Peter Jenkins is Rugby Union Correspondent of The Australian Man of the match: Owen Finegan Australia were on the canvas in the first round, now the Lions hit the deck in the second - this is turning into quite a heavyweight contest, and who knows what will happen in the third?
Movistar are a strong and experienced outfit, if not quite as heavyweight as Team Sky; they should do the job in the team time trial – assuming they are there at close to full strength Weaknesses Historically, Colombians struggle in the Tour's first week.
The real news at Microprocessor Forum, which continues into its second day in San Jose, Calif., was about the brewing competition between Intel –the semiconductor industry's not-quite-invincible heavyweight champ and Transmeta, the upstart young company focused on taking a part of Intel's share of the mobile PC market.
Portman has never quite seemed a heavyweight player before now – I wasn't convinced by her in her other Venice feature, eccentric French period piece Planetarium – but in Jackie she gives an authoritatively nuanced performance.
Will Self in the Financial Times admired Geoff Dyer's collection of essays, Working the Room, even if it "doesn't quite pack a heavyweight punch... Dyer, who makes much of his writerly lifestyle, revolving through the world high and unanchored... sometimes strikes me as a sort of kidult sage – but then that would be an oxymoron".
A classic masterfully written biography of the devastatingly self destructive, and quite misunderstood main character, heavyweight boxer and world champion Charles Sonnyy" Liston.
The subtext is obviously about Mike Tyson, who was quite short for a heavyweight and yet he punched really hard and probably gave some of his opponents brain damage.
More than that, to somehow nudge the narrative into an area that – while not quite Kubrickian – allowed for some heavyweight philosophical/spiritual musing on death and rebirth.
The hostility between Stephens and Williams was never quite like that between two heavyweight boxers before a fight, or Knicks-Nets, for that matter, but there was a discernible layer of frost.
The shoulder injury that he thought might end it all was wholly rehabilitated, stronger than ever he says, and at 34 he is ready to resume a career that flowered brilliantly at cruiserweight, but never quite established itself in the heavyweight division.
