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LAS VEGAS -- Jimmie Johnson didnt need to see highlights of his seventh Sprint Cup championship celebration at Homestead-Miami Speedway to tug at his heart during the 2016 awards banquet Friday night. Paul Molitor Blue Jays Jersey .He has a pretty good idea of all that happened.In a certain way I guess I kind of lived it, so I have the fond memories, Johnson said. But I will go back and look at that stuff at some point. I really havent had any time to.For Johnson, it was more about what was said than what he saw during the ceremony at the Wynn Las Vegas that celebrated his record-tying seventh Cup title and a season where he notched his 80th career win. With his name now alongside Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt as far as number of championships, Johnson is a pro at giving the speeches and hearing people talk about him.But it seems that each year, the inflection in the voices of other drivers more and more show their deep respect.The respect that was paid to me through competitors -- theyve got to be tired to see my ass up on the stage, Johnson said after the ceremony. To have them say nice things and to know it was really coming from the heart and not just lip service was really cool.Driver after driver talked about Johnsons greatness. The lauding came from even others, including 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.This isnt just another night for our seven-time champion, Phelps said. He set records and now stands alongside two legends. But for him, its more than that. Its a personal glory and the reward for a lifetime of hard work. And for the rest of us, its the knowledge that we just watched the greatest driver that ever lived.Johnson didnt know Phelps -- a Gatorade endorser along with Johnson -- would come. Just 11 days earlier, Johnson had presented Phelps with an award at USA Swimmings annual event.That was a complete and total shock, Johnson said.If anyone should be used to pleasurable shocks, its Johnson. He got one nearly two weeks earlier at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In some ways, his victory in the season finale at Homestead was a shock as Johnson didnt have the strongest car but took advantage of a Carl Edwards-Joey Logano wreck and then a great restart in the waning laps.Before the banquet, Johnson had said he had not seen many highlights because he was just so busy. Through social media, he did have an idea of how it all went down.Obviously, I watched the first half of the crash [from behind], Johnson said. I saw a clip on Twitter where the 78 [of Martin Truex Jr.] was just raging on fire, which I didnt think was possible in todays world with our cars but thats really about all I saw.Johnson had seen - on Twitter - that Edwards had gone up on the Logano pit box to wish the team luck.I want to see -- I imagine Carl did an interview, Johnson said. I saw some footage where he walked up on the 22 box and shook their hand, the message being delivered to Joey himself.I thought that was really cool. It was so cool I sent Carl a text and just like, Man, way to handle yourself. Ive seen bits and pieces. I guess I havent been dying to see it because Ive seen enough through 140 characters and 18 seconds of Vine or whatever it ends up being, youve got to piece it together.After the banquet, Johnson said he was surprised to see just how hard a hit Edwards had in that accident.But the other highlights? It was soaking in the words, not the photos.That was insane, Johnson said. A lot of moments, it just kept building. ... It was a great experience.If there was any disappointment for Johnson, it was that host and Johnson friend Jay Mohr didnt rip on him. Mohr just gave Johnson a hug and said how much he liked him.As your friend, Im so proud of you, Mohr said.Johnson said he tried to egg on Mohr, but Mohr kept to the script.He can be really funny and is really funny, Johnson said. He chose a more emotional route and paid me a ton of respect, and I was like, You [wuss]. Tough it up and come after me. It is likely few will blame Mohr as much as Johnson. They know Johnson earned that hug.I just think its so refreshing to see someone that humble that thats good and doesnt have to be cocky, doesnt have to prove anything, team owner Rick Hendrick said of Johnson. He just goes out and does his job. Toronto Blue Jays Jersey .C. -- Al Jefferson joked that he feels he can score from anywhere on the court. 