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/ 21 November 2007
England’s Ricky Hatton is in the best shape of his career for his showdown with fellow unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas on December 8 for the World Boxing Council welterweight crown. ”He is stronger than he has ever been. I think a lot of guys are going to be shocked at Ricky’s strength,” said Hatton conditioning coach Kerry Kayes.
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/ 9 November 2007
A sports collector told a Las Vegas courtroom on Thursday that United States ”trial of the century” defendant OJ Simpson stormed his hotel room with armed men and stole dozens of items of memorabilia. Items stolen from Fromong’s room included memorabilia from Simpson’s own sporting career
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/ 19 September 2007
A Las Vegas court granted bail of 000 on Wednesday to former American football star OJ Simpson, who faces criminal charges stemming from what police say was an armed robbery of his own sports memorabilia at a Las Vegas hotel. He appeared in court at a hearing lasting about 10 minutes.
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/ 17 September 2007
Former football star OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week. Simpson (60) will be held without bail pending a court hearing on Thursday, Sergeant John Loretto said.
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/ 14 September 2007
Investigators questioned OJ Simpson about a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia, police said Friday. The break-in was reported at the Palace Station casino late on Thursday, police spokesperson Jose Montoya said. Simpson was released and is believed to be in Las Vegas, Montoya said.
Britain’s Ricky Hatton knocked out Jose Luis Castillo of Mexico in the fourth round to retain his IBO light welterweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday. The end came two minutes 16 seconds into the round when a Hatton left hook to the ribcage caused Castillo to grimace in agony, turn away, and fall to one knee, where he remained while referee Joe Cortez counted to ten.
Floyd Mayweather Jr registered a split points decision victory over Oscar De La Hoya to win the World Boxing Council super welterweight title on Saturday. In a fight expected to be one of the highest-grossing in boxing history, Mayweather won the verdict from two of the three judges at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino to improve his career record to 38-0 with 24 knockouts.
After three months of verbal sparring, Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Oscar de la Hoya are just about ready to shut up and fight. Mayweather, boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighter and De la Hoya, its most popular champion, said little to spark controversy or antagonise each other on Wednesday at the media gathering before their fight.
Senator Barack Obama said on Friday that his campaign had nothing to do with a web ad portraying his chief rival for the Democratic president nomination as an Orwellian figure. Nevertheless, Obama declined to denounce the ad, which depicts Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. He said the ad apparently ”captured the public’s imagination”.
Verizon Wireless customers in the United States will soon be able to watch live television over a network constructed by Qualcomm. Many of the channels on the V Cast service will be live feeds from major broadcast partners, including NBC, CBS and Fox. Recorded full-length programmes will also be offered, such as episodes of late-night talk shows.
Software giant Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a speech to mark the opening on Monday of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the networked digital home was no longer a vision, but a reality. ”Truly the digital decade is happening,” Gates told about 4 000 delegates late on Sunday. ”Over two billion digital photos were taken last year.”
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/ 17 September 2006
Argentina’s Marco Antonio Barrera boxed his way to a unanimous decision over Rocky Juarez on Saturday, pleasing no one but himself with a workmanlike performance to keep his WBC super featherweight title in a fight that drew boos from the crowd for a lack of action.
Thousands beamed into Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, the enduring science-fiction television franchise whose cult appeal transcends boundaries of space and time. Star Trek has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most durable products.
Kazakhstan-born Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the final minute of the 12th and final round on Saturday to seize the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title. The triumph for the 37-year-old former Russian Army lieutenant, who became a United States citizen two years ago, left no American-born fighter atop the heavyweight division among the major sanctioning bodies.
Nevada boxing regulators revoked Zab Judah’s licence and fined him  000 on Monday, the harshest penalty yet for a melee which broke out at last month’s welterweight title fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Judah was punished for landing a punch to the back of Mayweather’s head in the April 8 IBF title bout.
When Oscar de la Hoya gets back to his adopted home in Puerto Rico, he’ll have plenty of lucrative choices to make about his revitalised career — whom to fight, when to fight and when to stop. But deciding to stay at home with his wife and son might be the bravest choice of all. De la Hoya got the boxing world buzzing on Saturday night after a 20-month absence from the ring.
