Cristiano Ronaldo returns
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Yes, the biggest superstar in football today will finally be back.
And in case you haven’t heard, the 2008 UEFA Champions League is already underway and we already have quite a few teams looking quite strong already for this year’s campaign.
One of which is of course, Manchester United. After missing the services of Cristiano Ronaldo because of injuries to start the football year, the most expensive footballer today could be back for Man-U once they take on Villarreal in a UEFA Champions League Group E fixture on Wednesday.
Ronaldo has been making quite a few headlines the last few months with the rumored move from Manchester United to Real Madrid. Now that he’s officially a Red Devil again, he’s hoping Man-U fans will forgive him for his transgression.
For what it’s worth, Ronaldo remains confident Man-U fans will forgive him, (depends on how he helps the team in the 2008 English Premier League season of course…) although Real Madrid will definitely not, that’s for sure.
‘’When I put on the shirt, I give it my all,’’ Cristiano Ronaldo said. ‘’I’m already in the history of the club. When I play the fans will love me again.’’
Cocky ain’t he? And he uttered those words despite the rumors that aside from the possible move to Real Madrid, he’s also rumored to move to Manchester City after that club claimed they would pay Ronaldo a whopping US$270 million.
Of course, Ronaldo denied there is any chance of…
Will Ferrari lineup behind Massa?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
They could, because at this point of the season, Massa is showing Ferrari why his team should do just that.
Much to everybody’s surprise, Felipe Massa has overtaken his more popular Ferrari teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, in the race for the drivers championship this 2008 F1 season with only six more races to go.
After playing second fiddle to Michael Schumacher and then Kimi, Felipe Massa has come to his own this year with 64 championship points to Kimi’s 57. And although Lewis Hamilton is still in first place, leading the two Ferrari drivers with 70, Massa definitely has a better shot of winning this year’s title than Kimi, despite the fact that Kimi still is THE defending champ.
That’s probably why the Ferrari team should start lining up behind Massa now or they could see their run for the drivers title end up with nothing.
We all saw that last season when McLaren - Mercedes let Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso settle for themselves who’s going to take home the title. It backfired when Kimi came out of nowhere to steal the drivers championship away from the two competing McLaren stars.
It’s ironic that Kimi Raikkonen finds himself in the same position and it’ll be up to him if he wants to cooperate with Massa or just go all out and try to compete with his teammate for the title.
Ferrari legend Niki Lauda believes that the 2008 championship is set to be a down-to-the-wire battle between Ferrari and McLaren. Although Massa only has a slight edge in total points over teammate Raikkonen, the Austrian, who won the drivers’ championship with the Scuderia in 1975 and 1977, has more trust in Massa than Raikkonen going to the 13th race of…
Bernard Hopkins - Kelly Pavlik is ON
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
When the executioner meets a ghost.
That’s probably the mindset promoters of this Bernard ‘’The Executioner’’ Hopkins vs Kelly ‘’The Ghost’’ Pavlik extravaganza are in. Hopkins, even at the late stages of his career, is still one of the best in the game right now but when he’s matched up against an undefeated Ghost like Pavlik, you have to ask yourself, how can you execute a ghost?
And when you’re talking about the world middleweight champion Kelly ‘’The Ghost’’ Pavlik, trying to slay THE Ghost is more of an impossibility.
After all, he is not the undisputed king of the middleweight division for nothing and after surprising the world by beating then champ, Jermain ‘’Bad Intentions’’ Taylor, Kelly Pavlik has arrived with a bang and by the looks of it, he’s here for the long haul.
STILL, if there’s one guy who can shock the world, it’s Bernard ‘’The Executioner’’ Hopkins. There are not many boxers who can claim they can stay on top of the game at 40. B-Hop has.
Hopkins is 43 and he can still go toe-to-toe with the best of them. When Hopkins’ mother, Shirley Hopkins, passed away in 2003, she made her son promise that he will retire by the age of 40. Five years later, Hopkins is still mixing it up with the best in the business and since he can still keep pace with these younger guys, why retire?
Hopkins has already become the most exceptional over-40 fighters ever. STILL, he is facing a tough opponent in…
Nadal looks to win the U.S. Open
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Right now, the clay court king is THE king in all of tennis.
Rafael Nadal, after beating Roger Federer TWICE in a Grand Slam tournament this year, has become the new world No.1, taking along with him the no.1 seed in the last Grand Slam of the tennis calendar, the 2008 United States Open Tennis Championships.
Also an Olympic gold medalist in the men’s singles in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Rafael Nadal will now deal with the pressure of having one huge target on his head.
After all, that’s what being on top of the food chain is all about in sports.
For some reason, Rafael Nadal has never gone pass the quarterfinals in the U.S. Open. Must have something to do with the way he struggles on tournaments not played on clay surfaces.
Now that he has been able to overcome that after beating Roger Federer on grass, that being this year’s Wimbledon, Rafa is on the verge of proving to everybody that he’s no longer just the master of clay.
He likes his chances of winning another Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open and I don’t blame him.
‘’When you are playing well you feel comfortable on all courts. In the past when I was playing well, I did well on hard courts, too. I feel good for sure. I won two tournaments in Toronto and the Olympics, and I played semifinals in Cincinnati,’’ Rafael Nadal said.
Nadal, 22, has won eight titles this year including…
De La Hoya V Pacquiao on Dec. 6
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Oscar De La Hoya wants to prove that he’s still the very best.
And for his retirement match, he chose the boxer who has been on a mean streak lately, Manny Pacquiao.
Thursday, the ‘’Golden Boy’’ Oscar De La Hoya officially announced his scheduled bout with the lightweight champ on December 6. If De La Hoya pulls off a win over Pacman, he will be walking away on top like the champion that he is.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum still refuses
to confirm what could be the biggest fight of the century. What he did told everybody is De La Hoya making a big announcement about who’s going to be his next opponent.
‘’We’ll know who is he is fighting tomorrow,’’ Bob Arum said from Youngstown, Ohio, where he was attending a promotional event for the Kelly Pavlik - Bernard Hopkins fight that he is co-promoting with De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions.
‘’I made a commitment that I wouldn’t say anything and that tomorrow there would be an announcement. I’m not allowed to make any comments. Everything will be clear on Thursday.’’
Pacquiao has a knack for scheduling bouts with boxers who are either old or retiring, we all saw that when Pacquiao beat a retiring Erik Morales, an aging Marco Antonio Barrera and barely coming up with a win over an older and slower Juan Manuel Marquez despite the fact that I clearly saw the older Mexican winning it.
This scheduled…
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