http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php en-us Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:58:38 GMT Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:58:38 GMT pMachine 2.4 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P90 How would Muhammad Ali Rate? How would Ali fare against other Great Heavyweights? This is one question that sends boxing fans into a tether. Many of the older pundits don’t rate Ali as high as younger pundits. My own bias was that Ali was the greatest Heavyweights but there were other great fighters of the past could easily give Ali a close matches. I will be honest to admit that much of my admiration for Ali was that I grew up in the Ali era. Others such as boxing historian Tracy... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P90 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:03:38 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P89 German middleweight Felix Sturm, who is recovering from an elbow injury, is looking forward to challenging WBA middleweight champion Maselino Masoe in an April fight that is scheduled to take place in Germany. Sturm has been quoted in the German tabloid Bild Zeitung, as saying the offer presented to face middleweight champion Jermain Taylor in the United States was not big enough to make him walk away from the Masoe fight. http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P89 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:01:35 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P88 Lance Armstrong, who won his seventh consecutive Tour de France, was honored as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the fourth straight year Wednesday. Armstrong is the only athlete to be selected by U.S. sports writers four times since the honor first was awarded in 1931. He received 30 of the 83 votes cast. U.S. college gridiron football running back Reggie Bush of the University of Southern California was second with 23 votes, and Indianapolis Colts quarterback... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P88 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:50:04 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P87 In other sports, the end would be much closer than the beginning. There would be talk about losing a step or injuries taking their toll, maybe some young hotshot to take his place. In other sports, the age of 30 seems old. But not in golf. And certainly not for Tiger Woods. The game's biggest star celebrates his 30th birthday Friday, and it is hardly reason to fret. Woods had plenty of his success in his 20s, but he knows the game's history. And if the past offers any hint of the... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P87 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:42:03 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P86 Tiger Woods is the most global player among Americans, and his schedule next year might include the most overseas events of his career. Woods already has committed to the Dubai Desert Classic in early February, and said he will return to Japan to defend his title in the Dunlop Phoenix. He said he probably would return to Shanghai for the HSBC Champions event in November, and he is leaning toward playing the HSBC World Match Play Championship in England. "And don't forget the... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P86 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:40:57 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P85 After 36 seasons in which it played a huge role in tying the massive knot between sports and television, ABC aired its final "Monday Night Football" telecast -- at least until 2014. MNF moves from ABC to cable's ESPN next year under part of an eight-year deal, and the Walt Disney Co., which owns both networks, gave it a grand sendoff. In the final weekly showcase, Mike Vrable caught two first-half touchdown passes from Tom Brady as the New England Patriots defeated the New... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P85 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:08:48 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P84 Gilbert Arenas outdueled Kobe Bryant and helped the Washington Wizards to their third straight win. Arenas scored 34 and keyed the Wizards' second-half comeback, leading Washington to a 94-91 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night. Bryant finished with 31 points, and hit two key 3-pointers late in the fourth quarter to keep the Lakers in the game, but he couldn't get off a potential game-tying shot in the final seconds. "It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P84 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:38:00 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P83 A maze of drainage ditches, water pipes and mounds of dirt crisscross the field at Lampineung Stadium, home of the Persiraja soccer team. The stands are mostly stacks of warped boards, which dozens of construction workers are removing. Soccer's international governing body and the Asian Football Confederation are financing the repairs in preparation for the team's return to the Indonesian First Division for the first time since last year's undersea quake and tsunami. "We have... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P83 Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:37:47 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P82 Winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca cannot represent Fiji in rugby sevens at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in March, the Fiji Rugby Union has ruled. The union banned Caucaunibuca from international play for 12 months in August when he failed to turn out for Fiji in a series of midyear tests against New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. Fiji sevens coach Waisale Serevi hoped to have Caucaunibuca in his games squad because the ban was thought to apply only to matches played in Fiji and because... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P82 Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:35:59 GMT http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P81 Italian forward Paolo Di Canio's one-match ban for giving a fascist salute to fans will be reviewed by FIFA. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said Di Canio could be expelled from soccer. Now, world soccer's governing body is taking a hard look at him. "FIFA has asked the Italian football association to submit its file on the case," it said in a statement Thursday. On Wednesday, the 37-year-old Di Canio was suspended and fined $11,977 by the Italian league's... http://www.americansportsblog.com/weblog.php?id=P81 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:25:47 GMT