Archive for November, 2009

Blog:Floyd Mayweather Jr put on hold as Manny Pacquiao considers becoming eighth wonder

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The contest that every boxing fan wants to see may have to wait because Manny Pacquiao is being groomed for an even more audacious challenge before he takes on his last great, unconquered rival, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

While the deal-makers work on Pacquiao-Mayweather, Freddie Roach, the Filipino’s trainer, has ambitions for his boxer to go up yet another weight and claim a world title at an eighth weight division. Roach, specifically, has his eyes on Yuri Foreman, the New York-based Israeli, who is the World Boxing Association light-middleweight champion.Mbt sale   Mbt shoes sale   Mbt trainers  Mbts   Mbt shoes

Pacquiao won his first world title at flyweight, which is up to eight stone. If he moves up another weight he will be competing at 11 stone.

The 30-year-old was already breaking new ground when he beat Miguel Cotto, on November 14, to win a world title in a seventh different weight division. It was after that victory at welterweight that he said that he believed his ascent through the weights had come to a natural end. However, Roach clearly has other ideas — and Pacquiao tends to follow his advice.

“The Mayweather fight is the fight the world wants to see,” Roach said. “It’s going to be the biggest pay-per-view fight of all time. But I think we will fight one fight before that.”

Roach said that Pacquiao’s schedule will be constructed around his political ambitions and the elections in the Philippines on May 10. “But there is a March date for him to fight,” Roach said. “People think I am crazy but I want him to win his eighth title against Yuri Foreman at 154lb. That’s my idea — then fight Mayweather in September. And then retire.”

The way Roach sees it, there will be no further blemishes on Pacquiao’s record by the time he greets retirement, although he does concede that Mayweather will be “the hardest fight of his life”.

“Mayweather’s a very difficult fight for Manny,” he said. “It won’t be physically the hardest, but it will be the hardest fight of his life style-wise. Mayweather is talented and he’s good at defence. I have a very good game plan for him, but I’m sure a lot of other guys thought that along the way.

“We’ll have a ten-week training camp. We have to work on a lot of new moves, we have to improve in certain areas to win that fight.” And would he expect his man to win? “Oh yes. Without a doubt.”

This is, of course, a different view to that espoused by Mayweather after he had witnessed Pacquiao’s brutal demolition of Cotto. Mayweather described Pacquiao as “easy work, easy fight. I don’t see no versatility in Manny Pacquiao. I see just a fighter, you know, a good puncher, but just one dimension.”

It is not as if it would need Mayweather’s familiar bragging to sell this one, but he may have to bite his tongue for a while. If Roach gets his way, Pacquiao’s first stop is with Foreman, who was born in Belarus when it was still part of the Soviet Union.

The 29-year-old moved to Israel when he was 9 and is as serious about Judaism as he is about his boxing. Foreman boxes with the Star of David stitched on to his shorts and he is also an aspiring rabbi.

Blog:Matthew Cryer’s death at nightclub in Zante ‘covered up to protect tourism’

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

When Matthew Cryer was found dying outside a Greek nightclub, local police dismissed the student as just another victim of binge drinking. Officers claimed that the 17-year-old died after falling down a 20ft flight of steps at the Cocktails and Dreams club on the island of Zante, having drunk a mixture of spirits known as a “bomb”.

Greek television reported the death by showing footage of intoxicated young Britons having sex on Zante’s beaches, and commentators called for a crackdown on the 200,000 British tourists who visit the island, also known as Zakynthos, each year.

But after a tireless campaign by Matthew’s parents, Greek prosecutors have agreed to review the investigation amid allegations that the real cause of his death was covered up to protect the tourism industry.

British police are to hand over hundreds of pages of evidence that Matthew, from Sheffield, was attacked, and a British coroner has ruled that he was unlawfully killed.

Matthew, an engineering student, became separated from his friends during a night out at the Laganas resort in July. Police said that he was found critically unwell outside the club, the resort’s largest.

A police spokesman said at the time: “The local coroner’s report said the youngster apparently choked and suffered cardiac arrest from excessive intake of alcohol.” The owner of the club was questioned over allegations that alcohol had been served to a customer under 18 but Matthew’s parents were never told of any further investigations.

However, a post-mortem examination in Britain showed that Matthew had suffered 20 injuries, including severe head injuries. At his inquest, witnesses said they had seen door staff at Cocktails and Dreams push him down the stairs before he was punched and kicked in the head. Local police failed to intervene, the inquest at Chesterfield heard. An ambulance took an hour to arrive before taking Matthew to hospital, where he died.

Robert Hunter, the Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner, ruled that Matthew had been unlawfully killed. “It beggared belief that Greek police made no real effort to find out what had caused Matthews injuries,” Dr Hunter said.

