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Pablo Torre Turns in Performance for the Ages in Family Feud's 'Fast Money'

Mike mcdaniel | 11 hours ago.

Sports media personality Pablo Torre, of ESPN and Meadowlark Media, was a contestant on a celebrity edition of Family Feud , and turned in a performance for the ages during the show's concluding "Fast Money" segment.

Torre, who competed on the show with chef David Chang, retired LPGA star Michelle Wie West, ESPN's Mina Kimes and author Chris Ying, had to come up with 146 points during Fast Money to overcome the hole that was dug by Chang in the first leg of the segment.

Torre needed multiple No. 1 survey answers to give his team a shot at winning the $25,000 up for grabs, and he did just that.

Torre said he would cover himself up with a leaf if somebody walked by while he was naked in the woods, which was the No. 1 survey answer that earned his team 52 points. Torre then came up with the No. 2 answer to the question of "Who should you never call when you're drunk?" when he responded with "Your mom."

But the highlight, and game-winning answer was to the question of "Name a coin you should throw in a fountain to make a wish." Torre said "a penny," which was the No. 1 answer and earned 65 points to clinch the victory.

Full video of Pablo Torre writing himself into the Celebrity Family Feud history books with an epic fast money performance. pic.twitter.com/ShtXaAAcCt — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 17, 2024

Torre has earned himself a nice living talking about sports, but his hidden talent is as a game show contestant if he's ever looking for a career change.

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Police appeal for calm amid increasingly bitter feud between traveller clans in Manchester and Ireland

One planned fight has been thwarted and armed police swooped on an address in middleton.

• 18:05, 30 JUL 2021
• Updated 20:29, 30 JUL 2021

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Armed police swooped on a house in north Manchester amid an increasingly bitter feud between traveller families.

Video footage shared on social media showed armed cops arresting a man, 44, at a house on Martindale Crescent in Middleton on Wednesday.

The swoop came 24 hours after a fight between two groups of travellers, one based in Manchester and the other the Republic of Ireland, was due to take place on Dantzic Street just north of Manchester city centre.

But police were tipped off and a crowd of people was dispersed, according to GMP.

READ MORE: Neighbours 'hear shouting and fighting' before hit and run as man is rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition

The feud is thought to be between one traveller group based in north and east Manchester and another based in Mountbellew in Ireland.

Both groups have posted videos on YouTube goading the other side.

It has prompted a significant police operation, culminating in the armed police operation on Wednesday and an increase in patrols.

Video from that arrest was also posted on YouTube.

Assistant Chief Constable Nicky Porter, of Greater Manchester Police, has appealed for calm from both sides.

He said: "We are aware of a number of incidents linked to ongoing tensions in communities across the Greater Manchester area.

"This includes a recent incident on Dantzic Street, Manchester on Tuesday 27 July where it's believed a fight was arranged to take place. A crowd gathered, but was dispersed upon police arrival. "As a result of these ongoing tensions, an arrest of a 44-year-old man was made yesterday, in Middleton on suspicion of affray. He has since been charged. "We are continuing to monitor this situation closely and have deployed a number of additional patrols in the areas affected.

"The incidents are believed to be contained, and we want to reassure the public that we are acting upon every piece of intelligence received. If there is any information you might have that could assist in this investigation, I would urge you to get in touch. "We want to take this opportunity to appeal for calm among these communities, as well as reiterate that this kind of behaviour will not be tolerated.

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"If you have any information, you can report it to us at www.gmp.police.uk using our online reporting or Live Chat function, or by calling 101." Information can also be reported anonymously by contacting Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Thomas Joyce, 44, of Middleton, has been charged with affray.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

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Shocking moment feuding traveller families batter each other in organised bareknuckle mass brawl

• Published : 10:50, 21 Oct 2021
• Updated : 11:48, 21 Oct 2021
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SHOCKING footage shows feuding traveller families battering each other in an organised mass brawl.

The bareknuckle fight erupted in a basketball court in Middleton, Greater Manchester, on July 27 this year.

Manchester Crown Court heard the violence exploded after a "long-running dispute" between two families.

Two men are seen trading blows as a large group gathered to watch the fight.

Others join in the as the scrap sprawls across the court in broad daylight.

Thomas Joyce, 44, is seen in a blue tank top in three-minute video, which was uploaded to YouTube.

