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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Former NBA All-Star Marbury to play with professional team in China
BEIJING — Stephon Marbury reached an agreement to play for a professional team in China.
Shanxi announced it was bringing in the former NBA all-star guard on Monday. In a release, the team said it expected Marbury to play his first game on Jan. 27 against Qingdao.
Wang Xingjiang, head of the Shanxi team, called the signing of Marbury "a reward to our fans" to help a struggling team.
"Marbury's salary is not an astronomical figure because by coming here he also hopes to open up the Chinese market and sell his shoes," Wang said, referring to the guard's line of Starbury basketball shoes and apparel.
Based in the northern city of Taiyuan, 400 kilometres from the capital Beijing, Shanxi is 3-10 and in 12th place in a 17-team league.
The 32-year-old Marbury played 13 seasons in the NBA with Minnesota, New Jersey, Phoenix, New York and Boston. He averaged 19.3 points in his career.
He played 23 games with the Celtics last season after a messy split from the Knicks.In an interview posted on Shanxi's website, Marbury said he wasn't daunted by the language barrier.
"I'll communicate with the fans through my basketball," Marbury said. "I think this will be a unique experience. To go overseas to play ball, to live, for me it's a challenge."
Having gone more than a year without playing a regular season game, he saw little action at Boston before becoming a free agent last summer.
Marbury joins another NBA alum at Shanxi: Nigerian centre Olumide Oyedeji, who played two seasons for the Seattle SuperSonics and another for the Orlando Magic.
The 15-year-old Chinese league has struggled with the loss of its biggest star, Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming.
Monday, January 25, 2010
S.C. Republican Lt. Gov.: Poor like 'stray animals'
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared those on government assistance to “stray animals,” saying that the reason you stop feeding animals is that “they breed.”
Bauer is one of the leading Republican candidates for governor and gained national prominence after calling on Republican Gov. Mark Sanford to resign after his admission to an affair with an Argentine woman. But Bauer now finds himself in hot water for his remarks to a town hall meeting on Friday.
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed,” Bauer said during a speech advocating that the government take away assistance to those who do not pass drug tests.
“You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply,” Bauer added, according to a report in the Greenville News. “They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.”
Bauer, who grew up in a working-class family, said parents whose children receive free, or subsidized, lunches at school should stop receiving government benefits if they do not attend parent-teacher conferences.
“You go to a school where there’s an active participation of parents, and guess what? They have the highest test scores,” Bauer said. “So what do you do? You say, ‘Look folks, if you receive goods or services from the government and you don't attend a parent-teacher conference, bam, you lose your benefits.’”
The comments have become the focus of the state’s heated gubernatorial campaign, dominating headlines in South Carolina’s political press.
Bauer did not respond to a request to comment, but has defended the remarks by saying the “stray animals” comparison was taken out of context.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31959.html#ixzz0dfbn3JBb
Do you agree with South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer that the poor are like stray animals? Please comment...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
MVP- Most Voluptuous Player- Darelle Revis
Darrelle Shavar Revis (born July 14, 1985, in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania), is an American football cornerback for the New York Jets of the National Football League. Revis was drafted in the first round (14th overall) by the Jets in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently regarded as one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.
Friday, January 22, 2010
WHO KNEW?
LYRICS: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pink/whoknew.html
Heard this song for the 1st time today on the radio, its brilliant.. Should've known it was PINK
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