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Sports-On This Day... March 21

2020-06-26T15:49:37Z

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March 20 (Reuters) - ON THIS DAY -- March 21 March 21, 1996: SOCCER - Paris St Germain forward Pascal Nouma goes down in the penalty area following a challenge by Parma defender Antonio Benarrivo during their UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final second leg match in Paris. Brazilian midfielder Rai converted the resulting spot kick, the first of his two penalties in the 3-1 victory, as PSG overturned a 1-0 defeat in the first leg in Parma to complete a 3-2 aggregate win. The French side beat Spain's Deportivo la Coruna 2-0 on aggregate in the semi-finals and Rapid Vienna 1-0 in the final to lift their first major European title. The Cup Winners' Cup, which began in the 1960-61 season, was consigned to history in 1999. March 21, 1996: BOATING - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie leaves the bay of Salinas in Ecuador on board his cigar-shaped vessel -- Malt's Mermaid -- which was made using 27,000 aluminum beer cans. Horie, a national hero in Japan hailed as the seafaring version of U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh, reached Tokyo in 148 days, [https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history] setting a Guinness World Record for the fastest-ever crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a solar-powered boat. Now 81, Horie first shot to fame in 1962, when he became the first Japanese to sail solo across the Pacific. March 21, 1998: CYCLING - Germany's Erik Zabel celebrates after defending his Milan-San Remo cycling classic crown. Team Telokom's Zabel won the final sprint ahead of Frenchmen Emmanuel Magnien and Frederic Moncassin to emerge triumphant in the 89th edition. Zabel won back-to-back titles again in 2000 and 2001, equalling Italian Gino Bartali's feat of four wins. Only Italian Costante Girardengo (six) and Belgian Eddy Merckx (seven) have more titles in the race. In 2007, Zabel admitted to using the banned substance erythropoietin (EPO) at the 1996 Tour de France, becoming one of the biggest names in cycling to come clean about doping. Years later he admitted to persistent doping between 1996 and 2003. March 21, 1999: SOCCER - Manchester United's Norwegian striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer celebrates after scoring a goal in their 3-1 Premier League victory over Everton at Old Trafford. Solskjaer, United's current coach, scored the most important of his 18 goals that season with an injury-time winner against Bayern Munich in the Champions League title clash to secure a treble that also included the league and FA Cup trophies. "It was a fantastic end to a great season. The team spirit, the quality of the play, the times we had to dig out results, the times we had to stick together... we had a fantastic season," he said on the 20th anniversary of the triumph. March 21, 2000 GOLF - Tiger Woods won the first of his four back-to-back Bay Hill Invitational (now called the Arnold Palmer Invitational) titles in Florida in 2000 at the age of 24. Woods was at the peak of his powers, winning his third title of a stellar year at Bay Hill. He won three majors that year, the Open Championship, the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open, becoming the youngest golfer to achieve a career Grand Slam. March 21, 1999 SOCCER - Tottenham Hotspur celebrate after beating Leicester City 1-0 at Wembley Stadium to win the Worthington League Cup final thanks to a goal from Danish midfielder Allan Nielsen. Spurs beat Liverpool and Manchester United en route to the final, where they went down to 10 men for the final half hour after left back Justin Edinburgh was sent off. Nielsen sealed victory in the 92nd minute with a diving header. Leicester boss Martin O'Neill led the Foxes back to the final the following year where they beat Tranmere Rovers to win the title. March 21, 2003 FORMULA ONE - Ferrari Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello of Brazil speeds during a practice session at Sepang International Circuit. Barrichello, an accomplished driver who started more than 300 races and finished on the podium 68 times, was destined to play second fiddle to Michael Schumacher at Ferrari. The duo were criticized the previous season when Barrichello let Schumacher beat him to the finish on the final straight of the Austrian Grand Prix, leading the FIA to ban "team orders" from the 2003 season to after the 2010 championship. March 21, 2009 RUGBY - Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll, regarded as one of the game's greats, celebrates winning the Six Nations Championship with fans in Cardiff. O'Driscoll scored a try in the final game against Wales as Ireland won the Grand Slam with a narrow 17-15 victory. He retired after helping Ireland secure the Six Nations title again in 2014 and holds the all-time record for the most tries at the tournament with 26. March 21, 2003 SOCCER - Leeds United caretaker manager Peter Reid sits in the stands at Elland Road stadium following Terry Venables' departure from the post. Venables was sacked by cash-strapped Leeds eight months into his tenure following disagreements with the board over player sales, with the club wallowing in the bottom half of the standings. Reid was hired on an interim basis and oversaw some famous wins to keep Leeds in the top flight, including a 3-2 victory at Arsenal that ended the London side's hopes of winning back-to-back league titles. March 21, 2003 Sachin Tendulkar leads the Indian cricket team down the red carpet as they are welcomed outside their hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa ahead of the 50-overs World Cup final against Australia. Tendulkar, the tournament's top scorer, plundered 669 runs -- including a century and six half-centuries -- to take India to their second World Cup final. Defending champions Australia, however, batted first and set India a target of 360. Tendulkar was caught and bowled by Glenn McGrath for four runs in the first over of the final as India fell 125 runs short. (Compiled by Shrivathsa Sridhar and Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Simon Jennings)

