MMA Weekly Dana White says Yoel Romero is the first of about 60 UFC fighter cuts coming by year’s end UFC president Dana White, following Saturday’s UFC Vegas 16 in Las Vegas, explained the recent decision to cut top five ranked middleweight Yoel Romero loose from the roster. “Yoel has lost four of his last five. He’s 44 years old,” White said. That wasn’t the biggest news related to Romero, however, as White indicated that the multiple-time title challenger was just the first of… Source link
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GlobeNewswire Global Concentrating Solar Power Market (2020 to 2030) – Players Include Abengoa, Acciona and Frenell Dublin, Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Concentrating Solar Power Market by Technology – Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020-2030” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The Global Concentrating Solar Power Market was valued at USD 37.40 billion in 2019 and is expected to garner USD 114.42 billion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of… Source link
Read More »Rudy Giuliani tests positive for coronavirus, Trump says
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, the president announced Sunday on Twitter. “Get better soon Rudy, we will carry on!!!” Trump exclaimed while praising Giuliani’s record. The former New York City mayor was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center, the New York Times reported. Giuliani has been the face of Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the results of the November election, and he has appeared at recent events in Arizona, Michigan and… Source link
Read More »‘Honeymoon is not over’ between Biden and progressives
WASHINGTON — In the month since Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election, his team has engaged with progressive Democrats and left them feeling heartened. There’s a stark contrast — at least for now — between the loud internal disputes between progressives and the Democratic Party’s more moderate establishment that have raged for the past five years. “The honeymoon is not over and we’re going to continue to be optimistic, we fought like hell to get him elected and so far… Source link
Read More »Trump’s Final Days of Rage and Denial
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Over the past week, President Donald Trump posted or reposted about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong. Moody and by accounts of his… Source link
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This week, members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene to discuss Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, bringing the inoculation closer to receiving authorization to be distributed throughout the country. A couple hotly anticipated initial public offerings will also draw investor focus. Pfizer’s vaccine review Equity markets for weeks have been propped up amid a flurry of upbeat vaccine-related news, as drugmakers unveiled efficacy data that far exceeded health officials’… Source link
Read More »Spence, Crawford to blame for boxing’s fall
Errol Spence Jr. celebrates after a unanimous decision win against Danny Garcia on Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) After Terence Crawford knocked out Kell Brook in Las Vegas on Nov. 14, he was asked if he’d call out Errol Spence Jr. He replied by saying it was the media’s job to call for the fight. On Saturday, after Spence soothed any fears that his Oct. 10, 2019, auto accident may have stolen his greatness by routing Danny Garcia to… Source link
Read More »Ohio State firms up College Football Playoff argument
No. 1 Alabama restored order in the SEC West, looking capable of hanging 100 on LSU in a 55-17 victory. No. 2 Notre Dame shook off a sluggish start to breeze past Syracuse, 45-21. No. 3 Clemson awoke from some early doldrums to vanquish Virginia Tech, 45-10. No. 4 Ohio State endured significant losses from COVID-19 — including three starting offensive linemen — and blew out Michigan State so authoritatively, 52-12, that few could tell the difference. No. 5 Texas A&M delivered a solid win at… Source link
Read More »Breaking down conference title races
There won’t be too much conference championship drama in the final week of the college football regular season. Thirteen teams have already clinched spots in the 10 conference title games set to take place over Dec. 18 and 19. That includes No. 1 Alabama after the Crimson Tide wrapped up the SEC West in dominating fashion with a 55-17 win over defending national champion LSU. The Alabama passing game carved up LSU as wide receiver DeVonta Smith caught seven passes for 219 yards and three… Source link
Read More »China prepares large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said during a U.N. meeting last week, as Britain approved emergency use of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine candidate and providers scrambled to set up distribution. Even without final… Source link
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