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It seams that Allen Iverson newer wanted to leave the team but he is glad that he landed in Denver. Iverson thinks that he is at in a better team, and he thinks that he can succeed; surely he was referring to his play. I think that he thought that 76ers didn’t offer him the chance of showing his full potential but now he feels that the Nuggets have the necessary things that will allow him to even improve his play. Anyway for more information about this you should see the article on ESPN.

Due to some injuries the Hornets placed their hopes in the hands of two rookies. It is a dangerous thing, but it could prove very useful, because these rookies as I see are pretty good, and more importantly they where given a great chance of proving themselves, so they will do everything they can on these games they play to prove that they can play, and they don’t want to stay on the bench. So this could be a benefit, boat for the Hornets and to the rookies to, but for more you should see the article on CBS’s sports page.

It seams that Vince Carter has awaken, and he shows why he is a great player. It seams that LeBron James brought out the real Carter, who scored 38 point in his last game. It seams that Carters ego just couldn’t let him not to winn the duel, in points, whit James, and we where pleased to se the old Carter again. It seams that Vince just cant play to his full potential only if there is some other great player whit whom he can compete. At least that’s what he showed us in his last game. You can find an interesting article about this on MSNBC.

Soccer

It seams that Marseille coach is in the hot spot, at least those where the rumors. But it seams that they deny this, but there are some quite interesting things that can take place. It seams that there is a buyer for the club, and that this buyer would want to replace Albert Emon whit Sven-Goran Eriksson, however the sporting director of Marseille, Jose Anigo denied any of these rumours and stated that in the New Year still Emon will coach the team. However I am not so sure about this, because it is a cloudy article on ESPN about it and I can’t make nothing sure out of it.

# posted by Boti @ 11:14 AM 0 comments

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It seams that the main news today would be Allen Iverson, end his transfer to the Nuggets. It seams that the suspensions in the team just stepped up the transfer. It seams that Denver Nuggets got a great deal, whit Iverson, they’ve got the new superstar that they needed. It seams that this would be a great loss to the 76ers. There are some speculations about the real value of Allen, and it could be a not so great chance not to improve his new team’s performance, on the contrary but it seams that the Nuggets have nothing to lose, for now at least, Anyway we can’t say anything for now except that the transfer of Iverson had cost the Nuggets for players, but they also got Ivan McFarlin, but as they hope, Allen will be a great replacement to their latest loss. Anyway there is a lot of buzz about this transfer so you can read articles about it on ESPN’s, CBS’s and even MSNBC’s sports page, so you can get a pretty good idea about the transfer and the reasons to it to.

Soccer

It seams that there are different opinions about the new coach of the US National team, Bob Bradley, who was described by some, and they have some quite interesting facts to it, identical to the last coach of the team, and whit the same chances of getting the team to the Olympics as Bruce Arena, the last coach, who was dismissed last year after the disappointment at the World Cup, but it seams that Bradley has almost identical background as Arena had when he started coaching the US team, so I don’t know how different could be this time, anyway Arena thinks that Bradley is the right man for the job. This is an interesting article on MSNBC, it has some quite interesting aspects anyway I don’t wouldn’t bet on the US team because it’s a risky bet.

It seams that soccer has its problems to, because the Premiere league wants to check 17 transfers, which took place in the league. After Lord Stevens expressed his observation and regards it was decided that these transfers must be investigated. It seams that the 17 transfer are a small part of the whole proportion of the transfer that are being overseen, so there could be coming some quite interesting events that will lead to more interesting articles like this one on ESPN.

# posted by Boti @ 7:34 AM 0 comments

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It seams that the verdict on the fight between most of the players on the Knicks and Nuggets game led to a really tough end. It seams that not everyone got punished for the fight but some players got really hard punishment. Among the great fines that where given to the players, some of them got suspended, and they will miss some important games. It seams that the NBA leading scorer, Carmelo Anthony, got the longest suspension. He will skip 15 games, which may cost his team, because they lost their main player for a pretty long time. For more information about this, and about the other players who where suspended, you can find great articles boat on ESPN and CBS’s sports pages.

