SPORTS HUBS

I wonder why nude pictures are popular in sports since this is a form of truly wholesome and exciting entertainment where athletes display prowess and awesome skills to the delight of the fans. Well maybe these athletes just wanted to show off there tastefully bodies or perhaps they have some reasons doing so. During Olympics, whether it is held in summer or winter, some athletes marquee or not will dare to bare their bodies to the public to get attention and to realize their own objectives why they did this so.

Now here are the reasons of some athletes who would be willing to pose nude or semi nude.

• Alan Baxter of Great Britain almost shows off his body to raise funds for his stint in the just recently concluded 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Baxter a skier poses half nude and accumulated enough funds to sustain his goal of participating in the prestigious event. Taking these kinds of photo is now becoming a way of raising funds for some cause, be the one to be the judge with this, though.
• To promote some merchandise just like what German skier, Maria Riesch, does when she posed semi-naked showing off her charm to the media. Riesch is promoting Lange ski boots.
• Many athletes do this for career advancement. The more media mileage they can muster the more popular they will become, and the more popular they are the more sponsors and advertisements will come in.
• Nude or sexy pictures when properly taken with details and some touches of creativity can be counted as artistic (but still this can stir some uproar especially to the conservative group of our society including the religious sector).
• The craving of some people seeing their hero on their naked glory might appease their craving for great body and their being such a staunch fans.

Summary: Some athletes are enticed to get involve with this kind of activity depending what motivation drives them to do so. Some does it for popularity, fame, media attention, fundraising driving and among others. But why they can’t just let their performance build a name for themselves not with using flesh to bolster their chances of earning with sponsorship deals and advertisements. But since these athletes have the freewill to do so and many people seemed interested with these activities these athletes will easily have a sort of walking in the park, raking mullahs for them.

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Nguyen Truoc Son provided the biggest reversal in the penultimate ninth round of the 43^rd Biel Chess Young Grandmasters Tournament as he demolished fast-rising star Anish Giri of the Netherlands 1-0, to forge a three-way tie with Grandmasters Maxim Vachier-Lagrave of France and Fabiano Caruana of Italy who scored draws on their respective games. The three totes an identical 5.5 points out of the possible 9.0 points.

Vachier-Lagrave handling the disadvantageous black pieces was held to a draw by Indian GM Paramirjan Negi while Caruana extracted a draw from GM David Howell of England.

Caruana and Vachier-Lagrave will dispute in a two game knockout matches to determine the finalist against Nguyen.

In other chess actions in Biel, Switzerland, GM Wesley So of the Philippines who was at on the losing game against GM Dmitry Andreikin of Russia, still managed to eked out a hard fought draw to hike his total points to 4.5 and finished at the middle pack of the 10 All-GM, single round tournament that gathered some of the best young woodpushers from around the round.

Second seed GM Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia was also held to a truce against GM Maxim Rodhstein of Israel.

Standings after nine round in the Young Grandmasters Tournament Section of Biel Chess Festival

The flamboyant and acerbic Floyd Mayweather Jr., is always toppling any possible bout the Filipino ring sensation Manny Pacquiao. Though Mayweather is the current pound-for-pound king in the planet many boxing kibitzers. Aficionados and fans he is not deserving of the accolade bestowed to him. In many occasions he avoided colliding with future hall of famer Pacquiao, who is a seven-time world boxing champion in seven weight divisions the most and prolific in the sports.

Mayweather even stooped so low in dragging Pacquiao down to earth by unleashing series of unfounded allegations about anabolic steroids abuse, which is bias on his part. Pacquiao earlier slapped and filed a lawsuit against Mayweather.

Instead of facing Pacquiao in a no holds barred and mano y mano action in the ring and heading to the popular clamor of the people for a possible match he played it safe as he pitted himself with an aging grizzled warrior in Shane Mosley.

With obvious distinct advantage on his side, Mayweather outlasted and outclassed his compatriot on his last bout to get back into the thick of things and hug the limelight once again after many months of semi-retirement.

Mayweather wittingly escaped a clean slate and the question of who is really the current boxing kingpin is still hanging in the balance, no thanks to the cowardice shown he has shown for the past many months.

Here are some reasons why Mayweather is scared of the Filipino ring hero.

