Haye eyes world title after Chisora victory - ESPN.co.uk
David Haye intends to challenge for the world heavyweight title following his fifth-round knockout of Dereck Chisora, calling out Vitali Klitschko after the fight.
Haye comfortably defeated Chisora on Saturday evening, sending his fierce rival to the canvas twice in quick succession. It was Haye's first fight since losing the WBA title to Wladimir Klitschko 12 months ago, and the Brit claims he is now ready to take back the belt.
"I've sent out a scary message to Vitali Klitschko and, to be honest, he may not want to fight me after seeing this performance," said Haye.
"I'm not going to make a rash decision but, yes, I would like to regain the heavyweight title and I would be very confident of beating Vitali."
The pair embraced after the bout at Upton Park, with Haye claiming the animosity between the boxers - which saw them brawl at a Munich press conference five months ago - is now a thing of the past.
"Any damage that was done by our altercation in Munich is well and truly fixed now. People said that was a black eye for boxing; well the bags have gone from boxing's eyes now.
"The crowd have gone home happy with a smile on their face. That's the bottom line.
"Whatever beef I had with Dereck before the fight is over now from my side and I hope it's vice versa. After sharing a ring with Dereck I have a new found respect for the man," Haye said.
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Game clean-up could cause mayhem - Football
Published: 14 Jul 2012 - 19:17:16
Professional Footballers' Association chairman Clarke Carlisle is prepared for a period of "mayhem" in football if it helps the game clean up its act in the wake of the John Terry court case.
Terry was acquitted of a racially aggravated public order offence by chief magistrate Howard Riddle at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday. But the case drew attention to the wider issue of players' contact to each other, with Ferdinand acknowledging in his evidence that aside from the racial aspect, the other terms of abuse are routinely exchanged between players on the pitch.
"I think generally there is a very high level of abusive language that goes on on the pitch and it just seems to be par for the course, but I don't agree that it should be that way," Carlisle said.
"In order to change it it would take a very strong line from the referees, a very strong line from the governing bodies and it would probably cause mayhem for the short-term period."
Terry could still face charges from within the game as the Football Association continue to investigate the incident.
An FA spokesman said after the verdict: "The FA notes the decision in the John Terry case and will now seek to conclude its own inquiries."
FIFA's Laws of the Game list "using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures" as a sending-off offence and, if their use is as widespread as suggested in Ferdinand's evidence, there would be fears of games regularly being abandoned due to teams dropping below seven players should each incident be punished in such a fashion.
Carlisle added on BBC Radio Five Live: "I think if we were to adopt a line of social responsibility, because sport is so influential, especially football that's watched by hundreds of millions on a weekly basis, it would create a short-term period of mayhem.
"But I think if players were being sent off and banned because of the language that they are using then it would cause them to address their behaviour and it would cause the clubs to come down on it too."
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Saudi Arabia condemns Russian comments on human rights - Reuters
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday condemned comments by Russia's human rights envoy on the situation in the kingdom as "hostile" and an unjustified interference in the kingdom's internal affairs, the Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported.
The rare public exchange appeared to reflect tensions over the 16-month-old uprising in Syria where Russia has resisted introduction of Western- and Arab-backed sanction against President Bashar al-Assad.
Russian Human Rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov had expressed "great concern" about the situation in eastern Saudi Arabia following what he described as clashes between law enforcement and peaceful demonstrators in which two people were killed and more than 20 were wounded, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry website.
The Saudi interior ministry has said there were no clashes but that two people were killed by unknown assailants last Sunday in the east, where the country's minority Muslim Shi'ite population is concentrated.
"The Kingdom learned with strong astonishment and surprise about the comment by the Russian Foreign Ministry's representative on human rights which represents a blatant and unjustified intervention ... in the internal affairs of the kingdom," SPA quoted a Foreign Ministry statement, attributed to an "official source", as saying.
The agency said the government of Saudi Arabia condemned such comments as "hostile".
