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EAST RUTHERFORD, N. Originals Adidas NMD Mens Yellow/Black/White High Top Sneaker .J. -- Control The Moment held off Racing Hill by a nose Saturday night in the $732,050 Meadowlands Pace for 3-year-olds.After a slow start this year, the champion juvenile pacer in Canada last season has rounded back into peak form. The colt trained by Brad Maxwell has won three of his last four starts, including last weeks Meadowlands Pace elimination.Brian Sears, on the ballot in August for harness racings Hall of Fame, drove the colt for the first time to a victory in the elimination.Control The Moment was the most versatile horse in the race. He won the elimination with a dynamic close. In the final, he controlled the pace for the final half-mile after Sears gunned to the front only moments after Racing Hill had worked his way to the lead down the backstretch.The race appeared over when the 3/5 favorite opened a three-length lead at the top of the lane. What looked like a waltz turned into a squeaker as Racing Hill fought back, forcing a photo finish to determine the outcome.The trip worked out perfect, Sears said. I let my horse out a little bit and it got a little exciting at the wire. He raced great.Control The Moment paid $3.40, $2.20 and $2.10.Racing Hill returned $2.40 and $2.10 as the 8-5 second choice. Check Six paid $4.60 to show.The time was 1:48 2/5 for the mile.The Control The Moment Stable of Philadelphia took home the winners share of $366,025.On the supporting card, Always B Miki held off Shamballa by three-quarters of a length in the $471,800 William R. Haughton Memorial for older pacers. The time was 2:01 1/5, a world record for 1 1/8 miles. Always B Miki paid $2.80. Yeezy Boost 350 Oxford Tan Australia Yeezy Boost 350 Pink For Sale . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night.http://www.yeezy350boostau.com/black-grey-yeezy-boost-350-x-nmd-runner-2-mens-adidas-shoes.html . -- Most satisfying to Russ Smith about No.Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn.ca! Hi Kerry, When Gregory Campbell was injured blocking the shot in Game 4, the referees correctly allowed the play to continue while Pittsburgh had control. I thought they might have stopped play when Campbell later deflected a pass, but didnt maintain control. Could you define the rule for an injury stoppage in play? Larry Powell --- Hi, In Wednesday nights Boston/Penguins game, Gregory Campbell blocked a shot that seriously injured him. Why didnt Campbell stay down and draw a whistle? He was quite useless out there so Im assuming there must be a rule about that? Thanks,Steve McCarthy Larry and Steve: Far too often we see players feigning injury and embellishing contact in an effort to draw penalties. Gregory Campbell showed the heart of a lion when he got up off the deck after throwing his body in front of the shot that broke his leg, ending his playoff season. Campbell had to realize the significance of the injury he sustained on that shot block. If his central nervous system didnt relay a quick message of the break it would only take a split second of weight bearing when the leg totally shut down for him to know the full extent. What his body forced him to give in to his heart would not! For the sake of his teammates, Campbell attempted to defend with all that he had left; even if it was just on one leg. Campbell deserves our highest praise and respect for the "old school" toughness he demonstrated by refusing to lay down and quit when his job wasnt yet completed. The Bruins will surely miss this warrior. While it obviously isnt in this players nature to lie down and hope for a whistle to blow, the fact that Campbell was in a shooting lane and vulnerable to further injury could cause the referee to consider stopping the play following one initial scoring attempt by the Pens. Early in my career, a player blocked a shot in front of the net and lay on the ice with his back exposed to the point and what I thought had to be a stinger. I allowed play to continue even though the player remained down on the ice. Just as a defencemaan at the point was teeing up a slapper I recognized the injured player was in a very vulnerable position right in the line of fire. Adidas Nmd Black. I was too late with the whistle and the slap shot hit the guy in the back of the helmet! From that moment on I decided the safety of the player was my first responsibility. If the player remained down it was most likely because he just couldnt get up. At that point, I would not allow him to become a sitting duck in a shooting gallery. Even though Rule 8.1 says that when a player is injured so that he cannot continue play or go to his bench, the play shall not be stopped until the injured players team has secured possession of the puck. It also says that in the case where it is obvious that a player has sustained a serious injury, the referee and/or linesman may stop the play immediately. The officials should not be expected to play doctor when a player is down with an injury. They make their best judgment as to when an injury appears "serious" in nature to immediately stop play. This is done to get medical attention to the injured player as soon as possible and without delay. It doesnt necessarily have to be life-threatening, as in the case of Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuks throat being slashed by a skate or the frightening eye injury suffered by Bryan Berard. These were extreme and obvious cases where very serious injury had resulted. A sense of urgency will dictate a quick whistle when a player is struck with a puck or skate in the face and/or goes down hard with an apparent head injury. On the other hand, a lower-body injury that results from a shot block such as Campbell and Niklas Hjalmarsson of the Blackhawks endured does not typically fall into the "serious" category or cause play to be stopped immediately. The caveat to that, I hope, is if the referee recognizes the downed player is subject to further or even greater injury as a result of the inability to defend himself if he cant get to his feet. Gregory Campbell wasnt waiting to hear a whistle, nor did he probably expect one to be blown. 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Wimbledon champion Andy Murray joined in the celebrations -- if not the matches -- as defending Davis Cup champion Britain beat Serbia 3-2 Sunday to set up a semifinal against Argentina, which handed Italy its first home loss in the tournament in seven years. Air Huarache Pink Floral .Croatia rallied for a comeback 3-2 victory over the United States, with Borna Coric beating Jack Sock 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the decisive match in Portland, Oregon to set up a semifinal against France.Marin Cilic set up the deciding fifth match by beating John Isner 7-6 (9), 6-3, 6-4 in the first reverse singles match on Sunday after combining with Ivan Dodig on Saturday for a win over twins Bob and Mike Bryan in doubles to keep Croatia alive in the contest after the Americans swept the opening singles matches.Croatia Croatia reached the semifinals for the first time since 2009. It won its only Davis Cup title in 2005.The U.S. lost for the fourth time in 161 tries when leading 2-0 lead in a Davis Cup tie.On a wet and windy day at the outdoor Tasmajdan clay-court stadium in Belgrade, Kyle Edmunds 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5) win against Dusan Lajovic in the reverse singles gave Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead against host Serbia.The 21-year-old Edmund also won his opening singles on Friday against Janko Tipsarevic as he assumed the role of leader of the team because Murray was on the sidelines.Murray decided not to play in the quarterfinals a few days after his second Wimbledon title but was there to support the team.Edmund was the highest-ranked player in the two teams at No. 67. Serbia played without top-ranked Novak Djokovic and the countrys No. 2 Viktor Troicki.Federico Delbonis avenged his first-round defeat at Wimbledon when he beat Fabio Fognini 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in an entertaining 3 1/2 hours, helping Argentina to win its quarterfinal 3-1 and advance to its 11th semifinal in 14 years. The last reverse singles match was scrapped.The first two sets took a similar pattern: Delbonis broke early, Fognini rallied to level and Delbonis broke back to clinch each set at Circolo Tennis Baratof in Pesaro, Italy.They swapped places in the third set. Fognini went up early, Delbonis came back to even terms, and Fognini, despite some racket throwing, broke back and held on.In a dramatic fourth, Delbonis errors had him down 5-3 before breaking serve at love for 5-4. Fognini had four set points on Delbonis serve in the next game, but the Argentine saved them all and made it 5-5. Fognini conceded a third straight game, and gave Delbonis a chance to serve it out, which he took on his third match point.The Argentines celebrated on the outdoor clay court, and will take a 3-1 record against Britain when they travel for their Sept. 16-18 semifinal.