He is seen removing the top and punching a man at one point as others begin to fight.

Towards the end of the video, a group of men kick a man who is on the ground in a horrifying assault.

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The men swarm around the victim who is hit as he lays on the floor, although Joyce wasn’t involved in this attack.

Joyce was fined £500 after pleading guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, Manchester Evening News report s.

Prosecutor Brian Berlyne said: “It appears that it has been uploaded by various observers of a fight between two members of the external family, Joyce being one of the families.

“Police have identified two external families in a long running dispute.

Several people are involved in the violence, the defendant throws punches Prosecutor Brian Berlyne

“This took place on a basketball court on Langley, in Middleton.

“Thomas Joyce is identified as being one of the parties - you can see he is wearing a light blue vest and he takes it off during the fighting.

“Several people are involved in the violence, the defendant throws punches, though he did not take part in the footage of the man who was being kicked whilst he lay on the ground.”

No other men involved in the brawl have been arrested of prosecuted.

It’s a bunch of men running around a basketball court throwing punches at each other Judge Hilary Manley

Judge Hilary Manley said of the footage: “It’s a bunch of men running around a basketball court throwing punches at each other.”

Joyce was said to have a number of previous convictions for violence, affray, public order offences and burglary.

Daniel Travers, defending, said: “It’s an unpleasant video.

"Clearly this sort of video should not take place - though they were willing parties.

'ORGANISED VIOLENCE'

“Mr Joyce played a relatively minor role and has been out of trouble for many years.

“There have been some difficulties in the travelling community. He has been making efforts to try and calm matters down."

Mr Travers said the police had approached Joyce, who "has some influence’" to help keep the communities calm.

He added that the basketball court was in a private place, owned by the travelling community, but admitted the fight wasn't "lawful or acceptable".

Sentencing, Judge Manley said: “You took part in some organised violence between two groups of people, you threw some punches.

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“It was an unedifying spectacle, really. At 44-years-old, you’re really too old to behave like this, you must surely have better things to do with your time.

“You’re not setting a good example for the young men in your community.”

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Shocking video shows man punching driver through window as dangerous Traveller gang dispute escalates

The attacker can be seen taking his mouth shield in and out of his mouth - an indication that he had come prepared for a bare knuckle brawl

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Tensions have been building in a Dublin area where two Traveller families have issued several call out videos containing insulting slurs and attacks on different members of each group.

The dangerous feud has escalated recently with footage showing a man in a yellow vest firing two hits at a man who is sitting in the driver's seat of a white car, Dublin Live reports .

The attacker is heard saying "that was you" before the driver replies "I didn't do anything to you".

It is suspected that the conversation between the pair related to comments made about the attacker's father in a previous slam video.

It's at this point when the man swings for the person in the driver's seat, connecting with him twice before he speeds away around the corner.

In further footage viewed by Dublin Live, the attacker is heard saying "I'm a man, come on, come out and fight me" while walking through an estate in the area.

He can also be seen taking his mouth shield in and out of his mouth - an indication that he had come prepared for a bare knuckle brawl.

The video then zooms onto a house where the driver has parked his car outside as the attacker continues to wait for him.

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Speaking to the camera, the yellow vested striker introduces himself.

He says: "I'm here. I'm ready to fight" before shadow boxing in the middle of the quiet road and goading the driver to come out.

He continues: "I'm the real deal. Come out and fight me.

"He gave my auld fella cheek. I hit him a couple of clouts and he went running into the house.

"I'll fight for my family. But look at him, he's there in his car.

"I hit him two shots and he went into his hiding bay. I don't give a f***."

A source explained that tensions have been building in the area for weeks and fears that it may end in bloodshed.

They said: "The driver in the car was dissing the attacker's dad and uncle and this incident was in response to that.

"There have been several call-out videos back and forth between the two families containing the usual insults and backs and forths.

"The man in the yellow vest was ready for a fight but the driver decided to take the more sensible option and get away.

"There is a lot of trouble now in the area because of it and it's only a matter of time before blood is shed."

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Pablo Torre clutched up to win ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ in epic fashion

ESPN star Pablo Torre faced a huge mountain to climb on Celebrity Family Feud and turned in an epic performance in the clutch.

