Listen To Gregory Doran's Richard II Director's Talk

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrq95dTUz58x8uT3eCuM5jlBOuoNkxx5xx8H_-XSiXNcVEkNYKPczGWHpnkcYr7Tk4x_IQE0bUj5ECOhz0UZCFG-PTKcKCwwgZ1NB8YlDbV7eBIR9wn3Vycbdo8KUJlWnXbDwUpKrEoFX/s1600/David-Greg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTrq95dTUz58x8uT3eCuM5jlBOuoNkxx5xx8H_-XSiXNcVEkNYKPczGWHpnkcYr7Tk4x_IQE0bUj5ECOhz0UZCFG-PTKcKCwwgZ1NB8YlDbV7eBIR9wn3Vycbdo8KUJlWnXbDwUpKrEoFX/s640/David-Greg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On October 16th, Gregory Doran, the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of <i>Richard II</i> gave a talk on the play. An audio recording of the talk has now been uploaded to the RSC's Soundcloud.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Greg Doran spoke about his working relationship with the production's star David Tennant, and what the actor brings to the production.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I knew what a skilled technician he was," he said. "I’d seen him in this [the RSC] company playing both Touchstone in As You Like It and Romeo, and I thought if you can play Touchstone and get the laughs and play Romeo you’ve got a Hamlet in there somewhere. But partly…it’s impossible for David to be anything other than contemporary, and yet he has astonishing facility with the language. He can breathe it as if it’s not 400 years old, and I think he makes the plays shiver into life. He has great versatility. What I loved about his Hamlet was in a way the key line was for us when Hamlet says, “I have of late, and yet I know not why, lost all my mirth,” which must mean that at one point Hamlet had a sense of humour and wasn’t always congenitally the gloomy Dane. That’s a great skill to be able to find the variety within the line.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Greg also confirms that the recorded version of the play will be released on DVD.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to the full recording of the talk here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120127003" width="100%"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant stars in the title role in the production finished its run last night at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. It transfers to the Barbican in London from 9th December till 25th January 2014. The run is currently sold out, but a limited number of tickets will be made available on the day of each performance directly from the Barbican Box Office. Otherwise phone 020 7638 8891 for returns.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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On October 16th, Gregory Doran, the director of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Richard II  gave a talk on the play. An audio...

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Georges St-Pierre wins split decision

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 3 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <div><span style="font-size: large;">Georges St-Pierre wins split decision</span></div><div><a href="http://espn.go.com/">http://espn.go.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LAS VEGAS -- <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335659/georges-st-pierre" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Georges St-Pierre</a> successfully defended the UFC welterweight title a ninth time Saturday, beating <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2354130/johny-hendricks" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Johny Hendricks</a> by split decision before saying he would "go away for a little bit," raising immediate questions on whether the champion is quitting the sport.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But UFC president Dana White insisted in no uncertain terms that he doesn't expect St-Pierre to take any leave of absence and that the promotion will seek to book an immediate rematch with Hendricks.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White also said he was "blown away" by the decision, claiming "Georges knew he lost, his corner knew he lost, Hendricks knew he won, and his corner knew they won."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St-Pierre (25-2), one of the most decorated fighters in UFC history, won via split decision for the first time in front of a sold-out crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two judges scored the five-round title fight 48-47 in favor of the defending champion, while a third saw it 48-47 for Hendricks. ESPN.com scored the bout for Hendricks, 48-47.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a large portion of the crowd booed the decision, St-Pierre took the microphone and announced he needed to "hang up his gloves," for a bit -- but when asked definitively if this would be his last fight, the Canadian champion wavered.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There was a lot of talk about what was going to happen [after this fight]," St-Pierre said. "I have a bunch of stuff in my life happening. I need to hang up my gloves for a little bit.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I will make a point on that a little later, but for right now, I've got to go away for a little bit."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hendricks (15-2), who raised his arms in victory when the fight ended, challenged St-Pierre in every facet of the game. He hurt him several times with his signature left hand and scored key takedowns in the third and fourth rounds.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former NCAA wrestling champion at Oklahoma State University, Hendricks collapsed when the scores were read.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I thought I clearly won the fight," he said.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hendricks expressed no interest in whether St-Pierre retires.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't care about Georges," Hendricks said. "That's what I've said from the very get go. I beat him anyway.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I just want the belt. That UFC belt, right in front of me. That's the only thing pushing me, motivating me. I don't care who has it or who doesn't. I need to get that. That's really my drive. I thought I got it tonight, but I guess I didn't."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White, speaking at his postfight news conference, said he believed St-Pierre would be available to compete again within his typical time frame.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He wants to fight," said White, following a brief closed-door meeting with St-Pierre. "This isn't about fighting. It really isn't about fighting or retiring. It's a personal problem that has him very, very upset right now and I'm very confident we can work it out."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White, in an interview with Fox Sports, said he thought the governor of Nevada should intervene and clean up the state's athletic commission.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Nevada is a very scary place," White said. "This is the worst commission on the planet. I'm afraid to bring fights to Las Vegas."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White cited boxing's decline as an example of the state commission's incompetence, calling it "despicably horrible."