Alon Mizrahi - An Israeli poet.

"I've nothing to prove and I proved it today on the field"
"I wanna play in Europe or in Spain"
To stay in the league we are going to have to beat all of the teams, especially the ones we are going to play against.

Quotes

You can observe a lot just by watching.

-- Yogi Berra

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. I just can't figure out where else to play!
-- Pat Williams

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother. -- Lou Holtz



 

12.4. 1978 - Happy Birthday to Carles Puyol

The heart and soul of the grand Barca 

13.4 1952 - Happy birthday to Jonjo O'Neill

And what a birthday present  -  to win at last the greatest race of all!!

FIVE EVENTS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

1. Eight men take money to fix the 1919 World Series.
2. Somebody orders the baseball juiced up, 1921.
3. Jets beat the Colts in Super Bowl 3, 1969.
4. Texas Western beats Kentucky in the NCAA basketball championship, 1966.
5. The Braves move to Milwaukee, 1953.

Today in history : 12 april : Boxing deaths...

1981 - Joe Louis, [Brown bomber], US heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49), dies at 66




1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer

Today in history : 12 april , 1941 : Booby Moore Birthday

Quotations

• "My captain, my leader, my right-hand man. He was the spirit and the heartbeat of the team. A cool, calculating footballer I could trust with my life. He was the supreme professional, the best I ever worked with. Without him England would never have won the World Cup." Alf Ramsey*
• "He was my friend as well as the greatest defender I ever played against. The world has lost one of its greatest football players and an honourable gentleman." Pelé
• "Bobby Moore was a real gentleman and a true friend." Franz Beckenbauer
• "Bobby Moore was the best defender in the history of the game" Franz Beckenbauer^[9]

• "There should be a law against him. He knows what's happening 20 minutes before everyone else." Jock Stein
• "Ask me to talk about Bobby Moore the footballer and I will talk for days. Ask me about the man and I will dry up in a minute." Ron Greenwood (from Jeff Powell (journalist) quoted in When Saturday Comes issue 260, October 2008)

Today in history : 12 april , 1969 : Simon & Garfunkel releases "The Boxer"

In his 1984 Playboy interview, Simon revealed that he wrote this song when critics were writing harsh things about his music - he was the boxer. Said Simon: "I think the song was about me: everybody's beating me up, and I'm telling you now I'm going to go away if you don't stop. By that time we had encountered our first criticism. For the first few years, it was just pure praise. It took two or three years for people to realize that we weren't strange creatures that emerged from England but just two guys from Queens who used to sing rock'n'roll. And maybe we weren't real folkies at all! Maybe we weren't even hippies!"

Quotes..

We didn't Disregard them.
Just turned out that they were much better than we thought. - Sir Bobby Robson RIP

Most efficient franchise in the NBA

 Oklahoma City Thunder, $55.9 million payroll, $1.12 million per win. Clay Bennett's payroll is the envy of his fellow owners. For starters, no team has less salary on the books than the Thunder, but look deeper: More than $5 million is covered by an insurance policy on Matt Harpring, whose contract the Thunder took on while netting rookie point guard Eric Maynor in the deal. That leaves the Thunder at $49 million in actual operating costs.

Valdano and Perez

Valdano and  Perez, two 'alchemists'  that turns gold (excuse the expression) to crap...

kinder Tiger ?

We're about to find out if a kinder Tiger can still win in a very selfish sport

Here is the question now about this new, softer, calmer, suddenly huggable  Tiger:
What if the same insatiable hunger that fueled his sex drive is the same insatiable hunger that fueled his golf drive?

the return of maria sharapova

During her layoff, Sharapova has dropped from 1st to 23rd in the World rankings.
 From AP-
Maria Sharapova is returning to the WTA Tour this week, ending her injury absence of more than seven months by playing doubles at an event in Indian Wells, Calif.
Sharapova, who missed the last two Grand Slam tournaments with a right shoulder injury, will compete in doubles for the first time in nearly four years, teaming with Elena Vesnina.
What the three-time major champion isn't yet ready to do is play singles, according to her Web site.
"I am excited to be playing competitive tennis again," Sharapova said in a posting on her site. "The healing process takes time, and requires things to move more slowly than I would like, but I am taking things one step at a time."

The return of Maria Sharapova might bring just the competition the sport requires. She may well be the shot in the arm that women's tennis needs.

Jim Clark

Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany

One in five of China's athletes lie about their age

An x-ray analysis of the bones of competitors in the Youth Games in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong discovered that 3,000 of the 15,000 athletes, or 20 per cent, had misrepresented their age

Germany has 2 great goalies - Neuer and Adler..

.. a luxury that capello can only dream of, but  With a lottery summoned her the strong team of  Serbia and the talented team of Ghana, it's a doubt that Germany will even qualify for next stage.

Messsssiii

Sometimes a band needs to leave the stage to emphasize the lead singer...

Malone & Pippen

Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen and two of the best U.S. Olympic teams were selected on Monday as part of the 2010 induction class for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Barca

The greatest team nowadays but in to use a Rock critics Cliches : one cannot smell the sweat. Quite a bummer.

Carrick and Fletcher

On every  good game the United, the duo Carrick - Fletcher are playing together