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Monday, January 31, 2011
Video: ESPN?s Michelle Beadle in Super Bowl Ads
I am making a man law! “Michelle Beadle Is Cool” I know she co-hosts Sports Nation with Cowherd, and Cowherd is supposed to be the interwebs least favorite fella. That is super duper, but Michelle Beadle is funny, and cool. She is also a good sport in every thing the Sports Nation folks ask her [...]
Crawley land dream date with Manchester United
Non-league heroes Crawley Town have been handed a dream tie with Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round. The Blue Square Premier side will travel to Old Trafford next month.
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Jim O'Brien Fired by Pacers
Filed under: Pacers, NBA Rumors
Jim O'Brien has been fired by the Pacers. Team president Larry Bird announced the firing Sunday, saying: "This isn't all on Jim. All of us share in the responsibility for where we're at and where we need to go."
Assistant coach Frank Vogel will take over the team on an interim basis.
O'Brien and the Pacers sport a 17-27 record, ranking 10th in the East. The team is also reeling of late, losing their past eight games.
The reported firing comes just one week after Bird told FanHouse's Chris Tomasson that O'Brien's job was safe for the remainder of the season. The Star
O'Brien was 121-169 in four seasons with the Pacers. Despite the poor output, the Pacers' best player in his coaching days was Danny Granger - an All-Star talent, but more help was clearly needed as players such Roy Hibbert and Darren Collison continue to struggle.
Vogel has been a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers and Washington Wizards, and also served as an assistant coach for O'Brien in Philadelphia and Boston.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Byron Scott Has Been Through Worse Than Cavs Losing Streak
ORLANDO, Fla. - This isn't the worst thing to happen to Cleveland Cavaliers coach Byron Scott. It's not even the worst basketball thing.Not even close.
Scott may have won three NBA championships as a player and reached the NBA Finals twice as a head coach, but he is no stranger to tough basketball times.
Scott and his Cavs lost their 20th consecutive game Sunday night, 103-87, to the Magic, leaving them just three away from the NBA record for consecutive losses - set by a team on which Scott played a key role.
Scott may have found fame playing alongside Magic Johnson as part of the Showtime Los Angeles Lakers, but he also spent one miserable season with the first-year expansion Vancouver Grizzlies, which lost 23 consecutive games during the 1995-96 season.
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St. John?s stuns No. 3 Duke 93-78
Teams that beat Duke have reason to celebrate. Teams that blow Duke out of the building should be able to party all night. So, how long will the St. John’s players be allowed to celebrate Sunday’s 93-78 victory over No. 3 Duke — a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicated? “Coach Lav said we had two hours to celebrate and then we have to get ready for Rutgers,”…
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St. John’s stuns No. 3 Duke 93-78
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Weeks gives Brewers extension deadline
Rickie Weeks wants to continue talking with the Milwaukee Brewers about a long-term extension, but only until spring training begins. The second baseman said he’ll tell agent Greg Genske to stop negotiating a new contract once he reports for spring training to focus on baseball and the upcoming season.
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Weeks gives Brewers extension deadline
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp bids �26m for Athletic Bilbao striker Llorente
Harry Redknapp has acted quickly to head off a renewed challenge from Liverpool for Fernando Llorente by making an astonishing �26million bid for the Athletic Bilbao striker.
Eddie House Makes Playing Time Count
The carousel of Miami Heat guards shuffling constantly in and out of lineup coupled with injuries the team has suffered recently has now brought Eddie House back to being a steady contributor to the team who originally drafted him back in 2000.
Though slowed by a right ankle sprain that limited his minutes against the New York Knicks on Thursday, House stepped up and provided a much-needed boost off the bench to continue building on his blossoming production as of late. Putting aside the Knicks game, he's averaged 13.3 points and scored in double figures in the Heat's last five games along with knocking down 14 3-pointers.
Relegated to spectator during the Heat's dominant stretch for the last month and a half, House chose to stay positive and be ready if coach Erik Spoelstra needed him.
