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The Drama in the Floyd Landis doping hearing took a major twist when three-time Tour de France champion Greg Lemond revealed he was sexually abused as a child and said that someone tried to use that to intimidate him.

This is what I don’t understand. LeMond was a witness  by the Anti-Doping Agency which is prosecuting the case against Flyod Landis.

Greg LaMond had a conversation with Landis last August 2006 advising him to tell the truth either way.

LeMond said that as a warning against the corrosive power of keeping such a secret, he shared with Landis the fact that he (LeMond) had been sexually abused in his youth and that keeping that secret “nearly destroyed me”.

We all know that LeMond  accused Armstrong of doping to improve his(Armstrong) performance in 2004. I just can’t read LeMond’s mind but he is willing to do everything to get to Lance Armstrong. And the easiest way to Armstrong is through Floyd Landis who was Armstrong’s friend and teammate.

Discrediting the triumph of your contrymen by degrading them through unfiltered words of accusations without proof is nonsense.

Greg LeMond doesn’t want to share the glory of being a Tour de France champ. He wants all the accolade. He felt that attentions were all bestowed to the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and that he(LeMond) is forgotten.

Whether Landis will be suspended in cycling world or not, I just don’t like LeMond’s act of cowardice.

I remember watching a documentary about Martina Hingis on how her mother got her name from Martina Navratilova. This documentary ran just after she had won her first Wimbledon as the youngest ever in the 20th century.

I thought she would win more than 20 grandslams.Her youth gave us the indication. We thought she would come near or even surpass Steffi Graf’s. But we’ve seen in our eyes how she was denied those grandslams.

Martina Hingis should have won the 1999 French Open against Stefi Graf. She was one match-point away but the great Steffi Graf came back to capture the moment.

We had witnessed how Hingis struggled against the power-serving Williams sister. Martina had never had an answer to those forces. Since then she was gone from the spotlight.

She made a comeback last year from injury. Her intelligence of the game is still there but her physical ability can no longer contain what is required for her to win.

Hingis had just pulled herself out of this month’s French Open. Everybody wants to see her back. Surely, it would be a dream to see her play against Maria Sharapova in the future if destiny allows.

It was Robert Horry’s fault.  A cheap shot on Steve Nash which caused an uproar from the Phoenix Suns bench that forced Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw to step near the scene. Yes, Both Stoudemire and Diaw were suspended for game 5.

Robert Horry received two-game supension for flagrant foul on Nash and for hitting Raja Bell above the shoulder.

Charles Barkley right after game four on TNT defended the Suns but expecting that (more…)

Shaquille O’Neal was the guest of TNT Studio Monday night. Aside from one of most dominant player in the NBA, Shaq is just as funny as anybody. Not forgetting that he is a rapper and also a policeman in Miami.

Shaq maybe the biggest body in the basketball court but on TV it looks like Charles Barkley is bigger. Shaq has a gentle voice, he didn’t speak that much.

It is being replayed time and time and again in TNT as Kenny Smith teased Barkley of the fight he had with Shaq. (more…)

Whether Barry Bonds had juiced himself or not, the $1 million offered by a Dallas auction house for the historic ball is cheap.

“We invite the lucky owner who delivers this historic baseball, as verified by Major League Baseball, to redeem it for a $1 million bounty at a Dallas news conference within 15 days of the record-breaking homer,” Chris Ivy, director of Sports Auctions for Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, said Sunday.

If I am the person who catches that ball, I would sell it for $7 million. With all the words used describing Bonds’ (more…)

It may have affected Amare Stoudemire’s game and it brought fury from the San Antonio fans. Stoudemire’s calling out the Spurs as “dirty” before Saturday specifically Bruce Bowen had something to do of him being in foul trouble.

Bowen who scored 10 critical points while Stoudemire was sitting on the bench for committing his fourth foul early in the third. And in the opening of the fourth, Stoudamire got his fifth foul by  trying to block a possible dunk by Tim Duncan.

Stoudemire scored  21 points but his presence in offensive in most importantly in the third had paved the way for the Phoenix Suns defeat.

Instead of respect for being in the first NBA team for the first time, Stoudemire was jeered by the Spurs’ fans. That’s what he gets for being a “talking Suns”.

Stoudemire’s word “dirty” was returned back to him after hitting Michael Finley with a hard foul. The roaring crowd was against him.

Amare’s two silly fouls against Duncan had caused the Suns the game. And his word “dirty” was just a destruction to him and his teammates.

By the way, the Spurs defeated the Suns 108-101 to lead the series, 2-1. Tim Duncan scored 33 points and 19 rebounds.

Is this the first time that an All-NBA team are all from one conference? I don’t really know.

The selection was announced Thursday and Steve Nash was a unanimous choice, joining him is his teammate Amare Stoudemire. It’ the first time since Kobe and Shaq were selected as teammates.

San Antonio forward Tim Duncan, Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, and Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant rounded out the first team.

What about Lebron James and Tracy McGrady who (more…)

Once they were in the same team, now they to faced each other to get a win. They enjoyed to lead Atlanta Braves to capture its division title every year but they are now in different jersey.

Again John Smoltz edged Gregg Maddux as the Atlanta Braves defeated the San Diego Padres, 3-2, Wednesday night at the Turner field.

The late rally from Andruw Jones who drove in a lead run with a single after Chipper Jones tied the game with a double.

The victory gave John Smolts a 5-1 this season and 3-1 over Greg Madux.

Maddux pitched 5 1/3 innings, after 72 pitches, allowing four hits, including an RBI single by Willie Harris in the fifth, and walked two.

The New Jersey Nets will try to even the series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

While the Phoenix Suns will have to dig deeper on how to extricate themselves from the spuracious defense of San Antonio Spurs.

Rebound. Rebound. Rebound. That’s the word put in action Monday night as the Utah Jazz outrebounded the Golden State Warriors enroute to a 116-112 nerve-wracking victory.

Carlos Boozer rebounded the ball and pulled off a basket with 17 seconds left to take the lead at 114-112 while the Warriors missed their last possesion opportunity.

The Jazz outrebounded the Warriors 54-36, 20 on offense limiting the Warriors to set their attack. (more…)