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Michael Jordan donates $1 million to hurricane relief in the Bahamas

March 13, 2021 | News | No Comments

The Bahamas were ravaged by Hurricane Dorian, but recovery efforts are getting a boost thanks to an NBA legend’s huge donation.

Former Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan announced on Tuesday he will donate a whopping $1 million to relief efforts in the Bahamas.”I am devastated to see the destruction that Hurricane Dorian has brought to the Bahamas, where I own property and visit frequently,” Jordan said in a statement, shared on Twitter by his spokeswoman and manager, Estee Portnoy. “My heart goes out to everyone who is suffering and those who have lost loved ones.”Jordan said he will continue to monitor the situation in the Bahamas and will choose non-profits where his funds will have the most impact.How to help communities affected by Hurricane DorianThis is not the first time Jordan has pitched in to help hurricane relief efforts. He gave even more money and time after Hurricane Florence hit his home state of North Carolina last year.
The NBA all-star surprised residents of his hometown, Wilmington, by handing out Thanksgiving food and shoes, CBS Chicago reported. As the owner of the Charlotte Hornets, he also got the team involved in filling relief boxes in Charlotte that were shipped to areas affected by the storms.Jordan also donated a total of $2 million to the Red Cross and the Foundation for the Carolinas’ Hurricane Florence Response Fund.

Trump says he may release call with Ukraine’s president

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President Trump seems to be of two minds on whether he wants the American press and public to see the transcript of his phone call with Ukraine’s president.

The White House has been considering whether to release the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Mr. Trump confirmed he discussed former Vice President Joe Biden and aid to Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, the president both said he hopes reporters see the transcript of the call, and doesn’t necessarily want to release the transcript. The president has the power to authorize the release of the transcript at any moment. “I can do it very easily but I would rather not do it from the standpoint of all of the other conversations I had,” Mr. Trump told reporters during a bilateral meeting with Poland’s president. “I may do it because it was a very innocent call on both his part and mine. It was really a congratulatory call because he had just won, it was just confirmed that he was the new president. I think he will do an excellent job.”
The president said of the transcript to reporters,”You’ll be very disappointed when you see it.” Asked whether he pressured Ukraine by threatening to withhold military aid unless they investigated Biden’s son, Hunter, for corruption, Mr. Trump denied doing so. “I didn’t do it at all,” he replied. But he added, “Joe Biden is very dishonest, what he did.” The Trump administration recently undertook a review of the Ukraine funding, and some in Congress grew impatient before the funding was finally released earlier this month.The president added that it might not have been a bad thing if he had pressured Zelensky.”I could have. I think it would have probably possibly have been OK if I did,” he said.Biden took to Twitter Monday afternoon, and challenged the president to release the call transcript.But the president didn’t stop with blasting Biden on Monday. He also lashed out at the American media for its coverage of the matter.

“If a Republican ever said what Joe Biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. Look at the double standards. You people ought to be ashamed of yourself,” Mr. Trump said. “Not all … you have a lot of crooked journalists. You are crooked as hell.”Mr. Trump’s call with Zelensky has fueled talk of impeachment among Democrats, who argue the president might have used his office to urge a foreign country to investigate a potential political rival.Mr. Trump is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly for the next couple of days. He stopped by a meeting on climate change for roughly 10 minutes, opting instead to speak at an event on religious freedom and hold bilateral meetings with foreign leaders.Fin Gomez contributed to this report.

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Earth just experienced its hottest September ever recorded

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Following the hottest summer on record, 2019 continues to head for the history books. Last month was officially the hottest September on record, just slightly hotter (.04 degrees Fahrenheit) than the previous record-holder, September 2016.

