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Marco Reus & Mario Götze, the Future of Borussia Dortmund
Some things are obvious, but still need a little bit of demonstrating from time to time. Like Marco Reus being a wonderful player. Like his partnership with Mario Götze being the basis for future success with Dortmund and with the German national team.
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AS Roma – The Never Ending Francesco Totti
Last season really seemed like the last hurrah. Roma failed miserably in the league – a sixth place finish for a second consecutive season, despite all the expectations from their Barcelona-system manager, Daniele De Rossi presumably on his way out and Francesco Totti looking older than ever.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Doesn’t Stop in Garbage Time
The Spanish La Liga is so over, and we’re only in the middle of January. Barcelona are on cruise control for the rest of the season while bigger challenges await in the Champions League, although it doesn’t mean Lionel Messi is going to stop scoring.
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All-Star Weekend, Night 1 – Best Moments
As the weekend builds up towards Sunday, the start of the All-Star events in Houston weren’t too bad, with Usain Bolt dunking and racing against Kevin Hart, Dikembe Mutombo showing his finger-wag once more and Kyrie Irving breaking Brandon Knight and his ankles.
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Rising Stars Challenge Still Not Very Interesting
Kenneth Faried kept dunking without anyone disturbing him, making 18 of his 22 field goal attempts, as he led team Chuck to a 163-135 win over Team Shaq in the opening event of the 2013 All-Star weekend, the Rising Stars Challenge, which still doesn’t really work despite the various attempts to add some missing ingredient into the mix.
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NFL Rumors – Cleveland Browns Seeking to Trade Brandon Weeden
Having a quarterback heading into his second year after a not disastrous rookie season isn’t such a bad thing to own, but Brandon Weeden will be turning 30 during the 2013 NFL Season, and it seems like the Cleveland Browns might be willing to give up on him and look for a trade pretty soon.
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NFL Rumors – Chicago Bears Might Give Up on Brian Urlacher
It’s hard to believe, but as times goes by, it seems that Brian Urlacher might actually not play for the Chicago Bears in the 2013 NFL Season after spending his entire career with the team.
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Floyd Mayweather – Not as Important as He Could Have Been
How will Floyd Mayweather be remembered, when his days inside the boxing ring are over? As one of the greatest boxers of all-time, undefeated, winning pretty much every possible title he could get his hands on? Or as a man who chased money, and not glory, taking the easy road when he could have done stuff that would have gone down in the legend books?
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Cristiano Ronaldo Will Always Be Behind Lionel Messi
Unless their careers suddenly take a very different path in the next few years, it’s safe to assume that despite Cristiano Ronaldo winning everything possible in club football and being as good as humanly possible on the football pitch, he’ll eventually be remembered as the second best player of his era, behind Lionel Messi.
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Los Angeles Clippers – Showing Who is the Boss in Town
After beating the Los Angeles Lakers three times this season, the Los Angeles Clippers are headed towards a lot of firsts in their franchise history, but the most important thing is that Chris Paul and Blake Griffin now control the NBA scene of the town, while the crumbling, shiny project from across the street is going down with the Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard relationship.