Sportscast Daily

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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.

Oscar dela Hoya fights up with Steve Forbes last night and apparently the thrill and excitement just got off. The most awaited match is the father and son team up of Floyd Mayweather Sr. and his son. Dela Hoya’s performance was not as good as before according to Mayweather Sr. that makes them ahead on the game. The rematch would probably favor Mayweather Jr. because dela Hoya’s punching combinations just not as sharp as before. The Sr. is confident in winning the rematch because according to him, he knows Oscar and he knows just what to give him. Well let’s just wait and see.

Two superpowers are going to face each other at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. United States and China and their corresponding basketball teams are going to face each other in the first game of the Olympics. The draw was held at Beijing where US belonged to group B together with China, the defending world champion Spain and Angola. The other group is composed of the Olympic champion Argentina, Iran, Australia, Lithuania and Russia. Canada is still trying to earn a spot to compete in the Beijing Olympics. On the other hand, the defending champions US Women’s basketball team, were also drawn to group B with China, Mali and New Zealand.

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.

Andy Murray gave his fiercest performance on clay courts.This was done in an awe inspiring straight-sets victory against Argentina’s Jose Acasuso at the latest French Open. England’s top one put a hefty initial-round disposition in the past as he went to bag up to a 6-4 6-0 6-4 win, as well as a third-round tie up with Nicolas Almagro. Murray dominated the game from the outset blurring the tie in game one and serving out winning sets all the way to the finals without so much as breaking a sweat. He sealed the win in just over half an hour.

When Livan Hernandez takes the hill and helps the Minnesota Twins stay undefeated. The twins won all five of Livan Hernandez’s starts this season. Hernandez, a right-hander, goes 3-0 with a 3.55 earned run average in those outings. He has not earned a decision in either of his last two starts however, after starting his AL career with three straight wins. He gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings against the Oakland Atlethics in the Twin’s 5-4 win. Hernandez also won his three starts against the Rangers but had 6.86 ERA pitching.