Tuesday, July 9, 2013

SLIDESHOW: Pictures from the Wellingborough carnival parade

You can see some of the pictures taken by our photographer Tony Waugh at the Wellingborough carnival parade on Saturday in the slideshow above.

To get your hands on any of the images, you can click on the Buy a Photo link on this website, or call the Telegraph on 01536 506100.

Source: http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/slideshow-pictures-from-the-wellingborough-carnival-parade-1-5262196

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Sunday, July 7, 2013

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Source: http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215672654/scat/d805653303cbbba8

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Aidan Smith: Football mythology is stuff of close-season legends

CLOSE seasons ain?t what they used to be. The 2013/14 campaign began last Saturday for some of our clubs, even though Brazil and Spain?s 2012/13 wouldn?t conclude until the following day.

Gone it seems are those long, hot, desultory summers, the interminable wait for limber-up tours of Ireland and the Highlands in advance ? a few tantalising weeks later ? of the real thing. Back then, all the football nut had to keep him going were the Aussie League pools forecast and the odd morsel of transfer news buried under the tennis and golf reports. The rest of the time you relied on your memories, your dreams... and one or two daft stories which may or may not have been true.

Everyone loves them. There?s the one about the cocky young striker starting to believe his own publicity who lights a cigar with a ?5 note in a pub (or is it a tenner or a twenty?) and has to be slapped down by the barman, a principled ex-pro. Such a story is tremendous fun right up until the moment you?re told the same yarn involving a different player. Then you think: Ah well, still a cracker, and file it under ?Oor Fitba: Myths & Legends?.

Then there?s the one about the tattoo which pledges allegiance, seems like a good idea at the time, less good when the player is sold to another club. Bear in mind this story dates from a more innocent age when tattoos were more discreet, before Kirk Broadfoot entered his local parlour and declared: ?My neck is your canvas ? ink away.? I was told about an ex-Ranger who at his new team thought he?d better cover up the tattoos on his wrists with sweatbands. What were these sinister designs? Before long the story had grown legs to go with the arms. One wrist was supposed to have read ?Hullo hullo, how do you do... ? The second went... well, I?m sure you can guess. A great story, only when I revived it, my sports dept chums offered up similar tales, different personnel.

Some stories will be entirely mischievous but contain the merest glimmer of probability to string us along. Who makes up those ones? Is it the same little concealed-entrance factory that?s responsible for football?s chants? I guess the first rule of mythology must be ? not too ridiculous. After all, who?s going to believe that a player could be confronted at training by man brandishing a samurai sword and, further, that he?d successfully repel the invader with his bare hands? One thing?s for sure, the footballer in question couldn?t be the game?s most kenspeckle character at that time, Chic Charnley...

Heard the one about the iconic manager from history who was also an iconic ladies man? The footballer and his very good friend the (male) reality-show pop star? You?ll know even juicier ones, I?m sure. Internet fansites can circulate these stories quicker and, presumably, they fizzle out quicker, too. But there are some we don?t want to let go. In The Damned United David Peace wrote that Brian Clough pitched up at Leeds and attacked Don Revie?s old desk with an axe. This never actually happened, but what a fantastic image.

A couple of times I?ve had the chance to quiz players about the veracity of stories concerning them. Derek Riordan and Gordon Strachan?s daughter ? was it this rumoured romance which did for the player at Celtic? ?I heard that one,? Deek told me, ?but I?d never met the lassie.? Jackie McNamara snr ? card-carrying Commie? Perfectly true and confirmed previously. Still, I needed to hear how, as a boy, Jackie Mac delivered the Soviet Weekly round Easterhouse, political conviction among the football classes being oh so rare.

All these stories are being revived because I?ve nothing better to do. Also, because David Wotherspoon has just left Hibs for St Johnstone, which reminds me of another one. When the Hibees? training complex in East Lothian was still a novelty, the players enthused about it much as old folk would a smart new day centre. They especially liked Fridays, when Spoony brought in cakes, his mum being an excellent baker. The team weren?t playing well and some blamed the complex for making the players soft ? as soft as Mrs Spoony?s eclairs.

Of course, Hibs can be lousy all by themselves, no outside assistance required.