Matthew’s father, David Cryer, 44, said: “The Greeks have covered up what happened to Matthew from Day 1. They just wanted it to go away because it is a holiday destination and they did not want to put off other tourists.”

Matthew’s mother, Joanne Froud, 43, said: “It has been an horrendous experience but we are determined to get to the bottom of what happened. We will keep going until we can finally get justice.”

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Grendel Attackied The Hall Heorot (part 4)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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Thus Grendel held sway and fought against right ,one against all,until the best of houses stood empty.It was a long time,the length of twelve winters ,that the lord of the Scyldings suffered grief,all woes,great sorrows .Therefore,sadly in songs ,it became well-known to the children of men that Grendel had fought a long time with Hrothgar,for many half-years maintained mortal spite,feud,and enmity——constant war.He wanted no peace with any of the men of the Danish host ,would not withdraw his deadly rancor .or pay comoensation :no counselor there had any reason to expect splendid repayment at the hands of the slay-er.For the monster was relentless ,the dark death-shadow,against warrior old and young lay in wait and ambushed them .In the perpetual darkness he held to the misty moors ;men do not know where hell-demons direct their foot-steps. Mbt Lami 

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Blog:Rafael Nadal leaves World Tour Finals with food for thought

Friday, November 27th, 2009

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He said thank you to the ballgirl who caught the last sweaty towel he will brandish on the ATP Tour this year, which is a rarity in itself.

Then Rafael Nadal smacked a double-handed backhand beyond the lines and headed out of a city that he has preferred this year for its Spanish cuisine more than anything to do with the tennis.

Who would have thought at the outset of these Barclays ATP World Tour Finals that Nadal would be bidding farewell before the round-robin process was completed, with not a set to his name in three matches and stuck on 399 career victories? Perhaps it should not have been such a surprise, for he has been breathing smoke rather than fire for a few weeks now.

Nadal’s competitiveness has been invigorated since his return from the tendinitis in his knees that forced the man who would have been defending Wimbledon champion to miss the grass-court season and the abdominal muscle tear that reduced his effectiveness on the United States’ hard courts.

Unfortunately for the world No 2, he has come back less of a player, in that the depth and spite of his shot is not what it was, his serve is a liability among the top-ten players and he does not carry the beast-like persona that was worth a set or two before most matches started.

“Finished, the batteries,” he said. “Need a recharge. You have to buy another two and then I will be ready for next year. I need to recover the confidence on the shot-making and then, I am sure, it will be fine. I am not disappointed here because I did not arrive with the feeling I would win.”

Whether he has bulked down or not, the impression — he uses the word himself — is that Nadal is a bit smaller than before and that, by comparison, everyone is that bit bigger against him.

Though he threw his towel at ballgirls, he never threw in the metaphorical one in the match itself. Novak Djokovic, his opponent, who looked like a dead man walking on Wednesday, had more zip in his legs yesterday, securing a 7-6, 6-3 victory It was not enough, though, to clinch the Serb a place in the last four because Nikolay Davydenko responded just as we have become used to him responding. In this, his fifth consecutive appearance in the end-of-year finals, Davydenko outlasted Robin Söderling, the previously unbeaten first reserve, 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 and will meet Roger Federer in the semi-finals today. As the Swiss leads their head-to-head meetings by a staggering 12-0, the Russian will probably be playing for the consolation of $250,000 (about £150,000) in prize money.

Nadal has one last appointment this year, the Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic in Barcelona, where a Spanish victory rests so much on his shoulders. When, midway through the second set yesterday, he required manipulation to the small of his back, Spain must have been wincing with him, as he buried his head deep into one of his green sweatbands.

Then he started to roll his left foot and puff out his cheeks. It was getting to be a tough grind.

Blog:Champion changes pool’s image

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Wearing a pink sweater, blue jeans and a pair of sneakers, the pony-tailed Liu Shasha looks like the typical girl next-door.

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On Sunday evening, the 16-year-old became the youngest ever winner of the World 9-ball Championships in Shenyang, Liaoning province. She is the second player from the Chinese mainland to have taken the pool title, following in the footsteps of Pan Xiaoting, who won in 2007.

Liu out-shot two-time world champion Liu Shin-Mei from Chinese Taipei, Pan and top seed Karen Corr, from Britain, on her way to victory.

Her road to the title began at age 12 when the Henan native was inspired by photographs of world-class pool, snooker and billiards players.

“The pictures of (Stephen) Hendry, Ding Junhui and sister Xiaoting (Pan Xiaoting) were hanging on the wall of the billiard room where I started. At that time, all I dared to dream was just having a photo with them,” she told China Daily from the Fuxiaofang billiard club, where she trains for eight hours a day.

Liu, who grew up in a farmer’s family, is now an icon herself among the next generation of pool players following her win on Sunday. Now, she joins the ranks of the sport’s elite, along with Ding, China’s internationally acclaimed snooker player, and Pan, a consistent world top-five in the Women’s Professional Billiards Association.

