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Michael Chandler has insisted that he didn’t break any rules during his controversial defeat to Charles Oliveira earlier this month. The lightweight stars rematched at Madison Square Garden in the co-main event of UFC 309 , with Oliveira coming out on top after a five round battle. There was no issue with the decision, but Chandler’s late onslaught saw him throw a number of elbows that were believed to be illegal. At one point the former Bellator champion managed to drop Oliveira towards the end of the fight, and it was widely believed that the shots he threw after the fact were not allowed. However, he reckons referee Keith Peterson was right not to call it, and defended his actions. Who is Michael Chandler? Meet the iconic lightweight MMA fighter with a flare for the dramatic Charles Oliveira claimed Michael Chandler threw illegal elbows at UFC 309 In the immediate aftermath of their five-round rematch, Charles Oliveira and Michael Chandler appeared to be respectful of one another. They earned fight of the night bonuses that added $50,000 to their fight purses, and were positive in their post-fight comments. However, Oliveira did have one critique, declaring that Chandler had used a number of illegal tactics in order to gain an advantage. Aside from the back of the head shots, he also reckoned the American broke other rules. “You know, I’m not here to criticize,” Oliveira told the media on fight night after his victory. “But I want to tell you something, there were a lot of blows to the back of the head, a lot of fence grabbing, there was also some eye-pokes. “And I was telling him [the referee] what was going on. I kept calling for his attention and nothing would happen. I’d hoped that he would intervene, but nothing happened, so I’m not here to criticize.” UFC fighters believe Michael Chandler cheated in Charles Oliveira fight The incident was not the first time Chandler has been accused of being a dirty fighter, with Dustin Poirier infamously declaring he had used illegal tactics in their 2022 meeting. And a number of UFC stars who were watching on the night noticed his cheeky efforts, and took to social media with their opinions. Featherweight contender Sodiq Yusuff wrote in a sarcastic message: “If Chandler ain’t cheating he ain’t trying,” before adding a few minutes later: “Wow what a crazy twist. 56 shots to the back of the head but hey.” Billy Quarantillo, who also competes at 145lb, then joked that “Chandler was losing 4 rounds so Keith let him land all the back of the head shots.” Jessica Penne then asked her followers “Are we not calling strikes to the back of the head anymore?” Michael Chandler defends himself against cheating allegations However, Michael Chandler has staunchly defended himself against accusations of cheating. During an appearance tonight on The Ariel Helwani Show , he promised that he was within the rules, noting that Peterson not stepping in was a sign he was legally elbowing. “Watching it on TV wasn’t as appealing to me,” he said. “The commentary, when it comes to some of the stuff they were saying; the misinterpretation of what the back of the head is by the unified rules of Mixed Martial Arts. “The misinterpretation of what cage grapping is, and a couple of different things, it’s all water under the bridge at this point. But more than anything I’m an honest guy, I try to live pretty full of integrity and full of honesty and the narrative that has been painted is not very interesting to me. “I’m not very happy about it, but that’s all part of it... I’m not going to say I didn’t do anything wrong, okay? I’m not going to say that people couldn’t look at it and splice it and look at it under a fine tooth comb and a magnifying glass. “But the unified rules of Mixed Martial Arts say that there is a line drawn from the crown of the head down to the back of the head, one inch variance on either side. So you’re talking about a two-inch area on the back of someone’s head that is considered the back of the head. “If you watch 90 per cent of the shots, at least, most of them, almost all of them, my fist was catching the ear. If you’re catching the ear, that’s not the back of the head. Actually, what you and I would call the back of the head is not the actual definition of what it is. “A referee who was within two feet away never said one thing about it. Then you’ve got commentators who were 35-feet away saying it’s the back of the head and you’ve got other people saying it was back of the head. “If a a referee was saying ‘watch the back of the head,’ or ‘that is the back of the head’ then I’d understand.” Who is Dana White? All you need to know about the CEO and President of the UFCUK ready for ‘all eventualities’ if Trump launches trade war, says Reynolds�K�i&���B4�G6���s�JJHMWD��'jÑGVV1k[+��=؃���˙I/*�Q��h�/Z�;�lh�IwlN 。

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Real Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga was injured and substituted off in the second half of his team's 2-0 loss to Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday. The France international pulled up sharply as he chased the ball and fell to ground, holding the back of his left leg after appearing to hurt his hamstring. He was briefly treated by Madrid's medical staff before instructions were sent to the bench to bring on a replacement and Dani Ceballos came on as a substitute in the 57th minute at Anfield. Camavinga was able to walk off the field but limped as he made his way to the locker room. The 22-year-old Camavinga sustained knee injuries last season that ruled him out for long periods of the campaign. The loss left Madrid in danger of being eliminated at the first phase of the new-look Champions League. The defending champion is 24th in the standings, which is the last playoff spot for the round of 16, with the top eight advancing automatically. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

