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The 24-year-old has described his ordeal insisting that it was 'not like the movies' as he felt dizzy and began to see double before he collapsed and his heart stopped.
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Around 300 activists in Ukraine on Saturday urged the authorities to stop killing stray dogs as the country is preparing to host the Euro 2012 football championship this summer. The activists representing several of the former Soviet republic's non-governmental organisations...
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| March 26 (Infostrada Sports) - Result and standings from the
Russian championship relegation group on Monday.
Monday, March 26
Terek Groznyi 1 FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod 3
Sunday, March 25
Rostov 2 Spartak Nalchik 1
Saturday, March 24
FK Krasnodar 0 Amkar Perm 1
Tom Tomsk 0 Krylya Sovietov Samara 0
Standings P W D L F A Pts
1 FK Krasnodar 36 13 9 14 45 50 48
2 Rostov 36 11 9 16 38 50 42
3 Terek Groznyi 36 11 8 17 35 52 41
4 Amkar Perm 36 10 11 15 28 43 41
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5 Krylya Sovietov Samara 36 8 11 17 24 46 35
6 FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod 36 10 4 22 30 47 34
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7 Spartak Nalchik 36 6 9 21 30 49 27
8 Tom Tomsk 36 5 11 20 21 62 26
5-6: Relegation play-off
7-8: Relegation
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At this point, seemingly half the NBA is on Twitter. It's a wild world of training updates, questions as to which movies they should go see, and explanations of their Call of Duty prowess. Every so often, though, you also get a picture into the more interesting aspects of NBA life. This feature is your window into that world.
Charlie Bell : Did some Italian TV today. I understood 6 words. The rest of the time I just smiled. Lol instagr.am/p/IFuEn-HXfe/
Royal Ivey : My best friend @tj_ford just retired when I step on the court I'm no longer just playing 4 myself and teammates I'm playing 4 u! #BFF !
Chris Singleton : Developing my nonprofit THE LEAGUE
Andrew Bogut : Panera ran out of my favorite soup, but rest assured the worker went to the back and they had a whole new batch! #GreatNews ! … I love my soup, and yes I take it very seriously!
Chris Kaman : Guess who we r playing tonight?! twitpic.com/8vgcwu twitpic.com/8vgcxw … FYI hunting is probably my favorite hobby!
You can also follow Eric Freeman on Twitter at @ freemaneric . | |
| It's a new season, and that means a new year of Power Rankings. Each week throughout the season, we'll size up who's rising and who's falling, based on current standings, behind-the-scenes changes, expected staying power, recent history and general gut feelings. It is not scientific, nor is it meant to be. And remember, whoever your favorite driver is, we're biased against him and like someone else better. So let's begin with a guy we haven't seen around here lately ...
1.Greg Biffle: In the first three races, Greg Biffle has finished third, third and third. That's halfway to the apocalypse! If Biffle keeps this pace up over the whole season, he'll finish ... well, he'd probably win the championship. Which would be weird if he did that never finishing higher than third. But we'll have to deal with it when the time comes, won't we? Last week: 3.
2. Denny Hamlin: You know that Hamlin was loving it when Darian Grubb notched a win before Tony Stewart did. So what does Stewart do? Comes back and wins the next week! Dammit! Stewart has to be like the guy who says he can do anything better than you, and then goes out and does it. Those people stink. Last week: 1.
3 . Tony Stewart . If you had to pick one driver to win a race for you because your life depended on it ... well, you'd probably be trapped in some weird old '80s movie where strange plot contrivances like that were a way of life. But if you did, I'd go with Stewart, and I'd up the ante by saying that nobody respects him and everybody's counting him out and all that business. The guy gets motivated by that kind of talk. Which is good when your life is on the line. Last week: 7.
4. Dale Earnhardt Jr.: I have to admit, one of the great pleasures of this business is watching when people who are rabidly, completely unhinged in favor of (or against) one driver see that driver's fortunes running in the opposite direction than they want. What do you think the haters were thinking when Junior was ticking off laps three seconds ahead of the field? Of course, they got their satisfaction a few laps later, but still ... nothing like seeing a little comeuppance. Last week: 5.
