Spanish ice cream company GKM is running a competition that will send one lucky winner to accompany Andres Iniesta on Barcelona's U.S. preseason tour and that's the picture of him they're using to promote it on their Facebook page.
It's so similar to The 40-Year-Old Virgin movie poster -- right down to the striped shirt -- that it can't be a coincidence...right?
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Fresh off the tails of arguably the best pay-per-view of the year for the WWE, the fallout from Money In the Bank was evident throughout the night on Raw.
The first highlight of the night started once the show came on air, with Vince McMahon refusing to say CM Punk's name and carrying the storyline on his own without John Cena or Punk in the ring to help him.
McMahon announced later in his segment, the beginning of a night-long tournament to determine the new WWE Champion.
With so much hype and buildup after a pay-per-view and a decent start to the night, it's sad that it took until the start of the second hour of airtime for a captivating match.
After bearing through a lackluster and botch-filled three bouts that resulted in Kofi Kingston, Miz and R-Truth victories, the Rey Mysterio and Dolph Ziggler finally gave us what we were waiting for since the broadcast kicked off: some quality wrestling.
The match was not by any means an instant classic, but it was certainly the most intriguing of the first-round matches on the card, and thankfully Mysterio and Ziggler made sure it didn't disappoint the Green Bay, Wisconsin audience.
The two former SmackDown superstars showed off some of their classic moves, such as Mysterio's kick the face after a sunset flip and Ziggler's failed attempt at a sleeper hold on the San Diego native.
Oh, and just in case you went to grab something to eat after the Mysterio/Ziggler match, there was a Divas match while you were gone.
Not to be topped by Mysterio and Ziggler, Miz and Kingston went out and had themselves quite the match despite little experience facing each other—at least on-air. Miz sold his injury to the fullest, and Kingston had the momentum through the whole match, only to have Miz steal the victory.
After another great outing by Mysterio in his second match of the night, the finals between Miz and the Raw's masked man was set to take place—until it was postponed until next week by Mr. McMahon.
The much promoted Cena/McMahon confrontation took place in the finals of the tournament in what turned out to be an interesting segment between the two. Cena confronted his boss and even dropped a TNA reference during the discussion, and then Triple H arrived.
I'm not one that usually enjoys a non-wrestling match ending to a WWE program, but the twist added by Triple H's arrival and the subsequent storyline takeover of the company by Helmsley and end of the Vince McMahon reign.
Only the following weeks will tell what happens with CM Punk, the WWE Championship, Triple H and Vince McMahon, but it's one that has certainly grabbed the attention of the wrestling world.
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The least you should now about the 2011 Tigers. Part of ACC Week.
? Ready for the big time. Chad Morris could be the offensive savior for Clemson and head coach Dabo Swinney if he can work the same magic he made during one season with Tulsa in his new offensive coordinator role at Clemson.
Clemson was terrible on offense a year ago. There's no nicer way to put it. The Tigers ranked 88th nationally in total offense with 334.62 yards per game and 86th in scoring offense with just 24 points per game. Both of those statistics ranked them 10th in the ACC in front of Wake Forest and Boston College.
Tulsa, on the other hand, was an offensive juggernaut even by Conference USA standards. It had the fifth-best offense in the nation with 505.6 yards per game and the Golden Hurricane averaged 41.4 points per game last year. Tulsa ranked in the top 15 nationally in both rushing and passing offense, the only school to do so.
? Morris and Boyd, come on down. While Morris will be under intense scrutiny as he begins his first season as Clemson's offensive coordinator, so will new quarterback Tajh Boyd. Boyd takes over after Kyle Parker, who had a miserable redshirt junior season, decided to play professional baseball instead of football. That should be good news for Clemson fans if Boyd can step in and be the up-tempo, quick-thinking quarterback Morris needs him to be successful in the Tigers new fast-paced offense. Clemson ran 866 plays last year while Tulsa ran 1,008 in the same amount of games. Boyd has the advantage of being a big body with the ability to move around the pocket and he'll have a lot of help with the Tigers run game and Andre Ellington and Mike Bellamy jostling for playing time.