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A USA visor partially shields it, which is helpful for American golfer Gerina Piller because at the moment, she is unable to contain her tears or answer any more questions.There are no real answers anyway. Golf is golf, said Pillers mother, and anyone who has ever picked up a club or glimpsed the game can understand, even where the greatest players in the world are concerned.And so the improbable journey of a 31-year-old woman having the greatest week of her life -- and the worst -- came to an end Saturday on the Olympic Golf Course when Piller went from a tie for second through three rounds to a tie for 11th. There were 4 shots and eight players between her and her dream of making the medal platform.Her parents, Rita and Alan Stevenson, spoke of the deep connection their daughter has to the United States, but more than that, perhaps, to the concept of sacrifice. Rita was a single mother with three kids, Gerina her youngest, when she met Alan. She became an elementary school P.E. teacher and he a cop. Together they would have two more children.But when Alan talks about family, the word step neither is used nor applies. Of all the enduring images at these Olympics, the Usain Bolt poses and the world-record smiles, there could be none sweeter or sadder than the sight of Gerina Piller taking her fathers hand on one side and accepting her mothers arm around her shoulder on the other for the long walk to the clubhouse.What did you say to one another? Rita and Alan were asked.Rita shook her head.What would you say? she asked.Rita did not play golf, but she is built like an athlete and says she idolizes a daughter who played Little League baseball with the boys. Gerina didnt even take up golf until the age of 15 and did so because the family thought that was her best shot at a college education.Since then, Piller has literally chipped away, improving in small increments. Her high point until this summer was her Solheim Cup-saving putt for the U.S. last September. Ranked 28th to begin 2016, she had yet to win a tournament in her career, but was moving up. Still, the idea a top-15 ranking by July, which would be needed to make the U.S. Olympic team, seemed highly unlikely.An eighth-place finish at the U.S. Open got her the last-second ticket to Rio by nine-one-hundredths of a rankings point, and suddenly this native New Mexican whose favorite colors are surely red, white and blue, was crying at a Tuesday news conference before the Olympic competition began.Im just so proud to be an American, Piller said a day before finishing her first round in an eight-way tie for 11th, but just 4 strokes in back of the leader. A podium finish looked even more possible after Fridays windy third round, which Piller began with four birdies on the first seven holes and ended in a tie for second with Lydia Ko at 9 under, just 2 shots behind eventual gold-medal winner Inbee Park from South Korea.What happened Saturday is golf. Playing in the final group with Park and Ko, Piller bogeyed three holes but birdied two on the front nine, then had chances to make birdie putts oon the final four holes after bogeying 13 and 14, and just didnt. Samson Ebukam Jersey. The putts didnt fall the way they did [Friday], she said, so theres kind of nothing you can do about that.She said she tried not to think about Park birdieing three of the final six holes after birdieing four on the front nine, but how do you not when youre standing next to her?Its tough just because there was so much on the line, Piller said. Golf being back in the Olympics for the first time, theres a lot of history. You want to stay in the moment, but you want to allow yourself to see those positive thoughts and see yourself hitting those tough shots and just the feelings and everything. So I felt like maybe I held on a little too tight.The frustration poured out in a tearful embrace with caddie Brian Dilley after she made par on 18.Their family, Alan Stevenson said, is not defined by wins and losses, but undoubtedly adding to the disappointment Saturday was the fact that Gerinas husband Martin, a PGA Tour pro, failed to keep his tour card when he missed the cut at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Rather than going back home to Texas, Martin Piller stayed at the club Saturday to watch Gerina on the locker room TV.She did want a medal, Alan said, but like Rita said, she understands how broad our country is. Its not just a single layer of something to consider and think about. Its all those people who came before us to get us to where we are today and how we can be who we are and do what we do.So many people wanted to be here and she barely made it out of the U.S. Open. She does not take anything for granted, I can tell you that for sure. Shes very thankful. Shes very grounded about that. She cares deeply about our family, especially her husband.He teared up at that point, too, at the subject of Martin and of family, a daughters broken dream overcoming him as well as his wife as she watched her husband start to lose it.It is the other side of these Games, to be sure. And not one that necessarily catches the attention of every television camera. The athletes are supposed to be thrilled