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On Dec. 17, 1978, Mexico’s Pipino Cuevas was in his third year as the WBA welterweight champion, a belt he’d won in 1976 from Puerto Rican Angel Espada. On that same day in the Philippines, unnoticed by the world, a baby was born who would go on to make a mark on the division that the hard-hitting Cuevas then ruled. Since then, 29 different men have held that belt, including legends like Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Jr. That baby is now one of the most… Source link

Bloomberg Why Maradona Was Better Than Messi and Ronaldo (Bloomberg Opinion) — Soccer fans are fortunate to live in a time when two superstars are simultaneously making the claim to be the best player in the history of the sport — and more fortunate still that we can watch the contest between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo play out, week in and week out, live before a global audience of billions. Thanks to YouTube, I can watch high-quality videos of their most compelling performances,… Source link

It’s the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Google Doodle program is celebrating by commemorating the scientific legacy of Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt. Eryurt lived from 1926 to 2012, studied in Turkey, and worked at, among other institutions, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the University of California, according to a brief biography compiled by a group of astrophysicists. Eryurt’s research focused on stellar astrophysics, in particular of