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Perhaps the planet’s most popular and exciting basketball player, Lebron James is slowly carving out a great name for himself. Last year he steered Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA finals and many experts expect him and his team to be a force to reckon with again this year. Here are some inspirational quotations or quotes dished out by the most versatile and prolific basketball nowadays. Feel free to read them:
“I don’t want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.”
“Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won’t let me be selfish.”
“With that locker room I could sleep there after games.”

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China finished first, India wound up fourth, Japan checked in fifth and the Philippines was tied for the tenth place.

The Philippines boasts of a lone silver and two bronzes in this strong event. In London, a total of 12 slots is up for grab for each of the weight categories in the women’s boxing event.

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Nowadays the gold and silver haven’t lost its charm and beauty, these two valued metals are not only capable of making someone else stands out from the crowd can as well be used to protect wealth and fame. Stockpiling these two precious metals, when one buy gold or gold bullions, can be a great endeavor since the supply of these two metals are dwindling at a very fast pace.

Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao is still the world’s number one pound-for-pound in an online poll in a popular sports website even as Floyd Mayweather Jr. pulling out a comprehensive and decisive victory over Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas.
The survey results given by Yahoo! Sports shows Pacquiao leading Mayweather as boxing’s current pound-for-pound king.
Yahoo! Sports asked online visitors, “Who is boxing’s pound-for-pound king?” Sixty-six (66%) favored Pacquiao, while Mayweather collared thirty-three (33%) and measly 3% meanwhile chose other boxers. Over 82,000 online voters participated in the survey.
Pacquiao wrested the coveted pound-for-pound title from Mayweather after taking his retirement in 2008.
Mayweather, made a comeback in a bid to recapture the pound-for-pound throne from Pacquiao after 21 months of retirement.
The left-handed Pacquiao made a stronghold at his number 1 status by piling up convincing victories over David Diaz, Oscar Dela Hoya and Ricky Hatton.
The Ring, a partner of Yahoo! Sports, said, “Pacquiao solidified his claim on the top spot after stopping David Diaz, Oscar Dela Hoya and Ricky Hatton in particular fashions. Mayweather couldn’t simply return to boxing after 21 months and overthrow the true king – no matter what happened on Saturday night.
The Ring added, “Mayweather might be very well be the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound title must be carried through. And hopefully Mayweather will get his chance or chances to do it.”

Pacquiao has begun training in Baguio City for his megafight with Miguel Sotto slated this November 14 in Las vegas. A win against the Puerto Rican will lined up the ferocious and feisty ring gladiator, the Pacman against Mayweather early or midway next year.

If you are tired in playing farmville, real sports is a break. On the other hand, if you are tired in playing physical sports, then farmville will be very relaxing. If your internet is disconnected, a little frustrations will be drawn on your face; if that is the case then you need to engage yourself in physical activity. You need to play outdoor, or indoor if that would be more practicable. Whichever you choose, both are fun anyway. Happy playing.

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Sports writing is one of the most exciting endeavor aside from there is less competition on this category when compared with other niches. Just like other undertaking sports writing also requires commitment, creativity and patience to be good at this.

You are required to cover a sporting event to come up with an article and observe all the actions that are taking place from all over the place. It will also help if you are keen enough to look the scores and major spurts, but also the coaches, fans, and the venue itself.

Here are the things you need to make you a well-rounded sports writer (ways to make you a good sports writer online or in the Internet).

1. Writing sports article requires a wide range of arsenal on your war chest. Since you are like going to battle and you must be better be well equipped to turn the tide on your favor and win a lot of readers. Arm yourself with jargons (words that are commonly used in sports that may have different meaning in real life that can b exaggerated or flowery). Jargons make reading pleasurable as it lets readers imagine and get swayed with your article.
2. Action-packed throughout – Your article must be laced with lots of venoms for it to become potent and powerful. State when major comebacks transpired on the game, major happenings that took place and changed the outcome of the game and take some time to highlight any uncommon, unusual or unpleasant things that sprouted out from the game.
3. Be highly detailed by injecting a lot of information to your works such as stating how many times a certain team or a player win the championships, at what particular year a team or player was victorious, at what particular time a team or a player made a remarkable impression that made the difference in the game, and etc. You may describe also the winning attitude of a team or a player during the game and the factors that enable a team or a player wins the game.
4. Make your articles enduring,. Update if necessary all your blogs or articles online every month. Search engine moguls like Google and Yahoo love articles that are updated, original and informative.
5. Choose the title well. You need to have an eye-catching and at the same time a concise title. Remember that your title alone will help you a lot in gaining potential readers.
6. The more the merrier. The number of words whipped out on your articles can spell the success for your works. If you can make an article with lots of words on it and at the same time can be made into numerous tags the better.
7. Do not plagiarize or copy paste the work of others. This is the lowest form of writing and search engines will not credit such misdeeds on the Internet, if you cannot make your own article with out the help of some reference materials, you can use various articles on the newspapers.
8. Strive to learn more whilst writing to boosts your stock even further and to make you a better sports writer. Read a lot to gain more knowledge about the craft and to make you sharp at all times. Gain more experience by keep on practicing and writing articles. Obtain exposure by having your write-ups published in writing websites.

Here are some ways to be a well-rounded sportswriter. I hope this will be helpful and valuable for you dear readers and if you have time find time to read on Ways to be a Sports Editor of a Sports Writer

Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines bowed to old nemesis GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the eighth round of the 43rd Biel Chessfest Young Grandmaster Tournament  category and remained stacked with 4 points. So playing with the black pieces engaged Giri into complications in their English Opening (Pidgin Variation) and even pushed the Dutch number 2 player in time trouble. At the end So was in big trouble as the match was culled to just 5 pawns for both players and a Zugswang favors the white pieces with strong passive pawns on the kingside that.

