Stoudamire to San Antonio

It looks like Damon Stoudamire is moving to San Antonio as he’ll be wearing a Spurs shirt from now on since he finally reached a buyout agreement with the Memphis Grizzlies last Saturday.

Before committing to the texans, the 34 year old point guard was handling other options including the Celtics, Suns and the Raptors, the lattest a team he knows well as he was in their roster for the 1995-96 season, winning the NBA Rookie of the Year while playing for them.

Stoudamire arrives at a great moment to the home of the defending NBA champions, as their big three, Duncan, Ginobili and Parker have being taking turns on picking up injuries. San Antonio is eagering to have a guy of experience like him on the court as soon as possible in order to bring some trust to the Spurs, who has lost 3 in a row.

He will mostly play instead of Tony Parker who will seat for a few more games due to a heel injury but Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is hoping to get him back for the playoffs.

He also expressed an interest of joining the Celtics where he’ll be the perfect complement for Rajon Rondo, but Boston are more enticed to acquire Sam Casell from the Clippers.

Sonics with victory over defending champions Spurs

The Sonics finally achieved a victory, their first since December 29, and against the defending NBA champions, the Spurs. With this 88-85 win, they ended with a shameful franchise record of 14 straight losses.

Probably the most surprised were the Sonics themselves, they truly had a good night, their defense was well applied, just 6 turnovers and managed to made all of their free-throw attempts, 13 of 13. The only low point for Seattle is that they scored less and shot the ball far worst than in most of the games from their losing strike.

Nobody likes to talk about losing due to injuries, but missing Tony Parker for yesterday’s game was the weak link of the night for San Antonio. Only 3 players scored more than 6 points for the Spurs, Manu Ginobili with 29, Tim Duncan with 27 and Fabricio Oberto with 12.

Kevin Durant recovered his good shape and was the key stone for Seattle’s triumph, scoring 26 points and giving the Sonics the final lead with 17-footer and 32 seconds on the clock.

Overall, this was a good chance for the Sonics to get back a little of trust and to forget at least for a moment that the future of their franchise is on the table, maybe in a few months we might sit in front of the TV and witness the new “Oklahoma city Supersonics.”

Giants Champions? ... not easy but doable

It looks like everybody is going to turn on their TV’s on Sunday and get flashbacks from the past five years, same story repeats time and time again, one powerful AFC team against a weak NFC team.

The odds for a Patriots victory are ranging from 79% to 88.5% according to diferent statistics sites whom based this numbers on a few factors including recent victories, points per game, etc.

Even Sportsbooks are setting the odds at -12 for the Pats, a really high line considering that Tom Brady is coming out of a foot injury and Randy Moss is going through personal difficulties that are pushing his thinking away from Sunday’s game.

So on one side we have a Patriots team with his two stars lacking strengts, and on the other, we have the Giants, who are entering the Superbowl with a Eli Manning eager to silence all of his critics and who is going through a great moment, so I’ll let you decide, but I am just guessing a difficult game for New England.

Now, remember the Superbowl from 2001? I am sure the Giants does, as they fell to the Ravens 34-7, and only two players from that team will see action again: Michael Strahan and Amany Toomer. When asked on the Patriots 18-0 record, Strahan responded: “I’m not looking for them to get history. It’s history for our players to get them a ring in their first Super Bowl.”

Giants Champions? That will probably have more impact than the Patriots winning their 19^th, as if New York wins, they would be proud to have stolen the merits to the best team in NFL history.

NHL All Star Game, more fun than defense

Sunday night at Philips Arena was more about having fun that a deathly struggle for the victory at the NHL All Star Game.

The victory appeared to be sealed by the West who had the lead 5-1 by the end of the first period, but Columbus Rick Nash scored the 5-2, then Anaheim's Scott Niedermayer converted for the 5-3, almost at the end of the third Ducks' Ryan Getzlaf scored for the tie.