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Boxing was so corrupt for many years that the government had to come in and regulate it, but there's some real issues here in Nevada that need to be fixed," White told Fox Sports. "The governor needs to really sit down and make some serious decisions about this athletic commission.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm blown away that Georges St-Pierre won that fight," White added. "I'm the promoter and he's the biggest fighter in the sport. I should be, 'Woo-hoo, these idiots gave it to Georges,' but it's not fair, it's not right. Johny Hendricks won that fight and he deserves to get that fight again."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first round was one of the closest of the entire fight. Hendricks continually tried to measure up the straight left, but stayed busy with jabs and hooks from the right. He attacked St-Pierre's legs with knees during lengthy clinches away from the fence.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first left hand Hendricks threw, St-Pierre took him down on. While that was a major statement for the champion, it was ultimately ineffective, as Hendricks popped immediately back up.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hendricks scored his first major moment in the second frame with a left uppercut on the inside. St-Pierre backed away and tried to reset, but his legs buckled on him and Hendricks smelled blood.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St-Pierre would recover and responded well in the third round. Hendricks scored a big takedown late in the round, but St-Pierre appeared to land the cleaner of the strikes.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hendricks' punches, however, did more visible damage. St-Pierre started to bleed from the nose in the third round and had swelling around both eyes.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I lost my memory a little bit during the fight," St-Pierre said. "I couldn't see. He really messed me up.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was very good at countering my game plan. He's a powerful puncher. I can tell you that."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the fourth and fifth rounds, Hendricks made decisions that may come to haunt him. After executing a beautiful outside trip to get St-Pierre down in the fourth, he stood up and allowed him to get back to his feet.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the fifth, he started smiling at St-Pierre and making facial expressions. St-Pierre pressured him and caught him with a straight right, which he followed with a critical takedown.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St-Pierre has now won a UFC record 19 fights in the Octagon. He extended his current win streak to 12 with the decision.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans KOs his good friend Sonnen</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335465/rashad-evans" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rashad Evans</a> seems to have fully recovered from that two-fight skid.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans (19-3-1) dominated <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335796/chael-sonnen" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chael Sonnen</a> in a first-round TKO victory. It was his second consecutive win and pushes a two-fight losing streak to <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335639/jon-jones" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Jones</a> and <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2381659/antonio-rogerio-nogueira" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Antonio Rogerio Nogueira</a> further behind him.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Said Evans: "I feel great. It's been a long time since I finished a fight in the first round. I know how tough Chael is and what he is capable of so I expected the fight could go the full rounds. The mindset in our camp at Blackzilians is very strong right now and it's getting stronger every day. We're all coming in with an intensity and trying to finish for here on out."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sonnen (28-14-1) tried to employ his typical aggressive style. He moved forward behind the jab in the opening round and shot on Evans within the first five seconds.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Man, he hit me so hard in there. I couldn't believe the amount of power he was able to generate," said Sonnen.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I think I could've stuck in there more minutes if I was in a more advantageous position. I was convinced I could beat him against the cage and in the boxing but he was able to get top position. There's no excuse for losing in the same position multiple times so I definitely need to work on that. I think I can do better at light heavyweight but it's probably time for me to return to middleweight."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans backed up and used the cage to defend the shot. The two then engaged in a long clinch along the fence, battling for position and landing short punches and knees to the body.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was Evans who eventually scored the takedown, pinning Sonnen on his back up against the cage wall. It was a methodical, dominant route to the finish from there.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evans improved his position to half guard and then back mount. He flattened Sonnen out with 90 seconds remaining in the round and landed punches to the side of the head until referee <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/3077208/herb-dean" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Herb Dean</a> called a stop at the 4:05 mark.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawler upsets MacDonald</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At 31, <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2431258/robbie-lawler" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robbie Lawler</a> is rewriting his career -- and the UFC welterweight rankings.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawler (22-9) upset a heavily favored <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2501814/rory-macdonald" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rory MacDonald</a> via split decision, winning over some of the pro-MacDonald crowd in his favor along the way.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two judges scored the 170-pound belt 29-28 for Lawler, while a third saw it 29-28 MacDonald. ESPN.com scored the bout 29-28 in favor of Lawler.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a fantastic, back-and-forth affair, right up to the final bell. Lawler pressed the issue the full 15 minutes, walking MacDonald backwards and shutting down his phenomenal jab and kickboxing game.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MacDonald (15-2) was never hurt in the first round, but it was obvious coming out of the first intermission he wanted to take Lawler down. Lawler's takedown defense was outstanding early, though, as he kept his balance and smiled at his opponent.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fight took a major turn midway through the second round, when MacDonald did earn his first takedown. Lawler failed to work back to his feet and eventually ate a few solid right hands on his back to give MacDonald the round.