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Mike Tyson receives firm warning about his lifestyle ahead of huge Jake Paul fight

Lifestyle

Peter Watson

May 13, 2024

Mike Tyson receives firm warning about his lifestyle ahead of huge Jake Paul fight

Mike Tyson has been warned about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle ahead of his seismic showdown with Jake Paul later this year.

It will be the 57-year-old’s first fight in four years, having last fought Roy Jones Jr back in 2020.

Tyson has given up sex and cannabis as he looks to beat Paul, with the boxing icon also updating fans with clips of him working in the gym.

Yet former boxing star Vitor Belfort has warned Tyson that, in order to beat Paul, he shouldn’t be maintaining a healthy lifestyle for just a few months.

Mike Tyson has been warned about his lifestyle and the need to maintain a healthy one as he looks to beat Jake Paul later this year

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He instead thinks Tyson should have been looking after himself for a long period in order to boost his chances of glory.

Belfort told World Boxing News: “It is good business for both fighters.

“They generate a lot of money for each other, which is good for the sport.

“But only Mike can answer that question. I don’t think it would be a good idea if he only trained for this fight.

“A fighter always has to keep up a healthy lifestyle. I hope that he is.”

Belfort previously fought Evander Holyfield in an exhibition match back in 2021.

Addressing comparisons between that showdown and the upcoming fight between Tyson and Paul, he continued: “When I fought Holyfield, he was very strong and very fit, but I was the better man on that night.

“If he hit me, I could have gone down – that is the nature of the sport.

“However, I hit him first.

“This fight feels more like an exhibition, and I don’t think Mike is the same fighter he used to be.”

Tyson, meanwhile, has also been speaking as the showdown approaches.

And the 57-year-old has revealed he’s hoping hypnosis can give him an edge as he looks to wind back the years in two months’ time.

“I’m an exponent of hypnosis,” he recently told Nick Kyrgios.

“I was raised off of hypnosis since I was 13, 14, to the end of my career. I always had hypnosis before I fought.

“It only works with, and only certain people get it. Not everybody gets it.

Mike Tyson has been training hard in the gym as he prepares for his fight with Jake Paul

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“I guess that’s what life is all about. Not everybody’s the same, but I got it, and it’s all about reaching your self conscious.

“You have a connection with your self-consciousness and your ferociousness.

“Everything’s about being connected and using that for your fighting. Everything’s love. Everything is connected to love.

“Even us that’s going to war. I got hooked back. And it’s war, and there’s love. Everything’s love.”

While Tyson has given up sex, Paul has revealed he won’t be following suit.

Mike Tyson is coming out of retirement to face off against Jake Paul later this year

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He said on his podcast: “If I didn’t have sex for like… if I restrain myself for like two weeks I start having wet dreams because my body’s like, ‘Get this out!’

“It’s not weird, it just means that I’m normal.”

Manchester United 0 Arsenal 1: Title race still alive, Trossard key again, Casemiro blunder

Sport

Peter Watson

May 13, 2024

Manchester United 0 Arsenal 1: Title race still alive, Trossard key again, Casemiro blunder

Arsenal beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford to return to the top of the Premier League, with just one match remaining for Mikel Arteta’s side this season.

Leandro Trossard scored the all-important goal from close range following Kai Havertz’s pass. It now means the title race will go to the final day with Manchester City — who are a point behind Arsenal on 85 — playing their game in hand against Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday.

United, meanwhile, are in eighth on 54 points, three points behind Chelsea and Newcastle United, with two games remaining.

Carl Anka, James McNicholas and Liam Tharme break down the key talking points from the game…

Trossard turns up when it matters… again

Neither Gabriel Jesus nor Gabriel Martinelli have been as effective in front of goal as expected this season, with just 10 league goals between them. Fortunately, someone else has stepped up: Trossard. He tucked home the opener for his 12th Premier League goal this season — his 17th in all competitions.

His form has seen him displace Martinelli as first choice on the left wing, and he justified Arteta’s faith at Old Trafford with another critical contribution. Trossard is arguably the most natural finisher in the Arsenal squad and has a habit of delivering big moments even when he appears to be on the periphery of the game.

Typically, Trossard scoring has been a positive omen for Arsenal. Heading into this game, Arsenal had won their last nine Premier League games when the Belgian scored and were without a defeat in the last dozen games in which he found the net.

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It has been a week to forget for Casemiro. The 32-year-old was beaten and bullied by Crystal Palace players in Monday’s 4-0 defeat before he was dropped from the Brazil squad for the 2024 Copa America on Friday.

The formerly imperious defensive midfielder has been struggling for United all season as injuries, tactical adjustments and other oddities have left him a shadow of his former self.

