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Benny’s Sports My Way: Canada Shocks Team USA In Overtime To Win Gold!

Nerdel — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:39:57 +0000

A fitting way to end the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Team Canada won the Gold Medal in Men’s Ice Hockey with an overtime 3-2 win against Team USA. Canada’s Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal past USA goalie Ryan Miller with 7.40 minutes left in overtime. Team USA still claims the number one spot with 37 total medals and 9 Gold. Team Canada claims the most Gold medals with a total of 14. Apolo Ohno became the most decorated USA Winter Olympian winning a total of 8 medals-three in Vancouver (Silver in the 1500m, Bronze in the 1000m and Bronze in the 5000m relay- Short track).

Here is the final medal count for Team USA. Amazing performances despite starting out with tragedy in the Luge. The Nerdel News salutes all of the athletes from Team USA and all of the teams-incredible job!!! For more 2010 Winter Olympic news, go to www.nbcolympics.com

The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. See you all there!

Athlete	Medal	Sport	Event
MILLER Bode	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Downhill
WEIBRECHT Andrew	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-G
MILLER Bode	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-G
MILLER Bode	Gold	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-Combined
MANCUSO Julia	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Downhill
VONN Lindsey	Gold	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Downhill
VONN Lindsey	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Super-G
MANCUSO Julia	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Super-Combined
HOLCOMB Steve	Gold	Bobsled	Four-Man
MESLER Steve	Gold	Bobsled	Four-Man
TOMASEVICZ Curt	Gold	Bobsled	Four-Man
OLSEN Justin	Gold	Bobsled	Four-Man
MEYERS Elana	Bronze	Bobsled	Women’s
PAC Erin	Bronze	Bobsled	Women’s
WILSON Bryon	Bronze	Freestyle Skiing	Men’s Moguls
PETERSON Jeret	Silver	Freestyle Skiing	Men’s Aerials
BAHRKE Shannon	Bronze	Freestyle Skiing	Women’s Moguls
KEARNEY Hannah	Gold	Freestyle Skiing	Women’s Moguls
LYSACEK Evan	Gold	Figure Skating	Men’s
WHITE Charlie	Silver	Figure Skating	Ice Dancing
DAVIS Meryl	Silver	Figure Skating	Ice Dancing
WHITNEY Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
BACKES David	Silver	Hockey	Men
PARISE Zach	Silver	Hockey	Men
PAVELSKI Joe	Silver	Hockey	Men
QUICK Jonathan	Silver	Hockey	Men
DRURY Chris	Silver	Hockey	Men
JOHNSON Erik	Silver	Hockey	Men
LANGENBRUNNER Jamie	Silver	Hockey	Men
MILLER Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
BROWN Dustin	Silver	Hockey	Men
CALLAHAN Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
GLEASON Tim	Silver	Hockey	Men
JOHNSON Jack	Silver	Hockey	Men
KANE Patrick	Silver	Hockey	Men
KESLER Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
KESSEL Phil	Silver	Hockey	Men
MALONE Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
ORPIK Brooks	Silver	Hockey	Men
RAFALSKI Brian	Silver	Hockey	Men
RYAN Bobby	Silver	Hockey	Men
STASTNY Paul	Silver	Hockey	Men
SUTER Ryan	Silver	Hockey	Men
THOMAS Tim	Silver	Hockey	Men
ZAUGG-SIERGIEJ Jinelle	Silver	Hockey	Women
LAMOUREUX Monique	Silver	Hockey	Women
LAMOUREUX Jocelyne	Silver	Hockey	Women
MCLAUGHLIN Brianne	Silver	Hockey	Women
BELLAMY Kacey	Silver	Hockey	Women
POTTER Jenny	Silver	Hockey	Women
STACK Kelli	Silver	Hockey	Women
SCHAUS Molly	Silver	Hockey	Women
CHESSON Lisa	Silver	Hockey	Women
THATCHER Karen	Silver	Hockey	Women
DUGGAN Meghan	Silver	Hockey	Women
VETTER Jessie	Silver	Hockey	Women
DARWITZ Natalie	Silver	Hockey	Women
WEILAND Kerry	Silver	Hockey	Women
CHU Julie	Silver	Hockey	Women
MARVIN Gigi	Silver	Hockey	Women
LAWLER Erika	Silver	Hockey	Women
ENGSTROM Molly	Silver	Hockey	Women
CAHOW Caitlin	Silver	Hockey	Women
RUGGIERO Angela	Silver	Hockey	Women
KNIGHT Hilary	Silver	Hockey	Women
SPILLANE Johnny	Silver	Nordic Combined	Individual Normal Hill
LODWICK Todd	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
SPILLANE Johnny	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
DEMONG Bill	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
CAMEROTA Brett	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
SPILLANE Johnny	Silver	Nordic Combined	Individual Large Hill
DEMONG Bill	Gold	Nordic Combined	Individual Large Hill
WHITE Shaun	Gold	Snowboarding	Men’s Halfpipe
LAGO Scotty	Bronze	Snowboarding	Men’s Halfpipe
WESCOTT Seth	Gold	Snowboarding	Men’s Snowboard Cross
CLARK Kelly	Bronze	Snowboarding	Women’s Halfpipe
TETER Hannah	Silver	Snowboarding	Women’s Halfpipe
DAVIS Shani	Gold	Speed Skating	Men’s 1000m
HEDRICK Chad	Bronze	Speed Skating	Men’s 1000m
DAVIS Shani	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s 1500m
KUCK Jonathan	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s Team Pursuit
HANSEN Brian	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s Team Pursuit
MARSICANO Trevor	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s Team Pursuit
HEDRICK Chad	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s Team Pursuit
OHNO Apolo	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 1000m
CELSKI J.R.	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 1500m
OHNO Apolo	Silver	Short Track	Men’s 1500m
MALONE Jordan	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 5000m Relay
CELSKI J.R.	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 5000m Relay
JAYNER Travis	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 5000m Relay
OHNO Apolo	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 5000m Relay
CHO Simon	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 5000m Relay
REUTTER Katherine	Silver	Short Track	Women’s 1000m
BAVER Allison	Bronze	Short Track	Women’s 3000m Relay
DERRICK Kimberly	Bronze	Short Track	Women’s 3000m Relay
DUDEK Alyson	Bronze	Short Track	Women’s 3000m Relay
REUTTER Katherine	Bronze	Short Track	Women’s 3000m Relay
GEHRING Lana	Bronze	Short Track	Women’s 3000m Relay