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawler came out angry in the final round, which actually worked against him at first as MacDonald took him down during a flying knee attempt. Lawler tied him up well off his back though, and referee <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2565501/mario-yamasaki" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mario Yamasaki</a> stood them up quickly.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moments after the standup, Lawler went to work. He clipped MacDonald with a straight left, and then reversed into top position when the Canadian shot in for a quick takedown.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An action-packed third round continued when Lawler signaled MacDonald back to his feet and hurt him again with a combination against the fence. MacDonald complained of an eye-poke, which Yamasaki acknowledged. As Lawler waited for the fight to resume, he smiled to the crowd and nodded his head emphatically.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the restart, Lawler dropped MacDonald, again with the left hand, and followed him to the floor for the finish. MacDonald eventually got back to his feet and took Lawler down in the final minute.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I really wanted to go out there and finish Rory tonight but he trains with one of the best camps in the world and he's super tough and durable," said Lawler after the fight.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I started to tire toward the end of the third round but I've got a lot of heart and I'll always push through no matter what. I spent this camp training in Florida with American Top Team away from my family in Iowa. I always work hard but being away really motivated me to push through all the bumps and bruises in training. It felt great to hear the crowd chanting my name. I think they connect with me because of my tenacity and the way I fight. I always have looked for the finish and I always will. I take chances for the fans."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawler has now recorded three consecutive wins since rejoining the UFC earlier this year. MacDonald, who was the No. 4 ranked welterweight in the world according to ESPN.com headed into the bout, saw a five-fight win streak snapped.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woodley finishes Koscheck by KO</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2501926/tyron-woodley" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tyron Woodley</a> has been around, but he might have just really arrived.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woodley (12-2) scored the biggest win of his career, knocking out <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335664/josh-koscheck" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Josh Koscheck</a> at the 4:38 mark of their welterweight bout. A deadly, counter straight right was what did Koscheck in, planted directly to his chin.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I did a ton of cross training for this fight because I knew Josh is an extremely tough and experienced guy with a lot of skills," said Woodley.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I knew coming in that I'd be very comfortable with him and I was ready to set the pace. When he threw that punch I was prepared to counter. We drilled that counter a thousand times and I was ready to connect on it. If you look at my record my fights are all against top guys like <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2486937/jake-shields" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jake Shields</a> and<a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2431360/jay-hieron" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Hieron</a>. I'm trying to make my mark out there and if <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2501814/rory-macdonald" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rory MacDonald</a> wins I want him next. I want to fight the top guys and I've got the skills to beat them."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A former No. 1 contender at 170 pounds in Strikeforce, Woodley was outstanding in his second Octagon win. He knocked down Koscheck (17-8) in the opening moments of the fight with a jab, right combination and defended a long takedown attempt against the fence after Koscheck jumped back to his feet.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once they broke off the fence, another overhand right landed for Woodley off a level change. He nearly swept Koscheck off his feet with a leg kick moments later, then dropped him a second time with another counter right.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Referee <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/3077208/herb-dean" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Herb Dean</a> allowed Koscheck to continue, despite taking four to five hammering rights by Woodley on the floor. Dean eventually stood the two up, after Koscheck tied up Woodley for a lengthy period from his back.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With less than a minute in the round, Koscheck looked to make up for lost ground. He came forward with his notorious overhand right -- which seemed to be exactly what Woodley expected.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woodley slipped the punch before coming back with a devastating right of his own. Koscheck's legs gave out visibly and Woodley connected on two more blistering punches as he fell to his back.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Koscheck suffered his third consecutive defeat, the last two of which have come via knockout. <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2431258/robbie-lawler" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robbie Lawler</a> finished him in less than four minutes at UFC 157 in February. Woodley improved to 2-1 in the UFC.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bagautinov's UFC debut ends with victory</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/3044633/ali-bagautinov" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ali Bagautinov</a> did not appear nervous in his UFC debut -- at all.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bagautinov (12-2) scored a unanimous decision win over <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2614020/tim-elliott" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Elliott</a> in his first UFC performance, showcasing a high level of composure along the way. Judges scored the flyweight bout 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 for the Russian.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a 15-minute cat-and-mouse game between the two, as Bagautinov circled away from Elliott and relied heavily on his counter punching. The strategy frustrated Elliott early. He ran into multiple right hands, especially in the first round.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I wanted to make the biggest statement possible tonight. I give nothing less than 110 percent whether I'm in training or in the octagon and I think it showed," said Bagautinov. "My cardio wasn't as strong as I expected it to be in this fight. Physically I'm very prepared and able but I think the climate change and the nerves of visiting and fighting in America for the first time affected me."