New York Marathon 2012 and Sandy

Hurricane Sandy has done tremendous damages to millions of homes and people. Its still an ongoing issue, and we are all aware of that. Our prayers goes out to those families and homes in need.

However, the New York Marathon has been going on since 1970 and nothing has come in the way for it to happen every single year. Doesn't look like that's about to change either! Dozens of runners, up to 50,000 of them come out and run. This Sunday 4th Nov. the marathon will proceed as planned regardless the hurricane that just occurred. BAAAMMM!!!

According to the New York Times, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the organizers of the race have said  the race will still go on as scheduled, "as a symbol of the city’s resilience and ability to rally after hard times."

Not everybody would agree but hey, if you can, I would encourage it. Its fun and it will take a lot of stress out of your head.

On to the basketball court, Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks game has been postponed because of the hurricane. No new date scheduled as of now.

Keep your prayers up!

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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2012 CHAMPIONS

And they won it again and again.

Where are the sports fans and especially BASEBALL FANS????? If you are a baseball fan, you properly know this by now but for all the other sports fans.......

The San Francisco Giants won the World Series for the second time in the last three years. They beat, actually not only did they beat Detroit 4-3 in this last game, but it was a clean 4 game sweep. It feels great to be a Giants fan now for those who are.

CONGRATULATION - CHAMPAGNE TIME!!! You already know!

David Stern Steps Down, Grizzlies new Owners

I'm Done!

Everything comes to an end. NBA Commissioner David Stern is retiring February 1, 2014. After 30 years of being the top dog, he decided "hey, there isn't anything else for me to do here." Maybe he's right, he has witnessed and been part of some of the best well known players of all time, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose and more. He is 70 years old, so I guess its time to chill.

Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver will take over.

AND, Stern (NBA) signed off on sale of Memphis Grizzlies to Robert Pera, Broncos QB Peyton Manning, NBA Star Penny Hardaway and singer Justin Timberlake who is having a wonderful month, first he married Jessica Biel and now he is officially an owner of a NBA team - Boss!

How is your October month?

Stay tuned

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Hockey World to Brooklyn

"Where Brooklyn at, where Brooklyn at "

The NHL hockey team New York Islanders from Long Island have announced that they are moving to Brooklyn and share the Barclay Center with the Brooklyn Nets. The contract is for 25 years and will begin in 2015-2016 season. This creates a whole new era of sports, and sports fans at Brooklyn.

If you live in Long Island, you don't have to drive anymore because now you can take the railroad directly from Long Island to the Barclay Center.

"Brooklyn is big time, and now we have the big league sports to prove it." New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Stay tuned

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WNBA Champions The Indiana Fever 2012

Win win win, no matter what!!!! BAWS LADIES!

Intense 2012 WNBA Finals Playoffs between The Indiana Fever women basketball and the defending champions Minnesota Lynx. Tamika Catchings led her team to beat Minnesota Lynx (3-1), and win her first championship ring, and also The Indiana Fever's first ring ever. That's history itself, be the part of team history wow. Great job, unbelievable, indescribable and unforgettable night it was, and it will be forever. Congratulation to the Indiana Fever for bringing it home.

Tamika Catching

                   
LeBron James's tweet "I know the feeling girls"...YES HE DO!

If you don't watch women basketball, you need to be! STEP YOUR GAME UP!

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CALIPARI SETTING SIGHTS ON PERFECT SEASON

Winning the national championship last year wasn’t enough for University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball coach John Calipari. For him it’s already a “been there done that” feat, and now he has a new goal…A PERFECT SEASON. While at the University of Memphis Calipari went 38-2 during the 2007-2008 season when he had studs like Derrick Rose, Chris Douglas-Roberts and Joey Dorsey. Last year his Kentucky team also went 38-2. Kentucky proved the losses didn’t matter by rolling over almost every opponent the rest of the season en route to their national title victory.

Nerlens Noel

Andrew and Aaron Harrison

Calipari isn’t sure exactly when that perfect season will come but he is expecting it within the next 2-3 years. His squad comes into this year ranked number #3 with big recruits like Nerlens Noel but he’s even more excited about the recruits he’s landed for next season. He has already landed 4 of the top 15 high school players in the class of 2013 including twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison from Fort Bend, TX who rank 3^rd and 4^th in the country. The experts are saying that there is still a chance that Kentucky could land the top rated player in the country Julius Randle, and on top of that the top rated junior Andrew Wiggins might reclassify as a senior and also sign with Kentucky. If it all goes down like that Kentucky would have the best recruiting class in history and a 2013-2014 squad that would be virtually untouchable. That’s an extremely frightening possibility that I’m sure every other school in the nation is praying doesn’t happen. Even without Randle and Wiggins the UK 2013 recruiting class should still be the top class in the nation.

As a University of Memphis alumni I am supposed to dislike John Calipari because he left us for Kentucky but I find it hard to hate on a man that went after what he called “his career goal”. I was happy for him when Kentucky won the title last season and I wouldn’t mind seeing him accomplish his goal of a perfect season.

Thanks for reading.

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NBA and its 90seconds rule 2012

N.B.A. has had enough of basketball games not starting on time.

Many of you might not know that the teams and players have "technically" 90 seconds to start the game after introductions. But as we see on almost every game that's being played, nobody cares about that "rule".

Now, things are changing starting of this season. There will be sanctions in case the rule isn't followed. After introductions, each team will have 90 seconds to huddle or do whatever they like before reporting for tip off. If they aren't able to do so, they'll face a delay-game warning and two delay-game warnings will result a technical foul. Really??? YES, not that a technical foul changes a lot, but its about starting the game on time.

I'm pretty sure that fans don't mind watching their teams and players for more than 90 seconds before tip-off. So this rule........yeah I don't know!

Sorry to say but players may not be able to do their handshakes, little chitchat or whatnot anymore. According to New York Times Kevin Durant said "Every player in this league has routines they do with their teammates. The fans enjoy it. To cut that down really don’t make no sense."

Is this the N.B.A. trying to get more control over the games and their players in every way possible? Or they just didn't had anything to do, and said "hey, we cant have another lockout, but is there anything else we can do to piss off the players"

LeBron James pre-game Power Tossing, hmmm he might not be able to enjoy it all the way. Toss-2seconds-spread the arms-OKAY LETSGO .... "did I make it", Spoelstra "you were close, 1second next time okay."

D Wade pre game pull-ups at the rim.....minimize it to 4 if he's fast... Spoelstra "1, 2, (3seconds left, WADE ITS ENOUGH), 4" OH he made it. "Next time 3 alright."

Superman, I guess he just has to fly in right away. No time for Lois Lane & all that!

Lame!!!!

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