UFC 100 Tomorrow Night

The guys and I definitely won't be missing this one....

MAINCARD:

Heavyweight Championship unification bout: Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir
Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Thiago Alves
Middleweight bout: Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping
Middleweight bout: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher
Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch vs. Paulo Thiago

UNDERCARD:

Light Heavyweight bout: Mark Coleman vs. Stephan Bonnar
Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Jim Miller
Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Jones vs. Jake O'Brien
Welterweight bout: Dong Hyun Kim vs. TJ Grant
Middleweight bout: C.B. Dollaway vs. Tom Lawlor
Lightweight bout: Matt Grice vs. Shannon Gugerty

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One of the all time Greats......

Yup... animal...
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New Toronto Raptors Update: 4 Team Deal

New Update on the Toronto Raptors:

I just found out that a 4 player trade has been completed.

We've signed:
Antoine Wright
Deven George
Hedo Turkoglu

From Dallas Mavericks & Orlando Magic

and sent:
Shawn Marion
Kris Humpries
Nathan Jawai

To the Dallas Mavericks

I will keep ya'll posted if any other changes have been made.


Memphis Grizzles get Jerry Stackhouse in that 4 team deal. I'm also hearing rumours that we are suppose to sign Fabricio Oberto & Keith Bogans but those have not been confirmed yet.


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Bargnani signs Contract Extension & Raps Trade Marion

Toronto Raptors Center Andrea Bargnani signs to a Contract Extension

Raptors Center Andrea Bargnani signed a 5 Year Contract Extension worth $50 million which means he will be receiving $10 million a year. Last season, Andrea Bargnani averaged averaged career highs of 15.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.24 blocked a game.






In other news...

Toronto Raptors sent Shawn Marion to the Dallas Mavericks in a sign-and-trade deal. Shawn Marion will be receiving $40 million for 5 years. In return the Raptors will receive $3 million dollars in salary cap which is the maximum amount.

I honestly like the extension we gave Bargnani and also like the fact that we got rid of Shawn Marion and received some money for him. This money will give us a chance to pick up more free agents this off season. Now I'm just waiting for Bryan Colangelo to official sign Hedo Turkoglu.


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Adrian Peterson, Reggie Bush, and Allen Iverson Killin' It

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New Zealand Goons...

Random greezy-ness:



Just came across this video, it shows the New Zealand Rugby team performing their famous Haka dance to intimidate there opposition.
Word I'mma start doing that dance before I hit the club and shit...
lol.

These guys are so cheesed.

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The original Haka tradition performed by some real New Zealand OG's.. lol



Haka commercial, still greezy...




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Don't F*** with Women: R.I.P. Steve McNair

Steve McNair & Sahel Kazemi (pictured above)

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I know i'm a couple days late but...it was reported that Married man, former Baltimore Raven Quarterback Steve McNair was found dead in his condo on July 4th. Reports also say that Sahel Kazemi, a girl he was dating was also found dead in the condo. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds to the chest and 2 to the head. Sahel suffered 1 gunshot wound to the side of her head with the pistol found used to kill both of them under her body.

Now lets do a little Special Investigating but let's not beat around the bush and cut straight to the chase. I don't want to jump to conclusions but it seems to me that this girl that he was dating could of either killed him than herself? Or maybe Steve's wife found out he was messing around with this girl and she killed them both? There's also a possibility (but i highly doubt it) that Steve was involved in something and a someone killed him and the girl he was dating?

At the end of the day
we need to stay faithful to our woman or else...

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Straight outta Compton & Into the ACC

Welcome To Toronto, Demar Derozan

Need I say more?

Click the link below to see this dude destroy the rim.

Really looking forward to seeing dude play this year.

And just some highlights from back in the day wit his homie Lil Romeo.

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Vince is HOME!

His Real Home: Orlando, Florida

Vince was born right near Orlando in Daytona Beach. I have a strong feeling this should rejuvenate some sort of motivation for him to end his career with a bang. He's 32 and I'm saying he has at least 2-3 more solid seasons. The Orlando Magic did Rafer dirty though...smh.

Here's a link to Vince's top 15 memorable moments while he was up here, north of the border. The "commencement controversy" should not even be mentioned in this and I hope whoever wrote the article or jotted down that specific point chokes on their own vomit. I am GONE to my commencement NO MATTER what the circumstances.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/carter/


In other news: Shaq continues to jump on more wagons.


I seriously don't understand why Kobe was always criticized on not winning a ring without Shaq. Mr. O'neal has a good strategy, simply ride around with the league's best and coast to a championship. This Cavs acquisition is one that will most likely see me drift further and further away from that team. I hope Lebron pulls a fast one and leaves before they even play one minute together on the hardwood. Come on Shaq... how am I supposed to put you in my top 10 after this desperation move?


