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COLUMBUS, Ohio – There were just two point-producing finals Friday, the first day of the three-day Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s track and field championships being held in Champaign, Ill., but Ohio State scored enough points to be third in the women’s competition and eighth in the men’s. The championships are being held at the University of Illinois at its new Demirjian Park/Gary R. Wieneke Track. Sade stars! The headline-grabbing result of the day was by Sade Olatoye, the mas...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – There were just two point-producing finals Friday, the first day of the three-day Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s track and field championships being held in Champaign, Ill., but Ohio State scored enough points to be third in the women’s competition and eighth in the men’s. The championships are being held at the University of Illinois at its new Demirjian Park/Gary R. Wieneke Track. Sade stars! The headline-grabbing result of the day was by Sade Olatoye, the mas...

5 hours ago Many incarcerated women, often already traumatized from gender violence, potentially face re-traumatization once imprisoned in New Mexico through inhumane conditions and sexual assault, according to attorneys. Lalita Moskowitz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, said the inhumane conditions run the gamut in New Mexico prisons—from infestations of rodents and freezing conditions at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility outside of Grants to infrast...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Just over half – 51% – of the people locked up in the state’s prisons have received at least one dose of the vaccine against COVID-19, according to the New Mexico Corrections Department. Eric Harrison, an NMCD spokesman, said that 1,874 inmates in 11 prisons are fully vaccinated and that 1,046 are waiting on their second dose. He said that among staffers, 83% have received at least one dose of vaccine – 1,624 are fully vaccinated, and 38 are waiting...

Ronaldo was as tough as “old boots”. Ferguson said: “I remember my first away game as a manager, 1974, [with St Mirren]. We got beat 5-2 by Albion Rovers. I went home that night and, Donald, I told myself: ‘If I don’t get mental toughness in my players, I’ll never make it as a manager.’ “That was at the forefront of all my methods of management – to make sure players could cope with the strains and challenges of being a top footballer. I’ve always tried to endow them with th...

May 11, 2021, 12:15 PM GMT+1 Man Utd pulled off an unbelievable late comeback in the 1999 Champions League final | Etsuo Hara/Getty Images Legendary former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted even he didn’t think his team could win the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich when they were still trailing with only stoppage time remaining. Bayern scored early in the game and later hit both the bar and the post. But United pulled off the unthinkable comeback when ...

Alex Ferguson excelled at Manchester United, but his true greatness shone in Aberdeen © Supplied Sir Alex Ferguson achieved the impossible with Aberdeen and Manchester United during a glittering career. Sir Alex Ferguson and sentimentality tend to go together like Boris Johnson and a comb, but there was something heart-rending about the trailer for the former manager’s new film Never Give In. The documentary, which chronicles the Scot’s myriad triumphs in football, and also illustrates how...

Share COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State spring commencement ceremonies returned to Ohio Stadium for the first time in two years Sunday, May 9, and among the 12,345 degrees conferred were 15 to members or former members of the Ohio State men’s and women’s cross country and track and field teams. Actually, there were two in-person commencement ceremonies that Ohio State President Kristina M. Johnson presided over at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, delivered com...

Share COLUMBUS, Ohio – Members of the Ohio State University men’s and women’s track and field teams returned to competition at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium for the first time in two years Friday evening. The first event there since 2019: the venerable Jesse Owens Track Classic, which continues Saturday with a full slate of 33 events beginning at 10:45 with the women’s 1,500 and with field events beginning at 11 a.m. The meet Friday didn’t start exactly on time, with a brief downpour a...