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The ESPN staff had their predictions for the NBA world, and they covered everything. You can find the predictions of the staff about everything, from The rocky of the year to the playoffs predictions. It is interesting how the opinions change in some area and in some they are the same. It’s worth it to read the article.

We have a sad story both on CBS’s sports page, and on MSNBC, the 89 year old Red Auerbach ex Boston Celtics coach died. He was a great coach and a manager, but unfortunately his time was here. May he rest in peace.

Soccer

ESPN confirms that Beckham won’t leave from Madrid, and he is feeling home there so he wont leave neither for a British club or for the American league in January.

I am amazed how MSNBC comments a US soccer game, it is amazing how you can find from 2 teams only one player that is worth mentioning. That is just sad. The writer mentions about one man game, in soccer that is just sad. Anyway it is an interesting article.

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On ESPN is a great article about the Western divisions surprise team Dallas Mavericks. There are some interesting opinions from some of the ESPN’s staff, it is interesting how different are the opinions about the team. Dallas has the best offensive rebound player from the NBA, but the team’s progress it is unsure. However the opinions change, it isn’t so different because it is between the first and the second place boat in the division and in the conference. We shall see.

The second article on ESPN from the Eastern division is mostly the same whit the only significant fact that it is about the Cleveland Cavaliers, and about their stats.

It is an interesting article about the Eastern and Western Divisions whit the full stats of the teams and the ranking of the teams divided to regions. It is a great overall preview of the stats and accomplishments of each team. It also contains a small article about the leading team and the best players from the regions. It is a cool article it deserves to bee read it's on CBS's sports page.

MSNBC offers some news about the recovery of Kobe Bryant, who had some problems during a drill before the LA Lakers preseason game. It seams that he hasn’t recovered completely from his last injury. I hope it’s nothing wrong and he is just out of shape, because if he didn’t recovered he could miss some important games.

Soccer

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is on a hot seat because the club’s board whit whom he had an argument. I think that is more a misunderstanding than anything else. He declared to the press some misunderstood sentences and the thing just got out of reach. They should try to settle this between encoder. Anyway for more you should visit ESPN.

The US Soccer Federation hit the jackpot. According to MSNBC, they are talking informally whit the former German National coach Juergen Klinsmann. I think that if they manage to bring him to the US it would be a great boast to the US Soccer Federation, and a bigger boast to the team whit whom he signs. Anyway it would be interesting to see the team’s performance whit which he signs.

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A cool article is found on CBS’s sports page where you will find the reason why all five teams from Central Division made it last year to the playoffs. It is a great article that shows how tuff is the Central Division and how it gathers the greatest players. Also the article contains some characteristics and stats from all the five teams: Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks. You will find a top of the best players from the division right after the stats of the teams, it is a great article, and you should read it.

L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson recovered from his surgery and he is ready to lead his team. He had a couple of weeks earlier his right hip replaced, but he declared that he is fit to take back his position. He plans to return for the season opener, and he would like to come back whiteout the cane. He is feeling pretty good despite he was operated 2 weeks earlier. I think he just can’t wait to get back on the saddle. Anyway for more you should visit MSNBC.

Soccer

West Ham’s coach has great problems both from his boss who isn’t really glad about his not so bright leading of the team, and he is more scared about the fan’s who will be very mad if their team will perform sadly for the upcoming game. I don’t know what he is doing wrong, but that is sure that he should change something. I don’t se him so well if he will lose the next game. I think he should consider changing his job to something else, I don’t know something where loosing is the whole point because at that he is good. Anyway for more visit ESPN.

David Beckham could play in the US, and that would be a stunning event, if he would sign to a club in the US. After he was dropped by England, and Real Madrid sent him to the bench Beckham is considering to find himself another club that will let him play. He is thinking about the English Premier League and Major League Soccer in the United States. I don’t think that it would be a vise decision to go to the MLS, but I think that even Beckham knows that, so most certainly we will see him in the English Premier League. I know that if Beckham would sign whit a MLS it would be a great accomplishment to some team in the US but it will be a signed failure by Beckham, because he will newer get back in a great team for a long time, and that is just what he doesn’t have. Anyway for more about this article you should visit MSNBC.

