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Dana Stubblefield was a former football defense player. Currently, he is the defensive line coach of the varsity at the Valley Christian High School in California. After the 5-year investigation on the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) incident, he was pleaded guilty. Sadly, he was the second athlete aside from Marion Jones who lied to federal agents regarding the use of performance-enhancing drugs or steroids. The school where Stubblefield is working with doesn’t have any decision yet whether they would still let Stubblefield work with them.

I think Stubblefield has some regrets regarding the issue. Based on his records, he won a lot of titles from 1993 until 2004. I’m sure his own skill per se can lead him to victory even without the use of any steroids. This issue would be a great lesson for any athletes. I hope that cases like this would not happen again.

Grambling State answered in the fourth and upped its lead to 7-3 when freshman Adrian Turner recorded a three-run homer to right. Prairie View wouldn’t go away as they added five runs over the next two frames to regain an 8-7 advantage going into the top of the sixth. Down by one run entering the top of the eighth, the Tigers tied the game at 8-8 after a solo homer by Justin Kelly and the defense came through in the bottom half as reliever Matt Morales retired the side in order. In the top of the ninth, GSU catcher Shannon Meheia opened the inning with a single but was thrown out at second after Anthony Clifton hit into a fielder’s choice. However, Clifton made the most of the situation and moved to third after stealing second combined with an error by Prairie View pitcher Mark Almaguer with one out.

Source: The News Star

Infielder Adrian Beltre sat out all baseball-related activities Friday to rest a sore thumb on his throwing hand. Beltre took part in conditioning drills and other parts of the daily workout. McLaren said he thinks Beltre could play today. Left-hander Eric O’Flaherty has a sore lower back, so his next appearance was pushed back. Right-hander Miguel Batista, who also has been bothered by a sore lower back, threw a bullpen session Friday and is expected to make his next start Sunday. Designated hitter Jose Vidro, who has been bothered by a sore right elbow, hit off a tee and might play today.

Source: The News Tribune

Isiah Thomas is at risk of being fired due to public clamor on the losses of the Knicks. Garden chairman James Dolan is the only one that will determine when Thomas will be fired. The Knicks’ last loss was 108-82 to the Warriors where the spectators were furious at the coaching style of Mr. Thomas.

But the question is who will replace him? There have been numerous speculations but it is still up to Mr. Dolan. Personally, I do not want to blame the coach for everything. Basketball is a team effort. Everybody is accountable, win or lose.

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O’Neal’s two blocked shots made him the third player in NBA history to have 26,000 points, 11,500 rebounds and 2,500 blocks. The others are Kareem-Abdul Jabaar and Hakeem Olajuwon.The intense victory stemmed Phoenix’s slide in the standings, pulling them a game ahead of Dallas for the No. 6 spot in the West. Former Sun Kurt Thomas made an 18-footer to put the Spurs ahead 85-80 with 5:12 to play. A frustrated Suns coach Mike D’Antoni drew a technical moments later, but Ginobili missed the free throw in a sign of things too come. Nash’s 3-pointer cut it to 85-83 with 3:40 to play. A 24-second clock violation by San Antonio led to Stoudemire’s driving shot over Duncan that tied it at 85 with 2:58 left.

Source: Comcast.net

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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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.

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.