Lance Armstrong is very excited about his future participation in the 2009 Giro d’ Italia. This will be the very first time that he participates in the Giro, since in the past he never competed on the race, which is considered by many to be the second most important race after the Tour of France.

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The British super star of Los Angeles Galaxy and 33 years-old, David Beckham, will probably be part of the AC Milan for a few months, given some conversations sustained between the two clubs. The deal will probably start in January, after Beckham finishes his obligations with the US team.

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The humiliation of losing 33-7 on Saturday’s game against Notre Dame, made the directors and managers of Washington to reconsider on having Tyrone Willingham as the head coach of their football team. They decided that he will not be coming back for next season.

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The New York Knicks All-Star player, Stephon Marbury will remain as an inactive player while he will still get paid the $21.9 salary left from his contract with the team. The Knicks announced this decision on Tuesday after a meeting Marbury had with the Knicks’ head Coach Mike D’Antoni, and president Donnie Walsh. They took this decision based on what is best for the team and the expectations they have for this season.

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The North Carolina head Coach Roy Williams said in an official statement on Wednesday, that the UNC star Tyler Hansbrough will probably not be playing on Saturday’s opening game against Pennsylvania.

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Mack Brown has not retired yet but the University of Texas already announced who will be his successor as soon as he leaves the position of head coach; the one chosen is Will Muschamp, who is currently the defensive coordinator for the team and his job has been very remarkable already since the defense has being changing while he is being in charge.

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The Carolina Hurricanes announced this Wednesday that they fired Coach Peter Laviolette and named in his position the former coach Paul Maurice. Laviolette has won many games in his NHL career but the performance of his team has not been the best lately; they lost four of their last five games and that was the main reason why Carolina took the decision of replacing him.

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The comeback after suspension of the 25-year-old cornerback of the Dallas Cowboys, Adam “Pacman” Jones, was truncated due to he got injured on the game against the Pittsburg Steelers last Sunday and though the decision is not sure yet, he could be was sidelined for the rest of the season.

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The Philadelphia 76ers decided to fire head coach Maurice Cheeks after a bad start this season, following a record of 8 loses in the last 10 games, which was not good at all for the team’s President Ed Stefanski, who chose not to take this very far and decided to replace Cheeks, mostly because he knows that the team has everything it needs to win the games.

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Head Coach Eric Mangini was fired from the New York Jets on Monday after losing four of the last five games; vanishing all the team's expectations to go to the playoffs. After an 8-3 start and a promissory road to the Super Bowl, Mangini was discharged after being with the Jets for 3 years and having as well seven NFL-high Pro Bowl selections.

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The top players Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer won their first two matches in consecutive sets respectively to advance to the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open.

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Manchester United has something to be celebrating and it is their victory against the Wigan Athletic 1-0, which gave them two points to move just two points away from the leader of the table, Liverpool. However, the bad news is that their top striker Wayne Rooney had a hamstring injury that will keep him out of practice for at least three weeks, hoping not longer.

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After some British bookmakers revealed that the favorite to win the Australian Open title is Andy Murray, the reaction from Roger Federer and some other tennis players have reacted surprised about it, because for them Andy Murray is a good player but still needs more tennis to compare to star players such as Nadal or Federer itself.

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What started as a loan for two months from the Los Angeles Galaxy to the AC Milan could end badly for the LA Galaxy team, which might lose their starting midfielder. The 33-year-old player made his debut with Milan early this month in a friendly game against Hamburg at Dubai. His performance with the Rossoneri team has been improving since his first game with the team; last Wednesday Beckham scored in the game against Genoa, which ended in a draw of 1-1.

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In a great game on this past Wednesday at the Madison Square Garden, the Knicks were not able to get the victory whereas the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar player LeBron James set a record scoring 52 points with a triple-double and adding to that the 10 rebounds and 11 assists. His contribution and the team work gave the Cavaliers their 39th victory of the season with a score of 107-102.

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The qualifying phase of the Daytona 500 is over and the drivers are getting ready for this important race. The winner on the first qualifier group was Jeff Gordon who led 15 of the 60 laps. This victory is his first one in a long time since he did not win any race last season 2008; his last victory was in October of 2007. In the second qualifier group the winner was Kyle Busch who overcame Mark Martin to win this race and assure a spot in the big race of next Sunday.

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The current third place of the Western Conference, the Denver Nuggets, ended their loosing streak of nine games in a row by beating the LA Lakers 79-90 on Friday night, in a game where the Denver Nuggets demonstrated that they are a very good team in their Conference, just as the LA Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.

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The Inter de Milan coach Jose Mourihno has been charged by the Italian Football Federation for the comments that he made early this week on a press conference about Juventus after a draw the team had against Roma on Sunday, where a decision of a controversial penalty granted the 3-3 at the end of the game.

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The head coach of 58 years-old, Mike Bellotti, announced this Friday that he was stepping out of the position of Oregon’s head coach to become the school’s athletic director.

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Lance Armstrong had to fly home to have surgery in his collarbone which he broke on an accident Monday afternoon on the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a five-day stage race at the north of Madrid.

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Cuauthemoc Blanco announced this Tuesday that he will be leaving from the Chicago Fire as soon as the season is over since his contract will be done. He made the announcement during the Fire’s kickoffs luncheon during a media press.

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The team that looked very confident and pleased after a victory in the Estadio Azteca last Saturday against Costa Rica, was not the same team that played yesterday in the Olympic Stadium against Honduras, who lost 3-1 in a very humiliating way, showing that Mexico is a very weak team and that something is missing; they have the players and the capacity but they are not getting to a level of good effectiveness that can make them win games away from home.

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Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams at the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Open yesterday on a very interesting match, where Serena demonstrated again why she is the No. 1 seed of the World.

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The Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose was selected on Wednesday as the NBA rookie of the year. He became the third Bulls’ player to receive this award, besides Michael Jordan and Elton Brand.

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Lazio’s victory in the return game on Wednesday over Juventus 2-1 at Turin, gave them the spot for the final for the Italian Cup with a global score of 4-2.

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After Barcelona’s 1-1 draw on Tuesday against the Bayern Munich in the quarter finals return leg, they assured themselves a spot in the Champions League semifinals that will start in May.

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Chelsea saw their dream of being in the Champions League final gone away when the Barcelona scored for the draw in the very last moment of the match. The idea of having the same final of last year – Chelsea vs. Manchester United – was no longer available since Barcelona just needed a draw to classify to the final. For a moment, Chelsea and their fans had that revenge feeling, thinking they could overcome last year’s defeat to United, but it was blown away just at the end of the match.

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Manny Ramirez got involved in a scandal after testing positive on a drug test that he was submitted too. The substance is supposed to be a female fertility drug called HCG, which is banned by the MLB since it is related to steroids. Because of this, last Thursday Manny was banned with a 50 game suspension, leaving teammates and fans really disappointed with the results and with Manny’s attitude towards this situation.

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The World No. 2 golf player Phil Mickelson announced on Wednesday that he is stepping out from the PGA tour schedule indefinitely since his wife, Amy Mickelson, was diagnosed with breast cancer. According to his management office, his wife will have to be submitted to some more tests but she will start the treatment as soon as possible, and she will be submitted to surgery as well, while Phil will stay beside her to help her overcome this hard situation.

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After a 10-month layoff, Maria Sharapova was back in competition on her first Grand Slam tournament of the year, but she was defeated by the Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the quarterfinals in just two sets that ended 6-0 and 6-2. Sharapova is returning after recovering from a shoulder injury and she is trying to get back on shape and maybe she had expectations of doing better in Paris this time, but it just didn’t happened that way.

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