CINCINNATI, Ohio - The Adrien Broner and Khabib Allakhverdiev Showtime telecast begins at 10 p.m.
Broner and Allakhverdiev will fight for the vacant WBA 140-pound title. Before Broner and Allakhverdiev, Jose Pedraza (20-0) will defend his super featherweight title against Edner Cherry (34-6-2).
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Bus horror at Sainsbury's leaves two dead: Eight-year-old boy is crushed to death on the top deck and elderly woman pedestrian is run over and killed after double-decker smashed into supermarket
Two people killed when double-decker struck Sainsbury's in Coventry
Eight-year-old boy, who was sitting on the upper deck, and female pedestrian, believed to be in her 70s, both suffered fatal injuries
Bus hit parked cars and a lamppost before ploughing into the supermarket
Six people, including a child, have been taken to hospital with injuries
Two people have died after a double-decker bus crashed into a Sainsbury's supermarket in Coventry city centre.
An eight-year-old boy from Leamington, who was sitting on the upper deck of the bus, and a female pedestrian from Nuneaton, believed to be in her 70s, died at the scene after suffering fatal injuries.
A nine-year-old girl, who was also travelling on the top deck of the bus, is fighting for her life at Birmingham Children's Hospital after suffering serious injuries to her face, neck and leg.
Five other people, including the driver, were taken to University Hospital Coventry for treatment.
Impact: Photographs taken at the scene reveal how part of the upper deck of the bus was ripped apart when the vehicle crashed into the supermarket on Trinity Street, in Coventry city centre, on Saturday evening
Destruction: The bus hit a number of parked cars and a lamppost before ploughing into the building
Tragedy: An eight-year-old boy and a woman, believed to be in her 70s, both suffered fatal injuries in the crash
The Stagecoach Midlands X18 service to Leamingto struck a number of parked cars and a lamppost before crashing into the supermarket on Trinity Street at 6pm on Saturday.
Shocked witnesses described scenes of 'absolute chaos' as bystanders tried to rescue children trapped under the seats on the top deck after the bus slammed into the side of the supermarket.
Maneer Fiaz was getting some food from a shop opposite when he heard a 'loud bang' and saw people running to the scene.
The coach tried to take positives after the Rugby World Cup exit via defeat to Australia, sounding sillier than those of us who predicted his side would win
Long before Twickenham first heard it, Swing Low Sweet Chariot was a funeral hymn. And it seemed so again on Saturday night, sung low and slow for a last time when there were 15 minutes left to play. One final, futile, attempt by 80,000 fans to spur this England team on into a performance worthy of their support, and of the tournament.
Owen Farrell had kicked a penalty and the side were seven points behind. That was as good as it got. England, the most well-resourced rugby nation in the world, with more money to spend and more players to use than every other country, were knocked out of their own tournament after just three matches. After four years of planning, their overall performance in this World Cup will be remembered as one of the most feeble in the history of English sport, mitigated only by the superb quality of the two teams who beat them.England fans
First, the positives. No one jumped off a ferry. And no dwarves were harmed along the way. What else? Stuart Lancaster pointed out after the match that “there are a lot of good young players in that team”, and that between them they have the makings of a good side. And he was right. Only trouble was, it wasn’t out on the pitch. It only ever existed in the minds of those of us who believed in them – like myself and the other five pundits who predicted in Saturday’s Guardian that England would win this game. And as deluded as that turned out to be, next to what Lancaster had to say in his post-match press conference it sounded utterly sane. “We have come up short in these two games but you shouldn’t take away everything we have done in the last three and a half years,” he said, “which has been very positive for the majority of the games. We’ve not lost many big games, and certainly not by that margin.”England fans were deluded but not
That is the standard, it seems, by which we should judge this team. “We’ve not lost many big games.” Apart from the last two. “And certainly not by that margin.” Apart from this one. As for everything else they’ve done in those “three and a half years”, it adds up to four second-place finishes in the Six Nations, two autumn international victories against Australia and another against New Zealand. That’s the grand sum of the good work.
All of which was excusable, if you allowed that short-term results in the Six Nations could be sacrificed for long-term gains at this World Cup. And that, after all, was the design Lancaster had in mind all along. Or so he said when he first took charge. “We want to be in a position by 2013, 2014, to have a side ready to win in 2015,” he told us in his very first press conference.
At this rate of progress, it feels as if Lancaster will finally have his 2015 team ready sometime the year after next. He seems to think that team building is a job akin to painting the Forth Bridge, something that simply goes on and on, starting over and again, without ever actually finishing.
Even now, after this, he produced the bizarre observation that what was important now was “to finish strongly next week”, as if a 50-point victory against Uruguay was going to spark a lot of optimistic talk about England’s chances in 2019.