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You can find a great article, if I can say article, because it is a great “thing” that the guys from ESPN thought that it would be cool to ask the fan’s how do they feel about their favorite teams, and how they see the team’s outcome. It is great that they ask some questions that will lead to a better understanding of what the fans expect, or how the fan’s see the teams progress.

Miami Heat is not doing so great so far, and everybody is depending on the second half come-back, and on the fact that they “can come back any time”, but I don’t know if this is a great strategy because, I must admit that it worked for them so far, but I fear that they plan ahead to much, and they don’t play the games for winning they just play them for the sake of the league, and that will affect them if not now then in the future. You can find more about this on CBS’s sports page, you should read the article.

Sacramento Kings’ guard Mike Bibby is injured so they start the first two weeks whiteout him, which may be a real handicap for the team’s moral, especially if the first games are lost. But I think that they will manage whiteout their guard if they try their best. For more information visit MSNBC.

Soccer

Arsenal won’t let go to Kolo Toure. He just sing a new long term contract whit Arsenal, he wont leave the club, I think he just found a place where he likes to play and he wont leave. I don’t know why he signed back but the fact is that he is a great defender and Arsenal should keep him as long as they can. It is a small article but if you want more you should visit ESPN.

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ESPN posted a great article about the best NBA players, whit the best stats. It is a great article, which contains the NBA-s 15 best players. I must say that I am not surprised that LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are the first two ones, but there are a lot of names that are known on the NBA world. Amongst them you find some unknown names to, but that is rare. It is a great article, which contains not only stats but remarks to, regarding to the evolution, and play-stile of each player. It’s worth it to read the article.

Josh Howard from the Mavericks is trying to renegotiate his salary, and as he played the last games I don’t see why they wouldn’t give him the money. He is a very talented player, so he has a great chance that he would find a team, which will give for him the money, so if Mavericks want to keep him, I suggest they give him some extra money. You can find this article on CBS’s sport page.

On MSNBC you will find a boring article about the Cleveland Cavaliers issues, and some remarks about the last game they played, and the stats of their stars. There is nothing interesting at this story, it is mainly about how the last game of the Cavaliers was played.

Soccer

Chelsea is playing whiteout his main goalie, due to the injury caused by a hit to the head. There are some speculations that the injury was on purpose, to weaken Chelsea, but I am skeptic about that. However Barcelona should expect the worst from today’s game because Chelsea is very angry. For more you should visit ESPN.

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The Cavaliers are more confident than ever. They are relying on LeBron James to lead them to victory. They are pretty sure that LeBron will lead the team to the top. They showed us that they had him but they didn’t know how to use him. I must say to them that they just can’t base the whole game to one player; they must be great as a team and help LeBron out, because if they fail that they just won’t make it to the top. For extra information you should visit ESPN.

On CBS I found a great article about Kobe Bryant. It is confirmed further on that he is a great player. He is starting to comport as a great player to, firs of all that he realized that by involving the whole team in the play you will get a better score than playing “alone”. This is a very important thing that every player should keep in mind, that if you involve the whole team in the play you will get better results than if you would play a solo game.

MSNBC wrote a great article about a great veteran, Antawn Jamison, who just proves more and more about his abilities to play Basketball. You will find a great story about his beliefs and games. He declared that he doesn’t play for the stats he plays for winning.

Soccer

It seams that West Ham is being taken over by Icelandic businessman, Eggert Magnusson, who tried once to take them over but West Ham refused. I don’t know if this is a great thing because I just can’t imagine how it will be, when West Ham would play whit a team from Iceland, it would be just bizarre. But anyway they are talking a lot of money so I hope it is a good investment. If you’re interested you should visit ESPN.

MSNBC talks about Chelsea’s goalkeeper like after a K1 fight, not after a soccer match. I can’t imagine how the heck during a football match could he fractured his had, and more interesting that the fracture is caused by a players knee. I sure hope that Petr Cech will get well soon because great games will come for Chelsea.

