Published: May 30, 2011
Frank Mir tried his best to finish off Roy Nelson in the co-main event of UFC 130 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday but ‘Big Country’ proved to be a tough customer. Mir would have wanted either a knockout or submission win but Nelson showed that he has granite for a chin and [...]
Published: May 30, 2011
Travis Browne emerged victorious in the battle of tall UFC heavyweights after knocking out Stefan Struve in the first round of their fight at UFC 130 on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Browne improved his record to 11-0-1, 2-0-1 in the UFC while the 6-foot-11 Struve went down to 21-5.
The 6-foot-7 Browne came [...]
Published: May 30, 2011
Rick Story moved up the UFC Welterweight rankings following a unanimous decision victory over Thiago Alves at UFC 130 on Saturday. All judges scored it 29-28 in favor of Story. After his UFC debut loss to John Hathaway at UFC 99 in June 2009, Story has strung up six straight victories to improve to 6-1 [...]
Published: May 30, 2011
Former WEC Light Heavyweight champion Brian Stann was off to a shaky start at the UFC when he went 2-2 at light heavyweight. Since deciding to move down to middleweight, the former captain of the US Marines has strung up three straight victories including a recent technical knockout win on Saturday at UFC 130 held [...]
Published: May 30, 2011
Novak Djokovic, the much anticipated Serbian who had been winning since his last 2 matches last year is yet adding another win just recently. He just defeated Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 Sunday in the fourth round of the French Open. This would mark his 43rd consecutive win including the last two that he had [...]
Published: May 27, 2011
The championship trophy was just 2 wins away for the Mavericks and everyone has been expecting them to make it through. However, Heat managed to win Game 4 and all the way to Game 6 placing everyone in awe for the greatest season of the club history. That was the exact scene of the 05-06 [...]
Published: May 27, 2011
The Dallas Mavericks were up 2-0 against the Miami Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals when the duo of Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O’Neal came back strong with four straight wins to capture the NBA championship. Since then, Dirk Nowitzki and company have been eliminated in succeeding seasons. What hurt them more was that the [...]
Published: May 27, 2011
The Miami Heat will attempt to close out their NBA Eastern Conference Finals series with the Chicago Bulls in Game 5 on Thursday night at the United Center. After losing Game 1 to the Bulls, the Heat won the next three games to go up 3-1 in the series and are on the verge of [...]
Published: May 27, 2011
It has been five years in the making and now Mavericks is finally heading its way to grab the NBA 2011 championship trophy. Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry did something right this time after five long years of letting a championship match slip away. The desire to get back on track has been feeding them [...]
Published: May 26, 2011
The Dallas Mavericks closed out the NBA Western Conference Finals with a 100-96 victory in Game 5 over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday. The Mavs are now headed to the NBA Finals in a possible re-match of the 2006 championship series with the Miami Heat.
The young team of Oklahoma City made things hard [...]