The Hall of Fame forward carved out a niche on the floor by being a double-double machine. Barkley earned the 1992-93 MVP award while leading Phoenix to the NBA Finals, and he won gold medals for Team USA in '92 and '96 Olympics. He won the rebounding title for Philadelphia in 1986-...
Fardin Hedayati of Iran won a gold medal at the Budapest Ranking Series Saturday night. TEHRAN (Iran News)–He earned stylish victory over Iakobi Kajaia in the 130kg weight class, beating his Georgian opponent 5-0. The bronze medals went to Hungarian Darius Attila Vitek and Romania’s Alin...
The Iranian team won two gold, three silver, and one bronze medal at the sporting event held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Gholam-Reza Farrokhi in the 82 kg category and Ali-Akbar Yousefi in the 130 kg category won gold medals. Other Iranian athletes, Mehdi Ahadi (55 kg), ...
The number of university rankings proliferated in the 2000s against a background of reforms in higher education (HE) and the development of a discourse on academic ‘excellence’. The analysis of the emergence and treatment in the French press of the so-called ‘Shanghai ranking’, the first ...
Eileen Marie Collins (born November 19, 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work...