Picture Of The Day - April 30

2020-06-26T03:26:50Z

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Sachin Tendulkar became Yorkshire's first overseas player at the age of 19 in 1992. Yorkshire had intended to recruit an overseas fast bowler and Australia's Craig McDermott was lined up but the move fell through when he suffered an injury. That left Yorshire needing to move quickly for a replacement and it had to be a big name. Rising India star Tendulkar fitted the bill and Sunil Gavaskar persuaded him that it would be a good for his career development. Tendulkar, pictured celebrating a second wicket against Kent in a Benson and Hedges Cup tie at Headingley, proved a big hit, racking up the runs and inspiring his Yorkshire team-mates in equal measure. Only weeks after his arrive Yorkshire coach Steve Oldham admitted that Tendulkar's team-mates were "all better players for his presence" and that they "all want to bat with him". In the 16 Championship matches Tendulkar played he plundered 1070 runs at an average of 46.52 and Yorkshire attracted 1500 new members. Sachin Tendulkar is congratulated by Yorkshire team-mates after taking two wickets in a Benson and Hedges tie against Kent on April 30, 1992. The season with Yorkshire clearly had a big impact on Tendulkar. A decade later, [https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history] when he was inducted as one of five great Yorkshire players, he said: "I will always remember this as one of the greatest four-and-a-half months I've spent in my life."

