Sports Report for 8/16/08

8/16/08 – Sports Report

MY Piccs
Baseball – 12-3 (54-27-67%)
Football – 5-5 (7-7-50%)

National Football League
In preseason action, Washington def. The Jets 13-10 to spoil Brett Favre’s Jet’s debut. Favre still played well by going 5/6 for 48 yards and a TD. The other NY Brett, Brett Ratliff went 13/19 for 148 yards. Colt Brennan went 4/5 for 79 yards and 1 TD. Todd Collins went 11/15 for 72 yards for the Redskins. Rock Cartwright 6 carries for 90 yards. Cody Spencer for the NY Jets had 2 saccs. Indianapolis def. Atlanta 16-9. For Atlanta, Michael Turner ran for 113 yards on 4 carries. Miami def. Jacksonville 19-14. Chad Pennington in his Miami debut went 5/6 for 55 yards. Arizona def. Kansas City 27-17. Minnesota def. Baltimore 23-15. St. Louis def. San Diego 7-6. Houston def. New Orleans 31-27. San Francisco def. Green Bay 34-6. For San Francisco, Tully Banta-Cain had 2 saccs. Aaron Rodgers didn’t look too good. He was 9/16 for 58 yards. Denver def. Dallas 23-13. For Denver, Jay Cutler was 16/20 with 178 yards and a TD. Seattle def. Chicago 29-26. Justin Forsett for Seattle ran for 136 yards and a TD on 15 carries.

National Basketball Association
Chicago Bulls G Ben Gordon says that he has probably played his last game as a Bull. Michael Finley resigned with the Spurs. Details of the contract are not available at this point. In the Olympic games, Team USA (4-0) def. Spain (3-1) 119-82. Le’Bron James had 18points 5 rebounds and 8 assists.

Major League Baseball
In the American League, The Yankees def. Kansas City 3-2. The Angels def. Cleveland 4-3. John Lackey won his 10th game for the Angels (10-2). Francisco Rodriguez got his 47th save of the year. Minnesota def. Seattle 7-6. My White Sox def. Oakland 2-1. John Danks got his 10th win of the year for Chicago (10-5) and Bobby Jenks got his 25th save of the season. Toronto def. Boston 4-1. Roy Halladay got his 14th win of the year (14-9). Detroit def. Baltimore 5-3. Miguel Cabrera for Detroit got his 25th homer of the year. Texas def. Tampa Bay 3-0. Ian Kinsler got his 18th homer of the year for Texas.

In the National League, Atlanta def. San Francisco 11-5. Arizona def. Houston 11-5. Miguel Montero hit 2 homeruns (2,3) including a grand slam for Arizona. The Mets def. Pittsburgh 7-4. Pedro Martinez got his 4th win of the year (4-3). St. Louis def. Cincinnati 9-3. Albert Pujols hit two homers (25,26) and Ryan Ludwick hit his 31st homer of the year for St. Louis. Colorado def. Washington 13-6. Florida def. The Cubs 2-1. Hanley Ramirez hit his 27th homer of the year for Florida and Kevin Gregg got his 27th save. San Diego def. Philadelphia 8-3. Milwaukee def. The Dodgers 4-3.

In the AL Playoff Race, Tampa Bay is holding down the AL East with a 3 ½ game lead over Boston. The Central is still holding a tie between Minnesota and MY WHITE SOX. The Angels are still atop the West by 15 ½ games over Texas. Boston has the wild card as of now with Chicago or Minnesota right behind them.

In the NL Playoff Race, The Mets is holding down the NL East with a 2 game lead over Philadelphia and 3 ½ games over Florida. The Central is still led by the Cubs by 4 ½ games over Milwaukee. Arizona has a 1 game lead over the Dodgers in the West. Right now, Milwaukee holds the wild card, followed by St. Louis.

Pro Wrestling
WWE News: Umaga is out 4-6 weeks with a torn PCL. It is also being reported that Jeff Hardy might have broken his neck at the Smackdown tapings.