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcame an early scare to win the opening reverse singles to give France a 3-1 victory over host Czech Republic at Werk Arena in Trinec.Amid increased security following the deadly attack in the French city of Nice, Tsonga rallied to beat Jiri Vesely 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-5 and earn a spot in the Davis Cup semis for France for the second time in three years.Wimbledon doubles champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert had beaten Lukas Rosol and Radek Stepanek 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday to give France a 2-1 lead. On Friday, Rosol beat Tsonga in a five-setter, and Lucas Pouille made a victorious Davis Cup debut by beating Vesely in straight sets.France has nine Davis Cup titles, but it last won in 2001. The French will have to travel for the semifinal against Croatia. http://www.airforce1foruk.biz/womens-cheap-adidas-superstar-2-trainers-blue-beige-096974.html . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. Buy Adidas Superstar 2 . -- The plastic that was taped across the lockers in Oaklands clubhouse came down and the champagne that was on ice went back into the cooler. http://www.airforce1foruk.biz/superstar-2-bling-pack-adidas-black-gold-womens-casual-shoes.html . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration.NASHVILLE -- For all the money Tennessee spent this off-season, how well the Titans fare this season easily rests on quarterback Jake Locker. No longer a rookie or even a first-year starter, Locker goes into his third NFL season healthy with a new playbook, a rebuilt offensive line protecting him and some new teammates to catch his passes. So how the Titans bounce back from a 6-10 season and whether they reach the playoffs for the first time since 2008 will depend on how well Locker plays. Locker, 25, welcomes the pressure. "I think thats an awesome place to be ...," Locker said. "I feel very confident and very comfortable in what were doing right now. Im excited about that opportunity." The Titans certainly have done everything possible to put Locker in position to succeed. They bolstered the offensive line with two new guards in veteran Andy Levitre and rookie Chance Warmack. They also drafted another receiver in Justin Hunter to go with Kenny Britt, Kendall Wright and Nate Washington. Shonn Greene was signed to bring a power running back for a change of pace with Chris Johnson. Delanie Walker is a new receiving option at tight end too. Tennessee also cut veteran Matt Hasselbeck in March and signed Ryan Fitzpatrick strictly as Lockers backup, not competition for the starting job. "Weve done what we think is necessary to do," Titans coach Mike Munchak said. "Now hopefully were right. We have to go prove that were right on what we did and all those things that we did are obviously going to benefit Jake." Locker was named the starter during training camp a year ago, and that didnt turn out too well. He dislocated his left, non-throwing shoulder after an interception that should have been whistled dead as an incompletion with his shoulder popping out of joint as he threw down the defender. He didnt miss a start before reinjuring the shoulder in the fourth game, sidelining him for five straight games. He wound up throwing for 2,176 yards and had more interceptions (11) than touchdowns (10), tthough he did run for 291 yards and a touchdown with a shoulder that needed surgery soon after the season ended to repair the joint once and for all. http://www.airforce1foruk.biz/mens-womens-superstar-80s-adidas-cny-snake-casual-shoes-cardinal-black-q35133.html. So the eighth selection overall in 2011 out of Washington goes into his third season surrounded by questions over whether or not he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. It didnt help that rookies like Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck not only got plenty of headlines but wins and playoff berths to boot in 2012. Locker had surgery soon after the season ended to fix the shoulder once and for all. He healed up quickly enough that he wasnt limited during the teams off-season program. Hes played so well that receiver Nate Washington said Locker is finally showing he can be an elite quarterback in the NFL, having improved his game across the board. "Hes throwing a nice tight spiral," Washington said. "Hes making complete reads. Hes able to go through his progression now. With all that being said, thats not even speaking on the ability that he has to run. I think hes going to be a great man. We just have to make sure were doing what we need to do and not put it all on his shoulders." Thats why the Titans made sure to surround Locker with plenty of help offensively and reinforced protection up front. Offensive co-ordinator Dowell Loggains devised an offence streamlining the decisions both Locker and his receivers can make, allowing the quarterback to make faster decisions and get the ball out quicker. "Were talented enough around him now he just needs to drive the bus and get the ball to the playmakers," Loggains said. "He doesnt have to do anything on his own. 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Cariocas -- as Rios residents are known -- werent swayed by the issues that led up to these Olympics, and braved rain and strong winds on the final night to cap their moment in the worldwide spotlight.While South Americas first Olympics are over, safely and with a grandiose finale, many problems remain. Still, Brazil showed Sunday it still definitely knows how to party.These were marvelous Olympic Games in the `marvelous city, said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, playing off the cidade maravilhosa nickname of Brazils postcard city of inviting coastlines, year-round sun and lush tropical vegetation.While the stadium erupted in applause at that declaration, a few minutes later there were boos of sadness when Bach announced: I declare the Games of the XXXI Olympiad closed.The closing ceremony in iconic Maracana Stadium was also meant to take care of some business -- formally signaling the transition to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.But Sundays party was all about Brazil, designed to be more low-key than the opening, which focused heavily on Rio.The ceremony featured original footage of Alberto Santos Dumont, the man that Brazilians recognize as the inventor of the airplane. The theme, Brazilians can do with their bare hands, was a nod to the emerging economy of the worlds fifth most populous nation.Dressed in colorful feathers, dozens of dancers formed in the shape of the arches of Lapa, a popular area of Rio akin to Roman ruins, then morphed to make the shape of iconic Sugarloaf before quickly changing again, this time to the official 2016 symbol.Samba legend Martinho da Vila, whose tunes make their way into many popular telenovelas, sang Carinhoso, or Affectionate.Olympians poured in under light rain, waving their flags while many shook their bodies to samba-infused pop that made the stadium feel like a Carnival parade. Britains athletes wore shoes with soles that lit up in changing colors of red, white and blue, while Tongan taekwondo athlete Pita Taufatofua danced onstage in a grass skirt as a DJ performed, reprising a moment that captured attention when he carried the flag for his country during the opening ceremony.The show widened its lens to greater Brazil, a massive country with a land mass slightly larger than the continental United States. There was a tribute to cave paintings of some of the first inhabitants of the Americas, in Serra da Capivara, in Northeastern Brazil, today one of the nations poorest regions.Spectators watched performers shake it to frevo, a frenetic dance that -- if its even possible -- makes high-octane samba seem like a staid ballroom affair. Holding small umbrellas, dancers jumped and marched while performing acrobatics.They shook it to Vassourinhas, which means small brooms, a popular song that was also the name of a famous club in the northeastern city of Recife.The show also built performances around sauudade, which means anything from longing for someone to sadness to remembering good times. Nike Force Ones For Sale. It is one of the most important words in Brazilian Portuguese. Lights flashed translations for the word in many languages, and a group of women sang Mulher Rendeira, or Lace-making Woman, a nod to the countrys African heritage. Brazil was the last country in the Americas to outlaw slavery, in 1888.The games had many memorable moments, both for Brazilian competitors at home and athletes from around the world.Soccer-crazed Brazil got partial payback against Germany, winning gold two years after a 