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Vabbè, rotfl.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/Primo_Piano/2006/09_Settembre/01/greusa.shtml
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l'ingegnere si destreggiava, d'altronde, in quello stato 
in cui ogni gesto è inevitabilmente destinato alla vittoria.

 
http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/Primo_Piano/2006/09_Settembre/01/greusa.shtml
:D
Adorabili.
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L'Edicola di giopep
http://giopep.blogspot.com/

Adorabili.
Sto disperatamente refreshando i siti americani per vedere i commenti
a caldo, ma non trovo un cazzo.
Magari (ROTFL :D) linka se trovi qualcosa di carino.
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stanno elaborando. Del resto avevano già pronti gli articoli per la
vittoria, ora devono riscriverli.

 ha scritto:
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HAhahahaha, ti dirò, secondo me avevano pronte entrambe le cose.
Praticamente tutta la stampa americana è un mese che dice che magari come  
progetto per Pechino questa squadra funzionerà, ma in questo mondiale  
avrebbero preso le palanche al primo scontro serio.
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 Magari (ROTFL :D) linka se trovi qualcosa di carino.
eccolo!
Agassi Keeps Dream Alive, Outlasts Baghdatis
by Neil Schlecht
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Andre Agassi was supposed to walk up to the net Thursday night, shake  
hands with a slightly altered mirror image of his younger self -- an  
agile, gifted entertainer with frosted hair, bottomless brown eyes and a  
killer smile -- and graciously pass the torch.
Agassi was not supposed to have a chance against No. 8 seed Marcos  
Baghdatis of Cyprus. This second-round U.S. Open match was supposed to  
provide the perfect stage for the graying ghost of tennis' past to yield  
to the flesh-and-blood of tennis' future. The tribute speeches had been  
delivered and folded back into pockets. Glasses were figuratively raised  
for the final toast.
As if his resume weren’t littered with enough epic matches and insane  
drama, Agassi added another improbable chapter to his storied career, with  
a thrilling 3-hour, 40-minute, 5-set victory over eighth-seeded Marcos  
Baghdatis of Cyprus. Even though this one was only to advance to the 3rd  
round of the US Open, with no title on the line, it ranks with the  
greatest of all his victories.
Agassi outlasted Baghdatis, a player 15 years his junior and possessing a  
ranking 29 spots higher, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5.
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He was down two sets and a break in the third set, down and almost  
completely out, but Andre Agassi kept swinging.


http://www.gazzetta.it/Spor
Yannaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakis!
Grandi, grandi, grandi :)
Peccato non averla potuta vedere :(
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Salvate una pianta: mangiate un vegetariano
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Su Honda CBF 600 e Kymco People S 200

