Brett Okamoto, ESPN staff writerJan 21, 2024, 01:04 am ETto closeMMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for the Las Vegas SunTORONTO – Nearly six years after suffering a disappointing loss to Amanda Nunes in her first UFC title match, Raquel Pennington has finally climbed to the top of the mountain.Pennington (16-8) captured the UFC’s vacant bantamweight championship by defeating Brazilian challenger Mayra Bueno Silva (10-3-1) by unanimous decision in the co-main event of UFC 297 inside Scotiabank Arena on Saturday. All three judges scored the five-round bout for Pennington by scores of 49–46, 49–46, and 49–45.The…
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He was born Charles Osgood Wood III on January 8, 1933 in Manhattan. His father, Charles Osgood II, was a textile salesman who moved the family to Baltimore when Charles was 6 and took a second job as an expediter for copper. Company, during World War II. His mother, Mary (Wilson) Wood, was known as Violet.Mr. Osgood went to Fordham University, where, he later said, he spent more time on the campus radio station than in the classroom. His first job after graduating with a degree in economics in 1954 was as a radio announcer at WGMS, a classical-music station…
Charles Osgood, the wisecracking CBS News journalist who led “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades — a longer tenure than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt — died Tuesday at 91 after living for a time with dementia. Died at the age of. According to CBS News. He also hosted an enduring radio-news segment, “The Osgood File”, between 1971 and 2017. The audio vignettes were heard four times each weekday morning on various stations across America, and Osgood would sometimes analyze a news event, and, at other moments, provide rhyming commentary on the latest headlines. He would sometimes…
Raquel Pennington was in complete control until the third round at UFC 297. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)By the time Raquel Pennington was finished at UFC 297, Mayra Bueno Silva could barely get off the mat, and that’s why the American is the new women’s bantamweight champion.Pennington defeated Bueno Silva by unanimous decision in Toronto to capture the bantamweight belt vacated by Amanda Nunes at UFC 289 in June. The title is an award for the bantamweight division’s greatest veteran, having a record 18 fights at 135 pounds.It was a strong return to the spotlight for Pennington,…
The nominations for the 2024 Oscars were announced today, with “Oppenheimer” leading the way with 13 nominations, followed by “poor things” with 11. The 96th Annual Academy Awards follows the year in which “barbenheimer”Barbie” incident and christopher nolanCrowds are flocking to theaters around the world with the epic World War II biopic hundreds of millions Dollars at the box office.Tuesday’s announcement was not without part of the surprisewith no best director nomination for greta gerwig For “Barbie” – he and Noah Baumbach were nominated for the film’s adapted screenplay – and no acting prompts for the star margot robbie, who…
Lineup Notesusmnt vs sloveniainternational friendlyJanuary 20, 2024 Toyota Stadium; San Antonio, Texas Pre-game coverage: 2:30 p.m. ET on TNT, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock Kickoff: 3 p.m. ET on TNT, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock social media: @USMNT at X And Instagram; US Soccer on Facebook, US Soccer App Today’s USMNT starting XI vs Slovenia: 1-Patrick Schulte, 5-DeJuan Jones, 7-Diego Luna, 8-Aidan Morris, 9-Brian White, 11-Timmy Tillman, 12-Miles Robinson (Captain), 14-Sean Zawadzki, 15-Josh Atencio, 17-Bernard Kamungo, 18-Shaq Moore Substitutes: 22-Drake Callender, 23-Roman Celentano, 2-Caleb Wiley, 3-Ian Murphy, 4-Nkosi Tafari, 6-James Sands, 10-Jack McGlynn, 13-Duncan McGuire, 16-Nathan Harriel, 19-Asmir Bajraktarević, 20-Azeal…
What to see: For the first time in this rivalry between Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, the Chiefs are coming to Orchard Park for the postseason. The quarterbacks have met six times, with the Bills winning three of the four regular season meetings, and the Chiefs winning both postseason games (2020 and 2021). The difference for the Bills in the regular and postseason contests has been defensive success. In the regular season, the Bills held the Chiefs to 20.8 points per game and produced nine takeaways, but in the playoffs, Kansas City averaged 40 points per game and committed only…
File photo of people holding the symbol of the white supremacist group Patriot Front , in front of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston on Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The Patriot Front, a white supremacist group with members across the U.S., marched in New York on Saturday, according to multiple videos Posted on social media, That march led many X users to assert, without evidence, that Patriot Front was actually a fake group started by the FBI to sow unrest in the country. X boss Elon Musk…
Nick Wagner, ESPN Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2024, 10:00 PM ETto closeNick Wagner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers and the NFL at ESPN since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years at ESPN (2013 to 2015). In his 10 years with the company, Nick has led ESPN’s coverage of the Niners’ 2019 Super Bowl run, Colin Kaepernick’s protests, the Rams’ Michael Sam becoming the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL, after Sam The search for roster spots and the team relocation and stadium saga.…
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel suffered a left shoulder injury and was ruled out of Saturday’s 24-21 divisional round win against the Green Bay Packers. After the game, head coach Kyle Shanahan had no immediate update on Samuel. “I don’t know yet,” he said of the severity, adding that the injury was similar to the one Samuel suffered earlier in the season against the Cleveland Browns. “we will see tomorrow.” Samuel suffered an injury on the 49ers’ second drive, after which he went to the locker room for evaluation and was declared questionable. He appeared in street clothes…