7-1 World Cup semi-final shellacking that left Brazilians fuming. American gymnast Simone Biles asserted her dominance with four golds, swimmer Michael Phelps added five more to up his staggering total to 23 and the worlds fastest man, Usain Bolt, put on his usual show with three golds just days before turning 30 years old.But there were also ugly episodes, like American swimmer Ryan Lochtes fabricated story about a harrowing robbery that was actually an intoxicated-fueled vandalism of a gas station bathroom, and bizarre issues like Olympic diving pools going from crystal blue to gunky, algae green -- at a time when Rios water quality in open waters is one of the biggest local environmental issues.With the games over, Brazilians now return to problems that have long consumed the country of 200 million people. The economy is mired in its worst recession in decades, and later this week the Senate is expected to begin the trial on whether to permanently remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached in May for breaking fiscal rules in her managing of the federal budget.Theres widespread expectation that the games in Tokyo, one of the worlds richest, most recognizable, cosmopolitan cities, will run more smoothly than they have in Rio. But theres also worry in Japan over whether the Olympics will eventually further drag down an economy that has been struggling for decades.The governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, accepted the flag from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, signaling the transition.Many people, from Brazilians to IOC members, will analyze how things went for the Rio Games in the months ahead. But on Sunday, one strong sentiment was relief -- that despite some problems, overall the games went well.That wasnt a given going in. 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Matthew Hayden was recently bitten by a dog while out jogging, which got us thinking about animals that have been associated with cricket, in one way or another. New Balance U446 Red . Here are 11 of the finest, but if you can think of others, please send them to feedbackBotham the Pig By the Ashes tour of 1982-83, Ian Botham was beginning to fill out around the waist and was no longer the swing-bowling sylph of his heyday. That was good enough for the crowd at The Gabba, who smuggled a piglet in through the turnstiles (by stuffing an apple in its mouth and convincing the steward he was soon to be lunch), then released him on the outfield with Botham scrawled on one flank, and Eddie (in tribute to the equally rotund Eddie Hemmings) on the other. For anyone contemplating a similar stunt this winter, make sure your pig isnt sponsored. Concerns about ambush marketing mean youd probably have more chance of getting it in than a can of Coke.Cock-eyed SparrowsThere are several instances of sparrows being felled in flight, but the most famous casualty was the bird struck at Lords in 1936 when MCCs Tom Pearce bowled to Jehingir Khan of Cambridge University. The dead bird was stuffed to add insult to injury and can still be seen in the Lords Museum. It is not the only avian victim at Lords. In 1866 during Middlesexs match against Nottinghamshire, Tom Hearne was about to bowl when he spotted a pigeon fluttering overhead. He took aim and brought it down dead as a doornail. It too was stuffed and kept as a Hearne family heirloom.Snakes in the standsWhen Pakistan visited India in 1999, Shiv Sena, a Hindu extremist movement, were less than happy with the idea of sporting contact between the two nations. In the build-up to the Test, they threatened to release poisonous snakes onto the outfield during the game. In response, the police hired 30 snake charmers to patrol the stands and be ready to pounce should the need arise.Mackerel barrageIn 1986 during a match in the Cricketer Cup, Simon Hazlitt, batting for Old Cliftonians against Stowe Templers, was almost felled when a mackerel was dropped from a great height, narrowly missing him as he took guard. The assailant was a seagull who had stolen the fish from the sea-lion enclosure at the nearby Bristol Zoo.Beefy the BullAt Dunstall in June 2005, the players and spectators at Derbyshires second XI match against Leicester got more than theyd bargained for, when a bull leapt over the fence from a neighbouring field and rampaged around the ground for 20 minutes, pursued by a hapless farmer. I think one of the bulls got amorous with a cow or perhaps another bull - I am not sure about the sexual orientation of bulls, said Karl Krikken, Derbyshires coach, who was one of many onlookers sent scattering.Jacko the MonkeyThe Poona Monkey disrupted play in the match between MCC and Maharashtra in December 1951. Local reports state the creature, known as Jacko, quietly ambled onto the field and was spotted by one of the umpires fielding at midwicket. A groundsman was summoned and it was chased away with sticks.Donkey on a lengthIn 1918 a Priestley Cup game between Undercliffe and Lidget Green in Bradford had to be replayed after a mystery damp patch appeared on a length. After subsequent investigations it emerged that the culprit was the club donkey which had relieved itself while pulling the roller during pitch preparations. Lidget Greens suspicions were raised as the animal had hit the spot where England offspinner Cecil Parkin landed to ball to such good effect. Although Undercliffe won the replay, they were banned from playing any future cup matches at home. The donkey was given a severe reprimand.Merv the Mutt The teams were out on the field, ready for the first ball of third Test between England and Australia at Trent Bridge in 1993, but there was an unexpected hold-up. Running up and down at the Radcliffe Road end of the ground was a sandy coloured mongrel with absolutely no intention of leaving the field. Eventually, Merv Hughes took it upon himself to deal with the problem, and got down on his hands and knees to coax the hound to heel. Given Hughes feral reputation, the question on most peoples lips was who was more likely to give rabies to who? But Hughes eventually won the battle of minds, and Michael Slater was on hand to dump the mutt into the arms of the steward on the boundary rope. More than 60 people immediately rang the RSPCA to adopt him, with Graham and Sally Bosnall of Derby winning the race, and naturally enough, naming him Merv.Peter the Cat The most famous mog in Marylebone, Peter was the Lords cat for 12 years from 1952 to 1964, when his ninth life finally ran out on Bonfire Night (it is unknown whether any firecrackers were involved). He is the only animal to earn a mention in the Wisden Cricketers Almanack where, in the obituaries section, it is written that he was a cat of great character and loved publicity ... [whose] sleek brown form could often be seen prowling on the field of play when crowds were biggest. He has since earned an unexpected tenth life, after lending his name to a new anthology. Surprisingly no pictures are known to exist of Peter, although his successor, Sinbad, was snapped during a Southern Schools v The Rest match in 1963.Shark in the deepIn 1934 R Townshend Stephens wrote to The Times to recall an incident in Sohar when a game was taking place on a matting wicket laid out on a beach. A ball was swung out to the deep, but it fell not into the sea but was swallowed by a shark, he explained. Townshend Stephens, who was umpiring, gave the batsman out and the entry in the scorebook read caught Fish bowled Burkitt Ullah.Hansie the rabbit Peter McIntosh, an 11-year-old cricket nut from Northampton, had the misfortune of naming his new pet rabbit Hansie just three days before the match-fixing scandal erupted in April 2000. As Cronje Srs name was dragged through the mud, his bunny namesake sat chewing lettuces and going about his rabbity business, oblivious to the fact that he was now the talk of the town. We couldnt believe it, said Pauls mother, Elaine. Our nine-year-old, Lauren, has been telling everybody that our rabbit has been arrested. New Balance 798 . -- Ohio States Urban Meyer has never had any issue acclimating to the biggest stages in college football. New Balance 1500 .J. -- Marty Brodeur beat the Pittsburgh Penguins yet again. http://www.nbalanceshoesuk.biz/new-balance-998-uk.html . Colin Wilson had two goals and an assist, and Mike Fisher scored a goal and helped set up two others in the Predators 6-4 victory over the Red Wings on Monday night. I still remember the smell of the newspaper when he hit that six that shattered a generation of hope. At the age of ten, I was standing in the lobby of our hotel in Sikkim, holding that hitherto unclaimed newspaper with trembling hands, as I visualised a hapless Chetan Sharma running to the wicket like a gullible lamb toward a lions den. Sharma then bowled what can best be described as a lolly, which was launched into orbit by Javed Miandad, doing his best