In data Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:57:09 +0200, Andrea Maderna  
<rijkard...@di.vanbasten> ha scritto:
Copio e incollo perché sta su Insider:
Team USA fails at Worlds, again
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider
Archive
SAITAMA, Japan -- Carmelo Anthony was a picture of disbelief, standing all  
alone near center court and staring into the circle of Greek players who  
joined hands and danced in a circle.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski was stone-faced at the press conference afterward,  
his eyes glassy as he looked down at the table in front of him, the color  
drained from his face as he accepted responsibility for the loss.
Jerry Colangelo looked no better, the bags under his eyes appearing  
swelled and puffed up, his voice carrying a hushed and somber tone that I  
hadn't ever heard.
I asked Colangelo: "What do you think they're going to think of this back  
home?"
"Ultimately you're going to be judged by whether you win or lose, and  
obviously we didn't win tonight. So we can expect whatever," he replied.
Whatever.
What on earth did he mean by that? That's the question I'm pondering as I  
sit in the press room beneath the stands at Saitama SuperArena and listen  
to the sounds of the Spain-Argentina game being played on the other side  
of the wall. I've been waiting for two weeks to watch that game, looking  
to see which of those two powers would emerge as the standard we'd end up  
judging Team USA against. Numero uno and numero dos, I called them in a  
preview column I wrote upon my arrival in Japan, a column that generated  
so many dismissive, nasty and uncomprehending e-mails to my inbox that I  
almost got physically sick reading them over the course of this tournament.
AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
Carmelo had 27 to lead Team USA, but it wasn't enough.
A good 90 percent of my e-mailers thought I was out of my mind. Dozens  
upon dozens told me I should resign in disgrace once this thing is over  
and I had been proven wrong. I even caught a few dirty looks from the Team  
USA players who couldn't believe I was doubting them and occasionally  
picking them apart despite their perfect record.
Anybody believe me now?
I know the top two questions folks back home in the United States are  
going to be asking once I get back: How could this happen? Who is to blame?
To the first question, I'll answer this: It's been happening for more than  
four years now, folks, and it's been happening because Team USA keeps  
changing its roster, never developing the chemistry and familiarity that  
the best teams from other parts of the world have developed as their  
greatest strength. The Greeks had two or three plays that worked over and  
over and over again, just like Argentina's plays worked two years ago in  
Athens, and Team USA didn't have the cohesion a team needs to play the  
type of halfcourt defense required to win in these kinds of tournaments.  
The second and third quarters of Greece's 101-95 victory Friday were  
absolutely stunning to behold. I'd call it a layup drill, except for the  
fact that there were enough wide-open looks being converted that it broke  
up the monotony of the pick-and-roll exploitation the Greeks were pulling  
on the Americans.
The pick-and-roll is not a hard play to defend, but these guys simply  
couldn't. Anybody with two eyes could see that Greece guard Theodoros  
Papaloukas liked to drive to his left, but not once did any of the  
Americans force him right.
Greece was a team that came in averaging only 81.4 points in this  
tournament, yet the Americans surrendered 101 and allowed them to shoot an  
astonishing 63 percent from the field, 71 percent from 2-point range.
Want to know why? Mostly it's because the Greeks have been playing  
together long enough to have a repertoire of plays that they know will  
work, and once they saw they were working to perfection, they stuck with  
them time after time after time after time.
The Americans were helpless to stop them.
"They're pretty somber. They're really down in the locker room," Colangelo  
said. "They're as disappointed as Coach K and myself, and we're going to  
hurt for a while for sure."
If there's a bright side in this loss, it is this: The Americans needed a  
loss like this to realize where they stand in the world pecking order.  
Blame for the three losses in Athens was too easily laid on Larry Brown,  
just as the three losses in Indianapolis in 2002 were too easily pinned on  
George Karl.
The American federation hired a brilliant basketball mind in Krzyzewski,  
and Colangelo got the players who came to make three-year commitments,  
knowing that the process of re-establishing America's superiority in the  
sport was something that would take a number of years, not just one. So at  
least they won't be going back to the drawing board after this one,  
they'll have to live with it and learn from it.
AP Photo/Dusan Vranic
Greece's players celebrate their victory over Team USA.
Team USA is going to emerge from this trip as the third or fourth-best  
basketball-playing nation in the world, which is probably fitting. If you  
can't figure out a way to keep Kirk Hinrich from having to switch onto the  
massive Sofaklis Schortsianitis time after time after time, if you can't  
find a way to utilize the talents of Dwight Howard and Elton Brand for  
more than 12 minutes apiece, if you can't find a way to make better use of  
a 15-4 edge in offensive rebounding, if you miss 14 of 34 free throws, you  
don't deserve to call yourselves the best in the world.
The United States hadn't been the best in the world for six years now, and  
they won't have a chance to reclaim that spot for another two years when  
the Beijing Olympics roll around. Maybe by then the enormity of what's  
going on in international basketball will finally sink in. This is a huge,  
huge story, and folks back home either can't comprehend it or refuse to  
comprehend it. You're not going to read much about this loss in USA Today,  
The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, the Dallas  
Morning-News or almost any of the other major metropolitan newspapers who  
somehow decided what's been happening to USA Basketball over nearly a  
half-decade was not worthy of their coverage. None of them showed up,  
because they just don't get it the same way that 90 percent of my  
e-mailers don't get it.
The basketball world has changed, folks, and Americans have fallen behind.  
I feel like I'm yelling into the wind when I keep saying how and why it's  
been happening, but maybe now folks back home will start to understand.
There's a bright side to this loss, believe it or not, and it's this:  
Colangelo realizes that there is no quick fix to this slippage, that it'll  
only get fixed by building a program and keeping a team together for three  
years.
The Americans now must go to Venezuela next summer to qualify for the  
Olympics, and they'll grow as a team there just as they did here, learning  
lessons along the way that they never imagined they'd have to learn.  
Lesson No. 1 moving forward is how to defend the pick-and-roll. Lesson No.  
2 is to wake up to the reality that there's a huge gap between the best  
teams in the world and the rest of the pack. All those victories over the  
likes of China, Italy, Puerto Rico, Australia, Senegal and Slovenia don't  
mean much now, do they?
Some might call this Team USA a failure, but it isn't. It's too soon to  
make any call.
We can judge them two summers from now when they get back from Beijing.  
Until then, they're a work in progress, a team that's had its eyes opened  
to how vulnerable and beatable they can be. There is nothing for them to  
be embarrassed about. They just weren't as good as Greece.
That's the way the basketball world is these days, and if Team USA wants  
to restore the Old World Order, they're going to have to work at it. You  
can't just become the Redeem Team overnight. It might take three years,  
and it might take even longer. For now, they'll learn Saturday against  
Argentina whether they're the planet's No. 3 or No. 4 team. Then they'll  
have two years to work together toward being No. 1.
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