5. Kevin Harvick: A friend of mine who's not a NASCAR fan decided to go for Harvick this year because he's got a baby on the way. Extra motivation and all that. I beg to differ; if you're a parent, you'll do ANYTHING YOU CAN to avoid the messiness of taking care of an infant. So when lil' Cupcake arrives, expect to see Harvick willing to drive the car even if it's on fire to avoid taking it to the garage. The more time on the track, the less time spent changing diapers. Just saying. Last week: 4.
6. Matt Kenseth: We have an early nominee for "most striking paint scheme of 2012" with Kenseth's Zest ride on Sunday. I thought it looked like mouthwash; others compared it to toothpaste. Bottom line: that's a blue you don't find in nature. Still, the wall at Vegas is now Zestfully clean after that end-of-the-race rub. Last week: 2.
7. Jimmie Johnson: There was a time when Johnson would have run down Stewart like a leopard on a baby gazelle in one of those nature videos. But now, Stewart is the master. It's like "Star Wars," which would make Stewart Vader's son, except that Stewart is older and has already won ... you know what, I've tortured enough metaphors this entry. Punching out and moving on. Last week: 10.
8. Carl Edwards: It's now been over a year since Carl Edwards' last win. O-for-36! What a failure! He's got nothing left! Though if history is any guide, Edwards will grab wins in bunches ... even if they come too late to do him any good in a given season. And he can always go back to Nationwide and beat up on the kids if he needs to get some flips out. Last week: 9.
9. Kyle Busch: Did you catch Busch's coldblooded murder of the orange cone late in the race? We couldn't believe they kept showing that in such graphic detail. Absolutely no regard for the victim's family there. Fox Sports: heartless. Also, isn't it about time we started mandating safety equipment for cones? Last week: 6.
10. Martin Truex Jr.: You gotta feel a bit sorry for MTJ. After all, he's by no means the most famous Junior in NASCAR, so we can't call him that. And Mark Martin is the first "Martin" everybody thinks of. Which leaves Truex, which sounds like an antifungal cream, and one that would be sponsoring Carl Edwards if it even existed. So we need a nickname for this guy, pronto. Get on it, people. Last week: 8.
11. Mark Martin: OK, everybody admit it. We all love Mark Martin. Everybody does. Seriously. No ill will for the guy at all. But haven't you wanted to ram a slow elderly driver in the rear bumper the way Junior did? Bet that felt goooood. I tried it this morning and all I got was a ticket and a lawsuit from this old woman. "Whiplash" my eye. She wasn't even going fast enough to crack a whip. Save me, Junior! Last week: 11.
1 2. Joey Logano . The yellow Dollar General ride confused a few people Sunday, but not as many as the position in which Logano ran early in the race. Sure, he faded to around the 20s fairly fast, but it's been a decent enough season so far for Sliced Bread. Not decent enough to get him a better nickname, but still. Last week : NR.
Lucky Dog: Jamie McMurray. Zoolander returns! Time again for everybody's favorite frosted-tip/Ricky Bobby bird victim driver to return to the spotlight. A good solid run Sunday was anything but pathetic, and McMurray will need much more of that to hang onto his seat at Ganassi after this year.
DNF: Kurt Busch. Another week, another wrecked Phoenix Motorsports car. Kurt's certainly creating enough ashes for this phoenix to rise from, that's for sure.
Next up: Bristol! Fighter jets in a toilet bowl! Skittles in a gymnasium! Something like that. Anyway, send your co mments to us via Twitter at @jaybusbee , via email by clicking here , and via Facebook . Go!
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The Zone Read is your college football primer to make you seem like the smartest person at the water cooler even if you're not.
Georgia Tech is trying a new recruiting pitch: Come to GT and you might see a movie star.
