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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho & Daniel Sturridge Can’t Explode Every Week
A Merseyside derby used to be a fiery affair with red cards and injured players scattered across the pitch. Times have changed, especially for Liverpool football club, about to finish beneath their city rivals for a second consecutive season, while all the talent in the world, from Philippe Coutinho, Daniel Sturridge and an energetic Steven Gerrard couldn’t give Jamie Carragher a nice farewell present, sending him off from the derby with a home win at Anfield.
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Juan Mata as the Winner, Rafael as the Loser (Manchester United vs Chelsea)
Maybe Howard Webb has finally ended all the rumors about him and Manchester United, by giving a red card to Rafael in the closing minutes of the match between Manchester United, who weren’t really looking (or needed to) to win, and Chelsea, in a must-win mode, getting the three points they were looking for through a winning goal from Juan Mata.
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Miroslav Klose Scores 5 Goals in 60 Minutes (Lazio vs Bologna)
While Juventus were off securing their second consecutive Serie A title, Miroslav Klose showed that he can still score at the highest of levels, needing only 60 minutes to lead Lazio to a 6-0 win over Bologna while scoring five goals before being substituted to a standing ovation.
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College Football Records That Will Never be Broken
Every year new records are set and old ones are broken, in any sport, including College Football. But some seem to be so untouchable, they’ll last forever, like Case Keenum throwing for nearly 20,000 yards in his career, or Barry Sanders posting an unreachable number of yards during the 1988 season for Oklahoma State.
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Floyd Mayweather – Still Perfect, Almost Boring
Like most Floyd Mayweather fights, this one was over before it began. Robert Guerrero talked well before the bout, but couldn’t even get close to the best boxer in the world, who won by a unanimous decision through all scorecards, retaining his WBC Welterweight belt, adding The Ring honor and most importantly, staying undefeated while keeping his place as the number one pound-4-pound fighter in the world.
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Jurgen Klopp & Mathias Sammer Nearly Fight in Fiery Bayern – Dortmund Appetizer
The second Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund wasn’t supposed to be so violent, but hate and rivalry run deep when the two are bound to play each other in the Champions League final. Add a little bit of hate towards Mario Gotze for choosing money (although he grew up in Bavaria) and Rafinha elbowing Jakub Błaszczykowski, you end up with Jurgen Klopp and Mathias Sammer getting a little bit too close to each other, nearly coming to blows.
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The NBA Playoffs Sweep – What Does it Mean?
Beginning the postseason with a 4-0 sweep should indicate that your team is going all the way, and in 2013, it just might be the case with both the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs looking like the strongest teams in each conference, but more often than not, a team that starts out too hot burns out before the ending, rarely fulfilling that early promise and going all the way to win the NBA title.
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James Harden & Kevin McHale Ruined it for Jeremy Lin & the Houston Rockets
There was only one game in the six games the Houston Rockets managed to drag out of the Oklahoma City Thunder in which James Harden had an impressive night. One of the biggest superstars in the NBA, but a head coach that doesn’t know how to limit him and make the most of him, while their once chance of playing the kind of basketball an injured Thunder team wouldn’t be able to handle, Jeremy Lin, got injured and made things worse by trying to play instead of watching from the side.
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NBA Playoffs, Conference Semifinals – Pacers vs Knicks Series Preview
In what was probably the ugliest series so far in the 2013 NBA Playoffs, the New York Knicks came out as winners thanks to Tyson Chandler in the paint, and Carmelo Anthony not ruining things too much for his teams. Meanwhile, the Indiana Pacers have shown that they might finally be over their road problems, and have the ability to play a little bit more “easy on the eyes” than they have for most of the season.
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NBA Playoffs, Conference Semifinals – Grizzlies vs Thunder Series Preview
One team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, are arriving in the conference semifinal as the top seed in the Western Conference, but reeling for their first round series and missing their second best player, while the Memphis Grizzlies, winning four consecutive games to climb out of a 0-2 hole, might actually be considered the favorites.