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    Sport, that all inclusive community; except for football!

    Valencia fans chanting “Mono” (monkey) towards Vinicius. This is La Liga pic.twitter.com/prgxtPo7yS
    — S (@14ucIs) May 21, 2023

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    Até quando ainda vamos vivenciar, em pleno século XXI, episódios como o que acabamos de presenciar, mais uma vez, em La Liga?

    Até quando a humanidade ainda será apenas espectadora e cúmplice de atos cruéis de racismo?

    Até quando vamos precisar lembrar que é crime?

    Até quando… pic.twitter.com/S8LfAYhpiD
    — CBF Futebol (@CBF_Futebol) May 21, 2023

    Quote How long are we going to experience, in the middle of the 21st century, episodes like the one we just witnessed, once again, in La Liga?

    How long will humanity remain just a spectator and an accomplice in cruel acts of racism?

    How long will we need to remember that it's a crime? How long are we going to have to fight form concrete and effective attitudes on and off the fields?

    There is no joy where there is racism.
    You have all our affection and that of all Brazilians, @vinijr.

    Not only you, but everyone who has suffered and is suffering from this worldwide disease, which is racism.

    Skin color can no longer bother.

    Ednaldo Rodrigues - President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CRF).
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    Não foi a primeira vez, nem a segunda e nem a terceira. O racismo é o normal na La Liga. A competição acha normal, a Federação também e os adversários incentivam. Lamento muito. O campeonato que já foi de Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano e Messi hoje é dos racistas. Uma nação…
    — Vini Jr. (@vinijr) May 21, 2023


    Quote It wasn't the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in La Liga. The competition thinks it's normal, the Federation does too and the opponents encourage it. I'm so sorry. The championship that once belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi today belongs to racists. A beautiful nation, which welcomed me and which I love, but which agreed to export the image of a racist country to the world. I'm sorry for the Spaniards who don't agree, but today, in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists. And unfortunately, for everything that happens each week, I have no defense. I agree. But I am strong and I will go to the end against racists. Even if far from here.

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    Final 2:01 - Boston Celtics vs Miami Heat - Game 6 | May 27, 2023
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    The last time I saw a team tie a series after being down 0-3 was the Denver Nuggets (vs. the Utah Jazz) in the 1994 semi-finals.
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    Play-Offs Highlights | 2023 Cazoo Premier League (25:28)
    Anybody who has ever played darts - and who hasn't? - knows how extremely difficult it is to throw a 180 score with 3 darts
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    Leadership in the cricket Indian Premier League (IPL)



    We have been following the Indian Premier League (IPL) over recent weeks, which is the biggest, most highly-paid tournament in world cricket.

    Each team has at least seven out of eleven Indian players, and the rest can be overseas signings; and IPL salaries and standards attract from the best players across the world.

    The IPL plays the T20 version of cricket (an English invention, from 20 years ago!) - which is a 20 overs per side, approximately three and a half hour, game; in which the winner is the side that scores the most runs when batting.

    The resulting game is very tense and eventful, in which every one of the 120 balls per innings counts; and which often leads to close, exciting finishes.



    Today is the finals day, and the two sides that have made-it through the long competition up to here (involving 15 or 16 games) are - not by coincidence - the two best captained sides (and both have Indian captains).



    The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are captained by wicket-keeper/ batsman MS Dhoni, who is nothing short of a legend in India - perhaps the most popular famous person in the country? (If not Dhoni, then the current star batter Virat Kholi.) CSK have won the IPL, and got into the finals, many times before.

    The Gujarat Titans (GTs) were only formed last year, and won the competition immediately. They are captained by all-rounder Hardik Pandya - who explicitly modelled his captaincy on Dhoni. Indeed the GTs management (coach etc.) contain many people who have worked with Dhoni, and learned from him.

    Thus, in the IPL, we can see an old-style apprenticeship system informally developing, in which one successful leader serves as a mentor and a model for others capable of learning by participation.



    Dhoni's calm and decisive leadership style on the field is only at the surface of what he does - most of which is preparation. It is a paternalistic system - with Dhoni as a 'stern and loving' father, one who cares about each member of the team, treats each as an individual - shaping the organization around each man's particular nature and strengths; who rewards effort and achievement by loyalty.

