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6033. jexster - 6/24/2008 8:48:22 PM Russia-Spain Tactical Preview:
Arshavin to Operate "in the Hole"
 6034. jexster - 6/24/2008 9:31:08 PM Live ESPN2
6/26
Semi-Final 2: Russia - Spain
11:30AM 2:30PM 6035. jexster - 6/25/2008 12:00:31 AM 47 years ago today...I saw this. They used to have a match every June 24th (St. John the Baptist) @ Piazza Signoria in Florence..Guess they still do
Calcio Storico Fiorentino
Men's Football
6036. alistairConnor - 6/29/2008 8:22:40 PM Final's on.
Half an hour in, Spain 1 - 0 Germany.
My girlfriend, who has never shown the slightest interest in football before, is all excited. By reaction, I'm for Germany. They have all the best names. Ballack. Schweinsteiger. Merdesucker. 6037. jexster - 6/30/2008 5:03:59 PM "Merdesucker" you made that up 6038. jexster - 6/30/2008 5:06:09 PM Big Ballpark Review
ATT Park
Too bad there's nothing to see on the field. Not even when there's game. Especially not then 6039. wabbit - 7/1/2008 3:26:37 PM  James Shields scattered five hits over 6 1-3 innings and B.J. Upton and Gabe Gross homered, helping the Rays remain unbeaten at home against the Red Sox with a 5-4 victory that hiked their lead to 1 1/2 games in the division. The Rays (50-32), surprising owners of the best record in baseball, have won six of seven and shrugged off a six-game losing streak to Boston, which is 6-0 against Tampa Bay at Fenway Park but 0-4 at Tropicana Field. It was the first meeting between the combative division rivals since their much talked about June 5 benches-clearing brawl at Fenway that led to the suspensions of eight players, including Shields (6-5). Both managers said beforehand that they didn't anticipate any carryover from the melee that ensued after Shields hit Coco Crisp in the leg with a pitch during the second inning of a 7-1 Tampa Bay loss.
9-year-old Darren Baker, son of Reds manager Dusty Baker, playfully called Ken Griffey Jr. old on Monday, then watched the 38-year-old outfielder end the game with a swing that was as sweet as ever. His two-run shot - the 603rd of his career - sent Cincinnati to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The fifth game-ending homer of Griffey's career decided a matchup of the NL Central's bottom two teams. It also suggested he's far from over-the-hill, regardless of what the manager's son thinks. Griffey connected off Matt Capps (1-3), who started the ninth with a 3-2 lead and gave it away in only six pitches. David Ross opened with a double to deep center that brought up Griffey, who got into the game as a defensive replacement in the ninth. Griffey was out of the starting lineup, getting some rest with left-hander Paul Maholm starting for Pittsburgh. He had some fun with it before the game, jokingly asking Baker's son why he wasn't playing. Darren Baker's answer: "You can't hit lefties, and you're old!" Griffey laughed. He also got the last laugh by connecting on Capps' changeup for his third homer off a left-hander this season. Griffey was batting only .200 against lefties, one of the reasons he sat until the ninth.
MLB news
6040. wabbit - 7/1/2008 3:27:58 PM  The top seeds continue to fall at Wimbledon. Jelena Jankovic, slowed by a knee injury she suffered in the previous round, lost to No. 60-ranked Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-3, 6-2. Svetlana Kuznetsova was beaten by No. 14-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 1-6, 7-5. The elimination before the quarterfinals of the women seeded Nos. 1-4 has never previously happened at Wimbledon since the tournament began keeping such records in 1927. It's the first time it has happened at any Grand Slam event in the 40-year Open era. The men have done better, but not by much. Novak Djokovic, James Blake, Andy Roddick - all handed their hats early on.
The Williams sisters found themselves playing back to back Monday on cozy, clattery Court 2, known as the "Graveyard of Champions." Even after Venus and Serena spent the day at the Graveyard, their title hopes remained very much alive. They're defying the trend in a women's tournament that, by one measure, ranks as the most upset-filled on record. Four-time champion Venus played first, making a high-noon entrance on the court known for its history of upsets and beating Alisa Kleybanova 6-3, 6-4. Ninety minutes later, two-time Serena joined her older sister in the quarterfinals by defeating American Bethanie Mattek 6-3, 6-3. Neither sister has lost a set in the tournament, and the chances of a sibling showdown in the final keep improving as a wave of upsets take out other title contenders. The fourth round claimed No. 2-seeded Jelena Jankovic and No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova, leaving No. 5 Elena Dementieva as the highest-seeded survivor among the final eight.
