10/21/13
If this fight were to happen, that would be an event in itself and would feature an unlikely match-up between this era's best fighters.
I have tremendous admiration for the sk**s and careers of both Mayweather and Hopkins.
It could quite possibly go down as the most boring high profile fight of all-time. I personally do not think too many fans would be interested in that match-up.
Floyd can barely make 154, can't even weigh-in over 150 pounds and he is supposed to move up to the middleweight cla** of 160 pounds?
Hopkins hasn't fought at middleweight since 2005. He would be better off challenging the super middleweight king Andre Ward 26-0 (16 KO's).
And if Mayweather were to move up to middleweight, he might as well challenge Sergio Martinez 51-2-2 (28 KO's) for the lineal championship.
There is intrigue in a Mayweather-Martinez match-up, would probably be a more crowd pleasing affair compared to a bout with Hopkins and if victorious, Floyd could become the first fighter to capture lineal championships in five different divisions.
The binding contract Martinez has HBO would obviously pose a problem being that Mayweather is locked in as the main man at Showtime.
jordan vs kobe
One of the biggest differences between the two stars from my perspective was Michael's superior sk**s as a leader,” Jackson said. “Though at times he could be hard on his teammates, Michael was masterful at controlling the emotional climate of the team with the power of his presence. Kobe had a long way to go before he could make that claim. He talked a good game, but he'd yet to experience the cold truth of leadership in his bones, as Michael had.”
Jackson noted the “pronounced” difference in their accuracy, Jordan shooting almost 50% — an “extraordinary figure” — while Bryant had been at 45%.
“No question, Michael was a tougher, more intimidating defender. He could break through virtually any screen and shut down almost any player with his intense, laser-focused style of defense.”
Jackson's takes, they don't stray too far — if at all — from the general consensus. Jordan's better shooting numbers can't be disputed, his defense is widely regarded as meaningfully better and Bryant has been knocked for years for a go-it-alone personality that requires teammates to bend to his will. Jackson's a**essment is in no ways a slam on Bryant — there's no shame whatsoever in finishing second to Jordan in any basketball a**essment — but it does provide an expert eyewitness verification to some of the criticisms that have dogged Bryant over the years.
larry vs caliven
Adam Levitan looks at Larry Fitzgerald's dud and recaps all of Thursday's news in the Dose.he Bengals got a win today, but it came with a terrible cost. A league source confirms to PFT that Bengals cornerback Leon Hall suffered a torn Achilles and will be lost for the season. Hall went down in the first quarter while covering Calvin Johnson, and did not return. He also suffered the same
kindrek vs kelly
So while sales figures for MGK just-released studio debut can never and will never even come close to matching the staggering 27 million YouTube views Kells' now gold-certified first single “Wild Boy” has ama**ed, the movement a 22-year-old mohawked, tatted-up White guy with an eye-grabbing Punk Rock-meets-Hip Hop swag has inspired into an allegiant army of followers in just the last couple of years remains nothing short of remarkable.
"Kendrick Lamar recently spoke about the various responses to his oft-discussed verse on Big Sean's "Control."
"They gotta try harder," Lamar said to TMZ when asked about the responses to "Control."
Several rappers have made responses to Lamar's verse on "Control." Ca**idy, Papoose and Meek Mill have been among those who have responded to Lamar's verse on the song, which featured Kendrick mentioning the names of several rappers in his verse.
hawking vs albert
Genius is an ambiguous/ambivalent word for describing creative thinking.
By habit, we have got stuck with the word in the history of evolution of creative thought.
We call a genius a genius when a person's creative thinking either is responsible for a paradigmatic shift in perceived thinking or alters our fundamental understanding of Nature/Universe and its working - in a nut-shell: for sheer originality!
So, that way we have had a number of geniuses in history across disciplines - many not known popularly outside the professional circles.
Everyone - whether it was Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking - gets his background knowledge and probable ways of perception from the thinkers who precede him/her.
