Despite a holdout that wiped out training camp and the entirety of the preseason, Maurice Jones-Drew said he was ready to carry the load in the Jacksonville Jaguars' season opener.
Actually, Jones-Drew said he could've handled three weeks worth of work.
"I was ready for 80 carries last week," Jones-Drew said Wednesday, via The Associated Press. "We'll see. We'll see how increased it is. I definitely didn't think it was going to be what it was last week, but that's how it happened and we just got to adjust so we'll see how it goes this week."
Jones-Drew might not get 80 carries against the Houston Texans on Sunday, but 30 isn't out of reach, especially with Rashad Jennings sidelined with a knee injury.
"He'll see extensive play compared to what we had planned for last week's game," Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey said.
Mularkey believed Jones-Drew had runs he "may have broken free" if he attended camp. It remains to be seen how long it will take Jones-Drew to get back to top form.
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2012年9月12日星期三
NFL fantasy football: Jay Cutler could be elite
It didn't take long for Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler to gain his confidence after a 333-yard, two-touchdown day against the Indianapolis Colts. Speaking to CSNChicago.com, Cutler referred to his Thursday Night Football cheap nfl jerseys opponents the Green Bay Packers by sarcastically wishing them "good luck we invite press coverage. We invite man." The Vanderbilt product should be a little cocky about his Thursday night opponents after they allowed Alex Smith to complete 20 of his 26 pass attempts for 211 yards and two scores. The loss broke a 13-game home winning streak, but don't expect lightning to strike twice. Aaron Rodgers and the Pack haven't lost consecutive home games since 2008, the first season he was given the reins. Though that doesn't necessarily mean much for fantasy owners, you should start your Bears as needed. Still, temper expectations on Brandon Marshall and Cutler. Not only will the Packers come ready, they won't have to worry about a physical tight end and might try to make Alshon Jeffery the one to beat them while they focus their full attention on Marshall and Matt Forte.
Staying on topic, another storyline facing the Green Bay Packers is the health of Greg Jennings. The veteran suffered a pulled groin during his Week 1 matchup, missed practice on Tuesday and is listed as doubtful for Thursday's game. Fantasy owners who own Jennings should keep a very close eye on the situation leading up to kickoff, but for those who own Aaron Rodgers, fear not, he has proven he can do it no matter who's lined up out wide. Randall Cobb discount nfl jerseys and James Jones each combined for 158 yards with a score during Week 1, aiding Rodgers in racking up 303 yards to go with two touchdowns and an interception. Given that the Bears only allowed 54 yards rushing to the Colts and the Packers only amassed 45 yards against the 49ers, this will be a matchup most likely won through the air for Green Bay.
It looks like Oakland Raiders wideout Jacoby Ford could be headed for the PUP list. Coach Dennis Allen told the Associated Press that after Ford visited a specialist, "the medical people, felt like that surgery was probably the best thing for him." After Carson Palmer's struggles on Monday night, the addition of Denarius Moore will be a sight for sore eyes next week, but fantasy owners are going to want to avoid anyone on the team not named Darren McFadden. The good news is Run DMC will have every opportunity to rack up the points, but the bad news is it will put a lot of mileage on a running back who has had his fair share of injury issues. Ride the Arkansas product as far as he will take you, but until Moore or Darrius Heyward-Bey prove they are starter worthy, they should be sitting on your bench.
2012年9月11日星期二
Tottenham Hotspur 12/13 Under Armour Third Football Shirt
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To maintain freshness of the Third Top, Spurs and Under Armour have forged Anti-odor technology in to the sinews of the shirt. This technology prevents the growth of odor causing microbes ensuring that your shirt retains that fresh "new shirt" feel.
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Arsenal Line Up ￡6m January Move for Dutch Goal Machine Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Arsenal are reportedly considering a January move for Schalke forward Klaas Jan-Huntelaar as Arsene Wenger looks at strengthening his attacking options.