• Mayweather has nothing to gain, even if he wins, he is thus far the bigger and heftier of the two. Prevailing over Pacquiao will just merit and cement his status further as the top boxing persona. A bitter loss forever, will wipe out the status and reputation he had built for the past several years.
• He has a clean win-loss slate to boasts and proud of, and a possible match and a loss to Pacquiao will ruin all the hardwork he have had whipped out. Moreover a bitter loss will tarnish his reputation and will definitely pull him down from the echelons of boxing greats to the pit of disaster.
• Pacquiao is a dangerous and a consummate boxer. He is fast, agile, smart, punch hard, skilful and plays with all sheer courage and with all of his heart.
• Pacquiao is persevering, he can endure tedious and backbreaking training regimen at any given time. Mayweather cannot equal Pacquiao on this category.
• With clever Freddie Roach manning the mentoring job on the coaching camp of Pacquiao, no doubt the Filipino pug has the edge even the bell hasn’t sounded yet.
• Mayweather is ultra rich since he is not only a great boxer but a great businessman too. Even the bout with Pacquiao will net him more millions on his stock what is at stake on the bout are just to great to get enticed in.
• Alas, in plain words, Mayweather is maybe too scared of the Filipino fella because he doesn’t wanted to get pummeled in the boxing ring. Pacquiao already smothered great names in boxing such as Barrera, Marquez, Morales, Dela Hoya, Diaz, and Cotto, and it is obvious that he doesn’t want to be the latest addition in the list.

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(Updated July 23, 2010) Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines finds cellar dweller Paramirjan Negi of India a tough nut to crack as he was forced to a draw after 28 moves of  Carokann. So is still leading with 3 points in four rounds just a half point ahead of Italian GM Fabiano Caruana and Russians GMs Evgeny Tomashevsky and Dmitry Andreikin.

Andreikin was the biggest gainer in the fourth round as he crushed English GM David Howell, to catch Tomashevsky and Andreikin for a tie of the second place lead.

The solo leader So stakes his lead over the dangerous third seeded Caruana.

Grandmasters Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France, the tournament’s top seed and Anish Giri of the Netherlands are still battling as of presstime.

Standings After Fourth Round of the Biel International Chess Festival

3.0 points So (Philippines),

2.5 points Tomashevsky (Russia), Caruana (Italy), Andreikin (Russia),

2.0 Truong Son (Vietnam), Rodhstein (Israel)

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

1.0 Howell (England)

0.5 Negi (India)

* Playing as of presstime

Amazing So Wrests Solo Lead In Biel Chess Festival in the Third Round

Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So (2672) handling the disadvantageous black pieces pummeled erstwhile co-leader Israeli GM Maxim Rodhstein (2609) with series of remarkable maneuvers in the end game to triumph in moves of 39 Queen’s Indian Defense to hike its points output to 2.5 and took the solo lead in the 43^rd Biel International Chess Festival. So missed a winning line in the middle game but recovered his lost ground to subdue his pesky Israeli opponent.

So pondering his moves against Rodhstein in the third round of Biel Chess Festival. Picture from www.bielchessfestival.ch/

Fabiano Caruana of Italy, which totes an Elo rating of 2697 dealt Indian GM Paramirjan Negi its third loss in as many games to tie Russian GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (2708) for second place with two points a piece. Tomashevsky drew his game with fellow Russian GM Dmitry Andreikin (2650).

In the other games, top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2723) of France was held to a draw by Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son ½ – ½ and Dutch GM Anish Giri halved the point with David Howell of England ½ – ½.

Standings After the Third Round of  Biel International Chess Festival

2.5 points So (Philippines), 1.5 Rodhstein (Israel)

2.0 points Tomashevsky (Russia), Caruana (Italy)

1.5 points Vachier-Lagrave (France), Truong Son (Vietnam), Giri (Netherlands), Andreikin (Russia)

1.0 Howell (England)

0 Negi (India)

The Biel Chess Festival Participants. Picture from www.bielchessfestival.ch/

It was a dull day in the second round of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival held in Switzerland as all players in five boards agreed to a truce. Grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines springs some surprises on his game against the top seeded French Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2723) in the middle stages of the match but was wittingly neutralized by superb counter plays. The exciting match between these two feisty chess players ended in a draw after exhausting 64 moves. The Filipino number one player still leads in the tournament alongside Maxim Rodhstein (2609) of Israel which was also held to a draw by Italian rising Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana (2697). Caruana scored his second draw counting the one he had against Anish Giri who triumphed this year in the Section B of the prestigious Corus Chess Tournament also drew his game against Vachier-Lagrave in the first round.

Grandmasters David Howell of England (2616) bounced back into contention by scoring a hard fought draw against GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (2617).

The drawish games between second-seed Russian GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (2708) of Russia against Parimarjan Negi (2615) of India and Anish Giri of the Netherlands (2672) over Dmitry Andreikin (2650) of Russia are still played as of press time.

So and Rodhstein still leads in the tournament by just a half point against their nearest pursuers.

