Archive for July, 2008
Will Packers let Favre compete for QB spot?
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Apparently, Favre wanted to compete for his old starting QB spot but the Packers are not letting him.
That’s the latest in the ‘’Favre saga’’ as we close in on the coming 2008-09 NFL football season. After the Packers have already expressed their desire to stay with their young, new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Favre wanted to stay with the Packers and compete with Rodgers for the starting spot. Unfortunately for him, the Packers are not letting him to.
Why won’t they let Brett Favre, the guy who has been leading the Green Bay Packers franchise for all these years, have the opportunity to prove that he still got it? 
One thing’s for sure though, Packer fans at Lambeau won’t be too happy of Rodgers taking their main guy’s spot in the coming season.
Favre admitted in a telephone interview that he did not report to camp with the Green Bay Packers after general manager Ted Thompson pleaded him to delay his arrival. He also said he offered to compete for his old job but was told that was simply impossible.
Favre also admits he has been speaking with the Packers’ rivals, Minnesota Vikings, specifically Vikings coach Brad Childress but says it wasn’t tampering like the rest of the Packers organization has been claiming.
Childress confirmed this, explaining how this talk with the ‘’ultimate Packer’’ went.
‘’I’ve always felt like he could play. I told him so right after the game last year when they beat us 35-0. I wish he would have retired. I told him that to his face,’’ Brad Childress said. ‘’He’s still got some zip on it. In my mind it’s no different than me talking to Donovan McNabb as he’s [reporting] to training camp or talking to Brian Westbrook. I communicate with people in this league. You don’t…”
Can USA win the Most Gold Medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Which country will win the most medals in the Olympics?
With merely days to go before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China begin, athletes who will be competing in this grandest sporting event of the year are all set to go and win gold medals for their respective countries.
Different countries are pouring in tons of resources, hoping that their athletes will achieve national glory by winning a gold medal.
While the Olympics do not lack feel-good stories of athletes overcoming adversity to make it to the Olympic Games, the superpowers of the world have traditionally dominated the podium.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, for example, the top-five nations that won the most gold medals are; USA, China, Russia, Australia, and Japan, with USA taking home 36 gold medals, closely followed by China with 32.
The biggest question now is, which of these superpowers will go on and win the most gold in the 2008 Olympics? China, as the host country, has a bigger chance of winning it overall since they will be participating in all of the events, while the United States of America is an automatic shoe-in to win the 2008 Beijing Olympics because, well, they’re the United States.
Still, host China could still give the United States some competition mainly because they improved a lot during the past 4 years, especially in boxing, weightlifting, gymnastics, taekwondo and…
No Favre’s No.4 Packers Jersey at Lambeau Yet
Monday, July 28th, 2008
It looks like the scheduled retirement of Favre’s No.4 jersey at Lambeau is now put on hold.
In case you haven’t heard, Brett Favre has postponed retirement yet again and has showed his intentions to play in the 2008-09 NFL football season. The problem is, the Packers have already committed to start their ‘’QB for the future’’ Aaron Rodgers and as far as Favre’s place in the team is concerned, he may have to be contented with a backup role to the new starting quarterback.
Of course, being the competitor that Brett Favre is, he doesn’t want to play backup to anyone, EVER. Leading him to ask the team for his immediate release and make that now infamous phone call to the Minnesota Vikings.
The Green Bay Packers organization has been accusing the Vikings of exchanging ‘’secret messages’’ with the future Hall-of-Famer since. Sure, the Vikings are denying it but since they are one of the bitter rivals of Lambeau Field, Favre probably figured that if his team doesn’t want to give him his old spot back, he’ll just sign with the enemy to further infuriate the team that no longer wants him.
If Favre did sign with the Minnesota Vikings, I wonder how will Favre be received when the Vikings visit the Packers at Lambeau in the coming season? Hmm…
The Packers organization seem to be confused on how to deal with this situation. They are, after all, on the verge of losing the city’s icon to another team, something that their fans won’t forgive them for, EVER. At least for now, they have decided to put the scheduled ‘’Brett Favre No.4 jersey retirement‘’ on hold, not because Favre could sign with another team but because of the mere fact that Favre ain’t retired just yet.
‘’We’re going to retire Brett’s number at some point,’’ Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy said. ‘’Regardless of whether it’s this year, it’ll be sometime in the future. We’ll…”
Who will win the 2008 Tour de France?
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Will we see a ”winner” in this year’s Tour?.
The 2008 Tour de France is almost ready to conclude despite all these doping scandals that have plagued cycling’s premiere event.
Of course, this year’s Tour is still something Cadel Evans to lose. He already has a firm grasp on that title and if everything works out as planned, I won’t be surprised to see this guy winning it. So who else will win this year’s Tour if Evans finds himself being tested positive for performance enhancing drugs?
First we have Damiano Cunego. He has shown considerable growth as a rider since winning the 2004 Giro d’Italia, the type of results and maturity that is needed to win the world’s biggest cycling race.
The 26-year-old won the young rider classification in his only Tour de France appearance in 2006 but failed to live up to his earlier promise until he won the Giro di Lombardia last fall. Add to the fact that he is a former winner of the Giro d’Italia, the ‘’little prince’’ who rides for Lampre is a huge talent in stage racing, especially in the mountains. Next we have Alejandro Valverde. Known as the ‘Green Bullet’ in some circles, he might just be blasting his way to the top of the Tour de France podium.
The 28 year-old Spaniard from Murcia who was brilliant throughout 2006 has that same spark this year, thanks to big wins like Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Dauphine Libere. The former was a welcome addition to Valverde’s solid palmares, but the latter, coming only three weeks before the Tour de France depart, indicates that his one-day racing legs have developed to handle stages races.
Alejandro Valverde is also a proficient…
Joe Calzaghe-Roy Jones Jr. bout pushed back
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Since beating Bernard Hopkins with his thousand slaps, Joe Calzaghe the Pride of Whales and current WBO and WBC Super Middleweight Champion as well as Ring Magazine’s Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Champion postponed his fight against Roy Jones Jr. who is duly noted for once owning the WBA, WBC, IBO, IBF, NABF, WBF […]