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Shock Defeat For Liverpool As Horror Season Continues
Liverpool fell to their eighth league defeat of the season as the inconsistent Reds lost 1-0 at home to second from bottom Wolverhampton Wanderers. It was the first time in twenty seven years that the side from the West Midlands have beaten Roy Hodgson’s men and it was a much needed victory that moved them off the bottom of the Barclay’s Premier League table. It is yet another setback in a season laden with disasters for new Liverpool manager Hodgson, [...]
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Jabs from Jonas: Hopkins Didn’t Get the W Over Pascal, But His Legacy in Life Continues
Bernard Hopkins Still Recreating his Own Story
When the opportunity to do a weekly column was first presented by ProBoxing-Fans.com webmaster and editor Jake Emen, my goal was to do something that even non-boxing fans could read and understand. I really wanted to be able to cast out to an audience big enough so that someone who doesn’t watch the sport, or watches sparingly, can take it in and if not relate to the subject matter, at least relate to the fact that someone, somewhere does.
Like I’ve said before – …
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Chelsea Title Challenge Continues To Cool With Draw Against Newcastle
Kalou missed a sitter to pile on the misery at Chelsea
The problems at Chelsea continue to mount as a draw in the North East allowed Manchester United to overhaul the champions at the top of the table for the first time this season.
With an important month in the title race about to begin injuries, backroom drama and poor performances have left confidence shattered at a club that has only collected four points from a possible fifteen.
Injuries and Suspensions With all the problems around the club it would be easy to forget that Michael Essien, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Alex and Didier Drogba have either been unavailable or not fully fit over the last month or so.
This constitutes the spine of the first team and it is clear that with the loss of Deco, Joe Cole, Ricardo Carvalho and Michael Ballack the depth is not what it needs to be for the club to overcome injury blights unaffected.
Ray Wilkins Nobody truly knows what happened and the reasoning behind the decision to axe a winning back room figure, but it will clearly have drained morale and it must be a contributing factor to recent results.
With the next month or so crucial for the first time in over a year Chelsea look vulnerable something that was unthinkable just a few months ago, when the Blues raced out of the blocks with six wins in a row. Significant changes in luck around injuries and the defining moments in games are required if Chelsea are to remain in the title race come January.
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Vinny Castilla Continues to Play
At the age of 43, former Colorado Rockies and Mexican star Vinny Castillo continues to play baseball.
The last time we checked on Castilla he was putting up decent numbers for the Hermosillo Naranjeros. A year later he’s back and was seen in Hermosillo taking grounders at third base this morning.
Said Castilla, “I am in perfect condition, although I have not seen pitches in almost a year. I am sure with a few days of batting practice and taking grounders I will be ready to debut in the LMP (Mexican Pacific League) on December 7.”
Castilla, who retired from Major League Baseball in 2006, indicated that he did not know when he will say a final goodbye to professional baseball. He just said that while he is still in good physical condition he will go on playing. In 30 games last season for Hermosillo, Vinny hit .292 with 7HR and 27 RBI. If you were to pro-rate those HR #’s over a 162 game season… you’d have ~ 38HR. So he’s still got some game left!
Over the course of his Major League career, Castilla connected for 320 homers, 1884 hits and drove in 1105 runs in 16 seasons.
In other news, Hermosillo has really been trolling for the free agents, signing infamous slugger Karim Garcia.
From Baseball Mexico:
The 35-year-old Garcia hit .361 with a homer and 12 RBIs in 15 games for Hermosillo last winter before heading back to Korea, where he is known as the “Latino Bambino.” Garcia has achieved All-Star status in Korea but became disenchanted with the KBO after a seven-game suspension and $ 3,000 fine for arguing with an umpire during a September game, and says he’s considering playing for Monterrey in the Mexican League next year. He hit .374 with 20 homers in 76 games for the Sultanes in 2007.
Selected as The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year in 1995, Garcia went on to bat .241 with 66 homers and 212 RBIs in 488 major league games between 1995 and 2004 (along with a .286 average for the Yankees in the 2003 World Series) and has played overseas in Japan as well as Korea.
Look out, LMP. Hermosillo is no joke!
