Soulshine At Sea has been cancelled in the wake of allegations made by Victoria Canal that their headliner, Michael Franti, abused and groomed her at the start of her career. The four-day concert cruise was set to kick off in November, but organisers recently shared a statement explaining that the sold-out event has been axed. While they didn’t specify why, …
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Courtesy of Pixabay By TONY GUERREROHays Post Two men allegedly started a parking lot fight with three young people from Hays. Hays Deputy Police Chief Tim Greenwood said 26-year-old Chase Hartman of Victoria and 42-year-old Jake McDiffett of Alta Vista face alleged charges of battery and aggravated endangering a child. Greenwood said the alleged altercation occurred at 7:45 p.m. July …
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Residents in central Victoria have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with some people describing an extremely bright fireball and a loud sound as the object passed overhead. Dozens of clips and witness accounts were shared in the Facebook group Australian Meteor Reports. Saskia Reus-Smit, from Fryerstown, posted to the group that they had …
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Elena Rybakina must have figured she had the match won. She’d just battered 18-year-old Victoria Mboko in a 25-shot rally late in their Montreal semifinal, sending her sprinting from corner to corner until Mboko’s desperate lob drifted long. Mboko hunched over in exhaustion afterwards, her racket pressed hard into the ground as a crutch. Losing a miserable point like this, …
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Victoria Mboko’s run through one of the most important competitions in women’s tennis ended where it inevitably — and impossibly — seemed like it might all along. And what a place she chose to do it. On Thursday night in Montreal, in the Canadian Open final, Mboko staged another comeback to rise out of a one-set hole and shake off …
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated during Victoria Mboko’s run to the semifinals of the WTA 1,000 Canadian Open in Montreal. Ripping a backhand past a former Wimbledon quarterfinalist to clinch a first Grand Slam win on the opening day of the French Open is a pretty good way to make tennis fans stand up and take notice. Or …
Read More »MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko upset top-seeded Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday night to reach the National Bank Open quarterfinals. Gauff dropped to 2-3 since winning the French Open. She followed the major victory with opening losses in Berlin and Wimbledon, then overcame double-fault problems to win two three-set matches in Montreal. Gauff had five double-faults Saturday …
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