Standings After Second Round

1.5 So (Philippines), Rodhstein (Israel)

1.0 Vachier-Lagrave (France), Caruana (Italy), Truong Son (Vietnam),

0.5 Giri (Netherlands)*, Tomashevsky (Russia)*, Andreikin (Russia)*, Howell (England)

0 Negi (India)*

* Playing as of press time

The prestigious and equally tough 43^rd Biel Chess Festival held in Switzerland hostilities finally got underway as top guns of the Young Tournament in the annual event showed fearsome form. Fourth-seeded Filipino grandmaster Wesley So (2674) who is the current youngest player in the world’s top 60 lists in the latest FIDE ratings waylaid old nemesis and British hope David Howell (2616) 1-0, even as Israeli top bet Maxim Rodhstein (2609) squeaking past Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi (2615) 1-0, to grab the early lead in the tournament which lured ten of the brightest and talented woodpushers from all over the world.

The top Filipino bet, So, made a stir in the 2009 World Cup by virtue of scoring stunning upset victories over Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk and American Gata Kamsky next takes on the tournament’s top seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2723) who drew his round assignment with Italian sensation and third seed Fabiano Caruana (2697), ½ – ½. While erstwhile co-leader Rodhstein (2609) will meet Caruana in the second round.

All the other matches in the first round ended in a truce. Dutch Anish Giri (2672) who is a half-Russian half-Nepalese drew with Russian second-seed Evgeny Tomashevsky (2708) ½ – ½, while another Russian GM participant Dmitry Andreikin (2650) halved the point with Vietnamese GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (2617) ½ – ½.

Other pairings in the second round of the tournament includes Tomashevsky (0.5) – Parimarjan Negi (0), Truong Son (0.5) – David Howell (0), Giri (0.5) – Andreikin (0.5).

Chris Tiu One of the top guns of Philippine Naional team.

The Philippine Smart Gilas team under the tutelage of Rajko Toroman vented its ire on the taller and bigger Australian team to rebound from a first game loss to Asian basketball powerhouse Iran. The Philippines dismantled the Aussie team the Townsville Crocs on their second game to level its win loss slate to one a piece on this year’s William Jones Cup which is held in Hsinchuang gymnasium, Taiwan.

Top RP naturalization prospect Marcus Douthit and Greg Slaughter dominated the middle even as Dylan Ababou, Chris Lutz, JV Casio and Marcius Lassiter gave the team the much needed lift by their relentless and torrid outside sniping, to somewhat eased out the loss they absorbed against the Iranian which showed action in the last Olympics.

The RP team will battle dangerous and host con their third game. The Taiwanese team routed Townsville on the opening day 103-55 and came back on the second game by squeaking past compatriots Taiwan U All Stars.

Iran also posted an unblemished record so far by registering their second win against the resilient Japanese side 77-73.

The Filipinos are expected to have their hands full against the similarly fast and deadly shooters Taiwanese team on their third game.

Spain Wins World Cup

The Spanish Team was triumphant in edging out the Netherlands in a thrilling 1-0 victory behind a goal by an unlikely hero Carles Puyol. The Spain team thus barged into the championship winners of the World Cup such as Brazil, Italy, Germany, France, Argentina, Uruguay, and England.
The team relied on the solid game of David Villa and Xavi and the goalkeeping prowess of Isker Casillas in the early stages of the tournament.

Here are the highlights of the 2010 Soccer World Cup
The 2010 edition of the Soccer World Cup saw a lot of resounding upsets and departure of some of the favored teams throughout the tournament. France, Italy and Serbia were booted out as early as the qualifying stages. Portugal and England were eliminated in the second round by Spain and Germany. Argentina and top-seeded Brazil fell ambush to the Netherlands and Germany. Alas, in the semifinals, previous winners of the World Cup were formally wiped out as Uruguay bowed to giant killer the Netherlands and Spain wielding the upset axe against Germany.

The Seer from Oberhausen, which is actually an octopus named Paul, and hmmm not a human so as to speak gained global prominence by predicting accurately the winner between Germany and Spain in the semifinals. The poor octopus was the center of ire of the exasperated and angered German soccer fans and aficionados. The Germans wanted the sea creature be placed in a tank that contains sharks rofl. The octopus went on to predict the wins of Germany on its battle for third against the 1930 and 1950 champions Uruguay and the title conquest of Spain in the World Cup over shocked the Netherlands. The octopus thus raised its success rate to 12 correct predictions against one foiled prediction.

Photo from telegraph.co.uk

The vuvuzuela the horns used in the World Cup by the fans and pundits was a resounding success and millions worth of revenues will inevitably fickle in to the vuvuzuela inventor and maker who happens to be the 55 year old Freddie Maake.

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