This is not the Casemiro that was a controlled frenzy of a man, patrolling Real Madrid’s midfield on his way to winning five Champions League titles. This is not the man who waved away Marcel Sabitzer in February 2023, comfortable in the knowledge few Premier League attackers could beat him.

This season’s Casemiro has been slow to recognise footballing dangers and naive when reacting to them. Arsenal’s opener in the 20th minute saw Casemiro — who was again moonlighting at centre-back — dawdling by the byline when Andre Onana attempted a short goal kick.

Arsenal’s aggressive counter-press recovered the ball quickly but Casemiro had barely meandered past the edge of Onana’s penalty area by the time Havertz came into space on the right.

Instead of sprinting at top pace to join his team-mates and possibly set an offside trap, Casemiro moved without urgency.

Havertz’s pass found Trossard at the near post and Arsenal found themselves a goal up. The (reasonably) good work United had done up to that point had expired. As Gary Neville said on commentary for Sky Sports: “That is a basic error. You have to get up quicker, and he ambles out. There is no excuse for that.”

What Erik ten Hag’s side gained from Casemiro’s long passing from deep (he nearly set up Rasmus Hojlund with a pass over the top in the game’s opening 10 minutes), was balanced by everything else.

Casemiro is not a centre-back — nor would he, or anyone associated with United, have gone into the season expecting him to play there in an injury-enforced emergency. However, at a time when Ten Hag needs big performances from his most experienced players, Casemiro keeps making juvenile mistakes.

Carl Anka

**Saliba and that tackle**

What’s the biggest difference between Arsenal this time last year and Arsenal now?

There are a few possible answers: Declan Rice, a growing sense of maturity, going blow for blow with City rather than holding onto a lead. But the biggest of all might be the availability of William Saliba.

Saliba was imperious for Arsenal (Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

The centre-back’s value to Arsenal was shown during the second half when he executed a sublime tackle on Alejandro Garnacho. With the Argentina international bearing down on him, Saliba backtracked before stepping in with perfect timing. If a tackle can be a thing of beauty, then this was surely it.

During last season’s run-in, Arsenal lacked composure. Saliba epitomises it. In a game in which Arsenal were some way short of their best, they could still rely on the 23-year-old to keep United at arm’s length.

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An Arsenal of options

“We know the difficulty and the history,” said Arteta pre-match, of a ground where Arsenal had only won four times in 31 Premier League visits.

An injury-hit United side or not, it was a professional performance compared to how they came unstuck and faded away to Bayern Munich and Porto in the Champions League. Arsenal started the game sitting off, forcing United to try to play through the compact mid-block, then hitting with the sucker-punch goal.

There were a couple of heroics in Arsenal’s own box — notably Saliba’s tackle (as described above) — but it took more than 67 minutes for United to register a shot on target.

Arsenal showed their different faces throughout, pinning United back at the start of the second half with possession upfield, counter-pressing aggressively to win it back as quickly as they lost it. There was also some slick build-up using Havertz as a false nine and wingers running inside him, and the other end of the tactical spectrum with wingers defending deep in a back six.

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Any crumbs of comfort for United?

The last few weeks have seen Ten Hag at pains to express the impact injuries have had on United’s season. The Dutchman had ambitions to turn United into a transition-based side, but a litany of ailments have made him unable to field his best XI for large sections of the season.

At the start of the game, Ten Hag had gone through 14 different centre-back combinations this season. Arsenal, for comparison, had used three.

United are a team low in confidence and lacking familiar passing rhythms — as seen in a second half which saw multiple misplaced passes from United players in the final third, with individuals unsure of where to go and what to do in the rare moments they had possession in dangerous areas.

If there are any crumbs of comfort, they will likely be in United’s midfield balance.

Sofyan Amrabat was afforded a rare start in central midfield and was tasked with collecting the ball from United’s centre-backs during the build-up. The Moroccan would also sit next to Kobbie Mainoo when the side did not have the ball, creating a simple but not always seen screen ahead of the front four.

United were not the inconsistent and often incoherent pressers they have been in the past against Arsenal, instead staying in a more-compact-than-usual 4-4-2 shape when their opponents were looking to recycle possession.

Amad — who had to be substituted in the 70th minute with what looked to be an impact injury — did look dangerous in parts when progressing the ball in attacking areas. It may have been his first Premier League start, but he has made a case to get more game time soon (health permitting.)

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What did the managers say?

We’ll bring you this after both Ten Hag and Arteta have spoken at their post-match press conference.

What next for Arsenal? (… supporting Spurs?)