The loss dashed the hopes of Wesley So of bagging the tournament’s top plum.

Almost the same fate happened to So earlier this year as he bowed to time troubled Giri after making a blunder. So missed a winning line that enabled Giri to wield the upset axe and eventually wrap up the Corus Section B championship and the automatic seeding to next year’s elite Group A.

Vietnamese GM Nguyen Truoc Son meanwhile pulled out a stunning reversal as he repulsed second seed GM Evgeny Tomashevsky  of Russia to enhance his chances of winning the tournament. Nguyen now totes 4.5 points to catch Caruana for the lead on this All-Grandmaster, single round play tournament.

Other chess matches are still played as of presstime.

Standings After the Eighth Round in the 43^rd Biel International Chess Festival

4.0 points So (Philippines), Tomashevsky (Russia), Andreikin (Russia)*, Vachier-Lagrave (France)*, Rodhstein (Israel)*, Giri (Netherlands)

2.0 points Negi (India)*, Howell (England)*

Playing as of presstime

Wesley So Keeps Share of Second Place After Seven Rounds in Biel Chessfest

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Another draw for GM Wesley So of the Philippines this time against GM Nguyen Trouc Son of Vietnam to stay in a share of the second place in the 43^rd Biel Young Grandmaster Tournaent  held in Switzerland. The Filipino chess whiz finds himself in big trouble but as the battle nears the end game Wesley So managed to make a comeback and squeezed the draw. The Qc2 move of so in the 16^th proves to be very weak as Nguyen pounced on it. The Vietnamese controlled the game from then on, but So didn’t waver as he launched counter attacks and parry all the threats provided by Nguyen.

Three other games in the tournament also ended in a draw on this 10-man all-GM tournament – top seed Maxime Vachier of France against second seed Evegeny Tomashevsky, Fabiano Caruana of Italy against Anish Giri of the Netherlands and Paramirjan Negi of India against Dmitry Andreikin of Russia.

GM Maxime Rodhstein of Israel is still battling GM David Howell of England as of presstime.

Caruana still holds a very slim lead and just a half a point ahead of So, Vachier-Lagrave, and Andreikin.

Standings After Seventh Round in the 43^rd Biel International Chess Festival

4.5 points Caruana (Italy)

4.0 points So (Philippines), Tomashevsky (Russia), Andreikin (Russia), Vachier-Lagrave (France), Rodhstein (Israel)

3.5 points Nguyen (Vietnam)

3.0 points Giri (Netherlands)

2.0 points Negi (India), Howell (England)

*Playing as of presstime

Wesley So Scored a Draw Over His Russian Opponent in the Sixth Round of Biel Chess festival

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Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So escaped with a draw against his second seeded opponent Russian GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in just 24 moves of Carokann in the sixth round of the 43^rd Biel Chess Festival held in Switzerland to hike his output to 3.5 points. He tied his opponent,  Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin and Israeli GM Maxim Rodhstein  for the share of the econd place. Andreikin drew his game over Rodhstein.

Italian GM Fabiano Caruana nurses a slim half point lead in the tournament by also drawing his game against Vietnamese GM Nguyen Truoc Son, to raise his total points to 4.0.

Also playing as of presstime are French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagraive and David Howell, and Dutch GM Anish Giri and Indian GM Paramirjan Negi.

Giri who is the reigning Groub Section of the Corus Chess Tournament is running into time trouble but against his opponent.

Standings After Sixth Round in the 43^rd Biel International Chess Festival

4.0 points Caruana (Italy)

3.5 points So (Philippines), Tomashevsky (Russia), Rodhstein (Israel), Andreikin (Russia), Vachier-Lagrave (France)

1.5 points Howell (England), Negi (India)*

So Loses to Caruana in the Fifth Round in Biel Chess Festival

Grandmaster Wesley So’s hold of the lead in the 43^rd Biel Chess Festival was wiped out as Italian GM Fabiano Caruana of Italy inflicted him a resounding defeat on their Carokann encounter in the fifth round match. The Filipino chess lion who now totes 2 wins, two draws and a loss and was stalled at 3.0 points now half a point behind his tormentor. Caruana seized the solo lead with 3.5 points.

Israeli GM Maxim Rodhstein who played very well for his country in the last staging of the Olympiad made up from a loss to So in the fourth round, as he bounced back into contention by outwitting favored Anish Giri of the Netherlands 1-0 to hike his points output to 3.0.

In other fifth round action, GMs Nguyen Truoc Son of Vietnam and Paramirjan Negi of India agreed to a draw, ½ – ½, the same outcome transpired with the game between second-seeded GM Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia and David Howell of England.

The result of the game between top seed GM Maxime Vachier-Lagraive of France and Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin is still not available as they are still playing as of presstime.

So will have its hand full when it battles Tomashevsky in the sixth round.

Standings After Fifth Round of the 43^rd Biel International Chess Festival

3.5 points Caruana (Italy),

3.0 points So (Philippines), Tomashevsky (Russia), Rodhstein (Israel)

2.5 points Andreikin (Russia)*, Truong Son (Vietnam)

2.0  points Vachier-Lagrave (France)*, Giri (Netherlands)

1.5 point Howell (England)

1.0  point Negi (India)

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