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Six Hours of Talks Don’t Bring NBA Lockout End any Closer
Well, Six hours later, and we’re still in the middle of the NBA lockout. Not that I expected David Stern, Adam Silver and Derek Fisher to fix everything and give up on billions of dollars in six hours. But still, at least according to what they’re saying or probably what they’re not saying, we’re not any closer to end the work dispute and get the 2011-2012 NBA season going.
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Gold Medal Winners on Day Six of the 2011 IAAF World Championships
The men and women who won gold on day six of the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu, highlights by Britian’s Danny Greene (400 meter hurdles) and Jesse Williams in the Men’s high jump.
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Deadline Day Transfers Around Europe
Panic day, as August 31 should be called, was as usual, busy as ever. In England it was Arsene Wenger, pressing the panic button and going against everything he usually preaches regarding players he signs and the Great Plan. Inter Milan were quite busy themselves and in all the past few days were quite hectic regarding fax machines, phone calls between Football directors and contract signings.
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Rafael Nadal Struggling Early
Rafael Nadal, if you remember or not, is the defending US Open champion. He certainly hasn’t looked like that any time he faced Novak Djokovic this year, and he wasn’t exactly cruising yesterday in his first round match facing Andrey Golubev, ranked 98th in the world. Nadal won, but far from convincingly.
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The Eagles Gambling Big With New Vick Contract
Image: Source About to begin his third season with the Philadelphia Eagles, this time declared before the season as the team’s starting quarterback, Michael Vick got a nice bonus in the form of a $100 million for six years contract, 40 million of them guaranteed. A long way since being released from Leavenworth two years […]
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Sabathia Finally Manages to Win (Yankees vs Red Sox)
CC Sabathia is 17-3 with a 2.40 ERA this season, when facing anyone but the Red Sox. Against Boston? Well, after the 5-2 win in Fenway park, making it 3-13 in the Red Sox’s favor this year (that bad, huh?). Until this win, Sabathia was 0-4 against Boston this year, with a terrible 7.40 ERA.
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Dirk Nowitzki and the Eurobasket Experience
It’s fitting that the 2011 EuroBasket will be played in Lithuania for the first time since 1939. The only country in the world that its most popular sport is Basketball. The biggest star in this tournament will be Dirk Nowitzki, NBA Champions and Finals MVP with not even three months gone since winning with the Dallas Mavericks against the Miami Heat.
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Kournikova vs Sharapova
Anna Kournikova is probably the hottest player to ever step on a tennis court, winning 0 singles titles but two Grand Slams playing Doubles. Maria Sharapova, just as Blonde and Russian, is probably the best ever Really hot player to step on any playing surface. At 24, she’s currently no.4 in the world and has three Grand Slam titles in her bag.
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Usain Bolt Leaves us With Questions and Worries
Usain Bolt fell and failed due to a stupid rule. He did false start, but this one and done thing by the IAAF is idiotic and threw out the man, maybe the only man, with an appeal to the general public. But Bolt’s disqualification does raise some questions and thoughts.