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On May 15, India won its first Thomas Cup , defeating 14-time champions Indonesia 3-0 in the final in Bangkok. It was a historic win as the last time the Indian badminton team managed to enter the semi-finals of the tournament was 43 years ago. The final against Indonesia was the most challenging as all the opponents were ranked higher than the Indian players and the head-to-head records were poor. Moreover, the number of top 10 players from India in the singles and doubles categories was lower compared to those from Indonesia Jump through hoops The table lists the difference in rankings between Indian players and their opponents in the knock-out rounds of the Thomas Cup which India won. A negative number shows that the opponent had a better ranking. The table also lists the wins recorded in head-to-head battles in the past with the opponent. A negative number indicates that the Indian player had lost more matches than the opponent in such battles. For doubles players, … [Read more...] about Data | Indian shuttlers overcame poor head-to-head records and higher ranked players to win Thomas cup

Three years ago, when a white-supremacist fanatic killed dozens of people in El Paso, Texas, the reaction from the right was unreserved condemnation . When another white-supremacist fanatic killed 10 people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, last week, the reaction from some figures on the right was to acknowledge that the guy had a point about this whole “replacement” thing. Large sections of the manifesto attributed to the Buffalo shooter were plagiarized from the El Paso shooter’s writings. Both share the premise that violence against nonwhite people is justified to prevent “white genocide” or the “replacement” of white Americans by nonwhite immigrants. As the alleged Buffalo shooter put it, he carried out the attack because “all black people are replacers just by existing in White countries.” I would offer to explain how Black people got to the United States , but who knows if “critical race theory” remains legal where you’re reading this. In … [Read more...] about Republicans Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’

The massacre in El Paso, Texas, has, for the moment, reminded Americans of the danger posed by far-right terrorists. Former national-security officials have demanded that the U.S. government “make addressing this form of terrorism as high a priority as countering international terrorism has become since 9/11.” Retired Marine General John Allen and the former senior U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk have argued that far-right extremism poses “an equal threat” as jihadist groups such as ISIS. This is incorrect. White nationalism is a far greater threat to American democracy than jihadism, and always has been. But there are actually two challenges posed by white nationalism: One is the threat posed to American communities by attacks like the one in El Paso, which law enforcement can and should prevent. The other is the threat the ideology the attackers support poses to American democracy, which can be defeated only through politics, and only by the American people themselves. “There’s an … [Read more...] about Only the Right Can Defeat White Nationalism

From manager Bud Black’s point of view, Kyle Freeland pitched with “a lot of heart and a lot of grit” in the Rockies’ 5-3 win over the Giants Wednesday afternoon at Coors Field. The left-hander also pitched with a chip on his shoulder. Well aware that the Giants had defeated the Rockies 12 consecutive times, Freeland took the mound with an aggressive game plan. “The Giants have had our number over the past year or so and they have somewhat dominated us, similar to what the Dodgers have done over the years,” Freeland said. “It was one of those games where we needed to stop that, we needed to start turning the trend in our favor.” To that end, Freeland went after a San Francisco lineup that is one of the smartest and most aggressive in the National League. “I felt like I did a good job of brushing hitters off the plate, using my fastball effectively inside, and not letting them be comfortable over the plate,” Freeland said. “I let them know that I’m not afraid to come … [Read more...] about Kyle Freeland pitches aggressive, helps Rockies finally beat Giants

On Monday afternoon, a woman and her Belgian Malinois named Eva began walking along a trail off Highway 299 near the Northern California town of Big Bar, a little over an hour’s drive west of Redding. While walking with her dog ahead of her, she saw movement and was “instantly struck and swiped at by a mountain lion,” said Capt. Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Law Enforcement Division. “She screamed and the dog immediately engaged the mountain lion,” Foy said. “They were in the middle of a pretty vicious fight.” The woman and a passerby fought the lion off, but Eva was badly injured. “My dog is my hero,” Erin Wilson, 24, told the Sacramento Bee . “And I owe her my life.” Advertisement Eva may have had her own heroes — Wilson and the passerby, identified by the Bee as Sharon Houston, suffered non-life-threatening scratches and bite wounds fighting off the big cat as it held Eva in its jaws. “The dog is not going to win that,” Foy … [Read more...] about A woman was attacked by a mountain lion in Northern California. Her dog may have saved her