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Isiah Thomas is now officially fired from being the coach of the New York Knicks AND being the team’s president. He was fired after a season of unimaginable basketball, a lawsuit, and demands from fans.

Thomas’ team lost 59 games this season and somehow seemed to have lost the support from his players because his players didn’t play as they used to.

Donnie Walsh took over as team president last April 2 and chose to change coaches. He wants a new coach by June and is eyeing Mark Jackson or Herb Williams.

In New York, the goal to eliminate drug use among athletes is very tough. There are frequent drug tests done among baseball players. Last Friday there was an agreement which ensures that there will be no Mitchell Report anymore. With this agreement, I hope that each players and owners will be responsible and disciplined enough to play clean and to live clean.

This is a great move because it is better to play a fair game knowing that you’ve won not because of any performance-enhancing drugs but because of your own skills and ability. Visit this site for more detailed news about this issue: news.yahoo.com.

Last Tuesday night, Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs made 29 points as well as 12 rebounds to defeat the New Jersey Nets for their tenth straight victory with a score of 81-70. Manu Ginobili created 12 points for the San Antonio who is also a competitive one, also Tony Parker scored 11 points, Bruce Bowen scored 10 points and Ime Udoka had 11 rebounds.

While in the Nets, Vince Carter controlled the team with 19 points, Marcus Williams added 16 points and Devin Harris scored 13 points. The Nets have lost two in a row and remained in the eighth place in the Eastern Conference. Everyone in the Spurs didn’t think that they could play well, but they’ve won an eleven point lead.

Last Saturday at Home Depot Center, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez rumbled inside the ring for the WBC super bantamweight title had possession of Vazquez. In their first previous fight, Marquez seized the victory by the TKO in the seventh round, wherein Vazquez suffered because of a broken nose.

In the rematch in last August, Vazquez won by a knockout in the sixth round. In their third fight, Vazquez made a knockdown in the twelfth round to come out with a split-decision victory against Marquez to retain his title. They both received a 114-111 tally, although Vazquez was given a 113-112 score by one of the judges, James Jen-Kin due to the twelfth round knockdown.

For the tennis fans out there, Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal thrived at Dubai Tennis Championships. Each of them has proceeded to the second round Tuesday. Nadal have beaten Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany at 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4, while Roddick have defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain at 6-2, 6-4. He made 18 aces, 4 of them was done in the second round. Djokovic have crushed the Croatian player, Marin Cilic at 6-4, 6-3. Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic also proceeded, defeating the French player, Gael Monfils at 6-3, 6-2.

Many players also reached the second round like, Mikhail Ledovskikh of Russia, Olivier Rochus of Belgium and more.

Washington Wizards point guard superstar, Gilbert Arenas will return to practice from his long recovery in his knee surgery. Arenas’ injury took up for a year, and he had last surgery last April and followed by two more surgical operations last November. Arenas also took some drills, two weeks ago. But there is no schedule for his return to the team, who are also missing All-star forward Caron Butler, who has a hip injury.

In spite of Arenas’ injury, Wizards were still competing for the Southeast Division title. Washington have won four of its past five games, and move within one game, and well enough for the sixth place in the Eastern Conference.

Unseeded Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka won an entertaining tussle with American James Blake 6-7 7-6 6-1 to go through to the semi-finals of the Rome Masters on Friday.Wawrinka made a confident start, breaking Blake in the third game. But the American eighth seed held his nerve, broke back in the eighth game and took the first set in a tiebreak.

Blake showed more resilience in the second set, saving four set points when 5-3 down and two more in the tiebreak before Wawrinka leveled the score with a sweet backhand winner down the line.

The Swiss, who had treatment on back and leg problems at the end of the second set, used the momentum from the tiebreak win to romp home in the decider.

Wawrinka, who had beaten former world number ones Juan Carlos Ferrero and Marat Safin and Britain’s Andy Murray to reach this stage, will meet the winner of the match between top American Andy Roddick and Spain’s Tommy Robredo.

In the last National Football League Drafts, March 1, 2008, Alan Faneca signed a forty-million dollar contract with twenty-one million dollar guaranteed money under the New York Jets. It is also believed that Faneca is the highest paid offensive lineman in NFL history. The team expects that he will lead the team to the championships.

Also, last March 2, 2008, the New York Jets welcomed the Detroit Lions’ extreme offensive lineman Damien Woody. Woody agreed a five-year, twenty-five million dollar contract with eleven million dollar guaranteed money.  Now that the Jets want to advance their offensive line, they predict that they will win the coming matches.

According to ESPN news, during the Australian Open, Roger Federer who won over Janko Tipsarevic played the longest 5th set tennis match of his career. After 4 hours of game, Federer was able to gain the title of being the No.1 in Australian Open.

Their fight was very close that there were frequent ties during the match. Indeed, Tipsarevic was also a really great opponent. They were both competitive, no wonder that the game lasted for 4 hours. I just imagine the excitement among the audience. But just like in any other game, there must be a winner and a loser. Federer was lucky that time that he was able to smell the victory he is aiming.

Georgia Frontier is the owner of Rams, a football team. Aside from being the owner of the team, she served as a mother to the players, coaches, and staff. Sadly, at the age of 80, she died because of breast cancer. Despite her illness, she still did her best to be able to help people being involved in several philanthropic efforts. She built the St. Louis Rams Foundation and even donated $1 million to help the needy high school students for their college. Being called as the First Lady of Sports surely makes Frontier fulfilled and happy. She will surely remain as the First Lady of Sports in the hearts of every people she touched.