In other sporting news:

NBA- all time basketball great Michael Jordan may become the majority owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats buying the team from owner Robert L. Johnson (Black Entertainment Television-BET).

Tennis-Ernests Gulbis won the 2010 ATP Tour Title-Delray Beach International Championships beating Ivo Karlovic. Gulbis is ranked 72 and this is his first title. Congratulations!

NASCAR-Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR event held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway passing teammate Jeff Gordon.

Golf-Gatorade, owned by parent PepsiCo Inc., ended its association with Tiger Woods. This drop makes three-AT&T and Accenture cut ties earlier. On February 19^th, 2010, on national television, Woods delivered an apology speech to his fans, family and the world asking for forgiveness.

NCAA Football-13 year old David Sills, a middle school quarterback in Delaware was offered a scholarship to attend The University of Southern California- USC in five years!! That’s what I call progressive or forward thinking!!!

Benny’s Sports My Way: Vancouver Winter Olympics: Team USA Medal Update:

Nerdel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:07:58 +0000

Hello sports fans, well one week done and the final week left to enjoy the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in the Great White North. Lot’s of incredible Team USA performances like Bode Miller winning a Gold on the Men’s Super-Combined, a Bronze in Downhill and a Silver in the Super-G and Lindsey Vonn taking the Gold in Women’s Downhill and a Bronze in the Super-G. How about Evan Lysacek taking the Gold in Men’s Figure Skating (the first Gold since Brian Boytano captured Gold in the 1988 Olympics) with a win over a very indignant Russian Yevgeny Plushenko who performed an amazing “Quad” rotational jump! Team USA still is in the lead with 7 Gold, 9 Silver and 10 Bronze Medals for a total of 26 medals. Fan favorite snowboarder Shaun White won Gold in the Men’s Half-pipe and Seth Wescott took the Gold in Men’s Snowboard Cross. Speed skater Shani Davis took Gold in the Men’s 1000m outdueling fellow American Chad Hedrick who took home a Bronze. The most decorated American Winter Olympian-speed skater Apolo Ohno (Gold, Silver and Bronze in 2006; Gold and Bronze in 2002; Silver and Bronze in 2010) is also a 2007 Dancing With The Stars champion!! And Hannah Kearney took the Gold in Women’s Moguls skiing. All in all, Team USA has rocked! Lot’s of great effort by our amazing USA team in all events. For more 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic information, log onto www.nbcolympics.com.

