I am 9-6 right now for last week and waiting on the Cleveland game tonight to make it 10 wins last week. Stay tuned… Read the rest of this entry »
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2008 NFL Week 12: Betting Odds and Picks
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...2008 NCAA Football Week 13: Betting Odds and Picks
I was right about Miami winning last week, but they failed to cover by 2 points, SCRUBS! I thought I was being soo sneaky on the Stanford plus 22.5 play which I ended up winning by the half point hook, but they looked like they were going to win the game after the first half of play and then they pissed it down their legs in the 4th quarter, I still covered… This week on Thursday we have (23)Miami at Georgia Tech and then the Saturday night game is between Big 12 rivals (2) Texas Tech at (5)Oklahoma which will have serious implications on which bowl games will be assigned to which teams. Below are the Spreads and my picks. Read the rest of this entry »
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...2008 NFL Week 11: Betting Odds and Picks
I had a resonable good week going 8-6 to bring my yearly total to 71-66-4. Who would have thought that the Dolphins were gonna make it easy on Seattle or that AZ was gonna lay an egg and only win by 5. Anyways, below you will find this weeks matchups with spreads and totals as well as my pick.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...2008 NCAA Week 12: Betting Odds and Picks
Ok, so I was all the way right on VT last week even without the spread available I called them to win, I was half right with my LSU +3 pick but then they went to overtime and Bama squeezed in a TD instead of being gentlemen and just kicking a field goal thus allowing me to push on the 3 points. Bastards… This week since I’m feeling so good about the Virginia Tech pick I am going to pick their matchup with Miami this Thursday and then a Pac 10 matchup between (6)USC at Stanford on Saturday night. Below you will find the spreads and my picks as well as links to all the NCAA matchups this week. Read the rest of this entry »
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Rally Dakar 2009
Más de 500 participantes de casi 50 países participarán en el Rally ‘Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009′, que fue presentado este miércoles en Issy Le Molineaux, en las afueras de París, y que se disputará del 3 al 18 de enero, con 5.656 km de especiales en un total de 9.500 km.
Un año después de ser anulado por amenazas de atentados terroristas en Africa, el Dakar, mítico rally africano creado en 1979 por Thierry Sabine, cambiará de continente para aventurarse en una “edición excepcional con un gran recorrido”, según su director, Etienne Lavigne.
Después de una salida simbólica el 2 de enero por la tarde, el Dakar arrancará el día 3 en Buenos Aires con la participación de 530 aventureros de 49 nacionalidades distintas, un tercio de ellos llegados de Francia, nación más representada por delante de Holanda y España.
La caravana del Dakar estará integrada por 230 motos, 30 quads, 188 autos y 82 camiones y un 65% de los frustrados participantes del Dakar-2008 participarán en esta nueva edición.
La Patagonia, el desierto de Atacama o la cordillera de los Andes serán el escenario de ensueño del Dakar-2009, divido en 14 etapas con una jornada de descanso en Valparaíso (Chile) el sábado 10 de enero.
Las primeras etapas, en las llanuras de la Pampa, técnicamente fáciles y muy rápidas, servirán de rodaje para los participantes antes de atravesar el norte de la Patagonia rumbo a la dificultad, con especiales cada vez más técnicas y complicadas que comenzarán a marcar las diferencias.
La trilogía chilena será “el corazón del rally”, juzgó David Castera, director deportivo. Son “la firma del Dakar por la diversidad de paisajes”, unas etapas muy difíciles con cientos de kilómetros de dunas que garantizan “un gran espectáculo” y donde se alcanzarán los 4.700 metros de altura en el Paso San Francisco en la vuelta del rally a Argentina.
“El Dakar se renueva”, señaló Frédéric Lequien, director adjunto, sobre una edición que contará con un 20% de debutantes en autos y un 40% en motos.
El mítico rally sigue siendo una “carrera para aficionados”, quienes representan el 80% del total de los participantes, aunque serán los ‘profesionales’ quienes se jueguen la victoria final.
