At UFC Vegas 19 this past Saturday, Derrick Lewis authored potentially the Knockout of the Year, sleeping second-ranked heavyweight contender Curtis Blaydes with an uppercut. The KO came just 1:26 into the second round and put Lewis in a position where he might once again be able to challenge for the UFC heavyweight title and…
Category: Sports
The Sadism of Eating Real Meat Over Lab Meat
Consider a steak. When it hits the hot oil in the pan, your mouth can’t help but water at the aroma. That familiar crackle of fat beginning to fry and render is the sound of the maillard reaction: that wondrous molecular dance of the steak’s amino acids and sugars as they caramelize during the searing…
Hurry Limbaugh and the Nineties Roots of “Cancel Culture”
If you weren’t around for it, it’s a little difficult to explain how and why Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing broadcaster who died this week, was (very briefly) a member of the commentary team for Sunday NFL Countdown back in2003 Nationally televised expert sports is a realm so allergic to controversy, and to any association with […]
Northrop Grumman supply carrier delivers to International Space Station
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Monday with more than 8,000 pounds of cargo, including new astronaut sleeping quarters, parts for the station’s toilet, and numerous biomedical and technology experiments.The space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm, under the control of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, captured the Cygnus spacecraft at…
Nigeria: Shell Rattled By Restrictions On Bank Accounts, Moves to Leave Order
There are strong indications that last Tuesday’s injunction of a Federal High Court, Lagos, barring Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary from withdrawing money at 20 local banks until it ring-fences potential damages in a lawsuit brought against the oil major by Aiteo Eastern E&P is already rattling the oil firm. The interim Mareva injunction is…
Power returns for the majority of in Texas, however other issues accumulate
While power has been restored for millions of Texans who had been without it in the bitter cold, the nightmare of the devastating winter storm isn’t over.Millions don’t have safe water at home, and residents looking for groceries or bottled water said they arrived to stores with bare shelves and long lines.When firefighters arrived at…
KISM– ‘The little engine that could’
Sports Jonathan Ramnanansingh 5 Hrs AgoKISM goes airborne during the TTPBA first regatta of the season on February 10. – After last-minute mechanical problems forced potential 2020 Great Race debutants Knot in Slow Motion (KISM) Racing Team out of their first-ever official inter-island race, the three-man team defied odds and sped to a second place…
Andrew Cuomo Wishes He Were Ron DeSantis
Not long ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was amiably shrugging off speculation that he was the leading candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. An August poll found that he was leading in nearly all demographics—the first choice of men, women, voters over 30, and white voters; he led in every region except…
Ireland news LIVE: Varadkar leakage drama continues, James McClean speaks out
We’re all set for another busy day in Ireland’s fast-moving news cycle. And the Irish Mirror is here to keep you in the loop on all the developments that break today. The Government has said it hopes Irish schools could start returning from March 1. Meanwhile, a body has been pulled from a Galway river…
Player grades: Oilers pour on the offence but forget defence, drop 6-5 barnburner to Jets in barnburner
Author of the article: Bruce McCurdy • Edmonton Journal Publishing date: Feb 16, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 10 minute read Edmonton Oilers’ Jujhar Khaira (16) battles Winnipeg Jets’ Trevor Lewis (23) during first period NHL action at Rogers Place in Edmonton, on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia Jets 6, Oilers…