Here are the specifics!!

2010 Team USA Medal Count

Sports	G	S	B	Total
Alpine Skiing	2	3	3	8
Snowboarding	2	1	2	5
Speed Skating	1	1	1	3
Freestyle Skiing	1	0	2	3
Short Track	0	1	2	3
Figure Skating	1	1	0	2
Nordic Combined	0	2	0	2
Biathlon	0	0	0	0
Bobsled	0	0	0	0
Cross-Country	0	0	0	0
Curling	0	0	0	0
Hockey	0	0	0	0
Luge	0	0	0	0
Skeleton	0	0	0	0
Ski Jumping	0	0	0	0

Total	7	9	10	26

2010 Team USA Individual Athletes Standings

Athlete	Medal	Sport	Event
MILLER Bode	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Downhill
WEIBRECHT Andrew	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-G
MILLER Bode	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-G
MILLER Bode	Gold	Alpine Skiing	Men’s Super-Combined
MANCUSO Julia	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Downhill
VONN Lindsey	Gold	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Downhill
VONN Lindsey	Bronze	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Super-G
MANCUSO Julia	Silver	Alpine Skiing	Women’s Super-Combined
WILSON Bryon	Bronze	Freestyle Skiing	Men’s Moguls
BAHRKE Shannon	Bronze	Freestyle Skiing	Women’s Moguls
KEARNEY Hannah	Gold	Freestyle Skiing	Women’s Moguls
LYSACEK Evan	Gold	Figure Skating	Men’s
WHITE Charlie	Silver	Figure Skating	Ice Dancing
DAVIS Meryl	Silver	Figure Skating	Ice Dancing
SPILLANE Johnny	Silver	Nordic Combined	Individual Normal Hill
LODWICK Todd	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
SPILLANE Johnny	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
DEMONG Bill	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
CAMEROTA Brett	Silver	Nordic Combined	Team Large Hill
WHITE Shaun	Gold	Snowboarding	Men’s Halfpipe
LAGO Scotty	Bronze	Snowboarding	Men’s Halfpipe
WESCOTT Seth	Gold	Snowboarding	Men’s Snowboard Cross
CLARK Kelly	Bronze	Snowboarding	Women’s Halfpipe
TETER Hannah	Silver	Snowboarding	Women’s Halfpipe
DAVIS Shani	Gold	Speed Skating	Men’s 1000m
HEDRICK Chad	Bronze	Speed Skating	Men’s 1000m
DAVIS Shani	Silver	Speed Skating	Men’s 1500m
OHNO Apolo	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 1000m
CELSKI J.R.	Bronze	Short Track	Men’s 1500m
OHNO Apolo	Silver	Short Track	Men’s 1500m

