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Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito face off Saturday night at the MGM grand in Las Vegas. As it should be, it is on Pay-Per-View. If you don't want to drop down the 50 bucks, find a sports bar near you and pay the cover. Just do it. Here is why:
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MMA & Boxing
Antonio Margarito
Miguel Cotto
LeBron James is guaranteeing gold for Team USA in Beijing. This will be a big deal in upcoming days as the Olympics approach, but should it be?
James made his guarantee in a Time magazine story that hits newsstands Friday. The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar is featured on one of the covers ...
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NBA
LeBron James
Brett Favre allegedly possesses a Green Bay Packers cellphone. And Favre allegedly used this phone to call the Minnesota Vikings about joining their team.
And people are tripping about this issue.
The thought here is, who the hell cares what this cat is doing? Sure Favre has all the meaningful records there ...
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NFL
Brett Favre
World's #1 Roger Federer, Rogers Cup winner in 2004 and 2006 (he was undefeated there) suffered from some very shoddy play as he was upset by Gilles Simon, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, the winner in last week's ATP tournament in Indianapolis.
Simon played unbelievably well, but Federer committed over 50 unforced errors ...
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Tennis
Roger Federer
There will be repercussions for the fight that erupted during the Detroit Shock-Los Angeles Sparks WNBA game.
With just a few seconds remaining in the game (4.6 seconds), after a free throw Plenette Pierson intentionally entangled herself with Candace Parker. Pierson pulled Parker to the ground, causing herself to also fall. ...
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NBA
Tony Parker
Los Angeles Sparks
Detroit Shock
(This is written in reaction to a general feeling of what I consider to be a "defeatist malaise" among people who would want to see truly diverse voices in mainstream media (MSM)…)
Jemele Hill recently wrote a commentary about the NFL and it's new emphasis on stopping "gang sign" among its ...
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Other
ESPN
If an NBA player is not going to get what he wants out of the Lig, he might just hop overseas. Atlanta Hawks swingman Josh Childess is seriously considering playing in Greece this upcoming season. The move would send shockwaves throughout the NBA and the ripple effect might cause the ...
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NBA
Josh Childress
Greece
I wanted to do something like this awhile ago. What I was doing, though, was taking comments, good, bad, or ugly, noting them then commenting on the comments. There got to be so many, and my comments were so long that it might have taken up to six hours to ...
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Other
From the birthplace of soul (or at least Strevie Ray Vaughn 's) Austin, Texas, it is day 3 of the Netroots Conference. Bloggers abound, there was an Al Gore sighting this morning. Yes. our ex-VP and roll over than fight president two could have been was flown in unannounced, to ...
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Other
Iraq
Guess what... I'm downtown at the Netroots Conference with MODI, who came all the way from Silver spring, MD to Austin to conference with bloggers from around the country.... let me tell you what I've seen from th "black side."
First off, this shit is really, really white... no, let me ...
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Other
Crip signin'... right?
The NFL is concerned about its image - again. The league has hired "experts" to review and identify "hand signals" thrown up by NFL players during games:
"There have been some suspected things we've seen," said Milt Ahlerich, the league's vice president of security. "When we see it, we ...
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NCAA Basketball
Brandon Jennings
ESPN has been downright atrocious the last couple of weeks. Its bias was most blatant last Friday in its refusal to cover same-day breaking stories on the law-breaking of three white athletes (Matt Jones, Brad Miller, and Ted Dupay) on any of its regularly scheduled afternoon talk shows. Please pardon the ...
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ESPN
Oh yeah, and a few words on the Elton Brand signing with Philadelphia deal...
In their interview in Philly in the bowels of the Arlen Specter-Comcast Center, David Falk told the NBA national media that his client, Elton Brand, jumped the Los Angeles Clippers' clipper because of owner Donald Sterling's ambivalence ...
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NBA
Elton Brand
So what's been happening lately?
Scoop Jackson mentioned Mauricia Grant in a meaningful fashion - a first for MSM - on ESPN's First and 10 segment of its First Take morning show.
Claps for Scoop, boo for the WWL for bitching up in its coverage - lack of - of the lawsuit.
High ...
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MLB
Brian Fuentes
Carlos Beltran
Brett Favre
Lute Olson
It’s a baaaad day for white athletes everywhere. Matt Jones (mug shot, right), Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver - busted for coke and pot. Dude was caught chopping yay-yo with a credit card, had a bag of yay on him and a bag of chronic. Hmmm, snort some yay to get ...
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This NY Times article from last night seems to indicate that Brandon Jennings ("The Takeover") is seriously considering the European option. This ESPN article from early this morning confirmed it: Brandon Jennings is skipping college ball to go play in Europe:
"That's a moot point now," [Jenning's lawyer] Valle said. "He's ...
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NCAA Basketball
Brandon Jennings
And I'm back from my Fourth of July weekend. I hope everyone had a good one. As always, expect shoddy writing as I get back into the flow of posting (regularly, hopefully) again.
Yesterday I shelled out about $24 so that The GF and I could see "Gunning For That #1 ...
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Other
Congratulations to Wimbledon. I hope the tournament officials of the All-English Club are happy. Sunday they got a nearly five hour tennis match that, for the television viewer who began watching at eight a.m. promptly, took up their entire morning and most of their afternoon.
It was sad, though, that International ...
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Tennis
Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
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I recently wrote an article-commentary concerning ESPN's Bonnie
Bernstein and her quote from the June 25 Mike
and Mike in the Morning show. The piece was apparently so incendiary that Ms. Bernstein emailed me. Her lengthy letter provided me with some ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- who recently retired from boxing -- is not controlled by any team league commissioners, corporate endorsements, or television network executives. He has also made "great investments", says that he "should be a billionaire" by the end of the year, and could care less what you think of him. In other words, Floyd ...
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The Black Sportswriter – A Shameful Story: (On Bonnie ...