Today was the game between Steaua and Real Madrid, and the Romanian team just had a great learning class. It was a great mach, Real scored 4 beautiful goals, and gave a unforgettable lesson. Steaua managed to score one goal against a great team as Real Madrid.

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The Cavaliers are more confident than ever. They are relying on LeBron James to lead them to victory. They are pretty sure that LeBron will lead the team to the top. They showed us that they had him but they didn’t know how to use him. I must say to them that they just can’t base the whole game to one player; they must be great as a team and help LeBron out, because if they fail that they just won’t make it to the top. For extra information you should visit ESPN.

On CBS I found a great article about Kobe Bryant. It is confirmed further on that he is a great player. He is starting to comport as a great player to, firs of all that he realized that by involving the whole team in the play you will get a better score than playing “alone”. This is a very important thing that every player should keep in mind, that if you involve the whole team in the play you will get better results than if you would play a solo game.

MSNBC wrote a great article about a great veteran, Antawn Jamison, who just proves more and more about his abilities to play Basketball. You will find a great story about his beliefs and games. He declared that he doesn’t play for the stats he plays for winning.

Soccer

It seams that West Ham is being taken over by Icelandic businessman, Eggert Magnusson, who tried once to take them over but West Ham refused. I don’t know if this is a great thing because I just can’t imagine how it will be, when West Ham would play whit a team from Iceland, it would be just bizarre. But anyway they are talking a lot of money so I hope it is a good investment. If you’re interested you should visit ESPN.

MSNBC talks about Chelsea’s goalkeeper like after a K1 fight, not after a soccer match. I can’t imagine how the heck during a football match could he fractured his had, and more interesting that the fracture is caused by a players knee. I sure hope that Petr Cech will get well soon because great games will come for Chelsea.

Today was the game between Steaua and Real Madrid, and the Romanian team just had a great learning class. It was a great mach, Real scored 4 beautiful goals, and gave a unforgettable lesson. Steaua managed to score one goal against a great team as Real Madrid.

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On ESPN the story of the day is Kwane Brown, changed not only the team but his looks. He now plays at L.A Lakers and he has a more aggressive look for his new team. He is pretty confident on his defensive skills and he is not frightened from the new defensive strategy in which according to him he accommodated quickly.

The preseason just started and every team has its goals high up by winning a division title, but some teams are getting carried away, like the Celtics who didn’t made it last season to the playoffs. It is an interesting story, you should read it, it’s on CBS.

Coach Isiah Tomas really pumped up the Nets and they are playing pretty good. They started this season pretty well. Isiah managed to win the game whiteout the stars of the team, Vince Carter and Jason Kidd. It is a great debut. You can find out more at MSNBC.

Soccer

On ESPN you find a the premier-ship score on the first story, I saw nothing interesting on the scoreboard it is just as expected. But beside this story there is a great one about Marco Van Basten who was expected to fail because his unusual decision to put some new faces on the pitch and he amazed us whit them once more. Great story and greater coach.

On MSNBC they dedicated the front-page to the extortion scandal in Italy, where ex star Giorgio Chinaglia is accused by the authorities by extortion and insider trading at Italian league club Lazio. It seams that the illegalities from Italy are spread out even in the Italian soccer clubs. It is sad to sea this, because the Italians played a great soccer, but if this keeps on than the soccer in Italy will degrade and that is just wrong.

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Michael Jordan purchased a “peace” of the Charlotte Bobcats some assumed that he will be the front man for the team. That was a wrong assumption because Michael, since he retired he isn’t so interested in NBA and since the purchase he never talked to the press about the buy. He is just sitting in the back of the pitch since the retirement. I hope he won’t do that for long, he was a great player. For more you should visit ESPN.

It seams the Pacers lost O’Neal and Jackson but they sure didn’t lose the play. They showed that they aren’t dependent on some great players, the team is the great one, not the individuals from the team. The new Jersey Nets faced a clear loss. Fore more detailes you should visit MSNBC.

