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Latino in America 2: In Her Corner
Aired October 1, 2011 - 20:00 ET
MARLEN ESPARZA, NATIONAL BOXING CHAMPION: When you beat somebody in the ring, you're not just beating them up or something. You're, like, beating the entire symbolism of them. You're beating who they are. SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN PRESENTS HOST (voice-over): Marlen Esparza's early mornings always start with math. How much to eat. How far to run. How many pounds, sprints, crunches. How many endless hours of training will it take to win. (On camera): Why are you here every day? ESPARZA: Because I want to win. This is my life and this is what I do, like, and I can honestly say, like, this is who I am. Like, right here, you're with it. You see it. This is what I do. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen is the five-time national boxing champion. CARMEN, MARLEN'S MOTHER: Morning. ESPARZA: Good morning. O'BRIEN: She only interrupts her training to work at this Houston dental office with her mother, Carmen. CARMEN: I've seen her come in and she's all, like, just pouring down sweat. And when she's training really hard, I'm like, Marlen, you want to eat something? She's like, no, I can't. I can't. She makes me want to cry when she does that. O'BRIEN: The family struggles to find the money for national tournaments. CARMEN: I've gone as far as even here at work. To say, hey, we -- you know, we don't have the money to send her. Even the girls here at work have said, you know, here's 20. Here's 60. O'BRIEN: It all has to add up. The money. The training. Even her lunch. Marlen is a flyweight. She has to weigh in at 112 pounds at 5'3". ESPARZA: I'm 21, and I have, like, all these injuries. And I'm, like, always sore and always tired. I've been doing this since I was, like, 11, so I've been doing this for a really long time with intense workouts. So I just have to make sure that I train my body right. O'BRIEN: Before boxing, she was the chubby youngest sister of four. And a troublemaker. ESPARZA: I always had the last word. And -- O'BRIEN (on camera): You were mouthy? ESPARZA: Yes, very, very. Quick tongue. It was like people would get frustrated with me really fast. And I was like -- O'BRIEN: So you were smart but mouthy. ESPARZA: Yes. O'BRIEN: Bad combination. (Voice-over): Then her parents got divorced. Her siblings began to move out. Boxing sustained her. ESPARZA: Probably if I didn't have boxing, it would have probably messed me up, like, mentally. Because, you know, I don't care what anybody says. To have all your family just, like, go off in one shot, it's hard to deal with. O'BRIEN: Marlen ended up living with her father, David. She dedicated her life to training. DAVID, MARLEN'S FATHER: For the past three or four years, she's grown up and she hasn't got a chance to go out and meet the boyfriend, meet -- go with the girls and dance and have a good time. And she never has time for that. O'BRIEN: Her coach, Rudy Silva, took a central role in her life. (On camera): What's her greatest weakness? RUDY SILVA, MARLEN'S COACH: Sometimes she's -- she goes after you so much that she'll stay a little high. But that's not even that -- that bad. O'BRIEN: Sounds like he's saying you have no weaknesses. ESPARZA: Oh, I have a lot. I hear them all the time. O'BRIEN: So what does he say are your weakness is? ESPARZA: Like, every day something different, I guess. Whatever's wrong that day. I was, like, 16 or something. They presented me with the most promising Mexican or something. O'BRIEN (voice-over): She became national champ at 16 and dreamed of the Olympics. But women couldn't box in the games, even though they compete in every other sport. ESPARZA: This one's heavy. Every single national tournament I've entered, I've won. O'BRIEN: She also became an academic star. ESPARZA: I was, like, on the debate team. I was in the National Honor Society. I was president of my class. I was in all AP classes. And I had, like, a 4.6-something. O'BRIEN: Then, some exciting news. The Olympics decide to add women's boxing for 2012. ESPARZA: When I was, like, in elementary, like, I was really into Greek mythology and stuff like that. I always thought, like, the Olympic Games are, like, and I wanted to go. And it just ended up being boxing. O'BRIEN: Marlen postpones college to pursue Olympic dreams. ESPARZA: Just another day. DAVID: Boxing for me has always been my number one sport. I was born in Mexico. My kids are Mexican-Americans. Making the Olympics team, that would be something that any parent, I don't care who it is or what race they are. They're going to feel what I'm feeling right now. And we don't know how to behave, sometimes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marlen Esparza. O'BRIEN: There are eight spots at the Olympic trials. As the national champion, she's offered the first. (On camera): The Olympics the goal. Big goal. ESPARZA: Yes. It's huge. It's probably -- I honestly, truly feel like if I go to the Olympics and medal that I could probably be totally happy for the rest of my life. Yes. Like, completely happy. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen is on her way. When suddenly her competitors sue, saying Marlen should have to fight them first for one of the coveted spots. ESPARZA: It's stressful. It's something that I've been working for my whole life. And then not only did this come out of nowhere, but then there's the pressure -- not that anybody puts direct pressure on me. But I know that people expect things from me. O'BRIEN: USA Boxing decides to schedule a box off. ESPARZA: One thing about boxing, anything can happen. I beat all of them fairly easy. The closest bout I had was against Christina Cruz. O'BRIEN: Christina Cruz. Just one of the champion fighters Marlen will have to face. (On camera): What happens if you lose in Colorado? ESPARZA: I don't even know. That would be horrible. Sorry. I'm going to cry. This is so weird. I'm sorry. I haven't lost in, like, nine years. And that would just be, like, the -- the worst thing that could ever happen to me. And I -- I don't deserve it, either. I mean, I work really hard. So I'm OK. Like I know that I've done what I'm supposed to do. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen Esparza trains in a gym that sits along a lonely stretch of Houston's I-10. Rudy Silva started the gym to mentor boys. Until Marlen walked in. SILVA: She was in alternative school, not doing well at all behavior wise. O'BRIEN: She brought her brothers to box. But they hated it. Marlen begged Rudy to train her. ESPARZA: He laughed at me. SILVA: And the first thing I told her was, well, first, I don't train female fighters. She walked away. O'BRIEN: She kept coming back. So he tested her against the boys. SILVA: I actually tried for about two weeks to break her, to try to make her quit. I was pushing her so far. Left hand up. Left hand up. ESPARZA: And I kind of in my head was thinking, like, ha-ha, he thinks that I can't do it and I so can. SILVA: In a few weeks instead of making her quit, I was making some of the guys quit. (LAUGHTER) O'BRIEN: At first, boxing was more challenging than she let on. ESPARZA: Like, I remember getting beat up, like, every day for, like, the first three years I was boxing. And I was like, hmm, like, what's going on? And I'm trying really, really hard here. Like I'm doing everything I'm supposed to do. O'BRIEN: But eventually she started winning. (On camera): Did you know then you had a champion on your hands? SILVA: Yes. I said, you know, this girl's going to make it. I know. You know she has the heart of a champion. O'BRIEN (voice-over): To make a champion, Rudy has taken charge of Marlen's life. (On camera): Is she allowed to have a boyfriend? SILVA: No. O'BRIEN: Is she allowed to party on the weekends? SILVA: No. O'BRIEN: Is she allowed to take a few days off and just not train when she's worn out? SILVA: No. O'BRIEN: That's a lot of no's. SILVA: Yes. O'BRIEN: For a 21-year-old girl. She's a young woman. SILVA: I remember when she was 18 years old. She went to prom. I was at her house with her dad waiting for her to come home from prom. (LAUGHTER) O'BRIEN: You were at her house? SILVA: Yes. O'BRIEN: With her father? SILVA: With her father. ESPARZA: He's been worse on me, and it's been more difficult to actually have him in my life than my dad. Yes. For sure. Because my dad's really laid back. And my life would have been actually a lot more stress-free, like, yes, life. But with Rudy it's like, why is this happening to me? O'BRIEN (voice-over): There's a reason Rudy is so tough. He's a police officer at Jefferson Davis High School. Not far from the neighborhood where he grew up. (On camera): You must look at this kind of poverty and think about your own childhood. SILVA: Coming from seven brothers and sisters, including my mom and him, that's nine people in a one-bedroom apartment in a small neighborhood very similar to this. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Boxing kept Rudy out of trouble. He won the local Golden Gloves four times. SILVA: I was, like, really focused. So there was quite a few times where that's what made the decision of me not going out to a party or going out to the movies or just going and hanging out. No, I need to be at home. If I want to win this fight. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Come on, man, you're going to be late. O'BRIEN: These days -- SILVA: Did you say the student didn't come up there? O'BRIEN: -- he faces off with the kids at Jefferson Davis. SILVA: You need to get to class. Are you late again? You got to wake up earlier than that. You told me you were going to be doing better? O'BRIEN (on camera): Can boxing help them? SILVA: You're talking to a boxing coach, obviously. So I'm going to say yes. O'BRIEN (voice-over): He uses boxing to keep the students focused. SILVA: We made "Ring" magazine this year. O'BRIEN (on camera): Right. That's great. SILVA: Yes. O'BRIEN: Kind of the wall of fame here. SILVA: Yes, it is. Whenever they get more involved in the boxing, it seems like they start doing so much better in school. I know it did that even for my own little boy. Elbows in, elbows in. O'BRIEN: Yes, he's focused. SILVA: Oh, and you should see his grades. His grades are -- I mean he's a straight-A student. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen could be Rudy's biggest accomplishment. ESPARZA: He's, like, 90 percent of the reason why I am where I am. O'BRIEN (on camera): And what's the 10 percent? ESPARZA: Ten percent is just the fact that I dealt with it. Because a lot of people don't stay with him because of how hard he is. The longest I've ever seen anybody stay with him consecutively is, like, two or -- two or three years. O'BRIEN: Do you think that number is right? That percentage? Ninety percent you, 10 percent Marlen? SILVA: I would say, like, 94. (LAUGHTER) O'BRIEN: Ninety-four percent -- ESPARZA: Whatever. (LAUGHTER) ESPARZA: Conceited. Conceited. Wow. Wow. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Now Rudy needs to prep her for an unexpected challenge. A fight in Colorado that will decide who gets a first shot at the Olympic trials. But there's another Latina Boxer working with her coach with the same goal in mind. Christina Cruz. (On camera): What will winning the Olympics mean? CHRISTINA CRUZ, BOXER: Oh, man. It would mean the world to me. Yes. I wake up -- O'BRIEN: Why? CRUZ: Why? Just because everything that I've sacrificed for it. Even, like, my trainer, sacrifices that he made. You know, it's not only for me. It's for my team. And you know, I just wake up every day thinking about it. And it just constantly goes through my mind. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Christina is also aiming for Colorado. Gunning for Marlen Esparza's crown. CRUZ: This is a sport. Someone has to lose. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ESPARZA: I thought I was going to be at a training camp, and now I'm having to fight. O'BRIEN (voice-over): There's a lot at stake at the box off in Colorado Springs. Home of the U.S. Olympic team. ESPARZA: I guess to put it bluntly I'm a little bit pissed off at the idea of what I'm having to do. I mean. I mean that covers it. I'm angry. O'BRIEN: Just eight female flyweights will go to the Olympic trials. These boxers came ready to fight for Marlen's spot. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, so ready. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I'm chosen, tears. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is why we're here. We're here because we're ready. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. O'BRIEN: Many U.S. Boxers are working-class Latinos and African- Americans. Used to fighting for what they want like Tyresha Douglas. TYRESHA DOUGLAS, BOXER: If it wasn't for boxing -- I'm trying not to get teary eyed -- I wouldn't be here. Both of my parents were on drugs. When I was 16, in ninth grade, I broke a girl's jaw. Broke her nose. (INAUDIBLE) nurse. I had to do community service for boxing. O'BRIEN: Barito Ramirez is from Idaho. BARITO RAMIREZ, BOXER: I know back home a lot of my friends, they're, like, Latino. You know they're already married with kids and stuff. Never went to school after high school. And, me, you know, having boxing, it's put me on a better path. O'BRIEN: Marlen beats her first box off opponent, Alex Love. ESPARZA: So it kind of felt like I was fighting, like, a 12-year-old kid. O'BRIEN: But she's more worried about Christina Cruz. ESPARZA: The girls that we have to worry about are the girls that -- like, here, that have been fighting, know the point system. Like Christina Cruz. That's why she wins. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Number one in New York. Hell's kitchen product. Number one, OK? Number one. Christina Cruz. O'BRIEN: Christina is the Puerto Rican fighter from hell's kitchen challenging Marlen. She dominates the New York boxing scene. She gets to fight in front of Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden. Boxing has changed her life. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tina, get away from the rope, Tina. Tina, watch that right. That a girl. O'BRIEN: Her family is on her side now. Her mother cheers at her fights. But Christina's mother was in jail when Christina was growing up. Her father asked her maternal grandparents to help raise Christina. They were boxing fans. CRUZ: My grandfather, he was -- he was very much a part of it. He never got to go to any of my fights, but he always made sure, you know, I was good. And even, like, just cooking the right food for me and always asking me about my fights. O'BRIEN (on camera): Your grandparents died. CRUZ: Yes. Both of them had passed about two years ago. O'BRIEN: That was upsetting. I didn't mean to make you cry. CRUZ: It's OK. O'BRIEN: They made you who you are? A tough girl? Who's going to win at the Garden? (Voice-over): The night before the fight, Christina seeks camaraderie. A fellow boxer sings "Hero" to keep their spirits high. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god. O'BRIEN: But Rudy keeps Marlen far away. At a hotel. SILVA: She's probably going to go eat some really good food and then just relax and watch some film on these boxers and go over some strategy. O'BRIEN: U.S. Olympic boxing coach Gloria Peek has come to the box off to get a look at the first female Olympic hopefuls. GLORIA PEEK, U.S. OLYMPIC BOXING COACH: All right, baby. Good luck, baby. OK, lady. Good luck. O'BRIEN: After 33 years of coaching men, Coach Peek has her eyes on the top two women. Esparza versus Cruz. PEEK: I think out of the 112, these are the two top girls. Christina, her frame and her size and everything makes her perfect for international boxing. However, Marlen has learned all the tricks of the trade for boxing international. So, you know, the clash of the Titans. O'BRIEN: These two women are bracing for a fight. ESPARZA: Christina runs, runs, runs, one-two, runs, runs, runs, one- two. One-two, one-try runs. And it's the same thing. O'BRIEN (on camera): How about Marlen? What kind of boxer is she? CRUZ: She likes to come forward. She's a pressure fighter. She likes to stay on top of you. O'BRIEN (voice-over): The day of the fight, Christina is relaxed. Getting wrapped and ready at the gym. Marlen arrives quietly. ESPARZA: Christina Cruz boxes as a hobby. I box as a lifestyle. CRUZ: We're in the same weight class. We both want the same thing. This is a sport. Someone has to lose. O'BRIEN: Just as Marlen predicted, Christina runs. Amateurs box with head gear. They only score points with a clean hit to the face or chest. 4-1, Christina. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's good. O'BRIEN: Seven-five, Christina. And the winner is -- (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's go. Keep your hands up. That's good. Come one. That's great. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stop. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen has lost. CRUZ: First lost in nine years. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it really? CRUZ: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anything bother you at all? CRUZ: Nope. Feel great. PEEK: Told you that would be a clash of the Titans. And it was. O'BRIEN: Christina will go compete for the first Olympic trial spot at the Pan American qualifier in Venezuela. CRUZ: Yes, I'm very excited. Going to another country to fight. Representing USA. ESPARZA: That's weird. Like, I don't feel like I really lost. It's weird. O'BRIEN: It is her first loss in the United States in nine years. Since she was 13 years old. ESPARZA: I don't know. Like, I feel kind of blank. I don't really know -- O'BRIEN: If Christina wins in Venezuela, she takes the Olympic trial spot USA boxing had reserved for their national champion, Marlen. SILVA: Not that we're waiting for this to happen, but she still has to win the qualifier. Because if she doesn't, it defaults to Marlen, that spot. ESPARZA: Bye. O'BRIEN: Marlen goes home to await the results with her family. DAVID: For a few days, it was kind of, like, sad and, you know, she's not used to losing. She has the perfect record up until then. The kind of kid that gives their whole life to a sport, the next thing you know you take a loss, it's devastating for a little bit. But then Marlen is a person that she's so strong, all that is going to do to her, bring her back stronger. O'BRIEN: She had planned to start training for the Olympic trials. Now she needs to raise money to continue competing. SILVA: Good. O'BRIEN: David Esparza is a supervisor at this manufacturing plant. He works seven days a week, 12 hours a day