By Rosenthal, Gregg Donovan McNabb made history with the Philadelphia Eagles history when owner Jeff Lurie announced Monday that McNabb’s No. 5 jersey would be the eighth to be retired in team history. …read more
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Donovan McNabb’s No. 5 jersey retired by Eagles
By Rosenthal, Gregg Donovan McNabb made history with the Philadelphia Eagles history after owner Jeff Lurie announced Monday that McNabb’s No. 5 jersey would be the eighth jersey to be retired in team history. …read more
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Froome – out of Africa and into yellow jersey
When Chris Froome stepped down from top of the the Tour de France podium on Sunday, there was no plan for a lavish ceremony befitting of the most recent winner of the race’s fabled yellow jersey. …read more
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UK's Froome Wins Tour de France
British cyclist Chris Froome has won the 100th Tour de France, the second consecutive title for a Briton, with Bradley Wiggins winning in 2012. Froome rode into Paris in style—in the yellow race leader’s jersey he took on Stage 8 and never relinquished. In its final stage, riders raced… …read more
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How Froome won the Tour – the key stages
Kenyan-born Briton Chris Froome was crowned the yellow jersey champion after winning the 100th Tour de France following an impressive campaign by his Sky team on Sunday. …read more
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Niners' Kaepernick has top-selling jersey
By Darren Rovell The San Francisco 49ers’ run to the Super Bowl was good for quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose jersey was the NFL’s best selling. …read more
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Smith, Rathbone to return to ACT Brumbies to face Cheetahs
Wallabies George Smith and Clyde Rathbone will return to the ACT Brumbies starting team for this weekend’s Super Rugby qualifier against South Africa’s Central Cheetahs, the club said on Friday.
The players are making an unlikely finals appearance in Canberra on Sunday after Rathbone came out of retirement this year and Smith was loaned by his Japanese club Suntory Sungoliath.
Making way for winger Rathbone is Joe Tomane, who played for the Wallabies against the British and Irish Lions this month, while Colby Faingaa also goes to the bench with flanker Smith taking the number seven jersey.
Scrum-half Nic White also returns to the starting side for the first time since injuring his shoulder with Ian Prior returning to the bench.
“Bringing two guys like Clyde and George into our starting side will give us experience when we need it. Those two guys have both won championships at Canberra Stadium and it’s exciting to have them involved,” coach Jake White said.
“The Cheetahs are a side which has made huge improvements over the last two seasons and it’s a credit to them that they are now a competition threat.”
It will be the Brumbies first finals match since they won the Super Rugby title in 2004.
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Priceless Porte a boon for Froome at Tour de France
Australian Richie Porte’s bike racing skills appear to know no bounds on the Tour de France, and on Thursday included breaking the rules on an epic 18th stage to the Alpe d’Huez.
Team Sky rider Porte has been demonstrating his faith towards yellow jersey holder Chris Froome throughout the race but on the 172.5 km trek from Gap to the legendary summit had to go beyond the normal call of duty.
Froome, who began the day with a 4min 34sec lead on second-placed Spaniard Alberto Contador, felt the first signs of hypoglycemia early on the second climb of the 13.8 km ascent to the legendary summit.
By the time he was approaching the 5 km to go mark, the Kenyan-born Briton’s arm was in the sky desperately asking for assistance.
With no feeding allowed in the final 29 kilometres, Froome was in trouble — but Porte, whose job is to set a pace for Froome that is not too hard but which can do damage to rivals, was on hand.
The Tasmanian dropped back to the Team Sky car, collected a handful of sugar-rich power gels and rode back up the rode to feed his team leader.
Froome and Porte were both sanctioned with a 20sec penalty but in the grand scheme of things it was irrelevant. Froome is now 5:11 ahead of two-time winner Contador, who had even bigger trouble trying to match Sky’s pace before finishing nearly a minute behind the pair and 4:15 behind stage winner Christophe Riblon.
“I was really going into a little bit of a sugar low then,” explained Froome.
“I asked Richie to go back to the car… and he just gave me some gels to get me to the finish.
“I don’t know if it helped me with 5 km to go but it was really good to have Richie there, he did a fantastic job.”