Benny’s Sports My Way- Winter Olympic Medal Update

Nerdel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:23:32 +0000

Nation	Athlete	Sport	G	S	B	Total
SVK	KUZMINA Anastazia	Biathlon	1	1	0	2
GER	NEUNER Magdalena	Biathlon	1	1	0	2
FRA	JAY Vincent	Biathlon	1	0	1	2
SUI	AMMANN Simon	Ski Jumping	1	0	0	1
CAN	BILODEAU Alexandre	Freestyle Skiing	1	0	0	1
SUI	COLOGNA Dario	Cross-Country	1	0	0	1
SUI	DEFAGO Didier	Alpine Skiing	1	0	0	1
SWE	FERRY Björn	Biathlon	1	0	0	1
GER	HUEFNER Tatjana	Luge	1	0	0	1
SWE	KALLA Charlotte	Cross-Country	1	0	0	1
USA	KEARNEY Hannah	Freestyle Skiing	1	0	0	1
NED	KRAMER Sven	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
FRA	LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason	Nordic Combined	1	0	0	1
KOR	LEE Jung-Su	Short Track	1	0	0	1
KOR	LEE Sang-Hwa	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
GER	LOCH Felix	Luge	1	0	0	1
KOR	MO Tae-Bum	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
CAN	RICKER Maelle	Snowboarding	1	0	0	1
CZE	SABLIKOVA Martina	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
CHN	SHEN Xue	Figure Skating	1	0	0	1
USA	WESCOTT Seth	Snowboarding	1	0	0	1
CHN	ZHAO Hongbo	Figure Skating	1	0	0	1
FRA	ANTHONIOZ Deborah	Snowboarding	0	1	0	1
GER	BECKERT Stephanie	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
AUS	BEGG-SMITH Dale	Freestyle Skiing	0	1	0	1
CAN	HEIL Jennifer	Freestyle Skiing	0	1	0	1
KOR	LEE Seung-Hoon	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
POL	MALYSZ Adam	Ski Jumping	0	1	0	1
GER	MOELLER David	Luge	0	1	0	1
JPN	NAGASHIMA Keiichiro	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
USA	OHNO Apolo	Short Track	0	1	0	1
CHN	PANG Qing	Figure Skating	0	1	0	1
ITA	PILLER COTTRER Pietro	Cross-Country	0	1	0	1
AUT	REITHMAYER Nina	Luge	0	1	0	1
CAN	ROBERTSON Mike	Snowboarding	0	1	0	1
EST	SMIGUN Kristina	Cross-Country	0	1	0	1
USA	SPILLANE Johnny	Nordic Combined	0	1	0	1
AUT	SUMANN Christoph	Biathlon	0	1	0	1
NOR	SVENDSEN Emil Hegle	Biathlon	0	1	0	1
NOR	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	Alpine Skiing	0	1	0	1
CHN	TONG Jian	Figure Skating	0	1	0	1
GER	WOLF Jenny	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
USA	BAHRKE Shannon	Freestyle Skiing	0	0	1	1
CZE	BAUER Lukas	Cross-Country	0	0	1	1
NOR	BJØRGEN Marit	Cross-Country	0	0	1	1
FRA	BRUNET Marie Laure	Biathlon	0	0	1	1
USA	CELSKI J.R.	Short Track	0	0	1	1
FRA	DORIN Marie	Biathlon	0	0	1	1
CRO	FAK Jakov	Biathlon	0	0	1	1
GER	GEISENBERGER Natalie	Luge	0	0	1	1
CAN	GROVES Kristina	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
JPN	KATO Joji	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
USA	MILLER Bode	Alpine Skiing	0	0	1	1
SUI	NOBS Olivia	Snowboarding	0	0	1	1
ITA	PITTIN Alessandro	Nordic Combined	0	0	1	1
FRA	RAMOIN Tony	Snowboarding	0	0	1	1
GER	SAVCHENKO Aliona	Figure Skating	0	0	1	1
AUT	SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor	Ski Jumping	0	0	1	1
RUS	SKOBREV Ivan	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
GER	SZOLKOWY Robin	Figure Skating	0	0	1	1
CHN	WANG Beixing	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
USA	WILSON Bryon	Freestyle Skiing	0	0	1	1
ITA	ZOEGGELER Armin	Luge	0	0	1	1

For more 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic information, news about the athletes, medal winners and event schedules, go to nbcolympics.com.

Bennys Sports My Way – Vancouver Winter Olympic Update and More:

Nerdel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:23:11 +0000

It’s been a few days of winter Olympic events and the medal count so far is like this:

Nation	Athlete	Sport	G	S	B	Total
SUI	AMMANN Simon	Ski Jumping	1	0	0	1
CAN	BILODEAU Alexandre	Freestyle Skiing	1	0	0	1
FRA	JAY Vincent	Biathlon	1	0	0	1
USA	KEARNEY Hannah	Freestyle Skiing	1	0	0	1
NED	KRAMER Sven	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
SVK	KUZMINA Anastazia	Biathlon	1	0	0	1
FRA	LAMY CHAPPUIS Jason	Nordic Combined	1	0	0	1
KOR	LEE Jung-Su	Short Track	1	0	0	1
GER	LOCH Felix	Luge	1	0	0	1
CZE	SABLIKOVA Martina	Speed Skating	1	0	0	1
GER	BECKERT Stephanie	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
AUS	BEGG-SMITH Dale	Freestyle Skiing	0	1	0	1
CAN	HEIL Jennifer	Freestyle Skiing	0	1	0	1
KOR	LEE Seung-Hoon	Speed Skating	0	1	0	1
POL	MALYSZ Adam	Ski Jumping	0	1	0	1
GER	MOELLER David	Luge	0	1	0	1
GER	NEUNER Magdalena	Biathlon	0	1	0	1
USA	OHNO Apolo	Short Track	0	1	0	1
USA	SPILLANE Johnny	Nordic Combined	0	1	0	1
NOR	SVENDSEN Emil Hegle	Biathlon	0	1	0	1
USA	BAHRKE Shannon	Freestyle Skiing	0	0	1	1
USA	CELSKI J.R.	Short Track	0	0	1	1
FRA	DORIN Marie	Biathlon	0	0	1	1
CRO	FAK Jakov	Biathlon	0	0	1	1
CAN	GROVES Kristina	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
ITA	PITTIN Alessandro	Nordic Combined	0	0	1	1
AUT	SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor	Ski Jumping	0	0	1	1
RUS	SKOBREV Ivan	Speed Skating	0	0	1	1
USA	WILSON Bryon	Freestyle Skiing	0	0	1	1
ITA	ZOEGGELER Armin	Luge	0	0	1	1
Totals			10	10	10	30

NBA-the 2010 NBA All-Star game, played last night was watched by the largest crowd ever. Over 108,000 people watched and stood in super luxury at the super cool new Dallas Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Easter Conference All –Stars, lead by Cleveland’s Lebron James and Miami’s Dwayne Wade beat the Western Conference stars (minus an ailing Kobe) by a high flying score of score of 141-139. The MVP of the game was the Miami Heat’s Dwayne Wade. Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics won the Foot Locker 3-Point Contest and New York Knicks Nat Robinson won the Sprite Slam Dunk event for the third time defeating Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan.

NASCAR-Jamie McMurray won the 2010 Daytona 500 in a race delayed twice for pot holes. Welcome to the real world of driving!!

PGA- Dustin Johnson beat David Duval and J.B Holmes to win the 2010 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Tiger where are you?

Bennys Sports My Way: Tragedy at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Nerdel — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:08:16 +0000

Breaking News:

The 2010 Winter Olympics officially began in Vancouver. The torch was ignited over a packed stadium full of 2600 athletes representing over 80 countries in a spectacular show. However the mood was somber. Earlier in the morning, 21 year old Nodar Kumaritashvili from the Soviet Republic of Georgia, was killed in an accident, while practicing the singles luge. He lost control at speeds up to 80 miles per hour. The icy track where the luge is being performed is considered by experts as the fastest course in the world. Kumaritashvili was ranked 44^th in the world in this event. Before Kumaritashvili, Romanian star luger Violeta Stramaturaru also was in an accident on the same course and was taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. Olympic officials have stopped the luge from reopening.

NBA-the 2010 NBA All-Star game will be played on Valentine’s Day, February 14^th, at the new Dallas Cowboy Stadium. LeBron James is heading the Eastern Conference Team and Jason Kidd (Kobe Bryant, is recovering from injuries) will be leading the team from the Western Conference. Tip-off time is 8PM EST on TNT. Saturday fans can see the Slam-dunk competition.

PGA- Tiger Woods will not play in the Match Play Championship next week in Arizona. Woods has won the event three times.

NASCAR: The 2010 Daytona 500, labeled The Great American Race, featuring 43 of the worlds best drivers, will take place February 14th at Datona International Speedyway, in Daytona, Florida. Seven-time winner Richard Petty will lead the race in the Ford Mustang Pace Car. Position number one will go to Mark Martin.

Benny’s Sports My Way: Who Dat? New Orleans Saints Win The 2010 Super Bowl!!

Nerdel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:44:26 +0000

Who dat?