    Pandya's style on field is much more genial - more like a brother than a father. He is demonstrative, always cheerful and seems confident, never mind the situation; always positive and encouraging. Pandya reminds me somewhat of the current English Test Match (not T20) cricket-genius leader - Ben Stokes.

    Also, Stokes and Pandya are similar in being (to me) not-at-all-obvious 'leadership types', and 'naughty boy' reputations off- and on-field. In military terms, both Stokes and Pandya more like NCOs than junior officers - Sergeants rather than Dhoni coming-across more as a Lieutenant or Captain (although Dhoni's social class background was modest, middling).



    I find it cheering to see the benefits of genuine leadership coming-through and triumphing in such a highly competitive 'system' as the IPL.

    And to see how each genuine leader - whether tactical, like a cricket captain; or more strategic like the off-field coaches - is unique; because such excellence must be rooted in specific persons - not systems.

    In a world where most 'leaders' are obviously merely docile (or indeed demented) puppets, pretending to administer inhuman bureaucracies - it pleases me to observe what remarkable things are possible for individuals when they are given scope.

    And after seeing so many pseudo-leaders lavishly rewarded for corrupting, inverting, or destroying, their institutions; it is a refreshment to turn to a residual social activity in which the ability to do a good job is still of primary importance.
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    Eddie Howe. On his way to becoming one of Britain's best football managers?

    Eddie Howe, first came to peoples attention when he took over at Bournemouth at the age of just 31 yrs. The club had been hit with a 17 point penalty....

    Quote The league ordered both Bournemouth and Rotherham United to demonstrate that they could fulfil all of their fixtures and find a way out of administration,[25] eventually allowing the club to compete with a 17-point penalty for failing to follow the Football League insolvency rules.
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    MINUS 17 | The story behind the dream [CLUB DOCUMENTARY]

    That's 90 minutes long so you'd have to be really interested to watch it, I understand that. But over the next 6-7 years Eddie Howe brought the south coast team all the way through the ranks to the Premier League.

    Fast forward to Eddie leaving Bournemouth after being relegated from the Premier League he took a year out to visit other coaches around the world and watch their methods.

    Meanwhile in Newcastle, a miserable 13 year association with then owner Mike Ashley came to an end when the Premier League officials finally ok'd a sale to PIF, the financial investment unit of the Saudi state.

    When Mike Ashley bought Newcastle they were 13th in the list of the world's richest football clubs, when he sold them they could not be seen in the top forty richest clubs, Newcastle had been relegated twice and the fans universally hated the owner for having no interest in football and seemingly using it merely as an extension of advertising for his main business of running Sports Direct, a giant sportswear outlet.

    When the new owner's of Newcastle appointed Eddie Howe manager Newcastle were in 19th place in the Premier League having taken something like 9 points from their first 14 games. No-one gave Eddie much of a chance. Newcastle finished 11th and from January of that season, the form Newcastle showed would have had them finishing third in the Premier League if that same form was extended across the season.



    A snapshot of the man's methods lifted as a section out of the 90m documentary by High Performance.

    This season, Newcastle sit in 4th place, guaranteed a return to the Champions League for the first time in 20 years.

    The journey, for Eddie, is a long way from finished. As a Newcastle United fan I'm enjoying the ride very much.

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    Default The 'Ball of the century': 30th anniversary

    “The ball of the century, we can safely call it, was the very first from Shane Warne in a Test in England,” he [Robin Marlar] wrote, in a phrase repeated in the headline. “Utter perfection, sporting skill elevated to fine art.” Marlar called it “the Ball”. “It will become a myth.”
    - Robin Marlar, 1993

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    And so it came to pass. Memory, oh the memory. I'd actually make a case for an absolute peach from Graeme Swann in 2010 reported here in the Sydney Morning Herald running this very close, but, fair is fair: Shane Warne was a craftsman, just one of the very best to ever play the sport.