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elliott (10-4-1) made small adjustments in the second round, mostly behind a steadier diet of the jab. He came forward aggressively with a flying knee at one point, then transitioned to a guillotine attempt as Bagautinov took him down.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The guillotine looked tight but Bagautinov never appeared close to going out. He stood up with Elliott still in the hold and managed to shrug him off.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The final round, like the rest of the fight, was a chess match. Elliott continued to track Bagautinov down, but ended up mostly eating right hands in the process.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 26-year-old Elliott did finish strong, hip tossing Bagautinov to the ground before nailing him flush with a knee to the face as he scrambled back up. The strong finish wasn't enough to nudge him ahead on the scorecards.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Said Elliott: "I thought I did enough to win tonight. I won the third round for sure. I've left it in the hands of the judges my last two fights and I honestly think that they've beaten me both times. I guess I just have to go back to the gym and work harder to get the finish so this doesn't happen again."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bagautinov extended his win streak to 10 with the decision. He's been perfect since suffering back-to-back decision losses in 2011. Elliott lost for the second time in the UFC. He came up short in a decision loss to <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2609397/john-dodson" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Dodson</a> in May 2012.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cerrone destroys Dunham in Round 2</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The good <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2479918/donald-cerrone" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Donald Cerrone</a> showed up against <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335772/evan-dunham" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evan Dunham</a>. The real good one.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cerrone (21-6) cruised through a durable opponent in Dunham, submitting him via triangle at 3:49 of the second round.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since transferring to the UFC as a member of the WEC lightweight roster in 2011, Cerrone has already accumulated eight wins, including five finishes.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This fight was big for me. I told myself that if I didn't go out there and perform like I know I'm capable of then I would've retired," said Cerrone.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's a lot of pressure to put on yourself but it really helped me get back that inner fire and drive that I haven't had in a long time. The money starts to come and people start to recognize you and the drive slips. I always told myself that wouldn't happen to me but it did. Tonight before the fight I felt that nervous energy that I haven't felt in several fights. You can't get that feeling anywhere else in the world. It only happens right before you make that walk to the octagon and I needed to feel that. It reminded me why I love this so much."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dunham (14-5) wanted the fight on the ground early, but Cerrone easily thwarted a takedown attempt in the opening seconds. A hard knee to the body sent Dunham backing up and Cerrone dropped him shortly after with a right hand.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Referee Mario Yamasaki was all over the action as Cerrone swarmed for the finish. Dunham, who had only been finished once prior to this loss, somehow managed to survive -- and escape an omaplata attempt by Cerrone in the ensuing scramble.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wearing a cut over his left eye heading into the second round, Dunham once again shot an unsuccessful early takedown. He tried to rally on his feet, landing a hard right hand as Cerrone looked for the Thai clinch, and then a jab.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cerrone scored his first takedown of the fight midway through the round, however, and locked in the triangle after Dunham escaped out the back end. It marks the first time Dunham has been submitted.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The win improved Cerrone's UFC record to 8-3. He's been in title contention twice in that span, but losses to <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335679/nate-diaz" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nate Diaz</a> and <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2504171/anthony-pettis" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anthony Pettis</a> cooled the discussion. Dunham fell to 6-5 lifetime in the Octagon and 1-3 in his last four.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another impressive victory for Leites</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335449/thales-leites" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thales Leites</a>' second run within the UFC is off to a nice start.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leites, 33, recorded his second win since re-signing with the UFC earlier this year, defeating<a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335754/ed-herman" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed Herman</a> via unanimous decision. It was a one-sided victory for Leites, who once fought for the UFC middleweight title, as all three scores read 30-27.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm really happy but I didn't submit him when I had control so I'm disappointed in that part of my performance," said Leites. "He's very tough and he knew just how to defend against each submission when I tried to pass his guard and improve position. I want to fix some mistakes with my coaches and come back better."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Herman (21-10) had no answer for the grappling pedigree of Leites. An early exchange in the center of the ring had him off-balance, which Leites (22-4) turned into a quick takedown.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Felt flat out there. It just wasn't my night. What can I say," said Herman.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Within two minutes, Leites had passed guard into side control. Herman managed to walk to his feet, but was quickly dragged onto his back again. Leites eventually took his back and threatened with a choke before settling for punches.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A determined Herman came out swinging in the second round. He connected with a right to the body, but Leites calmly ducked under a haymaker and scored another easy takedown. He would take Herman's back again momentarily, but mostly seemed content controlling him on the ground.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Las Vegas crowd grew restless in the third, as Leites walked through a right uppercut to clinch Herman along the fence. In maybe his best moment of the fight, Herman turned Leites into the cage and landed a sharp left hook to the chin.