Ananda Coomaraswamy - that scholar extraordinaire in Metaphysics - remarked in a different context: "Comparison is immoral." But his observation is valid for any chosen field.
I don't see the reason for comparing Newton, Einstein and Hawking in the first place to find who was the most genius.
Newton was the first to perceive the idea of gravity as attraction of forces and translated those ideas into a viable and workable model for understanding Nature. But interestingly his ideas did not come to him on observing an apple falling down from a tree! Apple fall was a historical fiction perpetuated by our text-books!! Newton also meddled into a number of other fields: mathematics, metaphysics, alchemy, optics, mysticism,etc. His contributions as ideas are vast though we realize his ideas' effiicacy predominantly in mathematics and physics. French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange often said that Newton was the greatest genius.
10/22/13
Promoter Bob Arum said he is trying to put together a fifth fight between Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez and shopping it to casinos in Asia. He said Saturday night at the Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado fight that the bout would likely be at one of the Venetian hotel-casinos in Macau or Singapore.
"The thing we're waiting on is which one of their hotels they want to do it at," Arum said.
Marquez would be the most likely opponent for Pacquiao, though Arum indicated earlier that Timothy Bradley — who won a disputed decision over Pacquiao last year — is another possibility.
Marquez knocked Pacquiao out in the sixth round in December, flattening the Filipino fighter with a right hand that left him face down on the canvas for two minutes. It was the first win for Marquez in four fights between the two rivals.
If Pacquiao meets Marquez, it could be held far from the Las Vegas Strip, where they fought all four of their fights. The MGM Grand hotel would ordinarily figure to be the host for the bout, but the hotel reportedly is holding a September date for Floyd Mayweather Jr., a**uming he beats Robert Guerrero at the hotel May 4.
Arum is in Macau this week for the fight card Saturday night at the Venetian featuring two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming of China in his pro debut.
kobe vs lebron
Kobe 21.5 ppg on 41.4% FG with 5.8rpg and 3.5apg (19 games)
LeBron 31.5 ppg on 46% FG with 10.0rpg and 6.5apg (12 games)
LeBron is also clearly the better player when facing elimination.
I have deliberately left out the two player's records in these games because whether a team wins or loses is a team accomplishment. Basketball is a team game and therefore it's foolish to attribute a loss to just one player alone.
Game 7 of their most recent NBA Finals
Kobe in game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals: 23 points, 6 for 24 shooting (0 for 6 from 3pt range), 25% FG, 15 rebounds, 2 a**ists, 1 steal, 4 turnovers
LeBron in game 7 of the 2013 NBA Finals: 37 points, 12 for 23 shooting (5 for 7 from 3pt range), 52% FG, 12 rebounds, 4 a**ists, 2 steals and 2 turnovers.
LeBron clearly played better in his respective finals scoring more points, more efficiently from both 2 ant 3pt range, while he fell shot in rebounding in comparison to Bryant he accumulated more a**ists and steals while committing less turnovers; advantage LeBron.
asap vs the girl
asap is way better he is a king in rap
Born on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri, rap musician Eminem had a turbulent childhood. He released The Slim Shady LP in early 1999, and the album went multi-platinum, garnering Eminem two Grammy Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards. In 2000, the rapper released The Marshall Mathers LP, which was noted as the fastest-selling album in rap history. More recently, in 2010, Eminem released the Grammy-winning album Recovery,a highly autobiographical attempt to come to terms with his struggles with addiction and experience with rehabilitation. Eminem plans to release his eighth album MMLP2, in 2013.
Early Life
American rapper, record producer and actor Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mather III on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri. He never knew his father, Marshall Mather Jr., who abandoned the family when Eminem was still an infant and rebuffed all of his son's many attempts to contact him during his childhood. As a result, Eminem was raised by his mother, Deborah Mather. She never managed to hold down a job for more than several months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects. "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. "That was probably the roughest part about it all