When she arrived back in Beijing on Monday, she was welcomed at the club where she trains by a swarm of fans.

Among them was Zhu Tingting, an 18-year-old from Zhejiang province who started training under Zhang Shuchun, Liu’s mentor, a year ago.

Zhu received no support from her family when she first became addicted to the sport during the summer vacation following her second year at junior high school.Mbt shoes uk     Mbt Lami     Mbt m walk

“They thought it was not a sport played by good students and even more unbecoming for girls,” Zhu said.

She was kept away from the sport until, like millions of other teenagers, her mother read news stories about Pan.

Dressed in an exquisite costume and displaying good manners and graceful conversation, Pan, the country’s No 1 women’s 9-ball player is now one of the most famous females in China’s sports world.

“My mother started to understand it could be a career for girls – and a promising one. She learned that girls can become more cultured and charming by playing pool, instead of becoming more vulgar,” Zhu said.

Now, her parents spend 220,000 yuan ($32,000) a year honing their daughter’s talent for 9-ball and the success of Liu has further inspired the family to persevere.

China occupied three of the top four places at the Worlds last week (Pan finished third and Fu Xiaofang, who was coached by Zhang, was fourth). With the international success there has been a boom in interest domestically, said Zhang Xiaodong, director of the cue sport department under China’s State Sport General Administration.

“Liu’s success will surely drive more youths to the sport and will not escape the notice of millions of parents, just as happened with Ding Junhui and Pan Xiaoting,” he told China Daily.

However, the healthy state of the sport today is a far cry from where it was a few years ago, said coach Zhang.

When he was 20, Zhang fell in love with pool in a small village 100 km from Harbin, Heilongjiang province. His family was strongly against his new interest. Even his girlfriend left him, saying he did “not have a proper profession”.

Now he is the owner of a club with more than 30 tables located close to the iconic Bird’s Nest stadium and he trains some of the best female pool players in the world.

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Friday, November 27th, 2009

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Blog:Manchester United find solace in Liverpool humbling

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Schadenfreude filled the air at Old Trafford, where the only thing that they could find to shout about was Liverpool’s elimination from the Champions League the previous evening.

For Manchester United’s supporters, the Merseyside club’s travails are an obvious source of hilarity, the more so when their own team can afford to put their feet up, having secured their stuttering progression to the knockout stages a fortnight ago.

Football is a results business and United have had enough of them so far this season to be able to approach last night’s game as if it was a Carling Cup third-round tie and to shrug off the rare home defeat that followed for Sir Alex Ferguson’s young team.

They may be struggling to hit anything like top form, but United’s position is a source of envy not only to Liverpool, but to AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Juventus, all of whom go into the final round of group matches with their prospects in the balance.

Ferguson, the United manager, knew that his team had already qualified from group B, but when they visit Wolfsburg on December 8 first place will be up for grabs. That will be a handy position to be in, with Barcelona and Real potentially lying in wait for any runners-up.

Ferguson, though, claimed that he is not bothered. “I don’t think it makes a great deal of difference whether you win the group or not,” he said.

If it had, he would not have made as many as eight changes to the team who beat Everton 3-0 on Saturday and it is fair to suggest that he would have been more than “agitated”, as he put it, at the French referee’s baffling refusal to award United a penalty with four minutes left, when Patrice Evra was brought down by Ibrahim Kas.

However if United do come up against either of the Spanish giants in the last 16 then Ferguson may regret this defeat.

The Besiktas players basked in the glory of a result that allowed them to emulate the success of Fenerbahçe, their domestic rivals, in winning at Old Trafford by the same scoreline in 1996. As on that occasion, Ferguson’s team were beaten by a deflection, but it was nonetheless yet another goal that Ben Foster, United’s reserve goalkeeper, will feel that he could have done more to keep out.

Of the eight players that came into Ferguson’s team, none had more to prove than Foster, but that is a dangerous frame of mind for a goalkeeper to adopt. The position does not lend itself to point-proving, nor indeed to the levels of intensive scrutiny under which Foster seems to find himself every time he takes the pitch for United or, just as likely these days, for England. The left-foot shot from Rodrigo Tello in the twentieth minute was struck with venom and took a sizeable deflection off the head of Rafael Da Silva, who arguably should take the greater share of the blame for failing to close down the Besiktas player.

For all that, it looked to be a shot that Foster should have saved. He seemed to have reacted to the deflection well enough, but, whether out of a misjudgment or a nasty bounce, he failed to stop the shot. And how the Stretford End behind him groaned.

It was harsh on United’s youngsters, who had started brightly, with Darron Gibson, Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda to the fore. All three would have expected to figure more prominently so far this season, and each showed glimpses of quality, suggesting that, even if they are too raw even to think about a regular first-team place, they are ready to answer Ferguson’s call when the need for freshness arises in the months ahead.