"Of course it's tough when you're not playing," admitted House after helping the Heat to a much-needed win against the scrappy Detroit Pistons with 15 points. "But that's the thing about it, you sit there and look at it in a negative light then when your number gets called you'll probably have negative results."
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FanHouse TV: 'D-League,' Episode 11
Filed under: NBA Videos, FanHouse Exclusive
After a stellar performance at the D-League National Tryout, FanHouse's own Jordan Schultz was one of ten (out of 200) callbacks to the Idaho Stampede tryout in Boise. With the competition stiffened, find out how the former all-state and college shooting guard handled the pressures, one step closer to realizing the D-League dream.
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Play of the Day
Stephen Jackson scores a tying 3-pointer in the final second of regulation to help the Bobcats rally back for an overtime victory.
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Lea the Punisher prevails at Santa Anita
Lea the Punisher prevailed over 2-1 favorite Makoma by a neck to win the $57,136 Azeri Purse for older fillies and mares on Friday at Santa Anita. Ridden by Alonso Quinonez, Lea the Punisher covered 1 1-16 miles on dirt in 1:42.20 and paid $8.60, $4.80 and $3.20. Makoma returned $4.20 and $3, while Gumption paid $3 to show.
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Lea the Punisher prevails at Santa Anita
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sunderland striker David Healy poised for emergency loan switch to Rangers
Rangers were last night closing in on a loan deal for Northern Ireland striker David Healy. Walter Smith has sanctioned a contract until the end of the season for the 31-year-old.
Kevin Love Makes All-Star Bid With 'Numb#rs'
Filed under: Timberwolves, NBA All-Star Game
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Minnesota Timberwolves hope that the key to the Western Conference coaches' All-Star vote is through their noses.
Introducing "Numb#rs," the new fragrance by Kevin Love.
On the same day the NBA announced the starters for the All-Star game next month, the Wolves' public relations department unveiled its campaign to convince the coaches to vote their star into the game as a reserve.
A box was mailed to all Western Conference coaches that includes a bottle of "Numb#rs" cologne, a DVD with a 30-second commercial for the product that spoofs an ultra-serious fragrance ad, an advertisement that includes Love and a local model dressed to the nines and a list of his accomplishments on the back, and a bottle of face lotion just for good measure.
"It's all in good fun," Love said on Thursday after practice. "You never try to take yourself too seriously. If you can have fun with yourself it's a good part of your life."
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Blazers Armon Johnson Assigned to D-League's Idaho Stampede
Filed under: NBA D-League, Idaho Stampede
The Portland Trail Blazers have assigned rookie guard Armon Johnson to the NBA Development League's Idaho Stampede Friday, the team announced. Johnson, a 6-foot-3 rookie point guard out of Nevada, has appeared in 28 games this season with the Trail Blazers and is averaging 3.1 points, 1.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 8.1 minutes. Over his last seven appearances, he's scored just four points -- all of which came from a 2-for-7 shooting performance during a 95-77 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 28.
Though it's possible to make the case that this move should have been made as soon as he was replaced by Patty Mills as Portland's backup point guard, it seems as though Johnson didn't see the benefit in playing in the D-League.
"I think you learn just as much (not playing in the NBA compared with playing in the D-League) because, being the type of person I am, I like to pay attention to it, pay attention to the game any way I can -- how people walk, how people talk out there on the court, pregame rituals, little things," Johnson told the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier this week. "I feel (staying on the Blazers' bench) is really helping me. And I'm around my teammates."
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Love, Ellis, Randolph All-Star worthy?
Kevin Love is putting up staggering numbers for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Rebounds — 15.7 per game, nearly 2 1/2 better than the next closest NBA player. Points — 21.6, putting him on track to become the first player since Moses Malone in 1982-83 to average at least 20 points and 15 rebounds per game.
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Love, Ellis, Randolph All-Star worthy?