    Here at 00:26 (seconds in)



    This is a cracking write-up as well, from Andy Bull in The Guardian, where at least the sports writing is well worth one's time even if everything else about the paper, well, hums a bit

    Source: The Guardian

    Thirty years on, Shane Warne’s ball of the century echoes far beyond cricket

    By Andy Bull, June 4th, 2023

    Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of Mike Gatting’s Ashes dismissal, a sporting moment quoted in songs, poems and Hansard


    You know the ball, maybe not the date, the score or the state of the game, but if you’re reading this then you surely know the ball. Its flight, how it curved and dipped, hit the pitch and twisted back past the bat, and the equal and opposite reactions that followed. The way poor Mike Gatting stared dumbfounded at the ground, as if, yoink, someone had just pinched his lunch from under him, how Ian Healy leaped into the air, both hands above his head, while at the other end Dickie Bird tried to hide his surprise, as if he’d seen a ghost but didn’t want to let on for worry people would say he was crazy.

    And Shane Warne, well he just clenched his fist. Warne was as good a salesman as he was a spinner, he knew it was always best to underplay the delivery. “All I tried to do,” he said, “was pitch on leg stump and spin it a fair way.” He didn’t need to say much more. Everyone else did the talking for him.

    In November 1849, Charles Dickens went to watch a public hanging at Horsemonger Lane gaol. He wasn’t interested in what happened on the gallows, but in the reactions of the crowd around them. So he watched the faces, the “bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators”, the nature of spectacle was best understood not by looking at event itself, but by studying the impression it made on everyone else.

    “First ball! Bail is off! He’s bowled him! Gatting can’t believe it! First ball!” said Tony Lewis on the BBC, with rising excitement. “Lethal.”

    Over on Australia’s Channel 9 Richie Benaud came out with: “And he’s done it!” before, of course, he paused, then said: “He’s started off with the most beautiful delivery! Gatting has absolutely no idea what has happened to it.”

    Nor did Jonathan Agnew, who was commentating for Test Match Special from a spot behind Gatting’s back. “And Gatting is taken on the pad!” Agnew said at first, then corrected himself: “He’s bowled! Well! … we’ll have to wait for a replay I’m afraid to tell you exactly what happened.”

    The newspapermen had another couple of hours to work on figuring it out, which still wasn’t enough for some. The Times’s correspondent decided it was a “freak” delivery and blamed the pitch. Many of the rest concentrated on what England’s poor batting meant for Graham Gooch’s future as captain. It was the Guardian’s Mike Selvey who seemed to understand best exactly what had happened. “With that one delivery,” he wrote, “Warne had carved his name in cricket folklore.”

    A day later, when the Sunday papers came out, the moment had grown again. It was Robin Marlar who came up with the name. Marlar wasn’t the only one who got it, in the Independent on Sunday, Richard Williams called it the “best ball ever seen in Test cricket”. But Marlar had been a spinner himself before he turned to journalism and understood what Warne had done in a way that only someone who has tried, and failed, to do similar things himself could.

    It has been 30 years since Warne’s Ball of the Century at Old Trafford on 4 June 1993. Sunday marks the anniversary. Warne would take another 677 wickets in Test cricket, win another seven Ashes series, a World Cup, an IPL title, a spot on Wisden’s list of the five best players of the 20th century and all the rest of it, too.

    All told, he bowled about 150,000 balls in competitive cricket, some of them better than that one (he always insisted he’d bowled two that were superior to it to Gooch later that afternoon), many more startling, more artful, or more important. But the myth of the Gatting ball grew with him, like the breakthrough gigs the band did right before they became famous.

    As Wisden predicted a year later: “Thanks to TV, Warne’s first ball in Ashes cricket, which bowled Mike Gatting, may become the most famous ever bowled.” It went viral in the age of VHS. You can find mentions of the Gatting ball in all the places you would expect, in any one of the 15 books written by, for, or about, Warne, the countless other autobiographies by the men who played with and against him and the compilations, coaching guides, and other cricket books.