to fund Marlen's dream. DAVID: I've been doing this job. O'BRIEN (on camera): Paying for her boxing? DAVID: Paying for her boxing. O'BRIEN: What's the biggest expense? DAVID: Well, it's been since she started going to the nationals. And setting myself up to bring her by myself with a separate room and airplane tickets and rental cars and food and all that. O'BRIEN: Expense, expense, expense. DAVID: Expense, expense, expense. It's been costing me, like, $20,000 to $25,000 a year. O'BRIEN (voice-over): These blue-collar parents had white-collar dreams for their four children. (On camera): Why was that important to you? CARMEN: Want them to be, you know, that success that I wasn't. That's how I feel. DAVID: Which parent don't want a kid to succeed? I came from Mexico when I was 18 years old. The thing that I have learned about this country is that if you don't have no money, you're not good -- you're not going to make it in this country. CARMEN: We're going to do it, OK? O'BRIEN (voice-over): Carmen wanted doctors like her bosses at work. CARMEN: I told all of them that if one of them decided that they would go for dental, you know, a dentist, that I would go get two jobs or three jobs, whatever it took to pay for their school. DELILAH, MARLEN'S SISTER: OK. Let me see. O'BRIEN: Their oldest, Delilah, came close. She went to Lamar University to study nursing. DELILAH: You want an orange, too? DAVID: She got pregnant and she didn't finish her school. It was a devastating thing to me. I think I got old, like, three years in one day. Like in one day I got three years -- O'BRIEN (on camera): You aged three years? DAVID: I aged three years. DELILAH: This is like the stage area's cafeteria. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Instead of nursing Delilah had four children in four years. Today she manages school construction projects. DELILAH: I wanted my children to have siblings like I grew up with. Marlen, Pido and Diego. Four of us. So it's like if my mom can do it with four, I can do it with four. And I did get divorced young. But, you know, I take care of my kids. I'm a single mom. And they're happy. They're happy. O'BRIEN: David Jr. chose cooking school. Diego quit college to pursue music. DIEGO, MARLEN'S BROTHER: My dad wanted me to be an engineer. In his family, like, from Mexico he had, like, politicians and lawyers. He looks up to that kind of stuff and he expects that we should -- we should aspire to, you know, go to what he looks up to. ESPARZA: I look like Diego with short hair. DIEGO: Yes. O'BRIEN: Marlen's parents are divorced. But they are together when it comes to their children. (On camera): Did you think you'd have four kids who were all in college at this point or graduating from college? CARMEN: Yes. DAVID: That's what I thought it was going to be. O'BRIEN: Does it sadden you that you don't? It does? CARMEN: Yes. Because Delilah started out that way. Diego started out that way. Marlen didn't because of the boxing. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen has been offered an exhibition match against the Mexican national team. This is her first fight since the loss in Colorado. The victory restores her confidence. But she's not the only one seeking glory. Christina Cruz has also dedicated her life to getting to the Olympics. And she is putting up a fight in Venezuela. CRUZ: I feel pretty confident. I think I have everything I need to win. O'BRIEN: Will Christina win the first shot at team USA? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ESPARZA: I am the minority right now because I'm Mexican and a lot of people don't respect it. But as soon as I get a gold medal, people are going to be like, hey, it's OK to be Mexican in the U.S. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ladies and gentlemen, it may be a little warm out here but we've got a great, cool event. SILVA: I think we're owning the rig. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, let's go, guys. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Today Rudy and his fighters compete in the heart of Tex-Mex, Houston. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the red corner, representing Elite Boxing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guys. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There you go. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here. Right here, girl. Back down when you finish. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our winner out of the red corner, Elite Boxing. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good job. Good job. ESPARZA: I like saying that I'm Mexican. I'm proud of it. O'BRIEN: The community is excited about Marlen's Olympic prospects. ESPARZA: The Mexicans are totally going to love it. They're going to freak when it happens. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're really cool. ESPARZA: Thank you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, ladies and gentlemen, none other than our USA Elite Marlen Esparza. ESPARZA: Boxing's big in Hispanic culture. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Hispanic fighters, they fight with a lot of heart. O'BRIEN: Her family is there in full force. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your winner -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marlen Esparza. DAVID: Congratulations again, Rudy. O'BRIEN: So are the little girls from the gym. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I grow up, I want to be just like her because she's very inspiring. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can take those out if you want to go ahead and start getting ready or start putting your make-up on. And there's a mirror over there for you to get ready. ESPARZA: Everybody just tells me I don't look like a boxer. O'BRIEN: Today Marlen is dressing up to speak at Rice University. ESPARZA: The girls who box look less feminine than I do. But just because I box doesn't mean that I can't get dressed up or that it didn't fit me or that I can't do this just like anybody else. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See, it looks good. I like it. O'BRIEN: Marlen once pursued admission to Rice University. But postponed college for boxing. ESPARZA: Find something that you really love to do and the rest of your life will follow. I really just want to leave you with the idea that, yes, it's cliche, but anything is possible. O'BRIEN: Marlen doesn't have an Olympic trial spot yet. But the sponsors are lining up. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just found out a little while ago that they made their decision for the 2012 APAC athletes. And Marlen, guess what? ESPARZA: Shut up. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, they selected you as one of them. ESPARZA: Shut up. Are you serious? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I am serious. Can you believe it? O'BRIEN: Coca-Cola will pay her as much as her father's salary. DAVID: Congratulations, Marlen. O'BRIEN: She also has Nike. DAVID: Right now, I don't have no word. ESPARZA: See, look. These feel good. Cool. This is when you start to feel like Rocky like -- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Primer and moisturizer. Look at her eyelashes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're supposed to just look like you're hanging out training. Drinking Coke. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. That's great. ESPARZA: I guess you could take it as recognition or pressure. Whichever you want to grab first. But either way, with them or without them, I would be planning on doing the same thing. O'BRIEN: Her sponsors' investment will only pay off if she makes it to London in 2012. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. Nice. O'BRIEN: She's training harder than ever. ESPARZA: Why am I doing this like torture? O'BRIEN: The pressure continues. Christina has won the first Olympic trial spot after her opponent is disqualified. CRUZ: I always wanted to be in the Olympics. Me and my younger brother would watch the gymnastics, swimming, all the other sports and always think -- you know, always thought that it was cool. O'BRIEN: To get one of the remaining spots, Marlen must return to Colorado. Fighters who medal at the nationals also qualify for the Olympic trials. ESPARZA: I guess I really just hope that I pull a difficult bracket. That way no one can say, like, oh, she won again but only because she had an easy bracket. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to the 2011 USA Boxing National Championships. Members of 112 pounds women. TyrieShia Douglas, Cynthia Marino, Alex Love, Marlen Esparza -- ESPARZA: My goal here definitely as this national championships is just to make a statement. I don't want to sound so harsh saying this but I basically want to crush everybody's dream right now. I don't want to make anything close. That way everybody knows deep down in the back of their head and in their heart, like, OK, there's no way. This is Marlen's. And that's it. O'BRIEN: Marlen also wants revenge. Christina Cruz beat her out of the first Olympic trial spot. Now Christina is in Colorado gunning for Marlen's national title. DAVID: Today is Marlen's first fight. So obviously I'm going to -- I'm nervous. Big-time nervous. Go in between, like, go with (INAUDIBLE), OK? ESPARZA: All right. DAVID: It's going to be easy. You'll be OK. ESPARZA: OK. All right. DAVID: Love you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jab, jab, jab. DAVID: There you go, Marlen. Clean shots, Marlen. Perfect. Come on, Marlen. Go, Marlen, go. Go, Marlen, go, go, Marlen. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, nice jab. DAVID: She did good? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, she did. DAVID: All right. She won, she won. Thank God. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your winner, out of the blue corner, Marlen Esparza, region eight. O'BRIEN: She plows through her opponents all the way to the quarter finals. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Marlen Esparza. Blue corner -- O'BRIEN: The winner of this fight goes to the Olympic trials. If Marlen loses, it all ends here. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your winner, on the red corner, Marlen Esparza. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen has won. She has the second spot at the Olympic trials. But this pressure fighter is still under pressure. From the ring next door. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your winner, in the blue corner, Christina Cruz. O'BRIEN: Marlen will fight Christina Cruz in the semifinals. The only boxer to beat her since childhood. (On camera): Why do you want to beat her so badly? Revenge? ESPARZA: It's revenge. And it's a lot of, just, like heart and mentally. Just to get me back to where I was before. Because I feel like it put me back. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Olympic coach Gloria Peek sees the fight this way. PEEK: I believe that Christina's going to have a very hard time. And part of that is because she doesn't have the right type of people that know enough about her to help her over the -- the difficult areas. O'BRIEN: Marlen has Rudy in her corner. And her father. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Out of the red corner, Marlen Esparza, Houston, Texas. Out of the blue corner, Christina Cruz, New York, New York. O'BRIEN: Marlen comes out swinging. Then lets Christina run. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come on, Christina. (CROSSTALK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go. Yes. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your winner, out of the red corner, Marlen Esparza, Houston, Texas. DAVID: Easy one. Easy. Easy. ESPARZA: Because I was like, man, I was like, if I lose to the same person in a row, when I've never lost to anybody twice in my life. CRUZ: My timing was a bit off. And towards the later rounds I was getting tired. She put more pressure on me. This time she waited a little, which I didn't expect. O'BRIEN (on camera): How did it feel? ESPARZA: It felt really good. I think after she beat me, a lot of people were thinking maybe I'm not the one that's going to win anymore. And I think after that one, it was kind of like, it was just an accident. It was just a mistake. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Anybody checking in to VIP? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to the 2011 USA Boxing National Championships. ESPARZA: After I beat Christina, I was done. Like, I was like, I won. And I kept having to tell myself, Marlen, you're still fighting. Get with it. You're still fighting. You're still fighting. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Marlen, Christina and two other flyweight boxers at these national championships will meet again at the Olympic trials. Only the winner joins team USA. The field is now full of Latinas. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marlen Esparza. O'BRIEN: In the end, it all has to add up, 112 pounds, four two- minute rounds. A chance to shatter the Olympic glass ceiling. PEEK: This is the last great domain of men. And we've broken through the last great domain. DAVID: All right. Marlen, good. (CROSSTALK) SILVA: Go high. Go high. (CROSSTALK) DAVID: You got it. She's tired already, Marlen. ESPARZA: I was kind of just like, get it done, get it done, get it done. And I saw her, and I saw it in her eyes, and she didn't have anything left. (CROSSTALK) DAVID: Beautiful, beautiful. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ladies and gentlemen, your winner will be a 27-16 decision. And the 2011 Women's Flyweight National champion, out of the blue corner, Marlen Esparza. O'BRIEN: Marlen has won her sixth national championship. ESPARZA: When they raised my hand, it's definitely my favorite part. SILVA: I know this started, like, 10 or 11 years ago. But I still feel like when she won her very first time. It still feels so awesome, you know, it really does. (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Surprise. ESPARZA: This is crazy. O'BRIEN (on camera): What does your life look like? Married? Kids? ESPARZA: Fat? I mean like -- O'BRIEN: You just want to eat a sundae like as soon as the Olympics is done. You're going to (INAUDIBLE) a sundae. ESPARZA: I know that I'm going to go to school. I want to go to med school. I forgot I knew this many people. DAVID: Don't let Rudy see that. You're not supposed to be eating chocolate before training. ESPARZA: I'm going to eat a lot. O'BRIEN: So what do you think her future looks like in 10 years? What's she doing? (LAUGHTER) O'BRIEN: Why can't you answer that? You probably know her better than anybody. SILVA: I think she's going to get something big out of this. I think she's going to turn pro, she's going to be a world champion. O'BRIEN: Rudy thinks that after the Olympics -- ESPARZA: Rudy's crazy. (LAUGHTER) O'BRIEN (voice-over): What does matter is who she has in her corner. (On camera): What's boxing given you? ESPARZA: Boxing has given me a lot of self-esteem. A lot of self- worth. When you're in the ring with people, you just figure out who they are. And the only way that you're going to beat somebody is if they gave up on themselves. Some girls are better than me. They just don't know it. So I win.


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'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' review
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Comedy. By Christopher Durang. Directed by Richard E.T. White. Through Oct. 20. Berkeley Repertory's Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. Two hours, 45 minutes. $29-$89, subject to change. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org.
Misery loves comedy in Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." It took a long time for the world to understand why Chekhov insisted his plays were comedies. There's no mistaking Durang's Chekhovian intent in the hilarious offering that opened Wednesday at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Besides, nobody can make misery funnier than comic treasure Sharon Lockwood. As Sonia, the spinster left behind to care for dying parents at the rural homestead, Lockwood shares every momentary grievance, lifelong resentment and gloomy expectation with sidesplitting earnestness. She's even funnier when she stops kvetching, breaking an enforced silence with a sigh.
She's perfectly matched in Richard E.T. White's effortlessly charming production by Anthony Fusco and Lorri Holt as her siblings - adoptive, as everyone points out - Vanya and Masha. The names aren't the only things Durang's borrowed from Chekhov. Personalities, situations, plot developments, lines and themes derive from a bountiful mashup of Chekhov's four major plays with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Ingmar Bergman, the Beatles, "Old Yeller," the "Oresteia" and Maggie Smith thrown in.
The result doesn't resonate as deeply as Chekhov, a drawback for any expectations raised by the title and format. But it's far more ambitious than a lampoon.
With his sometimes overextended blend of pop and classical references, meta-theatrical jokes and satire of contemporary culture, Durang updates Chekhov's acute focus on paradigm shifts and prescient takes on environmental destruction, if not his poignant impact.
White expertly handles the themes without missing a comic beat in a welcome return to the company where he was associate artistic director in the 1980s. That's not as easy as it looks considering the disparate elements in the play.
Lockwood's misery-proud Sonia and Fusco's empathetic, more resigned Vanya - the gay, would-be family peacemaker - set the classic tone on Kent Dorsey's expansive Pennsylvania country-home set. Holt's breezily self-absorbed, insecure Masha, star of Hollywood sexploitation thrillers, is the perfect bridge between their old world and the new.
That would be Spike, Masha's current boy toy, played to restless, body-proud, attention-deficit perfection by Mark Junek, endlessly preening and coming on to everyone from Vanya to Caroline Kaplan's adorable Nina, the sweet would-be actress who wanders in from Chekhov's "The Seagull."
Then there's Cassandra, cleaning lady-cum-prophetess, who stops the show with her wild visions as vividly performed by Heather Alicia Simms, who understudied the role in the Tony-winning Broadway production.
The old plot points crop up. Will Masha sell the house? What will happen to the cherry orchard? New ones take center stage, such as the conflicts over a costume party, made all the more hilarious by Debra Beaver Bauer's brilliant get-ups and topped by Lockwood and Holt's cathartic bawling duet.
