With international bitterness still simmering over Qatar being awarded the 2022 World Cup, the tiny country saw their hosting duties for the 2011 Asian Cup as a means of proving that they can deserve to have a big tournament. They would prove to the planet that they are well on their way to having the [...]
Arsene Wenger’s charges might be relieved this game doesn’t fall on Boxing Day, as if there is one criticism regularly thrown at the side in recent weeks, it is that they are rarely up for a fight. Nowhere has that been more obvious than in the biggest games, which Arsenal have conspicuously failed to win [...]
Posted by uspostSportsThursday, December 23rd, 2010
The 76ers needed to beat a lot of things on Wednesday night: the explosive energy inside a sold-out TD Garden, the emotional impact of their embarrassing loss a night earlier, and, of course, the Boston Celtics themselves. While the Celtics hadn’t lost since last month, the Sixers were only one day removed from an epic [...]
Tropical Storm Paula brought winds and heavy rain to the Cuban capital on Thursday, turning some low lying streets into shallow rivers, bending palm trees and sending waves crashing against the city’s famed Malecon sea wall. Paula lost its status as a category one hurricane just before making landfall in Cuba’s western tobacco growing area, [...]
The last of the Chilean miners has been raised from deep beneath the earth. All 33 men have now been delivered from the longest underground entrapment in history. Luis Urzua, the last of the 33 Chilean miners, was brought to the surface today, ending the amazing rescue at the San Jose mine. The foreman who [...]