Game in the Ring

Yao Ming to miss the rest of the NBA season

in a sad annoucement for houston fans, the rockets said on tuesday afternoon that center yao ming will miss the doss down of the season with a stress fracture in his hand foot.”it’s a very difficult day quest of the format and our fans,” admitted houston general manager daryl morey. “we’ve been playing exceptional basketball, and yao’s been a prodigious part of that.”in fact, the rockets entered tuesday’s game against washington riding a 12-plan victorious streak.as we understand, this injury was originally believed to be an ankle sprain aggravated by bone spurs around the ankle, team physician dr. tom clanton said. yao was examined after practice on monday, and clanton said that tests showed excessive watery in one of the bones around yao’s port side foot. a ct-scan revealed the stress fracture.”i recollect this is not an damage that we feel he can conduct oneself with,” said clanton, who recommended surgery on the foot. clanton did say that the team urged yao to seek other opinions, and that the 7-foot-6 center had not yet decided whether he would have surgery.the talented yao is averaging 22 points and 10.8 rebounds per game this opportunity ripe. he sat out a rockets bereavement to utah on january 27 with an ascendancy-respiratory infection, but returned two days later. and houston has not lost since, the last win a 110-97 win over the bulls on sunday.”yes, it’s a pretty strapping swing from a high to a low, how we were playing,” added morey. “after that emotional reaction, talking with the coaching staff and players, you think how away we played without yao, we think our supporting cast is superior to when we pattern played without yao for a significant stretch … so we endure ready for this challenge ahead.”it’s important to know that this pass on be the third consecutive season marred by injury for the all-star center. after playing 82, 82, and 80 games in his before three seasons in the league, yao was limited to 57 matches in the 2005-06 action after undergoing surgery on an infection in his left strapping toe, and then breaking a toe in his left mature foot tardily in the season. yao played in only 48 games last season, during which he suffered a small fracture in his right tumbledown tease.finally, we obligated to say that both morey and clanton don’t know whether yao would be healthy to play representing china in the summer olympics in beijing.

Marshall

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Patrick Cote Does not Deserve a Rematch

Patrick Cote suffered an unfortunate injury in the third round of his fight with Anderson Silva at UFC 90, and the fight was stopped early. Mike Goldberg immedately said Cote had earned himself a rematch.

Realistically, he did nothing to earn a rematch. Silva looked actively bored, and simply toyed with Cote. My guess is he was trying to have a longer fight, carry Cote into later rounds, and then finish him there. I have no idea why, maybe he is just bored, but Cote was so clearly out of his league that it was frustrating to watch.

To conclude, Cote does not deserve a rematch because Silva decided to mess around. The UFC got what it deserved in this fight for booking such an uncompetitive main event. Anderson Silva is also mistaken if he thinks fighting this way will make him a star.