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The Incredible Bulk/Bust

This is the story of Tony Mandarich as told by him. Mandarich was given the title the best offensive lineman ever, before he was even drafted in 1989. Born in Oakville Ontario, Mandarich had the potential to be the best Canadian born player of all time and could have paved the way for other Canadians to make into the NFL.

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Findlay College Prep - The Season Documentary

THE SEASON is a documentary following the success of Findlay College Prep basketball program. Playing on Findlay Prep is Toronto's own Cory Joseph, who absolutley tore up the 08/09 season and has offers from D1 schools all across the states, some of the schools included are; Gerogetown, Louisville, Marquette, Ohio State, UNLV and the list goes on.

The video below is a trailer for The Season DVD.

A couple episodes from the documentary:

You can check out more videos by going to there youtube page or blog (click links below):

youtube.com/findlayseason
theseason.wordpress.com

PS. Look out for the The Season DVD and for the Canadian boy Cory Joseph.

Shout out to my homie JPaks for putting me on this...

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Mamba #4

STFU! That's to all the bandwagon hoppers throughout the entire NBA playoffs, BB Pin haters, MSN name haters and the most annoying of all.... FB status updates. I really have nothing more to say, but a big congrats to Kobe and the entire LAL squad. Special shout outs go to my X-Factor from the jump, Ariza, and my homeboy from time... Odom. I also can't forget about Mikael Pietrus, I know you're a LAL fan at heart.

I knew Kobe would shed at least one tear during the post game. I'm not going to lie though, the finals this year were not that entertaining at all. I still watched every minute of it and will probably remember Mamba's 4th ring with the image of him leaping into the air three times repeatedly, mimicking MJ.

These two have been through it all since they entered the league together.

P.s. Phil's kids should have made the 1of1 custom fitted for the entire team. That hat was fit for a real G.

P.p.s. I respect Bill Russel and all, but dude has been a spotlight fiend since his career ended. He does not need to be there for the trophy presentation at all. Stay with your Boston folk.





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Youngest Captain to Hoist Lord Stanley

After a coaching change midway through February, being counted out in the Washington series and coming to the finals against the almighty Detroit Red Wings yet again... the Pittsburgh Penguins are your 2009 Stanley Cup Champs. They did this in game 7 without needing Malkin or Crosby to score a goal. Maxime Talbot stepped up and played the game of his life, scoring two goals in the final game. Marc-André Fleury played yet another solid game and had a last second sprawling save to secure the victory. The Conn Smythe went to Malkin and it was well deserved.




Hopefully next year we can finally not only have a flurry of Canadians bring the cup home with them, but an actual Canadian team win it! I haven't heard the Canadian national anthem sung in the finals for years now...
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Fastest Man Alive: Usain Bolt's 100m race in Toronto

Yesterday, triple gold medalist Usain Bolt from Jamaica ran in the Festival of Excellence at Toronto's varsity stadium. Usain got yet another win beating USA's Shawn Crawford by a distance of 10 meters. Usain recieved $250,000 just for an appearance at yesterday's race. Usain Bolts next race will be on June 17th at Ostrava Grand Prix in the Czech Republic.

Click on the link on the link below to watch the race

Usain Bolt's 100m race in Toronto

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"Toronto Raptors Acquire..."

"Today, the Toronto Raptors acquired forward Reggie Evans from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for forward Jason Kapono".


I Actually like this trade because it brings toughness to our bench and also some defense. Reggie Evans is a decent defender and rebounder. We give up an inconsistent scorer for rebounding, toughness and defense. We will see how Reggie Evans does this upcoming season.

Good luck to Jason Kapono...he's going to need it.

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"In Local News..."

I'm going to keep this real brief because I'm not going to speak too much on this topic and I also know I'm kind of late with this information. But for those who have not heard Toronto Raptor's All star and Franchise player Chris Bosh will NOT resign with the Raptors in the 2010 season.
In an interview Bosh said.

“I signed a three-year deal back in [2006] and I had a goal in mind to put myself in the best position next summer,” Bosh said in a scrum after the draw. “I didn’t know it was going [to create] added tension, but that’s the name of the game. I’m thinking I want to stick to my goal, stick to what I was doing, and this is part of the plan.”

What the hell is that suppose to mean? Well, take it how you want it but Bosh won't be back after next season so you might want to start burning your Bosh jerseys from now. This news can either be really good or really bad. Really good meaning we trade Bosh this summer before he becomes a free agent in 2010 and pick someone good up. Really bad meaning Colangelo doesn't do that and keeps Bosh til hes a free agent. Bryan Colangelo is interested in packaging Bosh in a deal to acquire Carlos Boozer. The Bulls are also interested in Bosh, with Luol Deng being offered.
To tell you the truth I don't care if Bosh leaves, I just hope we can get someone for him so we can start rebuilding this team. We'll see what happens this summer. Lets hope for the best.