This is just a proof of the poor defense that was applied by the two conferences during the whole game, first Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood allowed 5 during just a single period and then the West is given permission to convert for a tie, something that probably wouldn’t had happened in a regular NHL game, but as I said, this was more a game for showing off offensive talent, something that fans and TV viewers were happy to watch.

Thanks to the lack of pressure, we watched a really amusing game, where Carolina's Eric Staal received the MVP honors as he scored two assisted for the victory goal.

But besides being just a fun game, the West had no reason to be smiling, as Boston Bruins center Marc Savard scored within 20 seconds left on the clock after being tied giving the East a 7-8 victory.

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Bulls win to the Pacers without leading scorers

The Bulls found the path to the victory against the Pacers on a game without Ben Gordon, Luol Deng, and Chris Duhon, the leading scorers for Chicago.

But nothing is written, and Kirk Hinrich came up from the bench to score a career-high 38 points to help Chicago in their 108-95 win. The Bulls entered this game as the NBA's worst-shooting team but could managed to shot 48 % while the Pacers are ranking last in the NBA in turnovers, proof of that are the 19 they commited just in this match, which was another factor that played in Chicago’s favor.

I would say that the Pacers brought the lost on themselves, mostly because they haven’t managed to work out their perimeter defense which has lack consistency during this season.

"We're not doing a good job of keeping the ball out of the paint, it's a very big concern for us. Absolutely." Pacers coach Jim O'Brien said.

On the Pacers, Danny Granger also scored a career-high 33 points in just 35 minutes, including 7 free throws but it just wasn’t enough to save the night.

Now the Bulls would have to trust his bench to keep on winning games, as the injured starters will switch seats with those who don’t see action regularly.

Led by Steve Nash Suns beat the Bucks

It seems like the scoring duties are being passed to Steve Nash lately, as he scored a season-high 37 points to help the Suns on their victory to the Bucks 114-105.

He also had 35 against Milwaukee in their previous match for another Suns victory 122-114 on Jan. 12.

"It's not really my thing, I would much rather get everyone involved, but it was one of those tough nights." said Nash.

Nash, who feels more comfortable passing the ball and leaving the scoring duties to his team mates, felt that the Bucks would take on Amare Stoudemire and decided to switch his normal role a little bit. But Milwaukee had little success in stopping the Suns leading scorer who is averaging 22 points per game and allow him to finished the game with 19, 10 of those scored on the fourth. Grant Hill who was coming back from two weeks and 7 games of no action due to an appendectomy, scored only 8 points and serve 3 assists and Raja Bell had a regular night with 19 points, 8 of those on the 4^th.

For the Bucks, Michael Redd ended with 28 points, while team mate Andrew Bogut had 19 and 13 rebounds and Bobby Simmons finished with 15.

The Suns have won 4 in a row since their defeat to the Clippers on Tuesday and with this victory, Phoenix became the first Western Conference team to accumulate 30 wins.

A good night for Dwyane Wade but a bad one for the Heat

Shaq’s Heat acquired its 14^th consecutive loss (the worst record in Eastern Conference, 8-32), as they fell to the Cavs 97-90, in a game where Dwyane Wade was short of help and Lebron James had all he could get, though Wade ended with 42 points, and came up with a Heat franchise record by scoring the last 18 points of his team, and still could not prevent his team from losing.

"We are going to win one day, as long as guys keep believing, that's the main thing.'' Wade said.

Before this game, the Cavs had a record of nine straight losses on the road to the Heat and with this victory, they sum it up for 3 straight wins in a row and while Cleveland is heading for the playoffs, Pat Riley’s team is heading towards a change of disposition and looking to rebuild his team. There are no real plans to hire a player than can complement Shaq and Wade, instead, he wants to work with what he already has, but nothing is for sure as Wade might become into a free agent by 2010, so time is short.

