March 08, 2006

Jessica Alba In Lawsuit With Playboy

The “Sin City” star threatens to sue Playboy for putting her on the cover.
Sexy actress Jessica Alba is reportedly enraged by Playboy magazine and threatens with lawsuit, because the editors published her picture on the cover without her permission.
According to Jessica's attorney Brian Wolf, the magazine reportedly asked Alba to pose for its March cover but the actress refused. So Playboy editors decided to use as cover a promotional photo from Alba`s film,"Into the Blue", Wolf told The Smoking Gun.

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March 06, 2006

Borg forced to sell off trophies

Tennis legend Bjorn Borg is selling the five Wimbledon trophies he won between 1976 and 1980.
Borg, who retired at 26, is reported to have established a £40m fortune during his career but has since been through two divorces and a bankruptcy.

"It's not easy to part with the trophies but I need some long-term financial security for those close to me," said the 49-year-old.

"The time's right for them to pass to a collector or suitable institution."

In addition to the five miniature replica trophies, Borg is also selling two rackets, including the one he used in his classic victory over John McEnroe in the 1980 final.

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LeBron shares the love, Cavs upset the Bulls

CHICAGO -- LeBron James had the ball. Ronald Murray had the open look.

So James passed to his teammate, and Murray responded by making a 3-pointer from the right side with 3.9 seconds remaining to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 92-91 upset victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night as 4 1/2-point underdogs.

The Cavaliers then held their breath as Andres Nocioni missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. With that, Cleveland snapped a five-game losing streak, straight up and ATS, after blowing a 25-point lead.

The Cavs continued their under streak however, missing the 193 total by 10 points. Cleveland has played under in six straight games dating back to February 21.

Murray, acquired from Seattle at the trade deadline, scored 11 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter.

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March 05, 2006

Seo, Park lift South Korea over Taiwan

TOKYO -- Jae-Weong Seo pitched two-hit ball and Chan Ho Park worked three effective innings for a save to lead South Korea past Taiwan 2-0 on Friday in the opener of the inaugural World Baseball Classic.
The 16-nation tournament started at 11:30 a.m. local time and was played before a sparse crowd of 5,193 at Tokyo Dome. Japan was scheduled to play its first game later Friday against China.

Seo started and struck out three in 3 2-3 innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander threw 61 pitches - under tournament rules, starting pitchers are limited to 65 pitches in the first round.

"I felt good starting," Seo said. "I didn't worry about the pitch count. I knew we have a lot of good pitchers on our team and as long as I did my job we would be fine."

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Raptors spoil GM Colangelo's first game with 113-111 overtime loss to Hawks

The Toronto Raptors showed a willingness to play hard but lost 113-111 in overtime to the Atlanta Hawks, the first game for Bryan Colangelo's as the team's new president and general manager.

Hired just the day before, Colangelo received an ovation Wednesday when he was shown on the video board standing near the player's entrance where he watched the game. Joe Johnson and Al Harrington each scored 26 points for the Hawks, who also out-rebounded the Raptors 49-36 in front of 15,137 fans at Air Canada Centre.

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March 04, 2006

St. Pierre ready for UFC bout

Kick. Left. Hook. Elbow. Elbow. Double up.
Kickboxing coach Victor Vargotski barks out the instructions at Georges St. Pierre as the sleek Montreal welterweight trains for his Ultimate Fighting Championship bout Saturday night at Mandalay Bay. Vargotski is wearing protective Thai pads - think a goalie blocker on each hand - as St. Pierre slams, punches and kicks him on command.

St. Pierre moves like a dancer, a muscular inverted torso screwed onto an impossibly thin waist. A fleur-de-lis is tattooed on the back of his calf.

If he is beauty, Vargotski is a little beast who looks like every jockey's nightmare. The diminutive Muy Thai-boxing coach with the close-cropped hair is a former world champion kickboxer whose flattened nose suggests his offence was better than his defence. He looks mean and means business.

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