? Swinney's last stand. Clemson underachieved a season ago. No nicer way to put it. But with a heap of talent returning and coming in from a stellar recruiting class, Clemson has the opportunity to be a sleeper in the ACC.
And it better be if Swinney wants to keep his job.
Even though Swinney took the Tigers to the Meineke Car Care Bowl last year, they lost to South Florida and finished with the program's first losing record since 1998. Another losing campaign won't be acceptable, especially with 14 returning starters, a new hotshot offensive coordinator and a running back duo that should rival any tandem in the country. The Tigers first two games against Troy and Wofford should be a good opportunity to get the kinks out before taking on Auburn in Week 3. While Auburn might not be the powerhouse it was a year ago, this will be a good chance for Clemson to gain some early confidence before facing Florida State and Virginia Tech.
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When Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga played this magnificent point early in their Wimbledon semifinal, I thought it would end up going down as the best one of the tournament. My downstairs neighbors likely agreed, as there's a good chance I woke them up with my loud, guttural yell after the point.
Turns out it wasn't even the best of the match. If we can call the last point a "Single Becker" (meaning one player sprawled out on Centre Court like Boris Becker in 1986), the one below, which took place two sets later, would be considered a "Double Becker."
As a sports fan, that's all you can ask for: two athletes who want to win so badly that they're playing out a routine point in the middle of a match like it's the last they'll ever play. The best part of it all: Djokovic-Tsonga is considered the undercard to Friday's much-anticipated semifinal between Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.
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When the CFL season started, the Edmonton Eskimos were unanimously picked by our panel to be in for another tough year, and most outside experts agreed, even if the organization maintained they were ready to get back to the glory days. Meanwhile, the B.C. Lions were a hot pick to win the West Division and get back to a home Grey Cup after their strong finish to 2010 and their solid offseason. After three games, though, things have gone all pear-shaped; Edmonton's on top of the West with a 3-0 record, while B.C.'s in the cellar with a 0-3 mark (including a thumping by Edmonton Saturday). Were we all wrong about these teams, or is this just the notorious Small Sample Size Monster wreaking havoc?
In both cases, the ultimate answer appears to be not 42, but rather a little from each of those columns. Starting with Edmonton, yes, the Eskimos have looked a lot better than most people expected. That doesn't make those predictions silly, though, as any prediction is a hypothesis based on the available information, and the available information didn't suggest a lot of great things about this team. Their massive roster turnover since Eric Tillman's appointment in the middle of last season was worrying, considering how CFL experience (and experience in a particular scheme) often seems to correlate with success. They were relying on a rookie head coach in Kavis Reed (even if there were promising signs about his ability) and a veteran quarterback coming off a down season in Ricky Ray, and their line wasn't able to protect Ray at all last season. Since then, many of Tillman's acquisitions have fit in very well, Ray's playing some of the best football of his career, and Reed has demonstrated he's already a very capable head coach. That's great for Edmonton fans, but it wasn't necessarily foreseeable.
The more important question is if the Eskimos will be able to sustain this drive, or if they'll revert back to the form we expected from them. There's a lot to be optimistic about from a statistical point of view, as Edmonton isn't just winning games, but is also blowing people out. Margin of victory can tell you a lot about a team, and the Eskimos have won by 14, 18 and 16 points thus far; all of those games could have been even further apart if they hadn't eased off the gas a bit at the end. The Edmonton offence is also clicking like crazy, putting up 103 points through three games (second only to Montreal), and their defence has been no slouch, allowing only 55 points (tied with Hamilton for second). Ray's stats are right up there with Anthony Calvillo at the top of the quarterback chart, and his completion percentage of 72.5 per cent is unbelievably good.
The caveat is that Edmonton hasn't faced much in the way of good defence, though. Saskatchewan's conceded the most points in the league, B.C. is second, and Hamilton's second-lowest ranking should be taken with a grain of salt given the Roughriders' offensive failure against the Tiger-Cats Saturday. The Eskimos are certainly better than many would have thought, and they definitely appear capable of making some noise in a West Division that seems up in the air. Whether they'll continue this form and actually contend for the division title remains to be seen, though.