Shaquille O’neal just had a bad night at the AmericanAirlines Arena, he scored only 10 points and had 5 rebounds in the first half, then he disappeared in the second, and to sum up to the problems, he got injured on a bruised left hip that had him out of the courts, this was just his fourth game since he returned. With 13 points and 11 rebounds, Zydrunas Ilgauskas was the man who had the job of stopping Shaq, and he came out clean on his duty.

Undoubtedly, this is one of the worst seasons for the Heat and for Shaq, but with 42 games left, they hope they can turn the table and start winning a few.

''We can talk hypothetically now, but we're still into this year, we need to move forward over the next four or five games and see if we can turn it around.'' Pat Riley said.

Pats are the best in NFL history

The Pats beat the Chargers 21-12 in a game that saw San Diego playing in average conditions and scoring only 4 field goals, since star players Antonio Gates and Ladainian Tomlinson were playing at half speed due to injuries, even Tomlinson left the game at the end of the first quarter, leaving Philip Rivers without his best counterpart.

With the glory comes the pressure, and the Patriots are feeling a rush of it since they are forced to win the Giants in order to claim “the best team in NFL history’s seat.”

With this victory New England became AFC champions and will meet the Giants at the Superbowl for their 4^th appearance in 7 years, and if they come up with their first lost, it will really blur all the’ve done until now and their records will probably remain just as footnotes in someone’s book.

New England has won 18 straight games,including all the 16 matches for the regular season, surpassing the record imposed by the Miami Dolphins of 1972 who accumulated 17 victories including the Superbowl, if the Pats win on February 3^rd in Glendale, Arizona, it will be hard for other teams to come up with the same numbers in a long time.

Even when Tom Brady throw for a season-high 3 interceptions, a really bad mark since he threw only for 8 interceptions in 17 games, and Randy Moss was well covered by San Diego’s defense, catching only one pass for 18 yards, The Patriots knew the route and drove through enemy lines.

Lakers lose to Suns at the Staples Center

It looks like Andrew Bynum is well missed on the Lakers as Kobe couldn’t scored enough points to save his team from losing 106-98 against the Suns who have won 8 times in 11 games and leads the Western Conference.

It was a night of bad records for both teams as the Lakers turned the ball 22 times and the Suns committed 24 turnovers, both season-highs.

The Suns have being more dominant than the Lakers in the past 4 years or so, as they have come up with the Pacific Division title the last three seasons, thanks to their superiority against Los Angeles to whom they’ve won in 10 out of 12 meetings between the 2004-05 and 2006-07 seasons. This year tough, the story is different as the Lakers won the previous two meetings against Phoenix.

Major scorers for the Suns were Leandro Barbosa with 22 points, Shawn Marion with 20 points and 16 rebounds and Boris Diaw had 19 points while for the Lakers, Kobe Bryant leaded with 30.

With the absence of Bynum, coach Phil Jackson gave Kwame Brown the chance to play, a decision he might have regret it as Brown had a really bad night and was even booed by many Lakers fans at the Staples Center every time he touched the ball, well, they will have to get used to him as he will be starting instead of Bynum until the last one returns in about 8 weeks.

"If they want to do that, they can stay home. He's going to be our guy here for two months. He's going to do fine, he's going to play well the next game.” Said Kobe Bryant referring to the fans.

Randy Moss was issued a restraining order involving battery allegations

Just one more scandal to sum up to the list of recent incidents in the world of sports, first Kobe Bryant, then Michael Vick and now its Randy Moss.

Now he has his mind on two things, the coming game for the AFC conference championship against the Chargers and a drawback from the new Randy Moss involving allegations of committing battery (bodily harm) against a woman named Rachelle Washington from Florida who asked for a restraining order against Moss, now he needs to be within 500 feet of Washington or her home.

Is this some kind of plot mounted by San Diego to distract Moss? Not really, but it will for sure leave the starter wide receiver for New England with his interests split as he has a hearing on Monday January 28^th, the day before the Superbowl, it is never a good time for this kind of situations but this was clearly one of the worst moments.