In the end, it's up to Vanya to tie the old and new together. Fusco's delivery of his digressive rant on everything from climate change to '50s TV shows, texting and bad manners brings the play to a resounding climax.
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Four people died Wednesday after a plane crashed at an airstrip in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
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Six passengers on board the 5YUV7 light aircraft, belonging to Mombasa air, were seriously injured as the pilots prepared to land at Ngerede Airstrip near the Mara Safari Club.
The airstrip manager Daniel Jivai, who spoke to Nation on the telephone, said he saw the aircraft wobble before it came down at around 12:17 pm.
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For the third time in the past four years, a sophomore won top honors in the Wabash College and Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men Moot Court Competition.
Nicholas Maraman, a sophomore from New Albany, was selected by the distinguished panel of judges as the Top Advocate during the 14th annual competition. See photo album here.
"It's just a great honor to win it. It's a prestigious competition with several rounds to get through," Maraman said. "I got here my freshman year so I was hoping one of my years I'd be able to win."
Maraman, who plans to practice corporate or appellate law, thought last year's competition prepared him. He admitted to a few less nerves for this year's finals. He also thought the final judges, a panel Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Scott Himsel called one of the most prestigious ever assembled for the competition, was easier than the semi-final grilling.
"Actually the semifinal round included Tom Fisher '91 who is taking this case to the Supreme Court and he was a dog," Maraman laughed. "He wouldn't stop bombarding us with questions."
The case, which is written for the students based on an actual case, involved the constitutionality of a state law that requires voters to present photo identification before they can vote. Fisher, Indiana's Solicitor General, will argue before the Supreme Court some time in the spring of 2008.
The judges' panel was chaired by Hon. Michael S. Kanne, introduced by Himsel as the highest ranking federal judge in the history of Wabash's Moot Court. Kanne sits on the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago. Hon. L. Mark Bailey is a judge for the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Lauren N. Robel is the Dean of the Indiana Law School and didn't miss a chance to give I.U. a recruiting pitch. "I have noted over the years the number of really fine graduates of Wabash who have come through our law school and now I understand why they're so good," she said. She then encouraged all four finalists to consider I.U. Law.
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Matt Griffith '89 helped coordinate the Moot Court. He helped create the academic partnership with alumni, students and faculty. The IAWM thanked 26 Wabash lawyers, friends, and professors who helped judge the preliminary rounds. At least 40 Wabash alumni helped in some way during the 2007 competition.
Student advocates for 2007 included: Alex Avtgis '11, Barton Bridge '08, Jeremy Burton '08, Kyle Cassidy '08, Craig Cochran '10, Spencer Elliott '10, Grant Gussman '09, Emmanuel Harper '09, Danny Heslep '08, Peter Hewitt '10, Alex Ingram '10, Miles Johnson '08, Daniel King '10, Christian Lawrence '09, Kevin Long '10, Nicholas Maraman '10, Kyle McClammer '08, Travis Mclaughlin '09, Pat McAlister '10, Matt Olivarez '08, Jackson Price '08, Alex Sands '10, Chris Sidebottom '11, Jonathan Torrez '10, Matt Vest '08.
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Deborah, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, worked in publishing and in retail before moving to Scotland to study parapsychology in 1979. She was at Edinburgh University for 20 years, first as a postgraduate PhD student, studying under John Beloff, and then as a Research Fellow for the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology. With the Koestler Professor, Robert Morris, she shared the role of Guest Professor at the IGPP in Freiburg, Germany (1995-98). In 1999 she joined the University of Northampton (then a University College) as a Professor of Psychology. At Northampton her roles included Division and then School Research Leader and, latterly, Associate Dean, School for Social Sciences with a remit that included research, enterprise development, internationalization and postgraduate research and taught degrees. She was a Perrott-Warrick Scholar (2000 - 05) and a founding member and Director of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP). Her research has primarily focused upon the training and development of ESP, utilising free-response methodologies (e.g., the ganzfeld) and DMILS research, including examination of the role of the sender/agent. She retired from Northampton in 2010 as an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and spent a following year as a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University. Currently living in Scotland, she regularly attends meetings of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit (KPU) at Edinburgh.
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I thought I was the only one who was noticing a lot of folks flirting with treason. The group Oath Keepers whose members include cops, sheriffs and military people say they are going to resist the tyrannical orders that are sure to come from President Obama. They see him as the embodiment of all the fears that have festered since the "Red Scares" of the first half of the 20th century. Republicans have been stoking those embers for a long time, keeping them hot enough so when they need to throw some kindling on them, they are ready to flame up at any time. It's dangerous business to be messing with, because if push comes to shove, our government must fight any insurrection. The media is playing a large role in this growth of anger too, FOX News and CNN willingly spread their messages with MSNBC showing some restraint, but still doing their part to get their messages out. Mother Jones has an article on this scary phenomenon.
But righteous anger is one thing. Manufacturing fear, dare we say terror, is another—and over the past year, we have seen cynical politicians and talk-show demagogues increasingly willing to traffic in it. It's no longer just handfuls of militia types trading overheated conspiracy theories; it's America's most popular cable news network giving gobs of airtime to people who all but advocate armed insurrection. It's the man who is now our newest senator chortling, on live TV, that maybe Barack Obama was born out of wedlock—don't you wish guys still had to face an affaire d'honneur for comments like that?—a scurrilous point we take note of only because it indicates that Scott Brown gets his talking points from extreme-right sites like WorldNetDaily (WND).
When people in positions of great power play footsie with those who advocate treason—or claim that the elected commander in chief is a bastard foreigner with no claim to the office—they are not just engaging in a lively debate. They are actively negating a fundamental principle of American politics: that the government, no matter how much you might disagree with its representatives, is of, by, and for the people.
When George W. Bush basically had the presidency given to him in 2000 by the Supreme Court, democrats plugged their noses and accepted that he is the president, sure they protested and fought and tried to use all legal means to have all the votes counted, but there was NO threats of arming themselves or overthrowing the illegitimate government. And in this case there actually was a basis for that belief. The politics of "No" fits right into this movement, and it's really causing great damage to our republic. More from Mother Jones…
This is the true danger of condoning rhetoric like Oath Keepers': It's not just that it might push some from the paranoid fringe to the terrorist fringe. It's that the political debate becomes corroded to the point where we as a nation no longer have enough common ground to agree to disagree. When one side's goal is to stonewall and destroy rather than discuss and engage, we get paralysis—it takes two to tango, but only one to stonewall. (And stonewall-and-destroy is by no means a strategy unique to Republicans—yes, kill-the-health-care-bill lefties, that means you.) There are many ways to attack democracy, and one of them is to slowly, cynically undermine the founders' mandate: to work together toward a more perfect union.


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Now that he's a grown man (have you listened to 'Boyfriend?'), Justin Bieber is eyeing real estate. Rumor has it the Canadian superstar is interested in a Calabasas, Calif. mansion worth a cool $6 million.
TMZ reports that Bieber won't take just any deal on the house, even though it looks pretty awesome. He's been haggling with the seller, and if he doesn't get a price he likes, the site reports that the sale may well fall through.
The seller of the mansion set its asking price at just over $7 million, but Bieber's been trying to knock it down to somewhere in the $5.5 to $6 million range.
The house is sprawling and gorgeous, which would be reason enough for any rich young star to move in. However, Bieber's main attraction to the property is its privacy, as it is located over 20 miles outside of Hollywood. Its distance from Hollywood combined with its gates make it a lot less likely for some pesky paparazzi to take pictures of him coming outside to get the newspaper, doesn't it?
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Professor Rutledge Dennis is the 2006 recipient of the ASA's DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award. His contributions in scholarship, teaching and service exemplify the very best of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier tradition. He is an exceptional teacher who has engaged in rigorous social research that culminated in prodigious purposeful scholarship that framed the nature and scope of his community activism.
