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Daily Mirror
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Oleksandr Usyk names only fighter he dislikes ahead of Daniel Dubois rematch
Over the years, the Ukrainian has been very respectful to his opponents, but there is one former rival that completely rubbed him the wrong way Oleksandr Usyk has revealed former world champion Marco Huck is the only one of his former opponents he does not like. The Ukrainian heavyweight is gearing up for a rematch with Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night, aiming to repeat to score a second win over the Brit - after knocking out 'Triple D' in the ninth round in 2023 - and put an end to their rivalry. Despite nearing the end of his boxing career and contemplating retirement after two more fights, Usyk's passion for the sport remains the same. Known for his sportsmanship, Usyk typically avoids trash talk and demonstrates respect for his opponents, often seen shaking hands and showing his class both in and outside the ring. However, there is one individual who completely rubbed him the wrong way. Speaking to DAZN, Usyk expressed his dislike for Huck, stating: "My weakness? I love people. I love my opponents. Only one of my opponents I do not love It's Marco Huck. He is a bad guy because this man said bad words about my mother. Listen, it is bad, but all my British rivals, they are great people." The pair fought back in 2017 in the quarter-finals of the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight tournament. At the time, Usyk was the WBO champion at 200lbs. Ahead of their blockbuster showdown at the Max-Schmelling-Halle in Berlin, Germany, the Ukrainian came across as rattled on several occasions, reports All Out Fighting. During their final face-off, Huck pushed Usyk, who later shouted: "I will bury him on Saturday," as he was ushered out of the venue. This came after Huck had launched a series of personal attacks, including shocking remarks about Usyk's mother. On the night of the fight, Huck started aggressively but was ultimately stopped in the 10th round. Usyk went on to win the tournament by beating Murat Gassiev in the final. Watch Usyk vs Dubois 2 live on DAZN This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more £24.99 DAZN Order the fight here Product Description Fast forward eight years, and Usyk is still dominating the boxing scene. He's gearing up for a fight against Dubois, with the chance to become a three-time undisputed champion. Despite their competitive edge, Usyk has expressed respect for Dubois, saying: "Daniel is a good athlete and a boxer. He has good skills Daniel... last three fights, he had great wins in Filip Hrgovic, Jarrell Miller and Anthony Joshua. I think he is a great fighter." With just a few days to go until fight night, the pair are in the final stages of preparations for the clash. Usyk will be desperate once again to put to bed any doubt and truly settle the rivalry once and for all. When asked for his official prediction, the Ukrainian replied: "I win... wonderful." When is Oleksandr Usyk vs Daniel Dubois? The second bout between Usyk and Dubois is scheduled for Saturday, 19 July, at Wembley Stadium. The fight will be exclusively broadcast live on DAZN PPV. The entire fight card for the night can be accessed live on DAZN PPV, priced at £24.99 in the UK; $59.99 in the US; and $19.99/equivalent in ROW. The DAZN coverage is set to kick off around 5:30pm BST (12.30pm ET / 9.30am PT), with the first undercard fight expected to start at approximately 5.40pm BST (12.40pm ET / 9.40am PT). Usyk and Dubois are anticipated to make their ringwalks at 9:45pm BST (4:45pm ET / 1:45pm PT).
Daily Mirror
26-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
Gardeners urged to hang one household scrap to stop chaotic pest from entering
If your garden is being held ransom by meddlesome magpies then look no further than this easy expert tip which will help ward these pesky birds away from your home If your home is being terrorised by nefarious magpies swooping in and nabbing your belongings then experts recommend hanging this one easy-to-find item to keep them at bay. Known for their cunning, thievery, and their devouring of the eggs and young of innocent garden birds, magpies have earned themselves a fearsome reputation across the UK. In some cases when threatened, they are even known to swoop down on unsuspecting humans and peck their necks. Worse still, they can be a nightmare for gardeners. They like to eat fruits and vegetables, dig up plants and pull out nest boxes. More than making the mess, this can also cause a lot of noise. They are even known to be massive bullies in the bird world. This is because they harass robins and other songbirds, deterring them from your garden. Unsurprisingly, even many bird enthusiasts view them as invasive pests. In hopes to get rid of them, it's popular to lay out traps and even poison in the hopes of culling their numbers. However, it's important to bear in mind that magpies fall under the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), which was designed to protect Britain's wildlife from deliberate harm under penalty of the law. This means it is illegal to move, damage, or destroy the nest or egg of any wild bird, regardless of whether the nest is in the process of being built or whether it is already finished. Therefore, if magpies have nested themselves in your garden, you can't take forceful measures to remove them. But, before you throw your hands up in frustration, there is a solution. While you can't kill or harm magpies, you can still discourage them from making an unwanted visit. According to experts, there is a safe way to repel these pesky trouble-makers from your home. All it involves is using reflective objects. According to wildlife experts from Huck: 'Magpies are startled by light reflections, and this can be an effective method in helping to keep them out of your garden.' They continue: 'There are a couple of ways that you can do this. Firstly, old CDs are great at catching and reflecting light, so if you have any, hang them up around your garden at intervals.' If you haven't got any old CDs lying around, they recommend you buy bird tape either online or from your local garden centre. Bird tape is a kind of reflective tape that you can affix to certain areas of the garden and which has a similar effect to old CDs.