It seams that the Knicks wasn’t so affected by the suspensions, and they won the game whit Utah Jazz. It seams that the Knicks, although are down to eight players they still manage to stay on top, but I must say that it was a pretty close win, if you can say that one point is a win. I must say that the suspensions really broke down the two teams, anyway if you’re interested in the article about the Knicks – Jazz game you should read the article on MSNBC.

# posted by Boti @ 11:03 AM 0 comments

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It seams that the Knicks and Nuggets took the fight seriously, and they founded a new sport, team fighting. Instead of playing basketball they chose to play this new type of game, which isn’t that fun if you ask me, but it seams that they had a “score to settle”, and they where anxious to settle it on the pitch. Anyway it was a stupid idea because now they will have to deal whit the penalties that Stu Jackson will enforce on the main characters of the fight, and I must say that they aren’t just a few. For more you should se the article on ESPN.

It seams that Kobe Bryant has a substitute, who goes by the name of Gilbert Arenas, and I must say that it seams that he is better than Kobe, at least that’s what he showed us. It seams that L.A. Lakers cant match up whit the Washington Wizards team which it seams that has a match for Bryant, and even a better one than he is. Anyway for more stats and info about the game and the two stars you can find on CBS’s sports page, or for another opinion about the same game and players on MSNBC.

Soccer

It seams that soccer isn’t so different from basketball in the fighting area, whit the only difference that in this case there was no fight in the literal sense of the word, but only some world-fight, and it seams that some got offended of the comments and regards that Jose Mourinho had about England striker Andrew Johnson, accusing him that he simulated a foul in his last game. It seams that Everton is waiting for apologies or they will take legal actions. Anyway it seams that soccer is a little more civilized than basketball, this time at least, for more you should read the article on ESPN.

It would seam that Brazil is the home of soccer, because for the fifth year on the row they where named the top team, so I just cant wonder why can’t any country make so many great players like they do, and more than that if there are some great players, why cant the teams keep them, instead of trading them. Perhaps then we could see some balanced soccer, until then you should read about the Brazil team and accomplishments on MSNBC.

# posted by Boti @ 10:23 AM 0 comments

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It seams that Allen Iverson is causing a great deal of buzz in the NBA world. There is a great war between the teams that want Iverson. He has some great opportunities, and he can chouse the team he considers more fit to his playing stile, and where he can further evolve his skills. There are some great teams that are trying to get Allan, teams like Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, so as I sad he has a large choosing area, and he’d better choose it right because he would regret a wrong choice, however it is not likely to happen that, because the teams are all quite good, anyway you can find more about this on ESPN.

It seams that more teams have problems in the NBA, and their success hangs on a thin thread, and they just hope not to force the odds. I think it is a pretty risky thing but I don’t know if they have something that could help them to balance the odds. Orlando Magic hopes that his best player, Grant Hill, will finish the season whiteout major injuries, that will keep him away from the games, however Hill has a past filled whit injuries, so they don’t have great odds that Grant will finish the season whiteout injuries, let’s hope they wont be to serious ones. But there are some teams that aren’t in that danger but they have some other serious problems to resolve like Knicks, Grizzlies or the Bee’s. For more about this you should visit CBS’s sports page.

On MSNBC you can find an article about the Nuggets whom are working pretty hard to acquire Allen Iverson. It seams that from the four teams above mentioned, whom want to acquire Iverson, the Nuggets have the best chance of achieving the goal and they do some work in that manner. But it could be a three-way trade, Iverson ending in Denver Jersey’s team, but for more you should read the article.

Soccer

It seams that the two favorites of the Champions League, Barcelona and Liverpool, wont meat in the final because they will face each other in the first knockout round. It is not a great thing because the one who wins this will most probably win the Champions League to, so it seams that the Champions League wont be as interesting as it started. For more you should visit ESPN and there you can see the full draw, so you can predict almost the end of the tournament.