For more than thirty years, Rutledge Dennis's provocative and stimulating pedagogy has engaged students in critical thinking on the Black Family, Black Intellectuals, Black Political Thought, the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations, society and the urban community and the intricacies of sociological theory and methodology. He has consistently developed educational programs that have enriched college curricula and created spaces for the perspectives of traditionally under-represented groups. His commitment to the success of faculty of color is evident in his mentoring of countless young students and scholars.
Professor Dennis is recognized as one of the leading scholars on DuBois. Along with W. E. B. DuBois: The Scholar Activist, his significant works on DuBois include: "Intellectuals and Double Consciousness," "W.E. B. DuBois and the Tradition of Black Intellectual Thought," and "DuBois and the Role of the Educated Elite," "Continuities and Discontinuities in the Social and Political Thought of W.E. B. Du Bois," "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Objectivity of the Social Sciences," and "W.E. B. Dubois and the Tradition of Radical Intellectual Thought."
The DuBois-Johnson-Frazier tradition is evident in his outstanding publication record that includes nine books, 25 peer reviewed journal articles, and 13 book chapters. In this work, Professor Dennis has advanced the cause of African-American scholarship, and the demarginalization of Black intellectuals in institutions of higher education in particular, and in American society in general. His series on race and ethnic relations provides evidence of a sustained effort to engage others in dialogue on the most challenging and persistent questions affecting our society. The edited series published by JAI Press Inc. include Black Intellectuals, W. E. B. DuBois: The Scholar Activist, The Black Middle Class and Racial and Ethnic Politics.
His use of scholarship to frame community activism is most evident in the study of annexation efforts of a powerful southern elite published in The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City (with John Moeser). Professor Dennis has been described by one colleague as a scholar who has "never cloistered himself behind the walls of the academy but was fully engaged in the life of the community and used his skills as a scholar to address concerns and issues important to citizens." His scholarly and activist engagement is further demonstrated in his work as a Commissioner of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Advisory Boards of the Richmond Human Relations Council, and the Quality Education Task Force of the Richmond School system. In memory of his parents, he established the Dennis-Weathers Award in support of African American Studies at George Mason University. This award honors the "work and spirit" of W.E. B. Du Bois by faculty, staff and students who foster awareness, sensitivity and cross-cultural understanding at the University and the surrounding community. The award recognizes faculty and students who demonstrate a "commitment to increasing awareness of intercultural/cross-cultural understanding at Mason and in the broader community." He organized a successful book drive collecting over 400 textbooks for the Royal College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He service to the profession includes: President of the Association of Black Sociologists, President of the Black Education Association, Chair of the Election Committee of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and Chair of the Race and Ethnic Minority Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society. Most recently Professor Dennis was awarded the Joseph S. Himes Distinguished scholarship Award from the Association of Black Sociologists. This award honors scholars whose works have made a significant contribution to the understanding of black life and culture.
Rutledge Dennis has been among the leading scholars of the third generation of black sociologists, helping set the tone for research and activism in the black community and carrying on the tradition of W. E. B. DuBois, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier.,/p>


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Read the Terms and Conditions carefully, as they detail the rules you have to follow while using the Royalgames.com Service.
1 Introduction. These Terms set out your rights and obligations and those of Midasplayer (Skills) Limited, registered in Malta with registration number OC-719 and its registered office at Aragon Business Centre, Level 4, Dragonara Road, St Julians STJ3140, Malta as a Malta branch of Midasplayer (Skills) Limited, a company registered in England & Wales with company number 858948 ("King").
King is also referred to in these Terms as "we", "us" and "our", in relation to the online skill games, paid subscription games and fun & social games (together the "Games") and related services (together "the Games Service") provided by us through this website (www.royalgames.com) or mobile application. By accessing this website and/or registering for the Games as a "Member", you agree to these Terms. If you are not a Member you similarly confirm that you are bound by these Terms each time you access the Games. You may access these Terms at any time by using the link to these Terms on the bottom of the start page of the Games or where indicated in the mobile application. We may revise these Terms at any time in accordance with clause 25 below and your continued use of the Games or your account with King (an "Account") shall be deemed irrevocable acceptance of those revisions.
We are not an internet service provider. To our online Games, you must have internet access and the skills required for web usage. To play our mobile Games you must have a mobile handset that is suitable for playing the Games. You will be responsible for the data charges that your mobile operator will charge you for playing our mobile Games. You should ask your mobile operator if you are unsure what these charges will be before you play.
The Games and tournaments hosted by us will function best if your computer (or mobile phone, if applicable) meets the technical requirements described in the technical section of our FAQ's. It is your sole responsibility to confirm the technical compatibility between your computer system and the Games.
2 The Games Service allows Members to play the Games and to participate in tournaments with other Members. The Games consist of three types of game. These are (A) Skill Games (B) Subscription Games and (C) Fun & Social Games. Specific terms relating to each of these are set out under the headings (A), (B) and (C) below.
You may only register for the Game Service using accurate and current information about yourself including your age, full name and surname, place of residence and a valid email address. You agree to only register one online Account and/or one mobile Account with us. If you hold an online Account and a mobile Account with us any balance that you hold in one Account will be held separately from the other. You understand and agree that if you provide inaccurate information to us we will close any Account that you may have with us.
King's online skill games are games of pure skill and contain no chance element ("Skill Games"). Thus, when participating in a tournament with other Members, your speed and skill in playing the Skill Game is assessed against other Members, and the winner will be the Member who, through skill and judgement, scores the most points in the relevant Skill Game. You should familiarise yourself with each Skill Game, by reading the rules and instructions before you play.
King Skill Games can be either played for money to win cash prizes or played for free. You must join as a "Gold Member" to play Skill Games to win cash prizes.
3 Registration and Membership. To become a "Gold Member", you must be at least 18 years old, register for the Skill Games, deposit funds with us and establish an Account with us. By registering to become a King Gold Member you expressly confirm that when playing any of our Skill Games for money that:
(a) you are at least 18 years of age;
(b) you are able to enter into a legally binding agreement with us;
(c) you are not located in a country, state or jurisdiction that does not allow you to play Skill Games for money (if you are not sure, you should check before you play any of our Skill Games for money);
(d) you are not a licensed bookmaker or a bookmaker's agent, employee of ours or any associated company of ours and that you do not conduct a business of negotiating or receiving bets;
(e) you are not depositing money that does not belong to you, which has been gained from criminal or other illegal activity or with a credit, debit or charge card that does not belong to you;
(f) you are not bankrupt;
(g) you understand that you may lose money that you may pay to play a Skill Game and accept that you are fully responsible for any such loss;
(h) you will not use this Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms; and
(i) if you are located in Estonia, you are at least 21 years of age.
You are solely responsible to ensure that national, state or other laws to which you are subject to do not adversely affect your right to participate in or play the Skill Games for money.
If you decide to become a King Gold Member, or play a Skill Game for money, the Skill Games that can be played for money will be made immediately available for your use. As a result you will not have the right to cancel these Terms or to any refund of monies you pay once you have started to play a Skill Game and the applicability and enforceability of these terms and conditions shall not be affected by any "cooling-off" period once you have played a Skill Game for money.
If you are over 18 and located where it is legally permissible for you to play Skill Games for money and you are asked for and provide us with details of a credit, debit or charge card, PayPal account or short message service ("SMS"), you must ensure that (a) you are fully entitled to use that form of payment, and (b) it has available funds sufficient to cover the charges that you make.
You will not allow anyone else to use your login details or give them to anyone else. If you do, you accept full responsibility for the consequences of this and agree to fully indemnify and hold us harmless from any damage or harm that may result.
All deposits that you make with us from time to time shall be kept separate and distinct from our funds and shall be managed and administered by any one of our companies.
If no transaction has been recorded on your Account for thirty months, we will remit the balance in your Account to you. If we are unable to locate you, we reserve the right to donate such funds to a registered charity of our choice or as set out in clause 12. Our employees, investors and subsidiary companies are allowed to take part in tournaments for the purpose of testing the user experience, but may not withdraw money or cash for themselves.