Who would have thought that the greatest clutch performance of the year wouldn’t be Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl or Steph Curry in the Olympics? No, there’s only one man that deserves that honor for 2024. And it’s ESPN and Meadowlark Media star Pablo Torre thanks to his heroics on Celebrity Family Feud .

Torre and fellow ESPN personality Mina Kimes were playing with celebrity chef David Chang, former LPGA star Michelle Wie West,  and author Chris Ying on a team that had a heavy sports influence up against a team fronted by John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.

Chang’s team won the game and got to play Fast Money for a chance at $25,000 for their charity. Unfortunately, Chang led off and could only muster 54 points, leaving Torre an almost impossible hole to climb out of. In fact, host Steve Harvey said it would take a Celebrity Family Feud record for a second contestant to reach the 200 points needed to win.

And that’s when Torre etched his name into celebrity game show lore with a performance for the ages. He nailed three of the top answers and secured the comeback victory.

Full video of Pablo Torre writing himself into the Celebrity Family Feud history books with an epic fast money performance. pic.twitter.com/ShtXaAAcCt — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 17, 2024

Kimes had teased that we didn’t want to miss the episode and she couldn’t have been more right. She also said that she blacked out upon meeting Steve Harvey. And appropriately enough, Torre said that he blacked out for significant portions of his heroics too. I’m sure Michael Jordan felt the same when he drained that jumper over Bryon Russell in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals.

I blacked out for significant portions of this https://t.co/SmwmmUfbN6 — Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) September 17, 2024

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'Knuckle' Joint: Traveller Clans, Endlessly At Odds

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Battle-weary: Paul Joyce (left) and Mikey Quinn McDonagh spar for 47 minutes before a draw is called. Paul Nicholls/Allpix/ARC Entertainment hide caption

• Director: Ian Palmer
• Genre: Documentary
• Running Time: 97 minutes

Rated R; for violent content and language

With: James Quinn McDonagh, Paddy Quinn McDonagh and Michael Quinn McDonagh

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'What I Call A Fight'

Credit: ARC Entertainment

'I'm No Good To Fight'

The question of access troubles Knuckle , a ragged documentary that offers viewers a tour through the world of Irish Travellers , with special attention paid to the bare-knuckle fistfights fueled by ongoing disputes between rival clans.

On the one hand, footage of these chest-thumping amateurs throwing down on back roads and in improvised clearings is rarely available to outsiders; it's a rare look at the mechanics of a modern-day tribal blood feud.

On the other, the Travellers reveal themselves only so much to the filmmaker, closing ranks whenever the camera threatens to uncover deeper truths about shady dealings and fractious inner circles. After 12 years on their trail, director Ian Palmer must have felt like something akin to a journalist covering a political campaign.

Back in 1997, Palmer was hired to videotape the wedding of Michael Quinn McDonagh, and soon became aware of the decades-long conflict between the Quinn McDonaghs and their rivals, the Joyces. The feud started with a manslaughter charge in London and spread across England and Ireland like a runaway bar brawl.

Though the nomadic families of Traveller culture can be extraordinarily insular and inbred — there's always talk of cousins and uncles of not-so-distant relation on the other side — the Quinn McDonaghs, the Joyces, the Nevins and other clans rally behind their names, professing a burning hatred for those who fight under a different banner. They have everything in common, yet repel each other like positive ions.

The "Fair Fights" between the families often unfold over several hours and multiple match-ups, with five-figure cash stakes up for grabs — though the money seems secondary to the pursuit of honor and revenge. The fights are conducted without any built-in breaks and are mediated by two neutral referees, who try to limit kicks, head-butting, biting and any extended grappling. (Non-competing family members are forbidden to attend, for fear that the feud will spill out into the crowd.)

The charismatic leader of the Quinn McDonaghs is James, an undefeated fighter first seen pummeling the face of a Joyce brother who's too ungainly to counter yet too prideful to concede. James boasts that he never calls for fights himself — and makes clear his intent to retire — but we can see how those calls keep coming anyway. Between fights, the clans exchange vicious "taunt videos," often recorded in boozy pub celebrations after they've just traded blows. And so the cycle repeats itself, with James and his brothers throwing themselves — and, by extension, their wives and children — into the middle of it.

