Archive for July, 2008
Katie Hoff is ready for the 2008 Bejiing Olympics
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The Beijing games are almost here.
Of course, we’re still a few more weeks from August 8, 2008, when the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games start. Hopefully, the U.S. basketball team will find the redemption they’re looking for since Europeans started beating them on the basketball courts.
One who’ll also be looking for redemption is swimmer Katie Hoff. She was just a shoo-in to make the 2004 Olympic team. She was just 15 years old then. But something happened back in Athens that made her so eager to redeem herself in this year’s Olympic games.
Her trip for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was the first international flight she did it without her parents, who couldn’t afford the cost of last-minute travel to the Olympics. Yup, her parents were not around to support her. And to make matters worse for the young lady, her coach, Paul Yetter wasn’t even allowed on the pool deck and couldn’t be with Hoff much of the time.
With all these factors, her losing in the 2004 Olympics in Athens was almost known even before she took the flight. She finished 6th in her heat and 17th overall.
Katie Hoff admitted that she really didn’t get over her disappointment in Athens until she went to Montreal for the 2005 World Championships. And back on July 25, 2005, nearly a year after Athens, Hoff finally found redemption in these international tournaments. She won the 200 IM final in 2:10.41.
‘’When I touched the wall in the 200 IM, the first thing I thought was, ‘OK, I’m good again,”’ Hoff said. ‘’I proved to everyone, especially to…”
Will Brett Favre comeback to the Packers?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Will he or WILL HE?
That is the question lurking around everybody’s mind. But as far as the coming 2008-09 NFL football season is concerned, the Packers believe that the biggest star of their franchise to date won’t suit up, staying retired since making the announcement at the end of last season.
You see, rumors began to come out last week that Brett Favre will postpone retirement for the third straight year and return to the field as football’s ‘’Ultimate Packer.’’ Of course, Favre initially didn’t agree but since we are still a long way from the start of the season, you can’t really blame Packer fans for hoping.
But after the Green Bay Packers made the announcement, confirming that No.4 will stay retired, will their fans still keep on hoping? Current and former team presidents of the Packers organization believes that Favre will remain retired and coming back for his 18th NFL season is not even a plan whatsoever for probably the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.
‘’I keep going back to his retirement announcement and how sincere and heartfelt that was,’’ current team president and CEO Mark Murphy said. ‘’I think it’s pretty reasonable that, as an organization, we’re going to move on.’’
The Packers’ chairman emeritus Bob Harlan also added his thoughts on the said Favre comeback. ‘’What I remember about him is he was ready to retire, and that’s how I feel today. I think down deep, that’s exactly how he feels.’’
A few days ago, news broke out about…
2008 Del Mar Horse Race Meet Begins
Monday, July 14th, 2008
The horse racing continues after the Triple Crown series with Del Mar.
Dubbed as ‘’where the surf meets the turf,’’ the 2008 Del Mar race meet opens with the Oceanside Stakes and will close with the anticipated $250,000 Del Mar Futurity, running until September 3.
Del Mar horse racing is the biggest event in California. From an old-fashioned race track started by Hollywood legend Bing Crosby and his high-profile gang in 1937, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club today is among America’s best attended race tracks.
The Del Mar 2008 Race Meet comes a week ahead of the Saratoga 2008 race meet.
The track has a one mile main dirt track and a seven furlong turf course. The track runs during the summer at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and can stable more than a thousand horses.
In early 2007, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club installed a new Polytrack surface for a price of approximately 9 million dollars. On July 18, 2007, Jon Court became the first jockey to win a race on the new Polytrack surface.
The track races, stretching from July to September, presents the following graded stakes races; Grade 1 Bing Crosby Breeders’ Cup Handicap, Del Mar Debutante Stakes, Del Mar Futurity, Del Mar Oaks, Eddie Read Handicap, John C. Mabee Handicap and the…
76ers BRAND Philadelphia with Elton
Friday, July 11th, 2008
The Elton Brand’s movie script in LA is over.
You read it, Elton Brand ended his script in L.A. and signed a whopping five-year $79.795 million contract to join the up and coming Philadelphia 76ers team. Yep, Brand will definitely improve the 76ers frontcourt and with a guy like Andre Iguodala by his side, things are looking up again since Allen Iverson left for Denver.
Of course, the move makes the 76ers instant contenders in the Eastern Conference once the new 2008-09 NBA basketball season starts in October. And to think they almost got it done against the Pistons in the first round of the playoffs WITHOUT a player of Brand’s caliber, Philly should now be an even stronger team once the season starts all over again.
Elton Brand and the Philadelphia 76ers made it official Wednesday, ending the anticipation of a dream tandem between Brand and Baron Davis in Los Angeles, a tandem that could probably lift the Clippers from the shadow of LA’s premiere team, the Lakers.
With Brand singing with Philly, the Los Angeles Clippers should still be happy about the fact that they pulled a deal that landed them a Baron Davis before they lost their entire frontcourt.
But then again, Baron Davis has a knack for sitting out most of the games played in an entire season. They should’ve just concentrated on keeping Brand in L.A. instead of landing yet another guard in their roster.
Brand wanted to stay with the Clippers but after his agent David Falk received a ‘’take it or leave it’’ contract from the team, everything changed. The said contract was nearly $20 million less than…
Will LeBron James leave his kingdom in Cleveland?
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
LeBron to move to Brooklyn and play for the Nets?
Yes people, with still months away from the brand new 2008-09 NBA basketball season, we already have some shocking news for ya’ that just might change the face of the hoops world.
After leading the Cleveland Cavaliers back from obscurity, LeBron James just might opt to join his friend Jay-Z and play in the city he himself ranked as the city he likes best, Brooklyn.
For all ya’ll who didn’t know, the New Jersey Nets is moving to Brooklyn and after they traded away Richard Jefferson to the Milwaukee Bucks to free up some salary cap space, the possibility of the Cleveland Cavaliers demi-god playing for the Nets in the city he digs just became more of a possibility.
Yep, you just know the Nets organization is just itching to land probably the biggest commodity next to a Kobe Bryant after freeing up some salary cap space to pay a guy of LeBron’s caliber and if the Nets do pull this off, a three-year, four-year title dynasty for this Nets organization is not that impossible.
‘’My favorite borough? Brooklyn,’’ LeBron James said, choosing the proposed future home of the Nets over the borough of Manhattan, where the Knicks play their home games. ‘’Brooklyn is definitely a great place here in New York City, and some of my best friends are from Brooklyn, so I stick up for them.’’
So where does Cleveland rank in James’ personal list of favorite…
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