4 Games, Winners and Prizes. The number of players participating in a tournament and their relative skills determine the result of all tournaments.
The Player status and Money section of our FAQs provide further information about how you can participate in our Skill Games tournaments as a practice player and a cash player. Our FAQs form part of these Terms so you should take the time to read and understand them.
The prize amount of all Skill Games cash prize tournaments will be disclosed at the outset of each tournament, except in cash progressive jackpot tournaments where the cash prize will be dependant upon the number of participants in the tournament. The indicated cash prize will be the total prize fund that will be distributed to the winning participants. A Skill Game tournament with a progressive cash jackpot tournament is open to as many players as wish to participate up to a certain time specified by us, and the prize associated with the tournament will increase as the number of participants admitted to the tournament increases.
Cash prizes will be deposited directly into a winning Gold Member's Account and will usually be available within thirty (30) minutes of a tournament's conclusion. Where a cash tournament ends before its scheduled closing, the prize for the tournament will be reduced to reflect the proportion borne by (a) the number of participants in the tournament when it closes, to (b) the maximum number of participants intended for that tournament.
Skill Game rules, scoring, controls and guidelines for all tournaments offered by us can be found at each specific Skill Game section. Any questions or comments regarding this information should be sent to our Customer Support using the dedicated form here.
At the conclusion of each tournament, we will list the Usernames and scores of the winners. The lists will only be available to the participants of the tournaments. We will also regularly update the site's various high scorer tables. For tournaments with substantial prizes the tournament conclusion and posting of winners may be delayed for up to 5 working days by us to allow for verification of result and prevention of abuse.
Any amounts that are mistakenly credited as winnings to your Account remain our property and will automatically be transferred from your Account upon the error being discovered. Any winnings mistakenly credited to your Account yet withdrawn by you will constitute a debt owed by you to us in the amount of such wrongfully attributed winnings.
Any bonuses that we may give you are not transferable and can only be used by you. Any "guest registration" or "fun money" play that we may provide does not contribute towards any bonus offers that we may offer. Any bonus offers that we may provide remain valid for as long as they are posted on our website unless otherwise stated by us.
On registration, and at other times that you make a deposit, we may grant your Account with additional bonus funds and/or credits ("Bonus Funds"). Bonus Funds can be used to play Skill Games but cannot be withdrawn. You will also be unable to withdraw any funds (including any winnings you make from Bonus Funds) from your online Account until you have spent at least four times the amount that you received in Bonus Funds playing our Games. You will be unable to withdraw any funds from your mobile Account until you have at least 2,000 credits. We do this to prevent deposits being withdrawn and then Skill Games being played using only Bonus Funds which we don't think would be fair. Any amounts paid by us to you may only be paid into a PayPal account that is registered in your name
When you request your first withdrawal from your Account, we will ask you for (a) proof of your identity and (b) your email address. If you are unable to provide this to us, to our reasonable satisfaction we may be unable to pay your requested withdrawal to you. We reserve the right to request this information for subsequent withdrawals too.
We reserve the right to refuse to accept any promotional offers that we make to you and to withdraw them at any time. Any promotional offer that we make is subject to change by us at any time. Any additional terms and conditions that apply to a promotional offer will be displayed beneath it. By accepting a promotional offer and/or making use of a promotional offer, you are confirming that you agree to its terms and conditions.
Bonus Funds are not available to residents of the U.S.A, Canada or Malta.
If you provide materially misleading, inaccurate or incomplete information in your Account, we will be entitled to terminate your Account and cause you to forfeit any prizes you may have won as well as exercise any legal remedies we may have as a result of such conduct.
5 Accounts. A person may open only one online Account and one mobile Account, and each must be funded only by that person. We reserve the right to assess compliance with this requirement by checking for unique email addresses, real world addresses, credit card number and/or any other payment forms used to establish an Account.
If any Gold Member is discovered to have breached more than one online Account and one mobile Account, we reserve the right to close the relevant Account and consolidate all or part of the funds in any additional Accounts into the original, legitimate Account. The maximum amount transferred, if any, will not exceed the total amount of deposits, less any withdrawal requests that have been paid on the additional Accounts. All winnings will be forfeited. Furthermore, we have the right to deduct the reasonable transactions costs of doing this from the amounts being transferred to the original Account.
Continued breach may, at our discretion, result in the termination of all the relevant persons Accounts and banning from the Games and the Games Service. We reserve the right to terminate all affected Accounts if we conclude, acting reasonably, that a person controls or operates more than one online Account and one mobile Account.
We will not be liable to you for any loss that you may incur as a result of an unauthorised person accessing your Account and we accept no liability resulting from its unauthorised use, whether fraudulent or otherwise. As is usual, it is for you to ensure that your Account password is kept completely secret.
By opening an Account, you agree to allow us access to your Account to investigate complaints and/or other allegations of abuse.
At the termination of an Account, a sum equal to the remaining amount of funds that may be withdrawn in the Account will be returned to you once you have (a) proved your identity and (b) confirmed your email to us, to our reasonable satisfaction.. Deposits of funds made in the Account, less any withdrawals that have been made on the Account, will only be credited to a PayPal account that is registered in your name.
Where we have a serious and reasonable suspicion of fraudulent activity on an Account, we reserve the right to withhold the payment of withdrawable funds to a Gold Member until the end of the charge-back period which applies to the payment method used to pay in the relevant funds.
If your Account is inactive for six consecutive months or more, we reserve the right to charge a maintenance fee of $2.00 per month (the "Monthly Maintenance Fee"). After five or more months of inactivity we will notify you by email that if your Account remains inactive for one more month, the Monthly Maintenance Fee will be deducted from your Account each consecutive month after that that it remains inactive. The Monthly Maintenance Fee will not be deducted from your Account if there are no funds in your Account. However, if your Account has no funds and has been inactive for twelve or more consecutive months we reserve the right to close your Account. We will provide you with at least one month's notice by email if we intend to close your Account for this reason.
6 Legality. We may monitor the location from which you appear to access the Games and, may use techniques which are intended to block access from any location in which participation in Skill Games may be illegal or restricted as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion from time to time. Accordingly, We may require a Gold Member receiving any prize to provide proof that he or she is eligible to participate and if we determine in our sole and absolute discretion that you are not eligible, we may refuse to award the prize or it may be deemed forfeit, either or both of which we may do at our own discretion.
You must comply with the laws which apply to you in the location you access the Skill Games from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit your participation in Skill Games that can be played for money, then you must comply with those legal restrictions.
Prohibited US states - Cash Games. If you live in the following states you are not eligible to play Skill Games for money:
South Carolina
South Dakota
7 Fees. There are standard fees for all cash Accounts as follows: Playing fee: Approximately 25% of the entry cost for a Skill Game with a cash or progressive jackpot tournament represents a fee paid by you to us for hosting the Skill Game. The remaining 75% of the entry cost is not paid to us, but goes into the player's prize fund to be paid by players to the winner(s) of the Skill Games. See the section Money section of our FAQs for more details.
Withdrawal Fee: Each withdrawal from your Skill Game Account will incur a processing fee of up to $2 per request. If an Account balance (excluding any non-withdrawable funds) is lower than the withdrawal processing fee, the withdrawal request will not be completed.
When you credit your mobile Account with funds, the amount credited will be worth less than the amount that you paid. This is because you are charged a small transaction cost for making a deposit. The amount charged will be stated before you make payment.
We may add new or ancillary services from time to time which require the payment of fees either to us or a nominated third party on terms which will be provided to you at the time.
8 Unallocated Gold Member Funds. From time to time, we will hold funds which are not allocated to Gold Members. This may occur for a number of reasons including where a Gold Member's winnings are forfeited, or if we are unable to place funds in an Account because it has already been closed by a Gold Member. We may use these funds for a variety of purposes including using them for "Freeroll tournaments" (these are free entry prize tournaments which are open to all Gold Players with qualifying skill rankings), donations to registered charities, developing and improving the Games and Games Service or anything else that we believe appropriate.