The Guardian
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow review – the story of America's first literary celebrity, from the author of Hamilton
In his lifetime, Mark Twain was the greatest literary celebrity the world had ever known. In the US, he hobnobbed with presidents; on his many travels, he would dine privately with the German kaiser, the Austrian emperor, or the Prince of Wales. Visiting England to collect an honorary degree from Oxford University, he was cheered off his ship by the stevedores of the London docks, before making his way to Windsor Castle for tea with the king and queen. He was the bracing, irreverently humorous voice of America. Like Charles Dickens, whom he heard read from his own work in New York, he became a performer as well as an author. In London he was feted when he read passages from his travelogue of the Wild West, Roughing It. Everyone loved the 'twang of his drawl'. He went on to take his work in progress, Huckleberry Finn, round more than 100 American towns and cities, earning handsomely. His pre-fame life, as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, formed the inspiration for much of his work. He spent most of his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi, and delighted in the river: fishing and swimming and exploring its islands. Aged just 11, he became a printer's apprentice at the Missouri Courier, giving him the skills of a journeyman typesetter and allowing him to earn a reliable living. At 21, he befriended a young river pilot, Horace Bixby, who schooled him on the 1,200 miles of shifting channels of the lower Mississippi, between St Louis and New Orleans. At 23, he received his licence as a steamboat pilot for that stretch of the river. His experiences would form the basis for his wonderfully readable Life on the Mississippi and his masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn. The river was even there in his pseudonym, which he first adopted in newspaper articles in his late 20s. 'Mark twain' was the cry of a leadsman, who sounded the water with a rope and a weight and confirmed that the river was a safe two fathoms deep. In his early 30s he went on a trip with American tourists to Europe and the Middle East, simply in order to get copy for The Innocents Abroad, an often hilarious travelogue. It was 'the rocket that lifted Mark Twain to literary stardom'. (It remained the best-selling book of his lifetime.) That stardom was cemented by Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884. Ron Chernow, who is best known for the biography of Alexander Hamilton, on which the musical was based, rightly says that having the unlettered, 14-year-old Huck narrate the story meant it became one of the great demonstrations of 'how expressive colloquial language could be'. There had been nothing like Huck's deadpan humour, not least in his depiction of his monstrous, drunken, deeply racist father. Yet, as Chernow notes, the novel seems to have become almost unteachable in American schools and universities (he might have added, in British universities too). Huck grew up, like the author, in Missouri, a slave state. As he describes his adventures with the escaped slave, Jim, he uses the N-word some 200 times. This now presents 'an almost insuperable problem for educators'. Twain never became as enlightened as Chernow – who often apologises for him – would wish. Almost all his best books have something disturbing in them. The illustrations accompanying Life on the Mississippi stereotype Black people and Jewish tradesman in ways that would make any reader flinch from this brilliantly written book. It is not just his attitudes to race that need explaining. In his 70s he cultivated – mostly by letter – relations with girls he dubbed his 'angelfish': 'I collect pets: young girls from ten to sixteen years old who are pretty and sweet and naive and innocent.' Chernow hopes that, if not innocent, the preoccupation at least led nowhere. Hamilton aside, Chernow has specialised in stories of American capitalism, including an account of the Morgan banking dynasty and a life of the oil plutocrat John D Rockefeller. His financial savvy is essential to this biography, and he shows how the highest earning American writer of the 19th century spent much of his life oppressed by money worries. The son of a feckless and often financially desperate father, keeping afloat was at the forefront of his mind. He was drawn to get-rich-quick schemes, and always being conned. He invested and lost huge amounts (millions in today's money) in a series of mad projects, often involving new technology. As well as losing the money that he had earned, he managed to burn through much of his wife's inheritance (his wife Olivia, known as Livy, was the daughter of Jervis Langdon, a wealthy colliery owner and coal dealer). Convinced that publishers were villainous, Twain started his own house, which duly bankrupted him and sent him, aged 60, on a speaking tour round the world, via Australia, India and South Africa, in an attempt to pay off his massive debts. He also cranked out potboilers like Tom Sawyer, Detective. By his mid-60s, he had cleared those debts – only to lose further huge sums developing a 'miraculous' health food product known as Plasmon. The other great theme of this book is illness. Twain's and Livy's son had died of diphtheria as an infant. Their eldest daughter, Susy, was withdrawn from Bryn Mawr College (possibly to 'save' her from a lesbian infatuation with a fellow student) and withdrew into lassitude, before dying of meningitis in her mid-20s. Chernow exhaustively chronicles the family's further ailments: Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, was epileptic, a source of shame as well as anxiety to her father. A witty sceptic about the medical profession, he was susceptible to every form of quackery in pursuit of a 'cure'. Livy spent years ill and isolated before her death in 1904, after which Twain relied more and more on Isabel Lyon, a bookish middle-aged woman who called him 'the King'. Chernow says that she was his 'de facto mistress (minus the romance)'. This is a huge book – well over 1,000 pages – because there is so much to go on. As well as thousands of Twain's letters, there are 50 volumes of notebooks and half a million words of an autobiography, dictated to a stenographer in his last years. There are copious records of Twain's lectures, as well as transcripts of interviews: he was interviewed more often than any other writer of his generation. It was as if he was trying to supply future biographers with material. When he quarrelled with his closest financial advisers in old age, he compiled an obsessively detailed, furious account of how he had been wronged. He even left posterity a detailed record of his dreams. Chernow makes out of all this an admirably animated, readable account of one of the modern world's first celebrities. Somewhere deep inside it, almost hidden, glows the energy and humour of Twain's very American prose. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow is published by Allen Lane (£40). To support the Guardian order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
Wall Street Journal
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
TV Before Cable Was a Barren Landscape. It Was Also Magical.
