Minggu, 26 Desember 2010

PlWDL+/-Pts
1Manchester United169702034
2Arsenal1710251532
3Manchester City179531132
4Chelsea179441931
5Tottenham Hotspur17764327
6Bolton Wanderers17683626
7Sunderland17593224
8Newcastle United17647122
9Liverpool17647-122
10West Bromwich Albion17647-522
10Blackpool16646-522
12Stoke City17638-121
13Blackburn Rovers17638-521
14Aston Villa17557-920
15Everton17395-218
16Birmingham City17395-318
17Fulham172105-416
18Wigan Athletic17377-1516
19Wolverhampton Wanderers174310-1215
20West Ham United17269-1512

Extend the Lakers back to winning and Away Records

TORONTO - Los Angeles Lakers fearless opponent playing at home. Kobe Bryant et al overcome the resistance of the host Toronto Raptors 120-110.

Playing at Air Canada Centre on Monday (20/12/2010), is that Kobe was the star in this match with a record 20 points. Paul Gasol added 19 points through the incision and eight rebounds while improving record away to the Lakers to 6-1.

Not only is Kobe and Gasol, the Lakers bench also performed brilliantly with melesatkan approximately total 57 points. One of them center Andrew Bynum who produced 16 points, the highest score since returning from injury.

"I am very pleased with the game reserve players and their performance in the second and third quarter,"said Phil Jackson was quoted Yahoosports. "I think they play better than the core players in a few minutes."

Lakers look so dominant in this match. Entering the fourth quarter, the Lakers increasingly widened the advantage to 99-86 by Shannon Brown shot when the game entered 8 minutes 16 seconds

But the Raptors could provide resistance. Throw off the home team three points through Linas Kleiza and change the position to be 101-95 when this fight is only the remaining 6 minutes and 28 seconds. Finally, the acquisition rate was overtaken Lakers.

Kleiza own a barn points for the Raptors through the notch 26 points and 10 rebounds. DeMar DeRozan helped by producing 23 points and Jose Calderon added 20 points through the incision and 12 assists.

Ferrari president, Montezemolo: Delete F1 Name

Ferrari president, Montezemolo

Maranello - The word surprise return diumbar Luca di Montezemolo. Ferrari president judge sports car racing can survive without a Formula One (F1). Ferrari threaten to leave F1!

Montezemolo dispute with F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone continues. The two important people in this fast super pole race comments regarding the division of broadcasting rights. Montezemolo assess F1 needs to change to improve quality.

"We have to figure out what to do. This can not go on like this, "said Montezemolo was quoted as saying Auto Motor und Sport on Monday (12/20/2010).

"Do we need the name Formula One? I believe we can achieve success with a different name, "continued the Italian man. "We can continue this cooperation, but the financial conditions should be better."

"If not, then the team can start by having their own competition and we make Bernie Ecclestone as a leader and we are thinking and new marketing methods," Montezemolo added. "We can replicate the success of the NBA."

