PARIS (Reuters) – Thousands of people gathered across France on Sunday to support teachers and defend freedom of expression after the killing of Samuel Paty, a history teacher beheaded by a suspected Islamist on Friday. From Paris to Lyon, Marseille and Lille large crowds gathered quietly, pausing regularly to applaud, hold minutes of silence or sing the national anthem. Prime Minister Jean Castex attended the gathering on Place de La Republique in Paris along with Education Minister… Source link

Left standing by Major League Baseball, by karma, by a sub-.500 regular season and a three-games-to-none deficit in the American League Championship Series, the Houston Astros had but two remaining obstacles en route to an unlikely — and mostly unpopular — World Series appearance. Game 7 against the Tampa Bay Rays. Their past. Those arrived together Saturday night in San Diego. Only then were the Astros — disgraced by a cheating scandal last winter and 11 months later defiant in their… Source link

LAS VEGAS — After 36 minutes of sustained brilliance, Teofimo Lopez spoke the words that all boxing fans should want to hear: The bigger the fight, the better. He wants them. If that means a bid for a second consecutive undisputed championship, something unheard of in the four-belt era, Lopez would be down for it. A fight against Devin Haney? Tell him where to sign. It’s Lopez who calls the shots now, though, after a dominant and one-sided victory Saturday over Vasiliy Lomachenko at the… Source link

Zachery Ty Bryan, who featured in ‘90s sitcom Home Improvement alongside Tim Allen, has been arrested and accused of assault. Police were called to the apartment of Bryan, 39, from the US state of Oregon, on Friday (local time). They found him sitting outside and his girlfriend, 27, at a neighbouring apartment. Zachery Ty Bryan, 39, who starred in Home Improvement (right) has been accused of assault. Source: AAP/ABC More Bryan reportedly assaulted the victim, impeded her breathing, and took her… Source link

LAS VEGAS — The Takeover is complete. Teofimo Lopez completed his rocket trip to the top of boxing’s lightweight division with a gritty unanimous decision over Vasiliy Lomachenko that made him the undisputed champion. Lopez now holds the WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF lightweight titles, becoming only the fifth man in the four-belt era to be an undisputed champion. The others are Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor, Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk. Judge Tim Cheatham had it 116-112, the same as… Source link

Baseball fans (and quite a few players) have been waiting 11 months to say one phrase in unison: See you later, Houston Astros. That moment finally came on Saturday. With their 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, the Astros were eliminated from the postseason. More importantly to fans and baseball rivals angered by Houston’s cheating ways, it guaranteed the Astros would gain no form of redemption in the World Series. The Astros delayed their… Source link

We’ve made it through seven weeks of a college football season unlike any other. Major conferences like the Big Ten and Pac-12 have yet to take the field, while some teams have played as many as six games.  From what we’ve seen so far, several teams with significant preseason expectations have fallen well short of those projections. Below, in alphabetical order, we’ve highlighted several of the most disappointing teams of the college football season so far.  Auburn (2-2): It looks like… Source link

The man who sealed the World Series for the Houston Astros in 2017 just stopped them from making it back, halting a historic ALCS comeback and sending baseball’s villains home with a bit of poetic justice. And now it’s the Rays headed to their first World Series since 2008, winning Game 7 of the ALCS by the score of 4-2. Charlie Morton, part of that 2017 Astros team that cheated and won the World Series, was outstanding on the mound for the Rays, dominating his former team in what was his… Source link

When it comes to boxing records, it doesn’t get much more dominant than Edgar Berlanga right now. The Puerto Rican 23-year-old scored a first-round TKO against Lanell Bellows to open Saturday’s Top Rank card. It was Berlanga’s 15th straight first-round knockout to improve his career record to 15-0. None of that is a typo. Saturday’s bout ended with a sustained assault on Bellows, prompting the ref to call the fight. Berlanga provided his own post-fight analysis, announcing “I’m a… Source link

European football is reeling with stadiums largely empty and revenues down, but it is business as usual on the field for the continent’s biggest clubs this week as the Champions League group stage gets underway and Bayern Munich begin their defence of the trophy. Hansi Flick’s all-conquering team have a glamour tie to get things going, at home to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. It will be a fascinating contest, and as Bayern’s Thomas Mueller admitted after the draw was made, “the… Source link