The fights themselves are an anthropological wonder, a raw clash between men whose pugilistic skills rarely measure up to their beet-faced braggadocio. In voiceover narration, Palmer confesses that he's been so seduced by this hidden subculture that he's lost sight of everything else — and the film he's made unfortunately supports that revelation. There's never a sense that Palmer is witnessing something James or the other Quinn McDonaghs don't want him to see, especially when it comes to the women, who are largely kept out of view. Though Palmer recognizes that he's being manipulated, he's often powerless to stop it.

Nevertheless, Knuckle smuggles in some troubling footage when it can, as when Palmer finally listens in on the women at a family function and finds a few dissenting voices — or when he shows young boys eagerly shadowboxing for the camera, ready to battle on well into the 21st century.

For all their brutality, the fights are so seductive and exciting that their consequences — the physical and mental toll exacted from the men and their families — sometimes fail to register.

Yet Knuckle largely skirts exploitation, simply by virtue of showing this conflict perpetuate itself over so many years. Clans like the Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces seem destined to fight for generations after they've forgotten their rationale.

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Bare-Faced and Bare-Knuckled: Fighting Traveller Families

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Filmed carefully over a period of twelve years, the documentary Knuckle sheds light on the inner workings and on-going feuds of three Irish Traveller clans. Up next for the film: a New York premiere and an HBO spin-off series.

Don’t let the bandaged fist in the photo fool you. Knuckle , Ian Palmer’s documentary about the bare-fisted boxing tradition of the Irish Travellers, might be about blood, but it’s not about gore. The blood Palmer seems most interested in is the stuff that pumps through the veins of the intricately connected Traveller community he visited and filmed over 12 years, a society where cousins marry, work together and, when the occasion arises, beat each other senseless.

“I wanted to make a film from inside their world,” Palmer told indie/WIRE when Knuckle premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. “The idea and the approach was simple. I spent as much time as I could with the families with a minimal crew and small camera.”

His approach resonated at HBO, which is adapting the documentary into a new drama series. Industry blogs hint that the HBO treatment will trend toward dark comedy, since it is being developed by writer Irvine Welsh (author of the gritty novel Trainspotting, on which the film of the same name was based), and director Jody Hill of Rough House Pictures, the project’s producer, whose politically incorrect comedy Easthouse & Down also airs on HBO.

Knuckle will have its New York premiere on September 30 at Irish Film New York, which will feature five other recent Irish releases. This new screening series of contemporary Irish films is co-presented by New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House, and runs September 30 through October 2 at NYU’s Cantor Film Center.

Festival founder and curator Niall McKay, who is also the founder and director of the San Francisco Irish Film Festival and co-founder of the LA Irish Film Festival, said he deliberately chose films for the series that depict Ireland as it is today.

“I particularly wanted films that had a real physical effect on me,” he said, “ones that made me cry or laugh or get angry.”

“We’re pleased that Niall McKay has chosen to work with Glucksman Ireland House to present this excellent addition to the city’s arts scene,” said Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Chair of the Glucksman Ireland House NYU Advisory Board. She praised the festival for presenting “works that would not otherwise be seen by a wide audience. It should be an exciting experience for our Irish American community.”

Besides Knuckle, Irish Film New York will also feature the New York premieres of the Galway Film Fleadh-winning Parked with Colm Meany, a study of a friendship between two men who live in their cars, and The Runway, the story of a downed pilot in Cork rescued by a little boy, with Weeds star Demián Bichir. Other films include the bittersweet coming-of-ager, 32A, directed by Marion Quinn, a hilarious peek at Dublin teenagers called Pyjama Girls, and Sensation, about a man who tries to lose his virginity but ends up running a brothel. Directors and stars of the films will appear at Q&A sessions after each screening.

There will also be an industry panel in conjunction with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where filmmakers and producers will discuss the direction of Irish film at home and abroad.

McKay says the mission of Irish Film New York is to expose American audiences to the best in Irish contemporary cinema and to give Irish filmmakers “a fair crack at the U.S. market.” It will join with the San Francisco and Los Angeles Irish Film Festivals to bring the filmmakers of Knuckle, Parked, and The Runway on a tri-city tour in anticipation of each film’s U.S. release. Knuckle will appear in independent U.S. theatres this December, with The Runway and Parked following shortly after.

Director Palmer admitted to Irish Independent Weekend that he did not approach the filming of Knuckle like an investigative journalist.

