The Legend of Bernard Hopkins grew on May 21 as he became the oldest boxer ever to win a World Championship as he outclassed Jean Pascal on his home turf in Montreal, Canada. The Executioner used all of his experience, craftiness and ring guile to out point the Champion who is 18 years younger than the 52-5-2 (32 KO’s) Hopkins. Bernard demonstrated his ring generalship with Smitty in this episode of “In This Corner”. Congratulations to one of the greatest athletes of all time. In This Corner TV is brought to you by Tecate Beer.
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James May captains his car football champions Aygo and battles against Richard Hammond’s VW Fox team in a new Car Football World Cup Final. Brilliant high quality football match video from BBC motoring show Top Gear. Visit www.TopGear.com for all the latest news and car reviews.
Ivan Ljubicic had an incredible winning streak at the BNP Paribas. Despite his age, the Croatian defeated the much younger Spaniard, Rafael Nadal, in the semifinals 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (1). Nadal was the tournament’s defending champion and the favorite. Nadal appeared unbeatable at the beginning of the match, easily winning the first set. But the tables turned after the Croatian won the second set and forced the match to a third that ended up on a tiebreak. Ljubicic won the tiebreak after Nadal committed four mistakes and advanced onto the final against Andy Roddick. The game resembled the match in which Federer was ousted by Baghdatis; the favorite started out strong but committed too many errors, ending up losing the game. Nadal was looking to win his first title of the year; he hasn’t won one in the last 11 tournaments. His last title was in Rome last year. The Spaniard was very conscious of his poor playing at the end of the match, and the high price of his mistakes. “I played unbelievable terrible game the first game of the third set.
I had more mistakes with my forehand in that game than all week,” Nadal said. “After that, I fought it all the time. I played bad.” Keeping his confidence afloat, the Croatian went into the final against Roddick with a great deal of conviction in the game. Ljubicic narrowly won the final 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5). Roddick looked to be the first US player to win at Indian Wells since 2001. He has beaten Ljubicic 7 times in their last 10 matches, but this time, he just couldn’t beat the Croatian in the two tiebreakers. The game was so close between the two players that neither was able to break the other’s serve. In the first set’s tiebreaker, Ljubicic was able to win the first three points off of Roddick’s forehand errors.
The second tiebreaker was a bit more difficult; the American began fighting back, bringing the tiebreaker score to 6-5 with an ace. Afterwards, though, the Croatian was able to close. “He served great. The last two days were an exhibition on how to serve big points,” Roddick said. “I felt like I was getting aced or he was hitting a service winner every time I’d worked my way into a game.” At 31, Ljubicic is the second oldest player to win at Indian Wells; the first is Jimmy Connors. Ljubicic was ranked No. 26 but will be in No. 13 after this victory, entering into the top 20 players for the first time in two years.
Jim Calhoun is a coach for the University of Connecticut, but has decided to take an unexpected Medical Leave of absence. The timing couldn’t have been worse. Right now the Uconn team is having trouble getting through the season and not performing as well as they usually do. As of the time of this writing they have lost the last 3 games in a row.
Right now they aren’t even ranked. However late last month they were as high as 10th in the polls. After reaching last years final four, they ended up losing 4 of their 6 key players. The Hartford Courant Newspaper questioned Jim Calhoun and asked him if he thought his team was losing spirit. He said no way. When the Connecticut Basketball Team was down 11 points when they were at Michigan, they would have walked away.
But instead, they ended up turning things around and taking the lead. Jim Calhoun mentioned that this showed a winning mentality verses a losing mentality. Jim is arguably the greatest program builder in the history of College Basketball. Now is his twenty forth season acting as Head Coach of the University of Connecticut. He has also been a collegiate head coach for 38 years now. He is a legendary leader in the game of basketball.
In 2008-2009, Jim Calhoun also made it to the Ultra Exclusive 800 win club as well as made a 3rd trip to the NCAA Final Four. All of his time on the Basketball Coaching Circuit includes just two places, the Northeastern University in Boston and the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He spent 14 seasons at Northeastern and 23 seasons in Connecticut.
Hopefully he’ll be back from his leave of absence soon so he can get on with coaching Uconn again. Jim has a great record and I don’t see any momentum slowing down anytime soon.
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