impersonation of Obelixs PFAFF!!. The legend goes that the ball was never recovered because it melted into thin air upon crossing the boundary.It did not matter that I had heard about this unfortunate event on the train to Sikkim the previous night. I was travelling on a school excursion and came across a crestfallen passenger who told me that the world had just ended in Sharjah. However, I did not truly believe him until I read about it in the newspaper the next morning. This was true of most matches that I watched in my childhood. To me, they only materialised when they appeared in the newspaper the next day.Take, for instance, Ravi Shastris heroic 107 on a bouncy pitch in Barbados; it was an innings that should have won him an award for bravery. It came against a fearsome West Indies attack that read: Marshall, Ambrose, Bishop and Walsh. Even as the rest of the Indian batting line-up crumbled around him in a heap to 63 for 6, the statuesque Shastri struck 12 boundaries in a dogged riposte. I followed the match through a newspaper, with a one-day delay and a heavy dose of imagination. He must have hit the peerless Malcolm Marshall for at least a couple of fours. Surely one of them was a chapati shot.You see, Shastri was my hero because he played these match-defining innings that became commonplace when a curly-haired 16-year-old emerged to dominate the sport. Until Sachin Tendulkar arrived, I drew succour from the many displays of batting obduracy from Shastri, who seemed to use a bat to win a staring contest on the pitch. His was the first name I checked on the scorecard in the newspaper, even if his more gifted, but infuriatingly fragile colleagues scored more runs. I knew from my newspaper snippets that Shastri had often patted down many thunderbolts as an opener before he gave way to the frail wizardry of Mohammad Azharuddin.One year, I willed myself to learn the Telugu alphabet because the Telugu daily showed up at our doorstep a couple of hours before the English newspapers. It gave me great joy to read A..ja.. ha.. roo..din next to the score of 109, a withering display of artistry in an otherwise soporific series played on dead pitches in Pakistan. India somehow claimed a 0-0 moral victory in that series. No matter the result, there was unbridled joy in reading about my Hyderabadi idols conquest of Mt Imran. Imran Khan was caned to the tune of 100 runs, which was fitting balm for the failure of a certain RJ Shastri, who scored a total of 16 runs in two innings.New Balance 997 Pink. I would be remiss in not mentioning young Tendulkars brilliant 59, in only his second Test, a harbinger of many superhuman feats. Newspapers have given way to a digital form of media, most of which are quite effective in representing this great sport, but nothing that I tell my seven-year-old son will convince him that reading cricket news in the early morning newspaper was a multi-sensory experience. It involved touch, smell, sight and, most importantly, boundless imagination. Even as every word unravelled in front of my eyes, my mind drew batting arcs and banana swings to fashion memorable suspense-filled storylines.There is a distinct memory in my mind of a match that I went to see in Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad in 1987. I was 11. This was the second ODI between Pakistan and India. At this time, India were finding every possible way to lose to Pakistan, and I held very little hope that the result would be any different that day. India scored a respectable 212 in 44 overs, powered by Shastris 69 not out. One of his two sixes landed a few feet from my seat in the pavilion, which is one of my career highlights as a cricket fan.Pakistan inevitably began chasing down the target, powered by Saleem Maliks 84, much to the chagrin of the full crowd in Hyderabad. Run by run the target was being shaved down with precision. Still, India managed to keep the game close till the very end. In fact, so close that the run equation came down to Pakistan needing two off the last ball. Abdul Qadir faced the redoubtable Kapil Dev and the entire stadium waited with bated breath. What happened next was a blur.Kapil Dev ran in and bowled, Qadir tried an agricultural swing. The ball squirted off his edge and then there was bedlam. It appeared that Qadir had run himself out trying to get the winning run and the scores were miraculously tied! Nobody in the crowd was quite sure what had happened. After a few minutes, there was an announcement on the speaker saying that India had won the match because they had lost fewer wickets. While the crowd roared its approval, I sensed that something was off. The result was surreal. The ending was farcical theatre.I realised that there was only one way to fix the confusion in my mind. The next morning, I jumped out of bed at 6am and ran excitedly towards our verandah. Lying on the floor was a fresh, untouched copy of the Hindu. I got goosebumps as I began to slowly peel apart the pages to reveal the match that I was going to watch again.Want to be featured on Inbox? Send your articles to us here, with Inbox in the subject line. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Nijal Pearson and Kavin Gilder-Tilbury combined for 44 points to lead Texas State to an 80-68 win over McNeese State on Tuesday night. Adidas Superstar 2 Černé .Pearson was 8 of 15 from the floor for 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the first double-double in his career. He also dished out seven assists. Gilder-Tilbury had 21 points and seven rebounds. Bobby Conley added six points and had a career-best three steals for Texas State (3-3).Tyler Blount nailed a 3-pointer midway in the first half to break open a tight game and start a 16-2 run as the Bobcats took a 43-24 lead into the break. The Cowboys did make a late charge, closing to 73-62 following a Jamaya Burr trey with 2:01 remaining. Pearson answered with three points in the closing minutes to secure the win.LaBarrius Hill had 15 points and nine rebounds and Jarren Greenwood added 13 points for McNeese State (2-4). Nike Air Huarache Cz . Team physician Dr. Steve Traina performed the surgery Friday. Robinson was injured in a spill underneath the Nuggets basket during the first quarter of Wednesday nights loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. Adidas Boty Dámské Kotníkové .Y. - Free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, fresh off winning the World Series with Boston, reached agreement with the rival New York Yankees on a seven-year contract worth about $153 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday night. http://www.superstarshopsleva.com/air-max-zero.html . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. Are the Hawks built for a playoff run? What trades should they make?Our NBA Insiders preview Atlantas 2016-17 season. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
Fans will get two opportunities Wednesday to pay their respects to Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died this past weekend in a boating accident.http://www.nbalancescarpe.it/new-balance-580-italia.html .Fans have been invited to gather Wednesday at the West Plaza at Marlins Park?at 2 p.m. ET, for Fernandezs final departure from the ballpark at 2:16 p.m. ET. The procession will travel to Ermita de la Caridad (Shrine of Our Lady of Charity) in Miami, for a blessing.A public visitation will then be held from 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET Wednesday at St. Brendans Catholic Church in Miami. A private mass for Fernandez will be held Thursday.Instead of flowers, the Fernandez family is asking people to make charitable contributions to the JDF16 Foundation, which can be found online at www.MiamiFoundation.org/jdf16 .Fernandez, 24, and two other men were killed early Sunday when his 32-foot SeaVee boat slammed into a rock jetty that extends off the southern tip of Miami Beach.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission continues to investigate the crash. The Miami-Dade County medical examiner has not yet released toxicology results.A spokeswoman for American Social Bar & Restaurant in Miami confirmed Tuesday in an email that Fernandez was a patron at the establishment before the crash. The statement did not say whether Fernandez had been drinking or what time he left. The bar is along the Miami River and allows boats to dock alongside.Emilio Macias, 27, and Eduardo Rivero, 25, also died in the accident.Also Tuesday, authorities said they have no record of any previous citations or warnings for the boat, named Kaught Looking,?nor did Fernandez or either of the other two men aboard.Fernandez originally had been scheduled to start Monday nights game against the New York Mets.Fans established a makeshift memorial on the plaza outside the ballpark entrance, leaving dozens of flower arrangements -- daisies, carnations, roses and lilies, the result as colorful as Fernandezs personality. There were also candles, and messages scrawled on balls, balloons, photos and jerseys.Its our job to make his life matter, so were going to do that forever, and forever starts today, Marlins president David Samson said Monday.Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report. http://www.nbalancescarpe.it/new-balance-999-shop-online.html . That left plenty of energy for pitching books and swatting away free agency questions. Anthony had 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Knicks avenged an embarrassing home loss with a rout of their own, beating the Boston Celtics 114-88 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory. New Balance 580 Revlite .C. at the helm of the top team in the Eastern Conference. His tenure as the GM in Vancouver was all too brief. Though he led the Canucks to what was then a franchise record-shattering campaign in just his second season, Nonis was gone and replaced one year later. http://www.nbalancescarpe.it/new-balance-670.html . -- Matt Ryan needed one of the best games of his career to lead the Falcons and their depleted offence out of their three-game losing streak last week. Four years ago in London, the last aging members of Argentinas Golden Generation sat at their lockers and wept after losing a frantic bronze-medal game to Russia. The nations two greatest players, Luis Scola and Manu Ginobili, gathered themselves and spoke to mark the moment.I would rather lose with you guys than win with any other group of players, Ginobili said through tears. Scola said the same thing.Everyone was crying even more, Andres Nocioni recalled. I had never seen anything like that, so much crying in a locker room. We knew it was our last opportunity to do something big.The players then did what they do every night they are together: head out for a long and raucous group dinner. Its a rule: win or lose, there is a team dinner, said Pablo Prigioni, a point guard on the 2012 team. To celebrate together, or cry together.The 12 men cried together that night in London, assuming Scola, Ginobili and Nocioni had played in their final Olympics eight years after leading Argentina to its historic gold medal in Athens. They also celebrated. They toasted to each other, to the bus rides and absurd airport connections across South and Central America in those early years, and to what the Golden Generation had accomplished.The things that were said at that dinner -- the stories, the love, the tears going down, Ginobili said. Those are the things that keep people together forever.The old heads flashed back to another dinner, in the summer of 2002 at Ruths Chris Steakhouse in Indianapolis, hours after Yugoslavia had beaten them in the FIBA World Championship gold-medal game. The players wallowed that night. They were angry over crunch-time calls and the bad luck of Ginobili suffering a severe ankle injury in the semifinals.As the drinks and conversation flowed, the mood changed. No one at home had dreamed Argentina would ever finish second in a global basketball competition. They had slain the once-unbeatable Team USA in group play, and when they arrived back at the Embassy Suites after that upset, they found international delegations ringing the lobby on every floor to cheer them. They were young, and the 2004 Olympics were around the corner.That dinner started as the lowest point in our lives, Scola said. By the end, it was a party.R.C. Buford, the Spurs general manager, watched from a few tables away. He couldnt sleep after the gold-medal game, and strolled to Ruths Chris to eat alone. He sat transfixed by the camaraderie of the Argentine team. I just stared at them, Buford said. It was the best team environment I had ever seen. He finally went over and said hello to Ginobili, who would start his rookie season in San Antonio a few months later.The Spurs drafted Ginobili almost by accident with the 57th pick in 1999. Buford first laid eyes on Ginobili during the 22-and-under world championships in Australia in 1997. He was there to scout other players. He had never heard of Ginobili. He was like a wild colt out there, Buford said, just doing crazy s---. Some of it made sense, and some of it didnt.The Spurs had won the 1999 title, and they hoped to keep a pricey roster together; they didnt want to draft anyone with a chance of making their team the next season. They traded out of the first round, and took a flier on Ginobili only after failing to find a fair deal for their pick.?They even nabbed another draft-and-stash guy, Gordan Giricek, 17 spots ahead of Ginobili. We got lucky as hell, Buford said.They were as surprised as anyone when Ginobili blew up. Gregg Popovich was an assistant for Team USA in 2002, and he was excited to finally get Ginobili in San Antonio. I told Timmy [Duncan], This guy is coming, and nobody in the U.S. knows how good he is, Popovich remembered. And Timmy gave me that whole raised eyebrow thing he does.I had heard that before from Pop about other guys, Duncan said. I was like, Whatever. Well see.Weve all seen now, and four years after that farewell dinner in London, were somehow still watching -- in Rio, and San Antonio.When he was 16, Emanuel Ginobili was something of a family disappointment. His older brothers burst from their hometown of Bahia Blanca, Argentinas one basketball hotbed in the 1970s and 1980s, and played professionally. Their father, Jorge, was a legendary coach.Ginobili was a short, skinny kid who couldnt make local all-star teams. There were maybe 15 kids just in our city better than him, said Pepe Sanchez, who grew up with Ginobili and played point guard for the 2004 Olympic champions. But even then, Ginobili showed the tenacity and creative genius that would make him a star after a massive growth spurt.He would go to the basket, get crushed, stand up to shoot free throws, and get crushed all over again, Sanchez said. He was so tiny. He was fragile.Ginobili has always played a half-beat off normal rhythms, and imagined passes no one before him considered. He is different. Perhaps soccer rewired his brain, or genetics blessed him with unique visual anticipation. Ginobili isnt sure. But as a coachs son in Bahia Blanca, he was surrounded by experts devoted to harnessing his gifts. Before he was 5, one local coach turned Ginobili into a personal science project.He gave Ginobili special glasses with frames that flipped down, parallel to the floor, so Ginobili couldnt see where he was dribbling. He outfitted Ginobili with gloves that eliminated the sensation of touch on the palms, forcing Ginobili to manipulate the ball with his fingertips. I was 4, dribbling around the kitchen wearing all this stuff, Ginobili chuckled. I was an experiment.When Ginobilis body caught up with his brain, he jumped from the local to national radar -- barely. He made Argentinas under-22 team in 1996 only because several players above him had scheduling conflicts. ?He was nothing special, Nocioni said. But you could see he moved different than normal people. Like a snake.By the late 1990s, he was good enough to play professionally in Italy, but even the coaches there didnt know what to make of him. Virtus Bologna signed him as a free agent before the 2000 season only after its primary target pulled a DeAndre Jordan,?said Ettore Messina, a Spurs assistant who was the head coach in Bologna.He would do amazing things in practice, but you would wonder: Can he do it in games? Messina said. I thought he might make it in the NBA, but I could never envision anything like what has happened.In pro leagues around the world, Ginobili and his Argentine teammates blossomed. Each summer, they gathered for some international tournament and felt the electric sensation of something special building. They fit on the court, a generation of stars who somehow all played different positions, and loved being with each other away from it.Argentinas national federation ran a shoestring operation, but the players reveled in the shared misery of cheap travel. In the lead-up to the 2002 world championships, the team played an exhibition in Mexico City. The federation scheduled so many flight connections, the trip from Buenos Aires took 33 hours. They actually could have arrived at their hotel in about 32 hours 40 minutes, but a few players liked the idea of arriving in 33 hours on the dot. They asked the bus driver to circle Mexico City for 20 minutes, set their watches, and counted down to their official arrival.The whole team was laughing, Sanchez said. But Manu was laughing the most. I was like, Whats wrong with this guy? Hes a star! Hes our best player! He should be asking for the royal treatment! But thats how our team was.