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Track star Marion Jones pleaded guilty for steroid use during the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2001 World Olympics. As a result, all her medals during that period will be forfeited and her winnings are to be returned amounting to $700,000. The runners up in all events participated by Jones would be upgraded to their proper positions.

She deserves this for tainting the reputation of the Olympics. What happened to clean and honest games? Why did you even bother becoming an athlete if you will use performance enhancing drugs? I hope this would serve as a lesson to all athletes.

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The two fighters have confirmed their schedule for their title bout where they are set to fit fist against fists in the boxing ring to see who’s better. Manny Pacquiao who defeated Oscar Dela Hoya in a stunning fight last year drew the attention of Hatton after hearing of the outcome of their bout. He says that Manny is indeed a worthy opponent but that he will be ready and will be surprising the champ. Manny Pacquiao is however in another fight, a fight for his advertising contract where he ended up in hot water. As the young boxer was making his name in the ring, he signed up for an entertainment channel Solar Sports which had a ten or fifteen year lock on all his fights/ matches. His having signed a contract with new broadcasters drew ire from the media outlet as they have sighted the provisions of his contract with them that he himself signed. Just another day in the life of a boxer who might have failed to look before he leapt out of the ring which he so dominates, into the world of corporate wrangling where lawyers and corporate people rule!

Guess what Nike has in store for James LeBron who celebrates his birthday, his name on a limited series of Zoom series shoes (again!). Called the Nike Zoom LeBron V Series, it will sadly be available only to those who are members of the Nike Members Only Store (better luck next time) as he celebrates his birthday today. There are however limited edition tee’s that are also for the same event and they both bear his favorite colors and logo or crest, the hooded lion. The honor that is LeBron’s has been graced with numerous awards and titles in his short career that is now 5 years in the making, with more to come for one of the NBA’s top stars. Featuring carbon composite inlays for utmost responsiveness, they are sure to cater to the NBA buff’s fancy as LeBron continues his career into the books as one of the hottest new stars in the league.

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Herb Score is the Cleveland Indians pitcher and the team’s former broadcaster who was injured in an accident way back, died in his home at Rocky River, Ohio. He was 75. Score’s career as the team’s pitcher started in 1955 and ended in 1959. He was awarded the American League Rookie of the Year in 1955 for going 16-10. He then went 20 to 9 the following year. He also made the All Star team, twice. But his wonderful career as a pitcher took a bad turn on the 7th of May, 1957. New York Yankees’ Gil MacDougald lined a ball off of Herb’s right eye. It broke his nose and his facial bones. Score was able to see again but he was never the same after that accident. He then became the broadcaster for the Indians from 1963 up to 1997, when he retired.

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Every countries is preparing for a most awaited Olympics which will showcase their athletes talent. Beijing Olympics is held on August 8-24, 2008 at Beijing, China. China Olympics will host 28 summer sports such as Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Badminton, Diving, Swimming, Table Tennis, and etc. and approximately 10,500 athletes participated the games. On August 18, triathlon was held at the triathlon venue and Snowsill, Emma from Australia ranked one with 1:58:27.66 total time. While on August 19, men’s sprint finals was held at Laoshan Velodrome and Hoy, Chris from Great Britain brag the gold medal. And on sailing individual laser competition that was held on august 19 at Qingdao Olympic sailing center Murdoch, Andrew brags the 1st rank. This Beijing is one of a kind experience for its opening that showcase a wonderful fireworks display at the birds nest stadium especially made for Beijing Olympics.

Installing the new captain on England’s team seems to be a very good call for the Brits. Even former captain David Beckham was impressed, (despite the fact that he had to lose the prestigious position to the new king of his country’s most well obsessed over sports). According to an interview by Fox, Beckham especially likes Terry’s approach to training. He finds it effective with its accurate and serious nature. He also said that Terry knew how to communicate with his team, which is always good because they are able pull off exactly what he needs. England is scheduled for a match against the United States.

Tennis is one of the classiest sports of all time, hence why some of the hottest sports people are Tennis players. However, the crème de la crème of the Tennis world seems to be too willing to flaunt their physical superiority by appearing on magazines that has nothing to do with the sports. It all started with Anna Kournikova, the first Tennis sensation who graced the billboards with her stunning physique. Next was Maria Sharapova, who luckily unlike the former, actually had the skills to win grand slam titles. Now, it seems that another Tennis star will be appearing on Playboy, we hear its another Russian doll, we hope she plays as hard as she does the guys.

As a young man, Roger Federer was notorious for his temper, this often led to him being kicked out of the court. As the years progressed, Federer learned to channel all of his energy to improving his craft. At age 12, Federer chose to give up football to focus on Tennis. It was a decision he would not regret seeing that it was the start of his rise to greatness. Today, Federer is still the number one tennis player. Rafael Nadal retired after losing to him in the last open wherein the latter had a standing ovation for putting us such a remarkable career in Tennis.

The sports world did not see a shadow of Ray Allen during the first four games at the East finals. Luckily, the would-have been-dead-man-walking, (his career would have been all up in smokes if he did not do something to make up for his absence) more than made up for his missing-in-action stint with a play that has got the crowd roaring. Allen was the reason why his team was able to make it off to the finals wherein they will be taking on Boston celtics. For now though, Allen claims he is just happy they could all go home and get a good night’s rest.

Detroit Pistons all time crowd drawer guard Richard Hamilton extends his arm as he leaves the court in the final seconds of the second half of the match, this was during round five of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball finals against the Boston Celtics at Boston. The match last Wednesday night wherein the Celtics were washed out by the Pistons on 106-102 on a take of a 3-2 ups in the game series got everyone wanting to see if its just good all luck or if they are actually seeing what could be, the start of a winning streak for the Detroit Pistons. Hopefully, the season could finally blow-off with some much needed highlights.