already boasts a large selection of Star Wars content on its streaming service. Every single Star Wars film apart from The Rise of Skywalker is currently available to stream. Additionally, popular Star Wars animated shows such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels are available to stream in their entirety. The Mandalorian The Mandalorian season one launched with Disney+ upon the streaming service’s debut. The first live-action Star Wars series quickly became one of the most popular shows on the platform, with Baby Yoda quickly rising to pop-culture superstardom....

Though Best Kiss might seem like the silliest of awards, tracking the winners gives us a fascinating insight into changing attitudes. The first same-sex kiss between two men, for example, was a comedy kiss from American Pie 2, in which the idea that two men might kiss was very much the butt of the joke. By the late 2010s, however, two actually romantic male-on-male kisses won in a row—Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome in Moonlight, and Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale in Love, Simon....

The former England boss was hired by the Goodison Park side on November 30 after Ronald Koeman was sacked following a disappointing start to the season. Although Allardyce successfully lifted the Toffees away from the relegation zone and up to eighth in the standings, his defensive style was criticised by fans, who booed the team regularly towards the end of the season. Everton scored only 44 goals in 38 outings in the league, the second lowest tally of all teams outside the bottom six, and with the future in mind, the club have decided to make a change....

Everton announced an agreement was in place on Wednesday and officially confirmed Allardyce’s appointment a day later, finally hiring a full-time successor to Ronald Koeman. Toffees 6/4 to beat Huddersfield to nil The Dutchman was dismissed on October 23 and after just two wins in nine Premier League games despite spending an estimated £142 million in pre-season. David Unsworth took over on an interim basis but failed to inspire much of an improvement until Wednesday’s 4-0 win over West Ham, with the club having also been heavily linked with Marco Silva and Sean Dyche....

The video was posted to TikTok last week by “Stroganoff” (@kingstroganoff), who wrote: “We don’t care!!!” The post has received more than 2.7 million views and nearly 90,000 likes. “I’m telling y’all right now: Stop ordering through FedEx,” the TikToker said at the beginning of the video. “We do not care about y’all’s packages…we on bulls**t in here.” In the video, the TikToker can be seen roughly handling packages as he removes them from a conveyor belt and sorts them into different areas....

In the video, posted to Twitter by The Daily Caller’s chief video director, Richie McGinniss, the young man is seen standing in front of a boarded-up building with an AK-47 and a first aid kit. Asked by McGinniss why he’s armed, the 17-year-old replies, “So people are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business.” The teen continues, “Part of my job is to also help people. If there’s somebody hurt, I’m running into harm’s way....

News broke over the weekend that SolarWinds Orion software had been compromised as far back as March. Hackers managed to input malware into a software update that was then downloaded and used by thousands of SolarWinds clients—which included top government agencies as well as more than 400 Fortune 500 companies. Although the damage is still being investigated, cybersecurity experts, lawmakers and government officials have emphasized the seriousness of the hack....

Following a tip-off from Swiss Customs, officials at Ibiza Airport stopped the traveler after he landed from Zurich on July 5. When asked if he had anything to declare, he replied no, but they searched his belongings and found an artwork signed by Picasso in a paper tube. The man, a 64-year-old Mexican national, according to local media, claimed it was a fake and showed the officials an invoice for 1,450 Swiss francs ($1,500)....

“Is this the end of the road?” he asked himself. “Is this as far as I can take this team?” Allegri decided not to resign. He had more to prove, more to give. “The next morning, my head was clear," he explained. “I went to my office at 7 a.m. and had my espresso. “It was a new season, with new opportunities.” Pessimism had given way to optimism. Juventus had once again fallen at the final hurdle in the Champions League - for the second time in three seasons - but their coach still believed that the Bianconeri could turn their domestic dominance into European glory....