Source: http://www.americanjuniorhockey.com/2011/02/daily-dish-silly-chl-fans.html
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2011年2月25日金曜日
Wrestlemania XVII: A Realistic Yet, Fantastic Preview of the Epic Pay-Per-View
"Jim Ross coming to you live from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia!" The legendary announcer declares as he is making a return to the commentary booth.
"Oh man! It's going to be a good one!" Jerry Lawler replies to Jim Ross.
Finally Michael Cole has been replaced by JR for just this one pay-per-view. He is preparing for his 2-on-1 handicap match with Alex Riley versus Jerry Lawler.
This version of Wrestlemania has great potential. A WCW-themed Wrestlemania can bring out the nostalgia of the old WCW fans and revive the interests of the downtrodden WWE fans.
Just let me make some suggestions to get buy rates up. Vince, remember these are suggestions not commands so don't blame me.
This pay-per-view quasi-fantasy card of mine would be the way I would set up Wrestlemania according to logical continuations of the story lines currently set up.
Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks Will Shake Up the Eastern Conference
Although some Knicks fans have been complaining that too much was given up for Carmelo Anthony, they're wrong; when you have a chance to acquire one of the top-ten players in the league, you can't say no.
Fact is, Amar'e isn't Jordan, and Jordan himself couldn't do it alone. Without Carmelo, you're looking at a team just barely hovering over .500 with one star player. With Carmelo, you're looking at a team that has potential to break the top three with two star players.
Head coach Mike D'Antoni summed it up perfectly. “We know that we want to win a championship, and the way to do it, you got to get some star players in here. And you can’t say, ‘Well, what if, what if.’ We could be here forever. And what-ifs never happen. But we know we have two of the best players in the league.”
Carmelo could give you 30, 35, or even 40 on any given night. Could the same be said about Gallinari and Chandler? Combined, they average only seven more points than Anthony per game. Seven points that can easily be made up, and then some, by the likes of a Landry Fields or Corey Brewer.
But it's still too late in the season for Carmelo to make his full impact. The best the Knicks could hope for is a five seed or, if the Magic falter, a four seed.
However, when the Knicks regroup next season, they'll have the number 1 seed in their sights.
Don't believe me? Let's take a look at the last five NBA champions and their lineups with sixth men:
2010 – LA Lakers (Fisher, Kobe, Artest, Gasol, Bynum, Odom)
2009 – LA Lakers (Fisher, Kobe, Ariza, Gasol, Bynum, Odom)
2008 – Boston (Rondo, Allen, Pierce, Garnett, Perkins, Posey)
2007 – San Antonio (Parker, Finley, Bowen, Duncan, Oberto, Ginobili)
2006 – Miami (Williams, Wade, Walker, Haslem, O'Neal, Posey)
Notice anything? Each team is made up of two bona-fide stars (Kobe/Gasol, Pierce/Garnett, Parker/Duncan, Wade/O'Neal), good to great complimentary starters (Artest/Ariza/Bynum, Rondo/Allen, Bowen/Finley, Williams/Haslem) and a starter-caliber sixth man (Odom, Posey, Ginobili).
The Knicks are currently made up of two bona-fide stars in 'Melo and Amar'e. They have good to great complimentary starters in Billups and Fields. All they're missing is a starter-caliber sixth man.
However, the answer isn't Chris Paul or Deron Williams.
You might think I'm crazy, but let's look at that list of NBA champions again and zero in on the point guards: Fisher, Rondo, Parker and Williams. Only Parker played the role of superstar on his team. The rest were simply asked to give it to Kobe, Pierce and Wade.
The NBA is currently experiencing one of it's greatest talent boons in years, especially at the point guard position. Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook and John Wall were all taken with high picks in recent years, while the Clippers and Sixers were able to pick up steals with Eric Bledsoe and Jrue Holiday in the mid-to-late first round.
What I'm trying to say is, the Knicks need to focus on surrounding 'Melo and Amar'e with solid role players, not another superstar like Paul or Williams.