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Flat Bold wins Aqueduct feature
Flat Bold, the 3-2 favorite, beat Be Bullish by one length Friday in the $48,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct. A 5-year-old gelding trained by Tom Albertrani, Flat Bold improved to 4 for 15. He ran the six furlongs in 1:09.92 on the track rated good with Ramon Dominguez aboard. Flat Bold paid $5, $3 and $2.20.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
JTBAS: Episode 4: A Blog WAR!
Jim Thinker Blogs About Sports: Episode 4: A Blog WAR! Be sure to check out all the episodes 1. The Trailer 2. Episode 1: Introduction / People Blog About Sports For A Living 3. Episode 2: Merry Abraham Mass 4. Episode 3: Stu Scott Retweeted Me
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Celtic's tug of war! Bhoys win Commons battle but Villa eager to steal Izaguirre
Celtic have secured the signature of Kris Commons but may face a fight to keep Emilio Izaguirre, with Aston Villa pursuing the Parkhead defender. Commons, 27, agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal worth �20,000 a week after passing his medical in Glasgow.
Tracy Morgan Brings TNT Pregame Show to Halt With 'Salute' to Sarah Palin
Filed under: NBA Media Watch
Someone said something shocking on a TNT NBA studio show Thursday night. No shock there, not with Charles Barkley as one of the analysts.Except, the stunning statement didn't happen in a studio, but rather on the floor of Madison Square Garden. And it wasn't said by Barkley, but by comedian Tracy Morgan, who made the startling declaration that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was attractive.
Really, really attractive.
Here's the set-up: Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson were conducting business at MSG in advance of the Miami Heat-New York Knicks game, which TNT televised. The trio were discussing the pending NBA All-Star Game and Thursday's announcement of the Eastern and Western Conference starters, when Morgan, who stars in the NBC sitcom "30 Rock" happened by their makeshift set.
Barkley and Smith asked Morgan whom he thought merited inclusion on the All-Star roster. Then Morgan was asked to choose between Palin and Tina Fey, who created "30 Rock," and has impersonated Palin on "SNL."
That's when Morgan said that Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee was "good masturbation material." It may have marked one of the few times that the normally loquacious Barkley has ever been speechless.
TNT, however, recovered quickly, issuing a statement from spokesman Jeff Pomeroy that read: "It's unfortunate Mr. Morgan showed a lack of judgment on our air with his inappropriate comments."
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Starry Night at MSG Fields Unlikely Hero
Filed under: Heat
NEW YORK -- For the past decade, Madison Square Garden and more specifically the NBA team that called it home -- the New York Knicks -- was the rotten core of Big Apple sports.
This season, things are different. Thanks to Amar'e Stoudemire, the Knicks' first All-Star starter since 1997, the apple is polished and shiny and red and juicy. On Thursday, everyone wanted to take a bite.
TNT, back for the first time at the Garden in five years, went all out. They brought "Inside the NBA" up from Atlanta and managed to sneak Marv Albert past the Dolans and into the building. They announced the All-Star starters and three of the five Eastern Conference starters happened to be in the building.
The glitterati such as "The Donald," "The King of All Media," Kanye West, Spike Lee, Woody Allen, Alicia Keys and Tracy Morgan and his very dirty mind more than likely would have shown up to see LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Heat even if the Knicks were playing willing patsies to marauding opponents as they had in the past.
The stars had come to see stars, and for a while, they got what they came for.
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Durant scores career-high 47 in OT win
The Minnesota Timberwolves threw everything they had at Kevin Durant. They put hands in his face. They bodied him on the block. They knocked him down in the paint. It was almost enough. Almost. Durant had career highs of 47 points and 18 rebounds, and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 31-point, 21-rebound night from Kevin Love to beat the Timberwolves, 118-117, in overtime on Wednesday night.
