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LONDON — A woman who claimed mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her in a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly 250,000 Euros ($257,000) on Friday by a civil court jury in Ireland. The woman said the Dec. 9, 2018, assault after a night of partying left her heavily bruised and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. McGregor shook his head as the jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict after deliberating for about six hours in the High Court in Dublin. He was mobbed by cameras as he left court but did not comment. The former UFC champion later posted on his X social media account that he planned to appeal the decision . McGregor testified that he never forced the woman to do anything against her will and said she fabricated the allegations after the two had consensual sex. The woman’s voice and hands trembled as she read a statement outside the courthouse, saying she would never forget what happened to her but would now be able to move on with her life. She thanked her family, partner, friends and all the supporters that had reached out to her online, but particularly her daughter. “She has given me so much strength and courage over the last six years throughout this nightmare to keep on pushing forward for justice,” the woman said. “I want to show (her) and every other girl and boy that you can stand up for yourself if something happens to you, no matter who the person is, and justice will be served.” Her lawyer told jurors that McGregor was angry about a fight he had lost in Las Vegas two months earlier and took it out on his client. “He’s not a man, he’s a coward,” attorney John Gordon said in his closing speech. “A devious coward and you should treat him for what he is.” The woman had to take several breaks in her emotional testimony as she said McGregor threatened to kill her during the encounter. A paramedic who examined the woman the next day, testified that she hadn’t seen someone with that intensity of bruising. The woman said McGregor put her in a chokehold several times and later told her, “Now you know how I felt in the Octagon where I tapped out three times,” referring to an Oct. 6 fight at UFC 229 in Las Vegas when he lost via submission to lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov , followed by a wild post-fight brawl . She feared she would die and never see her daughter again. “He let me go and I remember saying I was sorry, as I felt that I did something wrong and I wanted to reassure him that I wouldn’t tell anyone so he wouldn’t hurt me again,” she said. She said she then let him do what he wanted and he had sex with her. Police investigated the woman’s complaint, but prosecutors declined to bring charges, saying there was insufficient evidence and a conviction was unlikely. McGregor said the two had sex that was athletic and vigorous, but not rough. He said “she never said ‘no’ or stopped” and testified that everything she said was a lie. “It is a full-blown lie among many lies,” he said when asked about the chokehold allegation. “How anyone could believe that me, as a prideful person, would highlight my shortcomings.” McGregor’s lawyer told jurors they had to set aside their animus toward the fighter. Related Articles “You may have an active dislike of him, some of you may even loathe him – there is no point pretending that the situation might be otherwise,” attorney Remy Farrell said. “I’m not asking you to invite him to Sunday brunch.” The defense said the woman never told investigators McGregor threatened her life. They also showed surveillance video in court that they said appeared to show the woman kiss McGregor’s arm and hug him after they left the hotel room. Farrell said she looked “happy, happy, happy.” McGregor said that when he was first questioned by police, he read them a prepared statement. On the advice of his lawyer, he refused to answer more than 100 follow-up questions.Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barrons like Elon Musk, saying that he backs a special visa program that helps highly skilled workers enter the country. "I've always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that's why we have them" at Trump-owned facilities, the president-elect told the New York Post in his first public comments on the matter since it flared up this week. An angry back-and-forth, largely between Silicon Valley's Musk and traditional anti-immigration Trump backers, has erupted in fiery fashion, with Musk even vowing to "go to war" over the issue. Trump's insistent calls for sharp curbs on immigration were central to his election victory in November over President Joe Biden. He has vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants and limit legal immigration. But tech entrepreneurs like Tesla's Musk -- as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, who with Musk is to co-chair a government cost-cutting panel under Trump -- say the United States produces too few highly skilled graduates, and they fervently champion the H1-B program. Musk, who himself migrated from South Africa on an H1-B, posted Thursday on his X platform that luring elite engineering talent from abroad was "essential for America to keep winning." Adding acrimony to the debate was a