On the Lions' front, there's a similar strength-of-schedule argument to be made. So far, they've lost close games to the Alouettes and Stampeders, two of the best teams in the league. Yes, they got demolished by the Eskimos this weekend, but as pointed out above, the Eskimos are no punching bag these days. Two of the Lions' losses (Montreal and Edmonton) have come on the road, and they might be in a more comfortable position in the standings with some different coaching decisions from Wally Buono.
That doesn't mean there aren't real issues in B.C., as there certainly are. One key area to look at is the secondary, which was decent in the first two clashes but struggled against Edmonton. Part of that might be thanks to the injury to Stanley Franks, which has forced a bit of a shuffle there; David Hyland (seen above trying to tackle the Eskimos' Daniel Porter) looked a bit like a fish out of water Saturday as a result. The defence as a whole has looked weak in the passing game, and the linemen and linebackers aren't generating much quarterback pressure. On offence, the Lions' receivers need to improve their catching. Travis Lulay's been making some great throws, but there have been far too many drops. The running game is also still largely missing in action despite a few promising signs against Edmonton.
Still, unlike Saskatchewan, B.C.'s issues seem more tied to schemes and experience than personnel. That doesn't mean they don't have real problems, but it does mean that those problems typically are easier to fix than ones that require a roster overhaul. In a division that looks likely to go down to the wire, 0-3 is far too early to completely write a team off. B.C.'s going to have to get a lot better to be a real powerhouse, but it doesn't seem out of the realm of plausibility despite their poor start. This is the CFL, after all, where anything not only can happen, but usually does. If ever anyone discovers exactly how the league works, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
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Boxing's top draw appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show to sing and promote the release of his collaborative CD with Dan Hill. If you like variety this isn't the CD for you. If you like Manny a lot and the song "Sometimes When We Touch," you'd better hit Amazon.com quickly.
The Manila Bulletin reports for 9.99 you get:
The result of their team-up is a two-disc set containing seven versions of the song (including remixes and an instrumental), as well as a bonus DVD featuring the making of "Sometimes When We Touch"---which, notably, resulted in Dan's success as a recording artist. The album, also called "Sometimes When We Touch," has been made available on iTunes and amazon.com on April 28, the day of his "Kimmel" appearance.
Hill says Pacman has vocal skills.
"He's got a great voice. He's a very, very gifted guy. You could be a really good singer and still not have a good ear, meaning you may not be able to retain a melody if I sing it to you one time. I could sing Manny anything one time and he'll sing it back to me perfectly," Dan enthused in an interview posted on abs-cbnNEWS.com.
Last week's appearance was No. 4 on the Kimmel Show for Pacquiao. It's become part of his prefight routine.
"I think it's some kind of lucky because I always came here before my fight," said Manny, whose much-awaited bout with Shane Mosley takes place on May 7 in Las Vegas.
"I'm like a big fat rabbit's foot," quipped Jimmy.
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Heading into this season, if there was one CFL starting quarterback whose health you'd have been particularly concerned about, it would have been Winnipeg's Buck Pierce. Pierce has a notable history of injuries to everything from his head to his knee to his elbow, and he was effective when healthy in 2010, but missed most of the season after suffering a knee injury. He worked hard to rehab in the offseason (when he wasn't running The Winnipeg Sun's sports department) and even survived a hard hit in Week One, but things took a turn for the worse Thursday when he was knocked out of the Blue Bombers' game against Calgary (which they would go on to lose 21-20). Pierce's injury, which came after a couple of flagged late hits from Stampeders' safety Demetrice Morley and defensive end Robert McCune, has led to plenty of outrage in Winnipeg from players, media and fans.
