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Junior Seau¡¯s suicide alarm NFL to pay attention to players¡¯ safety
2012-5-16 |
Former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau was found dead at his home in Southern California on Wednesday from a gunshot wound to the chest in an apparent suicide, police said. He was 43. Considered as one of the best National Football League defensive players of his generation, Junior Seau played most of his 20-season career with the Chargers before moving to the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots. In fact, the death was at least the third apparent suicide by a former NFL player since February 2011, when former Chicago Bears defensive back Dave Duerson killed him in a case that led to increased scrutiny of the effects of head injuries in football. Hundreds of former NFL players and their families have joined in legal action against the NFL, claiming negligence for not doing enough to lessen ...
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Clippers failed to reverse the game
2012-5-16 |
On Wednesday night, the Memphis Grizzlies home court past the Los Angels Clippers 105-98 and even the score 1-1 in the first round series. Having the lesson from the first game against the Clippers, the Grizzlies are not reversed by the latter in this game. In the whole team, there are six players who got the double in this game. Rudy Gay scored 21 points for the Grizzlies during the 39 minutes in the field. Mike Conley made the contribution of 19 points with six assists in the game. Zach Randolph added 15 points and eight rebounds to the team. Tony Allen scored ten points and Marc Gasol got eight points and seven rebounds. In the whole game, the Grizzlies got two three-point goals of 12. Due to the rebounds out of the control, the Clippers were unable to reverse the situ...
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Suns will have salary cap flexibility
2012-5-16 |
The Phoenix Suns will have salary cap "flexibility" in the offseason but won't be out spending money just to spend it. Lon Babby, president of basketball operations, said in a luncheon that there's "a distinct possibility" that the team might hold off with any major spending another year if the right situation doesn't come up this summer. Babby also said that both the organization and Steve Nash are open to the possibility of the star point guard's return for a ninth straight season with Phoenix, although that will depend on a number of factors involving Nash's and the team's desires. Nash is a free agent and says he will explore what options he has around the NBA. It was not as simple as Nash said he wanted to comeback. There are other issues, such as the amount of a contract and its length. B...
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Weaver¡¯ no-hitter leads Angels get 9-0 victory
2012-5-16 |
On Wednesday night, Jered Weaver pitched the second no-hitter in the majors in less than two weeks, completely overmatching Minnesota and leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 9-0 win over the Twins. Jered Weaver is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Weaver was drafted in the first round (12th overall) in the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft by the Angels out of California State University, Long Beach. On May 2, 2012, Weaver threw a no-hitter against the Minnesota Twins. In this game, Weaver as a California native who played at Long Beach State began the ninth by quickly retiring Jamey Carroll on a routine fly and striking out Denard Span looking. He struck out nine and walked one. The Twins never came close to getting a hit against the All-Star right-hander. An inning e...
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Bucs sign contract with paralyzed player LeGrant
2012-5-15 |
Rutgers' Eric LeGrand was surprised when his former coach called to let him know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were interested in signing the paralyzed defensive tackle. On October 16, 2010, it was a painful date for LeGrand and it was on this day that he suffered a severe spinal injury during a game against the Army Black Knights in New Meadowlands Stadium. The 6'2", 275 lbs. defensive tackle attempted to tackle Malcolm Brown of the opposing team. They collided, and LeGrand lay on the ground for several minutes before being carted off, apparently only able to move his head. Soon he was taken to the intensive care unit of the Hackensack University Medical Center, in Hackensack, New Jersey, where doctors determined that LeGrand was paralyzed from the neck down. ''It came ...
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Avoiding being swept away is emergency for Nuggets
2012-5-15 |
Being swept by the Dallas Mavericks was the nightmare for the Los Angeles Lakers. Fortunately they have walked out from the shadow of the failure last season. In this season, especially when the playoff came to the Lakers, with Kobe leading the whole team, the Lakers are enjoying the rising moment. Now every player is confident with the future of the Lakers in the postseason. From the current situation, they hold a high promotion rate. After the first game, the Lakers had a lead and when the second game was over, the Nuggets were defeated by the Lakers and the latter obtained 2-0 lead again. The Lakers with Kobe are difficult to be defeated. This hero of the Lakers has been more then 30 years old, but still possessed the overwhelming ability. With him, the Lakers seem to be an unchallengeable team in the postseason. Now we have to admit that it indeed ma...
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Saints¡¯ bounties keep four players away from game
2012-5-15 |
On Wednesday the NFL suspended the New Orleans Saints defensive captain Jonathan Vilma without pay for all of next season and gave shorter bans to three other players for their leading roles in the team's cash-for-hits system that knocked key opponents out of games from 2009-11. Defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove, now with the Green Bay Packers, was suspended for the first half of the 16-game season; Saints defensive end Will Smith was barred for the opening four games; and linebacker Scott Fujita, now with the Cleveland Browns, will miss the first three games of 2012. Like Vilma, they were suspended without pay, costing each hundreds of thousands of dollars. The National Football League said that its investigation showed that a number of players participated in the bounty. And...
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Homer leads Cubs past Reds 3-1
2012-5-15 |
The power-challenged Chicago Cubs hit a pair of homers for a 3-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Jeff Samardzija did not have a problem breaking a sweat and pitched into the eighth inning on a warm, humid night that was to his liking Wednesday, keeping his fastball around 96 mph the whole way. A warm front moved through the area on Tuesday night, setting off rounds of thunderstorms that forced postponement for the opening game of the series. When Samardzija took the mound a day later, it was 87 degrees for the first pitch. Perfect for Samardzija (3-1), who grew up in Indiana and is used to heat and humidity. During the game, Bryan LaHair and Ian Stewart hit solo homers off Bronson Arroyo (1-1) for only the Cubs' third multihomer game of the season. They managed on...
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Granger¡¯s 26 points help Pacers take 2-1 lead
2012-5-14 |
On Wednesday night, the Indiana Pacers beat the Orlando Magic 97-74 to a take a 2-1 lead in the first-round series. After the game Danny Granger had 26 points and nine rebounds, which helped a lot during the process to win the game. The Pacers regained home-court advantage with the victory, riding good shooting early and building a 29-point lead in the fourth quarter. They also dominated scoring underneath thanks to a 46-33 rebounding edge and have outscored the Magic 81-43 in the third quarter in the series. Glen Davis led the Magic with 22 points, and J.J. Redick added 13. The Magic never led, struggled to get any scoring in the paint, and made a series-low five 3-pointers. Including the regular season, the two teams have met in the field for five times. As the strategy is concerned it i...
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Chandler the best defensive player of year
2012-5-14 |
From a panel of 121 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, the New York Knicks' Tyson Chandler received 311 points, including 45 first-place votes and was named the NBA's 2011-2012 Defensive Player of the Year, the first Knicks player to earn the award. Chandler was third in last year's voting as a member of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks. He was traded to New York in December.He averaged 1.4 blocked shots and 9.9 rebounds in 62 games. With Chandler anchoring the middle, New York's defense improved markedly from the previous season in multiple categories. The Knicks ranked among the top half of the league in several key defensive categories, including opponent turnovers per game (17.0, 2nd), opponent field goal percentage (.442, 10th), and opponent scoring (94.7 ppg, 11th). Tyson Chandler deserves the...
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