On CBS you find a interesting story about ROY (rookie of the Year). There are coll stories from each ROY starting whit the 93 ROY, Shaquille O'Neal. There are some quite great players you should see it.

Soccer

It seams that in soccer-world the braking news is Zidan. He retired recently but it seams that he has a great chance for becoming the player of the year. He has great competitors like Ronaldinho and Figo, so it will be a tight race but anyway he was a great player. If you are a fan you should visit both ESPN and MSNBC for their stories.

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On the ESPN the main storry today is about Amare Stoudemire, who is getting better, from a nasty injury which kept him away from the games for a whole year. It is very hard to stay away from something you like, I know it because of an injury I had to give up basketball for a year and that is when I started playing soccer, because I couldn’t just stay away from sport a whole year.

On CBS is a great story about the best coaches in the NBA, and I think that they made a pretty good job on the picking. On first place is Miami Heats coach, Pat Riley, after that the San Antonio Spurs coach, Greg Popovich, and on the third place is Phil Jackson from the L.A. Lakers. The ranking goes to the 20^th place but if you want to find out more just visit CBS’s sports page.

On MSNBC you will find a unbelievable story about a Indiana Pacers player, Stephen Jackson, fired a gun in the air five times, after he was punched in the mouth and hit by a car, and now he is charged whit criminal recklessness, I don’t know if he didn’t kill anyone and he was using it in self defense why the hack do they sue him, what could’ve he do first die and after soot or what?

Soccer

Well England continues to stun me whit his more and more shocking performance. When I say shocking I don’t mean it in the good way, as I was saying the coach just made some promises that he can’t deliver. I am just amazed how England, a great team whit great players how could be humiliated by Croatia. I think they should skip this year for everyone’s sake. If you are interested in some details you should visit ESPN.

On CBS as I sad there are only US teams and I don’t like them, they don’t play so great, so I’ll just skip CBS.

On MSNBC it is a bizarre news, Juventus manager’s wife denies that he tried to kill himself. I suppose he just fell over the window. I suppose the game-fixing scandal vas the motive.

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I can’t understand how some players can play different kind of games. Like Tony Parker who played in France better than he ever played. I don’t know if he was trying to impress France, or he was just happy to play again in France, but someone should tell him that French people are watching NBA to, so he could play like that al the time, not only in France. This is a great story found on ESPN.

It is sad that NBA is the best basketball association, and it has the best players and the best teams in the world, in every domain of the basketball world. But according to CBS’s sports page the Greeks have potential in hoops. I am not surprised, because I am on the opinion that the NBA isn’t getting greater in basketball, but in the opposite it is getting worse.

According to the MSNBC there are some problems in the Knicks team. There is some problems whit the coach. The players don’t get along whit him.

In soccer the England’s coach is pretty sure of his importance in his team and he is so sure of his importance that he is speaking in the name of the “boss”. I don’t know about him but I think that no one is indispensable, not even a coach like him, so I wouldn’t bet that after a failure he will fly from his post. He should watch who you are talking about. If you want to read more about this you should visit ESPN’s soccer page.

On CBS you won’t find some great stories about soccer but if you are interested in soccer in the USA you should visit this page it is dedicated to that.

On MSNBC they have another comment to ad to England’s team. There is a great article about England’s tie whit Macedonia. The coach is playing his cards very poorly and MSNBC is questioning his decision about letting go Becham. I don’t know how they see this but I don’t see so shiny the coaches future whit England .

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Ben Wallace is getting used to the Chicago Bulls uniform according to the news on ESPN. This is supposed to be a great player I am hoping that he will accommodate very fast.

The 76ers started them European tour pretty badly they just couldn’t beat FC Barcelona. This is something that even Iverson can’t fix it. This just proves that here in Europe are some good players to. And are some great teams to. The 76ers lost by 5 points, it is the 3^rd NBA loss to an international club, but I am feeling that this year it wont be the only one.

This is the NBA standings from the MSNBC it is pretty random, I would say, I was hoping other results.

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