All Sport Report

It has been a busy weekend for sport, with 3 key matches coming to a close on a global scale:

Formula 1 - The Flying Fin - Kimi Raikonnen, pips British rookie Lewis Hamilton and last years champion Fernando Alonso in the final race at Interlagos, Brazil. Kimi had not lead the championship since the first race, however he finished with a phenominal 2nd half to the season and beat the feuding McClarens who drove themselves out of the points repeatedly during the final races in a bid to best each other.

MLB - the Boston Red Sox defeated Cleveland 11-2 in game 7 of the ALCS, firing them into the World Series. They scored and impressive 6 runs in the bottom of the 8th to clinch the victory.

Rugby World Cup - South Africa become world champions defeating England 15-6, amid the outcries of a “dubious” decision by the video referee that disallowed what appeared to be an England try, (which would have, at the time, cut the score from 9-3 to 9-8) the springboks captivated a dream world cup in which they cruised through the entire competition, and ending Englands dream of back to back world cups, and the opportunity to do so by winning 3 consecutive games as the underdogs (beating Australia in the 1/4 finals and home nation France in the semi’s)

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The NFL are always pushing to get kids playing football, after all, it is a great sport for exercise, tackles obesity, and helps to build skills such as working within in a team and hand-eye co-ordination. But the biggest thing is the experience, and the chance to become a great professional sports player, its a huge opportunity, and just think of that kind of opportunity when kids such as this have talent:

Cody Paul, a name to remember perhaps?

I thought I’d let you all have a laugh. These sports bloopers are quite funny so I thought I’d share them with all of you. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what your favorite blooper is. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Sports fans are a dedicated bunch. We have our favorite teams and our favorite players. It’s hard when one of your favorites gets traded to a team you hate because you want them to do well, but not the team. The idea of cheating and steroid use tends to put some sports fans off. Who can blame them? If you’re not a strong enough athlete to play the game on your own, without the help of cheating and drugs, then you don’t deserve the millions of dollars that they give you to go out and play.

So, while looking through sports news today I came across an article on ESPN. ESPN asked people what they thought of cheating. Like I said above, some mentioned that they no longer liked sports because of the fact that so many cheaters are being found out.

Others seemed to think cheating was part of the game and that fans should get used to it because it’s not going anywhere. However, my favorite comment came from a sports fan with the name, goblue3509. He said perhaps the dumbest thing that I have heard, at least all day.

“You have to respect someone so driven that they are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to be successful,” commented goblue3509. “Maybe some of the overweight population should take a page from Barry [Bonds] and Merriman’s book and sacrifice a little to get in shape.”

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If there are two things I love, they are sports and food. Sports and food go together quite well. Perhaps that is why my partner, Ashtyn, and I go together, so well. I am the sports enthusiast and resident expert. She is the gourmet chef. She even writes her own blog on the Food Network called Watching Food TV.

Imagine my surprise when I became addicted to the Food Network. A whole network about food is about as exciting for a man as the ESPN network airing non-stop sports 24/7. Of course, I have my favorites like Paula Deen, who is a southern cook after my own heart and Emeril, who cooks kicked up food with a lot of New Orleans flavor.

So, when I get the chance to have my two passions, food and sports mix, I am like a kid in a candy store. After watching Rory lose the Next Food Network Star I realized that the season premiere of one of Ash’s favorite shows, Dinner Impossible, takes Chef Robert Irvine to the ballpark. He was attending a Chicago White Sox versus New York Yankees baseball game where he would find out his mission.

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After a few days break from my daily sports run down due to life really giving me a sharp kick, it’s back to the grind. So, what did we miss during my brief hiatus? Scandals abound like crazy in the sporting world. From Cycling to Basketball, Friday, July 20, 2007 was not a good day in the vast majority of the world’s top sporting organizations.

Baseball

Cleveland and Detroit Battle it Out for First Place – The Central Division of the American League has been heating up. With just a half game lead over the Cleveland Indians going into the second half of regular season, Detroit and Cleveland have been in a constant battle to see who will be number one. While Detroit remains just barely ahead of Cleveland, Detroit’s catastrophic 10-2 loss to Kansas City after a four game winning streak on Friday thrust Cleveland (who beat the Rangers 3-2) one step closer to taking over the top spot and kicking Detroit down to second place. My Tigers better hustle and win their next game if they want to remain in first place not only for the Central Division, but for the American League as a whole.

