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BEING brutally honest, Chris Jericho has nothing left to achieve in…
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Here is Roger Clemens , the greatest pitcher of his generation, fresh from getting fingerprinted and taking a mug shot on Monday at his arraignment at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C., and there isn’t a doubt that he is a Hall of Famer … When it comes to lying.
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On this week’s live edition of The MMA Hour, we will first be joined in studio by Daniel Gracie. The former PRIDE FC and IFL fighter will talk about his MMA comeback and what he has been up to since he last competed in 2006.
We will then be joined by Nate Marquardt, who faces Rousimar Palhares at UFN 22 on Sept. 15.
Matt Mitrione, who is scheduled to face Joey Beltran, will also stop by to talk about that fight and his progression as an MMA fighter.
Kimbo Slice will also stop by to talk about his decision to enter the world of boxing and his MMA future.
Finally, we will recap UFC 118 and, of course, take your calls. Give us a shout at: 212-254-0193 or 212-254-0237.
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After an interesting night of fights in Boston, the MMA Wrap-Up returns to break down UFC 118 and ask, in its own whimsical style, will MMA fans finally recognize Frankie Edgar as the world’s best lightweight after his domination of B.J. Penn?
You’d think that would be an easy question, since Edgar just won his second straight fight over the top-ranked 155-pounder. But if we’ve learned anything from message boards and comment sections, it’s that nothing is ever that simple when dealing when Penn and his passionate fans.
Join me for that conversation, as well as a few obligatory shots at James Toney, in this week’s post-UFC 118 MMA Wrap-Up.
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With the U.S. Open around the corner, the last hard-court tuneup event in New Haven has its final solidified. Ninth-seeded Sergiy Stakhovsky (right) of the Ukraine and 15th-seeded Denis Istomin will face off in the championship match at the Pilot Pen on Saturday.
Istomin defeated 10th-seeded Viktor Troicki in three sets in Friday’s semifinal 7-6 (10), 3-6, 6-2. Stakhovsky defeated 12th-seeded Thiemo De Bakker in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. Stakhovsky was able to stave off De Bakker’s strong serve with solid serving of his own. He converted 86 percent of his first-serve points and was not broken once.
Winning a tuneup event would be nothing new to Stakhovsky if he is to defeat Istomin. The 47th-ranked player won this year’s Wimbledon tuneup event just days prior to Wimbledon at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. However, it did not help him much at the All England Club. He bowed out in the first round to American Sam Querrey.
Saturday will be Istomin’s first ever ATP final. The 46th-ranked player from Uzbekistan has had a solid year, compiling a 26-19 record for the season.
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WASHINGTON — Of all the things they teach you in the school of how to be the owner of a professional sports franchise, the one thing they don’t is how to manage the nervousness.
That’s the course Kathy Betty could have used most, especially as she goes through her first postseason as owner of the WNBA‘s Atlanta Dream.
With a win in Friday’s home game with the Washington Mystics, the Dream will advance to the Eastern Conference finals next week, but that fact won’t stop Betty’s knees from knocking.
“I think making the playoffs is when it really hit me,” said Betty before Wednesday’s opener. “When we clinched the playoffs … I couldn’t sleep at night. Take that (excitement) and multiply it 50 times and that’s the way I felt when we clinched the playoffs. I thought, ‘This is something different.’”
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In Thursday’s The Works: when meddlesome owners strike, Rajon Rondo vs. Russell Westbrook, the next Euro cult favorite and Luol Deng returns to Southern Sudan.
But first, Lauren Jackson and the WNBA‘s spirit of innovation.
A New Aesthetic Is Born: Revisiting Kwame Brown and the 2001 Draft got me thinking about the way scouts thought about their job at the time. In the wake of Kevin Garnett, all prospects — especially the ones from Europe — were expected to be unprecedented weirdos.
Have you read Herodotus? It was like that. Foolhardy, and naive, and yet indicative of an impulse to discover a new frontier of basketball. That’s what I feel is behind all this Positional Revolution business: we want to understand, maybe even predict, where the game is headed.
I am done trying to convince people that the WNBA is closing the gap with the men’s game because the fact remains, women just don’t have the size, speed, and athleticism that men do. I see a league that feels a hell of a lot more like the NBA than it did when it started, something that comes across when you compare the game of an OG to one of her younger peers. That’s half-full; to many, the WNBA remains half-empty.
That is, unless you’re someone who still believes in the dream of 2001.
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Chamique Holdsclaw started her season by demanding a trade days before the start of the WNBA season. She will finish it on the sidelines because of a torn right Achilles tendon.
Holdsclaw, the San Antonio Silver Stars forward, was injured Sunday against Minnesota. The Silver Stars learned the extent of her injury, originally believed to be an ankle sprain, after an MRI exam. She will miss the remainder of the season.
Holdclaw was a productive addition to the San Antonio roster after being traded from Atlanta, where she led the Dream to the playoffs last season before an injury kept her out of the postseason.
She was averaging 13.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game for the Stars.
There are three games left in the regular-season schedule.
The Stars are in a three-way tie with Los Angeles and Minnesota for one of the Western Conference’s final two playoff spots.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship in a three-hole playoff Sunday that did not include Dustin Johnson, who was penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
Kaymer captured his first major in a PGA Championship that might be remembered as much for a guy who tied for fifth.
Johnson had a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits when he drove into a tiny patch of sand where the gallery had been walking all week. Johnson grounded his club, unaware he was in a bunker. The gallery was packed in so tight that to Johnson, it looked like a piece of grass that had been trampled.
“Walking up there, seeing the shot, it never once crossed my mind that I was in a sand trap,” Johnson said. “It very unfortunate. The only worse thing that could have happened was if I had made the putt on that last hole.”
He missed the 7-foot par putt to seemingly slip into a three-man playoff with Kaymer and Bubba Watson. But the two-shot penalty turned his 71 into a 73, and instead of going to a playoff for redemption from his U.S. Open meltdown, he tied for fifth and headed home.
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Martin Kaymer Wins PGA Championship at Whistling Straits
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At the Rogers Cup in Toronto on Friday, fourth-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain snapped David Nalbandian‘s impressive 11-match winning streak by defeating the Argentine in straight sets 6-2, 6-2.
Murray dictated pace throughout the match from start to finish. Nalbandian’s return game struggled on Friday. He did not break Murray’s serve once and only won 29 percent of his total return points.
Murray broke Nalbandian four times, served eight aces and won 23 more points in the match.
Nalbandian, who won the Legg Mason Tennis Classic last weekend, played a plethora of tennis over the last two weeks. He came into Legg Mason only having played in four tournaments all year due to hamstring and leg injuries. On Friday, Nalbandian played in his 10th match in two weeks.
Murray took advantage of the fatigued Argentine. Unlike earlier in the tournament, Nalbandian had trouble generating velocity behind his shots. Murray played aggressively throughout the contest and was full of confidence.
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Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal Advance in Toronto at Rogers Cup