Last month was 1.02 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average September from 1981-2010 and about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit above the preindustrial level, according to data released Friday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an organization that tracks global temperatures.According to AFP, the organization is treating the two months as joint record-holders because the difference is negligible. September follows a record-setting summer, which recorded the hottest June and July, and the second hottest August. This July was the hottest month on record since record-keeping began 140 years ago.
Most of Europe, parts of the U.S., Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, northern China and parts of the Arctic all experienced significantly hotter than average Septembers, the organization said. Temperatures in Norway, Sweden, southwestern parts of Russia and parts of Antarctica were lower than average.Scientists continue to warn that human activity is heating the planet at a dangerous rate, and high temperatures pose a more lethal threat to humans than any other type of extreme weather event. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies recently warned the threat posed by extreme heat “will only become more serious and more widespread as the climate crisis continues.”According to CBS News climate and weather contributor Jeff Berardelli, heat waves are more directly linked to climate change than any other weather phenomenon, because of hot air masses “pool” extra warming, exacerbating the expansion and intensity of heatwaves. “There is no doubt in the scientific community that heatwaves will continue to get worse in the future due to human-caused climate change,” Berardelli said. According to the U.N., the international goal is to limit temperature growth this century to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. With the most recent September data, that goal is quickly approaching, and is likely to be surpassed around 2030, Berardelli said. “In a business as usual scenario warming may very well surpass 3 degrees Celsius which will have devastating impacts on the Earth’s ecosystems.”

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More migrant children under 5, including infants, were separated than previously known

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New information provided to a federal court has revealed that the Trump administration separated more “tender age” migrant children than previously known, with the government conceding that an additional 207 minors under the age of 5 years old were separated from their parents before the “zero tolerance” policy was fully implemented.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Trump administration on Thursday disclosed an additional 1,556 family separations to the U.S. district court in San Diego, the court overseeing the litigation surrounding the widely denounced practice. The ACLU told CBS News that 207 of the newly identified children who were separated from their parents by the government are under 5 years old — including five infants under the age of 1. The Trump administration had previously admitted to separating about 107 minors under the age of 5 at the height of the “zero tolerance” policy, in which border-crossing parents were referred for criminal prosecution and forcibly separated from their children. But the new disclosures reveal that the administration separated at least 314 of these “tender age” children, who pediatricians say are particularly vulnerable to separation-induced psychological trauma.
The ACLU does not know whether the more than 1,500 newly identified families have been reunited or the circumstances under which they were separated by the government. The group has been working for months to help reunite the approximately 2,800 families the Trump administration initially said it separated while it was implementing the “zero tolerance” policy. “We don’t know anything about those families,” Lee Gelernt, the attorney leading the ACLU litigation on family separations, told CBS News in an exclusive interview. “We hope that some of those families have even able to reunite through self help mechanisms — but we suspect many, many of them have not.”Although the ACLU is unaware of the exact time period in which the newly disclosed families were separated, they all occurred between July 2017 and June 2018, when Judge Dan Sabraw of the U.S. district court in San Diego barred the administration from separating detained migrant families unless the parents posed a danger to their children. Gelernt said he suspects that the separations were part of pilot programs the administration implemented before fully enforcing “zero tolerance” along the entire border with Mexico. Since Sabraw’s ruling to stop most separations in June 2018, the administration has told his court that it has separated about 1,000 families since, citing concerns that the parents posed a danger to their children and other circumstances strongly contested by the ACLU. Citing ongoing litigation, the Justice Department, which represents the administration in federal courts, declined to comment on the new revelations. The disclosure on Thursday contradicts assertions repeatedly made by the administration that it tried not to separate tender age children from their parents. Just this week, former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who became one of the public faces of the family separations saga, said her department looked to enforce the law in the “most compassionate way possible.” “If you had children under 5, the policy was we would not refer you to prosecution, despite the fact that you had broken the law,” she told PBS NewsHour on Tuesday at a FORTUNE summit before being told by the moderator that “tender age” minors were in fact separated from their parents by Nielsen’s agents.

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Daily Pro Wrestling History (02/03): The Mega Powers explode on WWF Main Event

March 5, 2021 | News | No Comments

1962

Tokyo, Japan:

– Luther Lindsay and Ricky Waldo defeated Rikidozan and Toyonobori to win the JWA All Asia Tag Team Titles

Minneapolis, Minnesota:

– AWA Champion Mr. M beat Larry Hennig 2 out of 3 falls

– Duke Hoffman beat Karl Von Schober by DQ

– Tiny Mills beat Don Kramer

– Don Jardine (The Spoiler) beat Strangler Jackie O’Dell

1965

Mobile, Alabama:

– Bobby and Lee Fields defeated Terry Garvin and Chin Lee to win the Gulf Coast NWA Southern Tag Team Titles

1967

Atlanta, Georgia:

– Enrique and Ramón Torres won the Georgia NWA World Tag Team Titles from Butcher and Mad Dog Vachon

Lafayette, Louisiana:

– Danny Little Bear defeated Jack Dalton for the NWA Gulf Coast Louisiana Heavyweight Title