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Did you ever imagine your grandparents could be running around a track, throwing a javelin, or making the long jump with a better distance than you? In Italy, the Masters Athletic World Championships allows competitors who are up to age 90 to participate in the competition. My grandparents are both in their 80s, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t think Gramps could run the 100 meter let alone compete at the long jump. Breaking your hip starts to limit your mobility and all.

Yet, we have 85 and 90 year old competitors in the Masters and some of them are pretty dangerous. In fact, if you do not watch out for them, they might hit you with their javelins! The Masters Athletics World Championships are held in September, so competitors are gearing up, preparing to wow the audience and competition judges with their performances. However, one javelin thrower took things too far during a meeting of the Golden League in Rome.

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This is a new feature I hope to write every day. Each evening, late at night, I plan to run through the top stories in the Sports World. In the Run Down, you’ll get a crash course through the hottest stories, latest scandals, and most exciting news on all of your favorite sports. If you want to know what is going on in Sports, then the Run Down will offer all of the information you need to keep you wanting more!

In this week’s Run Down:

Baseball

Bonds Bombs in Entire Dodgers Series, Losing Streak Continues Onward– Barry Bonds, just five home runs away from beating the home run record of Henry “Hank” Aaron (a true ball player who didn’t have to use steroids to hit 756 home runs – but don’t get me started on how unfair I think this is), is in a slump. Fellow Giants short-stop, Omar Vizquel, said the slugger just hasn’t been the same since he had an All Star Game party, playing host until the wee hours of the morning, a week and a half ago.

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I have never been a big fan of bicycling. Sure, it’s a great way to get exercise, but perhaps because I never had the opportunity to ride a bike minus one with training wheels (I have a muscle disease and am now in a wheelchair) I just never got the “cycling excitement”. Every time the Tour de France is held, I listen to the chattering going on around me (it is hard not to with so many Americans being accused of using illegal drugs each year), but I don’t really get the whole “Tour fascination”.

So, I get the point of the Tour. You ride through multiple parts of France, practically making your way across the entire country. This will take you up and down hills and mountains, along straight pathways, and through the country and city. July is time for the Tour, and by now, the bikers have already made their way to the ninth stage of the race.

The ninth stage through the Alps is also the last one to travel through the mountain range. The favored winner of the Tour de France, injured cyclist, Alexandre Vinokourov, didn’t do so well during this stage, falling as much as eight minutes behind the overall leader, Michael Rasmussen. Rasmussen is a Dane who has been the Tour’s best climber for the past two years. However, a surprising newcomer to the race, Juan Mauricio Soler, managed to take over and win this stage. The Columbian says it is “a dream” to win a stage, and in his very first Tour appearance no less!

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Even if he hasn’t been locked up for any of his numerous offenses, it might be a good deal for Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones to just commit himself to some type of institution.

The poster child of the NFL’s behavior woes is being sought for questioning in a shooting that allegedly took place with members of Jones’ entourage after leaving an Atlanta strip club early this morning.

Police reports say that Jones and his associates got into a fight with three men at the strip club, and upon leaving the club, a member of Jones’ group opened fire on the vehicle carrying the other group with which they had the altercation.

The other group returned fire, leaving one bystander outside of the vehicles injured from debris.

According to NFL.com, “attorney Robert Langford said no evidence tied Jones to the shooting, but an aide to Clark County district attorney David Roger said it could take several days to decide if there is enough information to file charges against Jones and two friends.”

Something really needs to be done about Jones and his countless transgressions.  It’s truly shameful, because there are many incidents of athletes behaving badly that don’t come close to the tragedy of ‘Pacman’ Jones and his unabated loyalty to the wrong crowd and wrong places. He has already lost a large portion of the 2007 season, but he’s inching closer and closer to losing his life.

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Donovan McNabb is the player that football fans associate with the Philadelphia Eagles, but could recent injuries make him a thing of the past sooner rather than later in the city of brotherly love?

He’s been the go to guy, the franchise quarterback, the reason the Eagles have been in the playoffs with regularity, but Donovan McNabb has been unsuccessful in landing the team a championship.

What’s worse for #5 is - his last two seasons have been plagued with injuries. First the sports hernia that affected his play dramatically before landing him on the sidelines, then the knee injury sustained in the middle of last season that kept McNabb sidelined for the remainder of the year, and through the beginning of camp for ‘07.

