One of the biggest names in soccer has a problem with Nike. A heavy, sweaty problem, in fact. FC Barcelona, the very same European Champion squad that stars Lionel Messi and certainly has claims as the best club in the world, has complained to Nike that the new Dri-FIT shirts result in anything but dry
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• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email paolo.bandini@guardian.co.uk or tweet @Paolo_Bandini • Follow all tonight’s latest scores in the Europa League 4 mins Rovers’ travelling support are making an impressive racket at White Hart Lane, but perhaps unsurprisingly there are a lot of empty seats throughout the home support section. Hard to get worked up about a competition, I suppose, when your club’s manager has rarely seemed especially excited to be in it. 2 mins And it is Tottenham, indeed, who have the first shot of the evening, Brush gathering comfortably enough after Giovani Dos Santos picked up a loose ball about 25 yards out and decided to try his luck. The shot was firmly struck, but pretty much straight at the goalkeeper in the end. 1 min Off we go. Carlo Cudicini is the first keeper to touch the ball, but it’s nothing too troubling – just a comfortable slide to gather a loose ball inside the box. Make-believe magic “Seeing unlikely teams like Shamrock Rovers doing well European competition always makes me drift off to my glory days on Championship/Football Manager,” writes Martin. “Champions League final with Northwich Victoria? Happy days.” Funnily enough one of my greatest ever memories of pretend management came with Derry City. Reached the Champions League group stage and won at Old Trafford in one of those happy games where your keeper just won’t be beaten. Lost 6-0 at Club Brugge and went out bottom of the group, mind. Rohan Ricketts Has been interviewed by Five before kick-off. My he does always seem like a very happy man. “I’d say maybe a decline club stature,” he says when his interviewer rather bluntly asks if he considers his career to be a failure. Is it possible to adjudge your career either way when you’re still only 28? Personally I’m not planning to give up hope of my own first international call-up until I’m at least 45. Team news: As expected, Sébastien Bassong, Aaron Lennon, Giovani Dos Santos, and Roman Pavlyuchenko are all among Tottenham’s starting XI, but the more surprising inclusion is Jermain Defoe. A mark of how seriously Harry Redknapp is taking this game, or a sign that he won’t be getting the nod to start against Arsenal this weekend? Shamrock Rovers leave the recently acquired former Tottenham midfielder Rohan Ricketts on the bench. Tottenham: Cudicini, Walker, Corluka, Bassong, Rose, Lennon, Carroll, Livermore, Giovani, Defoe, Pavlyuchenko. Subs: Gomes, Bale, Kaboul, Modric, Falque, Townsend, Kane. Shamrock Rovers: Brush, Sullivan, Sives, Murray, Rice, O’Donnell, Paterson, Dennehy, Finn, McCabe, Twigg. Subs: Thompson, Stevens, Sheppard, Kilduff, Turner, McCormack, Ricketts. Referee: Gediminas Mazeika (Lithuania) Evening all On one side, a team who feel so passionately about this game that they told most of their starters to take the night off. On the other, a team who potentially stand to earn more this evening than they would by winning their own domestic championship. Three decades removed from the heady days of John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Jim Beglin, Shamrock Rovers are once again revelling in the European stage . Tottenham may be ready to leave this stadium behind, but for Shamrock Rovers a night at White Hart Lane is a dream 30 years in the making . Whether or not Tottenham are the strongest side in this group remains to be proven – especially without their first-choice players – but as Daniel McDonnell reflected in the Irish Independent today, “this is the glamour tie, the Kodak moment”. More than 2,500 Rovers fans have made the trip from Dublin, a number that will be swelled further by London’s Irish population. Not that everyone even in Dublin will be cheering them on, of course. While Rovers’ status as the underdog and fan-led ownership may make them a romantic choice for the neutral, there are plenty within the capital who would just as soon see the perceived bully boys of Irish football getting a taste of their own medicine. Europa League 2011-12 Tottenham Hotspur Shamrock Rovers Europa League Paolo Bandini guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email paolo.bandini@guardian.co.uk or tweet @Paolo_Bandini • Follow all tonight’s latest scores in the Europa League 4 mins Rovers’ travelling support are making an impressive racket at White Hart Lane, but perhaps unsurprisingly there are a lot of empty seats throughout the home support section. Hard to get worked up about a competition, I suppose, when your club’s manager has rarely seemed especially excited to be in it. 2 mins And it is Tottenham, indeed, who have the first shot of the evening, Brush gathering comfortably enough after Giovani Dos Santos picked up a loose ball about 25 yards out and decided to try his luck. The shot was firmly struck, but pretty much straight at the goalkeeper in the end. 1 min Off we go. Carlo Cudicini is the first keeper to touch the ball, but it’s nothing too troubling – just a