1968

Tokyo, Japan:

– Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki defeated Crusher Lisowski and Dr. Bill Miller to win the NWA International Tag Team Titles

1970

Tampa, Florida:

– NWA World Title: Dory Funk, Jr. defeated Missouri Mauler

– Brass Knuckles Title: Danny Miller defeated Mr. Saito

– Bronko Lubich & Chris Markoff defeated Sam Steamboat & Louie Tillet

– Jack Brisco & Sailor Art Thomas defeated Mephisto & Dante by DQ

– Bob Orton defeated Cyclon Negro

– Buddy Fuller & Bob Roop defeated Duke Keomuka & Skull Von Stroheim

Hiroshima, Japan:

– AWA Champion Verne Gagne drew Strong Kobayashi

– Great Kusatsu & Thunder Sukiyama beat Michael Nador & Monster Rousimoff (Andre the Giant) to win IWA World Tag Titles

1972

Kansas City, Kansas:

– Bob Orton & Benny Ramirez fought The Viking & Steve Bolus to a draw

– Rufus R. Jones defeated Blackjack Black

– Black Angus defeated Terry Martin

– Danny Little Bear & Baron Von Raschke defeated Chati Yokuchi & Yasu Fuji in three falls

– Harley Race defeated Omar Atlas in three falls

1973

– Johnny Powers defeated Karl Von Krupp to win the NWF North American Heavyweight Title

Sarasota, Florida:

– Southern Title: Mark Lewin defeated Buddy Colt

– Florida Title: Jack Brisco defeated Gorgeous George, Jr.

– Florida Tag Titles: Big Bad John & Tim Woods defeated Chris Markoff & Blackjack Slade

– Phil Robley & Dick Slater drew Roberto Soto & Kevin Sullivan

1976

Raleigh, North Carolina:

– The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) defeated Rufus R. Jones and Wahoo McDaniel to win the NWA World Tag Team Titles

Mobile, Alabama;

– Eddie Sullivan defeated Bob Sweetan to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title

1977

Kansas City, Kansas:

– Giant Baba & Tenyru drew with Pat O’Conner & Akio Sato

– Bulldog Bob Brown defeated “DI” Bob Slaughter (Sgt.)

– Ernie Ladd beat Ted Oates

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:

– The Crusher beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel by DQ

– Non Title: Larry Hennig & Ray Stevens beat AWA Tag Team Champions Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum

– Peter Maivia beat Angelo Mosca

– Jim Brunzell double count out Pedro Morales

– Greg Gagne beat Roger Kirby

– Super Destroyer beat Billy Francis

– Moose Morowski beat Iron Sheik

1980

Kansas City, Kansas:

– Bruiser Brody and Ernie Ladd defeated Jerry and Ted Oates to win the vacant NWA Central States Tag Team Title in a one-night tournament final

Minneapolis, Minnesota:

– Non Title Cage match: The Crusher beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel

– Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura beat Mad Dog Vachon & Greg Gagne

– Steve Olsonoski beat Jerry Blackwell by DQ

– Super Destroyer Mark II beat Super Destroyer Mark III

– Chris Markoff drew Buck Zumhofe

1983

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:

– Cage match: AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan

– AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Rick Martel

– Ken Patera beat Steve O

– Wahoo McDaniel beat Bobby Duncum

– Jesse Ventura beat Buck Zumhofe

– Baron Von Raschke beat Rene Goulet

1984

Dallas, Texas:

– David Von Erich defeated Michael Hayes to win the NWA United National Heavyweight Title

1986

Memphis, Tennessee:

– Tojo Yamamoto beat Mr. X

– Larry Hamilton beat Tony Falk in two straight falls

– Billy Joe Travis & Frank Morrell beat Pat Rose & Tom Branch

– Dirty Rhodes beat Buddy Landel to win the Mid-America Title

– Rick Casey beat Dutch Mantel to win the CWA International Title

– Billy Joe Travis & Tommy Rogers beat Bill Dundee & Abdul Gadaffi

– Dutch Mantel & Bill Dundee beat Dirty Rhodes & Rick Casey

1987

Memphis, Tennessee:

– Austin Idol beat Billy Joe Travis

– Jeff Jarrett beat Boy Tony

– Big Bubba beat Tracy Smothers

– Soul Train Jones beat Tommy Rich

– The Hunter beat Paul Diamond

– Goliath beat Pat Tanaka

– Alan West beat Tarzan Goto

– Jeff Jarrett beat Big Bubba

– Soul Train Jones beat The Hunter

– Goliath beat Alan West

– Austin Idol beat Jeff Jarrett

– Soul Train Jones beat Goliath

– The Fabulous Ones NC The Sheepherders

– Austin Idol beat Soul Train Jones to win the vacant Southern Title

1989

WWF Main Event: Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

– Andre the Giant (w/ Bobby Heenan) pinned Jake Roberts

– Jacques & Raymond Rougeau (w/ Jimmy Hart) defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart

– Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard defeated Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty

– Brutus Beefcake fought Mr. Perfect to a double disqualification

– Jim Duggan pinned Dino Bravo (w/ Frenchy Martin) in a flag match

– The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and WWF Champion Randy Savage) with Miss Elizabeth defeated The Twin Towers (Akeem and The Big Boss Man) with Slick

– Ted DiBiase (with Virgil) defeated Hercules

Dallas, Texas:

– Brickhouse Brown defeated Iceman Parsons to win the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Title

1990

Portland, Oregon:

– Curtis Thompson (Firebreaker Chip) defeated Scotty the Body (Raven) for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title

1991

Dallas, Texas:

– Kevin Von Erich defeated The Angel of Death to win the Texas Wrestling Federation Texas Heavyweight Title

Bayamon, Puerto Rico:

– El Bronco and Invader I defeat The Texas Hangmen (Killer and Psycho) to win the WWC World Tag Team Titles

Landover, Maryland:

– The Rockers (Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels) defeated Demolition (Smash and Crush)

– Roddy Piper defeated WWF Intercontinental Champion Mr. Perfect (with Bobby Heenan) by countout

– WWF Champion Sgt. Slaughter (subbing for Randy Savage) defeated The Ultimate Warrior in a Steel Cage match

1995

Hurley, Virginia:

– Boo Bradley pinned Chris Candido

– Ricky Morton beat Unabom via DQ

– Tracy Smothers & Robert Gibson beat The Gangstas

– The Dirty White Boy beat Buddy Landel

1996

ECW Big Apple Blizzard Blast: Queens, New York:

– The Eliminators (Kronus and Saturn) defeated Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck for the ECW World Tag Team Titles

– Tommy Dreamer (w/ Beulah McGillicutty) & Shane Douglas defeated ECW World Champion Raven (w/ Kimona Wanalaya) & Stevie Richards (w/ the Blue Meanie)

– AAA Welterweight Champion Rey Mysterio Jr. pinned Juventud Guerrera

– The Pitbulls defeated the Headhunters

– Chris Jericho defeated Rob Van Dam

– Buh Buh Ray Dudley (w/ Sign Guy, Dances with, and Big Dick Dudley) pinned JT Smith

– Sabu pinned Mr. Hughes

– The Sandman & ECW TV Champion 2 Cold Scorpio defeated New Jack & Mustafa Saed

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1998

Tokyo, Japan:

– Yoshihiro Tajiri defeated Gedo in the finals of a eight-man one-night tournament to become the first BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion

2004

Cleveland, Ohio:

– Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty defeated WWE Tag Team Champions The Basham Brothers to win the titles

– Kurt Angle defeated Hardcore Holly

– The World’s Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) defeated Funaki and Ultimo Dragon

WWE SmackDown final ratings down from previous week

March 3, 2021 | News | No Comments

Final ratings are in for Friday night’s edition of SmackDown on Fox. The episode averaged 2.145 million viewers, down 3.2 percent from the previous week.

Fox was the only major network to fall below three million average viewers on the night.

In the 18-49 demo, SmackDown drew a 0.54 rating, down 8.5 percent from the previous week. Other than the New Year’s Day episode, this was the lowest number SmackDown has done on Fox in that category since September.

SmackDown finished third among the networks (and all of television) in the 18-49 demo, trailing ABC’s Shark Tank and 20/20.

In the 18-34 demo, SmackDown drew a 0.29 rating, down 17.1 percent from the previous week. That was fourth on television, finishing behind the aforementioned broadcast shows as well as an NBA game on ESPN.

Year-over-year, SmackDown was down 20.2 percent in overall viewers. The show was also down 32.5 percent year-over-year in the 18-49 demo and down 42 percent in 18-34. Those numbers show that SmackDown is losing younger viewers at a much faster rate than overall.

