Новости за 28.08.2020

Five of the six players, including captain Manpreet Singh, who had tested positive for the virus upon returning for the training camp at the National Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, completed their post-recovery isolation period on Wednesday.

Written by Mihir Vasavda

The recovered players are yet to merge with the rest of the players, who have begun ‘sporting activities’. Manpreet Singh is one of the five such players.(FILE)

For the next six-to-eight weeks, the heart and lung conditions of the Indian hockey players... Читать дальше...

By Jugjet Singh

Arul Selvaraj has been tasked to whip up a side strong enough to win gold at the 2022 Asian Games, and qualify for the Paris Olympics. - NSTP/File pic

MALAYSIAN hockey players are famed for their agility and skill, but not their fitness.

by Helge Schütz

Namibia captain Magreth Mengo in action against the Czech Republic at the 2018 Indoor World Cup. Photo: Helge Schütz

NAMIBIA's national men and women's hockey teams have been announced for the Indoor Africa Cup in South Africa next month, although the women's team can still change over the next week.

PHOENIX - NOVEMBER 25: (L-R) President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Steve Kerr of the Phoenix Suns poses for a portrait with former University of Arizona men’s basketball coach Lute Olson after the game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Phoenix Suns on November 25, 2009 at US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The Suns won 126-111.  | Photo by Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images

With the passing of Lute Olson Thursday we thought it would be appropriate to link to this video... Читать дальше...

Defender, 35, joins the Blues on a one-year deal with the option to extend his contract by another 12 months

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An attorney for Maxwell Bero, who had once run for Congress, denied the bachelor party allegations.

The Trump presented over four convention nights was a shift from what the country has seen over his tenure as president.

Until about two weeks before writing this, I had never in my life wanted to sit down and watch a car race. NASCAR, IndyCar, and Formula racing never looked appealing to me as a spectator sport. 

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

TikTok is in trouble. Over the course of less than a day, the company lost its CEO and gained a surprising new suitor. The breakout social app could be within days of making a deal to sell itself to an American company — but the turmoil surrounding the sale threatens to leave the company permanently damaged.

July was an unusual summer scorcher in Toledo, with 15 days that reached 90 degrees or higher, a near-record amount.

The USPS helped bind the country together, boasts a 91 percent approval rating and attracts legions of nostalgic fans who get excited about “that post office smell.”

San Francisco, 1849



Note the tasteful draperies over the windows,

the view of the canneries. Salt air-gagged, we

arrived west. Sunburnt necks. Teenagers, most of us.
Like tanagers. Over the sea, we were red-winged,
ready. The men who made us come here feinted 

betrothal. Had us on our backs and talked of gold.
Now so many pretty girls lewd and unaccompanied.

Debarking the ship, we were led to the barracoons. 

The bidders waited. Why call it a Queen’s room?... Читать дальше...

After Roger Reeves’s “Cymothoa Exigua”

The tongue as a debut ribbon
to slice and applaud: to lose
consciousness & wake up indoors:
when the smell of cooked chicken
creeps into your nose, & teeth remember
what it means to chew: to make the mouth
a gulley for the first pale stranger
who cradles your head & says, drink:
when the glistening neck of his canteen
prods your pink lips, & words you’ve never heard
raid in: when the names of the room’s dead
fill your throat... Читать дальше...

decorative hellenic borders

on paper coffee cups

on a silver ring I used to wear

it feels nationalist now

/it was always nationalist

actually I would say dawn is fruity

not milky, not gold

what to do with the lie of ethnicity

at dinner T says

‘Greece’ is an invention

of the nineteenth century

was this green once? unknown

the cicadas go on

a law against refugees

passed by the children of refugees

In April, just after the coronavirus had transformed into a full-blown public health emergency in the United States, The New York Times reported that investment firms were eyeing the unfolding disaster as yet another opportunity to make money. As retailers and other businesses began to feel the squeeze of the economic downturn, large investors drew up plans to buy up or lend to the cash-strapped companies. Their blueprint for finding profit in others’ economic misfortune came straight from Wall... Читать дальше...

A lot of people found Mecklenburgh Square by accident. T.S. Eliot, who taught at nearby Birkbeck College, described it, on discovering it in 1917, as “a most beautiful, dilapidated old square, which I had never heard of before.” And D.H. Lawrence, who lodged in one of its many low-cost boarding houses in the 1910s, called it the “dark, bristling heart of London.” A noted residence of Fabians, suffragettes, radical thinkers, Christian socialists, in the early twentieth century it was home to practitioners of open marriage (such as the poet H.

Nestled in the heart of Indianapolis is the national headquarters of the American Legion, the largest and most influential veterans’ service organization in the world. Indianapolis is second only to Washington in its number of war memorials; some of the monuments here stand on Legion grounds. The most prominent—a granite black tomb surrounded on four sides by golden busts of regal eagles—expresses a solemn reverence to those who served and sacrificed in World War I. Left unsaid is an uncomfortable fact... Читать дальше...

Hakone, Japan is known for mountain views, hot springs, and Evangelion.

The president is helps himself to public resources, but that's not what bothers his supporters.

llinois counties rush to finalize early voting sites amid looming election deadlines, COVID-19 concerns.

Chicago-based company wants more money from customers as its ComEd subsidiary pays $200 million fine connected to Springfield bribery scheme.

A new TrumPoem chronicling the presidency of Donald Trump, based, as always, on his own words and actions.