Dat is the New Orleans Saints-the Super Bowl Champs. Hello Benny fans and thank you South Florida for a great night of football. Who Dat?! The 44^th NFL Super Bowl was really super. The New Orleans Saints, the under-dogs , went into halftime behind the Colts and came back in a big way to beat Indianapolis by a score of 31-17 before a packed Sun Life Stadium crowd. Drew Brees completed 32 passes and was named the MVP of the game! Way to go Saints!! They have a young team and could be on top for many years to come. Colts Quarterback, Peyton Manning, always the gentleman praised the Saints and said he was sorry to the Colts fans for not being able to bring back a win. Manning had an amazing game but not good enough to beat Brees and the Saints.

PGA-Steve Stricker won the Northern Trust Open at Riviera, his fourth tour victory. Phil Mickelson, who had won the event the past two years was 14 shots off the winning score.

PGA-Breaking News: Tiger Woods may be headed back to the tour in March. According to sources, he has been training and is ready to get back to business. Hello Masters!!

Tennis-Venus and Serena Williams won the 2010 Australian Open women’s doubles title defeating Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4 6-3. Serena had just won her 12^th Grand Slam title and fifth Australian Open Singles Title by defeating Justine Henin in the finals.

NBA-The Orlando Magic and Dwight Howard defeated the struggling Boston Celtics, in Boston, even with returning super star Paul Pierce, back in the line- up, 96-89.

The 2010 Winter Olympics (on NBC) will be held in Vancouver, Canada starting February 12^th. Do you have your tickets yet? Here is a list of all the different sports you will be seeing: Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Cross-country Skiing, Curling, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic Combined, Short Track Speed Skating, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, Snowboard and Speed Skating. Stay tuned for information on all of your favorite winter Olympic sports.

Bowling: NBA New Orleans Hornets Chris Paul and Jason Belmonte won the Chris Paul PBA ( Professional Bowlers Association) Celebrity Invitational at Riverboat Lanes in New Orleans.

Benny’s Sports My Way: Here Comes The 2010 Super Bowl!!!!

Nerdel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:52:23 +0000

It’s raining in South Florida!! Hello Benny fans-this is yours truly writing to you from rainy South Florida-the site of the 2010 NFL Super Bowl! That’s right; I am here ready to report about the latest in sports. Last night, at Sun Life Stadium, the site of next Sunday’s Super Bowl also, the 2010 Pro Bowl took place. Yep-usually it’s the week after the Super Bowl and in Hawaii. The top NFC players battled the top AFC players for four quarters in a high scoring game. At the end, it was the dominating AFC beating the NFC 41-34. Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning and New Orleans Saints helmsman Drew Brees also made an appearance but did not play. It seemed that even though this game was supposed to draw lots of eager football fans, it may not have been the draw it was intended to. Anyway, it was a great game and was great to see all of the stars like Ravens Ray Lewis, Bengals Ocho Cinco and Eagles Donovan McNab. According to NFL sources, the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowl games will be back in Honolulu.

2010 Super Bowl- Both Indianapolis and New Orleans will be practicing this week for their meeting on Sunday. It will be a wet practice week for both. We are all looking forward to a fantastic passing game from both Manning and Brees. And some running too!!

NFL-Arizona Cardinals Quarterback Kurt Warner retired. Hello Arena Football!!!

PGA-Ben Crane won the 2010 PGA Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines with a 2 under par 70. Tiger who?

Tennis-Serena Williams won the women’s title at the 2010 Australian Open defeating Belgium’s Justine Henin in a three setter. Henin was in the finals in the second tournament back from a one year retirement. This was the fifth Australian Cup win for Williams. On the men’s side, Roger Federer won the title defeating UK’s rising star Andy Murray in a three setter. Last year, Federer lost in the finals to Nadal in five sets. Way to go Serena and Roger-onward to Roland Garros!!

NBA-Washington Wizards star player Gilbert Arenas was suspended by NBA Commissioner David Stern for bringing and pulling out a fully loaded gun in the Wizard’s locker room and pointing it at a teammate. Arenas team-mate Javaris Crittenton, who also pulled out a loaded gun, was also suspended by Stern. What were you guys thinking?

Bowling: Female bowler Kelly Kulick defeated Chris Barnes to win the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) 2010 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas, Nevada and become the first female winner on the tour.