to be here, excited to get all the Olympic swag, but pros like Piller get very little for appearing in Rio. It really is about the chance to medal. About marching in the opening, and for Piller, closing ceremonies, too.It was no doubt a combination of things that had her unable to speak Saturday as she embraced her parents not far from where the medals would be handed out. At 31, she needed hugs. That never changes.The thing about Gerina and her heart is that shell keep coming back. Shell keep showing up, shell keep stepping up there on the tee box and keep swinging it. Shes not going to quit swinging it. She wants to win. And some day she will win. And today wasnt that day, but she competed and put her heart and soul in it.Were heartbroken with her. ... We want what she wants. But some days you dont get that and you keep working and you keep playing and you keep competing and you keep showing up. Shell be fine.That much seems certain. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nate Ebner is the only Super Bowl champion who ever played a game of rugby in the Olympics. Wholesale White Sox Jerseys .The New England Patriots safety and special teams ace scored a try before his late tackle led to a yellow card in the Americans 26-0 blowout of Brazil on Tuesday in the rugby sevens tournament.Back home, Bill Belichick stopped practice so his players could watch their teammate compete a world away at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.They saw No. 12 -- no, not in honor of Tom Brady -- score just as the first half ended and then get yellow-carded in the second half for laying out Brazilian reserve Gustavo Albuquerque on a hit that would have drawn praise in Foxborough but earned him jeers and a two-minute penalty at Deodoro Stadium.It wasnt a football flashback, he insisted.Not really, Ebner said. You just let your natural instincts take over.And those instincts were honed on the pitch, not the gridiron.Ebner won a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots two years ago, but rugby is in his blood. His father, Jeff Ebner, played at the University of Minnesota and taught his son the game when he was a toddler.Jeff Ebner was killed in a robbery in 2008 at the family salvage business, the last father-son conversation over Nates desire to walk on the football team at Ohio State.Ebner said he thinks of his father all the time but he didnt venture a guess as to what his father would think of his boy making it to the Olympics.I dont know, he said. Thats a long thought.And right now hes focused on Fiji, whom the Americans play Wednesday in a make-or-break game.Ebner signed a two-year, $2.4 million extension with the Patriots this spring just before taking a leave of absence to pursue his Olympic dream.Its great for him to actually tick off two big bucket list items, said Dan Panye, CEO of USA Rugby.A Super Bowl and an Olympics.Hes probably the only person in the history of man thats able to say that, Payne said.Ebner will return to the Patriots when his Olympic adventure is over.Its been a great experience. To be a part of something this big and this prestigious, its really an honor, Ebner said. And its an honor to be here with this group of guys that works so hard.Hes hoping to be an example.I hope it changes the game, Ebner said of rugbys return to the Olympics for the first time since 1924. We can kind of be trailblazers for something great in the United States and obviously thats our hopes and dreams for this sport. I love this sport.While football games are 60 minutes of action interrupted by whistles and commercials, rugby sevens consists of two seven-minute halves and a two-minute halftime. With extra time, its over in 20 minutes, tops.But its played on the same field that regular rugby uses, with 14 players instead of 30. So, its a fast-moving, insane shock to the system, drenching players in adrenalin and sweat.Theyre very different, Ebner said of his two sports. Footballs a violent game played right at one another. Theyre very different games. But as you can see at times out here it can get very violent as well.His cardio and aerobic capacities are off the charts -- he doesnt dare step on a scale -- but he figures hell fit right back in at the Patriots training camp because playing Argentina and Brazil has helped prepare him to face the likes of the Jets and the Bills.I definitely think so, Ebner said. Im going to have to gain some more weight, too, because we dont run as much out there. 