The North London side will apparently register a bid in the region of ￡6m for the Dutch international, who will be available on a free transfer next summer when his contract at his Bundesliga side comes to an end.
Having seen Robin Van Persie leave for Man United Wenger has seen his attacking options greatly blunted and the Gunners boss must now rely on new signings Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud to provide the firepower for the North London side. Indeed Arsenal’s back up support has also been reduced with Nicklas Bendtner and Park Chu-Young completed loan moves to Juventus and Celta Vigo respectively, whilst Carlos Vela completed a ￡4m move to Real Sociedad.
The 29 year old former Ajax, Real Madrid discount soccer jerseys and AC Milan man has previously been an Arsenal target and is said to be a player that Wenger has monitored for some time and the Emirates Stadium manager is now ready to re-ignite his interest in the prolific marksman.
Huntelaar scored an astonishing 48 goals in 47 matches in all competitions last term and has continued that form with two goals in two Bundesliga matches this term.
The Dutch marksman has previously professed his interest in plying his trade in the Premier League wholesale soccer jerseys, having forged careers in Holland, Spain, Italy and Germany previously.
Arsenal will hope that a cash offer in January will tempt Schalke into selling a player the Bundesliga side would presumably not wish to see leave for nothing six months later.
2012年9月9日星期日
Chelsea renew Samsung Shirt Sponsor Deal
The agreement is said to be worth around 18 million pounds per season to the European champions.
The contract started with Samsung paying 11 million pounds per season as the company replaced Emirates airline on the front of Chelsea’s club soccer jerseys. That agreement was extended at 15 million pounds five years later, and Samsung had until June 1 to take up its option to renew for a further three seasons.
A Chelsea spokesman said: "Samsung have exercised their right to extend their deal which will see them remain as a premium partner of the club until the end of May 2015."
In August, Manchester United announced a deal with General Motors which will see its Chevrolet brand become the club's shirt sponsor in 2014 in what is said to be worth some £50million a season.
Liverpool’s sponsorship agreement with Standard Chartered Plc is worth 80 million pounds over four years. Premier League champion Manchester City last year announced a 10-year partnership with Etihad that gave the Abu Dhabi-based airline stadium naming rights and jersey sponsorship for $500 million.
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Adidas Brazuca – Name of the Official World Cup 2014 Match Ball
FIFA, the Local Organising Committee and FIFA Partner adidas today revealed the name of the Official Match Ball for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The ball will be called the “adidas Brazuca” following a public vote by over one million Brazilian football fans, where the name received 70 per cent of the vote.
adidas, the FIFA World Cup Official Match Ball supplier since 1970, took inspiration from elements of Brazilian culture to come up with a shortlist of three possible names for the ball. In addition to the eventual winner Brazuca wholesale soccer jerseys, there were two more options – Bossa Nova - a reference to the famous samba-jazz music genre popularised in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s and 1960s and Carnavalesca - a word describing someone who plans or participates in the country’s raucous carnival celebrations.
For the past three weeks, Brazilian football fans have been voting for their favourite name in their thousands. This is the first time that fans have been directly involved in the naming of the FIFA World Cup ball.
The informal term “brazuca” is used by Brazilians to describe national pride in the Brazilian way of life. Mirroring their approach to football, it symbolises emotion, pride and goodwill to all.
“I’m delighted that Brazilian football fans have had the opportunity to play their part in deciding the name of one of the event’s most important symbols,” said FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke.
“I’m sure that the Brazuca ball will go down in history together with other iconic FIFA World Cup balls, such as the Tango in Argentina in 1978 and the Azteca in Mexico in 1986.”
The name was revealed today during TV Globo’s Esporte Espectacular programme, which featured Brazilian football legend Cafu.
Although the name of the ball is now clear, fans will have to wait a little bit longer until they can actually see the adidas Brazuca ball.
