A racehorse trainer pleaded guilty in New York Wednesday to charges related to a scheme to give horses performance enhancing drugs so they perform better. Jorge Navarro entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, where sentencing was scheduled for Dec. 17. BOB BAFFERT UNDER FIRE AFTER ANOTHER HORSE’S POSITIVE TEST horses with drugs. In a…
The olympics” target=”_blank”>Olympic< Olivia Podmore celebrates a win in the first race for the Elite Women’s Sprint Final during day two of the New Zealand National Track Cycling Championships at the Avantidrome on Jan. 24, 2020 in Cambridge, New Zealand. (Michael Bradley/Getty Images) Waikato Police reported a sudden death at a property in Cambridge on…
U.S. Army First Lt. Amber English took home the gold medal in the women’s individual shotgun skeet event during the first week of the olympics” target=”_blank”>Tokyo Olympics< Amber English of the United States celebrates with her gold medal in the women’s skeet at the Asaka Shooting Range in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 26,…
American Ryan Crouser set an Olympic record in the shot-put event Thursday and won a gold medal at the Tokyo Games. It was Crouser’s second Olympic individual gold medal as he scored a 23.30 and he dedicated the victory to his late grandfather, who died a week before the Games started. Crouser had a piece…
Jerusalem – An ancient sport, wrestling has long electrified conflicts and the United States. Yet in 2020, the Islamic Republic executed the decorated Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for his role in a 2018 protest against corruption in the theocratic state. The contrast between the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, according to the U.S. State Department,…
A former us-regions attorney general who left the elections several years ago now finds himself without a job at a law firm that represents MLB’s mlb. Grant Woods – who served as Arizona’s top crime official from 1991 to 1999 – confirmed he’d been sacked by Gallagher & Kennedy in a companies message posted Thursday…
A debate is brewing between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over U.S. medal threat Michael Andrew’s decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus as he prepares to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. DiRado sparked the discourse this week with a lengthy thread on Twitter in which she wrote that…
A member of the Refugee Olympic Team will be facing off against an Iranian opponent in the taekwondo qualifying round in Tokyo. Kimia Alizadeh, who left Iran in 2020, will go up against Nahid Kiyani Chandeh in the 57-kilogram event on Sunday. Her announcement came a day after Iranian officials admitted to downing a Ukrainian…
U.S. military military Sonya Bryson-Kirksey, who sings the national anthem for the nhl” target=”_blank”>NHL<, became a familiar face to TV viewers during the team’s recent run to the Stanley Cup championship. But her celebration of the team’s title didn’t last long: Last week she was hospitalized with the infectious-disease despite being infectious-disease in March, according…
Film critics say “Space Jam: A New Legacy” starring LeBron James is one of the worst movies ever made. I’m going to trust the experts on this one so that I can avoid watching it myself. In LeBron’s mind though, it doesn’t matter how bad the film is. As long as it blows up at the box office,…