Disney s Wrestling With Its Racist History On Disney Plus

2020-06-25T06:04:14Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Disneyland's classic ride Splash Mountain. Cd637/Wikipedia Disneyland's Splash Mountain, a water-based log ride through scenes of cute rabbits, bears and foxes, is currently the [ target of several petitions] on Change.org. Activists are lobbying for Disney to retheme the attraction first launched in California in 1989, because its music, characters and location are all drawn from Disney's racially problematic movie, 1946's Song of the South. The combined live-action and animated musical, set on a southern plantation after the end of the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, has been criticized for [ glorifying plantation slavery] and promoting black stereotypes. While former Disney CEO Bob Iger [ said] in March that Song of the South is "not appropriate in today's world" and would never be on Disney Plus, the film's famous song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah remains a feature [ of Splash Mountain]. "Some of the songs and the characters are still very much part of the Disney legacy, so it's a very strange situation," says Jessica Balanzategui, a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, who specializes in childhood, history and national identity in global film and TV. 1946's Song of the South with Br'er Rabbit and Uncle Remus. Disney "A lot of us would be familiar with some of those characters and some of the popular songs without ever having seen the original film." In the current moment, where the fight for racial justice and the dismantlement of systemic racism has reverberated through the media, some companies have taken steps towards change, including alerting audiences to prejudiced or racist material in their back catalogue. HBO Max [/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-with-the-wind-for-racist-depictions-will-bring-it-back/ recently] pulled 1939's Gone with the Wind, a monument of American film history, [ criticized] for featuring black stereotypes and romanticizing the South during the era of segregation. Gone with the Wind will [ return] to HBO Max, but with an introduction by black scholar Jaqueline Stewart to provide more context and help educate about racism. "We failed to put the disclaimer in there which basically sets up the issues that this movie really brings up," WarnerMedia chairman Bob Greenblatt [ said]. "We took it off and we're going to bring it back with the proper context. It's what we should have done. I don't regret taking it down for a second. I only wish we had put it up in the first place with the disclaimer. And, you know, we just didn't do that." The remnants of Disney's murky history have long been the subject of debate. In the inception of Splash Mountain, Disney [ altered] a "Tar-Baby" scene from the movie for the ride, given its racist associations. The movie's African American character Uncle Remus who tells tales about the animal characters also doesn't appear, except for his thoughts and sayings on signs throughout the queue. Still, Disney has been [ criticized] for being too lighthanded with addressing problematic representations in its movies from the '30s, '40s, '50s and even up to the [ '90s], ramping up at the end of last year around Disney Plus' launch. The streaming platform arrived with disclaimers bookending the descriptions of some of its old cartoons, saying, "This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions." The disclaimer on the synopsis of the original Dumbo cartoon. Disney Plus Some examples include 1955's Lady and the Tramp, whose Siamese cat characters have been criticized for [ channeling Asian stereotypes]; 1941's Dumbo, featuring a crow character called [ Jim Crow] and others who speak [ using jive-like speech patterns]; and 1994's The Lion King, whose hyenas have been interpreted as symbolizing [ racial minorities]. While HBO Max isn't targeted at children, Disney Plus is designed to be a family-friendly hub. Some argue that when Disney Plus launched in November, the company could have done more to address the context of its older films for the children watching them. "It is tricky," Balanzategui says, when it comes to the Disney Plus disclaimers. "Disney could have used stronger language which would more proactively invite a conversation around the context of these caricatures." Disney did not respond to a request for comment. Children parked in front of a TV. Photo Illustration by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images 'Children are like sponges' Disney Plus' [ subscription numbers snowballed] during the coronavirus lockdown, with parents not only having Marvel, Pixar and live-action remakes to keep their children entertained, but older Disney cartoons many parents grew up with. Some worry this is problematic for children who are dropped in front of cartoons with "outdated depictions," because they could imbibe certain prejudices. "These shouldn't be watched by children by themselves," says Daryl Sparkes, senior lecturer of media studies and production at the University of Southern Queensland, "because children are like little sponges and they soak up attitudes and feelings and opinions." CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from space to superheroes, memes to robots. A possible scenario when children watch older cartoons on Disney Plus is they don't notice the disclaimer at all. These messages appear only in the movie's description, not as a separate tag inside the movie window. It could just as easily go unnoticed by parents as well. Since children aren't yet able to spot questionable cultural stereotypes, they shouldn't watch the Disney cartoons alone, Sparkes says. Parents should pull up a pillow and watch alongside them, explaining how once upon a time that was how people used to think. "That becomes a real educational value for the kids themselves, because they're able to go, 'OK, this is what happened back then, but we're not like that anymore and these are the reasons why.'" The Disney legacy Warner Brothers has [ censored] many of its racially offensive cartoons from as far back as the '30s and, in 2014, added a [ content warning] to the beginning of old Looney Tunes cartoons like Tom and Jerry on streaming platforms, using far stronger language than Disney, admitting they "may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today." Well played WB, well played. [ ][ pic.twitter.com/gnfoZBGiJm] — rougevelvet (@rougevelvet) [ August 31, 2014] window.CnetFunctions.logWithLabel('%c One Trust ', "Service loaded: script_twitterwidget with class optanon-category-5"); [ Early reports] suggested Disney Plus would exclude problematic scenes of movies like the original Dumbo, but Balanzategui says Disney made the right choice by keeping the movies intact. "Editing out these problematic depictions isn't the right way to go." Editing the material would be the equivalent of erasure of Disney and North America's troubling histories, Balanzategui says. These movies are artifacts of a shared animation and [https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history] cultural history. "We don't want to just edit out the confronting parts and pretend they never existed." In an extreme case like Song of the South, including it on Disney Plus would have demanded careful conversations around it, Balanzategui says. It would be used more as an education tool than what we think of as entertainment. Dumbo and the group of crows. Disney But for movies like Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo or The Lion King, which do feature on Disney Plus with disclaimers, the biggest worry for parents is children consciously or unconsciously acquiring cultural language they're not yet able to contextualize. That's where conversations about problematic stereotypes can help children establish context around troubling representations, Balanzategui says. Parents may even be able to spark curiosity in their children about the historical context of the media they're watching. Children could learn to see entertainment as part of a wider network of cultural and historical influences. Some kids, however, are simply too young to have these conversations. "This is when parents should be really careful about the kind of content that their children are watching," Balanzategui says. While Disney buried much of the controversy around Song of the South from modern audiences, it has [ responded] to calls to revisit attractions at Disneyland before. Disney removed a scene from the immensely popular Pirates of the Carribean ride that showed brides up for auction and renamed a ride called the Indian War Canoes and a hotel called Disney's Dixie Landings Resort. It remains to be seen whether the petitions -- [ one] of which has over 20,000 signatures -- around Splash Mountain spur change, but while many are stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents might want to keep an even closer eye on what their kids are watching. Disney Plus' disclaimers are easy to miss and in a moment where many are doing their homework on the past and the injustices and inequalities of the present, it's a good time to notice them.