(B) Subscription Games
King's online subscription games are games that Members can pay a regular monthly subscription to play ("Subscription Games"). Subscription Games cannot be played for cash prizes or prizes that can be exchanged for cash.
Members that subscribe to Subscription Games are offered a wider range of higher quality games that are not made available to Members that play King games for free ("Free Members"). Subscription Members are also awarded double the number of jewels when they play (compared to Free Members). Subscription Members are able to collect King awards and diplomas and have greater access to a wider range of community features than Free Members. Advertising will not be displayed to Subscription Members (except in the Fun & Social Games area).
Subscriptions Members will be automatically billed when their current subscription period ends for the same subscription period, unless automatic renewal is unselected through the "my account" section of the King website before automatic renewal.
Subscription Members that do not renew their subscription will revert to Free Member status when their subscription expires and will be offered a more limited range of King games and more limited community features, but will keep all the jewels, awards and diplomas that were won while a Subscription Member.
The monthly cost of playing Subscription Games is set out on the Subscription Games payment page and is payable in advance. The amount that you pay to subscribe for Subscription Games is refundable within 21 days of your first payment (minus a pro rata deduction for the amount of days that you have played Subscription Games). You are not entitled to a refund of the amount that you paid us to play Subscription Games after 21 days.
(C) Fun & Social Games
The 'Fun & Social' category of Games contains games of chance that can only be played for free. Fun & Social Games cannot be played for cash prizes or prizes that can be exchanged for cash.
The following applies to all Games
9 Relevance. The Games are intended to be used by Members for the purposes referred to in clause 2 above. Accordingly, Members must not:
- use the Games for any other purpose;
- place material on, or otherwise use, the Games for any business, advertising or commercial purpose;
or use your access to the Games, or information gathered from it, for the sending of unsolicited bulk email (also known as "spam").
10 Operation of Games. We have the right to withdraw or modify one or more Games or aspects of the Games where we have legal or technical reasons to do so, including (a) privacy, data protection or other legal objections to the content or conduct of the Games, and (b) technical difficulties experienced by us or on the Internet. There may also be times when the Games become unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. For security or other reasons, we may require you to change password or other information which facilitates access to the Games
11 Abuse of the Games. Members may not use unfair methods to play the Games. Any technique which allows a Member to use anything other than pure skill in the conduct of a Game is unfair for these purposes. Such techniques may include, but are not limited to, multiple online or mobile Accounts, the use of program codes or commands or any adapted hardware or software to assist play, the impersonation of another Member, or deliberately losing Games for the purpose of getting a competitive advantage. Further, Members must not do anything that may cause a disruption or malfunction of the Games.
12 Suspension and Termination for Breach. We reserve the right (a) to suspend or terminate any Member's access to the Games, or parts of it, and (b) to forfeit from the relevant Account(s) all winnings (if the Member plays Skill Games for money), if the relevant Member or material appears to us to be in breach of any provision of these Terms. Forfeiture of winnings from Skill Games applies strictly where clauses 6 or 11 are breached; see clause 12 for how forfeited winnings are dealt with. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Games without our prior written consent. You are responsible for everything that is done on or through your Account while you are logged in.
13 Privacy policy.
14 Prohibitions. You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not us, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available through the Games. We do not control Content posted on our website in relation to the Games by third parties, and as such, we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by playing the Games Service, you may be exposed to Content that you may consider to be offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Content including, but not limited to any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available in relation to the Games.
You agree not to:
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
• use the Games to harm minors in any way;
• use the Games to impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Games;
• remove any proprietary notices from the Games Service;
• cause, permit or authorise the modification, creation of derivative works, or translation of the Games without our prior express written permission;
• use the Games for any commercial purpose or the benefit of any third party or any manner not permitted by the licenses granted in these Terms;
• use the Games for fraudulent or abusive purposes;
• attempt to decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or hack the Games, or to defeat or overcome any encryption technology or security measures implemented by us with respect to the Games and/or data transmitted, processed or stored by us;
• harvest or collect any information about or regarding other Members or Members' Accounts, including, but not limited to any personal information;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", or any other form of solicitation;
• upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Games are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to compete in Games or engage in real time exchanges;
• interfere with or disrupt the Games or servers or networks connected to the Games, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Games;
• use the Games to intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, and any regulations having the force of law; and/or
• use the Games to "stalk" or otherwise harass another.
15 Alerting us. If you see anything relating to the Games which appears to infringe these Terms, then please contact us to inform us of it by using the "Report Abuse" function, or by emailing us here.
16 The Refer-a-Friend Policy. The terms of any "Refer-a-Friend Policy" that we may make available to you will be provided to you separately to these Terms.
17 Withdrawal of material. We will remove any material on the Games which we determine in our sole discretion is capable of breaching any part of these Terms or which may bring the Games into disrepute. However, each user acknowledges that we do not actively monitor material which is contributed by Members on the Games, and we make no undertaking to do so.
18 Disclaimer and Release. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE (WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY), FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LOSS OF DATA, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER OR OTHER DEVICE FAILURE OR PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE OR THE GAMES, INCLUDING ANY DAMAGES RESULTING THEREFROM, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
19 Intellectual Property. You acknowledge that all copyright, trade marks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to the Games, other than material which is contributed by Members, are owned by us. It can be easy to copy material that appears on websites, but this does not mean it is legal. Therefore, no-one may copy, distribute, show in public or create any derivative work from the Games, or any of the material which is found on the Games, unless properly licensed to do so by (a) us and (b) where material contributed by one or more Members is concerned, by the Member(s) in question.
By submitting any material to the Games Service, you:
- are representing that you are fully entitled to do so and you;
- grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material solely in the course of its processing and display on and through the Games Service in accordance with these Terms; and
- authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.
We grant you a limited licence to access and use the Games subject to these Terms. However, this licence does not allow you to make any commercial use or and derivative use of the Games (including any of its individual elements or content).
20 Maximum liability. Without limiting the preceding clause, during any period of twelve months, our aggregate liability under these Terms (whether arising in negligence, breach of contract or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed the greater of (a) $5, or (b) an amount equal to the sums you have paid into your Account during the relevant period of twelve months, regardless of the cause or form of action.
21 Non-excluded Liabilities. Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, or any other liability which may not by law be excluded. Any statutory rights you may have as a consumer remain unaffected.
If (a) there is a technical failure of the Games which causes, as a result, a tournament to be uncompleted, and (b) it is determined by us with certainty that the responsibility for the failure lies completely within our control, then, after examining the cause of the malfunction, we will refund to your Account an amount up to the equivalent in entry costs that were charged to your Account for joining the particular tournament. We do not have any liability to pay winnings which may potentially have been won in an uncompleted tournament.
22 Indemnity. You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of these Terms by you or through any computer that you use to access the Games.
23 Assignment. We reserve the right to assign these Terms and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under these Terms. You may not without our written consent assign or dispose of your Account or these Terms.
24 Entire Agreement. These Terms set out the whole of the agreement between us and you concerning the Games and they replace all earlier agreements and understandings with you, except for any fraud or fraudulent representation by either of us. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to rely upon or enforce any part of these Terms.
25 Changes to these Terms. We reserve the right to update these Terms from time to time. When we do so, we will notify you of this on the main screen of the Games, after which your continued use of the Games will constitute your acceptance of the new Terms commencing 30 days after the date of posting (or such later date as we indicate in the relevant posting). If you do not wish to be governed any new version of the Terms, you must notify us of this in writing on or before the date that the new version of the Terms will apply and from that date you must stop using the Games.
26 Severability. In the event that any part of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of these Terms shall remain valid and enforceable.
27 Law. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
28 Contact. You can contact us by email using the dedicated form here.
These terms and conditions were last updated on 5 February 2014.