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

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File picture: South Africa lost to Japan in a penalty shootout, after giving away a late own goal, in their playoff clash at the men's World League hockey semifinals. Photo by: Duif du Toit:

Johannesburg ? South Africa lost to Japan in a penalty shootout, after giving away a late own goal, in their playoff clash at the men's World League hockey semifinals in Johor Malaysia, on Saturday.

With scores levelled at 2-2 after regulation time, Japan bagged a 1 -0 win in a tightly contested shootout ? Kei Kawakami scoring the only goal ? to set up a clash against hosts Malaysia in the playoff for fifth and sixth positions.

The South Africans, who have not won any of their five matches thus far in the tournament, will face Pakistan on Sunday for seventh and eighth places, in an effort to avoid the wooden spoon.

Without captain Austin Smith and Jonty Robinson, sidelined due to illness, the SA men struggled in the first half and trailed 1-0

at the break after Manabu Hatakeyama scored a penalty corner.

South Africa came back well to equalise through Craig Haley off a penalty corner rebound in the 56th minute, and Wade Paton gave them a 2-1 lead shortly after the hour mark.

In the dying seconds, however, the South Africans gave away a goal as Japan were handed the equaliser. ? Sapa

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/sa-hockey-men-lose-to-japan-1.1543111

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Deen parts with agent after racial slur fallout

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ? Paula Deen announced Thursday that she has cut business ties with the agent who helped make her a Food Network star and launch a media and merchandising empire that has largely crumbled in the wake of her admission that she used racial slurs in the past.

Deen had worked with New York agent Barry Weiner for more than a decade. She has said he was instrumental in getting her show "Paula's Home Cooking" on the Food Network in 2002. She gave no reason for her parting with Weiner in a prepared statement.

"Paula Deen has separated from her agent," Deen's spokeswoman, Elana Weiss, said in an email Thursday. "She and her family thank him for the tireless effort and dedication over the many years."

Deen's breakup with one of her key partners comes after a turbulent two weeks that have left the celebrity chef's network of business deals in shambles. It all started within days of the public disclosure of a legal deposition in which Deen admitted under oath to having used the N-word.

The Food Network passed on renewing Deen's contract and yanked her shows off the air. Smithfield Foods, the pork producer that paid Deen as a celebrity endorser, dropped her soon after. Retailers including Wal-Mart and Target said they'll no longer sell Deen's products and publisher Ballantine scuttled plans for her upcoming cookbook even though it was the No. 1 seller on Amazon. Even the diabetes drug company that made the much-criticized deal to hire Deen as a paid spokeswoman dumped her.

Weiner worked to turn Deen into a comfort-food queen since she was little more than a Savannah restaurant owner and self-publisher of cookbooks who earned raves for her fried chicken.

In her book "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin,'" Deen recalled meeting Weiner through TV producer Gordon Elliott, who was convinced they could turn her into a star.

"Barry and Gordon felt like there was a show somewhere inside this Paula character that could be very successful," Deen wrote. "They probably courted Food Network for two years trying to push me at them."

Deen also noted in her book: "Barry is affectionately known in my family as Barry Cuda. Perfect name for an agent."

Deen's business deals began falling apart after she was questioned under oath in May as part of a civil lawsuit filed last year by Lisa Jackson, a former manager of Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House, which Deen co-owns with her brother, Bubba Hiers. Jackson says she was sexually harassed and worked in an environment rife with racial slurs and innuendo.

Ultimately it was Deen's own words that proved damaging. Asked in her deposition if she had ever used the N-word, she replied: "Yes, of course." That she also insisted "it's been a very long time" seemed to matter little to the companies paying to use her name and image with their products. Neither were they swayed by Deen's apologies in online videos and in person with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer.

Forbes magazine last year ranked Deen as the fourth-highest-earning celebrity chef last year, figuring she had hauled in $17 million. Her company Paula Deen Enterprises generates total annual revenue of nearly $100 million, according to Burt Flickinger III, president of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group.

Deen cast no blame in her statement announcing her split with Weiner. It ended by saying, "Paula wishes him well in all future endeavors."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/deen-parts-agent-racial-slur-fallout-204408978.html

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