Black Lives Matter: Netflix Movies TV Shows And Books That Touch On Systemic Racism

2020-06-24T00:14:12Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Getty Images The [ killing of George Floyd] last month in Minneapolis has sparked [ protests across the US and around the world] over racial injustice. Demonstrators have [ taken to the streets] -- and to social media -- to [ voice their outrage] at long-standing issues like police brutality and systemic racism and oppression. People are also sharing resources to help others better understand the issues at hand and to learn how to be better allies to black Americans. Dozens of books, novels, [ films and TV series] addressing the discrimination that people of color face have been circulating online. Some have been recommended by libraries like the [ Chicago Public Library] and the [ Oakland Public Library]. One [ Twitter thread of antiracist children's books], shared by teacher Brittany Smith, went [ viral]. And a Google doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein also shares several [ recommendations of what to watch and read]. Netflix is now [/news/netflix-showcases-movies-series-and-documentaries-on-the-black-experience/ showcasing TV shows, movies and documentaries] addressing racial injustice and the black experience. For more like this Subscribe to the CNET Now newsletter for our editors' picks for the most important stories of the day. Here are some recommendations pulled from those lists and crowdsourced from CNET staff. Jump to the recommendations: [#nonfictionbooks Nonfiction books][#fictionbooks Fiction books][#tvshows TV shows and films][#childrensbooks Children's books][ ] Nonfiction books The New Press [ ] by Michelle Alexander: This book challenges the idea that President Barack Obama's election welcomed a new age of colorblindness. [ ] by bell hooks: This work explores issues such as the impact of sexism on black women during slavery and racism among feminists. [ ] by Ta-Nehisi Coates: Framed as a letter to his son, Coates pursues the question of how to live free within a black body in a country built on the idea of race, a falsehood most damaging to the bodies of black women and men. [ ] by Malcolm X: In this classic text, Muslim leader Malcolm X shares his life story and talks about the growth of the Black Muslim movement. [ ] by Robin DiAngelo: This book explores how white people uphold racial inequality when they react a certain way to their assumptions about race being challenged. [ ] by Audre Lorde: Black lesbian poet and feminist writer Lorde shares a collection of essays and speeches exploring sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia and class. [ ] by Angela Y. Davis: The activist and scholar shows the link between several movements fighting oppression and state violence. One World [ ] by Maya Angelou: The author's debut memoir explores themes like loneliness, bigotry and love. [ ] by Douglas A. Blackmon: This text explores the period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts were brought back into involuntary servitude. [ ] by Ibram X. Kendi: The historian chronicles how racist ideas have shaped US history and provides tools to expose them. [ ] by Isabel Wilkerson: This book tells the story of the migration of black Americans who left the South seeking better lives. [ ] by Daina Ramey Berry: This text explores how in early America, slaves were commodities in every phase of life. [ ] by Carol Anderson: The historian addresses the forces opposing black progress in America throughout history. [ ] by Ibram X. Kendi: The founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center uses history, science, class, gender and his own journey to examine racism and what to do to fight it in all forms. Ballantine [ ] by James Forman Jr.: The author explores the war on crime starting in the 1970s and why it had the support of several African American leaders in urban areas. [ ] by Brittney Cooper: In a world where black women's anger is portrayed as negative and threatening, Cooper shares that anger can be a source of strength to keep fighting. [ ] by Kiese Laymon: This memoir explores the impact that lies, secrets and deception have on a black body and family, as well as a nation. [ ] by Layla F. Saad: This book asks readers to address their own biases, and helps white people tackle their privilege so they can stop harming people of color, even unconsciously. [ ] by George Lipsitz: This text looks at white supremacy and explores how the concept of "whiteness" has been used to define, bludgeon and control the racialized "other." [ ] by Dorothy Roberts: This book illustrates how America systemically abuses Black women's bodies. Hachette Book Group, Inc. [ ] by Dr. Joy DeGruy: This book explores the impact that repeated traumas endured across generations have on African Americans today. [ ] by W.E.B. Du Bois: In this influential collection of essays, Du Bois, who played a critical role in shaping early 20th-century black protest strategy, argues that begging for rights that belong to all people is beneath a human's dignity, and accommodating to white supremacy would only maintain black oppression. [ ] by Ijeoma Oluo: The author provides a blueprint for everyone on how to honestly and productively discuss race and shares ways to bring about change. [ ] Fiction books [ ] by Colson Whitehead: This novel follows a young slave's desperate journey toward freedom. [ ] by Colson Whitehead: Two boys are