While the shiny gold strap is prestigious, both Xiong and Lee are looking at the bigger picture. Whoever wins this will go down in the annals of history as the victor of arguably the most intense rivalry in women’s MMA. Like the rest of us, Fabricio Andrade is curious to see who comes out on top when two of the best female fighters in the world lock horns for the third time....
This week Krall releases her fifth CD, the heavenly “When I Look in Your Eyes” (Verve). In addition to her usual trio, Krall is now backed by a lush string section. The result is a richer, more textured sound; yet the orchestra never overpowers the intimacy of her voice. For her new sound, Krall went old school, collaborating with legendary bandleader Johnny Mandel, famous for his work with Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand....
Seth Rollins stated that he knew that he had three opponents tonight Ziggler, McIntyre and the clock, but he was prepared for the fight and hoped to leave Pittsburgh with the Intercontinental Championship. The match started with both men scoping each other out before Ziggler headed to the ropes to break the hammerlock and Rollins then took the match to the mat. Rollins went for the first pin attempt with a quick schoolboy that didn’t even get a one count, Ziggler then returned the favour with a schoolboy of his own before The Architect delivered a backslide....
Canada head coach John Herdman caused a pre-match stir when he revealed, in the immediate aftermath of his team’s desperately unlucky 1-0 defeat to Belgium, that he had tried to pump up his deflated players by telling them they were “going to go and ‘eff’ Croatia”. Opposite number Zlatko Dalic took this slightly puppyish enthusiasm from a newcomer to this stage with all the warmth of the bleak European evenings through which those on his continent are watching this strange World Cup....
It has been a very interesting silly season that was pushed into hyperactivity by Daniel Ricciardo’s shock move to the Renault factory team. Only eight drivers - Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Nico Hulkenberg of the Renault works team, the Haas duo of Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean and finally Sergio Perez for Racing Point, are in the same seat as they were in 2018....
Predictably the design of the new cars were quite a topic of discussion on social media particularly thanks to the front wing, the oddly looking noses and the diffusers. With the teams testing new waters, barring the only exception of Lotus, which opted out of Jerez, it is predicted that the new machines will undergo a lot of changes before they are ready for the first race in Albert Park on March 16th....
Lewis Hamilton may be on a mid-season break at the moment, but if you’re following his social media activity lately, that might not seem like the case. The defending F1 Champion was in Greece with a group of friends this week but his adventures weren’t all full of fun and frolic. The Briton revealed via Instagram, that there was also a clean-up job in tow. In case you didn’t know…...
He did make up the gap to Hamilton and came back to within 1.5 seconds but ran out of laps to overtake him. Check out his fury here with Ocon: Verstappen had defied all odds and made a characteristically brilliant start, passing Raikkonen on the first lap itself and then quickly making up ground on Vettel, who himself had lost to Bottas before the first corner. He then started reeling off some fast laps to get closer to Lewis Hamilton, who was comfortably leading at that point....
Last year’s Spanish Grand Prix also ominously resulted in a Mercedes 1-2 finish as well, and with Mercedes firing on all cylinders right now, it’s not hard to imagine them grabbing yet another similar finish. Ferrari just can’t seem to put everything together over the weekend, with either reliability issues or qualifying troubles ruining their chances so far. Max Verstappen in the Red Bull has even managed to split Charles Leclerc from Sebastian Vettel in the Driver’s Championship....
This year’s Australian Grand Prix — and the entire 2019 F1 season, for that matter — will be all about Mercedes vs. Ferrari. Last season, driver Lewis Hamilton delivered Mercedes’ fifth consecutive championship despite Sebastian Vettel’s nearly stealing a title for Ferrari. With that said, it should be no surprise that Hamilton was fastest in the second of two Australian Grand Prix practice sessions Friday, with his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas being second-fastest....