comfortable slide to gather a loose ball inside the box. Make-believe magic “Seeing unlikely teams like Shamrock Rovers doing well European competition always makes me drift off to my glory days on Championship/Football Manager,” writes Martin. “Champions League final with Northwich Victoria? Happy days.” Funnily enough one of my greatest ever memories of pretend management came with Derry City. Reached the Champions League group stage and won at Old Trafford in one of those happy games where your keeper just won’t be beaten. Lost 6-0 at Club Brugge and went out bottom of the group, mind. Rohan Ricketts Has been interviewed by Five before kick-off. My he does always seem like a very happy man. “I’d say maybe a decline club stature,” he says when his interviewer rather bluntly asks if he considers his career to be a failure. Is it possible to adjudge your career either way when you’re still only 28? Personally I’m not planning to give up hope of my own first international call-up until I’m at least 45. Team news: As expected, Sébastien Bassong, Aaron Lennon, Giovani Dos Santos, and Roman Pavlyuchenko are all among Tottenham’s starting XI, but the more surprising inclusion is Jermain Defoe. A mark of how seriously Harry Redknapp is taking this game, or a sign that he won’t be getting the nod to start against Arsenal this weekend? Shamrock Rovers leave the recently acquired former Tottenham midfielder Rohan Ricketts on the bench. Tottenham: Cudicini, Walker, Corluka, Bassong, Rose, Lennon, Carroll, Livermore, Giovani, Defoe, Pavlyuchenko. Subs: Gomes, Bale, Kaboul, Modric, Falque, Townsend, Kane. Shamrock Rovers: Brush, Sullivan, Sives, Murray, Rice, O’Donnell, Paterson, Dennehy, Finn, McCabe, Twigg. Subs: Thompson, Stevens, Sheppard, Kilduff, Turner, McCormack, Ricketts. Referee: Gediminas Mazeika (Lithuania) Evening all On one side, a team who feel so passionately about this game that they told most of their starters to take the night off. On the other, a team who potentially stand to earn more this evening than they would by winning their own domestic championship. Three decades removed from the heady days of John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Jim Beglin, Shamrock Rovers are once again revelling in the European stage . Tottenham may be ready to leave this stadium behind, but for Shamrock Rovers a night at White Hart Lane is a dream 30 years in the making . Whether or not Tottenham are the strongest side in this group remains to be proven – especially without their first-choice players – but as Daniel McDonnell reflected in the Irish Independent today, “this is the glamour tie, the Kodak moment”. More than 2,500 Rovers fans have made the trip from Dublin, a number that will be swelled further by London’s Irish population. Not that everyone even in Dublin will be cheering them on, of course. While Rovers’ status as the underdog and fan-led ownership may make them a romantic choice for the neutral, there are plenty within the capital who would just as soon see the perceived bully boys of Irish football getting a taste of their own medicine. Europa League 2011-12 Tottenham Hotspur Shamrock Rovers Europa League Paolo Bandini guardian.co.uk
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A convicted American killer who once hijacked a plane lived openly under his real name of George Wright in West Africa during the 1980s and even knew US embassy officials there, a former US ambassador said. (Sept. 29)
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A convicted American killer who once hijacked a plane lived openly under his real name of George Wright in West Africa during the 1980s and even knew US embassy officials there, a former US ambassador said. (Sept. 29)
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An engineer who is part of a team inspecting the exterior of the Washington Monument said the job is the highlight of her career. The team is inspecting the 555-foot monument for damage caused by last month’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake. (Sept. 29)
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An engineer who is part of a team inspecting the exterior of the Washington Monument said the job is the highlight of her career. The team is inspecting the 555-foot monument for damage caused by last month’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake. (Sept. 29)
Continue reading …The United Association of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and HVAC Service Techs released the above video earlier this week, expressing support for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico across American soil. Their argument for the pipeline in the video, which is: Focused partially on refuting claims of environmental danger beneath American soil, partially on the need to grow the union workforce through the pipeline’s construction, and partially on the ability to free the nation from international oil dependence, the UA supplies three sides of the argument not frequently articulated in media coverage of the project. This stands in stark contrast to the strong opposition to the pipeline expressed by a host of progressive groups, including unions such as the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The presidents of those two unions issued