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Durant scores career-high 47 in OT win
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Play of the Day
J.R. Smith gets the ball in transition for the circus jam.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Jim Thinker Blogs About Sports: Episode 1: Introduction
Jim Thinker Blogs About Sports: Episode 1: Introduction . Here is the premise for the mocementary. A film maker wants to make a documentary about a sports blogger. They choose “Jim Thinker” at random. Hilarity Ensues. See the trailer here. The rest of the episodes will be posted between now and Friday.
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Birmingham fan Craig Gardner in dreamland after firing Blues to Wembley
Birmingham match-winner Craig Gardner savoured an 'unbelievable' experience after firing his boyhood club to a Wembley Carling Cup final date with Arsenal.
Source: Bulls to Assign James Johnson to D-League
Filed under: Bulls, NBA D-League, Iowa Energy
James Johnson, selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 16th overall pick in last year's NBA Draft, is expected to be assigned to the NBA D-League's Iowa Energy on Thursday, according to a source close to the situation.Johnson, a 6-foot-9 forward out of Wake Forest, has played in 12 games for the Bulls this season with his last being a Jan. 4 contest against the Toronto Raptors in which he played three minutes and recorded no statistics. In 71 career NBA regular season games -- including 11 starts -- Johnson's averaging 3.9 points and 2.0 rebounds in just over 11 minutes per game.
Johnson has been consistently rumored to be on the Bulls' trading block but has yet to produce enough as a pro to justify to another team that he's worth taking a chance on. Even at the Vegas Summer League, a setting in which a first-round pick should typically excel, Johnson averaged just 8.0 points, 3.4 rebounds and 6.4 personal fouls in 28 minutes per game (players are allowed 10 fouls in the Summer League). Even worse, Johnson made less than 33 percent of his attempts from the field, most of which came in a game against the Sacramento Kings in which he made just two of his 14 shot attempts.
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Will These Cavs Sink as Low as Old Cavs?
Filed under: Cavaliers
They were the Edsels of the NBA and the Keystone Kops on wood. But most of all, they were known as the Cadavers.
These Cadavers, though, finally might be buried.
Trouble is, it's the same team with the shovel.
The Cleveland Cavaliers hold the NBA record for consecutive losses at 24, having dropped their last 19 in 1981-82 and their first five in 1982-83. Now, the LeBron-less gang has lost 18 straight heading into Friday's home game against Denver.
One more loss and Cleveland will tie its single-season record of 19 defeats in a row. Five more and the Cavaliers will equal the NBA single-season mark of 23 consecutive losses set by Vancouver in 1995-96 and the Nuggets in 1997-98. And it's six more to tie and seven more to break the granddaddy of all futility streaks.
"I don't want anybody to go through that misery,'' said Geoff Huston, a guard on Cleveland's record-setting team. "I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.''
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Yankees sign RHP Colon to contract
Former Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon, out of the major leagues since 2009, has agreed to a minor league contract with the New York Yankees. The 37-year-old right-hander was released by the Chicago White Sox in September 2009 after going 3-6 with a 4.19 ERA in 12 starts. He went 21-8 for the Angels in 2005 and won the AL Cy Young, but is 14-21 since.
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Yankees sign RHP Colon to contract
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Still no timetable for Bosh?s return
Chris Bosh plans to get dressed up in a suit, make some popcorn and turn the volume high on his television when the Miami Heat visit New York on Thursday night. He’ll be watching from afar, and there’s still no target for his return to the Heat lineup. Bosh remained home when the Heat flew to New York on Wednesday, still unable to play because of a sprained left ankle.
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Still no timetable for Bosh’s return
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
NY Jets vs Pittsburgh Steelers, 2011 AFC Championship, Prediction
NY Jets vs Pittsburgh Steelers, 2011 AFC Championship, Prediction NY Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers 6:30 PM on CBS at Heinz Field The Jets just beat the favored Pats, and “Shocked the World”. Only if that world does not include the Jets. It seems that every year the NFL playoffs come along and some random team [...]
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