Trainer Roger Mayweather had his licence revoked and was fined 000 on Thursday for stepping into the ring and triggering a brawl during last weekend’s IBF welterweight title fight between his nephew, Floyd Mayweather Jr, and Zab Judah.
High-tech companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action of internet telephony as the new technology gains more ground against traditional phone service. The shift by consumers to internet-based calling systems is prompting makers of hardware, software and web portals to adapt to the new landscape.
World computer chip leader Intel unveiled on Thursday a new processor designed to turn a personal computer into a living room multimedia centre. Intel’s dual-core Viiv processor will be installed in PCs by leading producers including Dell, Sony, LG and Acer, ”from today and in the coming weeks,” said Intel chief executive Paul Otellini.
Rival Google may be nipping at its heels, but Microsoft wasn’t flashing any defeatist signs as it showcased its latest plans to help make living in the digital world safer, easier and more fun. ”Consumers are getting more and more connected, and software is at the centre of that,” Gates said on Wednesday.
While video, especially the portable kind, is expected to make the big splash at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, there is also a lot happening with devices that combine satellite radio and portable music players. Pioneer Electronics and Samsung Electronics introduced MP3 players that also include satellite radio service from XM Satellite Radio Holdings.
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/ 5 December 2005
Jermain Taylor, who earned the middleweight world title in controversial style, kept it in more convincing fashion on Saturday with a unanimous 12-round decision over former champ Bernard Hopkins. The second fight between the two Americans had been much anticipated after Taylor ended Hopkins’s reign of more than 10 years in July with a controversial 12-round split decision.
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/ 2 December 2005
Bernard Hopkins, still seething over the controversial decision that saw Jermain Taylor take away his undisputed world middleweight title, says he won’t leave it to the judges in Saturday’s rematch. ”December 3 is going to rectify the system’s problems,” vowed Hopkins, who at 40 knows he has little time left to cement his status in ring history.
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/ 10 November 2005
A retired Elvis Presley impersonator helped police nab a man suspected of stealing more than 000-worth of memorabilia from the Elvis-a-Rama museum in Las Vegas, authorities said on Wednesday. Duke Adams said he was approached while in line at a pharmacy by a man offering to sell him items once owned by Presley.
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/ 6 November 2005
Vitali Klitschko’s heavyweight title defence next Saturday against Hasim Rahman is still on despite an injury to the champion that will force him to fight wearing a knee brace. Klitschko was fitted with the brace on his right knee on Saturday in Los Angeles and plans to go ahead with a bout that already has been delayed once.
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/ 23 September 2005
United States boxer Leavander Johnson died on Thursday from injuries sustained five days earlier in a lightweight title fight with Jesus Chavez. The 35-year-old died at University Medical Centre, where he had been hospitalised since being injured in the fight on Saturday at the MGM Grand hotel-casino.
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/ 19 September 2005
Leavander Johnson had worked a long time for his big night, 16 years to be exact. His first title defence turned tragic, however, leaving the veteran boxer in a fight that most with his kind of injury don’t win. Johnson was in a drug-induced coma on Sunday following emergency brain surgery he underwent just minutes after losing his lightweight title the night before.
Mexican boxer Martin Sanchez has died from serious head injuries after being knocked out by Russian Rustam Nugaev during a fight on Friday at a Las Vegas casino. Doctors said Sanchez underwent surgery to remove a subdural hematoma and to reduce massive swelling of the brain.
The police could not get the Mafia out of Las Vegas so it was left to Wall Street financiers to clean up the desert gambling resort and turn it into one of the great United States success stories. Las Vegas was once the only place where gambling was legal. The industry took off during the austerity of World War II.
Bitter competition between two Las Vegas billionaires has delighted at least one person: Oscar Goodman, mayor of the United States gambling mecca in the Western state of Nevada. ”It will look more and more like New York,” Goodman said, gushing over his city’s new skyline, sprouting like a weed from the desert.
A tiger has attacked magician Roy Horn of famous showbusiness duo Siegfried and Roy, grabbing him by his throat during a Friday-night performance at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Horn was taken to hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.