MR. MET SEZ: DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A GANGSTA [MLB]

Well, the Olympics are over. The Redeem Team redeemed themselves and brought home the metallic medal, proving once again that USA Basketball is at the top of the basketball world. The final game against Spain had some anxious moments as the game was much closer than any other game they played in Beijing. Jason Kidd has never forfeited a game as a member of the US National team. He has won 56 games without a loss. Lisa Leslie has also never forfeited a game in her career as an Olympian, success 4 metallic medals on the way. It seems that the women’s team, being dominating over the terminal 4 Olympics hasn’t gotten much attention. I guess you have to stink and then become beatific to intend the attention. It had to provide every American goose bumps as Team USA locked arms and stepped onto the medal podium as one and then raised their arms in unison toward the American fans who had hung a U.S. flag over the railing in the upper deck. It warmed my heart as IO watched Carmelo Anthony pass1 a tear from his right eye as he watched them raise the American flag above the suite as the U.S. national anthem was played. Kobe Bryant sang along with the Star Spangled Banner patch Lebron saint stood stone-faced with his right hand on his heart. At that moment, I couldn’t even dislike Kobe Bryant. He represented pride in land and a tremendous accomplishment for the USA. This morning he’s back to being a hated Laker and Kobe and I still don’t same him. But, that moment on the medal stand was bigger than any NBA rivalry or any player. Thank you Redeem Team for accomplishing your content and for the dedication it took to bring home Gold for the USA!

With the Olympics behind them, these players have to contemplate the thought that training camp with their respective teams begins in inferior than a month. Jason Kidd may have retired from the Olympics with this medal, but he is hunting forward to the final season on his lessen with the Mavericks. He attempted only seven shots during the Olympics, making six, and he said he has been employed hard on his shooting. He plans to take all the shots he passed up in the Olympics when he starts the season with the Mavs. captain also module be making a hand off of his metallic medal. captain promised Elaine Wynn, spouse of casino mogul Steve Wynn, that he would provide her his newest Olympic medal if the Americans won gold. Last summer when Team USA was employed toward their goal, they stayed at the Wynn in Vegas and captain and Mrs Wynn struck up a friendship. He prefabricated a care with her, that if they won the metallic medal, he’d provide it to her because he felt that the artefact they treated the team at the Wynn, it was the small he could do.

Another point guard employed on his shooting is the Celtics’ own Rajon Rondo. Considering that fact that Rondo’s shooting has reinforced every assemblage he has played, I expect him to take another step forward and become a threat to score if mitt alone.

For a pair of NBA stars, the Olympics weren’t quite as satisfying. Manu Ginobili missed several games in the playoffs because of a foot trauma and his coach vocal his opinion that he preferred his star not play in the Olympics and with beatific reason. In the game against the USA, Ginobili went down, re-injuring the ligaments in his foot. He was unable to play as his team won the bronze-medal game against Lithuania. He plans to go direct to San Antonio for more tests on the strained ligament in his mitt foot. The Toronto Raptors‘ point guard, Jose Calderon, who plays for Spain,the metallic medal game against the USA with a partially torn right adductor muscle. He expects to be healthy by the time the Raptors open training camp.

One Olympian who won’t be effort right back to basketball is Carmelo Anthony. He plans to attend the Democratic convention, which is being held in Denver this reaching week. Anthony supports Democratic candidate Barack Obama and hopes to meet him at the gathering at Pepsi Center, where Anthony often is the star attraction. Could Melo become the next NBA star to enter politics in the mold of Bill Bradley?

With the addition of Mo Williams, the Cavs moved another step up in the Eastern Conference and module be an even bigger challenge for the Celtics. With the Pistons virtually standing pat this off season, the Cavs are in prime position to wrest the Central sectionalization honor from the Pistons. Word is that the Cavs are still in the mart for another big. They could opt for playing their first round pick J.J. Hickson or they may bring in another big. They reportedly worked out veteran center Lorenzen Wright at their practice facility terminal week. They parted structure with former Celtics Dwayne Jones, who could have been that extra big. He has potential and is very strong around the basket, but hasn’t been able to break out. Former Celtic and Cavalier Scot Pollard is available. Maybe they should provide him a call. There have been rumors that the Cavs have been talking with New royalty about Zach Randolph. But, all it has been is talk so far. There are also rumors that the Cavs could use former Celtic sap Szczerbiak’s expiring lessen to bring in another top tier player at the trade deadline. They also still are saying they poverty Delonte back but so far haven’t budged on gift him the lessen he wants. The Cavs are feat to be a force to be reckoned with this season and have to be one of the favorites to intend it all.

And, not only have the Cavs moved closer to a title this season, but they have big plans for the summer of 2010. We have been reading stories all summer about the Nets, Knicks and every one else making moves with the express purpose of clearing cap space for the free agent pasture that module be available in 2010 and making a run at trying to attractiveness LeBron James away from the Cavaliers. The Cavs, however, have plans of their own and are hunting to bring LeBron back and provide him another superstar playmate on the team. The exteroception has LeBron staying with the Cavs and playing alongside Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Josh Howard., Amare Stoudamire, or any of the other big-name players who can become a free agent in the summer of 2010. The Cavs module be the only team positioned to sign two superstars in 2010. They are the only team with a superstar already in tow and the cap room to sign another. The Cavs module have almost $30 million in cap space reckoning LeBron’s salary and module be poised to bring in the star of their choice who should move at the chance to play with King James. Beware of the Cavs….