As it stands, now, the Knicks won't win the title this year. In fact, I foresee them struggling in the first round against possible opponents Miami or Chicago because of their lack of big men.
But Knicks fans do have something to cheer about for years to come, not just ten-game hot streaks. If the front office can keep drafting players such as Fields and Douglas, while 'Melo and Amar'e try and convince some solid role players and veterans to join up with them, then the Knicks definitely have a chance.
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WATCH The Lamest Flop In The History Of Soccer
Chilean U20 soccer player Bryan Carrasco just committed the worst flop in soccer – perhaps, all of sports — history.
Trying to draw a card for his opponent, Carrasco grabbed his defender's arm and used it to punch himself in the face – then fall to the ground writhing in pain.
It worked too! The referee gave his team a free kick. (But they still lost the match.) Watch the lamest dive ever (via Reddit):
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2011年2月24日木曜日
Deron Williams Trade: It Was The Right Move For Both Teams
If you’re a regular reader of mine, you might remember me starting my post “Decision,” LeBron James article by saying: “If you’re looking for a coherent column on LeBron James…you’ve come to the wrong place.”
Well, here we are eight months later and I’m in the same place, but for a completely different reason.
Deron Williams is now a New Jersey Net, you know that. If you’re looking for me to rip the Utah Jazz from head to toe for essentially waving the white flag on their season and trading one of the 10 best basketball players on the planet, you won’t get that from me.
If you’re hoping that I’m upset with Mikhail Prokhorov for rearranging the future of his franchise for potentially 18 months of Williams before he becomes a free agent, well that ain’t happening either.
The truth is that I love this trade.
I love it for both sides and I love it for all parties involved. I might not love it enough to dance like Elaine Benes, but I’m darn pretty close.
So, why do I love this trade? Why do I love it in the here and now, and so much for both teams?
Let’s take a look.
Let’s start with the Nets, and start with the nuts and bolts of this trade: They just traded for an All-Star point guard, a franchise player and someone who will instantaneously make every guy on the court better simply with his mere presence.
And you know what? They gave up next to nothing to get him; or, at least, no more than they would’ve had to give up to get Carmelo Anthony a week ago.
Speaking of Carmelo, I’ve got a newsflash for you: He was never coming to New Jersey; I think Prokhorov and everyone around the Nets knew that.
Now, I know that sounds laughable, if only because New Jersey had the parameters of a trade in place Friday, with yours truly even writing just a few hours prior, “For Carmelo, its New Jersey or bust,” meaning that if we’ve learned anything from this exercise, it’s that your buddy AT is a total idiot.
Although most of you probably already knew that.
But just because I don’t think Carmelo ever seriously considered New Jersey doesn’t mean that I don’t think he pretended to, in order to force the New York Knicks to make a move.
Remember, Carmelo has been saying since day one, hour one, minute one of last summer that he wanted to be a Knick, wanted his $65 million extension and he wanted them both.
The whole situation was more transparent than one of those Sports Illustrated spray-on bikinis.
Anyway, if you knew that and I knew that, don’t you think the Knicks knew that? Don’t you think they knew that they could wait until free agency, scoop up Carmelo without the extension and save the bounty of talent they were going to have to give away in a trade?
Of course they did. Which means that the only way Carmelo was going to get his cake and eat it too (the Knicks + the $65 million) was to dupe James Dolan into believing there was another bidder in his sweepstakes.
Which is why at the last possible second (after having no interest in them for nine months), all of a sudden Carmelo was happy to be a Net.
Right, and I’d be willing to marry Roseanne Barr if the price was right. Get the f*** outta here.
Carmelo was like the girl flirting with a guy at the bar just to get her own boyfriend’s attention—he was never going to be anything but a Knick, but he just couldn’t let the Knicks know it.
It led to his one final power play with the Nets over All-Star weekend.
But anyway, let’s get back to Williams...
(Because of length, this article was broken into two parts. To read PART II of this article, please click here or visit www.aarontorres-sports.com.
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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/618805-deron-williams-trade-it-was-the-right-move-for-both-teams
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