Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is considered one of the best mixed martial arts fighters in his prime. It would have been true until five years ago when ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira was still fighting under the now-defunct PRIDE Fighting Championship banner. Back then Nogueira held titles in PRIDE and other jiu-jitsu tournaments but he has been as successful Brendan Schaub vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira At UFC 134 is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Forecasters say Irene’s sustained hurricane-force winds have slammed into the North Carolina coast. Irene is expected to continue churning its way up the US East Coast through some of the most densely populated areas of the United States.(Aug. 27)
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Hurricane Irene weakened early Saturday as it made its way toward Virginia, but residents of coastal towns like Virginia Beach are preparing for the worst. (Aug. 27)
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Via Dave Weigel, at Slate, the Glitterati Go Large. He found the perfect tongue-in-check counterpoint, too, but you’re gonna have to click over to appreciate it. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Balloon Juice Discovery Date : 26/08/2011 03:44 Number of articles : 4
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• Send all your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Click here for all the latest league tables and stats • All the latest from across Europe on our live scoreboard 3pm David Wallace has been stretchered off; it looks like a knee problem and first impressions are that he will probably be out of the World Cup. O’Gara has made it Ireland 6-10 England, while a try from Jeff Lima has put Wigan 10-0 ahead of Leeds at Wembley. 2.58pm My eyes hurt. The scores haven’t changed in the two rugby matches. It’s Ireland 3-10 England and Leeds 0-4 Wigan. But David Wallace looks in a worrying amount of pain after a tackle from Tuilagi. 2.54pm “Perhaps players can wear scented gold hotpants and a salary cap,” says Ian Copestake. 2.51pm Ronan O’Gara scored the Ireland penalty, but Jonny Wilkinson has since made it Ireland 3-10 England . 2.50pm “One change to save football?” says Gary Naylor. “Listen to Michel Platini. Anyone who unites so many in English football against him must be doing something right.” 2.48pm Ireland have scored a penalty in Dublin, which means it’s Ireland 3-7 England . It’s also Leeds 0-4 Wigan in the Challenge Cup final. I’d love to give you more detail, but I’m trying to watch eight different screens at the same time and I’m only just sure what my own name is, never mind anything else. 2.46pm Will Jefferson slog-sweeps Gary Keedy into the crowd, and Leicestershire have beaten Lancashire. They will play in tonight’s final, which we’ll be OBOing, and Paul Nixon – who will retire after today – runs onto the field to celebrate. Great stuff. 2.46pm Will Jefferson has belted the first two balls of the Super Over for four, and Leicestershire are on the brink of the final. They are 9-0 after three balls, needing 14 to win. 2.44pm There’s a Super Over in the Twenty20 semi-final between Lancashire and Leicestershire. Lancashire have made 13 in theirs, and now Gary Keedy is going to bowl. 2.42pm Manu Tuilagi swerves decisively through the Ireland defence to score an early try for England in Dublin, and Jonny Wilkinson extends that lead with an expert conversion. Ireland 0-7 England . Swansea v Sunderland team news Swansea: Vorm, Williams, Taylor, Caulker, Rangel, Britton, Sinclair, Dyer, Routledge, Graham, Agustien. Subs: Moreira, Tate, Dobbie, Lita, Moore, Allen, Gower. Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, Brown, O’Shea, Ferdinand, Cattermole, Larsson, Gardner, Colback, Gyan, Sessegnon. Subs: Westwood, Wickham, Richardson, Vaughan, Ji, Bramble, Elmohamady. Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire) Chelsea v Norwich team news Chelsea: Hilario, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Ramires, Mikel, Lampard, Drogba, Torres, Malouda. Subs: Turnbull, Mata, Lukaku, Ferreira, McEachran, Alex, Anelka. Norwich: Ruddy, Barnett, De Laet, Whitbread, Naughton, Hoolahan, Bradley Johnson, Crofts, Tierney, Holt, Chris Martin. Subs: Rudd, Russell Martin, Morison, Jackson, Pilkington, Fox, Bennett. Referee Mike Jones (Cheshire) 2.24pm Wigan have beaten QPR 2-0, an excellent win for them that in their battle to stay up on the final day. Blackburn v Everton team news Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Givet, Olsson, Emerton, Nzonzi, Dunn, Pedersen, Hoilett, Roberts. Subs: Bunn, Formica, Petrovic, Rochina, Goodwillie, Hanley, Lowe. Everton: Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Osman, Heitinga, Arteta, Barkley, Fellaini, Anichebe. Subs: Mucha, Hibbert, Bilyaletdinov, Beckford, Cahill, Vellios, Baxter. Referee Lee Mason (Lancashire) 2.18pm On a serious note – because sometimes the laughter has to stop – football is in a right state. It’s a disgrace. But it might not be too late to save it. So if you could suggest one idea to save football, what would it be? It can be anything you like: an unseeded knockout in the European Cup, all players to wear scented gold hotpants, a salary cap, whatever. 