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A Fantastic British Summer of Sport

hanun — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:22:56 +0000

The soccer season might be over, but hey, what a time of year for sports fans in the UK. Having already witnessed the French Open tennis championship, courtesy of Eurosport and the red button on BBC, attention will quickly turn to Royal Ascot and the five glorious days of racing held there. This magical racing festival alas clashes with the daily dose of the Twenty20 cricket, World Cup, but fortunately it will not clash with the US Open Golf Championships. This huge golf tournament also starts during Royal Ascot week, but for UK sports fans this is evening viewing over four solid days as the world’s best Golfers battle it out at Bethpage State Park, New York, for the second major of the season, where only one man is fancied to win the championship and that is Tiger woods.

After Ascot and the US Open, the cricket World Cup continues into the semi final stages, but the big sports event to follow will of course be Wimbledon and the chance for British fans to support a potential men’s winner in the form of Scot, Andy Murray.

There is also the small matter of the British Lions tour of South Africa going on as well of course, the three test series begins on June 20th and ends a fortnight later and the Lions will be hoping to win their first tour since they were last in South Africa in 1997.

Wimbledon will hold the nations attention for a full two weeks, during which time the Twenty20 World Cup will have been decided and many of the top three year old colts and fillies will have lined up and ran in the Irish Oaks and Irish Derby respectively.

British sports fans cannot be blamed if their attention is diverted towards Silverstone the weekend before Wimbledon starts. The British Grand Prix takes place and for the second successive year there is every chance of saluting a British winner. Jenson Button has won five of the six races that have taken place so far in the F1 season.

Wimbledon concludes at the end of the first week in July and then after a sharp intake of breath, its all systems go for the Ashes series against Australia. That begins on July 8th and takes place throughout the summer concluding towards the end of August.

Of course, sports fans will not only have to suffer the Ashes during this period, but Glorious Goodwood is also in July as is the world famous Galway Races on the beautiful West Coast of Ireland.

Then, notwithstanding the soccer season gets underway once more and sports fans will realise that they will need at least three TV sets and three sets of eyes to take it all in. It is a truly wonderful time of year which as always will produce the talking stories of the summer and be responsible for many tears and cheers as champions are produced and losers forgotten no matter what the sport.

The great British summer is here at last!

Calzaghe Crowned Bbc Sports Personality

hanun — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:12:49 +0000

Joe Calzaghe completed the year in which he became the unquestionable World Super Middleweight Champion by being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The contenders list was determined by a range of newspapers and magazine sport experts, plus a BBC panel and the public vote by phone decided the winner during the show broadcasted from the NEC in Birmingham.

The award definitely went to one of the nations finest sports competitors. This year, the Welsh boxer joined the Super-Middleweight Division with a unanimous point’s victory over Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium last month. He now stands with a professional record of 44 wins, including 32 knockouts.

It was a night of double celebration for Calzaghe’s family as his father Enzo was named Coach of the Year. While accepting the prize, he expressed to be shocked since receiving the award was a massive honor for him. Lewis Hamilton also capped a memorable first season in Formula One by being voted runner-up. In regards to Calzaghe’s victory and being the odds favorite Hamilton added: “He’s a worthy winner. I just wish he was here so I could meet him,” Hamilton told BBC Sport.

On the other hand, Ricky Hatton finished third in the poll only 15 hours after his WBC welterweight title fight defeat in Las Vegas. However, he seemed to be very satisfied with his third place worthier for a boxer with 43 successive wins in his career, including 31 knockouts.

Other big names in the world of sport gathered at Bidmingham’s NEC, including Roger Federer, who was named the Overseas Sportsman of the Year for third time and Tom Daley crowned the Young Sports Personality of the Year. The World equestrian Champion, Zara Phillips, 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year was also one of the show’s special guests.

Additionally, football legend Sir Bobby Robson picked up the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award and received a standing ovation and huge applause as he made his way to the stage and England Rugby Union achieved the Team of the Year Award.