Go Raptors Go

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Can't say I didn't tell you so.

This is a continuation of my most recent Finals Rant...

"I'm not coming back to be a starter," Nelson Said. "I'm coming back to give energy. I don't think the team needs me to start."

When pressed on the subject, Nelson reiterated the status quo should remain so.

"I don't see myself starting," Nelson said. "Rafer deserves to start."

Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said on Friday that Alston would continue to start and that he played Nelson too many minutes in Game 1. Alston played just over 24 minutes while Nelson played the remainder of the minutes.

[all quoted from The Finals Blog via NBA.com]

It's easy to say this after Game 1 is said and done. I was literally in shock during the entire 2nd quarter at what Gundy pulled. My question is... it took you a full game to realize this? They should have known this going into Game 1 and not attempted to change everything up during such a critical moment in the season. Furthermore, Rafer does not only deserve to start... he deserves to play the majority of the minutes (and I'm talking 35+ range).

Tune in tonight @ 8pm for the Mamba show:

Lil' Wayne - "Kobe Bryant"

Big shout out to Mikael Pietrus for understanding the wrath of Mamba

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Taking L's

The selfish/failed comeback by the Orlando Magic point guard, Jameer Nelson, was the downfall of game 1. Coming back to a team in the NBA Finals is not a team decision, it is a decision for yourself and personal experience. They simply did NOT need him at all. He disrupted the offensive sets with his over-passing and penetration at all the wrong times. A team should not have to adjust to a point guard that they have not seen touch the court during their establishment in the playoffs...at the climax of their run for the title (which in my opinion was right after game 6 and Dwight Howard dropping 40 points; something I thought he was incapable of doing).

The team was up with Rafer Alston and quickly had the lead taken from them during the 2nd quarter. Los Angeles was able to go on a 40-17 run from the 8:30 mark in the 2nd quarter (a quarter that Rafer did not see the court in) and well into the 3rd quarter. Jameer then checked back into the game in the 3rd and picked up right where he left off... dashed up a quick three while Dwight was gaining post control over his defender... that was unsurprisingly an air ball. On the very next possession he actually attempted to feed the ball into the post, missed his target and threw the ball out of bounds to the camera man.

The reason they made it to the NBA Finals is due to the maturation of their offense in the playoffs; which I think Rafer had a large role in. Jameer Nelson came into game 1 thinking that they still played the same style as they did in the regular season. Random penetration and forced passes at all the wrong times is not what brought Orlando to the finals. As a man, Jameer should have dropped his pride and given Rafer the playing time he earned and deserved in game 1 of the finals. He made it quite clear to Gundy that he was completely ready to make his return, and Gundy had no doubts and full faith in him. This must have had a negative impact on Rafer mentally. Gundy's inability to understand my last point is the real sad thing behind game 1. In the post game press conference, Gundy firmly believed that Jameer did more positive for the team than negative. Jameer came into the game being aggressive (which I don't blame him doing), but at the same time he disrupted the offense and made it even harder for this teammates to adjust to his play. Jameer stated in the post game that he was working on his shooting most of all after sitting out for 4months. Why not work on getting your passes where and when your teammates want them instead? Maybe then you wouldn't have had a -19 rating in 23minutes of play on the court.

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Mamba drops 40pts, 8assts, 8rbds, 2stls and 2blks.


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Is This What You Want?

Its June 4th and the nba finals are here.....Most thought that on this day it would be cavs vs lakers...(i guess you thought that if you fell into the cleveland hype)but since i started watching this Orlando team play basketball after Allstar weekend my confidence in them being the eastern conference champions was growing(we all knew who had it in the west)....i strongly believe that this team could be the hardest team to match up with....i could be wrong but what i do know is that this Orlando team has all the right players to put them in the spot where they are right now......yes cleveland has king james but as you can see now that it was not enough...im not going to sit here and talk about those 2 teams because everyone knows now who is the better team...which brings me to my point of this post...SO, tonight is the nba finals and everyone makes their predictions....n what better way to make a prediction than to put it in ink n blog about it....This is a really hard one for me because i do want both teams to win because the magic have not been in the nba finals since 1995 with shaq and were swept by houston...n i want the lakers to win because it is phil jacksons 3rd year on his contract and he said he will be here on his third year and also i want jackson to get his 10th ring....With jameer nelson getting the go ahead to play....if he can be 80 percent of the player he is magic will win this series in 7...the reason why i say this is because i go by how teams face off in season and magic clearly are the better team when they face off with 2 wins over the lakes in the season...moreover, jameer nelson has been the leading scoring in both of these victories in the season...but if jameer does not show up in the games (im not really expecting him to)the magic will not win this series....basically im trying to say is that jameer nelson will be the big difference in these 7 games......After all this im going to say...2008/09 nba championship goes to the Los Angeles Lakers
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Why T.O is in my top 5 favorite athletes of all time

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