It was yet another solid day in the saddle for Porte, on a day Sky expected to fight off attacks from a number of rivals, and illustrated once more why the British team have to try to keep him in their ranks.
Froome, who at times on the final climb was falling back off Porte’s wheel due to the pace, virtually admitted that if he was absent from the race the Australian would be the man to beat.
“He’s the second best GC (general classification) rider in this race… he’s shown several times that he is one of the best GC riders in the world,” said Froome.
The winner earlier this year of Paris-Nice, Porte has been considered a huge talent for some time although winning between winning France’s third-biggest stage race and the Tour de France there is a huge gulf.
Porte, who had been in second place overall after Froome’s victory atop Ax-Trois-Domaines on stage eight before tumbling down the standings a day later, has sacrificed any personal ambitions on the 100th Tour to help Froome win.
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Pitbull Porte bares teeth to keep Froome ahead
Australian Richie Porte was back at his climbing best as Sky team leader Chris Froome came under attack at the Tour de France where a late crash incident threatened his grip on the race.
Team Sky leader Froome started and finished the day still leading Dutchman Bauke Mollema and Spaniard Alberto Contador by 4min 14sec and 4:25 respectively.
But had it not been for Porte, the Kenyan-born Briton could have been counting the cost of a disastrous eighth day in the yellow jersey.
On the 9.5 km climb to the Col de Manse, whose summit is 11.5 km from the finish, Froome came under attack from Contador and his Czech teammate Roman Kreuziger as Portuguese rider Rui Costa rode solo towards the stage 16 win.
Porte, however, countered every time to bring his team leader level and despite dropping back momentarily after yet another Contador/Kreuziger assault, the Tasmanian dug deep to rejoin the group ahead of the winding, dangerous descent into Gap.
“It gave me a lot of confidence, and a huge morale boost having Richie Porte there,” said Froome.
“It was quite an active final climb… he literally must have covered about ten attacks from Kreuziger and the other guys who were moving, (Alejandro) Valverde, (Joaquim) Rodriguez.”
While Froome weathered the storm on the way up, he almost came a cropper on the descent.
The descent into Gap, which is surrounded by mountains, is famous for a 2003 incident in which Lance Armstrong, who was in hot pursuit of Joseba Beloki, had to ride through a field to avoid hitting the fallen Spaniard, who broke his hip.
Since Contador’s efforts on the climb proved futile, he decided on some dangerous tactics on the twisting, 11.5 km descent to the finish.
However that approach almost led to disaster.
He misjudged a tight right-hand bend and came off his bike, with Froome just missing the Spaniard.
Froome, who left the road and had to unclip from one of his pedals, eventually rallied to rejoin a small group and came over the finish line alongside Contador.
But the scare prompted the Kenyan-born Briton to hit out at what he labelled “desperate” tactics by Contador’s team.
“I personally feel that some teams are starting to get desperate now and are taking uncalculated risks,” said Froome, who has held the race lead since winning stage eight at Ax-Trois-Domains in the Pyrenees.
“It seemed that Kreuziger and Contador were taking it in turns to come from the back with a bit of acceleration and try to force a small gap on the descent, hoping that we’d lay off and give them a bit more space.
“On this particular corner, Contador just came through fairly quickly and he struggled to hold on to his bike, to keep control of it, and he crashed just in front of me.
“If you ask me, it was dangerous for Alberto to do that. There was no need for it.”
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Kevin Garnett Will Change Jersey Number As Tribute To Fallen Teammate Malik Sealy
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By Brian Josephs, Complex Sports
Kevin Garnett so far had two jersey numbers in his NBA career: 21 and 5.
The former was his first number and Malik Sealy’s college number. Sealy was Garnett’s teammate for one year and his close friend who sadly died on May 20th, 2000 when a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road hit Sealy’s SUV when he was leaving Garnett’s birthday party. The guard was posting career season highs while appearing in a number of acting roles.
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Froome extends Tour lead with win on Mont Ventoux
Britain’s Chris Froome reinforced his grip on the Tour de France yellow jersey atop Mont Ventoux after winning a dramatic 15th stage on Sunday.
Team Sky leader Froome finished just ahead of Colombian Nairo Quintana of Movistar after attacking a small group of rivals 7.2km from the summit finish of the 20.8km climb to the ‘Giant of Provence’.