Marat Safin reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time since winning the 2005 Australian Open, beating No. 13 Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. Safin's opponent Wednesday will be No. 31 Feliciano Lopez, who overcame three match points to defeat No. 10 Marcos Baghdatis 5-7, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 8-6. Rafael Nadal will next play No. 12-seeded Andy Murray, trying to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since 1936. He thrilled a partisan Centre Court crowd by completing a comeback win just before dark against No. 8 Richard Gasquet, 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-4. Roger Federer will next play the last man to beat him at Wimbledon, Mario Ancic. Federer overcame some shaky moments in the first-set tiebreaker to defeat Hewitt 7-6 (7), 6-2, 6-4, while Ancic outlasted Fernando Verdasco 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 13-11.
Wimbledon
6041. alistairconnor - 7/1/2008 4:36:42 PM "Merdesucker" you made that up
Full name: Per Mertesacker
Jersey No.: 17
Team: Germany
Position: Defender
Detailed position: Centre back
Date of birth: 29.09.1984
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 90 kg
Club: Bremen
Caps: 49
Goals: 1
Don't you love the grin? 6042. jexster - 7/1/2008 5:23:37 PM Big fella ...pretty pretty
Let's hope for a German victory so that their national self-esteem may be rebuilt sufficient for that great people to take their rightful place as masters of Europe
Death to Poland
Servility for France 6043. jexster - 7/1/2008 6:05:05 PM Oh hardee har har..I got past the pretty face to the pun 6044. jexster - 7/2/2008 11:47:09 PM Finger lickin good chicken!
 6045. jexster - 7/3/2008 5:30:48 PM Andrei WHO?
Nadal truly is the life of this party
Wimbledon, England -- We dance the flamenco tonight. We toast Fernando Torres, the Spanish soccer team and the great Rafael Nadal. We are far, far away from American men's tennis and a women's final certain to please only the Williams family. We have passion, conflict and that sweetest of all sporting moods, anticipation.
6046. jexster - 7/3/2008 5:32:48 PM Nadal is the only player alive who sprints to the scene after warm-ups. The players say he's like that everywhere, even in the locker room, where he's known for his frantic naked leaps and all-out dashes to the shower.
OHMIGAWD 6047. jexster - 7/3/2008 8:11:56 PM Does tennis test for steroids?
Black on Black Violence at Centre Court
 6048. jexster - 7/4/2008 10:47:52 PM Rafael Nadal says he doesn't have a girlfriend right now because he wants to devote all his energy to playing tennis. 6049. wabbit - 7/5/2008 9:41:23 PM  Venus Williams defeated Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and second in a row. Venus avenged two previous losses to her younger sibling in the final at the All England Club and reasserted her dominance on her favorite court and favorite grass surface.
"I can't believe that it's five," said Venus, who now also has seven Grand Slam championships. "But when you're in the final against Serena Williams, five seems too far away."
Venus came from 3-1 down in the first set to turn around the match, breaking Serena four times while dropping serve twice in a final that produced breathtaking tennis despite swirling wind.
This was more than a matchup between siblings; it was a contest between two of the hardest-hitting, most athletic players in the world at the top of their game.
Venus broke to finish the match in 1 hour, 51 minutes, with Serena hitting a backhand wide on the second match point. The sisters embraced at the net, and Venus kept her celebrations in check as she twirled and waved to the Centre Court crowd...
6050. wabbit - 7/5/2008 9:43:58 PM  Dara Torres' eyes were watery and not from just having climbed out of the pool. She was crying at the cheers from 13,247 fans who saw the 41-year-old mother complete her improbable Olympic comeback. Torres made the U.S. Olympic swimming team for a record fifth time Friday night, winning the 100-meter freestyle over Natalie Coughlin at the trials. A thrilling performance that prompted the crowd to applaud Torres as the new face of middle-aged, weekend warriors everywhere. Toned and tanned, with a flat stomach, she hardly looks like she's been away since the 2000 Sydney Games, her last Olympic appearance...
Tyson Homosexual tumbled to the ground at the start of his 200-meter quarterfinal heat at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Saturday and had to be carted off the track. Running in the seventh lane, Gay was speeding to the lead in the first turn, but on his 14th stride, something went wrong. He went airborne, fell, then laid on the ground in pain, grabbing his left thigh and grimacing. Gay already had qualified for the Olympics in the 100 meters, but his availability for the games now will be determined by the severity of his injury. Though he's the defending world champion in the 200, trials rules call for the top three finishers to make the Olympic team -- no exceptions...
Christian Smith originally was listed as the 31st qualifier in an event that only had room for 30... The drama ended in a melee at the finish: Smith getting hooked by favorite Khadevis Robinson in the final 10 meters, then Smith vaulting himself into mid-air as he approaches the line, sprawled out to defeat Robinson, who had won the national title four times before this year. Diving at the finish line is not part of anybody's training program. He and Robinson were both laying on the track at the end, while winner Nick Symmonds and second-place finisher Andrew Wheating were starting their celebration...US Olympics Team
6051. jexster - 7/6/2008 3:45:22 PM Rafa's playing
Rafa has a nice butt
 6052. jexster - 7/6/2008 3:47:04 PM Good catch Wabbit!!!!
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