(Even after achieving NBA stardom, Ginobili and Scola never cared much for posh travel. During a game in 2010, Tyson Chandler, then with the Mavs, approached Ginobili between free throws. He had seen Ginobili park his minivan before the game. You drive a minivan? Chandler asked. I thought I was the only one! Ginobili laughed. I have twins, he told Chandler. Scola drives one too!)The players are adamant their love for each other translated onto the court. No one cared about status, or numbers; before the 2006 world championships, Nocioni, an NBA starter by then, told their head coach not to even bother drawing up plays for him.We have a hundred stories like that [33-hour trip], Scola said. They made us who we are as a team.Ginobili had no such familiarity with anyone from San Antonio when he arrived in the fall of 2002.The Spurs tested him right away. During one training camp practice, Ginobili and Steve Kerr, then 37, took turns defending each other in a pick-and-roll drill with Kevin Willis setting screens. Willis, perhaps taking pity on Kerr, whiffed on a pick, prompting Mike Budenholzer, then a Spurs assistant, to scream at him.Kerr and Ginobili switched roles, with Ginobili on defense. Willis leveled Ginobili, sending him flying onto his back. Now thats a screen, Willis yelled to Budenholzer, players and coaches recall. He then looked down at Ginobili: Aint that right, rookie?Everyone waited for Ginobilis reaction. Even in Spurs World, foreign players had to bust stereotypes about toughness and athleticism. There just werent a lot of international guys who had made an impact in the NBA, Buford said. Especially among shooting guards. There was a lot of: Is Manu real?Manu didnt even flinch, Kerr said. He got up and took it. He knew he had to earn his keep. Everyone noticed that.The prodding never stopped. Steve Smith and Bruce Bowen battled Ginobili for minutes, and Bowen brutalized him with dirty tricks when they matched up in practice. Bruce beat the ever-loving s--- out of him all season, Duncan said, and its not like they were calling fouls. Manu just kept going. Thats when I finally said, Hes gonna be alright.Ginobili won Bowen over, too. In one of Ginobilis first matchups with the Lakers, Kobe Bryant sidled over to Bowen and asked about Ginobili, Bowen recalled: Tell me about the white boy. Bowen warned Bryant, Oh, youre gonna see. Hes not a white boy, and hes got some stuff.Ginobili carried no sense of entitlement; he outworked everyone in practice, especially during scrimmages, when he played as if it were Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Toward the end of an early September 2007 pickup game involving Spurs and visiting free agents, Ginobili dove through three players to retrieve a loose ball and flung it to a teammate. That player scored, and Popovich, watching, stopped the scrimmage even though it wasnt over.He gathered everyone and asked them: What does that play mean to you? Popovich told them Ginobili wanted to win more than anyone on the floor, and that if the Spurs wished to repeat after their 2007 title, they would all need to play that hard. Popovich walked away, and everyone thought the speech was over. Suddenly, he turned: And Manu: Its f---ing September. Never do that again in September.I was honestly scared and afraid for how he would hold up over time, Popovich said. I get chills thinking about it now.Duncan laughed at the memory. Things like that happened with Manu, he said. It was like, Manu, dude, calm down. We are just trying to make it out of practice in one piece.Every Spur wanted to win, but no one suffered losses harder than Ginobili -- especially when he felt at fault. After Sanchezs team, Panathinaikos, beat Ginobilis in the 2002 Euroleague final, Ginobili didnt leave his house for a week, Sanchez remembers. In Game 7 of the 2006 Western Conference semifinals against Dallas, Ginobili carried San Antonio to a 3-point lead in the waning seconds before inexplicably fouling Dirk Nowitzki on a layup; Nowitzki tied the game, the Mavs won in overtime and Ginobili was inconsolable.?He felt he had cost Michael Finley and Fabricio Oberto, the Golden Generation center who signed in San Antonio largely because of Ginobili, their best shot at an NBA title.Duncan was so worried, he contacted Malik Rose, a former Spur and close friend of Ginobilis, and asked Rose to call and check on him. I dont say this lightly, but we all told each other: We have to stick with Manu, said Sean Marks, the Nets GM and a Spurs reserve that season. We had to talk him off the ledge. We had everyone calling, texting, trying to hang out with him.He moped all summer. I dont think Ive ever seen a person so hard on himself, Buford said. He is maybe the greatest competitor that we have ever witnessed here.The grizzled skeptics respected how hot the fire burned in Ginobili even during his rookie season, and they grew to love him for it -- and for the way Ginobili tested the stodgy Popovich. Ginobili plainly did not fit San Antonio. He played with a high-wire flair that ran against the Spurs slow-paced, low-post, defense-first system.He shot 3s early in the shot clock, something Popovich didnt tolerate back then, even if players were open. He bounced passes through the legs of defenders, threaded 50-foot bombs in transition, and gambled for steals on defense. Popovich hated it. I was so stubborn, he said. I had to rein him in. Oh, you cant turn it over. You cant shoot those shots. All that purist bulls---. He confided one night to Budenholzer: I dont think I can coach him, Budenholzer remembered.Every shot flowed from Duncans post game. In practice, the coaches stuck Ginobili in the weakside corner and told him: You shoot from here, when Timmy passes it to you.I was so frustrated that first year, waiting in the corner, Ginobili said. I wanted the ball, to make decisions. I was 25, and I wanted to take the world by storm. I thought I knew everything.He staged little rebellions every night. The veterans cackled at them. Whenever Ginobili would do something crazy, Willis, Kerr and Danny Ferry, the graybeard benchwarmers, would scream in unison: Hes a bad man! During one pregame film session, Popovich showed a clip of Ginobili heaving a high-risk, fast-break pass out of bounds and told him never to try it again, players recall.The very next game, he got the ball in a similar situation, wound up for a pass, pulled the ball back and paused to grin at Popovich. The bench went nuts.Ginobili kept taking shots out of scheme and lunging around like a fencer for steals. He couldnt help himself. He didnt know it with Popovich yelling at him, but Ginobili was winning the war. You realized there was more positive than negative, Popovich said. Hes a freaking winner. I came to the conclusion that it had to be more his way than my way.Even his wild gammbles on defense were more calculated than they looked. New Balance 373 Uomo. . Ginobili read the game faster than anyone else. He usually knew what was coming, and swiped his arms through passing lanes in a violent blur. Brett Brown and other San Antonio coaches consider Ginobili the best ever at deflecting inbounds passes, even if he lurched out of position to tip them.He just gave himself permission to play how he wanted, Duncan laughed. He beat us into submission. Pop would be pulling his hair out, but eventually we all saw Manu was steps ahead of everyone else.Ginobili averaged a modest 9.4 points per game in 28 minutes off the bench during the Spurs 2003 title run, but over the next two years, he removed any doubt about his place in the games hierarchy.After the buzzer ended Argentinas win over Lithuania in the 2008 Olympic bronze-medal game, Carlos Delfino, the Argentine swingman, grabbed the game ball. He had arranged a deal with the referees before the game that if Argentina won, he would abscond with a piece of history.It was make-up for the 2004 Olympics, when Argentina beat Team USA -- again -- on its way to a gold medal, the crowning achievement in international basketball history. Ginobili snatched the game ball after Argentinas gold-medal win over Italy and stashed it in his hotel room before the team hit the Olympic Village in Athens to celebrate.No one will come completely clean about what happened later that night. At some point during the party, two of Ginobilis teammates got into his hotel room, swiped the gold-medal ball, and snuck onto the Olympic archery field. They decided it would be fun to punt the ball as far as they could, leaving it in Athens for a passerby to discover.Everybody told me later, Noce, you did something bad with that ball! Nocioni said, laughing. But I could honestly tell my lawyers, I dont remember. I was not in my right mind.The truth came out eventually, Scola said. Whoever did it made sure Manu got that ball in Beijing.Ginobili deserved that 2004 ball. He averaged 19 points per game on 58 percent shooting overall, and destroyed a hastily assembled Team USA in the semifinals with 29 points on a sizzling 9-of-13 from the floor. His levitating, leaning, buzzer-beating game winner against Serbia in group play, vengeance for that 2002 loss in Indianapolis, stands as perhaps the most iconic