post from Ramaswamy, the son of immigrants from India, who deplored an "American culture" that he said venerates mediocrity, adding that the United States risks having "our asses handed to us by China." That angered several prominent conservatives who were backing Trump long before Musk noisily joined their cause this year, going on to pump more than $250 million into the Republican's campaign. "Looking forward to the inevitable divorce between President Trump and Big Tech," said Laura Loomer, a far-right MAGA figure known for her conspiracy theories, who often flew with Trump on his campaign plane. "We have to protect President Trump from the technocrats." She and others said Trump should be promoting American workers and further limiting immigration. Musk, who had already infuriated some Republicans after leading an online campaign that helped tank a bipartisan budget deal last week, fired back at his critics. Posting on X, the social media site he owns, he warned of a "MAGA civil war." Musk bluntly swore at one critic, adding that "I will go to war on this issue." That, in turn, drew a volley from Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who wrote on the Gettr platform that the H1-B program brings in migrants who are essentially "indentured servants" working for less than American citizens would. In a striking jab at Trump's close friend Musk, Bannon called the Tesla CEO a "toddler." Some of Trump's original backers say they fear he is falling under the sway of big donors from the tech world like Musk and drifting away from his campaign promises. It was not immediately clear whether Trump's remarks might soothe the intraparty strife, which has exposed just how contentious changing the immigration system might be once he takes office in January. bbk/nro
Deion Sanders does things different. That’s what rubs people wrong about the Colorado football coach. Or rubs them right; Deion has his proponents as well as his detractors. The detractors are a little less noisy these days. They were well-armed a year ago, when the Buffaloes lost their final six games to finish 4-8. Never mind that 4-8 was a three-game improvement three-game improvement over the derelict team Deion inherited. Now, of course, Colorado is 8-3 and still in the thick of the Big 12 title race, hosting OSU on Friday at Folsom Field, which is hopping again after nearly two decades as a mausoleum. The Buffalo herd is rumbling again courtesy of Deion and his strange ways. He’s brash and flash. He’s outspoken about his players, both in praise and in criticism. He embraced extreme roster makeovers before the transfer portal was cool among coaches. People are also reading... 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Boldly going where no college football player has gone before. At least not in the 60 years of two-platoon football. Hunter is a phenom, of course. He’s a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which goes to the nation’s best receiver; the Bednarik Award, which goes to the nation’s best defensive player; the Maxwell Award (best all-around player); and Walter Camp Trophy (most outstanding player). Hunter is not a finalist for the Oklahoma-based Thorpe Award (nation’s best defensive back), much to Deion’s chagrin. Deion himself won the Thorpe Award way back in 1988 and Tuesday told Thorpe voters “you can have it back; in fact, I’m gonna give him (Hunter) mine.” No matter. The Thorpe’s loss, since Hunter is the runaway favorite for the Heisman Trophy. Deion and Broadway is a match made in marketing heaven. But beyond the flash and the brash, beyond the attraction to Deion that makes traditionalists squirm, give Deion credit on the Travis Hunter front. Deion doesn’t say why. Deion says why not. Why not let a talent like Hunter try something unheard of on autumn Saturdays? Why not let Hunter go all Shohei Ohtani; pitch and hit; catch and cover? Hunter is not doing things that no other human can do. He’s doing things that no other coach has ALLOWED a player to do. Deion didn’t have to scrape the crust off his imagination to let Hunter play this much. Other coaches do. All of them. Literally all of them. Mike Gundy even admitted Monday that OSU has had players that were capable of playing extreme amounts of snaps at high levels. Justin Blackmon definitely. Tylan Wallace probably. Both were all-American receivers who could have been excellent safeties, Gundy said. R.W. McQuarters did play both ways, during his 1995-97 Cowboy days, but only in spot duty at receiver. Just like Chris Canty at Kansas State and Charles Woodson at Michigan and other select supreme athletes. But Deion is the first coach in forever who said, why not more? “This is unbelievable,” Gundy said of Hunter. In the McQuarters days, “we were 58 plays a game, and he (McQuarters) would play 10 plays on offense. I mean, this guy’s playing a bunch. “We’ve had guys in this organization that could do it. Those guys that are really, really skilled athletically, if they have enough of the physical part of it — you can get away being a wideout and be soft, but not on defense. But there’s guys that can do it. I’m gonna go back to what I said earlier, his ability to have the energy capacity, the oxygen to do that is what’s impressive.” What’s impressive is that Deion was willing to give Hunter the