    But it is also there in the oddest most unexpected places, chick-it paperbacks (“Shane Warne! God those fingers are insane!”), children’s stories, cookbooks. It has its own poem, A Good Introduction, written by Annabel Tellis in the style of a smitten suburban housewife: “When Shane introduced himself to England / And Mike Gatting’s mouth became an O / With a single delivery that changed the world / Mike’s, Shane’s, and mine, you know.”l

    There are references to the Gatting ball in philosophy essays, engineering manuals and self-help books, where it is used, variously, to help illustrate points about sensory reconstruction and the art of narrative in the work of Peter Goldie, equations to use to predict the future flightpath of a projectile, and what to do if your spouse keeps cheating on you. It is even in the court transcripts of a murder trial, after the lawyer mentioned it before demonstrating Warne’s flipper to the jury in an attempt to try to explain that despite what the prosecutor just told them, things aren’t always exactly what they first seem to be.

    It is the only delivery in the history of cricket to be name-checked in the British and Australian editions of Hansard. It was used in a putdown by the Liberal senator Richard Alston during a debate on free-to-air TV rights: “If you reckon Shane Warne made Mike Gatting look a mug, I have to tell you that this was the most appalling performance.” Fifteen years later, the Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told the House of Commons regarding the Justice and Home Affairs Council: “The degree of spin required to say that we are seeing the repatriation of power reminds me of that famous ball bowled by Shane Warne when he was first visiting England.”

    The ball isn’t just referenced in one set of lyrics – Paul Kelly’s “Mike Gatting looked up, struck as dumb as a post / And walked from the crease like he’d just seen a ghost” – it has two more entire songs written about it. There’s Jiggery Pokery, by Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh: “Jiggery pokery, trickery jokery, how did he open me up? / Robbery! Muggery! Aussie skullduggery, out for a buggering duck” and That Ball, by Eddie Perfect: “It started with an approach more like a shuffle than a proper run / He ambled shambolic, kind of graceless, with a swirl of arms,” the second of them the showstopper in an entire Shane Warne musical.

    It got so that wherever they played cricket, they knew Warne, and wherever they knew Warne, they knew that ball. In Jonathan Harley’s memoirs about his time working as a foreign correspondent for ABC in south Asia he makes a running joke of it: “Defeated, I take a top of beer, settle into my plastic chair, and wait for the inevitable: ‘Mr Jonathan, do you know Shane Warne?’”

    Australia’s former foreign minister Julie Bishop even has a story about her time working as independent observer of the general election in Zimbabwe in 2000, when she was sent into the mountains to interview a gang of war veterans who had taken over a farm. “They were kind of like bikies, tatts and no teeth and chains around their necks.”

    Their leader was called the Leopard. “You’re British,” he said with a glare when he met her. Bishop’s heart sank. “No,” she replied, “I’m Australian.” He looked at her, then around everyone else, and said, with a big grin: “Shane Warne.”

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    Ball of the century? for me not a chance.

    Quote The Times’s correspondent decided it was a “freak” delivery and blamed the pitch.
    Saw it live, and called it out as such at the time. Although not totally a freak, the revolutions he put on the ball were amazing, but a lot was down to the pitch. In cricket, 50% of a delivery's efficacy is determined by the condition of the pitch - is it cracked or broken up, is it holding moisture? The type of grass, density of grass, type of soil, consistency of soil, depth of soil - and other factors. The pitch in cricket means everything (unlike baseball the ball is meant to bounce). Warne had great success on UK pitches, less so in other countries where the pitches were drier and flatter.

    If there was a category 'ball of the century' I wouldn't include spinners! Maybe I'm biased, I'm a fan of pace (real bowling in other words). Have a look at Michael Holding. Also known as 'whispering death'. He was in my opinion the greatest bowler to ever pick up a cricket ball. Was privileged to see him once or twice in his career, and even from the safety of the stands he was absolutely terrifying.

    The number of stumps Michael Holding sent flying through the air is incredible. Those were balls of the century. In one game (I know because I was watching it on TV), he broke the stumps, literally shattered them (that's solid ash, 1.5 inches thick). Takes a lot of kinetic energy to do that.

    If you want to know what BRAVERY is, watch Brian Close here facing Michael Holding. Those deliveries are arriving head-high at 100mph - and Close is wearing no protection.