That's what several of Georgia top high school juniors were hoping this past weekend when the coaching staff took them for a tour of campus and stopped at the baseball fields where Clint Eastwood was shooting scenes from his new movie "Trouble with the Curve." According to MTV.com , the movie "revolves around an aging baseball scout (played by Eastwood), who goes on a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to check out a potential recruit" and stars Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman and Justin Timberlake.
Unfortunately for the recruits, the stars were not out as they rolled by, so it wasn't exactly a selling point. But the idea that there might have been Hollywood royalty on Georgia Tech's campus created a little bit of intrigue.
"That was awesome, seeing how everything was set up," JJ Green, an all-purpose athlete from Camden County High School told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . "We probably should've stayed around there and tried to get into the movie."
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| India jumped into the world of MMA with the start of Super Fight League, a new promotion that debuted in Mumbai over the weekend. James Thompson submitted Bob Sapp at 1:52 because Sapp sustained a leg injury .
The real star of the show was SFL's theme song, which should shoot to the top of the charts immediately. It somehow combines the guitar riffs of an 80s movie montage song with the rapping skill of Snow. Basically, it's amazing.
"Boom, pow, punch kick WOW!" will be playing in your head for the rest of the day. You're welcome.
Thanks, Bloody Elbow . | |
| I'd wanted to do a full-on review of "The Announcement" ⎯ ESPN Films' latest documentary, which revisits Magic Johnson's watershed Nov. 7, 1991, revelation that he is HIV-positive ⎯ in time for its broadcast premiere Sunday night at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, as I've done for a handful of other hoops-focused documentaries over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, the end of the week got a little hectic , which led to some scrambling and the scuttling of some best-laid plans. So, no full review this time around.
On the other hand, I don't want to give the work of Brooklyn-born filmmaker and journalist Nelson George short shrift, leave readers that dig these documentary pieces hanging, or come away from all that watching, note-taking and thinking empty-handed. So in lieu of a full review, here are a handful of thoughts about "The Announcement," which you can check out tomorrow night. (These were supposed to be brief thoughts, but they are not.)
We'd love it if you'd share your take on the doc in the comments, at the Ball Don't Lie Facebook page or on Twitter, whether by reaching out to me or to our @YahooBDL account.
1. "The Announcement" feels sort of rigid and didactic, which is kind of the point, but is still a bit of a problem.
The documentary has dual aims, one micro and one macro. On one hand, George wants to examine the lead-up to, events surrounding and aftermath of Johnson's announcement, as told through interviews with the principals involved in the story ⎯ Johnson, his wife Cookie, his close friends, his teammates and his doctors. On the other hand, the filmmaker wants to use the 20th anniversary of Johnson's nationally broadcast press conference announcing that he had contracted HIV and was retiring from professional basketball as an occasion for reflection on the impact the megastar's disclosure has had on the fight against AIDS.
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At this point, seemingly half the NBA is on Twitter. It's a wild world of training updates, questions as to which movies they should go see, and explanations of their Call of Duty prowess. Every so often, though, you also get a picture into the more interesting aspects of NBA life. This feature is your window into that world.
Chris Singleton : Who has the whole #DragonBallZ collection for me?? I have my junkdrive for you can store it on
JaVale McGee : Watching jack n Jill
Zaza Pachulia : Only NBA player wearing Louboutin shoes. Jannero Pargo. He has to be the Best Dressed. lockerz.com/s/191024091
Kyle Lowry : I'm laid up in the hospital only got my computer can someone send me the site to watch the sports tourneys?
Jeff Green : Watching Coyote and Roadrunner on cartoon network lol love it but mad the Coyote never caught him
You can also follow Eric Freeman on Twitter at @ freemaneric . | |
| Georgia's president says his country plans to form a joint bid with neighboring Azerbaijan to co-host the 2020 European Championship. President Mikhail Saakashvili made the announcement on Wednesday while addressing Azerbaijan's parliament. Neither former Soviet nation has ever qualified for a major international football competition since gaining independence in 1991. |
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