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Archive for February, 2009

Weekend Preview

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Just some thoughts on the upcoming weekend in sports…

Let’s face it…if Tiger Woods was still sitting at home rehabbing his knee, no one would be talking about this week’s WCG-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona. But the PGA’s cash cow is back , after an 8 month hiatus, in usual form and the sport has my [...]

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Brodeur Returns to Starting Lineup

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

AP

The Rock will be jumping tomorrow night as future Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur returns to the New Jersey Devils’ starting lineup for the first time since November 1st to take on the Colorado Avalance.
Originally projected to return to the lineup the first week of February after tearing the bicep in his wright arm in a game [...]

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Puerto Rican welterweight superstar Miguel Angel Cotto and Youngstown, Ohio’s middleweight champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik both erased memories of losing their most recent fights by recording TKO victories this past Saturday night in a unique, two-site Pay Per view event.

Cotto defeated the UK’s Michael Jennings via 5th Round TKO at Madison Square Garden to [...]

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Pavlik To Defend Middleweight Title

Friday, February 20th, 2009

 

This Saturday, February 21, get ready for a triple fight night. PPV boxing will be bringing you 3 exciting fights, all part of the same broadcast. At $44.95, this may be the best boxing value of the year.
The broadcast will start off  at Madison Square Garden for the undercard and the first of two main events and follow [...]

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NCAA Basketball Roundup

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

#4 Pitt knocks off #1 UCONN in Hartford
- In a clash of the Big East’s best, the Panthers proved themselves as National Championship contenders after going into hostile territory to defeat the top team in the nation 76 -68. While ESPN and the national media continues to ogle over the Huskies’ Hasheem Thabeet, Pitt’s Sam [...]

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Favre To Retire

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

AP

According to reports this morning, from his Mississippi home, Brett Favre has instructed his agent Bus Cook to let the New York Jets know he plans to retire. Now we all remember last year and the fiasco that came about after Favre made his announcement to walk away from the game. And New York is [...]

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Arod Admits Steroid Use

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Just 48 hours after Sports Illustrated reported on New York Yankees’ 3rd baseman Alex Rodriguez being one of 104 MLB players testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in a 2003 test, the highest paid player in baseball has come clear. In an effort to avoid a Roger Clemens-type grilling, Arod admitted to ESPN’S Peter Gammons [...]

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Go ahead and add A-rod to the steroid list, that is, MLB players accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. Let’s face it…Major League Baseball is done. How can fans be expected to get behind any player or team after the things that have come to fruition the last few years? I’m not alone in feeling cheated. [...]

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Ugliest Athletes

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

These guys’ mothers may think they’re handsome, but the rest of the world wishes these hard-to-look-at athletes would throw a helmet on and keep it on. Here is MG Sports Talk’s All-Ugly Team. Leave your votes on the comment board!
1. Joakim Noah - Chicago Bull/gangsta wannabe

Damn dude. Isn’t your mom a model? What the hell happened [...]

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