moment of his career:Every time we were in trouble, we just threw the ball to Manu at the top of the court, Oberto said.?That was our solution.He didnt get quite the same leeway in San Antonio, but he had earned Popovichs trust by the 2004-05 season. He averaged 19 points and four assists per game in the Spurs seven-game grind over Detroit in the 2005 Finals, often serving as San Antonios crunch-time playmaker.He should have been the MVP of that series, Budenholzer said.At least co-MVP, with Timmy, Buford added.He started almost every game he played in 2005, including all seven against Detroit, and flummoxed the leagues canniest wing defenders with his syncopated game and bottomless bag of tricks. People always ask me who was hardest to guard, Raja Bell said. I say Kobe. That is what people want to hear. But the truth is, it might have been Manu. Hed rev it to fourth gear, get by you, take it back to second gear so youd run into him, and then hed make a crazy floater. I made a living studying offensive players. I couldnt figure him out.He plays between dribbles, said Dennis Lindsey, the Jazz GM who spent a half-decade in San Antonio. The creativity is mind-boggling.The NBA world took notice; Ginobili earned his first All-Star appearance. I didnt quite think I belonged there, Ginobili said. It was not my thing. But I loved that I got to know what it feels like.That presented a thorny issue: All-Stars didnt come off the bench, but with the Spurs scrounging for second-unit offense early in those same 2005 playoffs, Popovich slid Ginobili back into a sixth man role over eight games against Denver and Seattle. The coaching staff liked how the rotation flowed.By the middle of the 2006-07 season, it was unanimous among the coaches and front office: The Spurs would be better with Ginobili off the bench. There was no way to spread enough touches around to Duncan,?Tony Parker?and Ginobili when they shared the floor, and San Antonios offense sputtered when they rested. The coaching staff felt Ginobili, bathed in the Golden?Generations selfless spirit, might accept the bench role more readily than Parker.The only debate was whether the move would be fair to a player so accomplished. Popovich asked Ginobili privately in January. I dont think Ive ever admitted this, even to my staff, but if Manu decided he was not good with it, he was gonna start. Whatever he said, we would do it. He deserved that, Popovich said.Ginobili nodded his agreement, and left the meeting. Word filtered to the other players. I was blown away, Duncan said. Are you kidding? Hes Manu! Hes a star! He cant not start.Ginobilis sacrifice balanced the Spurs rotation, and cemented a team-above-everything ethos that touched every player who has come to San Antonio since. He played as big a part as Tim in building our culture, Buford said. When Manu Ginobili comes off the bench, its hard for anyone to bitch about why they arent starting, or whatever role they are in. Look at that guy, then talk to me.You cant say s---, Duncan said. It set a precedent.Popovich has just one photo hanging in his office at the AT&T Center: a shot of John Havlicek, the most prolific scoring sixth man in league history.Ginobili knew the decision would cost him. He ranks 193rd all-time in points, right behind Metta World Peace, Josh Smith?and Stephen Jackson. He made the All-Star team just twice. He could have achieved more individual glory as a heavy-minutes starter.Over dinner one night that season, Bowen remarked that the transition seemed to be working. Ginobili cut him off: Of course you think that. Youre still starting.It took everything away from me, Bowen said. I had no answer. You play this game because you want to start. Even Manu. It gave me empathy.But what felt like a sacrifice evolved into something that worked on selfish levels. It capped Ginobilis minutes, preserving his body. San Antonio coaches politely caution that Ginobilis full-throttle style may not have been sustainable under the minutes required for traditional Hall of Fame stats. (Ginobili is a Hall of Fame lock, to be clear.)Manu isnt built for heavy starter minutes, said Chip Engelland, a longtime Spurs assistant. He plays at double speed. If the NBA had a 35-game season, like college, hed be one of the 10 greatest players ever.Ginobili had carte blanche to morph into Argentina Manu as the captain of bench units, unleashing the full breadth of his pick-and-roll brilliance upon a basketball world that had never seen anything like it.I knew I was going to play less, Ginobili said, but those minutes I played? I was the main option. I enjoyed that attention. We were winning. We were having fun. I ended up loving the role.Ginobili invented specific NBA passes, or at least twisted pre-existing ones so they became entirely his own. He baked the meanest no-look dishes since Magic Johnson, but for the spread pick-and-roll era. Ginobili slithers around a screen, rises to pass, stares at an open shooter on the weak side -- and at the exact moment the defender leans that way, plops a no-looker to his screener rolling free to the rim:He brought that pass to the league, Tiago Splitter said. To read that many things at once? You cant teach that.We used to laugh and say, Oh, he Manud him on those passes, Budenholzer said. We made it a verb.He could reverse it: stare at the big man, trick the defense into collapsing there, and slingshot the ball to a shooter on the wing:Im on his team, and he fakes me out, Matt Bonner said.That pick-and-roll revived the Spurs after it appeared the league had passed them by. Ginobili wasnt the only force propelling the offense from the post to the perimeter -- Parker, Popovich, Duncan and Mike DAntoni all helped -- but he was among the most important, and unifying.My best memory of Manu, Duncan said, will be watching him from the bench, in absolute awe of some of the plays he could see.Ginobili and Parker mastered a football-style passing play on which Parker kicks the ball to Ginobili on the sideline, jogs down the gut as he would on almost any Spurs possession, and waits for a pass to whiz by a blinded defender:It gives me goose bumps just thinking about that pass, Brown said.The Spurs eventually called it weak fly, and those who play and coach in other places have found it impossible to replicate.Manu is the only one with the balls to throw it, Budenholzer said. It might be my favorite action ever. Weve worked on it [in Atlanta], but I think we got one all season.Parker taught it to wings on the French national team. It didnt work without Manu, he said.After enough time together,?Patty Mills?found the pass-and-cut rhythm to impersonate Parker:Its just winks and blinks with Manu, mate, Mills said.Mills and Ginobili became mainstays in the Spurs United Nations dinner group, along with Splitter and Boris Diaw. They ate out every night on the road -- Ginobili has a no room service rule -- and took turns picking restaurants. When Mills joined the Spurs in 2011, Ginobili peppered him with questions about indigenous Australians; Mills mother is Aboriginal, and his father is from the Torres Strait Islands.Ginobili is intensely curious. He is learning Portuguese because of Splitter. He loves astronomy. He tracks space phenomena that might be visible from wherever the Spurs are on a particular night; the United Nations group spent one snowy evening on the roof of a parking garage in Denver, watching shooting stars, Mills said.When Oberto was prepping for heart surgery in 2009, he asked Ginobili to accompany him to a doctors appointment. I knew he would do research and ask better questions than I would, Oberto said. Ginobili stayed at the hospital during Obertos operation.Adrian Paenza, an Argentine mathematics professor and author who doubles as a national hoops historian, has Ginobili review his manuscripts. He once presented Ginobili a riddle: How many people need to be in one room for there to be at least a 50 percent chance that two have the same birthday? The answer: 23. Ginobili was in disbelief. He began testing the solution before every Spurs game by scanning team rosters, which list birth dates of every player -- 30 in total. I still do it every game, he said.By accident, Ginobili at those dinners was transplanting the Golden Generation culture into San Antonio. The chemistry bled onto the floor. No one in basketball had asked me much about my family, Mills said. It made us trust each other on the court. It was huge.The Spurs are not sure they could have recovered from the devastation of the 2013 Finals against Miami-- and Ginobilis unraveling in Game 6 before Ray Allens famous shot?