Benny’s Sports My Way: Where In The World Is Tiger Woods?

Nerdel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:01 +0000

Happy New Year to all of my fans. Can you believe it, twenty ten! WOW!! Another great year ahead of us in the sports world. Okay, lets get started. As you all know, the 2010 Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl are coming up in a few weeks and both will be held in sunny Florida at the Sun Life Stadium. Where is that? Well, I am glad you asked. This stadium was previously known as Land Shark Stadium (for only 8 months) and for two weeks after that Dolphin Stadium (home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins), Joe Robbie Stadium (previous owner of the Dolphins before Wayne Huizenga), Pro Player Park, and Pro Player Stadium. Anyway, the Pro Bowl used to be played a week after the Super Bowl in Hawaii. This year, the NFL hopes to attract bigger crowds playing the game a week before. But you won’t see any members from the 2010 Super Bowl teams. Speaking of the Super Bowl-the teams: the NFC’s New Orleans Saints, making their first Super Bowl appearance, will battle it out with the AFC’s Indianapolis Colts. Will Peyton Manning out-duel Drew Brees to get his second ring? Or will Reggie Bush and team pull it out for the Big Easy-stay tuned?

Switching gears to Golf, Tiger Woods has taken an indefinite leave from the 2010 PGA tour in order to get his life back on track. He has lost several sponsors including AT&T and Wheaties and had to give back his free GM cars. The 2010 PGA Tour is in trouble without Tiger. We all wish Tiger a speedy recovery.

The 2010 Australian Open , the first Grand Slam event for 2010, is in progress and so far is a repeat of last year’s results. The Williams sisters are winning, Justin Henin is back in great form after a year off the tour and Sharapova was knocked out in the first round. In a shocker, last year’s champion Rafael Nadal looses in the quarterfinals to Andy Murray and Andy Roddick goes out in a five setter to Marin Cilic. Still remaining in the draw are Roger Federer, Davydenko, Tsonga, Jokovitch and Andy Murray.

NCAA Football: just for those that slept through the bowl games – Alabama beat Texas in the final game of the year to win the National Championship. USC’s Pete Carroll resigned as head Coach and accepted the head coaching job from the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. And in a musical chairs game, Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin resigned his HC job to accept USC’s top coaching spot.

Bowling: Female bowler Kelly Kulick defeated Chris Barnes to win the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) 2010 Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas , Nevada and become the first female winner on the tour.

Benny’s Sports My Way: 2009-What A Year In Sports!!