# posted by Boti @ 12:58 PM 0 comments

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ESPN provides a great article, mostly about the relationship between Allen Iverson and his last team’s, Philadelphia 76ers, coach. As we all know he is a great player and the article just proves once more that he has some great abilities, like taking criticism pretty seriously. He even advised his coach to tell him the moment he saw Allen’s mistakes, and he usually corrected them. You can find more of these facts and some interesting stories about Allen’s performance in the 76ers team. And at the end you can find some interesting articles about some players that are trying to step up on the scale of greatness.

It seams that Jay Williams got another start in the basketball world, after he suffered a motorcycle crash. He recuperated pretty good, but it seamed that the NBA closed the door for him, but he wants to show the world that he hasn’t finished playing basketball, so he managed to get himself in the NBDL. And it is a great marriage boat for the development league’s team, Austin Toros, for which he signed, and for Jay, because Jay has a great chance for getting back in the NBA and for the Toros it means that they have, not only a great player, but one who has experience. It seams that boat have to gain from this, at least that’s what suggests the article on CBS’s sports page.

It seams that the Phoenix Suns have a very good team, and they are pretty confident that their hero, Steve Nash, just can’t let them down, because from the stats it seams that he is the best player from the NBA, for now at least. Beside the fact that they lost their “momentum” in the forth quarter whit Miami, they are really confident that they just have the best team for the moment, but I am convinced that they will be stopped by the team that is the least expected to do that, so I just think it is to forward of them to assume that they have the best team. For more you should read the article on MSNBC.

Soccer

It seams that Klinsmann just wont coach in the US, at least for the moment, because he just turned down the job to coach the US national team, and he didn’t take the job of coaching in Germany either, invoicing the argument of his family, but he indirectly suggested that he would like to coach in Germany. It is a small but interesting article on MSNBC, so I advise you to read it.

It seams that Arsene Wenger is being fined for his aggressive behavior related to the incident on the Hammers - Arsenal game, where he had an interesting crash whit Hammers coach Pardew, who was also charged but he denied so he will have a personal hearing whit the FA disciplinary commission, however Wenger must pay a fine of £10,000. The article on ESPN contains some more information, for those who are interested.

# posted by Boti @ 8:24 AM 0 comments

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It seam’s that Allen Iverson an the Philadelphia 76ers are choosing different way’s. It seams that the 76ers cant win whit or whiteout him so it seam that the team will let go of him granting him his wish of getting out of the team. It seams that Philadelphia will lose a great player, but as we all know they just couldn’t make almost any use of him. It’s not enough to have a great player, you must know how to make out the best of it. It seams that this news got the firs page on ESPN, CBS and MSNBC’s sports page to, so you have a great variety of opinions, but in the end they all agree, that Iverson is a great loss to the team, but the fact is that they just couldn’t make the best out of him.

Soccer

It seams that Juergen Klinsmann decided that it wont bee a good choice for his career to coach the US soccer team so he dropped out. Instead the US soccer team will be coached by Bob Bradley, who is supposed to do a great job whit the team, at least that is what his stats suggest, but it is a hard work getting the team to the 2008 Olympics, it is a pretty high goal but it could be achieved. For more you can se the article on MSNBC.

Ashley Cole is being judged for switching team’s, but the new team mates are pretty confident that he will show the same class on the match between his old team and the new one, as he showed us in the games he played until now. He is a great player and most of all he is a professional, so I don’t se why he would play different, anyway for more information you should read the article on ESPN.

# posted by Boti @ 11:54 AM 0 comments

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An interesting article can be found about the Suns, who manage to show us how great they can play despite they are not on top of the ranks. You can find a really good analyze of the whole team, the tactics, the style of the game’s they played, everything on ESPN. You can find even the stats of the players who keep the Suns shining.