Spain’s former two-time winner Alberto Contador (Saxo) was unable to respond when Froome spun away from a small group of riders having seen many of them drop off the pace following a strong relay from Australian teammate Richie Porte.
Having started the stage 2:48 down on Froome, Contador finished in sixth at 1:40 off the pace and is now 4:25 behind the leader and 11secs adrift of second-placed Dutchman Bauke Mollema.
It is Froome’s fourth career stage win on the race and second of the 100th edition after his victory atop Ax-Trois-Domaines in the Pyrenees on last Sunday’s eighth stage.
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The Five Most Expensive Jersey Sponsorships In European Soccer
You, too, would give the shirt off your back for this cash. Prices for the world’s most valuable marketing real estate (per square inch, that is) have become too rich to refuse. Even Barcelona, which went 113 years without a corporate jersey sponsor, caved to Qatar Airways this year. Meanwhile, Manchester United‘s recent seven-year, $559 million deal with Chevrolet in July sets a lofty new high water mark for soccer sponsorships. The deal was so expensive that General Motor’s CMO Joel Ewanick lost his job for misrepresenting its terms to GM management.
London Marathon runners offer tributes to Boston victims
The London Marathon started in defiant mood on a glorious sunny morning Sunday despite concerns raised by the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon six days ago.
Thousands of runners offered tributes to those killed and injured in Boston. The race began after a dignified moment of silence for the victims in Boston, and many wore black armbands as a sign of solidarity.
“It means that runners are stronger than bombers,” said Valerie Bloomfield, a 40-year-old accountant from France just before she started the marathon.
Most participants said they weren’t worried by the Boston bombings, and the impressive turnout of enthusiastic fans lining the routes showed the same spirit, but one runner acknowledged an undercurrent of anxiety.
“It definitely affects us,” said Chris Denton, a 44-year-old engineer who was stretching his legs by the start line. He said he’d been concerned enough to ask that his family not come out to support him because of a possible copycat attack.
“I left them at home,” he said. “If only for my peace of mind.”
His friend, 45-year-old David Wilson, said there was no question of canceling the marathon. Londoners had come back onto the streets the day after the lethal July 7, 2005, transit system bombings and weren’t easily cowed.
“You can’t not do anything, because otherwise you’d stay on the outs all the time,” he said.
Moments before the majority of runners set off on the grinding race, announcer Geoff Wightman used the loudspeakers to ask for silence. He described marathon running as a global sport that unites runners and supporters in every continent in a spirit of friendship.
“This week the world marathon family was shocked and saddened by the events at the Boston Marathon,” he said. “In a few moments a whistle will sound and we will join together in silence to remember our friends and colleagues for whom a day of joy turned into a day of sadness.”
Blackheath, where the runners were gathered, fell silent. The only noise was the buzz of helicopters and the rumble of a distant truck.
Runner Martin Connell, 42, wore a picture of 8-year-old Boston bombing victim Martin Richard on his jersey in tribute to his young namesake.
“It’s a sign of peace and goodwill,” said the runner, an IT worker from near Liverpool.
Some 36,000 runners are expected to take part in the race, which also draws tens of thousands of spectators. Police said they planned to add 40 percent more officers and extra surveillance as a precautionary measure.
Security was plentiful but not intrusive near the finish line at the Mall in front of Buckingham Palace. It was mostly good-natured, as it was at the London Olympics.
Marathon staff, officials and media had their bags thoroughly checked as they entered security, which wasn’t deemed necessary at the event last year. Officials said this was in response to the Boston attack.
London‘s is the first major international marathon since the double bomb attack near the finish line in Boston, which left three people dead and more than 170 injured, including many who are still hospitalized. In
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Scientists: Superstorm Sandy jolted United States
Superstorm Sandy didn’t just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported Thursday.
Earthquake sensors located as far away as the Pacific Northwest detected the storm’s energy as it surged toward the New York metropolitan region last year. The network typically records the sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust, but it can pick up shaking triggered by ocean waves, mine cave-ins and tornadoes.
As Sandy lashed at New York City and New Jersey, the force of waves slamming into other waves shook the seafloor, which was recorded by the system of 500 sensors.