The Mexican started the race in P2 after a host of grid penalties were applied following Saturday’s qualifying session. Sergio Perez was slow off the line and dropped down to P5 on the opening lap. He was able to get back up the field following Lewis Hamilton’s incident with Fernando Alonso after the Kemmel straight. The 32-year-old had a straightforward race after that and was able to get past Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz with relative ease....
From the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Australia to the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, the 2019 F1 schedule offers Formula 1 race teams and drivers unique challenges at each stop. Of the 21 races on the schedule, 11 take place in Europe, five take place in Asia, four take place in the Americas and one takes place in Australia. MORE: Formula 1 2019 season standings When Formula 1 released its draft calendar for 2019 last year, it was announced that an agreement had been made to allow Germany to keep its place on the F1 schedule....
The skull was found in 2016 by researchers working at the site. The international team dated it to 3.8 million years ago and, based on the morphological features, say it belongs to a male Australopithecus anamensis. This is a poorly understood early hominin species, the oldest in the Australopithecus genus. It was thought to have lived between 4.2 and 3.9 million years ago. Until now, the craniofacial features of the species were almost completely unknown....
In the pre-recorded clip, Trump told the mob to “go home” and asked for “peace,” though he also spent the majority of the minute-long recording falsely claiming the election was “stolen” and tell the occupiers they were “special” and he “loved them.” An hour later, Twitter implemented a never-before-seen safeguard, disabling the ability for the video to be liked, retweeted or replied to “due to risk of violence.” Facebook and YouTube took more extreme measures off the bat, removing the video entirely from their platforms....
Njokwana had to control the ball and make at least five touches before it could touch the ground, and the Cape Town-born ball juggler did more than that from a height of 37.4 metres. Subsequently, Njokwana surpassed a record which was previously held by former Arsenal midfielder Theo Walcott, who controlled a ball from a height of 34 metres. It took Njokwane three attempts to get the technique right and he claimed the accolade in style....
Bradi Foster, who is now 19 months old, was discharged from Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, where she has spent several months receiving rehabilitative care, the Boston Herald reported. The child received a special send-off from staff at the children’s hospital as she was wheeled out of the facility in her pushchair by her parents. “All her doctors and her nurses and her respiratory therapist—everybody was there, blowing bubbles and cheering for her,” her mother, Darlene Foster, said, according to WCVB....
On this week’s edition of RAW, the reigning WWE United States Champion competed in a pose-down challenge with Bobby Lashley. Taking to social media, a fan tweeted out suggesting that Jackson did the ‘Most Muscular’ pose better than Theory. The former WWE star reacted by writing the following: Check out Ezekiel Jackson’s tweet below: The 24-year-old’s pose down with Lashley ended in a rather bizarre manner, as the US Champion threw baby oil into The Almighty’s face....
Meanwhile, Wolff and the Mercedes’ Non-Executive Director Niki Lauda won the President’s Award, after the Silver Arrows became only the second-ever team to secure five consecutive F1 constructors’ titles. Fittingly, Wolff received that trophy from FIA President Jean Todt, the man who was at the helm of Ferrari when they became the first team to manage the feat. Mercedes had arguably their toughest run to the constructors’ title in 2018 since they emerged as F1’s team-to-beat in the post-2014 hybrid era, with Ferrari mounting a serious challenge that Wolff admitted had left him drained by the end of the year....
The first free practice session saw Daniel Ricciardo in first place, followed by his teammate Max Verstappen. The Ferraris settled for third and fourth, while the Mercedes drivers failed to put up decent lap times. The second session marked improvements for Mercedes, with Lewis Hamilton taking a brilliant second place. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen finished on top while both the Red Bulls ensured Bottas was no higher than the fifth place....
Ferrari seemed a little lagging and going into Bahrain there will be a lot of questions over whether the prancing horses of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc can pull one back over Mercedes, or whether the Silver Arrows will run away with this one for the start of the season at least. Now we head to Bahrain, a race which saw some craziness last time around with Pierre Gasly’s Toro Rosso in fourth, and Vettel taking the win in front of Bottas not being able to get in front of the Ferrari....
