Liverpool 1-0 Everton — live as it happened

Live text commentary as it happened: Liverpool 1-0 Everton
1754 BST: Full-time. Liverpool 1 Everton 0 and Liverpool win the Merseyside derby and do the double over their great city rivals. Torres’ 27th goal of the season seals the deal, and Liverpool jump five points clear of Everton in fourth.
Stoppage time: Gerrard clears the ball with [...]

Olympics, media bias and the U.S. race

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. Here’s a few stories that have caught my eye in the past few days:
A journalistic boycott of the Olympic Games?
France Televisions’ director of sports said French public TV could boycott coverage of the Beijing Olympics if China bans the broadcast of footage from demonstrations.
“For the time being, we [...]

Man Utd 3-0 Liverpool – live as it happened

Live text commentary as it happened: Man Utd 3–0 Liverpool
1523 GMT: Full time. Manchester United 3 Liverpool 0 after a crazy game. Liverpool looked for a while like getting back into it but United buried the game in the end.
Stoppage time: Three minutes of added time. Liverpool might as well give up playing. Arguably Mascherano [...]

Richardson gives Obama backing

The long-awaited Bill Richardson endorsement has gone to Senator Barack Obama. Governor Richardson (NM), who himself was in the race early on but withdrew following the New Hampshire primary, is expected to make a statement in Portland, OR later today, according to the BBC.
The timing of this appears crucial; it comes nearly exactly one month [...]

BBC WHYS question: How should the world react to the trouble in Tibet?

How should the world react to the trouble in Tibet ? « BBC World Have Your Say
An Olympic boycott appears out of the question. Most of the world, including the United States, recognises Tibet to be a part of China, so should it be dismissed as an internal problem that China should handle on its [...]

Did UEFA fix the Champions League draw?

The talk of the sporting blogs recently has been all about the Champions League quarter-final draw, which was held in Nyon, Switzerland, at 13:00 CET on Friday, Mar 14. At 10:28 GMT that day (about 90 minutes ahead of the draw), a poster – nicknamed “confused” – on the Liverpool Echo’s forums started a topic [...]

Pew study: If Obama is candidate, some Dems may vote McCain

Was reading Justin Webb’s latest blog post today, and he links to a National Journal article which in turn cites a recent Pew Research Center study, dated February 28, 2008:
Summary of Findings: Obama Has The Lead, But Potential Problems Too
I found this bit particularly interesting:
Although attention has been focused on McCain’s problems with the GOP [...]

Clinton supporter Spitzer quits office following scandal

Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic governor of New York caught up in a prostitution ring scandal and a key backer of Sen Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, has resigned from office. Spitzer thus loses his status as a superdelegate, effective March 17. In a further blow to Sen Clinton, CNN International says CNN is projecting that Barack [...]

No way, José – Obama rejects Clinton joint-ticket as VP

Sen Barack Obama, ahead of yesterday’s primaries in Mississippi which he won, effectively ended speculation he might drop out of the race to join rival Sen Hillary Clinton on a joint Presidential ticket as Sen Clinton’s Vice-President, stating clearly that he was in the lead in the delegate count and would therefore not consider the [...]

BBC’s World Have Your Say criticised

The BBC’s World Have Your Say (WHYS) programme has been criticised by a blogger, Tim Worstall. Mr Worstall’s post, a complaint that yesterday’s WHYS, about Robert Mugabe, was “[completely ignorant] of economics and business”, and that this was being funded by the British taxpayer.
Indeed, the World Service is funded by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth [...]