‘People are tired of watching the highly political @NBA. Basketball ratings are WAY down, and they won’t be coming back,’ he tweeted September 1, 2020.
‘I hope football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for our Country and our Flag!!!’

The shock wasn’t because a prominent fighter had been found with drugs in his system — that is common enough. It’s what we’ve come to expect from a sport that doesn’t give much of a damn. But the progression from finding to sanction and the testing agency that administered it?
That was less typical.

Lvova-Belova said earlier this week that her commission acted on humanitarian grounds to protect the interests of children in an area where military action was taking place and had not moved anyone against their will or that of their parents or legal guardians, whose consent was always sought unless they were missing.

“Now the fifth rescue mission is nearing its completion. It was special regarding the number of children we managed to return and also because of its complexity,” said Mykola Kuleba, the founder of the Save Ukraine humanitarian organisation that helped arrange the rescue mission.

UKRAINE/BELARUS BORDER, April 8 (Reuters) – More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a long operation to bring them back home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they had been taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war.

And it turns out her day of fun in the sun, which included swimming, strolling and a relaxing massage, was just a warm up for another night behind the turntables as the guest DJ at the trendy LIV nightclub.

Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer from a Ukrainian NGO called Regional Centre for Human Rights, told the briefing they were collecting evidence to build a case that Russian officials deliberately prevented return of the Ukrainian children.

‘It’s a no-win situation for him, because if he wins, well, so what, they’ve won through the years, and if he loses, which seems likely because they’re having troubles, he’ll be known to the world as a loser,’ Trump said. 

The International Criminal Court last month issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine.

The USFL existed only briefly from 1983 until 1986, playing three 18-game seasons during that time and helped catapult the careers of  gridiron greats Herschel Walker, Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Reggie White, and Doug Flutie.

Moscow has not concealed a programme under which it has taken thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied areas, but presents this it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the conflict zone.

The three said they had been separated from their parents who were pressured by Russian authorities to send their children to Russian summer camps for what was billed as two weeks, from occupied parts of Kherson and Kharkiv regions.

They were not the testing authority who twice found clomifene in Benn’s system — that was the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, which thereby introduced more loopholes for resourceful lawyers and a promoter in Hearn who famously sang VADA’s praises when it suited him, but is now dancing in the grey areas of conflicting jurisdictions.

March 19 (Reuters) – The Philippines´ presidential candidates debating on Saturday agreed on at least one thing and that was the need to hold social media firms liable for the spread of disinformation as the country prepares for elections on May 9.

What they must not do is sit by idly and let it go away, as seemingly happened when this newspaper brought them the extraordinary claims in 2020 of a farmer who alleged he had been bribed into giving Tyson Fury a boar-based alibi for doping a few years earlier.

‘If I’m in that position, I would be a lot different than the way they are treating him right now. That I can tell you,’ Trump said. ‘I think what he is doing is very bad for the spirit of the country.’

After years of criticizing the protests that Colin Kaepernick started in 2016 to address racism, President Donald Trump is now saying the embattled free agent should get another chance, ‘if he deserves it.’ Kaepernick has continued training in hopes of making an NFL comeback

For what it’s worth Trump has, in times gone by, been mocked on social media for being pictured with an unflattering expression when he threw a first pitch before the Red Sox played the New York Yankees in 2006.

‘Rozelle said to him, “As long as I’m the commissioner, you’re never going to have a team,” Pearlman continued. ‘He didn’t trust him. He thought he was a scumbag. He didn’t say, “I think you’re a scumbag,” but Rozelle made his feelings toward Trump very well known. [Rozelle] also made them well known during the trial when he testified.’