2.14pm Some Challenge Cup final team news from the wires. Leeds gambled on the fitness of Kallum Watkins as they sought to end their losing sequence in Challenge Cup finals in today’s clash with Wigan at a sun-kissed Wembley. The 20-year-old centre had been a major doubt after twisting his knee against Harlequins a week ago but was named in the Rhinos’ starting line-up. Leeds, runners-up four times since lifting the Cup at the old Wembley in 1999, left out Lee Smith and Ali Lauitiiti from their 19-man squad while Wigan opted for Liam Farrell on the bench ahead of Gareth Hock. The Warriors, who won the Cup in Edinburgh in 2002, are back at Wembley for the first time since their shock defeat by Sheffield Eagles in 1998 and were once more hot favourites after going into the game on the back of an 11-match winning run. 2.13pm The teams for Zimbabwe v Kenya in the World Cup warm-up in Dublin. Ireland Murphy, Bowe, Earls, D’Arcy, Trimble, O’Gara, Reddan, Healy, Flannery, Ross, O’Callaghan, O’Connell, Ferris, D. Wallace, Heaslip. Replacements: Best, Court, Ryan, Leamy, Murray, Sexton, McFadden. England Foden, Ashton, Tuilagi, Tindall, Cueto, Wilkinson, Wigglesworth, Sheridan, Thompson, Cole, Lawes, Croft, Fourie, Haskell, Hartley. Replacements: Stevens, Shaw, Palmer, Simpson, Flood, Armitage. Referee Nigel Owens (Wales) 1.58pm It has finished Aston Villa 0-0 Wolves , so Wolves go back to the top of the Premier League for whatever that’s worth (clue: the square root of eff all). Meanwhile, Franco Di Santo has just made it Wigan 2-0 QPR . I had no idea that game was even going on until Iain Dowie starting shouting in my lughole. Pulitzer please! 1.54pm According to our French snout, Tresor, the South Korean captain and striker Park Chu-Young is about to join Arsenal from Monaco. 1.46pm Some rugby union team news cut and pasted lovelessly from the news wires: England number eight Nick Easter failed a fitness test on his tight calf shortly before today’s World Cup warm-up clash with Ireland. Easter was replaced in the starting line-up by Hendre Fourie, who is not a member of Martin Johnson’s 30-man squad for the New Zealand tournament, with James Haskell switching to No8 to accommodate the Sale openside. England fielded a new-look centre partnership of Alesana Tuilagi and Mike Tindall at Aviva Stadium, with Jonny Wilkinson featuring at fly-half. Brian O’Driscoll was missing for Ireland after sustaining a ‘stinger’ injury to his shoulder, while flanker Sean O’Brien sat out the match because of a knee problem. Preamble Hello. For the second successive Saturday we have only three 3pm kick offs in the Premier League. It’s an indefensible disgrace, which should but won’t shame those whose unashamed avarice has caused this situation. As names go, ‘the beautiful game’ is now about as apt as Tim Lovejoy, the Champions League and Louise Mensch. The plus side of such an anorexic Premier League fixture list is that is allows me to demonstrate my knowledge of rugby union and rugby league; the down side is that I have no knowledge of rugby union and rugby league. But I will at least attempt to update you on the two 1430 kick-offs: Ireland v England (rugby league World Cup warm-up) and Wigan v Leeds (rugby union Challenge Cup final). The three Premier League games are: Blackburn v Everton Chelsea v Norwich Swansea v Sunderland Absurd as it is to report so early in the season, four of those six sides will be the recipient of pelters from fans and media if they lose today. The exceptions are the newly promoted sides, Swansea and Norwich. It’s not fair, not remotely but that’s the game these days. Premier League Championship League One League Two Rugby league Rugby union Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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Residents and tourists in Montauk, New York, ventured out to the beach Saturday morning to get a glimpse of some of the waves and wind from Hurricane Irene which is still hundreds of miles away. (Aug. 27)
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Hurricane-force winds and drenching rains from Irene battered the North Carolina coast early Saturday as the storm began its potentially catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. (Aug. 27)
Continue reading …Video of the protests from the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin The mainstream media may no longer be paying much attention to the ongoing protests of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, but that hasn’t stopped activists from continuing to fight against the governor’s misguided policies. 13 protesters were arrested Thursday for refusing to leave the capitol after they sat in the capitol and refused to leave for more than hour after the building’s scheduled closing time. The sit-in came after a protesters led by AFSCME and other unions marched from the Library Mall in Madison to the capitol on the first day state workers got their pay cuts from Walker’s controversial budget, that went into effect Thursday. Many protesters who marched on the capitol wore black as a sign of mourning. Those arrested — including twelve adults and one minor — are being charged with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest or obstructing justice, depending on their actions.