It is currently being developed, with its testing taking place worldwide with several football clubs and associations ahead of its launch for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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2012年8月23日星期四
Super Cup yields first Clasico of 2012-13
Decades used to pass in Spanish football in which Real Madrid and Barcelona would fulfill their standard commitment to meet for two league games per season, all guns blazing, and the rest of the world didn't long for a superpower battle every couple of months.
But we live in the age of the Clasico, a battle underscored by the fact that by the first week in October, Jose Mourinho will have competed in 14 of them as Madrid manager - approximately one every eight weeks of his reign.
And this battle recommences on Thursday. Camp Nou. Barcelona versus Real Madrid cheap soccer jerseys. Cup winners against La Liga winners. Again.
However, neither I nor any sane person is complaining - not yet.
It's a personal view, not a quantifiable fact, but I take these matches to be the most explosive, most technically brilliant, most consistently entertaining and most rewarding anywhere in the world.
The recent quality has been exceptional, and even when the excellence drops a scintilla, a plethora of human stories always surges to fill the gap.
There's Iker Casillas' joy two seasons ago at finally winning the Copa del Rey (1-0 over Barcelona in the final) after openly yearning to do so for more than a decade; Eric Abidal's emotional return after his first cancer treatment in the Champions League semifinal elimination of Real Madrid that same season; Jose Mourinho's "por que, por que, por que?" rant after the first leg of that semi. The eye gouging, the red cards, the penalty decisions given and ignored - if the brilliance of Messi, Ozil, Iniesta or Ronaldo drops for a second or two, then the sideshow always steps up to entertain us instead.
Of the eleven Clasicos between Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, there have been four score draws, five Barca wins and two wins for the Special One. Of the 35 goals, Barca has scored 22 and Madrid 13, while Los Blancos have a significant card lead: 50 of the 81 bookings and seven of the nine red cards.
Last season we were treated to two absolute epics with Barca eventually emerging the 5-4 winner thanks to Leo Messi's three goals and an assist.
Part of what has fascinated me about this "world series" of soccer since it became Mourinho vs. Guardiola/Vilanova is that instead of familiarity breeding only contempt, the intensity has had a hothouse effect on creativity.
During a significant part of the series, Mourinho found it impossible to pick the correct tactics. When he went toe-to-toe with Barca, his side was thrashed (5-0); when he decided it was gloves off and knuckledusters on, the referees intervened.
When he should have attacked (Bernabeu Champions League semifinal, first leg in 2011) he produced conservatism and an attempt at midfield "destruction," using Pepe to try to shackle Messi.
At least when his team played at the Camp Nou he did, though it's yet to be proven that he, his squad or the Bernabeu faithful have shed their nervous disposition when the Catalans come calling.
Under hothouse conditions Mourinho flowered a little, invented new ways to use his resources and sequentially won the Copa del Rey and then La Liga.
One significant factor about the stunning game we witnessed in this Super Cup a year ago was that the three red cards and infamous pugilism at the end of Barcelona's 3-2 win obscured how excellently Madrid played.
Twice it went behind, twice it equalized. Real's confidence, technique, pace, power and the position Mourinho's team took up on the field (playing much more deeply but flooding forward in attack when it robbed the ball in significant areas) looked much more appropriate and mature.
That performance seemed to stem from seeds planted the previous season when, trailing 2-0 on aggregate, Madrid came to the Camp Nou in the Champions League semifinal and attacked. Real drew 1-1 and was eliminated but gave a mighty performance. Mourinho could certainly have won that night.
Again Real Madrid was eliminated, but again it conceded twice and managed to square the score. Once more it finished the match distinctly the stronger of the two sides - the Camp Nou crowd was audibly nervous - and only the obtuse could fail to notice that a gap was growing between results and what government statisticians trying to explain bad news call "underlying trends."
Madrid won 2-1 in Barcelona and played virtually without a flaw. Intense, focused, confident, athletic, creative - Mourinho's side utterly bossed the 90 minutes.
