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Yahoo
09-08-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Doctor suspended for harassing married colleague
A doctor who sent hundreds of personal messages to a married colleague and manipulated patient waiting lists in order to work closer to him has been suspended. Rebecca Alia Lobo "harassed" a consultant – known as Dr A – at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, according the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. On one occasion the Ipswich-based medic sent Dr A 130 text messages over two days after he refused gifts in the form of a leather bag and her childhood doll. Following a misconduct hearing a panel determined that Ms Lobo's conduct amounted to harassment and suspended her for an initial six months before a review. "Your fitness to practise is impaired because of your misconduct," the report read. The panel heard how Ms Lobo accessed the medical records of Dr A and his wife - known as Dr B - who is a specialty doctor, without justification. Ms Lobo sent Dr A more than 275 WhatsApp messages about personal matters and her private life, insisting the two communicate in Dr A's language of birth. Ms Lobo also sent him photos, initiated shift swaps so they could work together, offered to work shifts without payment and followed him around the department. In order to be close to Dr A, she would visit wards where he was working even when she was not required to do so and repeatedly requested work meetings with him, the report found. She would also stare at Dr B for prolonged periods of time. In March 2024, whilst no longer employed by the trust, she looked through the outside window into a consultants' room where she knew Dr A worked. "Your conduct amounted to harassment when you knew, or ought to have known, that your conduct amounted to harassment," the report added. The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirmed to the BBC that Ms Lobo no longer works for the trust and, therefore, would not comment. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Related internet links Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
WNBA Legend Rebecca Lobo Names Her Favorite All-Star Moment Without Hesitation
WNBA Legend Rebecca Lobo Names Her Favorite All-Star Moment Without Hesitation originally appeared on Athlon Sports. For Rebecca Lobo, the best part of the 2025 WNBA All-Star Weekend wasn't a highlight-reel play or a buzzer-beating shot. It was something more meaningful. 'My favorite part of All-Star weekend was the way the vets looked out for the rookies,' the Hall of Famer said. 'Sabrina splitting her 3-point contest winnings with Sonia Citron, Stewie passing the ball to Kiki Iriafen (on the opposing team) for a late 3. They looked out for the rooks, and I loved it.' Lobo's comment came in the wake of one of the most memorable WNBA All-Star Weekends in recent memory, highlighted by Sabrina Ionescu's redemption performance in the 3-point contest. After falling short to Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry during the 2024 NBA-WNBA crossover shootout in Indianapolis, Ionescu returned to the same city and dominated the field to claim her second WNBA 3-point title. She dropped 30 points in the final round to beat the Atlanta Dream's Allisha Gray, becoming only the second player in league history to win the contest more than once (Allie Quigley, 4). But what really won over fans, and Lobo, was what Ionescu did after the contest. True to a promise she made while sitting on the bench, Ionescu pledged to give half her prize money to rookie Citron, 21, who bravely competed in the contest as the youngest participant. 'I told Sonia that I would give her half if I won,' Ionescu said. 'It takes a lot of courage to do that as a rookie, and I was really proud of her.' Thanks to that promise, Citron walked away $31,000 richer. For Lobo, that act of generosity and mentorship perfectly captured what All-Star Weekend is all about: veterans lifting the next generation. This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 20, 2025, where it first appeared.
Washington Post
17-07-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
WNBA officiating is no longer an annoyance. It's a threat to the game.
The WNBA should change its logo to a bruise. Forget that little silhouette of a woman rising for a shot; just use Caitlin Clark's arm or a leg with a purple discoloration. It's more fitting. Or Kelsey Plum's. Or Napheesa Collier's. Also, the league's motto ought to be, 'No call.' The chronically lousy, second-rate officiating has led to such a hard-play uglification of the game that it has become the storyline of the season. Clark is out again because of another groin injury, possibly aggravated after taking a knee in the abdomen from Jacy Sheldon of the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night. No call. Or perhaps she's out because of the hooking and hammering she took from the Dallas Wings a couple of nights earlier. No call. Either way, she's uncertain for the WNBA All Star Game. So is Angel Reese, another casualty of this kickboxing league. Since the refs can't or won't make the calls, it was left to Rebecca Lobo and her broadcast partner Ryan Ruocco, who called it out themselves on ABC the other night during a replay that showed Dallas guard JJ Quinerly repeatedly going all karate on Clark, with no whistle. 'There's a grab; there's a hold; there's a grab. I mean, all of those are fouls,' an aggravated Lobo said, as Clark simply tried to dribble on the perimeter. 'Every single one of them. That's a foul; that's a foul …' The surest way to kill the league's popularity and halt its commercial momentum is to put its star players in ice packs and traction. Yet that's what is happening as the All Star break approaches. According to kinesiologist and blogger Dr. Lucas Seehafer, who studies the health of the league, players have suffered 141 injuries since opening day. There are just 179 active players in the league, and teams play just 44 games apiece. That's some ugly math for Commissioner Cathy Englebert, who is demonstrating all the firmness of a silk dress in meeting this problem — and it will remain a problem, potentially even a dangerous one, until she picks up the phone and demands officials blow whistles at a higher rate. We're not just talking wrists and ankles, here. By Seehafer's count, there have been 57 head and neck injuries in the past two and a half seasons. Nor is Clark the only star player and All Star-playoff linchpin who has missed significant time. So have Collier, Jonquel Jones, Sabrina Ionescu, A'ja Wilson, Alyssa Thomas, Rhyne Howard and Kahleah Copper, among others. This is not a woman's league problem. It's an officiating problem. As Indiana Fever Coach Stephanie White rightly pointed out this week, when refs allow unusually rough play it doesn't just cause direct injuries but indirect ones. 