Macheda has not appeared in the Barclays Premier League this season, but a quicksilver run towards the penalty area in the eighteenth minute served as a reminder of his talent, even if his left-foot shot skidded wide.

Welbeck is similarly gifted with the ball and his pass set up Gabriel Obertan on the half-hour, but the French youngster shot at Rüstü Reçber, the veteran Besiktas goalkeeper.

Obertan is a strange one. There was a superb run early in the second half, as he danced between two challenges and struck a left-foot shot that Rüstü pushed around a post, yet the feeling persists that Ferguson’s biggest job will be on the mental side of the winger’s game. The case of the infuriating Nani shows that players cannot thrive on talent alone at Old Trafford. Still, United could and should have claimed something more from the game. After Evra was wrongly denied a penalty, Rüstü made two superb saves in stoppage time to keep out headers from Macheda and Wes Brown.

United’s young Turks had been frustrated by an old Turk, but, for the old Glaswegian in the dugout, this was one defeat that will go down as a learning experience.

Manchester United (4-4-2): B Foster — G Neville, W Brown, N Vidic, Rafael Da Silva (sub: P Evra, 74min) — G Obertan, D Gibson (sub: M Carrick, 73), Anderson, Park Ji Sung (sub: M Owen, 69) — F Macheda, D Welbeck. Substitutes not used: T Kuszczak, Nani, P Scholes, D Fletcher.

Besiktas (4-2-3-1): Rüstü Reçber — Ibrahim Kas, M Ferrari, Ibrahim Toraman (sub: Erhan Güven, 67), Ibrahim Üzülmez — M Fink, F Ernst — Ekrem Dag, R Tello (sub: Ugur Inceman, 75), Ismail Köybasi — Bobô (sub: Batuhan Karadeniz, 84). Substitutes not used: Korcan Çelikay, Rodrigo Tabata, Yusuf Simsek, Erkan Zengin. Booked: Batuhan Karadeniz, Rüstü.

Referee: S Lannoy (France).

Second guessing

•Manchester United have an incentive to top their Champions League group. As runners-up, they would meet one of five group winners — not Arsenal, Chelsea or the winners of their own section.

•That list would feature Bordeaux and could include Barcelona, Real Madrid, Seville and Lyons.

•Given the Spanish league’s apparent superiority over its Italian counterpart, United might prefer to face one of the runners-up, who will be Porto and possibly Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Fiorentina, Stuttgart and Olympiacos.

•If United lose their final group match away to Wolfsburg, they would still finish top if that defeat was by one goal and 3-2 or higher (thereby beating the German side on head-to-head), or if CSKA Moscow beat Besiktas (United would win a head-to-head mini-league with CSKA and Wolfsburg).MBT shoes  Mbt Sport    discount Mbt shoes  Mbt m walk   Mbt Lami

•By inflicting a first defeat on United in 25 European home games, Besiktas became the second Turkish team to end a lengthy unbeaten run at Old Trafford. United had never lost in 57 continental games at home spanning 40 years when Fenerbahçe won 1-0 in October 1996, below.

•Galatasaray, the other members of Turkey’s “big three”, also scored an away goals triumph in 1993 to destroy United’s hopes of a first appearance in the group stage.

•Only 22 goals were scored in 16 Champions League group matches this week — since the introduction of 16-game rounds in 1999-2000, the previous low had been 31.

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Grendel Attackied The Hall Heorot (part 3)

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Then ,after night came, Grendel went to survey the tall house——how,after their beer-drinking,the Ring-Danes had disposed themselves in it ,Then he found therein a band of nobles asleep after the feast:they felt no sorrow ,no misery of men.The creature of evil ,grim and fierce,was  quickly ready,savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes ,From there he turned to go back to his home ,proud of his plunder ,sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter. Mbt Lami   Mbt m walk

Then in the first light of dawning day Grendel’s warstrength was revealed to men:then after the feast weeping arose,great cry in the morning ,The famous king, hero of old days ,sat joyless;the mighty one suffered ,felt sorrow for his thanes ,when they saw the track of the foe ,of the curesd spirit;that hardship was too strong ,too loathsome and long-lasting .Nor was there a longer interval ,but after one night Grendel again did greater slaugher—and had no remorse for it ——vengeful acts and wicked he was too intent on them.Thereafter it was easy to find the man who sought rest for himself elsewhere ,farther away ,a bed among the outlying  buildings——after it was made clear to him ,told by clear proof,the hatred of him who now controlled the hall.Whoever escaped the foe held himself afterwards farther off and more safely .Thus Grendel held sway and fought against right,one and more safely .MBT   Mbt Chapa     Mbt trainers