    Michael Holding vs Brian Close 1976 X Rated Bowling


    Fire in Babylon - Michael Holding vs Brian Close


    In a interview years later [Close] was asked would you wear a helmet today, he said NO some of the bowlers today I wouldn't even wear PADS.
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    Bumping this fun thread with a fun photo.



    These are three Czech climbers (3/4 of Tomas Petrecek, Pavel Bem, Pavel Korinek and Radoslav Groh), thin but happy and unharmed, who spent 9 days on an unclimbed 7453m mountain called Muchu Chhish. They got very high, but never reached the summit, and ran out of food stranded for days in a severe storm.

    Some here may know that climbers from what used to be behind the old Soviet Iron Curtain are the toughest in the world. The Poles and Russians/Kazakhs take the prize, with the Czechs close behind. They're all famed for enduring crazy-cold and desperate conditions that would defeat almost everyone else.

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    Climber's remains found in Switzerland after 37 years

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0728/13...d-switzerland/

    The remains of a German mountain climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland's iconic Matterhorn mountain in 1986 have been recovered.

    Melting glaciers have led to the re-emergence of bodies and objects thought to be long-lost.

    The discovery was made on 12 July by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier in Zermatt, police in the Valais canton said.

    "DNA analysis enabled the identification of a mountain climber who had been missing since 1986," the police said in a statement...
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    For Cricket fans.

    One of the most heated, long-lasting and famous feuds in the sport came to a head recently when cricketing legends Ian Botham sat down with Glen Chappell in an attempt to bury the hatchet.

    In the winter of 1976-77, England cricketer (and icon) Ian Botham was playing District Cricket down under in Melbourne. It was apparently on this trip that it all kicked off...
    The cause seems to have been a cricket-related argument in a bar, which may have resulted in Chappell being pushed off his stool (the story is widely sourced but accounts differ). This became a long-running feud and, as late as the 2010–11 Ashes series, there was an altercation between Botham and Chappell in a car park at the Adelaide Oval.
    Both men went on to historic careers with either nation, but their bitter altercation in Melbourne would follow them down the years. For the first time since the infamous fight that started it all, the two Ashes icons come face to face. This is what happened.



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    I know who I back, and it's Botham, and that's not just because I'm English. Chappell always came across to me as a nasty piece of work. An arrogant twat with a chip on his shoulder. And if this ever did come to blows, there is no doubt in my mind who would win. Sir Ian.

    However, it is a little sad to see two old blokes still fighting over probably a silly little argument from years ago. But that's sport, rivalries linger, they always linger. It's also Eng Vs Aus, so no love lost there. Pit two bull-headed alphas against one another and this is what you get. Hopefully one day they'll shake hands over it, but I very much doubt that will happen.
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    S.M.H. .... Chappell ...
    Botham is my all time favourite but I'm not letting that influence me 😇
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    First time I saw Botham play was in a county match, Somerset against Worcestershire I think it was, in '79 or '80. He smashed it all over the park that day, but was caught on the boundary a few runs short of a majestic century. Great memories, will never forget it.

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    Quote Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
    However, it is a little sad to see two old blokes still fighting over probably a silly little argument from years ago. But that's sport, rivalries linger, they always linger. It's also Eng Vs Aus, so no love lost there. Pit two bull-headed alphas against one another and this is what you get. Hopefully one day they'll shake hands over it, but I very much doubt that will happen.
    I agree with the sentiment. (And Botham was generous enough to think of something complimentary to say about Chappell, when asked.) But this silly spat will go with them to their graves.

    However, I realized I didn't actually know how old they each are, so I looked it up. Botham is 67, and Chappell is 79. I never knew Botham had put on so much weight (Jeez!!), and I do have to say that Chappell — though I never liked him either — has done pretty well to take such good care of himself physically all these years.


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    A super-fun video by Mark Rober, the same former NASA engineer who tried (and failed!) to escape the magical police sniffer dog in this Animals are Magical video — despite all his high-tech attempts at cheating the inevitable outcome.

    Here, he's trying to cheat in quite a different way.



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    Funny game. I don't think I've encountered wiffleball before. Had heard of softball, which I presume if different somehow(?)

    The science of a curveball is pretty much the same in cricket.