a joint statement on the pipeline: “We share the Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns conveyed to the State Department on two occasions (most recently on June 11, 2011). These concerns cover the potential impacts to groundwater resources from pipeline spills, the high levels of GHG emissions associated with the proposed project, and the inevitable damage to the health of communities affected by the increase in refinery emissions. Approval of this project at this time would therefore be reckless given the EPA’s own assessment of the environmental risks. “We are also concerned that Keystone XL could double the amount of highly toxic Tar Sands oil being imported into the United States. The Tar Sands has destroyed vast areas of boreal forest and inflicted havoc on local communities. The expansion of the Tar Sands will inflict immeasurable harm on both people and the environment and impede our country’s and the world’s efforts to transition to a green and more sustainable economy. “We need jobs, but not ones based on increasing our reliance on Tar Sands oil. There is no shortage of water and sewage pipelines that need to be fixed or replaced, bridges and tunnels that are in need of emergency repair, transportation infrastructure that needs to be renewed and developed. Many jobs could also be created in energy conservation, upgrading the grid, maintaining and expanding public transportation—jobs that can help us reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy efficiency.
Continue reading …The United Association of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and HVAC Service Techs released the above video earlier this week, expressing support for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico across American soil. Their argument for the pipeline in the video, which is: Focused partially on refuting claims of environmental danger beneath American soil, partially on the need to grow the union workforce through the pipeline’s construction, and partially on the ability to free the nation from international oil dependence, the UA supplies three sides of the argument not frequently articulated in media coverage of the project. This stands in stark contrast to the strong opposition to the pipeline expressed by a host of progressive groups, including unions such as the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU). The presidents of those two unions issued a joint statement on the pipeline: “We share the Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns conveyed to the State Department on two occasions (most recently on June 11, 2011). These concerns cover the potential impacts to groundwater resources from pipeline spills, the high levels of GHG emissions associated with the proposed project, and the inevitable damage to the health of communities affected by the increase in refinery emissions. Approval of this project at this time would therefore be reckless given the EPA’s own assessment of the environmental risks. “We are also concerned that Keystone XL could double the amount of highly toxic Tar Sands oil being imported into the United States. The Tar Sands has destroyed vast areas of boreal forest and inflicted havoc on local communities. The expansion of the Tar Sands will inflict immeasurable harm on both people and the environment and impede our country’s and the world’s efforts to transition to a green and more sustainable economy. “We need jobs, but not ones based on increasing our reliance on Tar Sands oil. There is no shortage of water and sewage pipelines that need to be fixed or replaced, bridges and tunnels that are in need of emergency repair, transportation infrastructure that needs to be renewed and developed. Many jobs could also be created in energy conservation, upgrading the grid, maintaining and expanding public transportation—jobs that can help us reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy efficiency.
Continue reading …Microsoft reportedly adding video from Comcast, Verizon, HBO Go and others to Xbox Live
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Microsoft announced new integration with live TV as a part of the Xbox 360′s fall update during E3 earlier this year, but didn’t name any US pay-TV partners at the time. Now, anonymous rumors recently posted on Digiday suggested the folks at Redmond were looking to work with Verizon and Comcast, followed by Bloomberg hearing similar talk from its own “people with knowledge of the situation.” Today’s rumors finger Verizon (which showed off live TV on a variety of devices at CES ), Comcast, HBO, Crackle, Bravo, Syfy and UK service Lovefilm as likely partners. Missing from the list is AT&T’s U-verse, which already offers an Xbox 360 tie-in and distributes its IPTV on the Mediaroom platform, just like some of the international partners previously announced. If these services launch it will be interesting to see how the integration works and if it’s VOD like the existing Xfinity TV and Flex View mobile apps, or if providers cross the IPTV bridge with in-home devices like the Televation / AnyPlay box. Microsoft reportedly adding video from Comcast, Verizon, HBO Go and others to Xbox Live originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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