chance. To structure practice schedules around a two-way player. To trust an exceptional athlete who knows his body better than any coach or medicine man could. Deion even says the National Football League would be crazy not to use Hunter both ways. “The thing about Travis is, if he plays cornerback, and he's being dominant out there, and you sit up there and you can't move the ball at the next level, you're gonna say, 'Well, my best receiver's on the sidelines, somebody come on,’” Deion said. The NFL occasionally has used two-way players. Troy Brown and Mike Vrabel and Adoree’ Jackson; a few others in the 21st century. The great Roy Green for the old St. Louis Cardinals 40 years ago. And a fellow named Deion Sanders, who is one of the NFL’s greatest corners ever but also had 60 pro catches, including 36 for the 1996 Dallas Cowboys, coached by Barry Switzer. Same for Deion as for Hunter. “Travis is a football player, and you can't have a football player on the sidelines," Deion said. Go back and read that sentence. It’s nothing but common sense. We don’t associate Deion with common sense, and that has a lot more to do with us than him. Deion recruited Hunter, realized he was a supreme athlete, a supremely- conditioned athlete and also a sharp football player. “The first thing I said was the guy's got a high football IQ,” Gundy said “When I watch him play, I see a high football IQ, so I'm guessing that helps him play on both sides of the ball." There are a million things to say about Deion Sanders as a Colorado football coach. I’d start with this. Colorado football was in a pit for almost 20 years, and the Buffaloes quickly left the pit upon Deion’s arrival and now are soaring. One reason is this. Deion is willing to try things that other coaches have shown no willingness to do, in order to win football games within the rules. Someone please explain why that’s a bad thing.Lindsey Vonn takes another step in comeback at age 40, competes in a pair of downhillsMan City stumble again while Arsenal and Bayern Munich earn dominant wins
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Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barrons like Elon Musk, saying that he backs a special visa program that helps highly skilled workers enter the country. "I've always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that's why we have them" at Trump-owned facilities, the president-elect told the New York Post in his first public comments on the matter since it flared up this week. An angry back-and-forth, largely between Silicon Valley's Musk and traditional anti-immigration Trump backers, has erupted in fiery fashion, with Musk even vowing to "go to war" over the issue. Trump's insistent calls for sharp curbs on immigration were central to his election victory in November over President Joe Biden. He has vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants and limit legal immigration. But tech entrepreneurs like Tesla's Musk -- as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, who with Musk is to co-chair a government cost-cutting panel under Trump -- say the United States produces too few highly skilled graduates, and they fervently champion the H1-B program. Musk, who himself migrated from South Africa on an H1-B, posted Thursday on his X platform that luring elite engineering talent from abroad was "essential for America to keep winning." Adding acrimony to the debate was a post from Ramaswamy, the son of immigrants from India, who deplored an "American culture" that he said venerates mediocrity, adding that the United States risks having "our asses handed to us by China." That angered several prominent conservatives who were backing Trump long before Musk noisily joined their cause this year, going on to pump more than $250 million into the Republican's campaign. "Looking forward to the inevitable divorce between President Trump and Big Tech," said Laura Loomer, a far-right MAGA figure known for her conspiracy theories, who often flew with Trump on his campaign plane. "We have to protect President Trump from the technocrats." She and others said Trump should be promoting American workers and further limiting immigration. - 'MAGA civil war' - Musk, who had already infuriated some Republicans after leading an online campaign that helped tank a bipartisan budget deal last week, fired back at his critics. Posting on X, the social media site he owns, he warned of a "MAGA civil war." Musk bluntly swore at one critic, adding that "I will go to war on this issue." That, in turn, drew a volley from Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who wrote on the Gettr platform that the H1-B program brings in migrants who are essentially "indentured servants" working for less than American citizens would. In a striking jab at Trump's close friend Musk, Bannon called the Tesla CEO a "toddler." Some of Trump's original backers say they fear he is falling under the sway of big donors from the tech world like Musk and drifting away from his campaign promises. It was not immediately clear whether Trump's remarks might soothe the intraparty strife, which has exposed just how contentious changing the immigration system might be once he takes office in January. bbk/nroDrop in Boxing Day footfall ‘signals return to declining pre-pandemic levels’