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On Saturday the final of the Gold Cup will be played out between the CONCACAF giants: Mexico and the United States. This will be the third time in a row the two have played the final and the Americans will surely be looking to avenge their 5-0 thrashing from 2009.
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Someone had to do it, so I figured I might as well take this one for the Internet team.
So here he is, Jim Rigglememe, explaining why his resignation (and subsequent partying) was definitely the most interesting resignation in the world yesterday.
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I was just killing some time, scrolling this FOX Sports slideshow of the NBA Draft’s winners and losers when I came across a slide that described the Cavaliers as “losers” for what they accomplished last night.
The slide was accompanied by this pic, and I swear that my split second, knee-jerk reaction to seeing it was, “Who the hell is the middle schooler on the left?”
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The 2011 NBA draft was one that was expected to be filled with international players. This came to be true when a total of 14 international players were taken in this year’s draft.
It was known that guys like Enes Kanter, Jonas Valanciunas, Jan Vesely, and Bismack Biyombo would be drafted, but many NBA fans were caught off guard by some of the foreign players taken later in the draft.
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When LeBron James announced last summer that he was taking his talents to South Beach, the American sports-viewing public was disappointed. We were disappointed that LeBron felt that he needed a one-hour television special to make a free agency announcement, that ESPN went along with it, and that we watched it.
But we were also disappointed that LeBron left Cleveland.
We knew it was coming, but we held out hope that the best high school player to come out of northern Ohio would stay in the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria combined statistical area and bring a championship (or at least some more good basketball) to North America’s most long-suffering sports city.
Professional sports teams are named for cities, states and regions, but the athletes themselves are mercenaries. Often they have no prior connection to the city in which they play. They’re hired to do a job, and they pack up and move accordingly. Even athletes who would love nothing more than to suit up for the team they cheered on as a kid don’t always have that opportunity. They’re at the mercy of drafts, trades, and salary caps.
So it’s refreshing when things work out and a hometown product can play for the hometown team.
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If you watched any of the NBA Draft’s first round last night, you heard the chorus of boos that reigned down on NBA commissioner David Stern from pick #1 all the way until pick #30.
But at least one fan in attendance at least liked Stern enough to wear a shirt with a gigantic picture of the commish.
David Stern fan spotted at NBA Draft — Oncourt Onslaught
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The next Chad Ochocinco has emerged. It should surprise no one that it is Ron Artest. The mercurial forward is now apparently changing his name to Metta World Peace.
This is interesting because my parents were originally going to go with Metta World as my first name, but they settled on Jerod instead. Oh how different things might have turned out…
Ron Artest files petition to change name — ESPN.com
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If you are a football coach from the state of Ohio, then it seems like you automatically become a candidate to replace Luke Fickell as head football coach at Ohio State University in 2012.
Many big name coaches from Ohio have been tossed around as possible candidates to replace Fickell as head football coach. This once proud program is about to receive the harshest penalty from the NCAA since SMU got the death penalty in 1986. This may have been one of the top jobs in college football in years past, but now it is a job that will have many premier coaches from the state of Ohio turning down.
Here is why these top coaches from Ohio will not replace Luke Fickell in 2012. [Read more...]
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Get excited Chicago Blackhawks and NHL fans: the official 2011-12 regular season schedule has been released by the NHL.