The end of the ceremony was full of grace, elegance; the BBC Sports Personality was crowned by the public vote and Calzaghe ended the season with another trophy.

Sports on PC – Never Miss, Leave Home Without, Or Pay To Watch Any Sporting Event Again!

hanun — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:07:09 +0000

are a sports enthusiast like me, the Internet should be part of your sport channel/video arsenal. The up coming NFL season is near and missing a popular game could be something you will regret later. Therefore, to ensure that nothing ever goes wrong, you should have the capability to watch sports on your PC also. It makes a great safety-net that ensures never missing any sporting event Worldwide.

Granted the Internet delivers unlimited streaming TV channels, radio stations and videos to a computer. But there are 1000s of Worldwide sport channels and videos that can be accessed with a stroke of a key. If you ever get caught somewhere without access to a television, your sports on PC center will ultimately save the day.

Whether or not Internet television and videos have ever sparked an interest, the general consensus is watching Internet TV and videos using a computer has reached a Worldwide appeal, especially among the young (18-30s). But the question is why pursue this if you already have Satellite/Cable TV and big screen entertainment center? Well, there are a few really great advantages here that should be given some serious thought.

Watch Sports on PC – Next Best Thing To Paid TV

For instance, imagine you are somewhere and didn’t have access to a television set or happen to stumble upon one but it was being shared by others who didn’t want to watch the sporting event you wanted to see. Perhaps you may recall this happening at a relative or friend’s house, at college, on a trip, etc. When using the Internet and a PC with a broadband connection, it actually becomes an extra TV set.

The only thing you need to do is find a sporting event of interest when getting access to a sports website. All of these sites include schedules to watch sports on your PC which display the times, dates, and events, including links where to start watching them. Simply click the link and watch the event.

Whatever is of interest–baseball, football, sports soccer online, tennis, boxing, hockey, martial arts, college sports online, nascar racing, horse racing online, etc., the entire sports World becomes your oyster.

Suddenly, you have created a super way to watch sports on your PC that can deliver any favorite sporting event at an instant. It is totally free and legal to watch sports this way. You can even choose to pay a small one-time fee to gain access to (for instance) any NFL game previously aired. Just imagine if a sporting event was blacked out locally, Satellite subscription didn’t carry a game, or no paid television to watch a particular game.

Creating your own system to watch live sports on your PC offers many benefits. You get more savings, variety, freedom, flexibility and mobility when watching Internet sports–whenever than traditional television. In addition, this also means getting access to free movies of any genre, old/recent/current/popular television shows and episodes such as CSI, 24, Fringe, Terminator, Star Trek, Family Guy and 1000s of other entertainment from around the World.

Free Internet content includes, but is not limited to, premium, HDTV, and on-demand channels such as, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, BBC, Discovery, free-HBO, free-ESPN, sports channels and 1000s of other channels from Countries such as US, Canada, UK, and Australia (78+ Countries in all) in different languages.

Searching where to watch sports on Your PC isn’t exactly childsplay but can be made easy when using what is considered to be a newbie-helper. Free Internet content caters to all ages, genders and nationalities whether living at home or on-the-go lifestyles. When using a laptop with an Internet broadband card, this creates a mobile TV to take anywhere doing your travels.

As a result, this also eliminates arguing over the remote, sharing a television set with others, kids/wife/girlfriend/parents hogging the TV, traveling without a television, or having to work and missing a big ballgame. Your PC connects to the Net and will bring more exciting sports media then any traditional television will allow.

The sports on PC technology is here to stay and offers an array of possibilities, not just for the young but for older adults as well. The Internet can deliver 1000s of Worldwide radio stations including sports radio online, music and whatever else to your PC.

So if there is a Satellite TV, big screen entertainment center, or just a regular television set in your household, creating a sports on PC system and connecting it to a television adds another dimension. Surely, this will create quite a sports arsenal that any enthusiast would admire. And for those who are less fortunate and don’t have one or any of the above, creating an Internet Sports computer system offers the next best thing.