Moss had a turbulent past involving drugs and violence, but he is now regarded by fellow team mates and people who knows him as a model teammate and team leader, he says he is not totally bitter by the issue but it is disturbed due to allegations he considers as false.

“That’s something I did not want coming into the season, is anything negative, everything I tried to do from getting here early, and making sure I eat the right food, all the way to practicing and playing good, I wanted all that to be an A-plus.” Moss said.

“I’m not mad. I’m not bitter. I am mad at this situation of extortion. Yes, I am mad about that. But for something friendly, an accident to occur, I mean it happens.” He added.

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Celtics fell for the second time to the Wizards in 3 days

What is going on with the Celtics lately? Without a doubt they are a great team, with stars like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, but they have lost twice in 3 days against a Wizards team that is climbing stairs and that didn’t count with their main point guard Gilbert Arenas who was down for injuries. By the way, the Wizards is the only team that has won the Celtics 2 back-to-back games this season.

"We rushed a lot of shots and didn't have that click that we usually have," Celtics forward Kevin Garnett said.

Caron Butler scored 21 points for the Wizards, extending his streak to 41 straight free throws made. Antawn Jamison was the second biggest scorer for Washington with 20 points and 10 rebounds.

With 1:47 on the clock Jamison hitted a field goal to cut the advance of the Celtics and leave the game 79-76, then DeShawn Stevenson hitted a 3 pointer to match the game 79-79 with 1:08 remaining. The Celtics were dominant during most of the game but fell to the strength of the Wizards in the fourth as Washington went on a 26-5 run to give them the victory 88-83.

This type of games are perfect examples on why a team that seems unbeatable is really not, Boston needs to pay more attention to their game balance as they let the victory to slip them at the end, so why do you want to be dominant all the game if you gonna lose all the efforts made?

2 losses in 3 games might not be a big deal for most teams, but the Celtics are currently the best team in the NBA and to win twice to a team that is looking to surpass the 95-96 Chicago Bulls for the best record in NBA history, this was certainly an outstanding victory for Wizards.

Giants defeat Cowboys and now goes against the Packers for the playoffs

The Giants are a team that nobody regarded for the Superbowl, well, after yeterday’s victory against the Cowboys, New York is one game away from the biggest NFL match and doubts are starting to vanish since this is the furthest the Giants have gone since the 2000 season.

Eli Manning, who is the youngest of the famous Manning family and brother of Payton Manning, is the only one who will play a next playoffs round, as the Colts fell to the Chargers and all is left for Payton is to advise his brother as he already played and won a Superbowl before.

Eli threw two touchdown passes to Amani Toomer, who also had a great Sunday night at Texas Stadium. Manning also helped with another scoring drive starting the 4^th quarter to lead the Giants to a final score of 21-17

This is New York’s 9^th straight road victory and what follows is the road to Lambeau Field to play the Packers for a spot into the Superbowl.

Who would knew that the Cowboys would fell in a playoff game against a team they defeated twice during the regular season? They probably lacked a little of humbleness and now Tony Romo’s next game might come until next month if he gets to play at the NFL Pro Bowl.

Now things are way competitive for Eli Manning as he will be facing Brett Favre, a quarterback that might have his last chance to play at a Superbowl since nobody can give it as a fact that will continue playing, so Manning would have to display all his potential against “The Pack” and make his brother proud.

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Cougars beat Trojans 73-58 at the Galen Center

Daven Harmeling missed two games due to a broken thumb but he came back from the bench to help Washington State in their victory against USC 73-58.

The 22 year old forward scored a season-high 19 points, 14 of them in the first half, Aron Byrnes also helped with 18 points and nine rebounds to give the undefeated Cougars their best start in ninety one years. For a team that is more known for its defense than his offense, they really played an aggressive match at the Galen Center in Los Angeles California.