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An ESPN article asking if Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who was convicted of dog-fighting offenses, would have been treated differently if he was white, is stirring controversy. The article features a digitally created image showing what Vick may look like if he was white. The image prompted angry blowback on from the blogsphere. ESPN responded by saying that it was “trying to create a meaningful discussion about race in sports.” WATCH VIDEO AT THE TOP
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This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of August 15, 2011: Phone Releases Fido launched the Samsung Galaxy Q, also known as the Gravity Smart in the US, on Thursday. [via MobileSyrup ] The BlackBerry Curve 9360 can already be purchased on Telus for $50 with a three-year contract, and the Torch 9860 will be available on August 30th. [via IntoMobile and CrackBerry ] SouthernLINC Wireless announced the immediate availability of the Motorola Titanium , offered for $150 with a two-year commitment. T-Mobile released the Samsung Gravity TXT, a basic messaging phone that’s on sale for $10. [via UnwiredView ] Cricket has begun offering a new messaging phone called the Samsung Comment , which offers a full QWERTY keyboard, stereo bluetooth, a microSD slot and 1.3MP camera. It can be had for $90 with no commitment required. [via PhoneScoop ] Other news The government of South Korea , in reaction to Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola, now intends to form a consortium of local companies that will work together in building a brand new mobile operating system. [via IntoMobile ] Randall Milch, Chief Counsel for Verizon, is so frustrated with the patent wars going on that this week he filed an appeal to President Obama, asking for him to provide assistance in the matter. [via PhoneScoop ] The Motorola PRO is expected to debut in the UK in mid-September, though pre-orders are already taking place at select authorized resellers. [via UnwiredView ] Leaked posters indicate the BlackBerry Torch 9850 will be offered by Verizon and screenshots show the same phone going to US Cellular, though we’re still unsure of the release date or pricing. [via CrackBerry(1) and (2) ] Last week we reported on the rumored Sony Ericsson Nozumi , a smartphone that will likely feature a 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm S2 CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, and 4.3-inch display with 1280 x 720 resolution. At the time, it was assumed to be only selling in Japan; however, there’s a good possibility the Nozumi will end up available globally instead. [via XperiaBlog ] Pantech’s LTE phone on Verizon may actually end up being called the Breakout (rather than the “Apache” ), according to a leaked screenshot. When released, it’ll feature a 1GHz CPU with 512MB of RAM, dual cameras, and will be preloaded with Gingerbread. Not much to write home about at this stage in the game, considering these are incredibly similar to the specs of the LG Revolution. However, it would be the first 4G phone on Big Red that has a 4-inch display. [via AndroidCentral ] T-Mobile may be planning to throw a data pay-per-use feature onto any smartphone that currently has its internet access blocked. If this happens, it will affect current customers as well as new ones. [via TmoNews ] Dish has petitioned the FCC for permission to use 40MHz of allocated spectrum to begin building out an LTE-Advanced network. [via PhoneScoop ] Mobile Miscellany: week of August 22, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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