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NFL News
Former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver and future hall of famer Marvin Harrison is now under investigation by the FBI for a shooting incident that occurred in 2008 near a carwash he owns in Philadelphia. After a long investigation by local authorities showed that Harrison was not directly involved in the shooting, the DA said they would not pursue charges on the NFL star. But after the victim recently died after being shot again while sitting in his parked car. The FBI has opened up an investigation into the incident and are going through all the evidence in hopes of making an arrest.
Retired NFL great Herschel Walker has finally found an opponent to fight in his first MMA fight. The 42-year-old Walker is not listening to all the critics that he is to old to be fighting in the brutal sport. But Walker feels that his 5-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and his workout that includes 3000 push ups and sit ups a day will help him succeed in the ring.
NFL Playoff Games Schedule
Saturday 1/16/10
4:30 PM ET Arizona at New Orleans FOX
8:15 PM ET Baltimore at Indianapolis CBS
Sunday 1/17/10 TV
1:00 PM ET Dallas at Minnesota FOX
4:40 PM ET NY Jets at San Diego CBS
NBA News
Washington Wizards shooting guard Gilbert Arenas took his nickname ” Agent 0 ” a little to far by keeping 4 unloaded guns in his locker at the Verizon Center where the Wizards play. Today Arenas pleaded guilty and was released but is expected back in court on March 26 for his sentencing date. Through his plea deal Arenas is expected to serve at least 6 months behind bars. He has already been suspended by the NBA indefinitely.
NBA Weekend schedule
Friday 1/15/10
7:00 PM ET Sacramento at Philadelphia Comcast Sports Sacramento COMCAST
7:00 PM ET San Antonio at Charlotte FOX SW Fox Sports Carolinas
8:00 PM ET Phoenix at Atlanta SportSouth ESPN
8:00 PM ET Washington at Chicago Comcast Sports Baltimore WCIU
8:00 PM ET New Orleans at Detroit Cox Sports Television FOX DET
8:00 PM ET Indiana at New Jersey FOX MIDW YES
8:00 PM ET Toronto at NY Knicks MSG
8:00 PM ET Minnesota at Memphis Fox Sports North SportSouth
8:30 PM ET Oklahoma City at Dallas FSOKHD FOX SW
8:30 PM ET Miami at Houston Sun Sports Fox Sports Net Houston
10:30 PM ET Milwaukee at Golden State FSN North – Wisconsin CSNBayHD
10:30 PM ET LA Clippers at LA Lakers FSN Prime Ticket FOX WEST
10:30 PM ET Orlando at Portland KGW Port, Or ESPN
Saturday, January 16
MATCHUP AWAY TV HOME TV NAT TV
6:00 PM ET New Orleans at Indiana FOX MIDW
7:00 PM ET Sacramento at Washington Comcast Sports Sacramento
7:00 PM ET Phoenix at Charlotte NBA TV
7:30 PM ET NY Knicks at Detroit MSG FOX DET
8:00 PM ET Miami at Oklahoma City Sun Sports FSOKHD
8:00 PM ET San Antonio at Memphis FOX SW
9:00 PM ET Milwaukee at Utah FSN North – Wisconsin FOX ROCKY
10:30 PM ET Cleveland at LA Clippers Fox Sports Ohio – High Def FSN Prime Ticket
Sunday, January 17
12:30 PM ET Dallas at Toronto FOX SW CBC
9:00 PM ET Utah at Denver Altitude Sports ESPN
COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEWS
During a basketball game last night against Kentucky Wesleyan College, Southern Indiana University center Jeron Lewis fell and banged his head hard on the court. After being rushed to the hospital he was later pronounced dead hours after sustaining the injury. Autopsy later revealed he had in enlarged heart that he probably never knew about. He leaves behind a son Jamel who was born in December and a fiancé.
Top 25 College Basketball weekend schedule
SATURDAY 1/16/10
6:00 PM ET Texas A&M at (1) Texas ESPNU
4:00 PM ET (2) Kentucky at Auburn ESPN FULL COURT
1:45 PM ET Texas Tech at (3) Kansas ESPN FULL COURT
12:00 PM ET (5) Syracuse at (9) West Virginia ESPN
5:30 PM ET (6) Purdue at Northwestern
3:30 PM ET Illinois at (8) Michigan State CBS
1:30 PM ET (23) Mississippi at (10) Tennessee ESPN FULL COURT
4:00 PM ET (12) Kansas State at Colorado ESPN FULL COURT
2:00 PM ET (18) Georgia Tech at (13) North Carolina ESPN
9:00 PM ET (14) Gonzaga at San Diego
8:00 PM ET (16) Wisconsin at Ohio State
6:00 PM ET Colorado State at (17) Brigham Young
12:00 PM ET (19) Clemson at North Carolina State ESPN FULL COURT
12:00 PM ET Louisville at (20) Pittsburgh ESPN FULL COURT
2:00 PM ET Massachusetts at (21) Temple
2:00 PM ET Youngstown State at (22) Butler
4:00 PM ET Oklahoma State at (24) Baylor ESPN FULL COURT
6:00 PM ET Virginia Tech at (25) Florida State
SUNDAY 1/17/09
12:00 PM ET (11) Georgetown at (4) Villanova ESPN FULL COURT
8:00 PM ET Wake Forest at (7) Duke Fox Sports Net National
1:30 PM ET (15) Connecticut at Michigan CBS
MLB News
Finally after years of denying allegations that he took steroids during what once looked like a brilliant career. Mark McGwire finally came clean and admitted to taking steroids off and on during a 10-year span. However McGwire stated that the only reason he took steroids was to stay healthy because of all the pressure he felt. My personal opinion is he is lying again, the only reason someone takes steroids is to get stronger which he did not to stay healthy.