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Blake Griffin Continues To Dunk His Way Through The NBA (Video)
You might have heard that the Clippers’ Blake Griffin can dunk just a bit. But that jamming skill isn’t just for Timofey Mozgov to admire – last night, Griffin gave the Sacramento Kings (particularly fellow rookie DeMarcus Cousins) a taste of his explosive athleticism.
Early in the game, Griffin found himself with the ball and only Cousins between him and the basket. You can guess how that turned out (and even if you can, we recommend checking out the video above). The Clippers went on to defeat the Kings, 100-82, and Griffin posted 25 points and 15 rebounds. Oh, and don’t leave him alone around the basket because, well…
My hatred and despise for football combines that charge money continues and more on why
For those who have read the site for a lengthy period of time, you likely have already heard about my distaste for football combines. Let me state for the record that if it is an event like a Nike Combine or an Under Armour Combine that is free and close to you in distance, then I am all for you going. You will get a chance to show off your skills, compete with other athletes, and potentially be coached up while there. So it should be definitely something I recommend going to.
The combines that kill me over and over again are those that charge money. I don’t care anymore if it is $ 10, combines that have a price tag are something that I strongly feel is worthless. I have heard over and over how little credit college coaches put into these and yet parents and athletes are wasting their money trying to get their son recognized. I have heard countless players tell me how they were named to the All Combine team, MVP while there, or some sort of fluff award that no one cares about. It doesn’t matter because you are not going to get a scholarship or even a serious look from a college coach by going to a camp that costs money.
There are a few stories recently that came to my attention that made me feel even stronger in my stance about how worthless these events are. This is an old article but it was written by the Associated Press about how high school sport combines are expanding (which makes me want to puke by the way). The first thing stood out in this article (which you can view here) about how a parent is just tossing money around with regards to the football recruiting process.
Once McCarthy factored in airfare, a hotel room and other travel expenses, he figured he’d end up spending about $ 2,000 for the trip to Oklahoma from Southern California. He’d already spent another $ 3,000 for a scouting service to help drum up colleges’ interest in Corbin, a sophomore who’s already made varsity.
“I don’t believe this is going to get him recruited,” McCarthy said. “I think this is going to give him a taste of the best athletes out there and where he has to be in order to rate.”
Seriously, why sink that much money into worthless things? His son might be a junior now and he has already blown through $ 5,000? Parents like these are the ones that combines and camps love to get a hold. A good example of this is Football University. This combine/camp really does have a lot of great coaches and can be a good experience. But it costs a ton of money and receiving an invite doesn’t mean s***. Again, they would invite the 50th man on a football team if he is willing to pay the $ 500 or whatever it is to get in. So don’t be fooled by thinking an invite really is prestigious.
In that same article, they spoke with Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops. He is one of the top coaches in the country and does a good job recruiting throughout most of the country. Here is how Stoops feels about combines overall.
That’s problematic for coaches like Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops, who says he only believes what he sees with his own eyes. He has had plenty of experience with players who don’t run nearly as fast as advertised-whether it’s by their father or a combine operator.
“We realize that going in, so we pay very little attention to them,” Stoops said. “We still trust what we see when we evaluate, when we go places, when we see them practice.”
Again, if you are thinking about paying for any type of combine during the winter or the spring, think about that quote for a while. That is a major Division I coach telling them that basically combines are worthless in order to help you get on the radar.
My last story is about a combine that is for underclassmen. It is a very prominent combine that has some great athletes attend. One athlete who was named something like the 10th best player there had his dad email me. He obviously bragged this up and talked big about how his son was going to be playing varsity football and make a huge impact. Then the following year he would be the starting quarterback because of this prestigious honor he received (I really will say that I thought the award/honor was garbage when he told me by the way).
Well, the following year came and despite being named by this combine as one of the best quarterbacks there, he wasn’t even the varsity starter as a junior. He is logging scrub minutes for his team. The good news is he can always talk about how he won this honor, right?
These combines are a joke. Take care of business on the football field, market yourself properly, and attend a few college camps to showcase you overall skills and you will be much better off financially in the overall athletic recruiting process.
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