-- had they not built such deep trust and love. Ginobili committed eight turnovers and was a team-worst minus-21 in the aborted clincher. He is still grappling with that night, especially since it came after his strongest postseason performance in Game 5.My head failed me for the first time, he said this spring. I relaxed after Game 5. I felt self-satisfaction. It made me weak. It had never happened. My head was always the thing that drove me.Mills sat two stalls from Ginobili after the game, and found him sobbing, head buried in his hands. The whole team and their families went to Il Gabbiano in Miami that night for dinner; Splitter, Duncan, Parker and Ginobili sat at the same table as Popovich approached every member of the dinner party with words of encouragement.Nobody at Ginobilis table spoke. They brought the food, and nobody even cared, Splitter said. We just looked down. We couldnt even look at each other face-to-face. We just wanted to be close to each other.After another close loss in Game 7, Duncan found Ginobili. I had to grab him by the head, tell him, Its OK. Were going to be OK.Three weeks later, Prigioni met Ginobili in Argentina and congratulated him for playing in the Finals again in his late 30s. Ginobili could not accept the good wishes. He didnt talk to most of his Argentine teammates about the 2013 Finals for months, until he sent several of them an email explaining what had happened and assuring them he would recover.He did, of course. So did the Spurs. They rebounded a year later by smashing Miami in an all-time display of team basketball. Ginobili played with the same reckless joy. Hitting rock bottom the year before did not infect his game with fear or caution.His old friends loved it, even the scary collisions and nutty turnovers. I prefer Manu like that, Oberto said. I cant imagine Manu not taking crazy risks.?They watched in joyous disbelief when Ginobili, playing with a stress fracture in his leg, flashed back for a monster dunk over Chris Bosh in the final blowout.Everyone has long since given up convincing him to play any other way. A few years ago, Sanchez recited a list of stars who stayed healthy by accepting more limited roles and toning down their derring-do. Ginobili scoffed.San Antonios coaches shook their heads last season when, in his first game back from a nasty groin injury that threatened his career, ?Ginobili tried to take a charge -- a category in which he has led the team a half-dozen times. Sometimes I wish him to become one of those cerebral point guards so he can play until hes 55, Messina said. But he will play until the end like Manu.I just play the game the only way I know, Ginobili said. And I have no regrets.That will stand regardless of what happens in these Olympics. Argentina is 2-0 in group play after entering as an aging underdog, but where they finish is almost beside the point now. The elders at that London dinner never thought they would be together in Rio. Ginobili recently scanned a photo of him and Scola from their first tournament as teammates in 1996, and thought back to all they had shared over 20 years -- the flights, the meals, the tears, the wine-infused parties.Those things matter more than the results, he said. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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He was helped to a trainers table and later carted to the locker room with an immobilization splint on his right leg.After practice, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the initial diagnosis was a broken leg, and Moore would get X-rays at a local hospital. Jones was unsure whether Moore would require surgery and how much time he would miss.A source said Moore suffered a broken right fibula and will need surgery. He is looking at a two- to three-month recovery, depending on surgery findings, according to a source.Its regrettable, and well basically just take a look at it and address it there, Jones said. I dont have any comments about what, if anything, well be doing there.With Romos recent injury history, the backup position is ultra-important to the Cowboys. Romo, who turned 36 in April, missed 12 games last season because of a twice-broken left collarbone. He had two back surgeries in 2013. The Cowboys went 1-11 with Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel and Moore starting games in Romos absence to finish 4-12 last season, their worst finish since a 1-15 mark in 1989.The Cowboys have backed Moore as Romos backup throughout the offseason. He played in three games last season, started the final two and finished with four touchdown passes and six interceptions. In the season-ending loss to the Washington Redskins, he completed 33 of 48 passes for 435 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions.In free agency, the Cowboys did not go after high-priiced backups such as Chase Daniel and Colt McCoy, but they met with veteran Matt Moore, who opted to remain with the Miami Dolphins. New Balance 574 Niños Baratas. Last week, Jones said veteran Nick Foles was not an option, mostly because the Cowboys have four quarterbacks on the roster. With Moores injury, that could change.Rookie Dak Prescott took the second-team snaps after Moores injury. The Cowboys selected Prescott in the fourth round of the draft. He was the first quarterback drafted by the Cowboys since 2009.Its an opportunity for me to take more reps, get more snaps, and its something Im going to come in and make sure Im ready for, Prescott said. Im going to go study this film and continue to study it ... and take everything from the film room what Ive learned and take it to the field.Undrafted free agent Jameill Showers is in his second year and has been sharing the third-team work with Prescott.Moore had waited five years to be in a position to be the No. 2 quarterback after a record-setting career at Boise State. He spent four seasons with the Detroit Lions after making the team as an undrafted free agent but did not play in a game. It was his connection with Scott Linehan there that led him to the Cowboys last summer, first on the practice squad and then on the active roster.He spoke over the weekend about the excitement of the opportunity, but now he has to deal with a broken leg.Your heart hurts for him because he just works really hard, tight end Jason Witten said. Hes constantly taking notes. Hes studying. Hes communicating. And at that position -- Ive seen it with Tony for a long time as we came in -- you never know when your [opportunity] is going to happen. Hell continue to fight. Thats what he is. Thats who hes been his whole life. Hell bounce back, Im sure.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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With the second baseman playing way out in shallow right field, the Royals couldnt retire Martinez, and two runners scored on the play.Id rather give up a double up the gap than do that, because I had a chance to get us out of the inning, and I didnt take it, Soria said. I made the pitches, but didnt field my position.Detroits Tyler Collins hit a solo homer earlier in the inning off Luke Hochevar (1-2) to tie the game at 2. Ian Kinsler also homered for the Tigers.Justin Verlander (9-6) allowed one earned run and four hits. Justin Wilson pitched the eighth and Francisco Rodriguez finished for his 25th save in 27 chances.Collins was called up from the minors before the game to replace Justin Upton, who was put on the bereavement list. Collins was 2 for 22 with Detroit this season before his seventh-inning homer tied the game. After consecutive singles by Jose Iglesias and Kinsler, Soria came on and walked Cameron Maybin to load the bases with one out.After falling behind 3-0 on Cabrera, Soria recovered to strike out the Detroit slugger, but Martinez followed with his grounder that turned into a two-run single.Verlander struck out the side in the first, and Kinsler led off the bottom half with a homer, but Detroit couldnt add to that lead. With men on first and second in the sixth, Kansas Citys Salvador Perez lifted a deep drive to right that Steven Moya couldnt handle. Perez ended up with an RBI double, and another run came home on the play thanks to a throwing error by Kinsler.Kansas City starter Ian Kennedy allowed a run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out three.RESPECTRoyals manager Ned Yost, who was the American League skipper at the All-Star Game, talked a bit about Cabreras gesture in Tuesdays game in which he insisted Kansas Citys Eric Hosmer get another at-bat to try to boost his MVP case. Cabrera didnt replace Hosmer until the seventh inning of that game.Whats really unique about the All-Star Game for me is that you get 34 guys from different organizations that youre screaming at and yelling at one day from across the field, but you walk into that clubhouse door and its amazing how they unite into a team for two days, Yost said.RETURNThe most memorable thing Collins did with the Tigers earlier this season was extend a middle finger toward booing home fans back in April. He heard plenty of cheers Friday. The homer was his first of the season for Detroit.It feels great, definitely, Collins said. 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