Sunday, May 19: Everton (H), Premier League, 4pm UK, 11am ET

After Manchester City fans endured watching this game hoping for a United win, Arsenal supporters face the unedifying prospect of having to support Spurs when they host City on Tuesday night. Arsenal know that if they’re to win this title, they need a favour from elsewhere.

Arteta’s side then face Everton at the Emirates, who they’ve only lost to twice at home in the Premier League era (31 matches), winning 24 and drawing five.

What next for Manchester United?

Wednesday, May 15: Newcastle United (H), Premier League, 8pm UK, 3pm ET

With Newcastle only having a solitary league win at Old Trafford since 1972, history is with Manchester United. Yet, Eddie Howe’s much-depleted Newcastle beat United 3-0 there in the Carabao Cup in November.

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‘A Fatal Inheritance,’ by Lawrence Ingrassia book review

Health

Peter Watson

May 12, 2024

‘A Fatal Inheritance,’ by Lawrence Ingrassia book review

When Regina Ingrassia died at 42, leaving four children, her death seemed cataclysmic but random. “She was one of 318,500 Americans who died of cancer in 1968,” Lawrence Ingrassia, her second-oldest child, writes. “It was tragic, but what was there to say?”

There would be much more to say, sadly. “Cancer was far from done with my family,” Ingrassia writes in his new book, “A Fatal Inheritance.” Eventually, he would lose two sisters, a brother and a nephew to malignancies that seemed to strike out of the blue. It would take years for researchers to be able to answer fundamental questions about the killer that stalked his family.

The political parent trap • Michigan Advance

Politics

Peter Watson

May 12, 2024

The political parent trap • Michigan Advance

Being a working mom requires a lot of juggling. For mothers in the Michigan Legislature, that usually means balancing long commutes, unexpected late-night sessions and weekend meetings with constituents alongside nursing, helping kids with homework, getting them to T-ball practice and much more.

And so even with more women running for office than ever before, there’s still a big “mom gap” in the Legislature. To put a fine point on it, the Michigan Advance reported this week that in the last 100 years since the first woman was elected to the Legislature, only 27 women legislators have ever been mothers of school-aged children while serving. That’s the same number of male lawmakers who are fathers of school-aged children right now.

Unfortunately, this isn’t a surprise when moms remain the majority of primary caregivers — something underscored during the pandemic when thousands of parents suddenly were working at home. And yet it was moms in most households who ended up caring for the kids while scrambling to get their work done and make it through Zoom calls without their toddler shrieking or waddling into frame.

The ‘mom gap’: Few mothers have served in the Michigan Legislature while raising children

When I first started covering the Michigan Capitol two decades ago, it was a decidedly male-dominated club, with the median age probably somewhere in the 40s (if I’m being generous). After the Great Recession hit and layoffs decimated the press corps, you could count the number of female members on one hand (and I was the only mom for awhile).

Things have changed a lot these days, with women, mostly in their 20s, dominating our ranks. But there’s still a big mom gap in the media. And I completely understand why.

Being a reporter isn’t a 9 to 5 job and covering politics can be … a lot. There are plenty of people without kids who leave journalism because they say it’s too hard to achieve a good work-life balance. When you have tiny humans who need you to survive, that frankly becomes impossible at times.

My journalism career almost ended up being over before it started, after I became pregnant with my first child shortly after getting my first real job at an Iowa newspaper. As I was running around covering state budget cuts and school events, while my husband and I excitedly painted the nursery and stocked up on newborn clothes, I didn’t realize that some editors had decided I must not be that dedicated to my career. (So much for having it all).

For the next couple of years, I tried to impress them, volunteering for any assignment. But occasionally, I had to take my daughter with when my childcare fell through, like when I was covering former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean campaigning during the 2004 Iowa caucuses. (While he seemed charmed by my baby, he still didn’t really answer my question on his health care plan).

At the next couple newspapers I worked for, I learned my lesson and didn’t even put photos of my kid on my desk. I can’t definitely say it helped me land better jobs …. but I don’t think it hurt.

By the time I started covering the Michigan Capitol full-time, I was a single mom with no family in the state. I was writing three or four stories a day, plus taking on freelance work so I could plop something into my daughter’s college fund, so my day never ended when she was done with her after-school program. That meant a lot of late nights and weekends working at home, which my boss didn’t like and my single coworkers resented (even though, if anything, I worked even harder just to prove myself).

And then there was plenty of mom guilt, as I had to rush to my kid’s winter concert because the Legislature went late or realized I forgot the plates for her school birthday party and tried not to break down in the car.

Meanwhile, the only female politician I covered who was navigating single parenthood was then-Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, whose kids are the same age as mine. We would occasionally have candid conversations about the struggle after session or committee hearings.

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