Sports News For 1/18/10
Boxing News
Moseley was scheduled to fight Andre Berto on January 30, but due to the tragic earthquake that hit Haiti last week, Berto canceled the fight due to the fact that he lost a lot of loved ones and is not ready to fight at this time. If Mayweather and Moseley can agree on terms it will become the biggest upcoming fight in boxing today.
NBA News
Former Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning and current Heat star Dwayne Wade have teamed up to help raise money for the citizens effected by the devastating earthquake that just hit Haiti last week. So far through donations from fellow star athletes like Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Michael Beasley, Kevin Durant, and Chris Paul, they have raised over $800,000 and still looking to raise more.
NBA Slam dunk contest finalist
Even though Lebron James announced last year during the dunk contest that he would put his name in for this year's event, he just officially announced he would not be competing again this year. But without James the contest still has last years winner NY Knicks Nate Robinson returning along with the Charlotte Hornets Gerald Wallace, and the LA Lakers Shannon Brown. The fourth and final spot will be decided by a dunk off between the Detroit Pistons Eric Gordon and the Toronto raptors Demar DeRozan.
Stephon Marbury who last played with the Boston Celtics is leaving the NBA to head overseas for the Chinese Basketball Association. Marbury will be playing for club Shanxi and signed a small contract in order to promote his signature Starbury shoes in China.
NBA Schedule for 1/18/10
7:00 PM ET Toronto at Cleveland Fox Sports Ohio,NBA TV
7:30 PM ET Indiana at Miami FOX MIDW Sun Sports
College Basketball News
After taking the number one spot from Kansas this week the Texas Longhorns have already been dethroned by the ninth ranked Kansas State Wildcats. In what was suppose to be a battle of big men somebody forgot to relay that to the Longhorns whose team combined for a woeful 36% shooting from the field and an awful 9 of 22 from the free throw line. Even though the Wildcats did not shoot much better from the field, they were able to hit 20 of their 32 free throws on they're way to a 71-62 victory at home.
In other top 25 news the fifth ranked Syracuse Orange were able to hold of a pesky Notre Dame who lived up to their Fighting Irish name in a close game. Even though the outcome was 84-71 the game was a lot closer then it looks. Irish received good output from Tim Ambromaitis 26 points, Tory Jackson 15 assist, and All American candidate Luke Harongody who finished with 31 points and 14 rebounds. But the Orange was just to much in the end thanks to the depth of their team they were able to outlast Notre Dame at the end to move to an impressive 16-1 overall record and 5-1 in the Big East.
Women's College Basketball
The University of Connecticut Huskies women's Basketball team improved to an impressive 18-0 record this year. The lady huskies are on a 57 game winning streak and just dominated seventh ranked Duke easily winning 81-48. It looked close at halftime with the Huskies only up by ten points, but the second half proved to much for Duke as they looked overwhelmed playing against arguably the best ever women's team in college basketball history.
MENS TOP 25 games today
7:00 PM ET (8) Tennessee at Alabama ESPN
9:00 PM ET (15) Purdue at Illinois ESPN
7:00 PM ET (16) Clemson at (18) Georgia Tech ESPN2
9:05 PM ET (22) Northern Iowa at Wichita State ESPNU
7:00 PM ET Northwestern at (25) Ohio State
GOLF News
While it has not still yet been confirmed but word has it that the worlds greatest golfer Tiger Woods is at a sex rehab clinic. Woods who life feel apart Thanksgiving night when he crashed his vehicle which led to the world finding out he was cheating on his wife with numerous women across the country. Now Woods is reportedly getting therapy at a sex rehabilitation center called Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Mississippi. Since the incident first happened Woods has been in hiding and hopefully whatever treatment he is working on helps him fix the problems in his life.
NFL News
The Buffalo Bills just announced that former Dallas Cowboys head coach Chan Gailey would be leading their team in the 2010 season. Gailey comes to the Bills with a great coaching background, in 11 of his previously 15 NFL seasons Gailey has led his team to the playoffs, and he has also coached in 4 different Super Bowls.
MLB News
Former MLB All Star Jose Offerman was ejected from a playoff game in the Dominican Republic for punching an umpire. Offerman who is managing the Licey Tigers was arguing a call with an umpire when he got into a heated verbal conversation with another umpire that led to Offerman punching the umpire in the neck. After the altercation Offerman was detained and later taken into custody. Later the Dominican Winter League announced that Offerman has been banned from participating in any way with the league.
The Boston Red Sox have just given closer Jonathan Papelbon one more year to prove that he really wants to be the closer in the future. Papelbon deal is reported worth $9.35 million. Since 2006 Papelbon has converted 89% of his saves.
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Ohio Tourist Attractions
The most famous and widely popular Ohio tourist attractions are the hocking hills, visitors especially enjoy hiking at this place and they want to come back again and again and discover the pure pleasures of this lovely adventurous place. There are over six distinct Hocking hills state park that offers variety of adventurous places and attractions in Ohio, you can enjoy keenly looking over the personalities of Lake Logan, Ash Cave, Cedar Falls, Rock House, Old Man's Cave and various other place. You can wander around the hocking state forest and conkle's hollow. The hocking hills Ohio tourist attractions offer greater time to enjoy for all the adventure lovers whether you like outdoor adventure or just love the lounging around in the woods or rappelling down. The attractions offer hidden unexplored trails, deep forest reserves, sheltering caves and soaring cliffs. Hocking hills offers some of the best and most popular Ohio tourist attractions.
After enjoying the adventures of caves and forest areas, you can plan your canoe trips that takes you down the Hocking river, washboard factory tours, historic train rides, museums, small townships and many other Ohio tourist attractions. You can enjoy your time with family, friends, children, there is something or the other for the people of all age groups to enjoy and have fun in one of the most finest adventure tourist destinations of the world. enjoy the fancies of Hocking Hills treasure antique stores, gallery exhibit works or arts, hiking trails, horseback riding and canopy riding. Ohio as a city is a melting point, if there is thrill and excitement of adventures at one end than the other end sees larger than life skyscrapers with a thriving city life. Ohio's landscaped areas are a perfect locations for tourists to visit this amazing place filled with so much things to do and enjoy the adventures of nature.
Ohio's famous Hocking hill regions is located on the foothills of Appalachian mountains that has gorges, rock cliffs and perfect getaway for nature loves. Ohio's population is made up of many cultures and ethnicities in the remote pocket districts, they are Little Italy in Cleveland and German Village in Columbus. Visiting these cultural neighborhoods would fetch you some great delicious foods and authentic arts for you to enjoy and savor all the different tastes. One of the main Ohio tourist attractions is the Paramount kinds Island, its an Australian themed water park that promises to give you unmatched entertainment and fun with a space for you to relax and rejuvenate. Several others places of Ohio attractions are the Dayton Art Institute that gives you diverse knowledge on culture, sensitivity and lifestyle of the people here. You can visually see the exhibits that promote Ohio culture with aesthetic value. Other attractions of the place includes the Cedar point, Geauga Lake and Wild water kingdom, the beach water park, the Miami county park district, Caesar Creek, U.S. Air Force Museum, Beavercreek golf club, greene country club, Larch Tree and many such other locations.
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