Padres Chooses Browns QB Johnny Manziel (28th Round)

With the 837th pick of the 2014 #MLBDraft, the #Padres select SS @jmanziel2 from Texas A&M #JohnnyBaseball pic.twitter.com/RNUymJ6jBf
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) June 7, 2014

The San Diego Padres selected the Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel in the 28th round of the Major League Baseball draft last Saturday. Though he was included in the Texas A&M as a shortstop he has not played since he is more interested in football. He had not played baseball since high school.

Johnny Manziel Tweeted:

"Big thank you to the @Padres and @padresmikedee for selecting me in the MLB draft," "What a great day!"

Mike Dee, president and CEO of the Padres replied: "Best athlete on the board... #JohnnyBaseball."

Johnny Manziel was the first freshman to take home the Heisman Trophy back in 2012. The Cleveland Browns took him in as their 22nd overall pick in the NFL draft last month. He played two sports when he was at Tivy High School in Kerrville, Texas, namely baseball and football.

Miami Heat Routed the Indiana Pacers to Reach the Finals for 4th Straight Year

In the regular season the Indiana Pacers has been dominant, but still they don't have an answer for the Miami Heat in the playoffs.

After the win, Miami Heat is just the 3rd team in NBA history to reach the finals in four consecutive years. The Heat easily dismantle the Pacers defense and overwhelm them in the offensive end with a 117-92 drubbing of the Pacers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference championship. LeBron James and Chris Bosh anchored the Miami Heat win with 25 points apiece.

In an interview after the game Lebron said: "I'm blessed. Very blessed. Very humbled."
"And we won't take this opportunity for granted. It's an unbelievable franchise, it's an unbelievable group. And we know we still have work to do, but we won't take this for granted. We're going to four straight Finals and we will never take this for granted."

Dwyane Wade and Rashard Lewis chipped in 13 points each for the Heat. Miami was trailing 9-2 in the first quarter but they got hot and produced 75 points by halftime.

Indiana Pacers was the top team in the regular season which was their goal because of a bitter lost in Game 7 of the East finals in Miami last year. It didn't work too well, maybe next year they should avoid game 6 in Miami too.

Paul George scored 29 points for Indiana, David West had 16 and Lance Stephenson finished with 11 points. The fans booed and heckled Lance Stephenson all night.

Miami Heat will have to wait for the San Antonio or Oklahoma City Western conference finals to see who will they be up against in the Finals.

Tony Parker leads Spurs beat Mavs to advance, Nets beat Raptors

Tony Parker had 32 points as the San Antonio Spurs who were leading by as many as 31 routed the Dallas Mavericks 119-96 to advance to the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Tim Duncan dived into Dallas' bench to save a ball, the Spurs' bench was up on their feet to celebrate baskets. Parker was 11 out of 19 tries from the field and 10 for 13 on free throws.

Manu Ginobili contributed 20 points, Danny Green had 16 points and Duncan and Kawhi Leonard chipped in 15 points apiece for San Antonio.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points and nine rebounds to lead Dallas.

San Antonio advances to meet the 5th seed Portland Trail Blazers, who upset the Houston Rockets in a 6 game series. Game 1 will be on Tuesday in San Antonio.

In the East, Pierce's block in the dying seconds bring the Nets past Raptors 104-103. Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's shot in the dying seconds of the game, the Nets beat Toronto Raptors 104-103 in Game 7 on Sunday, they will advance in the second round of the playoffs against the Miami Heat.

Brooklyn Nets was leading by one point they use their last timeout after a botched play failing to inbound the ball. Shaun Livingston tried a lob pass to Pierce which was caught by Terrence Ross and bounced it off Pierce that resulted to Nets turnover.

Toronto timeout and the ball end up in Lowry's hand, he drive for a shot that was blocked by Pierce as time expired.

Joe Johnson lead the nets with 26 points. Marcus Thornton had 17, Kevin Garnett chipped in 12 points and 11 rebounds, and Deron Williams added 13 points.