It doesn't sound like Pierce (seen on the bench during the fourth quarter Thursday) will be out all that long, as the team has officially labeled him "day-to-day" with a quad injury and suggested at a press conference Friday he could be ready for their next game next Saturday against Toronto. That's interesting considering the unusual precautions they took Thursday night to prevent him from talking to the media, which seemed to suggest something more serious might have happened. A day-to-day injury that could see him recovered by their next game is about the best possible outcome that could be expected here.
That's not going to minimize the questions about headhunting and late hits, though. Bombers' right tackle Glenn January wasn't particularly impressed with Calgary's play, and he went off after the loss. Here's some of what he told The Winnipeg Sun's Paul Friesen (who appears to share January's opinions; his column lede is the incredibly subtle "Rename them the Calgary Headhunters):
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out," Bomber O-lineman Glenn January said in a subdued Bomber locker-room, after a 21-20 Stamps win.
"It's (bleeping) ridiculous. A team comes out there and their main goal is to take out a quarterback by hitting him late ? you'd think in this league you'd have a certain amount of professionalism. I witnessed a couple things tonight I didn't expect out of those guys."
January didn't stop there, either. Here are some more of his post-game comments, from Paul Wiecek of The Winnipeg Free Press:
January said there was no question in his mind what the Stampeders set out to do ? and also no question that they achieved it.
"It's unacceptable," said January. "The refs threw the flags and that's good ? they're looking for it. But you kind of got the sense they were gunning for Buck and trying to take him out. And it wasn't an issue of the protection not being sound ? it was just extra guys late."
"You just have to kind of shake your head about some of the choices some of their players made tonight. Hopefully, the league will look at it and see if they were malicious in nature. And if they were trying to take him out, you just have to trust (the league is) trying to prevent those things from happening in the future."
"Because, really, they got a couple late hit penalties, but they knocked our quarterback out. It seems like a good deal for them."
From that same article, head coach Paul LaPolice wasn't particularly happy about the late hits either, but he was more restrained than January.
"The two late hits they had? They late hit him, they late hit him, they're going to get flagged. I don't like it, but the mechanism we have is they flag them."
That raises an interesting point. Should the CFL be doing more about late hits than just flagging them? The yards picked up (generally 15, under "Roughing the passer" or "Unnecessary Roughness,") are a significant deterrent, and referees do have the option to dole out 25-yard "Rough play" penalties (and disqualify particular players) if they feel there's a major issue. In most cases, 15 yards is probably more than enough, especially as there are only fractions of a second between a legitimate hit and a late one; it's quite possible for a defensive player to launch himself while the quarterback still has the ball and still get flagged for a late hit. If there is evidence of a thorough plan to take a quarterback out with late hits, then yes, the referees should do more (and the league should get involved after the fact); I'm not sure two late hits are enough evidence to prove that, though. It's worth noting that Winnipeg also got flagged for a late hit in the fourth when Odell Willis delivered an after-the-whistle shot on Calgary quarterback Henry Burris, and Burris wasn't terribly happy about it either.
"Odell says he's not doing it on purpose but I think he's trying to hit me late," Burris said. "He's a good buddy and they come hard. He's a great player. To me, he's one of the best defensive ends in this league."
It's worth noting that McCune was willing to defend his own late hit on Pierce, too.
"I thought he was acting," McCune said. "He got rid of the ball and I jumped over him. I barely touched him."
"It was going back and forth and it was a really physical game. We prepared for it. Teams are going to be punching at us every game. We have to keep playing hard no matter what.
In any case, it looks like the Bombers will get Pierce back before too long, and they would certainly like to have him under centre again. Although he hasn't been terribly effective so far this year, he's the only experienced CFL quarterback they have thanks to the decision to trade Steven Jyles in the offseason. Granted, Jyles likely wouldn't be available either if they still had him, as he's still recovering from offseason shoulder surgery and is on the nine-game injury list with Toronto. Still, if Pierce is out, the next man up is former Purdue star Joey Elliott, who only joined the team late last season. He showed potential down the stretch and was reasonably effective in relief Thursday, but he still has very limited CFL experience. For now, the Bombers' hopes are largely in Pierce's basket, so they'll be hoping his recovery goes as quickly as planned.
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