Mitsubishi, con cuatro nuevos autos con motor diésel, defenderá su título ante la amenaza del equipo Volkswagen con un Carlos Sainz más en forma que nunca.
Por primera vez, los tres primeros equipos (Mitsubishi, Volkswagen y BMW) rodarán con la misma tecnología.
“Será un Dakar extremadamente abierto, la carrera debería ser emocionante”, aseguró Lequien, que destacó la participación del chileno Eliseo Salazar, que debutará en el Dakar después de una larga carrera con experiencias en la Indy Car y la Fórmula 1.
Entre los ‘outsiders’ figura el polifacético Robby Gordon, primer estadounidense en ganar una etapa del Dakar. “El recorrido está hecho a su medida, podría acabar entre los tres o cuatro primeros”, señaló el director adjunto del Dakar.
En motos, al menos una decena de participantes pueden aspirar al podio, entre ellos el español Isidre Esteve y el francés Cyril Despres, ganador del Dakar en 2005 y 2007.
Frente a un recorrido desconocido, “todo el mundo partirá de cero, será una carrera abierta y apretada”, vaticinó Lequien.
El ‘Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009′ será retransmitido en 189 países y 25 cadenas estarán presentes sobre el terreno.
En un futuro, el mítico rally podría volver a Africa, “pero es complicado en este contexto”, aseguró el director del Dakar, quien explicó que podría prolongar su estancia en América Latina en función del éxito de esta edición y de la evolución de la situación en Africa.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Citibank set in Costa Rica
Citibank finalized its fusion with Banco Cuscatlán and Banco Uno in Costa Rica this week, and the two absorbed banks will now operate under the name Citi.
The merger creates one bank in Costa Rica with a net worth of more than $100 million, and total assets of more than $750 million, the daily La Nación reported.
In addition, Citi now has 500 ATM machines in Costa Rica, 67 branches and 80,000 clients.
Citibank acquired Grupo Financiero Uno in October 2006 and Cuscatlán the following December.
The banks were closed early in the week as the companies completed the merger.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CONGO WILL NEED MORE COOPERATION !!
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began distributing food to over 135,000 people displaced by fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has forced an estimated 250,000 people to flee their homes in recent months.
The distributions are aimed at internally displaced persons (IDPs) in six camps around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, which has been the scene of deadly fighting between Government forces (FARDC) and the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), led by renegade general Laurent Nkunda.
While clashes are continuing in some parts of North Kivu, a recent ceasefire is reportedly stillWFP is responding as quickly as possible to deliver food to people who’ve been brutalised too many times over many years holding in Goma, which has a swelling population of between 700,000 and 1 million.
“WFP is responding as quickly as possible to deliver food to people who’ve been brutalised too many times over many years,” said Mustapha Darboe, WFP Regional Director for Southern, Eastern and Central Africa.
“Now they are suffering again. Tens of thousands have been uprooted in North Kivu and we are doing everything we can to find them and help them.”
The 10-day rations will be distributed in all camps at the same time to avoid any disturbances, as well as to ease the pressure on food supplies in Goma since the violence temporarily cut off many delivery routes.
The agency is moving food stocks to Goma from its office in Bukavu in South Kivu, and bringing in supplies from Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Assisting WFP with the relief effort is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which will handle distributions to the estimated 65,000 IDPs who are now gathered at Kibati camp, 15 kilometres north of Goma.
The agency reported that a UN assessment mission to the Rutshuru area - the scene of much of the recent fighting - was forced to cut short its work on Tuesday when it found itself in close proximity to new clashes around Kiwanja, north of Rutshuru town.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has confirmed that three IDP camps in the area were destroyed and emptied, and is trying along with WFP and other agencies to determine what happened to the inhabitants.
“This is a dangerous and unstable environment and it’s going to be challenging to deliver food to where it is needed most. We need proper security in place to ensure everyone involved is safe and that we reach the most vulnerable,” Mr. Darboe said.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...DEL PIERO 2 REAL MADRID 0 !!