Along with the stories about Marbury being bought out by the Knicks, there is another story emerging concerning the disputable guard. You have to hand it to Marbury for his Starbury shoe distinction that prefabricated baritone cost, decorous quality athletic shoes available to everyone. Now, the consort who was marketing them has absent bankrupt. Marbury is claiming that the bankrupt Steve & Barry’s owes him $2 million. S&B Holdings won a bid to purchase the consort for $168 million in an auction terminal month. Under the bankruptcy proceedings, the new consort would not be susceptible for the $2.19 million in royalties that Marbury claims Steve & Barry’s never paid so he may be out a bundle on his shoe distinction along with being out of a employ

Thanks for the fans who have been showing me support regarding my blogs. They are something really special for me because it’s artefact assorted than interviews because I can truly talk about things that are feat on in my chronicle and that matter to me. Everybody attain me feel very recognize in ‘the Yard’ I’m happy to be part of it and I’m also pleased that people are showing me support that I’m not the only one eating fast food. (HaHa) I’m born with very serendipitous biology believe it or not, when I was 10 eld old, I used to have a six pack of ab muscles. So I can eat pretty much what I poverty and I’m not effort fat and I stay in shape. However, when I’m feat to intend older, according to Jonathan Chaimberg, my strength & conditioning trainer, I module probably have to change the artefact I eat, which makes me sad when I think about it.

After all my celebration in Montreal with my friends, I needed to intend out of my neighborhood a lowercase bit to intend back in training. So I went to New royalty and spent four life there. I scholarly so some new stuff in Muay Thai with my trainer Phil Nurse at The Wat that I’m already a better fighter than I was before I came to New York. To my large surprise, I found out that my manager, Shari Spencer, and also my beatific friend, Steven Friend, were in town for one night during my stay. So I took them out for party with Phil & his wife, Crystal, along with two other friends in New York. I ate very beatific Asian food at Nobu and also drank Cognac XO Hennessey with my friends, which is my favorite drink. I same to ingest Hennessey because it’s a beatific quality of alcohol and if you ingest liquid with it, it won’t affect your training the next day. (Well, if you don’t overdo it same I did that night. HaHa) Anyway, it didn’t really matter because Phil prefabricated me sweat it out the next period in training. As you can tell, I really train hard, but I play hard too. Like my old karate teacher used to say be a Negro at night, but you need to be a Negro in the morning. So that’s ground no matter how hard I party, I’m always in the gym the next day. Constancy is the key to be champion and to stay there.

I came back to Montreal for three life before my trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Actually, today I really prefabricated a fool of myself. After training muay thai pads & jiu jitsu drills with Firas Zahabi, I jumped in my car, packed my stuff for my trip and I got stuck in the traffic so I thought I was feat to be New for my flight. So when I parked my car, I sprinted to the ticket furniture and when I got there I was really sweaty and breathing hard with my three big suitcases and I looked same a task runner who meet finished the race. When I showed up to the counter, the Mohammedan couldn’t find my name on the itemize for the flight and everybody in the airport was staring at me. So I called the Mohammedan at the travel agency who booked my flight and asked her if there was a problem with the machine or something. To my big surprise, she told me I was not leaving today but I was leaving tomorrow at the same time. So I became so shy & so embarrassed that if I was able, I would have jumped exclusive and hid exclusive my suitcase. But same an idiot, I had to go back, achievement next to the big distinction of people and go back to my car and become back the next day. Then I got stuck in really bad traffic on my artefact back home once again. Me I’m a real professional when it’s time to attain a fool of myself. I desired to share it with my friends online so we could all vocalization about it and it would attain me feel better.

This is my favorite time of training because I’m not training for a specific opponent right now. I’m training to intend better at fighting and to add more skill to my game. That’s ground I’ve been employed with Phil in New royalty and ground I’m feat to Brazil to train with some of the best jiu jitsu trainers in the anxiety at Gracie Barra. I’m also feat to have the chance to meet some of my friends there. While I’m there I’m feat to try to ready you guys posted on what I’m doing thanks, as always, for the support.

Regardless what you think of the guy, you have to be happy for Evangelist Cena today. The former WWE Champion and top entertainer is now expected to miss up to 2-4 months instead of 12-14 months after successful surgery in Pittsburgh, PA, today.

On Monday, it was announced that Cena would be out indefinitely as he was suffering neck pain due to his match against Batista at SummerSlam (not sure if that’s true or not). There was field anxiety Cena would need the dreaded fusion surgery that Edge, Steve Austin and Chris Benoit had, but WWE Medical Program head Dr. carpenter Maroon simply removed a fragment from Cena’s spinal cloth that was blocking a nerve in a 90-minute operation. In fact, Cena was travel around and was backstage at Tuesday night’s Smackdown tapings in Pittsburgh meet hours post-surgery, according to WWE.com.

You can see pictures of the surgery and additional info at WWE.com. Congratulations to Cena and his family. Again, no matter what you think of him, he’s an essential figure to the business now and for the next few years.

The Southeastern Conference has signed a 2.25 billion, 15 Year Deal for Exclusive SEC broadcast rights for games not televised by CBS. This move leaves RAYCOM Sports out in the cold after a 22+ assemblage relationship with the SEC.