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Exhausted from the grappling exchanges, however, Herman failed to follow up the punch and was shortly on his back once again, despite a blatant fence grab to stay up.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leites has now won five consecutive bouts, dating back to August 2010. He scored a unanimous decision win over <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2557945/tom-watson" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Watson</a> in August, his first fight with the UFC since 2009. Herman fell to 8-6 overall in the Octagon.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story outclasses Ebersole</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2500630/rick-story" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rick Story</a> couldn't quite get a finish over <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2500138/brian-ebersole" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Ebersole</a>, but it was clear from start to finish he wouldn't be denied a win.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">Story (16-7) took every round against Ebersole according to the judges' scorecards, hurting his veteran opponent several times along the way. It was an impressive performance by the Washington-based fighter, who was 2-4 in his previous six.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I just want to thank Brian for putting on a great show with me," said Story after the fight. "It was a good tough fight and I think I got the best of him by the end of it. Those kicks to the knee really started to hurt him toward the end. I could see his facial expressions and footing start to change so I just kept throwing them and tried to chop him down. I'm happy I got to perform for the fans and getting the win is a bonus. Also, a big thanks to the UFC and my team for supporting me."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The physical style and pace of Story wore on Ebersole (50-16-1) from the opening bell. Using his jab as a range finder, Story found a frequent home for his straight left in the first round, mixing in heavy, resounding body punches along the way.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Following a one-sided first, Ebersole did all he could in the middle frame to slow the welterweight's pace. He had some success dictating range and keeping Story on the end of his jab, but none of the punches seemed to hurt Story in any way.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A hard right hook to the body by Story with a minute left highlighted the second round, followed by a back-and-forth exchange in the closing seconds. Ebersole nearly went down by a right hook, but opened a cut over Story's left eye.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's tough to go out there coming off an injury," said Ebersole. "I had three ripped disks from my fight with <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2335670/chris-lytle" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Lytle</a> and I've tried to fight through it for the last four camps. It's starting to take its toll. The kicks he landed to the knee at the end were well placed. The first three didn't hurt but the last two definitely did."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ahead two rounds, Story still came out hungry in the third. His punches grew wider as fatigue set in, but a left hand rocked Ebersole with 90 seconds left in the fight. An outside leg kick had Ebersole limping badly in the final minute.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Story has now alternated wins and losses in his last five bouts. The 29-year-old spent eight weeks training alongside St-Pierre at Tristar Gym in Montreal in anticipation for this bout. Ebersole suffered his second consecutive loss.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><h4 style="border: 0px; color: black; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perez back on track with UD win over Figueroa</h4><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Less than three months after suffering his first UFC setback, Mexican bantamweight <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2960677/erik-perez" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik Perez</a> is back in the win column.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perez (14-5) outclassed <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2555761/edwin-figueroa" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edwin Figueroa</a> on the floor and emerged from several exchanges on the feet en route to a unanimous decision win. All three judges scored the bout a sweep, 30-27.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I was very well prepared tonight," Perez said. "My game plan was to go toe to toe and win the fight round by round. I'm very emotional after this win because I feel like I did what I was supposed to and I was rewarded for it.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I lost my last fight because I was under a lot of pressure and got away from the strategy. I fixed those mistakes tonight and it really paid off."</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Takedowns were a crucial part of Perez's success, as it was obvious Figueroa (9-4) preferred a standup fight. Figueroa looked to counter Perez leg kicks early with punching combinations but surrendered his first takedown quickly.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That became the story of the fight, as Figueroa would work slowly back to his feet only to be taken down again. Even when Figueroa did have space on the feet, Perez frequently landed the cleaner shots while setting up his takedowns.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A winging overhand right by Perez scored a knockdown in the second round. Figueroa recovered quickly and actually answered with a strong right uppercut standing against the cage. Perez backed off, then shot and lifted Figueroa into the air before slamming him to the mat.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The final round mirrored the first two. Perez attempted a few flashy strikes, including a spinning back kick that missed, before shooting in for a takedown. He spent the majority of the round landing short punches from top position.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perez improved to 4-1 in the Octagon. His only loss came at UFC Fight Night 27 in August via split decision to <a href="http://espn.go.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2447635/takeya-mizugaki" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225fb2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Takeya Mizugaki</a>. Figueroa likely closed out what's been a difficult 2013 calendar year, going winless in three UFC appearances.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>

