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  • Sergio Aguero and Maybe a New Sensation

    Is Sergio Aguero the man to make Manchester City an exciting team? At 38 million pounds, he better be. Leaving jokes aside, Aguero’s fantastic 30 minutes yesterday – two goals and one creative assist to David Villa, capping off a whopping 4-0 thrashing of Swansea leaves the taste buds in mouths of City fans hungry for more.

  • Kobe Bryant and the Lockout Induced Chinese Adventure

    Right now, the players are losing. Soon enough the checks will stop coming, and players who haven’t landed deals in Europe or other basketball leagues, haven’t saved for a rainy day, aren’t planning on a career change or don’t have some lucrative commercial deal, will be hoping this lockout ends. For players like Kobe Bryant, who is pretty much in a league of his own, times are less troubled.

  • A Huge Match Before the Real Season Begins (Real Madrid vs Barcelona)

    If a demonstration to the importance of Xavi was ever needed, yesterday was the perfect example. David Villa scored a wonderful goal, Lionel Messi did his thing with a little bit of help from lady luck. Still, Real Madrid dominated the First leg of the Super Cup, which is something between a friendly and a league match. After a slightly dull start to the season in England, this was the bang we needed to tell us football is back.

  • 4 Things to Think of After the First Day in the English Premiership

    Arsenal and Arsene Wenger look depressed, Kenny Dalglish has a lot of work before Liverpool can make the most of their spent money, Blackburn and QPR struggle to impress (at best) while Ivan Klasnic has a wonderful match.

  • Sejad Salihovic With the Best Goal of the Weekend

    I know it’s only Saturday, but Hoffenheim’s Sejad Salihovic’s fantastic goal with a booming free kick shot against German champions Dortmund yesterday was so good I really doubt it’ll be bested today in any of the leagues, even in the Super Cup Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

  • Luis Suarez Ain’t Enough for Happy Opening (Liverpool vs Sunderland)

    Luis Suarez’ goal wasn’t enough to spark Liverpool to a exciting and impressive display on the first day of the 2011-2012 season in the English Premiership. Sebastian Larsson’s fantastic goal gave Sunderland a 1-1 draw at Anfield.

  • Manchester United and the Rest (Sort of a Preview for the 2011-2012 Premier League)

    Alex Ferguson is not alone with his hunches and feeling this year, just before the first weekend of Premier League football kicks off. Manchester United, the defending champions, last year and four of the last five seasons, are the favorites to win the title. After the Community Shield second half performance, with Wayne Rooney, Nani and Javier Hernandez, Chicharito from now on, Fergie’s looks set to rule Manchester for another year and make it 20 league titles for Manchester United this season.

  • NBA Players NOT Interested in Playing Overseas

    LeBron James belives there’s still hope for the 2011-2012 NBA season. Maybe not to start on time, but it can be saved. Sitting down with AP, LeBron James spoke about his summer activities, which unlike a growing number of NBA player, don’t involve signing with European clubs, or even Asian (Dwyane Wade and China?). No overseas plans for LeBron in then near future, until the 2012 Olympic Games.

  • Real Madrid vs 109 Chinese Kids

    Real Madrid, wrapping up their Asian tour, played against 109(!!!) Chinese kids. Guangzhou children to be exact. Why 109, you ask? Because of the club’s 109 years of course. Real Madrid won, of course, like they did against the adults throughout their tour, but probably gave the children an experience they’ll always remember.

  • New Season, Old Habits (Manchester United vs Manchester City)

    Nani. It all came down to Nani stealing the ball from Kompany, and giving United their usual Community Shield win (their fourth in five years). Manchester United were the better side, but found themselves behind 2-0, mostly due to David de Gea lack of concentration. It didn’t matter. Alex Ferguson has the better team, the better players. But a team, first of all. Something City still can’t claim they are. And United proved in a wonderful second half, with Nani scoring twice, that they are still the best in Manchester, and England.