Vernon Maxwell believes his Rockets would beat MJ and the Bulls in the Finals: "We were going to beat their a**"When Seuk Kim took off from Maryland last weekend with three small dogs aboard his plane, it was the latest of many volunteer flights he had made to rescue animals in need. After realizing a childhood dream of becoming a pilot, Kim transported cats and dogs from disaster areas, overcrowded shelters and other misfortunes — including a dog trapped for days in a shipping container — to rescue groups. He lined up other aviators to do the same. But Sunday's flight to New York was his last. Kim's 1986 Mooney M20J crashed in the snowy woods of the Catskill Mountains, killing the 49-year-old pilot and one of the dogs, authorities said. The other two pups survived and were recovering Tuesday. “There are very few people like Seuk in this world. He has no ulterior motives. He never needed recognition,” said Sydney Galley, a fellow rescue flight volunteer. “He just wanted to help.” RELATED STORY | 'Need all the help I can get': Hurricane-related IV shortage landed woman in hospital for 6 weeks Whiskey — a 4-month-old Labrador-mix puppy who was found huddled in the snow with two broken legs — was doing well while awaiting surgery at Pieper Memorial Veterinary emergency and specialty hospital in Middletown, Connecticut. Videos showed the tawny pup getting belly rubs, licking a staffer’s face and, later, calmly looking around while having a leg bandage changed. The other surviving dog, an 18-month-old Yorkshire terrier mix called Pluto, was found Monday with minor injuries. By Tuesday, Pluto was at the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley, the New York organization that had been set to receive all three dogs. The third was a 5-pound (2.3-kg) puppy named Lisa, Galley said. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that the aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances in mountainous terrain. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the crash site. Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky has said visibility was poor Sunday and that Kim sought permission to change his altitude because of turbulence before the plane went down in early evening. Galley said the aircraft — Kim's third plane, purchased in recent months — was equipped with technology to help locate it in an emergency. Still, it took authorities until about midnight Sunday to find the aircraft, which was in about a foot of snow a couple of miles from the nearest road, the sheriff said. Kim lived with his wife and their three children in Springfield, Virginia. Originally from South Korea, he “came to this country with little but a dream, and through hard work and perseverance, he built a life of meaning and generosity,” cousin Christine Kim said in a Facebook message. “Witty, spontaneous, and full of boundless generosity,” he combined a caring heart with a sense of adventure, the Kim family said in an online obituary. RELATED STORY | 'Need all the help I can get': Hurricane-related IV shortage landed woman in hospital for 6 weeks Seuk Kim had worked in fields including public relations and marketing. His family said he had pastimes including cooking and following baseball, but he had long aspired to fly. He eventually made that wish come true, and Galley said Kim recently told friends that he had landed a job with a charter flight company. “He was on top of the world,” she said. Kim started flying rescue dogs about four years ago and became a dedicated volunteer who handled as many as three flights a week and helped line up other pilots, Galley said. Unfazed by huge dogs, cats that other pilots didn't want to fly, or animal potty accidents, he responded to virtually any request with a smile and “sure, I can do that,” she recalled. Earlier this year, he flew “Connie the container dog,” the canine found in a shipping container at the Port of Houston, according to Galley and to a post on his memorial website. After Hurricane Helene struck parts of the Southeast this fall, Kim helped fly planeloads of generators and other supplies to hard-hit western North Carolina and even acquired a pickup truck to drive in hay for farms, Galley recalled. Penny Edwards of Forever Changed Animal Rescue, one of the groups Kim helped with Helene response, called him “a huge asset to not just us but the entire rescue community.” “Our hearts are shattered,” she wrote in an email Tuesday. Maggie Jackman Pryor, the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley’s executive director, said Kim helped save hundreds of animals over the years. Among them were a dog and her five puppies that he flew in October to Cathy West of Kuddles & Kisses K9 Rescue in Baltimore. The mixed-breed dog had been on a list to be euthanized at an overfilled shelter in Tennessee, West said. “He was so involved in trying to get the word out to volunteer, to other pilots — that this is a good thing to save these dogs so that they don’t die in shelters,” she said. On Sunday, Galley said, Kim picked up four dogs at a Virginia airport where her husband had just transported them from Georgia. After excitedly telling her husband about his new charter-plane job, Kim took off, dropped a big dog at a small airport in Maryland, and headed on with the rest toward Albany, New York. She imagines that he apologized to his canine passengers as the plane went down. “He always,” she said, “put everybody ahead of himself.”

