They exist in every sportplayers who can deliver when it counts the most and when the pressure is on. After a while the feats of such players take on a life of their owna mythology starts to surround them. In baseball, their final inning home runs soar out of stadiums like guided missiles, their fielding plays start to include jumps and stretches that would rate 10s from Olympic diving judges, and their willingness to take one for the team makes you think they deserve th…
1,000 Victories and a Place in the Yankees History Book
Before 1996 season nobody figured a long term relationship between the Yankees and Joe Torre. Torre got his 1,000th win as Yankees manager, with Hideki Matsui hitting a three-run homer in an 8-5 victory over the Texas Rangers on Sunday that stretched New York’s winning streak to a season-high five games.
5 Card Stud Internet Poker Explained
To begin the game an ante is first placed on the table by every player. Remember, usually the amount is only a fraction of a bet that is set by the card room. The dealer then deals 2 cards – 1 hole card and 1 door card – starting with the player on their left and continuing clockwise round the table. The player who has the lowest card showing on the table must place the bring-in bet, which is equal to half of the lower level bet.
In the first betting round each player, wit…
And a Child Shall Lead Them
Rookie goaltenders have had success in the Stanley Cup Playoffs before most notably with Ken Dryden in 1971 and Patrick Roy in 1986, both leading the Montreal Canadiens to the Cup but never before has a crop of rookie goalies dominated the playoffs like they have this season.
Barcelona soccer stars, how they made this famous team a champion.
Barcelona won his 17th title at the Campeonato Nacional de la Liga (National League Championship), thanks to the famous soccer player Samuel Etoo. The player native from Cameroon scored a remarkable goal becoming a determinant piece during the championship.
Barry Bonds, only One More Record to Break to Become Number 1
With a 445-foot landing over the center field wall of the Giants’ waterfront AT&T Park, two run shot Barry Bonds beat his magical 715th home run, overtaking baseball legend Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home-run list. In the fourth-inning Bonds swung a ball that Colorado Rockies’ starting pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim threw and it came a week after he matched Ruth’s 714 career home runs during an inter-league game against the Oakland Athletics to end a nearly two-week fall.
Baseballs First-Month Awards
The calendar has turned on the first month of the 2006 baseball season. While there is plenty of season left, its a good time to evaluate who has the early lead on baseballs top awards.
Fish Defeated All the Expectations
Two wrist surgeries kept him from competing, but on Sunday he proved all of us that rehabilitation is working as he defeated tennis player Jurgen Melzer 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Clay Court Championship. The next thing he will have to do is to make the main draw at Wimbledon in late June.
Making money from Sports Betting Affiliate Programs
There is a new and explosive trend in the world of gambling and sports betting?Internet sports betting. People are finding out in droves through Internet searches and word of mouth how simple it is to bet on sports on the World Wide Web.
Online Sports Trading – A Viable Investment?
What if there was some way to tap into the ever-growing popularity of world-wide sport that could turn the gambling factor of sports betting into an investment vehicle producing sustainable results over the long-term such as equity trading?