'It causes you to load differently, it causes you to explode differently, it causes you to accelerate and decelerate differently,' she said. '… I think all of those things at times, while it might not be one blow or another, over time can contribute to [injury] … So can you point it out to one thing or another? No, but I do think the physicality with which teams are able to play with her is a factor.' The refs are particularly guilty of letting star guards get mauled. Great guards start the action, set the tempo, create the open spaces on the floor where things happen. They can't do it when they're slashed, decked and clobbered. It's not fans' imagination that Clark is especially targeted. But so are others. Seehafer's injury tracker shows that backcourt players have suffered more than 100 more injuries than frontcourt players — and not because they're rolling ankles. In mid-June, Kelsey Plum, the all-star guard for the Los Angeles Sparks, lost it in a profane, irate rant after she was continually roughed up by the Golden State Valkyries, only for refs to call just three fouls in 40 minutes against defenders. 'I got scratches on my face; I got scratches on my body,' she said '… I get fouled like that on every possession … There are multiple shots at the end of the game, either going into the third, into the fourth, where they're just coming out and just f---ing swinging, and they just don't call anything. … I'm playing 40 minutes, touching the paint on almost every play. It's absurd. It's absurd. 'So I'm saying I'll get fined for that, and that's fine, but I mean … they're fouling the s--- out of me every single play. I'm very frustrated with that, and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I don't know what I need to do. I've talked to the refs nice; I pray before the game. Like, f---, I'm over it.' Why should a great player have to sound so desperate for relief? Poor officiating hurts players, hurts the league, and hurts fans. It is destroying the rhythm of the game and distorting the title chase, turning it into a game of who can withstand the most body blows to their roster. Audiences did not come to the WNBA in record numbers to watch that. They came to see skilled, collaborative play — the kind the Fever, led by Clark, exemplify. On Tuesday night before a sellout crowd at the Boston Garden against the Connecticut Sun, the Fever had 22 assists on 29 baskets, and Clark accounted for 11 points in less than four minutes of the fourth quarter. Then she got hurt, robbing the audience yet again. If the WNBA commissioner allows roughhousing to be the brand, she will squander all the peak acceleration and lift that Clark has brought to the league, on the floor and off. 'It's not the free-flowing movement that we want to see,' White remarked. No, it's not. If audiences want to watch ultimate fighting, they will go elsewhere.
Fox News
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
WNBA legend needles refs for lack of foul calls on Caitlin Clark opponents
WNBA legend Rebecca Lobo took the referees in the Indiana Fever's game against the Dallas Wings to task on Sunday after they missed clear fouls against Caitlin Clark. In the first quarter, Clark was being guarded closely and well out from beyond the 3-point line. Lobo specifically pointed to two sequences in which Wings guard J.J. Quinerly was guarding Clark. "There's a grab, there's a hold, there's another grab. I mean, all of those are fouls. Every single one of them," Lobo said during the ESPN broadcast. "And then here – that's a foul, that's foul …" The physicality against Clark has been debated across the WNBA since she entered the league in 2024. Clark had a ruptured eardrum and got poked in the eye during her rookie year. This season, she was in a scuffle with Connecticut Sun players after some hard shots. Clark has dealt with injuries over the course of the 2025 season. Sunday's game against the Wings was only her 12th appearance of the year. She finished with 14 points, 13 assists and five steals in 25 minutes against the Wings. Clark was 4-of-12 from the field and 2-of-7 from 3-point range. "I thought my playmaking was really good, there was no reason for me to shoot that much," Clark said. "When we have five people in double figures, we're going to be pretty hard to beat. We were just kind of clicking on all cylinders, moving the ball well, getting to the next action." Indiana picked up the victory, 102-83. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Fox News
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
ESPN commentator apologizes for saying 'That's what makes America great' during awkward WNBA broadcast moment
An awkward on-air silence occurred during ESPN's broadcast of the Indiana Fever-Las Vegas Aces game on Sunday after analyst Rebecca Lobo said, "That's what makes America great." Lobo's comment was in reference to saying she disagreed with officials making a foul call in the final minute of the Aces' 89-81 win over the Fever. "They disagree with you," play-by-play announcer Pam Ward said to her partner Lobo. "They do, and I disagree with them," Lobo responded. "And that's fine. That's what makes America great, right Pam Ward?" After asking that question, there was a long silence between the two before Lobo said, "I should rephrase that," to which Ward responded, "Yes." Ward, then, suggested Lobo say "difference of opinion," which she agreed. She even said "sorry about that" before continuing to call the game. The Caitlin Clark-led Fever were down for the second straight game, as the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year struggled shooting from the three-point line yet again. After going 0-for-7 in the loss to the Golden State Valkyries last Thursday, Clark was just 1-for-10 in Las Vegas. While she could not find the stroke from long range, the Aces came back in the fourth quarter to beat the Fever, who led through the first three periods of the game. Clark went 7-of-20 from the field with four made free throws for a total of 19 points. Meanwhile, three-time league MVP A'ja Wilson and her 24 points for the game started taking over on their home court in crunch time. Teamed up with Jackie Young (19 points, seven rebounds, five assists, three steals) and Chelsea Gray (18 points, three rebounds, three assists), Wilson and the Aces outscored the Fever 31-20 in the fourth quarter to run away with the victory. While Clark was struggling with her jumper in this game, the Fever were seeing great contributions from the game's leading scorer, Aliyah Boston, who had 26 points on 12-of-19 shooting, and Kelsey Mitchell, who had a big chunk of her 20 points in the fourth quarter to keep Indiana in the game. However, after Mitchell's three-pointer tied things at 69 apiece with five minutes to play, the Aces strapped in and started to pull away, thanks to some key baskets from Young, Wilson and Gray. The West Coast schedule continues for the Fever with a final game against the Seattle Storm on Tuesday before heading back home. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