WSU is currently the highest ranked team in the Pac-10 and this is their best start since the 1916-17 squad won its first 15 games. Now the Cougars have a bigger rival in front of them, UCLA, who is also in the first five teams of the Pac-10, Washington has beaten the Browns just once in 50 road games.

Does the Trojans lost have to do with bad decisions by Coach Tim Floyd? Like sitting down Davon Jefferson, his second best scorer, some says that he didn’t saw action due to disciplinary reasons but Floyd said he will be playing on Saturday.

Floyd is clear about the Washington’s superiority: "We hope to get to that point. I don't remember them taking a bad shot, and I recall we did a few times." He said.

Pistons fell to the Mavs for their second straight loss after 11 wins

What is going on with the Pistons? they came from eleven wins in a row just to come up with 2 consecutive losses, the last one against the Dallas Mavs, with things looking like that, one team starts to climb, the other one seems to go down the hill.

Final score was 102-86 and this is the first time since November that the Pistons lost two straight games, on that occasion they fell against the Lakers and the the Kings.

"You're going to have nights like this sometimes," said Rasheed Wallace who had 11 rebounds.

On Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki led his team in scoring for the 10^th consecutive time with 23 points, and Erick Dampier, who missed the first 6 games of the season and had to sat down the last two games came back in a big way scoring 14 straight baskets, a Mavericks record while Jason Terry and Jerry Stackhouse ended with 15 points and Devin Harris with 19.

"We're starting to get better every month and that was our goal after we had a suspect month of November and December," said Nowitzki.

Now Dallas has moved to a tie for the Southwest Division lead along with the Spurs which the Pistons play tonight, would that make it the third? We’ll see.

Luck gave the victory to the Cavs against the Sonics

It seems like the Sonics are becoming into a one man team since Kevin Durant is the only one giving it everything on the court.

Lack of organization on the team supposed that Durant is getting tired of waiting for his team mates to become in something else than the average players they have been this season.

The loss of 95-79 against the Cavs is one good example of this, with Durant leading the scoring for Seattle once more (with 24 points) and a few appearances by Wally Szczerbiak who ended up with 15 points, besides them nobody else did much yesterday night at Quicken Loans Arena.

But apart from the victory, the Cavs had alot of luck considering that they shot only 40 percent and missed 14 3-pointers, so it could have being worst for the Sonics who helped Cleveland by committing 23 turnovers who turned into 28 points for the Cavs.

Lebron James had some rest as Cleveland’s coach Mike Brown knew that this game against the poorly regarded Sonics was the perfect moment to allow more minutes to other players like third year Daniel Gibson who ended up with 17 points; this was the first time that Kevin Durant and Gibson, (both ex-Texas Longhorns) matched against each other.

Durant left the game injured by a sprained left ankle, but he hopes to play today against the Nets, the Sonics are 0-3 and are eager of a victory, we’ll see if Jason Kidd and company can defeat one of the weakest teams on the NBA right now.

Suns beat the Nuggets 137-115

It looks like the talk that Phoenix general manager Steve Kerr had with his team took a real effect on their performance as The Suns almost broke the mark of 3 pointers in a single game imposed by Toronto in 2005, which was of 21, but they do matched a franchise record in a game dominated by Phoenix all along.

By the end of the third, Denver shorted the numbers to 101-90 but luck was not on the Nuggets side as Amare Stoudemire sank a 16-footer and Iverson missed two free throws cutting down their chances to sum up to equal the match.

Not even Allen Iverson could come up with enough points (ended with 32) to defeat a Suns team that came highly motivated against a Denver team that has played four games in five nights leaving them with a lack of energy that Phoenix appreciated and took advantage of.

"They got happy and they got cocky and they rubbed our faces in the game a little bit, it will be fun the next time we play them." Nuggets coach George Karl said

This was The Suns second-highest-scoring half of the season with 11-of-15 3s and Shawn Marion scored a season high 27 points and leaded The Suns to a final score of 137-115. "A good day at the office, I guess you could say," Marion said.