The energy generated by Sandy was similar to small earthquakes between magnitudes 2 and 3, seismologists at the University of Utah estimated.
While they did not track Sandy’s strength last October, they went back and analyzed seismic data before and after the storm churned ashore. The findings were presented at a meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Salt Lake City.
Sandy, which started off as a hurricane that later merged with another storm system, caused widespread property damage, swamping homes and businesses along the jersey shore and parts of New York City.
Sandy wasn’t the first storm to be sensed by quake stations. When Hurricane Katrina took aim at New Orleans in 2005, instruments in California tracked the path of the punishing waves.
Other events also have been captured by seismic sensors in recent years. A deadly coal mine collapse in Utah in 2007 registered as a magnitude-3.9 quake. Earlier this year, a meteor that exploded over Siberia’s Ural Mountains sent rippling shock waves that were detected by ground instruments.
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New Jersey Joins Other State Legislators in Proposing Limitations on Noncompete Agreements
By Betty Graumlich, Contributor New Jersey has recently joined the growing trend of states in which legislators have introduced bills that curb employers’ ability to use noncompete agreements. Employers should be aware of this trend and be sure to keep up to date on recent legislation regarding such agreements.
Pope's soccer habit a perfect fit for papal gifts
Soccer-mad Pope Francis is building quite a collection of team jerseys.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gave Francis a national jersey signed by all the players during a 25-minute audience Monday in the Apostolic Palace.
The pope quipped: “Just like the San Lorenzo one!” Last week, members of Francis’ beloved Buenos Aires team offered him a club jersey during the pope’s general audience and got a papal shout-out in Spanish. Francis is a lifelong San Lorenzo fan and became a club member (ID No. 88235) in 2008.
A few weeks ago, a fan gave Francis another San Lorenzo jersey as the pope drove through St. Peter’s Square.
Italy has invited Argentina to play a friendly this summer; Italy coach Cesare Prandelli hopes it will be preceded by a papal audience.
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Avalanche will retire jersey of D Adam Foote at a ceremony next season
New Jersey Gubernatorial Election 2013: Chris Christie Still Heavily Favored To Win, Poll Finds
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie remains heavily favored to win re-election this November, although his lead over Democratic challenger state Senator Barbara Buono has fallen to 30 points from 42 in two months, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released on Friday.
The blunt-spoken Christie, who is seen as a strong contender if he decides to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016, holds a lead of 57 percent to Buono’s 27 percent.
The Republican governor saw his popularity skyrocket for appearing to put the needs of New Jersey above political considerations after superstorm Sandy crashed into the state’s coastline late last year, smashing homes and wrecking boardwalks.
New Jersey voters cheered his embrace of Democratic President Barack Obama, who aggressively backed the state’s request for emergency aid, and later Christie’s angry rebuke of Republican lawmakers for holding up those funds.
Nearly six months after the storm, some seven in 10 voters approve of Christie’s overall job performance, while eight in 10 believe Christie will win a second term, the poll found. Even among Buono supporters, 61 percent expect Christie will win.
“As of now, the Sandy performance is overriding anything else,” said David Redlawsk, the poll’s director. Christie’s bump “has already lasted longer than I would have anticipated.”
Christie’s standing has still slipped, although mostly among the Democrat-leaning state’s more liberal voters. Among registered voters, his support has dropped six points since Feb. 12, the date of the last Rutgers-Eagleton poll. Buono, who has struggled with low name recognition, picked up six points during that period, the poll found.
Seven in 10 voters have no opinion of Buono, while 18 percent take a favorable opinion and 12 percent are unfavorable.
“Buono has clearly made progress, but so far she’s only convinced the voters who were always likely to vote against Christie,” Redlawsk said. “Unless Buono can make gains among independents and also get Democrats energized, she is going to have a long road ahead.”
While Buono has made inroads with
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Carmelo Anthony Leads The NBA In Scoring And Jersey Sales
By Tom Van Riper, Forbes Staff
Well, there’s one measure by which Carmelo Anthony isn’t the NBA‘s most overpaid player: his No. 7 jersey is No. 1 on the sales charts. …read more
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Melo supplants LeBron atop jersey sales list
By Associated Press Carmelo Anthony now tops the NBA‘s scoring race and its most popular jerseys list. …read more
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