sentenced to reform school in Florida during the Jim Crow era. [ ] by Nella Larsen: This novel explores the fluidity of racial identity through the story of a light-skinned woman who's married to a racist white man who doesn't know about her African American heritage. Farrar, Straus & Giroux [ ] by Yaa Gyasi: The book tells the story of two half sisters born in different villages in 18th-century Ghana and their descendants, with one sister later living in comfort and the other sold into slavery. [ ] by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A young couple leaves Nigeria for the West, each following a different path: She confronts what it means to be black in the US, while he lives undocumented in Britain. They reunite 15 years later in Nigeria. [ ] by Zora Neale Hurston: The 1937 classic follows the journey of an independent black woman, Janie Mae Crawford, in her search for identity. [ ] by Alex Haley: This novel is based on Haley's family history, and tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the US. [ ] by Zadie Smith: This novel tells the story of an interracial family impacted by culture wars. [ ] by Ralph Ellison: A nameless narrator describes growing up in the south, going to and being expelled from a Negro college, moving to New York and, amid violence and confusion, ultimately going to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he sees as himself. [ ] by Paul Beatty: This satire follows a man who tries to reinstate slavery and [https://footballncrickethub.bookmark.com/sachin-tendulkar-family-history footballncrickethub.bookmark.com] segregate the local high school, leading to a Supreme Court case. [ ] TV shows and films 13th (Netflix): Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores racial inequality in the US, with a focus on prisons. When They See Us (Netflix): [ Ava DuVernay]'s gut-wrenching -- and essential -- miniseries is based on the true story of the falsely accused young teens known as the Central Park Five. BET Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (BET): This documentary explores the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement. Dear White People (Netflix): Based on a film of the same name, this series shows the biases and injustices that a group of students of color face at Winchester University, a predominantly white Ivy League college. American Son (Netflix): An estranged couple meet at a police station in Florida to try to find their teenage son. If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu): Based on the James Baldwin novel, this Barry Jenkins film centers on the love between an African American couple whose lives are torn apart when the man is falsely accused of a crime. Blindspotting (Hulu with Cinemax): Collin needs to make it through three more days of probation, and his relationship with his best friend is tested after he sees a cop shoot a suspect during a chase. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (available to rent): A young black man dreams of reclaiming his childhood home in a now-gentrified neighborhood in San Francisco. Fruitvale Station (available to rent): Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, the biographical film tells the story of Oscar Grant III, who was killed by a white police officer in 2009. Paramount Selma (available to rent): Directed by Ava Duvernay, the historical drama follows civil rights demonstrators in 1965 as they marched from Selma to Montgomery. The Hate U Give (Hulu with Cinemax) -- Based on the young adult novel by Angie Thomas: The story follows Starr Carter's struggle to balance the poor, mostly black neighborhood she lives in and the wealthy, mostly white school she attends. Things become more complicated after she witnesses a police officer killing her childhood best friend. 16 Shots (Showtime): This documentary investigates the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in Chicago. Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (Paramount): This six-episode series follows the life and legacy of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot in 2012 in Sanford, Florida. America to Me (Starz): The documentary series provides a look into a year at Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School, one of the nation's top performing and diverse public schools. Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas (HBO): Comic and writer Wyatt Cenac explores the police's excessive use of force in black communities and discusses solutions with experts in this late-night talk/comedy series. The show is currently [ free to watch on YouTube]. HBO Do the Right Thing (available to rent): Salvatore "Sal" Fragione, an Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn, and neighborhood local Buggin' Out butt heads after Buggin' Out becomes upset that the restaurant's Wall of Fame only shows Italian actors. Tensions flare up as the wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to others in the neighborhood. BlacKkKlansman (HBO Max): Ron Stallworth, the first African-American detective to work in the Colorado Springs Police Department, sets out to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The Wire (HBO): This show explores Baltimore's narcotics scene from the perspectives of both law enforcement and drug dealers and users. (Disclosure: CNET is owned by CBS Interactive, a division of ViacomCBS, which also owns Paramount and Showtime.)

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