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AP IMPACT: Seeking lung donors after at-home death [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="yom-ad-LREC" class="yom-ad yom-ad-LREC"> <center> <div id="yom-ad-LREC-iframe" class="yom-ad"></div> </center> </div> <p><br></p> <p>The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they’ll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set.</p> <div class="body-slot-mod"> <div class="yom-remote"> <div class="yom-loading" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div> </div> </div> <p>It’s a little-known twist of nature — your lungs can live on for a while after you die. The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away as other organs do.</p> <p>An innovative experiment now aims to use that hour or more window of time to boost lung transplants by allowing donations from people who suddenly collapse and die at home instead of in a hospital.</p> <p>“There aren’t enough lungs. We’re burying them,” said Dr. Thomas Egan of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who is leading the project. “It turns out your lungs don’t die when you do.”</p> <p>This is a new frontier for transplants.</p> <p>Today, registered organ donors don’t get to fulfill that last wish if they die outside of a hospital. The U.S. doesn’t have a system to recover their organs quickly enough. It can be an added shock to grieving families, and a waste of potentially good organs that might ease transplant shortages.</p> <p>“The general public does not understand how hard it is to become an organ donor. They assume if they sign their card, when they die, then it will happen,” said bioethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “Only 2 to 3 percent of people die in circumstances that let them be organ donors.”</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="In this recent photo, research associate Lolita Forrest …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="225px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">In this recent photo, research associate Lolita Forrest assists Dr. Thomas Egan in testing a set of  …</div> </div> <p>The new study in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina is trying to change that, focusing on lungs because Egan’s research suggests they last the longest.</p> <p>Here’s how it works.</p> <p>Someone collapses with cardiac arrest. Emergency workers exhaust attempts at CPR. If the driver’s license lists the person as a registered donor, the local organ recovery agency tracks down next-of-kin for permission to participate in the research.</p> <p>If that happens within about an hour of death, then workers pump a little air into the lungs to preserve them while the body is transported to an operating room for organ recovery.</p> <p>Workers wheeled a cooler bearing the first set of lungs donated in the experiment into Egan’s lab for the next crucial step — determining if they’re really healthy.</p> <p>Inside the science fiction-looking domed machine, a ventilator slowly filled the lungs. They resembled a turkey awaiting roasting. Some black speckles on the outside didn’t worry Egan. They’re a sign of city living, or maybe earlier smoking. It’s deeper inside that counts.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Thomas Egan talks …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="200px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Dr. Thomas Egan talks about his lung transplant research in his lab at  …</div> </div> <p>Egan infused them with a special fluid that flows like blood normally would. This so-called ex vivo lung perfusion preserves the lungs even longer. It can tell if they transfer oxygen properly or help spot signs of disease. Egan also peeked inside with a bronchoscope, looking for abnormalities.</p> <p>These lungs didn’t pass the test because Egan found some early disease. But they did show it was possible to get a donation in time to try.</p> <p>Lungs that do pass will be transplanted into patients willing to take a chance on these nontraditional organs, as part of the study funded by the National Institutes of Health.</p> <p>“That would be the greatest thing, to be able to breathe normal,” said Lisa Bowman, 51, of Union Grove, N.C.</p> <p>Bowman has been on the waiting list for new lungs for two years after a rare genetic disease gradually damaged her own until, she says, it became like “breathing through a pinhole.” She hopes Egan’s research will help her find a match more quickly.</p> <p>Some previous U.S. attempts at out-of-hospital donation of another organ, kidneys, didn’t pan out because of logistical hurdles. But transplant specialists are watching this newest experiment closely, saying that if it works, it eventually could open the way to many more donations — not just lungs but maybe other organs, too.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, an oxygen line leads to …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="228px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, an oxygen line leads to Lisa Bowman as she sits on a sofa at her home i …</div> </div> <p>“We’ve had a number of very disgruntled family members that wanted to donate (a loved one’s organs) and weren’t able to,” said Dr. Jeffrey Punch, transplant surgery chief at the University of Michigan. Spurred by that family reaction, in a few months, his team plans to try recovering kidneys from cardiac arrest victims who are rushed to the emergency room but can’t be saved and turn out to be registered donors.</p> <p>In North Carolina, Egan’s study likewise will try to recover lungs from people who die in the ER as well as in the community.</p> <p>Today, the vast majority of donated organs come from people who suffer a severe injury and are hooked to a ventilator for days, even weeks, until doctors determine they are brain-dead. Machinery keeps blood and oxygen flowing until surgeons can collect organs deemed healthy enough.</p> <p>What about registered donors who collapse with cardiac arrest at home, the office or the gym — and efforts at CPR fail? Experience overseas shows it’s possible to take quick steps to preserve and recover their organs. Doctors in Spain have transplanted kidneys, livers and lungs from these unconventional donors. France has reported some success with kidneys.</p> <p>In the United States, more than 6,000 people died last year while awaiting one of those organs.</p> <p>Lungs are in particularly short supply. Only 15 percent to 20 percent of donated lungs are usable, often because complications during the donor’s hospitalization damaged them. Just 1,700 lungs transplants are performed each year, compared with nearly 11,000 kidney transplants from deceased donors.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="In this recent photo, lungs donated as part of research …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="225px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">In this recent photo, lungs donated as part of research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel  …</div> </div> <p>Egan, a cardiothoracic surgeon, said doctors don’t even suggest the possibility of a lung transplant to thousands who might benefit because there aren’t enough donors.</p> <p>Yet the Institute of Medicine has estimated that as many as 22,000 people a year who die outside of hospitals could be potential organ donors if scientists settle some ethical and practical questions.</p> <p>Buying time to recover those organs means doing some things not normally done to dead bodies, noted bioethicist Caplan, and that can mean ventilating lungs or filtering blood to the kidneys.</p> <p>How will grieving families react? Is it possible to tell who’s a registered donor, and find next-of-kin, in time to try?</p> <p>New York City studied kidney donations after at-home deaths in 2011.