A college boy Brian Kownacki makes unbelievable and successful leap turned handspring over Iona catcher James Beck on Tuesday. His play wasn’t just for show; it was part of a nine-run rally in the eighth inning that helped Fordham overcome an early 9-1 deficit en route to a 12-9 win.
The New York Yankees might be world champions of baseball, but are the Bronx Bombers the world champion in sports spending?
A new study ranked all the world’s professional sports teams by salary and, indeed, the Yankees came out on top globally. The United States is well-represented as well. Seven American teams are in the top 10, six of which qualified for the playoffs last year. In fact, nine of the teams on the list that qualified for the playoffs of their respective leagues. Maybe spending does matter.
The list is courtesy the Annual Review of Global Sports Strategies, as published by sportingintelligence.com. Dollar amount given is an approximation of the average annual salary of a first-team player on the team. Read the rest of this entry »
The World #1 Fighter and 7 Times World Champion Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao vs Former World Champion Joshua ‘Grandmaster’ Clottey. Watch out for live streaming broadcast of Pacquiao vs Clottey weigh-in at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday, March 12.
Purefoods Giants
MANILA, Philippines – Purefoods completed a fairytale ride in the 2009-2010 KFC Philippine Cup, conquering Alaska Milk in four straight games in their titular duel to nail a record-tying fifth all-Filipino crown before a roaring crowd of over 16,000 at the Araneta Coliseum.
The Giants outfought the Aces in a fierce battle for a fourth game in a row, hacking out an 86-76 victory to end a three-year title drought.
James Yap was named Best Player of the Conference before the game and was later adjudged the Handy Fix Finals MVP as he sustained a superb performance throughout the series, leading the Giants to the dream championship. Read the rest of this entry »
Murray State freshman Isaiah Canaan typically spends a few minutes at the end of practice each day hoisting up crazy trick shots better suited for a game of H-O-R-S-E than anything else.
Never has he even attempted one quite like the shot he sank during an actual game on Tuesday night.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)—Every time Kobe Bryant(notes) misses a game—which isn’t often— the Los Angeles Lakers give another example of how much championship depth they have.
Shannon Brown(notes) set career highs with 27 points and 10 rebounds while starting in Bryant’s place, and the Lakers kept rolling with a 104-94 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.
The fourth-year guard made his third start and had his first career double-double, scoring eight points in the final 1:13 while Bryant sat out his fourth straight game because of a sprained left ankle.
“I didn’t really know that Kobe was going to be out again, and that I was going to start until we had our pregame talk,” Brown said. “I just tried to come out and be aggressive. That team was a great team for me to play against. They’re the type of team that likes to get up and down, and I like to play like that. Read the rest of this entry »
Manny Pacquiao
This weekend, the awesome twosome of Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach will try to notch another victory over one of the world’s top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport. Check out one last look at never before seen training footage of Manny Pacquiao before he gets set to face another big challenge in jr. welterweight kingpin Ricky Hatton.
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The 2010 NBA draft still is still nearly five months away. Already, of course, there is a consensus No. 1 overall pick: Kentucky freshman guard John Wall. As one NBA general manager put it: “He will go No. 1 either for need or as an asset.”
There was no mystery to last year’s top selection, either: Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin(notes). The suspense came after that. As the NCAA season swings to conference play with March Madness on the horizon, here is a look at 13 other candidates who might join Wall in the draft lottery.
Right now, according to conversations with league executives, there appears to be a sort-of defined Top Three.
Syracuse forward Wesley Johnson could find himself as one the top three picks in the June draft.
1. Wall: The 6-foot-3 Kentucky guard is the first name out of everyone’s mouth. John Calipari delivered a couple of one-and-done studs at Memphis (Derrick Rose(notes), Tyreke Evans(notes)) and Wall will join that impressive duo. Rose is the player Wall is most often compared to – flattery of the highest. He may have even risen in the minds of any doubters when he said he doesn’t really listen to Coach Cal anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
Are there issues growing behind closed doors in Boston? Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo hinted after last
Boston Celtics
week’s loss to the Atlanta Hawks that some changes needed to be made in the Boston locker room.
“We gotta make a change and do something about it quick,” Rondo said after the Hawks capped a four-game season sweep of the Celtics on Friday at Philips Arena. “Not a trade or anything, but just making some changes in the locker room, amongst ourselves. Every guy has to look in the mirror and hold themselves accountable.”
Asked to elaborate on his thoughts this week, Rondo went further, suggesting to the Boston Herald that some players might have individual agendas. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a wild and wacky week in the NBA, chock-full of flying Gatorade cups, shoeless blocks, players leading officials on the fast break, dance-offs, and even a Phoenix Suns guard morphing into a creepy blue alien that lives inside James Cameron’s dreams and/or bank vault.
Quite honestly, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
But this clip might top ‘em all.
During Monday night’s game against the Lakers, Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay(notes) hoisted up a desperation three-quarter court shot to try and beat the first quarter buzzer. Sounds pedestrian enough, right?
Only one problem: Gay let his livin’-on-a-prayer fly with seven seconds to go in the quarter! He didn’t know the clock. So, naturally, the Lakers rebounded the miss, pushed the ball up the court, and the assassin that is Kobe Bryant(notes) nailed a three-pointer in the corner as time expired.
Yeah, not the most eloquent way to end a quarter. Good thing the Grizzlies won.
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