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It was the most reliable car he had ever driven — that's how Kris Trexler remembered his General Motors EV1. "It was just a car that I took home, plugged in at night, got up the next morning — it was like having a gasoline station in the garage," he told NPR Member station Michigan Public in 2010. Trexler was one of the hundreds of people who got to drive an EV1 — the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle from a major automaker. The little two-door car looked like a cross between a flying saucer and a computer mouse, and it pioneered technology you can still find in today's EVs. GM built just over 1,000 EV1s before ending production in 1999, spawning a community of passionate super fans eager to join the EV revolution. But the EV1 was controversial, and short-lived. It was on the road for less than a decade. Many Americans never knew the EV1 existed — and the fight to keep it alive ended with GM crushing nearly all the cars into scrap. "When it all happened, we just stood there and said, 'What are you guys doing?' " filmmaker and EV advocate Chris Paine told NPR in a 2006 interview about his documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? "The sight of seeing them destroyed before most people ever got to experience them was really quite a shocking moment for us." The story of the EV1 began in 1990, when California passed sweeping regulations aimed at curbing the state's air pollution. The plan mandated automakers build zero-emission vehicles. "It's a very radical strategy, but it's one that looks well into the next century," California Air Resources Board member Brian Bilbray said at the time. "And it's really going to set the standard for air-quality strategies, not in just this state or this nation, but in the world." Under pressure, automakers researched electric vehicles, hybrids and even hydrogen fuel cells to comply with the mandate. In 1992, reporter Paul Eisenstein was assigned by NPR to check out the early results, traveling to Arizona to test drive a GM prototype called the Impact. "As you turn the key, nothing seems to be happening — until you stomp on the Impact's accelerator," Eisenstein reported. "Then with a sudden lurch and an eerie whine, the Impact bursts to life, the speedometer ticking off five, 15, 30, 45 miles an hour." This is the car that by 1996 hit the market as the EV1. It had zippy acceleration, aerodynamic bodywork that partially covered the rear tires, and an innovative braking system that helped recharge the battery. "Regenerative braking works by using the motors — the drive motors — in reverse, and they act as generators," GM engineer Larry Oswald said. "So when you apply the brake pedal, essentially what you're doing is generating electricity and putting it back into the battery and storing it for the next acceleration." The car's battery could take you about 70 miles on a full charge. Battery technology improved over the years, increasing the EV1's range to about 100 miles. But the EV1 gave rise to a new consumer concern: "range anxiety." "The fear of being stranded; running out of power," Consumer Reports researcher Ron Conlin told NPR in 1997. "The anxiety of the consumer is reflected in our studies." The EV1 was only available in a few states. And it was expensive: The suggested retail price was $35,000 (more than $70,000 in today's money) but it never actually was for sale — it was only available for lease. "The car's being marketed to an upscale consumer — very educated, very affluent, as potentially a third vehicle in the household," Conlin said. Only about 800 drivers leased an EV1, according to an Associated Press article from 2005. However, reports indicated thousands more people put their name on a wait list. GM spokesperson Dave Barthmuss told NPR that the company followed up with those people, and found "less than 50 customers" on the wait list were willing to lease a vehicle. Many who did get the chance to lease an EV1 grew to love the way the car — with its plug-in charging and appliance-like charm — made them feel "like we were in the 21st century," said documentarian Chris Paine. GM had spent more than $1 billion on EV development. But over time, California weakened the mandate to build zero-emission vehicles. The EV1 became an unnecessary cost. The cars' three-year lease agreements expired in the early 2000s, but GM canceled the program and took its EV1s back. In 2005, NPR reporter Luke Burbank visited a GM facility in Southern California storing dozens of repossessed EV1s. The car's supporters held vigil outside. "We call that EV1 death row," said Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV1 program and was critical of the company's move to stop making electric vehicles. "It absolutely breaks my heart," Sexton told NPR. "I helped put these cars on the road in the first place, and now they're taking them away from me and from all the other drivers that had them at one point." GM loaded the EV1s onto semi trucks, hauled them to Mesa, Ariz., and crushed them. Photos showed flattened EV1s stacked on top of each other. GM said the cars were destroyed because a lack of replacement parts made the EV1 unsafe. "There are 2,000 unique parts to this vehicle," Barthmuss said. "Some of them are computer control modules that control the braking on the vehicle. If that part fails, there are some serious safety concerns." Twenty-five years after EV1 production ended, every major automaker is building EVs — including GM. In October the company said it's on track to build about 200,000 EVs this year. GM set a goal to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2035. As for the EV1, some of the little cars escaped the crusher . In 2010, former EV1 driver Kris Trexler visited the very car he once plugged in to charge each night. It was in a new home: the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles — one of only 40 EV1s still intact, according to the museum . "Wow, this brings back some serious memories," Trexler said. "This is just amazing to see this car again."PM Images Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. ( NASDAQ: CTSH ) is a $40 billion player in the IT sector, specializing in software and technical services to clients ranging from diverse industries, including healthcare, financial services, communications, media, and technology. 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