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Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. Adidas Zx 700 Offerte . This week they discuss J.R. Smiths antics, Dennis Rodmans trip to North Korea, Toronto FCs spending and the inspiring story of a California high-school basketball player. Bruce Arthur, National Post: My thumb is down to J.R. Smith, the illegitimate clown prince of basketball. The New York Knicks are their own unique brand of farce, but Smith takes it to a different, dumber level. This week he was fined $50,000 for trying to untie an opponents shoelace again, after being warned by the NBA, hey, dont try to untie an opponents shoelace again. This had literally never happened before. He had already been suspended in his career for fights, for drugs, and even for reckless driving causing a death, and he has said over and over, "Ive learned." But he never learns. Hes a player with talent, no desire to shape it, no thoughts of consequences, and the brain of a slow-ish ostrich. Someone should tie his shoelaces together, and be done with it. Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun: My thumb is down to Dennis Rodman and his bizarre egotistical nonsensical attempt at diplomacy with his latest visit to North Korea. This isnt the Richard Nixon days, when ping-pong began to unfreeze the relationship between the United States and China. This is today, and this is the clown Rodman, trying to look serious in a political arena. The situation becomes all the more troubling when you consider Rodmans patty-cake friendship with dictator and admirer Kim Jong-un. While in North Korea, Rodman suggested that American tour guide, Kenneth Bae, jailed 15 years for state subversion, was at fault for being held captive and after saying that, blamed his verbal outburst on drinking too much. Dennis Rodman is, was, and remains something of a sporting embarrassment. The fact he is playing a more difficult game here only makes it worse. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is up to Toronto FC for its showy efforts at ending its culture of failure. This week the club repatriated Canadian midfielder Dwayne De Rosario. It then made a global splash by acquiring striker Jermain Defoe from Tottenham and signing another midfielder, American international Michael Bradley, who had been languishing at A.S. Roma. MLSEs $100 million moves faintly echo President Tim Leiwekes investment in David Beckham when Leiweke was in Los Angeles, although labeling MLS most dismal team a "super club" is wildly premature. The last Toronto team to "win" an offseason was the blue jays last winter. Howd that turn out? Dave Hodge, TSN: My thumb is up to California high-school basketball player Austin Hatch, and this story will explain itself. In two airplane crashes eight years apart that killed his father, mother, stepmother, brother and sister, Austin Hatch narrowly escaped death himself. The most recent crash in 2011 left Hatch in a coma for two months. 10 days earlier, he had committed to a basketball scholarship at the University of Michigan. This week, he played in a high-school game for the first time since the crash - his first shot was a three-point attempt, he made it - his schoolmates roared and his teammates jumped from the bench and stormed the court, causing an emotional celebration....and a technical foul. Hatch still looks forward to Michigan, where his scholarship will be honored. Thumbs up all around. Indeed. Nike Roshe Run Arancioni . Brignac hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night. 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Bortuzzos run-in with Jagr woke up his teammates and Malkin provided the games only goal 2:32 into the third period as the Penguins edged the reeling Devils 1-0.Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 shots for his NHL-leading fifth shutout, but it was Bortuzzos meeting with the future Hall of Famer that will be remembered when the teams meet again in New Jersey on Dec. 29.Jagr chased a puck to the right corner behind the Pittsburgh net and sent it around the boards. The puck was gone by the time the 6-foot-4 Bortuzzo barrelled into him and sent Jagr onto the ice face-first.Totally unnecessary, New Jersey coach Peter DeBoer said. You know, if one of our guys had done that to Crosby thered be World War Four.Jagr laid on the ice for several minutes before woozily making his way to the dressing room. He received a surprisingly warm ovation from the Pittsburgh crowd, which has lustily booed Jagr from the moment the two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Penguins left in 2001.Penguins coach Mike Johnston felt the hit was clean and Bortuzzo was repentant.I thought the puck was there, Bortuzzo said. I kept my shoulder down, felt like I hit him in the chest. Its unfortunate he went out of the game, but like I said, just playing hard.Jagr was alongside a handful of banged up teammates in the dressing room when Malkin ended a brilliant end-to-end rush by taking a feed from Jayson Megna and beat Cory Schneider with a backhand. Steady play from Fleury made it stand up as the Penguins won for the fourth time in five games.We told our guys it might be one of those games where we might just have to will it out in the third period, Johnston said. We hung in there with it. We stuck with it. We guarded against frustration for the most part and I thought we did a goodd job in a really tough game. Nike Roshe Run Uomo Saldi. Schneider made 22 saves but received little help. New Jersey generated few quality chances against Fleury, who has won six straight at home against the Devils.Gomez played 22 minutes in his return to the Devils after being signed on Monday but couldnt stop New Jersey from being shut out for the second time in eight days.Whether its 20 minutes or five minutes, its good to be out there, Gomez said. It just happened tonight. Everyone kind of had a double shift. We still came up short and we have to find a way to put it in.Pittsburghs patched-together lineup lacked injured defenceman Kris Letang and banged-up forwards Chris Kunitz and Marcel Goc. In their place were fill-ins such as Andrew Ebbett and Scott Wilson, who was called up from Wilkes-Barre Scranton on Tuesday morning when Crosby missed the pregame skate with an illness. While the reigning MVP played in his 574th game — the eighth most in team history — Crosby was surrounded by a sea of largely unfamiliar faces.Then again, the Penguins received little sympathy from New Jersey. The Devils brought back the well-travelled Gomez hoping he could give the struggling lineup a needed energy boost.The 34-year-old last played for New Jersey in 2007, when the Devils lost to Ottawa in the Eastern Conference semifinals. He began the night as the young guy on a first line that included the 42-year-old Jagr and 38-year-old Patrik Elias, only to have Jagr and Elias head to the trainers room.Im not going to forget what number (Bortuzzo) is, New Jersey forward Jordin Tootoo said. Its a long season, so at the same time, we have to worry about our guys in the locker room here and get back on the winning ways.NOTES: Jagr had three shots before leaving and now has 5,160 for his career, passing Al MacInnis for third on the NHLs all-time list. Marcel Dionne is second with 5,366. ... Pittsburgh went 0 for 3 on the power play and is now 3 of its last 23 with the man advantage. ... Kunitz is out at least a couple weeks with a fractured foot. ... The Penguins host Vancouver on Thursday night. New Jersey plays at Toronto on Thursday. Cheap China Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China ' ' '
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