Now the Suns are receiving the Pacers at the US airways center and Steve Nash and Marion are ready to keep up with the good roll they are on.

Giants defeat the Bucs in playoffs wildcard match

It seems like the Bucs could not stop Eli Manning as they had planned; the 27 year old quarterback led the Giants to the next phase of the Super Bowl playoffs with 20 passes completed of 27 and 185 yards.

The final score was 24-14, with touchdowns by Brandon Jacobs and Amani Toomer for the Giants, a team that is ready to play the Cowboys (13-3) next Sunday.

The Buccaneers challenged Manning to defeat their league’s top-rated pass defense as they knew the Giants quarterback has had a difficult season with 20 interceptions thrown, a mark tied to the league’s high, but the first overall pick of the 2004 NFL draft was ready to deliver, and so he did.

One person that is satisfied with the Giants recent results is Tom Coughlin, New York’s coach who almost got fired a year ago, this is his first playoff victory with the team since he started 4 years ago, from the beginning his career has been tied to Manning and his lack of progress but things are getting better for Eli and therefore for Coughlin, The Giants know he is a talented quarterback, he just needed to find himself and he’s doing it at a critical moment.

“Nobody underestimated Eli, we knew he could do that.” Tampa Bay’s defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, said.

So if the Giants are able to defeat Dallas, they still have a long road to the University of Phoenix stadium, the Packers who will meet the Seahawks are a potential strong rival but let’s wait and see what happens on Sunday, is still to early to talk about winners here.

Martina Hingis banned for 2 years from Pro Tennis

Former Tennis player and number one of the world, Martina Hingis has being banned for two years from professional competition due to a dope test for cocaine that came out positive on November 1^st, the same day that she announced her retirement.

Even though she is no longer competing, the banning has some serious implications on her previous achievements as the ITF (International Tennis Federation) forfeited any ranking points gained, plus the disqualification of her last year’s Wimbledon results.

The pro Tennis player said that all accusations are false and that she has never taken drugs in her life but an independent anti-doping tribunal rejected his version of the facts.

Up to now she still holds his story:

"I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I've decided to confront it head on by talking to the press, I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely 100 per cent innocent." Martina said.

Hingis dominated international female Tennis from 1997 to 2000 on which period she won 3 Australian Opens, Wimbledon and the US Open, then it came an obligated retirement period due to returning injuries, she didn’t saw action again until 2005.

“We are saddened by this news as Martina has meant so much to fans the world over and made many positive contributions to the sport.” Said Larry Scott, chief executive of the WTA Tour. (The WTA strongly supports the version of the ITF)

Dolphins fire Cam Cameron after lack of good results

The Dolphins have gone through 5 coaching changes in the last 5 years, the last dismissal came with the departure of Cam Cameron after a season that saw only one victory for Miami who ended 1-15; he became the only coach to get fired on 37 years.

The decision to set him apart from the team came in the hands of Bill Parcells, who is the executive vice president of football operations for the Dolphins since December 27, so after a few talks with general manager Jeff Ireland, the choice was made.

"We want strong character around here, the vision of the team will be discipline, passionate players, highly competitive. And we'll be a big team." Ireland said.

A potential replacement can be Tony Sparano, current offensive line coach for the Cowboys, a man that Parcells knows well, and this is exactly what he’s looking for, people that he can trust and have had experience with.

Most of Cameron’s staff were also fired, just assistant special teams coach Steve Hoffman and linebackers coach George Edwards kept their position.

Dolphins’s executive team does not want to hold the decision for too long as when they chose Cameron, they took 2 weeks to decide between him and 12 other candidates, so quick choices might lead to better results.

The Dolphins are trying to rebuilt their team to see if they can be part of next years playoffs as they have missed them for 6 consecutive seasons, a franchise record

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