Alessandro Del Piero, capitán del Juventus italiano, aseguró tras marcar los dos goles de la victoria de su equipo sobre el Real Madrid y recibir una cerrada ovación de la afición madridista, que “el Bernabéu me ha regalado unas emociones únicas”. “Ha sido fantástico, algo que llevaré siempre conmigo. Unas sensaciones únicas y no solamente por los dos goles o la victoria, sino por ver como un público como el del Bernabéu me despidió de esa forma. Me ha regalado unas emociones únicas”, afirmó.Sobre el partido, Del Piero destacó las claves del triunfo de su equipo. “Hemos sabido poner sobre el campo nuestras cualidades y hemos sabido que hacer para frenar al Real Madrid”. Por último, bromeó con la suerte que dio la presencia del nuevo seleccionador argentino, Diego Armando Maradona, en el palco. “Si que nos vea Maradona provoca esto, que venga a vernos todos los partidos. Le deseo lo mejor en la selección argentina”, dijo.
Manniger: “Hicimos caso a Ranieri”
Coincidió con su capitán el portero Manninger en su análisis del encuentro. “Hemos estado perfectos trasladando al campo justo lo que nos ha explicado nuestro técnico. Lo que nos dijo en el vestuario para frenar al Real Madrid nos sirvió para hacerlo antes de que lo hiciesen”.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Estrellas de la T.V. celebraron triunfo de Barack Obama
Actores, actrices, músicos, directores de cine y conductores de televisión celebraron a lo grande el triunfo de Barack Obama en diferentes ciudades estadounidenses.
El cantautor Sean Diddy Combs y la actriz Jessica Alba acudieron a un bar en Nueva York para contagiarse del ambiente festivo que se vivió en las céntricas y congestionadas calles de la Gran Manzana, según imágenes de la cadena CNN y del diario británico Daily Mail.
Este mismo rotativo dio amplio destaque a la “Obamanía” que contagió en esa ciudad a los actores Sarah Jessica Parker y su esposo Matthew Broderick, quienes vistieron ropa de color azul (del Partido Demócrata), pines y broches.
El canal E! informó que la actriz Courtney Cox (otrora estrella de la serie Friends ) organizó una fiesta de la “victoria” en su mansión en Beverly Hills, California, la noche del martes. A la cita acudió su amiga, la actriz Jennifer Aniston.
Las imágenes de televisión dieron cuenta de la alegría y euforia del actor Brad Pitt y la conductora Oprah Winfrey, quienes ayer se perdieron entre la multitud que ovacionó al presidente electo, en el Grant Park de Chicago.
Otros actores que semanas atrás anunciaron públicamente su apoyo a Obama son Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Philippe, Lindsay Lohan, Beyoncé, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro y Edward Norton.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Costa Rica political spectrum cheered Barack Obama’s victory
Tico leaders from across the political spectrum cheered Barack Obama’s victory yesterday as he became the first black elected president of the United States .
Winning large majorities of Latino voters, the Democrat captured 349 electoral votes, compared to 162 for Republican candidate John McCain, as of this morning.
“This was one of the most emotional events of my political life,” said Epsy Campbell, president of the left-leaning Citizen Action Party (PAC), whose ancestors migrated from southern Africa to Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. “I thought about all our black ancestors who fought for the rights of our people. Barack Obama embodies (that) fight.”
Health Minister María Luisa Avila, from the governing National Liberation Party (PLN), watched returns from Brazil, where she is attending a conference on dengue.
“It means progress in the area of human rights … overall in the (fight) against racism,” she said.
Ana Helena Chacón, a lawmaker for the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC), was rooting for Obama, even though her party has historically aligned itself with the Republicans.
“I hope relations with Latin America improve,” she said. “There have been few efforts at cooperation, except in the field of security.”
The five PUSC lawmakers plan to discuss the implications of an Obama presidency today, Chacón said.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement this morning congratulating Obama and celebrating his status as the nation’s first African-American president.
Even Otto Guevara, leader of the Libertarian Movement (ML) party and a McCain supporter, saw a silver lining.
“McCain’s speech was extraordinary,” he said. “He put himself at the service of the new president and (promised) to work together for the good of the United States.”