Nerdel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:20:02 +0000

Happy holidays everyone! Here is my last column for 2009. I have decided that it will be more like a combination of my opinion and some sports highlights. After all, I’m Benny, and this is Sports My Way! So here we go: 2009 was and is a year of rants and revelations: From Andre Agassi’s drug use and lying while on the ATP tour published in his autobiography (can we all say book sales), ex-Kansas City Chiefs and current Cincinnati Bengals running back Larry Johnson ‘s rants (now you know why he lives in Ohio instead of Kansas City), tennis great Serena Williams threatening rants at a line judge at the 2009 U.S. Open, to Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams flipping the middle finger towards the Buffalo Bills with NFL Commissioner Rodger Goodall sitting next to him. Did you forget multi-gold Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps photographed smoking marijuana, and President Obama and media mogul Oprah Winfrey tried their best to get the IOC to pick Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games but they selected Brazil. Los Angeles Dodger’s Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games during the 2009 season for violating a league drug policy, and the New York Giants released wide receiver Plaxico Burress for carrying a gun in a club-Buress is currently serving a two year prison sentence. Ron Artest of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers admits to drinking liquor during halftime. And the first athlete to earn a billion dollars in career earnings, Tiger Woods, did not play in the final golf tournament of the year, the Chevron World Challenge, his own named charity tournament due to injuries sustained in a post Thanksgiving night car accident. From being caught farting on television to other alleged escapades-Tiger, what were you thinking buddy? Good idea, take a year off and regroup! In another part of Orlando, the University of Central Florida lost a $3 million dollar sponsorship from sports company Adidas when basketball team Marcus Jordan, son of basketball legend Michael Jordan, refused to wear his teams Adidas sneakers opting to wear a pair of his father’s brand-Nike Air Jordans. Remember Spock’s dying words to Admiral James T. Kirk when he was blasted by radiation in the Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Kahn, Spock: “The needs of the many outweigh,” Kirk: “The needs of the few” Spock: “Or the one.” Who needs three million dollars anyway? Obviously Marcus is not a Trekkie. This year has had its ups and downs. Okay, some of the major highlights include the New York Yankees rebounding from last year’s poor performance to win the 2009 World Series over last year’s champ Philadelphia Phillies. Roger Federer broke Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slams, reaching an amazing 15 by winning the 2009 Wimbledon title over Andy Roddick, despite losing to Del Portro in the finals of the 2009 U.S. Open. And new mother Kim Clijsters makes a return to professional tennis and wins the 2009 U.S. Open Woman’s title after a lengthy absence. Remember Usain Bolt’s Olympic blazing wins in the 100 and 200 meter races? The Steelers winning the 2009 Superbowl over the Cardinals? How about Alberto Contador winning the 2009 Tour De France with a talented field that included multi tour winner Lance Armstrong who was making a comeback after being off the tour for several years and getting over prostate cancer. In hockey the Detroit Red Wings beat the Penguins to win the 2009 Stanley Cup. Shaquille leaves Phoenix and is playing with Lebron in Cleveland and Allen Iverson is, well, a Philadelphia Sixer once again. Will Lebron and Dwayne Wade hook up in New York next year-anyone’s guess? The Colts and Saints at 13 and 0- a perfect season so far! Any threat to the Dolphins? Brett Farve playing for the Vikings and loving it! All pro wide receiver Terrell Owens (T.O.) released from the Cowboys and playing for the Bills-what? The Blind Side making waves at the box office about the true story of a homeless Michael Oher, befriended by a family, he becomes an All-American College football star and professional player with the Baltimore Ravens. Rehabilitated Michael Vick, released from prison (where he was incarcerated for animal abuse) is signed by the Philadelphia Eagles to be the back up to Donavan McNab. Bobby Bowden, spending 34 seasons with the Florida State Seminoles (FSU), retires from College Football, as the second most winning coach (under Penn State’s Joe Paterno) as FSU has a poor 2009 season. Uber college quarterback and University of Florida student Tim Tebow won the 2008 Heisman Trophy and the 2009 trophy went to Alabama running back Mark Ingram. This was the first Alabama player to ever win the prestigious trophy. We have the Superbowl, Pro Bowl and lots of other incredible sports stories to catch up on. Until then, this is your old pal, Benny Nerdelman, saying see ya next year!!

Benny’s Sports My Way: New York Yankees Win The 2009 World Series!!!

Nerdel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:30:53 +0000

MLB: The New York Yankees won the 2009 Baseball World Series defeating last year’s champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Yanks won the series 4-2, winning game six in front of their fans. MVP, Japanese star, Hideki Matsui, may be looking for a new team next year.

Golf: Phil Mickelson won the 2009 HSBC Champions event, held in Shanghai by one stroke over runner up Ernie Els. Tiger Woods finished five shots out of the lead.

Tennis: Novak Djokovic defeated hometown favorite Roger Federer for the 2009 Swiss Indoors title held recently in Basel Switzerland.

Tennis: Shocker of the year!!!! Multi-Grand Slam winner Andre Agassi admitted in his autobiography, “Open,” that he used “Crystal-meth” a type of dangerous drug, in 1997. He tested positive for it and then lied to the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). Andre-shame on you!!! What were you thinking?????

Tennis: Italy won the 2009 Fed Cup held in Reggio Calabria over the USA, when Italy’s Flavia Pennetta defeated Melanie Oudin ( a quarter-finalist at the 209 U.s. Open) of the US.

NFL: After week 9, The New Orleans Saints from the NFC and the Indianapolis Colts of the AFC remain undefeated.

NBA: It’s early in the season but here are the leaders: The Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks.

Olympics: Vancouver 2010, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics is getting ready to host the world. Opening date will be February 12, 2010 and closing date will be February 28, 2010. Make your reservations!!!

NCAA-Football: After 9 weeks, Alabama, Florida, Boise State, TCU, Cincinnati, Texas remain the top teams, all with undefeated records.