Cable TV came late to my town. This had something to do with my father, Herb Cohen, who, on the heels of the success of his book 'You Can Negotiate Anything,' was asked to represent a group of suburban Chicago villages in a deal with a prospective cable company. The arrangement went punk, and we suffered another half-decade of limited viewing options. My father claims this had in fact been his intention. By blowing the deal, he provided the kids of Glencoe, Ill., with a last taste of the old woods-and-creeks centered American childhood. As I've aged, with so many hours spent urging my own kids to turn off the TV, step away from the gaming console and venture beneath the sugar maples, I have come to see that my father was right. The coming of cable meant not only the arrival of a hundred channels but the end of those aimless days when we floated like Huck and Jim. It also brought an end to the odd beauty of broadcast TV.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
EXCLUSIVE: Kourtney Kardashian Barker's Lemme Is the Latest Brand Aiming to Make Fiber Cool
If anyone can make fiber cool, it might just be Kourtney Kardashian Barker. Today, Kardashian Barker's supplement brand Lemme is launching its Lemme No. 2 for $30, a daily fiber and probiotic strawberry-flavored gummy to boost regularity, support overall gut health and fill nutrient gaps. Lemme No. 2 is the brand's latest addition to its gut health offering, which includes bestsellers like Lemme Debloat, $30. To start, it will be available exclusively on More from WWD EXCLUSIVE: Assouline and Technogym Team on 'The Art of Wellness' Coffee-table Book Tate McRae Gets 'Pierced' in Grace Ling Set for 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' Performance Amanda Seyfried Puts Sparkling Spin on Suiting for 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,' Talks Sabrina Carpenter in 'Mamma Mia! 3' According to the National Institute of Health, only 5 percent of people reach the daily suggested amount of fiber — about 25 grams for women and 38 grams for men, ages 19 to 50. Insufficient fiber can cause constipation, bloating and gas, as well as have longer-term effects such as high cholesterol. 'Research tells us most of the general population is fiber deficient with wide-reaching implications. That's why Lemme No. 2 is formulated with 4 grams of non-GMO prebiotic fiber per serving, plus 2 clinically studied probiotics — scientifically shown to support regularity, digestive health and good gut bacteria,' said Leona West-Fox, functional nutritionist and Lemme medical advisory board member. Lemme cofounder Simon Huck added: 'When we think about fiber, we immediately go to regularity, but there are so many other things in your body, like metabolic function, overall digestion, bloating [and] hormone balance. Everything in your body is rooted from fiber.' The formula includes vitamin D, another nutrient that many are deficient in, which can boost immunity, support bone health and promote a healthy gut microbiome. Over the past couple of years, more brands have been jumping into the fiber game to meet this growing consumer need and refresh the category. According to Nielsen IQ, fiber supplements overall exceeded $188 million in omnichannel sales in a year, having grown 25 percent from the previous period — the most popular format within the category sales- and units-wise is gummies. Lemme is the latest brand to bet on the growing market. 'Fiber is the moment,' said Lemme cofounder Simon Huck. 'It's a category that we have been so interested in for the last two years. It's, again, one of those products that is constantly requested from us.' The product has been in development for a year-and-a-half, according to Huck, who noted the process was quite long given they formulated without sugar. This launch follows Lemme's latest retail expansion into iHerb, which has allowed the brand to expand its reach. 'Part of the challenge was, we want to launch in all sorts of different places, but it takes a lot of resources,' Huck said. '[iHerb] ships to almost every single country in the world.' Within two days of launching on the platform, 60 percent of Lemme's products were already sold out, according to Huck. As far as what's next, Lemme has a full pipeline of products in 2025, including a launch into a brand new category.