F1 puts more green into racing

While the lifting of a ban on 'team orders' made the headlines, the more momentous news emerging from a meeting of the governing International Automobile Federation in Monaco last week was to do with future engine rules.
The FIA announced that from 2013, engines would be reduced from the current 2.4-litre V8s to four-cylinder 1.6-litre turbocharged units with a rev limit of 12,000rpm and linked to hybrid kinetic energy recovery systems.
The switch, it said, underlined "a commitment to improving sustainability and addressing the needs of the automotive industry".
It also re-positions the sport in a much more environmentally-friendly arena with the engines, whose development cost has been put at around $150 million, consuming at least 35 per cent less fuel.
"Formula One has had a hard look at itself and said 'We've got to be more relevant'," Team Lotus owner Tony Fernandes, whose cars are already painted green, told Reuters.
"I think with this new engine technology we become much, much more relevant.
"I think it's a fantastic time. I think it's great that Formula One is now going to be a driver and a leader in terms of environmental technology," added the Malaysian aviation entrepreneur.
"Thirty-five percent less fuel is amazing. Imagine what that would do to the world if the technology being used in Formula One can be brought to all cars and reduce fuel consumption by 35 per cent."
Those thinking that their regular 1,600cc family runabout has as much, if not more, poke should think again.
According to independent engine maker Cosworth, the combination of the turbo engine and hybrid systems will produce more than 700bhp and deliver the same speeds as at present.
With low drag setup, lap times could even be quicker. And all with far less of a thirst for fuel.
Put in ordinary motoring terms, the 35 percent saving should translate into a reduction of 85-90 litres of fuel per car per race.
"If you think that the average road car has a 70-75 litre fuel tank, then more than a tank of fuel is not going to be used. It's massive," Cosworth F1 head Mark Gallagher told Reuters.
The engines will sound very different - a big consideration to petrol heads who treat the high-pitched scream of a V8 at full throttle with the same rapt reverence as a classical music devotee listening to the Vienna Philharmonic.
However, as Gallagher pointed out, the twin turbo cars used by drivers such as Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in the early 1990s also produced only 12,000 rpm, and that period is regarded with considerable nostalgia.
The changes are all part of FIA president and former Ferrari team boss Jean Todt's determination to move Formula One far from the old image of a gas-guzzling, cash-burning, fossil-fuel-dependent sport that cared little for its surroundings.
Plenty has been done already by individual teams in the last few years.
McLaren announced this week that they had become the first Formula One team to earn Carbon Trust certification for achieving annual savings of more than 1,500 tonnes of C02 emissions.
Gallagher said Cosworth had bought five sets of equipment so that they could use less polluting but slower sea freight rather than air transport. Teams have also agreed to reduce the number of staff attending races.
Todt's mission is to speed up things globally.
"I feel sometimes the motorsport community has not yet completely understood that the times are changing," he told Reuters back in October.
"If you are looking at what is happening at the Paris motor show, there are a lot of electric, hybrid, hydrogen cars and I really feel that racing must be a display for all those technologies.
"And it will probably encourage manufacturers either to stay, join or come back," he said.
HondaToyota and BMW have all left Formula One in recent years for cost and strategic reasons but the engine changes could revive the sport's allure for manufacturers and sponsors alike.
Volkswagen, whose Audi brand has long been courted by F1, have already made encouraging noises after being involved as outsiders in drawing up the new engine specification.
"The conditions for a possible entrance of the Volkswagen group have been created," the company's motorsport head Hans-Joachim Stuck told German media, while adding that nothing was decided yet.
KERS, tried out in 2009 but dropped by all the teams for this season as part of cost-saving measures, will be back next year and is here to stay.
"I think in a second iteration it will be quite a lot better," said Williams co-owner Patrick Head.
"One can say 'isn't it just a load of bullshit?' and 'is it really appropriate for Formula One?'. But tell me one motoring magazine now that isn't full of all the electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles."
Gallagher agreed all the changes in the pipeline would help to shift the sport into a better place.
"There is more fuel burned by spectators attending the Tour de France (cycle race) than in the entire Formula One world championship," he said.
"Formula One has an unfair image of gas-guzzling and this new technology absolutely nails that criticism."
Reuters

Ticket purchasers are not orderly, PSSI can Warning Loud from AFF

Ticket purchasers are not orderly, PSSI can Warning Loud from AFF

PSSI chairman said, PSSI get a stern warning from the supreme authority of Asean football (AFF). If it can not cope with mass unrest and field stadium damaged, then the second leg final was moved to a neutral venue.

"Three hours ago, I got a stern warning from the AFF. If you can not cope with chaos spectators and the field is damaged, then the second leg final match will be moved to a neutral venue," said Nurdin told a national private television on Sunday (26/12) .

"If this continues, it can be ascertained AFF-final second leg would move. In fact, Indonesia became a champion step is in sight. We need good cooperation from all parties," said Nurdin.

"Overcoming that, I have coordinated with the security to be able to mengkondusifkan circumstances. Just now I heard that, there are provocateurs in the crowd that makes the masses so out of control,"said Nurdin.

Ticket purchasers are not orderly, PSSI can Warning Loud from AFF. Furthermore Nurdin said, he hopes for a football-loving masses Indonesia patience. "I know, all want to watch into the stadium. However, because of limitations, we only sell tickets in accordance with the printing of 30 thousand."

"We can not possibly serve all of them. Because of that, let's make that purchase order. The committee will serve us well, if the buyer could line up in an orderly manner,"said Nurdin.
 

Ticket purchasers are not orderly, PSSI can Warning Loud from AFF
"Let's create a conducive atmosphere. Do not perform provocation. so that national team players can fight in peace. If they think this news, of course, can destroy the concentration," said Nurdin.

Nurdin was sure ticket sales will continue to run. With notes, all been in a state conducive and safe. "Earlier I asked the police to help secure the masses that enter the stadium (the field). If the situation has improved, the committee will re-sell tickets."