    A cricket ball has a seam too, although it's down the middle. Players also polish the ball using sweat and rubbing one hemisphere on clothing to improve the chance of movement in the air. A 'curve ball' in cricket is called swing. Although, it should be noted, when batting in cricket you've got bounce to contend with too! This is affected by both the condition of the pitch and revolutions on the ball.

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    This post is for cricket fans. I won't try to explain it to anyone else!

    In an international match yesterday, the Argentina women played the Chilean women in a T20i (a twenty-overs-a-side match).

    Argentina scored 427-1 (read that again!), and Chile's response was 63 all out. The first wicket stand was 350. Lucia Taylor was out for 169 and Albertina Galan was 145 not out. (So Chris Gayle's all time individual record still stands. )

    The full scorecard is here. (The poor Chilean women's bowling figures look like a whole series of typos. )

    And there are two more games to play.

    Here's a fun report, well worth reading:
    Argentina Women amass 427 against Chile to massacre multiple T20I records

    Argentina hosted Chile in the first of the three women's T20Is in Corimayo, Buenos Aires on Friday, October 13.

    The home side broke multiple records as they amassed a mind-boggling 427/1 in 20 overs in their first innings, the highest score in T20Is (Men's or Women's). Chile captain Camila Valdes won the toss and opted to field first and her bowlers were taken to the cleaners in the most shocking T20I game ever.

    Argentina openers, Lucia Taylor and Albertina Galan, combined to form a jaw-dropping 350-run partnership in just 16.5 overs. The former was dismissed for 169 off 84 balls, having hit 27 fours. Galan, however, batted till the end and finished unbeaten on 145 off 84 balls, with the help of 23 fours. Maria Castineiras came out to bat at No. 3 and played an excellent cameo of 40 runs off 16 balls, hitting seven fours. Interestingly, Argentina batters didn't hit a single six in their entire innings.

    An unbelievable 73 extras were bowled in the innings, which comprised one bye, eight wides, and a whopping 64 no-balls. One of Chile's seven debutants in the match, Florencia Martinez, conceded 52 runs in an over. Another bowler, Constanza Oyarce went for 92 runs in her quota of four overs. Emilia Toro, on the other hand, leaked 83 runs in a mere three overs. The most economical bowler was Esperanza Rubio, who conceded 57 runs in four overs, an economy rate of 14.25.

    After the nightmarish bowling performance, the Chilean players had to pull themselves up to bat. Only one of their batters, Jessica Miranda, who also took the only wicket to fall in the Argentine innings, got to double figures. Argentina conceded 29 extras as Chile's innings ended in the 15th over at a score of 63. The visitors lost the astonishing game by 364 runs as Argentina went 1-0 up in the series.

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    Here is a video of these guys surfing Mavericks, there is a championship hold there every year.

    The guy had his arm broken by the weight of a huge wave, luck he is alive.

    p.s. Check at around 10:00 the size of that wave and he made it through.

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    The World Cup 2023 is well on its way and one of of the most exciting matches till now - today's match 15, South Africa vs The Netherlands - was this one...


    ... and of course the match between India and Pakistan - but there is not even one video on YouTube with the highlights.

    While Pakistan batted really well in the first half of their inning (152-2) it completely collapsed and ended 185 all out after 42 overs.

    India reached that total for the loss of only four wickets. (Rohit Sharma: 108)
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    South Africa vs Netherlands (12:07)
    How's that?!
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    Sports fans — particular followers of athletics — I have a question.

    Below is a very short clip from a video I stumbled across on the net, which contained zero added information. It appears to show a unknown long jumper breaking Mike Powell's extraordinary 1991 world record of 8.95 meters. (The 'WR' line is clearly shown in the video, and the jumper seems to clear that.) The date is unknown.

    But who is this? The jump was given a white flag (unless that's an added edit to fake the video), which would seem to show that it was a fair, 'legal' jump. And we know that Mike Powell's astonishing record has officially remained unbroken for 32 years. The jumper in the video is NOT Mike Powell himself... here he is in this video clip.

    Any ideas who this is and what has happened here? The only possible extra clue is that the jumper doesn't seem particularly surprised or delighted with what he's done.

    https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/long_jump_question.mp4

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