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LeBron James Isn’t Done With Winning MVP Awards
LeBron James, according to those sources that always foresee the future, will win the 2011-2012 NBA MVP award for the regular season, the third time he has won the award. This makes him the 8th player in NBA history to win the award three times or more, and don’t expect this to be the last time with his name on the Maurice Podoloff trophy.
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Floyd Mayweather, Bigger PPV Draw Than Manny Pacquiao?
Floyd Mayweather has more haters than actual fans, but that doesn’t make him any less interesting. Buoyed by facing Miguel Cotto, a highly followed fighter by his own rights, the Mayweather – Cotto fight brought in over 1.5 million viewers on PPV, generating over $94 million on the night.
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Kobe Bryant Keeps Getting Better, Lakers Keep Getting Worse
Kobe Bryant didn’t have a Michael Jordan kind of night, as much as he would love to. He didn’t have the support Jordan had, that night against the Utah Jazz. Bryant seemed just as sick and ill, pumped up with IVs, but he alone was no match to the striding Denver Nuggets and Ty Laswon, who tied the series at 3-3, giving us a game 7.
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Andre Iguodala Finding Out He is a Clutch Player
Andre Iguodala embraced the scoring load, something that didn’t work too well for him and the 76ers in the years after the Allen Iverson era. He’s not supposed to be a leading scorer and an automatic go to guy, despite the athleticism and the highlight moves that may hide his offensive problems from less inquisitive eyes.
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A Terrible Madrid Masters For Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal doesn’t like losing and isn’t used to it, especially on clay. Last season’s dropped Masters against Novak Djokovic were a one time blemish for him, and eventually, didn’t matter that much after he won the Roland Garros. But this week in Madrid has brought out a side of Nadal we didn’t really think we’d see.
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Kobe Bryant Won’t Win a Sixth Ring Without Andrew Bynum
Kobe Bryant won’t be winning a sixth NBA ring this season. Well, at least he’s not supposed to. The Thunder and the Spurs are better teams than the Los Angeles Lakers, and the problems the Nuggets are presenting to the Lakers suggest that this team just doesn’t have what it takes to go all the way in the 2012 NBA Playoffs.
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Heat – Knicks Series Was Never a Fair Fight
It was never a fair fight. The Miami Heat did have their bad game in New York but in general, this series wasn’t even close. LeBron James was too dominant from the first moment in game 5, and the New York Knicks, with their current roster, don’t have enough to bring to the table against a much superior opponent.
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Amir Khan Looking For a New Opponent Now That the Peterson Fight is Cancelled
Amir Khan won’t be fighting Lamont Peterson on May 19 because of a positive drug test that Peterson took back in March turned out to be positive. No hearing was done, but Peterson did admit he took the banned substance, which quickly led to cancelling the fight and for Amir Khan to look for a new fight on June 30.
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Shaving Tony Parker Into Your Head
Tony Parker for MVP? Unlikely, because Kevin Durant and LeBron James seem to be the more popular choices for the top individual award in the regular season. But San Antonio Spurs fans look at things a little differently, and one of them even gets a Tony Parker haircut, in appreciation of the All-Star point guard.
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Six Year Old Kid With the Unassisted Triple Play
The Unassisted Triple Play is one of the rarest things in baseball. It has happened only 15 times since 1909, and during a certain stretch, between 1927 and 1992, it occurred only once, performed by Ron Hansen in 1968. It’s pretty much up there with four home runs in one game or a perfect pitching game.