A great article is also posted on CBS’s sports page, where you can read about how it affects the coaches, this part of the season. Because you can see already if a team is being lead correctly or not, the owners are preparing their rewards or red cards for their team’s coaches, so it is an interesting article, where you can learn which coaches done their tasks well and which one’s are most certainly messing their team up, and their rewards to.

MSNBC is writing about the Suns latest achievements, whit the same regards that we can find on ESPN’s page, but for a greater variety of information you should see boat articles.

Soccer

ESPN doesn’t put an article on the front page, in stead they decided to display today’s game-scores and some stats about the games played today. It’s not a great article but it contains some links to some better articles. Anyway it’s worth reading.

It seams that Juergen Klinsmann will go to teach the Americans how to handle a ball whit their foot. It seams that he is talking whit the US federation and if they agree then he will coach in the USA. It isn’t sure but it seams that he will coach the American national team. Anyway, for more you should see the article on MSNBC.

# posted by Boti @ 11:44 AM 0 comments

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It seams that the best team in the NBA will be the one of the two power ranking champions of this and the last time. It seams that only Mavericks and Jazz are fighting for the first place, it seams like other teams can’t mach up whit their play because these two teams share the first place at the moment, a weak Jazz and a weak Mavericks, but I am hoping it will be a more interesting season because if it goes this way it wont be much of a competition, anyway the power rankings on ESPN explain the reason, so you should read the article.

It seams that Charlotte just can’t play against a weaker team, they just can’t beat the weaker teams, it would make you think that they play to good to play whit some weak team, but it’s a problem, because if they can beat a good team then normally you could beat a weaker one, but in this stage it means that the team just can’t adapt to the stile the other team’s playing, they just learned one tactic and they just don’t know what to do if the tactic doesn’t apply, for more you should see CBS or MSNBC, they boat have a great article about the game between Charlotte and Detroit.

Soccer

It seams that West Ham is aiming for the top at least in the news articles because I find it amusing to read almost every weak about it’s up’s and down’s. I don’t know what is the team’s strategy but I it seams that they struggle to do or something stupid enough to get on the front page or if they don’t manage that they exceed themselves by coming up whit something new, that will put them on the front page. As you guess on ESPN they are holding the first page, it’s not that bad this time they have a short article about the upcoming transfer season, and they want to assure the fan’s that the stars from the team are not leaving. It’s an interesting article. And you can see another article about West Ham’s last defeat on MSNBC, it is a great article too, and it seams that they out stepped themselves, it’s they second front page in the same time, I wonder what they will do next?

# posted by Boti @ 11:26 AM 0 comments

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A great article is posted on ESPN analyzing Boston Celtics strategy and game play from every angle possible. It is interesting to see all the strategies related to defense, to attack, in every position, detailing the strategies that the coach used in the last game. It is a cool article.

CBS has a analyze but not about teams, he analyzed some stars from the latest games, their stats, their performance and their game style. In the article you wont find a lot of players just the stars from the past few days but it is a great article, it is worth reading it.

The Mavericks had a pretty nasty spook, after their lead man left the game in the first quarter because of burred vision. That would be pretty sad but they managed to win the game and it seams that Dirk is ok, he hasn’t got any problems, just the stress I think. It is an interesting article about this on MSNBC.

Soccer

It seams that AC Milan doesn’t want back Shevchenko, at least that’s what Milan’s vice president declared that they are not holding talk’s whit Chelsea for him. But I think that they didn’t agreed whit the terms, and sum so they now deny the whole fact that they had the initiative to bring him back. Anyway on ESPN it is an article about this so if you’re interested you should read it.

It seams that Juergen Klinsmann is really thinking about moving to coach in the U.S. If he decides to coach in the states it would be a great boast to the American soccer. I personally don’t think that he will move there but even Pele sad that he would do great things for the American soccer, so who knows. For more information you should read the article on MSNBC.

# posted by Boti @ 10:23 AM 0 comments