</p> <p>Dr. Stephen Wall of Bellevue Hospital Center said community and religious groups met with researchers and were interested. But study rules restricted which deaths were eligible, and researchers had just 20 minutes to get initial family permission. In six months, nine deaths were considered but didn’t qualify, often because the deceased hadn’t previously registered as an organ donor, Wall said. New York is among states with low donor registration rates.</p> <div class="body-related"> <div class="img-wrap"> <div class="cta-overlay"> <span class="cta-text xsmall">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall">.”</span> </div> <p><img alt="In this recent photo, Dr. Thomas Egan uses a bronchoscope …" class="body-related-thumb lzbg" height="225px" src="http://l.yimg.com/os/mit/media/m/base/images/transparent-1093278.png" style="" title="" width="300px"></p> </div> <div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="width: 300px;">In this recent photo, Dr. Thomas Egan uses a bronchoscope to examine donated lungs in his lab at the …</div> </div> <p>Wall’s team is considering trying again with lungs, because of the longer time window.</p> <p>Lung cells don’t depend on blood flow for oxygen, Egan explained. When the heart stops beating, they use what oxygen is left in the air sacs and airways.</p> <p>For how long? In a series of experiments with animals, Egan showed lungs stay viable for an hour, or four hours if they are ventilated, before they’re cooled to await transplant.</p> <p>That ventilation is one key to the $ 4 million, three-year study, because when emergency workers exhaust attempts at CPR and declare someone dead, they typically leave behind the breathing tube inserted in the person’s throat. That makes it simple to restart ventilation to preserve the lungs, Egan said.</p> <p>“If we can get the lungs ventilated within an hour, and then removed within an hour or two and cooled, we think they’ll work just fine,” he said.</p> <p>Kidneys don’t have as long a survival window. But in Michigan, Punch has a similar preservation plan: Insert a few tubes near the kidneys to filter blood to them until they’re recovered.</p> <p>Fast retrieval isn’t the only issue. Surgeons don’t know if nontraditional organs work as well, cautioned Dr. Bryan Meyers of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.</p> <p>Chest X-rays and other in-hospital donor testing determine the quality of today’s traditionally donated lungs.</p> <p>“This trial is very timely and very pertinent,” Meyers said, to see if testing in that domed machine could substitute for that hospital track record.</p> <p>Egan notes that lung disease is the nation’s third-leading killer. He says the untapped pool of potential donors who die outside of the hospital could expand transplants significantly.</p> <p>“There are huge logistical hurdles,” he said. “But if we’re right, this would have a profound impact on the number of lungs that are available for transplant.”</p> <p>__</p> <p>AP National Writer Allen G. Breed in Chapel Hill, N.C., contributed to this report.</p> <ul id="topics" class="hidden"> <li>Health</li> <li>Disease & Medical Conditions</li> </ul><p></p> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 3 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Petty (5 TDs), No. 4 Baylor throttle Texas Tech</span></div><div><a href="http://www.cbssports.com/">http://www.cbssports.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.25px; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">ARLINGTON, Texas -- The big offensive numbers come so easy for No. 4 Baylor.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.25px; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">What is most impressive to Bears coach Art Briles is how his team, without several key offensive players, responded after quickly facing its first double-digit deficit of the season.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.25px; margin-bottom: 0.6em;"></div><div class="storyBody" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="storyCopy" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.35em;"><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Baylor is still undefeated, with a chance to move into the top four of the BCS standings, after Bryce Petty again accounted for five touchdowns in a 63-34 victory Saturday night over Texas Tech.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">"When you're down 14-0, you're down 20-7, and then you withstand that surge against a good team and come back and finish the way we finished as a team, and to me, that's impressive," Briles said. "That shows you have a tough football team, a tough-minded football team that's mature and believes in what's happening inside the locker room."</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Petty threw three TD passes and ran for two scores for the second game in a row. His 31-yard pass to Antwan Goodley for a 31-yard score with 4 seconds in the first quarter made it 21-20, putting Baylor (9-0, 6-0 Big 12) ahead to stay. Goodley's Big 12-best 11th TD catch came immediately after K.J. Morton intercepted a pass.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">The Bears stretched their school-record winning streak to 13 games. They are the outright Big 12 leader after No. 23 Texas absorbed its first conference loss earlier in the day, and are one of six undefeated FBS teams.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">"Tonight showed us a lot. We're a resilient team," said Petty, who was 17-of-31 passing for 335 yards. "I think there's a lot of talent involved, but we have a lot of guys that work hard. And that's what you've got to have. It's more than just talent. You've got to have those guys that are going to push through a little adversity."</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Texas Tech (7-4, 4-4), which scored touchdowns on its first three drives and led 14-0 only 8 minutes into the game, lost its fourth straight since a 7-0 start for first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">"We knew that they were going to score. They scored on everybody," Kingsbury said. "It's a great offense, it really is. ... The quarterback is really good and receivers everywhere. We knew they'd score. We just had to limit it and limit our mistakes, and we didn't do that."</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Kingsbury was the starting quarterback at Texas Tech when Briles was an assistant coach there from 2000-02.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Baylor played its first game since Briles this week got a new 10-year contract through the 2023 season. The coach is in his sixth season with the Bears, who had 12 consecutive losing seasons since the inception of the Big 12 when he arrived.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Next week, the Bears play at No. 12 Oklahoma State (9-1, 6-1), which won 38-13 at Texas hours earlier.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Baylor was fifth in the BCS standings last week, behind Stanford -- which lost for the second time this season, 20-17 to Southern California on Saturday night.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">The Bears played without their top two running backs, Big 12 rushing leader Lache Seastrunk (groin) and Glasco Martin (knee), and 103-yard-a-game receiver Tevin Reese. All got banged up in the Bears' 41-12 win over Oklahoma nine nights earlier, Reese the most serious with a dislocated right wrist that required surgery and will force him to miss at least the rest of the regular season.