A lot of people including me think that this series is going to be a blowout in favor of the Chicago Bulls. I know it’s sad. I actually live in Atlanta; shouldn’t I be going for the home team? I just have to be realistic and look at the track record. I mean, if the [...]
Ok people, we are now in the 2nd round of the playoffs on the east side and the match ups are nice and juicy. After watching Boston beat up on the Knicks, Miami cruise by the Sixers, the Hawks beat down the Magic, and the Bulls crush the Pacers, we are now ready for some [...]
NBA season 2011 Most Valuable Player, Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls is averaging 27.6 points per game, 4.60 RPG and 6.2 APG and his effeciency is 23.60. On the other hand, Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics, Rose’s greatest rival in the East is averaging 19.0 ppg, 7.30 rpg and 12.0 apg with an efficiency [...]
Two giants will battle face to face in the Eastern Conference semifinals this Sunday. And this is the Boston Celtics versus Miami Heat matchup. If you followed these two teams since the start of this season they have been hating each other until now. Some say this will be the main event in the second [...]
Being in the 8th seed is enough. This has been the Grizzlies mindset since the start of the NBA 2011 playoffs. Zach Randolph’s game heroics was the key to help the Memphis Grizzlies beat the top seeded San Antonio Spurs, 99-91. They have become just that as only the second No. 8 seed to upset [...]
The girls have already completed the list of finalists in Barcelona and Estoril. In Barcelona, Italy’s Roberta Vinci reached her third straight Barcelona Open by defeating Spain’s Laura Pous-Tio in three sets, 46 64 76(4). Vinci won here in 2009 and was runner-up last year to fellow Italian Francesca Schiavone. She will meet [...]
Former world number 3 Nikolay Davydenko of Russia reached the semifinals of the BMW Open in Munich by defeating last year’s finalist Marin Cilic of Croatia, 75 63. Davydenko will play Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic who advanced to the semifinals by defeating 2007 champion Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, 64 60. Against Cilic, [...]
In a quarterfinal match interrupted by a three-hour rain delay, former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina defeated top seed Robin Soderling of Sweden, 64 75. The Argentinian will play Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas who defeated Brazil’s Thomaz Belluci, 64 62. Del Potro, seeded eighth, is looking to climb his way [...]
World number 2 Novak Djokovic kept his unbeaten run this season as he won this 26th straight match in the quarterfinals in Belgrade. He defeated Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia, 63 62. This is the best start to the season since Ivan Lendl’s 29-0 run in 1986. Djokovic has won 63 of 69 sets [...]
It was the Zach Randolph show as the #8 seed Memphis Grizzlies upset the #1 seed San Antonio Spurs in the 1st round of the western conference playoffs. Randolph scored 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the surprise Grizzlies. “I’m pleased with where we are, but not satisfied from the perspective that we have [...]
It was a tweet that rocked the tennis world. Well at least in the USA. After losing a finals match for the awarding of wild-card entry into the French Open, 21-year-old Donald Young posted last week an obscenity-filled rant, denouncing the US Tennis Association for refusing to give him that wild card outright. It [...]
Last week, in the midst of the Barcelona Open, Rafael Nadal expressed his intention to push for an ATP ranking that is calculated over a two-year period instead of one year. The world number 1 claims that such change would decrease pressure on players to compete week after week. In the long run, this [...]