Backup quaterback Jeff Garcia’s solid play in McNabbs absence last season opened up a whole array of quarterback controversy questions as the season came to a close, but head coach Andy Reid answered those questions by stating that McNabb was taking the snaps, end of story.

Then why, I’d like to know, did the Eagles use their first round pick in the draft on a quarterback?

We’ve all seen how Donovan copes with controversy - his altercation with Terrell Owens reeked havoc with the Eagles, how will he react now that his job may be in jeopardy?

So far Donovan has proclaimed he’ll be ready for the team’s second pre-season game. This seems like a bit of a rush from the original prognosis that said the big QB may not be ready until a few weeks into the regular season. The only reason I can see for McNabb to be in such a hurry is fear. I don’t think he wants the coaching staff getting to good a look at somebody else.

The birds have been able to win after Donovan has gone down in the past, but he may not be able to afford someone to take the reigns and go on a winning streak before he gets a chance to take the field.

Veteran reporter Sal Paolantonio gets a bit more in depth with his views on Donvan’s situation on espn.com

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It’s no secret how Red Sox ace Curt Schilling feels about Barry Bonds and the slugger’s chase to break Hank Aaron’s all time home run record. In an appearance a local radio show and to reporters of the Boston Globe, Schill openly states that Barry is a cheater, “he admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes and cheating in the game.”

To my recollection Barry never actually admitted to using illegal substances or “cheating in the game” as Schilling put it. There does seem to be a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that he might have taken part, but I don’t believe anyone’s got a smoking gun.

I’ve said that if Barry had used performance enhancing drugs, then I’d rather have Hank Aaron’s record remain intact, but Curt Schilling seems to be both judge and jury in the Bond’s case, proclaiming that Barry “doesn’t deserve to break the record.”

I’m a Curt Schilling fan, I was crushed when the Phillies let him go, but isn’t there a saying - “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”

I’m as big a Phillies fan as there is, but even I suspect several of the guys from the ‘93 Phils (perhaps even Mr. Schilling himself) to have been using some performance enhancing drugs.

I think before you go blatantly accusing someone of wrong doing, you might want to have some concrete proof, especially if you could be accused of the very same thing.

Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds, steroids, Hank Aaron, homerun record

Two time junior lightweight champion, and two time lightweight champion Diego Corrales liked to live life fast, unfortunately for him the saying “live fast, die young” became a truth Monday evening.

Corrales was one of the toughest competitors to ever step into a boxing ring, he will be forever remembered for his 2005 victory over Jose Luis Castillo which can only be described as a war. In the ‘05 fight of the year, Corrales showed the true spirit of a warrior and held on after being knocked down twice in the tenth to score a knockout victory.

Diego wanted, above all, to be entertaining to the fans and to compete with the best fighters in the world - he accomplished both during his 11 year boxing career. Corrales compiled a very impressive 40-5 record with 33 wins by knockout.

Corrales’s life, and brilliant boxing career, came to a much too early end on May 7th due to a fatal motorcycle accident. Diego had only had the motorcycle for about a week, and he was wearing a helmet but the investigation revealed that he was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour, he died at the scene.

A man that personified what it means to be a fighter, diego Corrales will be missed by boxing fans worldwide.

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Seven time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens and the Yankees announced at a press conference on Sunday that they have come to an agreement for the remainder of the 2007 season.

Clemens and the Yankees couldn’t get a deal together last season, the money was there, but Roger wanted stipulations in the contract stating that he did not have to travel with the team if he was not scheduled to pitch. Yankee manager Joe Torre simply wouldn’t make that concession so Clemens went to play ball in his home town of Houston.

Well that was then and this is now.., So far in ‘07 virtually all of the Yankees pitching staff, with the exception of Andy Petite, has been injured. The struggling Yanks sit 5.5 games behind the Red Sox and have been under some serious fire from the media and the fans.

Torre and the Yankees needed to do something, so they made the travel concessions and offered the Rocket 28 million dollars for the remainder of the season. So with more than thirty games already gone, that means Roger will probably start about 22 or 23 games during the regular season if he can manage to stay healthy - for those of us who aren’t into doing the math, that’s more than a million dollars per start…

If the Yankees pull it all together once Clemens comes into the fold, if he wins 17 games and leads them to yet another World Series Championship then I suppose this will have been worth it. But if they continue to falter, if Roger begins to show signs of his age and only manages three or four wins, if the pinstripes fail to make the playoffs - then this will be the biggest waste of money in Yankee history, and that is saying a lot.

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