"The kingdom hopes that this strange comment was not intended to divert attention from the savage and ugly massacres that the Syrian regime is practicing against its own people with support and backing from known parties that are obstructing any honest effort to end the bloodshed of the Syrian people."
Russia has blocked two U.N. Security Council moves to press Assad to end his crackdown. Saudi Arabia has been in the forefront of Arab countries backing the rebels.
Dolgov had said that people in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia were protesting "against the existing, according to their opinion, impairment of the rights of the Shi'ite community on the part of the authorities of the Kingdom".
Saudi Arabia had said that minor protests had taken place after the arrest of a cleric on charges of sedition, and after he and a group with him opened fire on police.
It said that two men who had been killed were shot dead by unknown assailants and an investigation into who killed them was underway.
(Reporting by Sami Aboudi; editing by Patrick Graham)
Paterno got sweetened deal as sex abuse probe unfolded: report - Reuters
(Reuters) - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno began trying to amend his contract in January 2011, the same month he learned that his former assistant coach was under criminal investigation for child sex abuse, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
By August 2011, university officials had reached an agreement with Paterno to reward him with a $3 million bonus if he retired at the end of the 2011 season, one season short of his existing contract, which would have expired at the end of 2012, according to the newspaper.
A Penn State spokesman said the contract was set to expire at the end of the 2011 football season, not at the end of 2012 as the Times said. He declined further comment on the Times story.
The university's full board of trustees did not learn of the agreement until November 5, 2011, when the former coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with molesting several young boys over the course of more than a decade, at times on university grounds.
A spokeswoman for the Paterno family had no immediate comment on the New York Times report.
Last month, Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse and child endangerment, and is facing life in prison when he is sentenced this autumn. His lawyers have indicated they will file an appeal of the conviction.
After Sandusky's arrest, the university fired Paterno, who had won more games than anyone in major college football history. Paterno died of lung cancer in January 2011, five months before the verdict against his longtime assistant coach was delivered.
Once they learned of the arrangement university officials had reached with Paterno, a divided Penn State board of trustees reportedly debated whether it would be "unseemly" to pay the veteran coach. The university ultimately paid everything the agreement required in April, a package worth roughly $5.5 million, according to the newspaper.
On Thursday, former FBI Director Louis Freeh released scathing conclusions of an eight-month investigation into the university's handling of the Sandusky affair. His report found that the Penn State leadership, including Paterno, failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children Sandusky victimized.
Freeh blamed Paterno and other university officials for working together on a cover-up that began as early as 1998, when university police investigated allegations of abuse but let Sandusky off with a warning.
"In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at Penn State University ... repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse," Freeh said, adding that bad publicity would have upset donors and damaged the Penn State brand.
(Reporting By Chris Francescani; Editing by Greg McCune, Cynthia Johnston and Philip Barbara)
RSS leaders questioned - The Hindu
: The special team investigating the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan on Friday questioned three leaders of the Rashtriya Sweyamsevak Sangh (RSS) from Panur, Kannur district, in connection with the case.
The RSS leaders, Santhosh Poilour, Rajeevan Vilakottur and K.C. Rameshan, were summoned by the team at the Vadakara camp office to collect details about a minor scuffle they had with the prime accused N.K. Sunil Kumar alias Kodi Suni and his gang members at Chokli town in Kannur at 3 p.m. on May 4.
The incident, which happened on the same day Chandrasekharan was killed, was also reported to the Panur Circle Inspector Jayan Dominic at 6 p.m. The RMP leader was hacked to death by the gang at Onchiyam at around 10.15 p.m.
The RSS leaders told interrogators that Kodi Suni and his gang, who were travelling in a multi utility vehicle, had blocked them and threatened them with dire consequences after flashing swords in their possession.
The three were on their way to attend a marriage function, they said.
The police said the special team had identified the vehicle used by the assailants after checking the details provided by the RSS leader at the Panur police station. But investigators had not taken their statements earlier. So this was taken on Friday as part of the investigation, they said.
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