So in theory, with Guardiola gone, Tito Vilanova coaching his first Clasico and Real Madrid now clearly rid of the inferiority complex versus Barcelona that was beginning to choke the club, this should be a firm chance for Mourinho to inflict a serious wound on the new Catalan coach.
Maybe he will do that.
However, it feels as if the elements have just gently drifted toward Barcelona as Thursday night approaches. Of the two sides, Barca appears to be slightly sharper and more clinical. What's more, Madrid suffered a couple of bad breaks against Valencia while football smiled on Barcelona against Sociedad.
The collision between Casillas and Pepe means that the Portugal international, such a controversial figure in these clashes, almost certainly will miss this first leg. He can play without morals, but in both the last Clasico and at the Euros he showed that, on form, he remains an extremely difficult opponent. Mourinho would certainly prefer to have him in his lineup.
Barca? Not only does Messi appear to be in razor-sharp form, it was a tremendous fillip to see David Villa get unexpected game time against Real Sociedad and score a top-class goal - his first since breaking his tibia in Japan last December.
None of this wins the game in advance, of course. Madrid's stalwarts will raise their game, offering up extra energy and concentration, while the cauldron heat of a Clasico will be an interesting test of Vilanova's decision making powers.
He no longer makes apposite "suggestions" but has to make firm, correct decisions and know that the buck stops with him. We'll watch and learn how he handles it.
But the final element that remains tantalizing is Cristiano Ronaldo. Recently, I'd argue, he has shaken off any last vestiges of the spurious idea that he was somehow not a "big match" performer.
Aside from his winning goal in the 2011 Cup wholesale soccer jerseys final against Guardiola's team, Ronaldo added four goals against the club in the Super Cup, the Copa del Rey and La Liga last season, scoring both home and away and producing the winner in the April Clasico that finished Barca's title challenge.
At the weekend he didn't have his most convincing match, admitted that he was still in search of his best form and then awoke to rather hysterical newspaper headlines about what might be wrong with him.
Nothing that an early goal on Thursday wouldn't immediately cure, I'd say.
Be that as it may, the Clasico returns, with more angles to it than a dodecahedron, and, into the bargain, there are another 90 minutes and a trophy coming next week.
But we live in the age of the Clasico, a battle underscored by the fact that by the first week in October, Jose Mourinho will have competed in 14 of them as Madrid manager - approximately one every eight weeks of his reign.
And this battle recommences on Thursday. Camp Nou. Barcelona versus Real Madrid cheap soccer jerseys. Cup winners against La Liga winners. Again.
However, neither I nor any sane person is complaining - not yet.
It's a personal view, not a quantifiable fact, but I take these matches to be the most explosive, most technically brilliant, most consistently entertaining and most rewarding anywhere in the world.
The recent quality has been exceptional, and even when the excellence drops a scintilla, a plethora of human stories always surges to fill the gap.
There's Iker Casillas' joy two seasons ago at finally winning the Copa del Rey (1-0 over Barcelona in the final) after openly yearning to do so for more than a decade; Eric Abidal's emotional return after his first cancer treatment in the Champions League semifinal elimination of Real Madrid that same season; Jose Mourinho's "por que, por que, por que?" rant after the first leg of that semi. The eye gouging, the red cards, the penalty decisions given and ignored - if the brilliance of Messi, Ozil, Iniesta or Ronaldo drops for a second or two, then the sideshow always steps up to entertain us instead.
Of the eleven Clasicos between Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, there have been four score draws, five Barca wins and two wins for the Special One. Of the 35 goals, Barca has scored 22 and Madrid 13, while Los Blancos have a significant card lead: 50 of the 81 bookings and seven of the nine red cards.
Last season we were treated to two absolute epics with Barca eventually emerging the 5-4 winner thanks to Leo Messi's three goals and an assist.
Part of what has fascinated me about this "world series" of soccer since it became Mourinho vs. Guardiola/Vilanova is that instead of familiarity breeding only contempt, the intensity has had a hothouse effect on creativity.
