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Detroit LionsNew documentary attempts to get to the heart of the legendary running back’s decision to quit the game while still in his prime Barry Sanders’s 1999 NFL retirement still smarts. Jim Brown and Michael Jordan at least pivoted toward new pursuits (acting and, in MJ’s case, baseball for a while) and with their legacies secure. Sanders was 31, ringless and a season or so shy of becoming the NFL’s all-time rushing leader when he spun away to London to escape the press, faxing a goodbye letter to his home town newspaper on the eve of the Detroit Lions’ training camp.

Dinosaurs This article is more than 12 years oldDinosaur had a 'motorcycle helmet' skull for head-butting love rivalsThis article is more than 12 years oldScans and computer modelling suggest the skull of a dinosaur called Stegoceras was built to deliver vicious head buttsA small, two-legged dinosaur that browsed leaves and berries in the forests of the late Cretaceous fought off rivals by unleashing some of the most formidable head butts ever seen, say scientists.

Celebrity how we metLife and styleActor Abbington, 48, and stunt performer Goodwin, 42, met through social media and became engaged on their first date in Vienna. They live together in Hertfordshire Actor Amanda Abbington and stunt performer Jonathan Goodwin first connected on Twitter in 2012. “We were both in relationships at the time, but we admired each other’s work and occasionally liked each other’s tweets,” says Amanda. Years later, when they were both single, their messages to each other became gradually more flirty.

How do I become …MoneyA thirst for travel, good practical and communication skills and five years of taste training are part of the craft of a cuppaIt was described, in a recent advertisement, as “the best job in the country, but one that few know exists”. Successful applicants would travel the world from India to Argentina and their primary function would be to drink tea. Tea tasting is an art as rarefied as whisky blending or wine connoisseurship, but even the humblest supermarket teabag is the result of hours of expert sipping, grading and blending.

BoxingObituaryKirkland Laing obituaryGifted British welterweight boxer who was tipped for greatness but was quickly undone by his partying lifestyle Kirkland Laing, who has died aged 66, is often regarded as the best British boxer never to have won a world title, largely because of an extraordinary win he posted in 1982 when he outpointed the great Panamanian Roberto Durán by a split decision in a ten round non-title bout in Detroit.

MusicReviewO2 Brixton Academy, London Shirtless young men go feral to these blown-out anthems, but the teenager’s showmanship still has room to improve Unlike his SoundCloud rap progenitors, the Kid Laroi isn’t in the business of lowercase sadness, but brutally attention-claiming capital letters: like his song titles, he loudly styles it LAROI. Since his ascent in 2019, the 18-year-old Kamilaroi rapper has collaborated with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Machine Gun Kelly and Justin Bieber, making nine-figure streams sprinting towards the billions look like light work.

Mexico This article is more than 3 years oldArchaeologists in Mexico identify first Mayan slave shipThis article is more than 3 years oldShip had been used to take Mayas captured during an 1847-1901 rebellion to work in sugarcane fields in Cuba Archaeologists in Mexico have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found. Mexico’s Amlo proposes referendum on prosecuting country’s ex-presidentsRead moreThe wreck of the Cuban-based paddle-wheel steamboat was found in 2017, but wasn’t identified until researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History checked contemporary documents and found it was the ship “La Unión”.

Georgia Kevin Davis's sister: 'They didn't allow us to see him in the hospital' – video Delisa Davis, sister of Kevin Davis, says police in Georgia did not allow her family to visit her brother after he had been shot by a DeKalb County police officer. Kevin Davis remained cuffed to his hospital bed until he died on 31 December. 'He was just a great guy,' Delisa Davis told the Guardian's Jon Swaine.

Retail industry This article is more than 5 years oldThis article is more than 5 years oldThousands of workers have been fired and outrage has been directed at the stewardship of billionaire CEO Eddie Lampert Ondrea Patrick had worked at the Kmart in Rockford, Illinois for nine years. In September, Patrick’s store announced it would close as its owner, Sears Holdings, struggled with falling sales and mounting debts. A month later, Sears, once the world’s largest retailer and a part of America’s cultural fabric for more than 100 years, filed for bankruptcy – putting thousands of workers’ jobs at risk.