UFC 172 Results: Anthony Johnson Impressive win, Jim Miller chokes Medeiros

This is a big win for Anthony Johnson as he dominated Phil Davis. Very impressive win. He was the underdog since many experts are expecting Davis to win, that he would be able to drop Johnson to the canvas and force out a decision. Davis wrestling skills is unmatched in mixed martial arts, and it was his clear advantage in securing a win. But that didn't happened,  since Johnson is clearly stronger than Davis, he shrugged him off with ease. Johnson has simply overpowered Davis.

In the lightweight division, Jim Miller has a great performance against Yancy Medeiros. Miller stalks Medeiros around the octagon, rocked him, then gave him the gulotine choke. The fight was over at the 3:18 mark. Medeiros went out instead of tapping out.

With an impressive win Miller is calling out top lightweights, "There are 9 guys ahead of me. Four of them are tied up or don't want to fight, so let me have one of the others. Khabib , Josh Thomson, T.J. Grant, give me any of them."

Miller is ranked No. 10 in the official UFC lightweight rankings.

In the main event of UFC 172, Jon Jones retain his championship by easily beaing Glover Teixeira but we were expecting that to happen.

Nene Lifts Wizards to Beat Bulls in Game 1, 102-93

   

CHICAGO -- Nene was dominant all night, he out hustle and outperformed Joakim Noah. Nene scored 24 points, while Trevor Ariza chipped in 18 points, as the Washington Wizards rallied from 13 points deficit to defeat the Chicago Bulls 102-93 in the playoff game 1 on Sunday night.

John Wall helped the Wizards by socring 16 in his postseason debut. Marcin Gortat added 15 points and 13 rebounds. Washington shooting was 49% and they outrebounded Chicago 45-39.

Kirk Hinrich and D.J. Augustin each scored 16 points, and Butler had 15 points for the Bulls.

Game 2 will be held on Tuesday in Chicago.

Pacquiao Wins by Unanimous Decision

Judges: 116-112 twice and 118-110 for Pacquiao

Pacquiao Wins by Unanimous Decision

Judges: 116-112 twice and 118-110 for Pacquiao


The Pacquiao vs Bradley fight was attended by 15,601 boxing fans. It was a good fight all-around and Pacquiao clearly won against Bradley eventhough it was not a knock-out or a stoppage.

In Round 8, Pacquiao landed a powershot to Bradley and leads the scorecard that put bradley in a big hole. Round 9, was action packed a lot of combination and both fighters traded punches, this is clearly not a snoozer fight like a Floyd Mayweather fight. Bradley try to score using combination but didn't produced.

Round 10 was also dominated by Pacquiao his combination and foot work has made Bradley tired and exhausted.

Bradley has definitely put up a better performance than in the first fight but it was not enough.

Pacman has done a great job! 

Pacquiao-Bradley 2 fight

The Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley 2 will be on Saturday night April 12 at the MGM Grand Las Vegas Nevada.

Manny Pacquiao 35, wants to avenage his loss to the unbeatable 30-years-old American WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley Jr. At the weigh-in at the Grand Garden Arena, more than 6,000 fans cheered Manny as he weigh in at 145 pounds. Bradley appeared with a chiseled-rock form body checked in at 145 1/2 lbs. and was booed by the crowd.

Pacquiao said that he will not be compassionate this time to his opponent and will unleash his real power.

“This time it will be different. We have prepared differently and did things that we never did before." “Aggressiveness and volume punching will be important for me.”

In Las Vegas, Pacquiao was listed at -270 ($270 bet wins $100) and Bradley at +220 ($100 bet wins $220).

In the Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley 2 undercard a lot of promising fights will be featured and be broadcasted for free by Top Rank Promotions livestream video feed on April 12.

Promising young athlete Light heavyweight Irish Sean Monaghan who hails from New York and is still undefeated will battle Irish Joe McCreedy of Lowell, Massachusetts who is under the legendary Micky Ward stable.

Top Rank Pacquiao vs. Bradley II Live Stream Undercard:

• Light heavyweight: Sean Monaghan vs Joe McCreedy
• Bantamweight: Mark Anthony Geraldo vs Raul Hidalgo
• Super featherweight: Oscar Valdez vs Adrian Perez
• Super middleweight: Esquiva Falcao vs Pubilo Pena
• Light heavyweight: Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs Mike Montoya

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