During a significant part of the series, Mourinho found it impossible to pick the correct tactics. When he went toe-to-toe with Barca, his side was thrashed (5-0); when he decided it was gloves off and knuckledusters on, the referees intervened.
When he should have attacked (Bernabeu Champions League semifinal, first leg in 2011) he produced conservatism and an attempt at midfield "destruction," using Pepe to try to shackle Messi.
At least when his team played at the Camp Nou he did, though it's yet to be proven that he, his squad or the Bernabeu faithful have shed their nervous disposition when the Catalans come calling.
Under hothouse conditions Mourinho flowered a little, invented new ways to use his resources and sequentially won the Copa del Rey and then La Liga.
One significant factor about the stunning game we witnessed in this Super Cup a year ago was that the three red cards and infamous pugilism at the end of Barcelona's 3-2 win obscured how excellently Madrid played.
Twice it went behind, twice it equalized. Real's confidence, technique, pace, power and the position Mourinho's team took up on the field (playing much more deeply but flooding forward in attack when it robbed the ball in significant areas) looked much more appropriate and mature.
That performance seemed to stem from seeds planted the previous season when, trailing 2-0 on aggregate, Madrid came to the Camp Nou in the Champions League semifinal and attacked. Real drew 1-1 and was eliminated but gave a mighty performance. Mourinho could certainly have won that night.
Again Real Madrid was eliminated, but again it conceded twice and managed to square the score. Once more it finished the match distinctly the stronger of the two sides - the Camp Nou crowd was audibly nervous - and only the obtuse could fail to notice that a gap was growing between results and what government statisticians trying to explain bad news call "underlying trends."
Madrid won 2-1 in Barcelona and played virtually without a flaw. Intense, focused, confident, athletic, creative - Mourinho's side utterly bossed the 90 minutes.
So in theory, with Guardiola gone, Tito Vilanova coaching his first Clasico and Real Madrid now clearly rid of the inferiority complex versus Barcelona that was beginning to choke the club, this should be a firm chance for Mourinho to inflict a serious wound on the new Catalan coach.
Maybe he will do that.
However, it feels as if the elements have just gently drifted toward Barcelona as Thursday night approaches. Of the two sides, Barca appears to be slightly sharper and more clinical. What's more, Madrid suffered a couple of bad breaks against Valencia while football smiled on Barcelona against Sociedad.
The collision between Casillas and Pepe means that the Portugal international, such a controversial figure in these clashes, almost certainly will miss this first leg. He can play without morals, but in both the last Clasico and at the Euros he showed that, on form, he remains an extremely difficult opponent. Mourinho would certainly prefer to have him in his lineup.
Barca? Not only does Messi appear to be in razor-sharp form, it was a tremendous fillip to see David Villa get unexpected game time against Real Sociedad and score a top-class goal - his first since breaking his tibia in Japan last December.
None of this wins the game in advance, of course. Madrid's stalwarts will raise their game, offering up extra energy and concentration, while the cauldron heat of a Clasico will be an interesting test of Vilanova's decision making powers.
He no longer makes apposite "suggestions" but has to make firm, correct decisions and know that the buck stops with him. We'll watch and learn how he handles it.
But the final element that remains tantalizing is Cristiano Ronaldo. Recently, I'd argue, he has shaken off any last vestiges of the spurious idea that he was somehow not a "big match" performer.
Aside from his winning goal in the 2011 Cup wholesale soccer jerseys final against Guardiola's team, Ronaldo added four goals against the club in the Super Cup, the Copa del Rey and La Liga last season, scoring both home and away and producing the winner in the April Clasico that finished Barca's title challenge.
At the weekend he didn't have his most convincing match, admitted that he was still in search of his best form and then awoke to rather hysterical newspaper headlines about what might be wrong with him.
Nothing that an early goal on Thursday wouldn't immediately cure, I'd say.
Be that as it may, the Clasico returns, with more angles to it than a dodecahedron, and, into the bargain, there are another 90 minutes and a trophy coming next week.
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