“It was more about observing the [Traveller] families and trying to let the life reveal itself. The reasons behind the fighting were difficult to get at. The feuds stretched back over generations. It was always about defending your name and family pride.”

The three rival families that he studied, the Quinn McDonaghs, the Nevins and the Joyces, are all related, often sharing the same grandparents. As one of the women remarks, “We’re all one in the end.” Even if a Nevin married a Quinn, or a Quinn has a mother who is a Joyce, the rationale for fighting rests on defending just one family’s name.

While Palmer is able to ferret out the powerful origin of one particular feud, the sources of the disputes don’t seem as important as the disputes themselves. “Would it not be possible for you guys to get together to talk about it and make up?” the director asks Michael Quinn McDonagh, on his way to a fight in England. “You’re crazy,” Michael laughs, dumfounded at Palmer’s naiveté.

The matches are called “fair fights” and are organized with unexpected formality: when a challenge is issued, it is promptly accepted, a date and location are set, and the fighters hit the gym to train weeks before the match. Fair fights take place in secret locations with few onlookers. There are referees from neutral families and lots of rules. And everybody obeys the rules. Anyone who doesn’t is disqualified, and his family takes the loss.

Technology and money play crucial roles in this tradition-bound ritual: Families exchange videotaped challenges and fight results are reported by cell phones. Bets are negotiated for astonishing amounts of cash; winner (and family) takes all.

The fighters accept Palmer’s presence with the nonchalance of a generation bred on reality TV. But despite his desire to let the story emerge from the people themselves, they never forget the camera is there. Dodging it, challenging it, playing with it, they turn the camera – with narrator Palmer – into another character in the film.

Palmer said it was only during editing that he realized that the narrative would work better if he allowed himself to be an obvious part of his film. “The film is more honest for accepting that Knuckle is my experience of this world,” he said, “and my relationship to the people in the film and how that affected me.”

His “shaky cam” character dances around the fair fight scenes with a perilous immediacy. At any moment, you expect a fist to fly into the lens. Because he interviews both families involved in a fight, Palmer never appears to be taking sides. Even though he follows one fighter’s story more closely than others, he is not making a fight movie. There is no Big Match to decide it all, no good guys or bad.

James Quinn McDonagh, the soft-spoken man whose winning battles form the core of the film, says over and over again he doesn’t want to fight, but is provoked into it by the other families, claiming he’d like “to be known for something more positive.”

James doesn’t like to train either. “I’d rather be socializing,” he quips. But when a challenge comes from the Joyces or the Nevins, he comes out with fists blaring. “It’s the best way to sort things out,” he explains. Even after he swears off fighting, he is seen anxiously prepping his brother by cell phone before a fight, exclaiming as he waits for the results, “Grandfathers in Heaven, send Michael the power!”

Why do the fights continue? Palmer sees “fair fighting as still mainly about family and individual honor and pride,” a deeply felt emotion expressed here in macho posturing: “We will fight because we are men, we’re Joyce men.”

Then there’s the fast cash from the betting. The suggestion of inconsistent employment implies that fighting is a needed source of income, and might also be a way to establish self-respect when the outside world offers too little.

But within a closed community, the flip side of self-respect can be a cult of personality. Joe Joyce, an older man who nevertheless continues to fight, boasts, “I’m still King of the Travellers!” One of James’ opponents, the dewy-faced youngster, Davy Nevins, says the fights are not about revenge.

“James thinks he’s better than us,” he explains calmly. “People think he’s a god. I don’t want to defeat the Quinns, I just want to defeat James.”

Some Nevins relatives suggest a possible link between being a Traveller and the need to keep fighting. When an old man muses, “There’s always been wars,” the younger Spike Nevin replies, “But we’re Travellers. At least wars are about something. Something right.”

Conspicuously absent from the film are Traveller women, who are reluctant to appear on camera. Yet, the only strong voices condemning the fighting come from a sofa full of older women gathered for an after-fight party. “I think it should end,” one woman states firmly. “All this fighting over names. It’s an awful life to have. It should be finished.”

“I don’t know what they’re fighting for,” James’ mother adds.

“When my sons grow up, they aren’t doing it,” a much younger woman declares with convincing resolution. But she quickly adds a caveat, “If I can help it.”

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