NJPW and CMLL issue statement reaffirming working relationship

March 2, 2021 | News | No Comments

Though Forbidden Doors may be opening elsewhere, NJPW and CMLL have issued a joint statement reaffirming their working relationship.

In the joint statement, NJPW and CMLL assured fans that their relationship is “unwavering.” The statement noted that CMLL will continue to be the exclusive business partner of NJPW in Mexico.

“New Japan Pro-Wrestling is proud to issue this joint declaration with CMLL to reaffirm our mutual commitment,” the statement said. “There is plenty more to come from NJPW’s partnership with CMLL in the future, and we appreciate your support.”

The partnership between NJPW and CMLL includes their annual Fantasticamania tour that takes place in Japan in January, but that couldn’t happen this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The full joint statement from the promotions is available below:

Since November 2009, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and CMLL have enjoyed a unique and prosperous working relationship. This relationship has seen CMLL stars travel to Japan every January for the annual Fantasticamania tour as well as competing in New Japan rings on a frequent basis, and NJPW prospects developing in excursions to CMLL in Mexico. NJPW remains deeply proud of the strong bond it has with CMLL.

Unfortunately, the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic prevented Fantasticamania from taking place in January 2021. However, New Japan Pro-Wrestling would like to reassure fans that its relationship with CMLL is unwavering, and that CMLL will continue to be the exclusive business partner for NJPW in Mexico.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling is proud to issue this joint declaration with CMLL to reaffirm our mutual commitment. There is plenty more to come from NJPW’s partnership with CMLL in the future, and we appreciate your support.

Statement from Salvador Lutteroth Lomeli (President, Consejo Mondial de Lucha Libre):

New Japan Pro-Wrestling is the leader of the Japanese pro-wrestling industry, and we have developed a strong relationship of mutual trust for 12 years now. It is an honor for us to continue working with NJPW moving forward. Gracias!

NJPW wrestlers have recently appeared in AEW and Impact Wrestling. KENTA appeared in AEW earlier this month to further his feud with Jon Moxley, while Juice Robinson & David Finlay made their Impact debut. Moxley defending his IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against KENTA will air on NJPW Strong this Friday.

Ferrari confident SF21 has recovered ‘quite a lot of speed’

March 2, 2021 | News | No Comments

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says dyno testing and simulations at Maranello indicate that the Scuderia’s new SF21 has recovered “quite a lot of speed” compared to its predecessor.

A down-on-power engine and excessive aerodynamic drag weighed heavily on the performance of Ferrari’s SF1000, a deficit that led to one of the worst seasons in the Italian outfit’s modern history.

But hard work conducted over the winter in Ferrari’s power unit and chassis departments has apparently gone a long way towards steering the Scuderia back in the right direction.

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“I think that last year the main issue was the speed on the straight lines, not only the power but both power and drag,” said Binotto, speaking during Ferrari’s 2021 presentation on Friday.

“We’ve worked a lot both on the power unit and the car aerodynamics to reduce the drag of the car.

“And based on our simulations today, based on what we can see in terms of power output from the dynos and the drag of the car from the wind tunnel, I think that we’ve recovered quite a lot of speed on the straight lines.

“So I’m expecting the speed not to be such an issue as it was.

“We hope to be competitive, but we will know it only when being in Bahrain, because it’s always relative to what the others are doing.

“But we believe that our car is certainly more efficient compared to the one we had last year, and when I’m saying efficient, again, it is both from the aero point of view, and from the power unit point of view.”

Read also: Ferrari restructures technical department in Maranello… again

But Binotto knows that despite the step forward, Ferrari will not have closed the gap to the field’s front-runners.

“You cannot know where you are if you are not on track, and I think that will be important for us,” he said. “We need to be realistic. The gap to the best last year was very important, and not something that we can recover in a single winter.”

Armed with an improved car and its talented line-up of drivers constituted of Charles Leclerc and new recruit Carlos Sainz, Ferrari aims to move up the pecking order this season. But Binotto highlighted the need for his team to make “less mistakes” to achieve that task.

“Our duty is clear: we must represent and honour the Ferrari flag – it is a symbol of outstanding Italian excellence,” said the Swiss engineer.

“I realise that in every competition there can be mistakes – I expect less mistakes, very few, or none. I expect to see quality and a healthy, joyful competitiveness.”

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