During the most recent owner’s meetings Bud Selig – commissioner – brought up the issue of maple bats and the danger that they pose to both fans and players. More then a decade ago maple bats were hardly in use and many players didn’t even think to use them. It wasn’t until Barry Bond used a maple bat and earned for himself a record breaking season. Now more than 50% of the players are ditching the traditional bats and switching to maple bats.
Kobe Bryant scored an amazing 17 points out of the 39 points all in the fourth quarter. The Lakers left from an early 17 point deficit to beat the current and defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs at 100-92 Thursday night. This helped them to win the conference finals in a mere five games.
Vince Young announced this week that he came very close to quitting the NFL. He didn’t go into detail about why he decided to do this – but he did say that at the time he was going through a tough time in his life that he was seriously thinking to retire. Below is a quote that he provided to NFL.com
Boston Red Sox teammates were lining up to congratulate Jon Lester on his no-hitter during the game against the Kansas City Royals’. The game ended in a 7-0 victory. The 24 year old played a great game on Monday. He threw his final pitch across the plate at 96 mph – which was the hardest he had thrown the entire game.
Candace Parker has scored 34 points - which is the most that any player has done in their WNBA debut proving that she has what it takes. She also was able to add 12 rebounds that helped the Los Angeles Sparks to beat the Phoenix Mercury 99-94.
Cynthia Cooper held the previous spot for the most point in the WNBA debut with 25 points back in 1997.
Charles Barkley has confessed that he has a gambling debt of $400,000 due to all of the gambling that he has done on the Las Vegas Strip. The NBA star now has a choice to either pay it in full or face serious criminal charges. “My mistake,” Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. “I’m not broke, and I’m going to take care of it.”
At 25 years old Justine Henin has been ranked as the best player in the world. Yet, recently she has been showing serious signs of fatigue and her game has been off. This is the reason for her quitting professional tennis.
This year alone she has lost to Maria Sharapova, Francesca Schiavone, and Serena Williams. On top of this she was pulled out of the Berlin Open during the third round and she dropped out of the Italian Open this week.
UFC announced this week that they will be replacing Chris Leben with Jason Day for the June 7th event at the 02 Arena in London. Leben was scheduled to fight Michael Bisping – but was told that he will not be released from the Clackamas County jail until May 27th. This does not leave him enough time to get into shape for the fight.
Michael Avery is from Lake Sherwood, California who stands a good 6 foot 4 inches from the ground. His dream of playing college basketball has finally come true. He has been asked to play for the Cats. The only problem is that this offer has come a good 4-6 years too early as he is still in the 8th grade!
At a sold out Home Depot Center, De La Hoya has an over whelming victory against Steve Forbes, as part of a professional farewell to the Los Angeles area. This was an over whelming victory indeed with one judge scoring all twelve rounds to De La Hoya, and the other two judges scoring eleven out of twelve rounds to De La Hoya.
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