Boxing is no stranger to farces, to fights that never should have been approved or to events built much more around absurdity and car crash-like allure than around actual fighting. The entrance of Triller and YouTube stars into boxing over the last year, and the way they have sometimes garnered
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Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era?
The TV specials for the Sept. 11 anniversary offer any number of ways to return to hell. There are wrenching interviews with survivors and with those whose loved ones died; uplifting stories of rescues and agonizing stories of those who perished in the attempt; footage of the conflagration, chaos and
Venice, Day 1: See the Almodóvar, Free the Nipple
VENICE — Denis Villeneuve, the director of “Dune,” wanted to apologize in advance. “This will be a long answer,” he said, “because of the Champagne.” We were at the Hotel Excelsior on Wednesday night for the lavish opening-night dinner of the Venice Film Festival, where the bubbly flowed freely, guests
Fans Packed the U.S. Open on the First Day
As the first tennis balls were struck in earnest at the U.S. Open on Monday, thousands of frustrated tennis fans waited patiently to get inside for the first time in two years, stuck in a human traffic jam that left many feeling angry and sick in the hot sun. When
In Freedom, Wyoming, Freedom Is a Day in the Creek
FREEDOM, Wyo. — Two weeks before the first day of school in Star Valley, summer feels like it could last forever. But in a place where the rivers begin as snow, the season of swimming is short. Even in August, the creeks run cold. Too soon, they will freeze. Six-year-old
What Occurred on the Last Day of the Tokyo Video games
TOKYO — There was a smaller menu on the final day of this most uncommon Olympics, but it surely was an elite one. The U.S. girls’s basketball workforce gained the gold medal over Japan, 90-75, their seventh straight Olympic title. A’ja Wilson had 19 factors for the US. The U.S.
Boxers Richard Torrez Jr. and Keyshawn Davis Win on the Final Day in Tokyo
TOKYO — The USA claimed two medals in boxing on the final day of the Olympics because the light-weight Keyshawn Davis and Richard Torrez Jr., an excellent heavyweight, earned silver medals. Whereas the Individuals haven’t secured a gold medal in boxing because the Athens Video games in 2004, the 2
Olympics Schedule Day 13: Allyson Felix, Ladies's Soccer and Extra
An action-packed Friday night in Tokyo (Friday morning in the US) contains broadcast protection of the end result of the ladies’s soccer match and the lads’s bronze medal sport. In a busy observe and subject schedule, the sprinter Allyson Felix will attempt to match or surpass Carl Lewis as essentially
Olympics Day 12: Observe Continues; U.S. Basketball Performs Australia
The crew occasions are advancing to the sharp finish now, with one-and-done video games in each sport. The U.S. ladies’s volleyball and basketball groups, which each gained their teams, face do-or-die quarterfinals on Wednesday. The volleyball crew faces the Dominican Republic at 1 p.m. in Tokyo time, midnight Japanese. The
Olympics Schedule Day 11: Gymnastics, Seaside Volleyball Observe and Discipline
Listed below are some highlights of U.S. broadcast protection on Monday evening. All occasions are Jap. BEACH VOLLEYBALL With the lads’s workforce out, April Ross and Alix Klineman will compete to maintain the U.S. represented in seashore volleyball with a quarterfinal match in opposition to Germany. Protection begins on NBC