As many of you know, tonight is WWE SUMMERSLAM live here in Indianapolis, Indiana, IF YOU WANNA WATCH IT FOR FREE ONLINE, checc out xtreams.webs.com
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Here is the scheduled card
World Heavyweight Championship Match- CM Punk (c) vs. JBL
WWE Championship Match- Triple H (c) vs. The Great Khali.
ECW Championship Match- Mark Henry (c) vs. Matt Hardy.
Hell in a Cell Match- The Undertaker vs. Edge.
- John Cena vs. Batista.
- Jeff Hardy vs. MVP.
Winner Takes All MatchWWE Intercontinental & Women's Titles on the line- Kofi Kingston & Mickie James (c's) vs. Santino Marella & Beth Phoenix.
- Plus, Shawn Michaels will make a major announcement regarding the future of his WWE career.

Now, we all know about the WWE and TNA, but there is also a company by the name of ROH aka Ring of Honor. I have never paid attention to them, but I am going to from now on just to see what they are all about. Here are some results for you…

RING OF HONOR
Cleveland Gray's Armory
August 15th, 2008- 8:00 pm belltime
1234 Bolivar Road
Cleveland, OH 44115
RESULTS
Preshow
1) Shane Hollister & Mitch Franklin defeat Ninja Blue & Ninja Yellow after a tornado punch from Mitch Franklin. Pretty dull match.
2) Johnny Gargano defeats Sami Callihan with The Stroke (not familiar with what Johnny calls it).
3) Alex "Sugarfoot" Payne & Lou Crank defeat Midwest Air & Ground of Benjamin Sailor & Nate Bash after a Sugarfoot Rana. Crank sold really great.
Main Show
~Crowd looks to be 350-450 range.
1) Kevin Steen defeats Jigsaw with a Swanton to Jig's back. Fun match dominated by Steen.
2) Delirious defeats Rhett Titus. During Delirious' entrance he just stalked around ringside. Not running around or acting crazy like usual. Midway through the match, Jimmy Jacobs and Allison Wonderland came out yelling to Delirious that he belonged with them. Delirious destroyed Titus in the corner with Panic Attack after Panic Attack. Rhett was bleeding a gusher. Delirious used the blood to paint his mask. Ref stopped the match after FIVE Panic Attacks. ~After the match Jacobs announces Delirious as the NEW Age of the Fall member. Allison hugs Delirious and holds him like a Mother holding her child. Daizee comes out to try and talk Delirious out of it, but he ignores her and leaves with Jacobs.
3) Bryan Danielson defeats Kenny King with a high angle armbar at 14:45 of the 15:00 time limit. Great match, King looked good. Danielson came out sporting a mad farmer's tan. He got a "Tan of the Year!" chant.~SNS Inc. are out.
4) Sara Del Rey defeats Sassy Stephie with a standing axe kick.
5) Adam Pearce defeats Ruckus with a poorly executed half nelson suplex following SNS Inc. interference. Presumably sending a message to Albright.
6) Austin Aries defeats Tyler Black in a great scientific wrestling contest with the Last Chancery. Black announced before the match that it was to be held under "Age of the Fall rules". No brawling allowed, just straight scientific wrestling.
7) Jay & Mark Briscoe defeat Jimmy Jacobs & Delirious in a wild around the building brawl with a spring board doomsday. Highlight was Mark delivering a double stomp to Delirious off the top through a table.
~INTERMISSION~~No return date announced as expected.
8) FIP World Championship: Erick Stevens defeats Claudio Castagnoli to retain the FIP World Championship via disqualification when Claudio wouldn't stop kneeing Stevens in the corner. Claudio jumped Stevens before the bell, played a great heel throughout. Ref tried to pull Claudio off, so Claudio went after the referee with a chair! Dragon ran out to fight off Claudio.
9) Chris Hero & Go Shiozaki defeat Roderick Strong & Brent Albright when Hero loaded his elbow pad and knocked Strong out with a roaring elbow. Lots of chops, as you'd expect.
10) ROH World Championship: Nigel McGuinness defeats El Generico with the London Dungeon to retain the ROH World Championship. Unbelievably fantastic match. Generico kicked out of everything. Two Towers of London, The Rebound Lariat, the top rope lariat, the first attempt at the London Dungeon didn't work. Generico gave it his all. "Generico's hope spots alone were worth the price of the show."