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">And they still surpassed their FBS-best scoring average of 61 points that was already on pace to break a major college scoring record. They had 675 total yards, only 11 below their nation's best average.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Shock Linwood, effectively the Bears' third-string running back, ran 29 times for 187 yards and a touchdown while Devin Chafin, another redshirt freshman, had 11 carries for 100 yards and two TDs. Levi Norwood had TD catches of 40 and 58 yards, and also returned a punt 58 yards for a score that cut the gap to 20-14.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Linwood had 182 yards after coming in against Oklahoma and was the Big 12 player of the week.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">"I believe it gave me confidence for me to go out there and perform like I did," Linwood said.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Baker Mayfield, Tech's starting quarterback for the first time since the fifth game, completed 28 of 51 passes for 314 yards and four touchdowns. His only pick came when he threw a pass right into the chest of the leaping Morton.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Bears kicker Aaron Jones became the NCAA career leader for extra points with nine more, pushing his career mark to 260. The previous record was the 253 by Art Carmody of Louisville from 2004-07.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Standout tight end Jace Amaro had touchdown catches on the Red Raiders' first two drives. There was a 6-yard TD on a halfback pass from Kenny Williams on the 15th play of a game-opening 75-yard drive before Amaro got wide open for a 20-yard score from Mayfield the next time they had the ball.</div><div style="line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0.6em;">Amaro took a crushing hit from Ahmad Dixon while holding on for an 18-yard catch to the 4, two plays before Mayfield's 3-yard TD to Jakeem Grant with 4:28 left in the first half got the Red Raiders within 28-27.</div></div></div><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Copyright 2013 by STATS LLC. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC is strictly prohibited.</i></div></div>

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Happy Thanksgiving! Tips For Caring For A Feathered Friend [ BeritaTerkini ]

<p>The two-legged species known as humans are the proud "parents" of all different types of animals: dogs, cats, turtles, lizards, hamsters, ferrets and even horses. So, why not birds? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you decided to raise and love a parakeet or a canary? Would it be strange to hear your parents tell you to "walk the bird"? What would you feed it? How long does it live? Is it friendly? Did you know birds are the third most popular choice of pets in America, after dogs and cats?</p> <p>Every year, the President of the United States pardons one very lucky turkey, allowing the relieved and grateful fellow to enjoy his holiday not on someone's dinner plate. Now, just because the Commander in Chief grants one lucky turkey his freedom, it doesn't mean the gobbler gets to spend the rest of his life in the White House. While birds make great pets, think long and hard before you decide to adopt an eagle or toucan.</p> <p>First of all, turkeys should be raised in farm areas, where they have plenty of room to exercise and move. Unless you have a large, fenced in backyard, it's probably not a good idea to let your gobbling companion run around Times Square or Hollywood Boulevard. However, that doesn't mean you have to go the rest of your life without hearing the sweet sounds of chirping and flapping wings. Many birds, such as Parakeets and Cockatoos make great pets. But pet parent beware: some birds have big personalities and attitudes, so be prepared to go through some "roommate bonding" first with your winged diva. It is also important to get along with your new feathered friend because you two will most likely grow old together. For example, Amazons can live up to 50 years while Cockatoos can enjoy middle age in their forties!</p> <p><img alt="3409725350_af153ec772_z" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33884" height="220" src="http://animalfair.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3409725350_af153ec772_z-261x220.jpg" width="261"></p> <p>Some birds, like Canaries and Finches, are seedeaters, which means that, well, they eat seeds. Aside from the obvious, these types of birds (Hard Bills), will eat certain types of plants and some insects. Other birds, like Parakeets and Cockatiels, are Hook Bills and generally feed on bark, plants and fruits. Almost all of your bird food needs can be found at your local pet store.</p> <p>After eating, comes an inevitable cleanup and birds definitely make you work. Make sure there is plenty of newspaper on the bottom of Polly's cage, so cleaning any waste or excess food is easy for you. Not only is it a quick tidy-up, but your bird gets to check out the Style section while he or she eats! Loving a bird isn't much different than loving a dog: instead of barking, they chirp, instead of wagging their tails, they flap their feathers! Now, while it may take a while to form a bond with your pet bird, you two will have a good 30 to 40 years to create memories and friendship. </p> <p><br><br></p><h3>Bark about it!</h3> <p> comments</p> <p class="tags">Tags: age, amazon, animal, animal fair, Animal Fair Magazine, animalfair.com, animals, beak, bill, bird, birds, canaries, canary, chirp, city, cockatiel, cockatoo, eagle, feathers, finch, finches, food, gobble, holiday, Holidays, hollywood boulevard, Humane Society, Humane Society of the United States, life, Lucky, lucky diamond, Parakeet, pardon, pet pourri, pets, president, thanksgiving, times square, toucan, turkey, wendy diamond, wings</p> jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();});<br><br>

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Nobel prize

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131117&t=2&i=812607444&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=580&pl=378&r=CBRE9AG17E300" width="600"/><br /><p>Credit: Reuters/Kieran Doherty/Files</p><br /><p>1 of 2. British novelist Doris Lessing is seen smiling on the doorstep of her house, after she had won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in London in this October 11, 2007 file photograph. Lessing died on November 17, 2013, her publisher said on Sunday.</p><br /><p>Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so.</p><br /><p>She died peacefully at her London home in the early hours of the morning, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement.</p><br /><p>'She was a wonderful writer with a fascinating and original mind; it was a privilege to work for her and we shall miss her immensely,' her agent Jonathan Clowes said.</p><br /><p>Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30.</p><br /><p>(Reporting by William James; Editing by Kevin Liffey)</p><br /></div>

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Credit: Reuters/Kieran Doherty/Files 1 of 2. British novelist Doris Lessing is seen smiling on the doorstep of her house, after she had won ...

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