NHL News
After a great 19 year career goalie Curtis Joseph announced his retirement earlier this week. Joseph who was best known as ” Cujo ” finished his career as the 4th all time in career victories.
Former Hockey star Theo Fluery just announced that he will be filing a complaint against his old coach Graham James from when Fluery was a teenager. The complaint states that James repeatedly sexually abused Fluery and other young hockey players while be coached by James.
Now that Mike Danton has been released after serving his 5-year prison sentence for attempted murder on his agent David Frost. Danton is trying to play college hockey for St Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. Danton who was once a rising star in the NHL claims he really intended to kill his father who regularly abused him and not Frost.
NHL weekend game schedule
Friday 1/15/10
7:00 PM ET Toronto at Washington HTS TSN
9:00 PM ET Nashville at Calgary RSNW
Saturday 1/16/10
2:00 PM ET Detroit at Dallas KDFI 27
2:00 PM ET Chicago at Columbus FXSO
3:00 PM ET New Jersey at Colorado ALTI
4:00 PM ET Boston at Los Angeles FOX WEST
4:00 PM ET Edmonton at San Jose FOX BAY
7:00 PM ET Ottawa at Montreal CBC
7:00 PM ET Buffalo at NY Islanders
7:00 PM ET Tampa Bay at Florida
8:00 PM ET Atlanta at Carolina
8:00 PM ET NY Rangers at St. Louis FOX MIDW
8:00 PM ET Minnesota at Phoenix
10:00 PM ET Pittsburgh at Vancouver CBC
Sunday, 1/1710
12:30 PM ET Chicago at Detroit 12:30 PM FOX DET , NBC
3:00 PM ET Philadelphia at Washington 3:00 PM HTS
7:00 PM ET Montreal at NY Rangers 7:00 PM RDS, MSG
8:00 PM ET Calgary at Anaheim 8:00 PM FOX WEST2
Skiing News
Remember Bode Miller who was supposed to be the next great thing in skiing before he had one of the worst performances in history at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Miller went into the games the odds on favorite for every event he entered but seemed to just melt under the pressure and left with nothing. Now Miller is back to his winning ways after he just one the World Cup Super Combine today in Wengen Switzerland.
By: Frank Bilotta
A few months ago, I went to Korea to visit my former Taekwondo master there, and he took it upon himself to show me his latest feat of physical conditioning. Having strengthened his hands to the point that knuckle, knifehand, oxhand, and 3 finger push-ups no longer represented any kind of a challenge for him, he had started doing push-ups by spreading out his wingspan, and with his hands turned over, doing them on just the two knuckles of his index fingers.
Until he got down (on concrete, mind you) and gave me a demonstration of twenty of them, I didn’t even know if that was humanly possible. But then again that was his specialty. For the past 30 years, (aside from his service as a ROK Marine) he has lived, breathed, slept and ate nothing but Taekwondo. Every muscle, ligament, and bone in his body is fine-tuned to the purpose of Taekwondo’s particular style of movement, and having read hundreds and hundreds of books on the topic, Taekwondo philosophy, and the quest for mastering himself seems to permeate every fiber of his being.
One of my favorite examples of this was a case where we were leaving a Korean restaurant in Seoul, and a Korean kid who was passing us farted out loud. As spontaneous (and unbelievably loud) as it was, I absolutely howled with laughter. He, on the other hand, thoughtfully nodded and only dryly remarked, “Oh… his stomach power is very strong.”
In any event, while watching him crank out yet another kind of physically impossible push-ups ( middle & index fingers only this time), I really came to realize just how different our paths had become…or maybe always had been. In my constant quest for understanding ‘martial art’ , I had always focused on the general. Through studying a multitude of systems, I sought to unearth the patterns and parallels that constitute an underlying form. I wanted to find what the commonalities are, how they connect to each other, and how different environments, physical strengths, weaknesses and tools could create such a vast array of techniques and philosophies all in the name of the same basic need.
He, on the other hand, was the supreme example of the specialist. If I was focused on developing an understanding of ‘martial art’ by exploring it’s girth, he has always worked towards the same end by focusing his exploration on it’s depth.
The funny thing is however, although one would think that this would cause a certain dichotomy in our philosophy on martial arts, it doesn’t. At this point, I have known him for 10 years now, and the further we both go on our own paths, the more we both seem to understand each others. I had heard once that ‘The path to greatness is paved with tears’ and perhaps, within the dedication to that path is where our similarity lies. My dedicated study of martial art in all of its myriad forms resulted in my becoming an action movie actor. His pure and unflinching dedication to Taekwondo resulted in him becoming a member of the Korean Tigers, (arguably the world’s most elite taekwondo demonstration team). Maybe this is also why professional athletes, actors and singers all revolve in the same social circles: it is their understanding of the journey that gives them a sense of commonality, not what they actually do.
A long time ago, I once overheard a conversation between him and a white belt.
The white belt asked him,
‘Which martial art do you think is the best?’
He replied,
‘Once you climb to one mountain top, you can clearly see all of them.’
In response, the white belt commented,
‘But what good does that do me, when I’m all the way at the bottom of the mountain, and you are already up near the top?’
To this he replied,
‘Actually, we are in the same place. Regardless of where we are on the mountain, what matters most is only that we take the next step.’
Chuck Johnson is an internationally recognized action film actor. He has recently been featured on kung fu cinema.com, nippon cinema.com, and his latest film project, Yakuza Hunter will be released in the states next year. He currently teaches both film action and taekwondo in Tokyo and Saitama.