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ATLANTA -- Walter Banks posed for pictures, caught up with old friends and turned a bit wistful as he remembered all the good times as an Atlanta Braves usher. John Kruk Phillies Jersey .It was time to say goodbye.Again.The Braves played their final game at Turner Field on Sunday, ending a run that lasted a mere 20 seasons with a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers. They are moving to a new stadium in the suburbs next season, while Turner Field will carry on as the downsized home of Georgia States football team.A sellout crowd of 51,220 turned out for the occasion, while Banks manned his usual position in the box seats near the Atlanta dugout, not far from former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.Banks was wearing a Braves jersey with No. 51 on the back, marking his seasons of service with the team going back to its move from Milwaukee in 1966.You save the best to the last, he said. No matter if they win, lose or draw, youll always remember this day.Banks spent 31 seasons working as a Braves usher at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium -- though, he was quick to point out, it was actually 32 since he started in 1965 when the Triple-A Crackers called it home while the Braves spent a lame-duck season in Wisconsin.Ive met so many people, so many friends, he said. A lot of people, I wont get to get see anymore.Banks was on hand for the Braves final game at their previous home in 1996. The following year, the team moved next door to Turner Field, which began life as the main stadium for the Atlanta Olympics before it was converted into a baseball park.Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium was imploded, clearing the way for a parking lot that served its replacement.That was an easy move for Banks and other longtime stadium employees. Hes not sure hell be heading to SunTrust Park, which is only about 15 miles away but isnt served by Atlantas rapid-transit system.If they get transportation, it would be a lot better, Banks said.The Braves marked the final game at the ballpark affectionately known as the Ted -- a nod to its namesake and former Braves owner Ted Turner -- with elaborate ceremonies before and after the game.For starters, they recognized their all-time Turner Field team. One by one, they trotted in through an opening in the center-field wall, beginning with Chipper Jones. He took his former position at third base, followed by shortstop Rafael Furcal, second baseman Marcus Giles, first baseman Adam LaRoche, left fielder Brian Jordan, center fielder Andruw Jones, right fielder Gary Sheffield and catcher Javy Lopez.Finally, the pitchers emerged -- three of them. Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz strolled out together in their familiar Braves jerseys, the crowd saving its biggest cheer for the remarkable trio. They anchored the team through much of its unprecedented run of 14 straight division titles, the last nine of which came after the move to Turner Field.Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz were fittingly given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitches in unison -- or maybe they shouldve called them the last pitches. They were joined on the mound by another Hall of Famer, former Braves manager Bobby Cox.A giant American flag was unfurled across the outfield during the national anthem, which was capped off by two military jets roaring overhead on an unseasonably warm afternoon.As soon as Jim Johnson struck out Justin Upton to end the game, the grounds crew hustled on the field to pry up home plate. Former home run king Hank Aaron and Braves chairman Terry McGuirk took it on a police-escorted trip to the new stadium, which was met with a smattering of boos when shown on the video board. To cap things off, team president John Schuerholz led the crowd in one last Tomahawk Chop, the crowd roaring as night fell.SunTrust Park has sparked plenty of debate over its location outside the city center, near one of the most congested interchanges in the metro area, and a secretive deal that gave the Braves some $400 million in public funding.But Tim Landrey, who attended the Turner Field finale with his 12-year-old son, Jack, is eager to attend games at the new stadium. 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Salaries are running out, and the newer ones are being saved for Puja shopping, when everyone must have at least new clothes. The two Bengal players dont draw the same emotion from the locals those earlier ones did. Shami migrated to Bengal from Uttar Pradesh only after he was well into his development as a cricketer. Like many folk from UP and Bihar, he did so for employment. And Saha, to quote a local, is not glamaraas enough. The biggest cheer during this Test so far has been for Sourav Ganguly, now the Cricket Association of Bengal president, as he spoke at a lunch-time discussion on day one. Saha cant match the pull of the last Bengal superstar or the charisma of Indias last Test wicketkeeper, but the few that turned up saw their unglamorous wicketkeeper do a job for his team. He does the job by being inconspicuous behind the stumps, and with vital and timely contributions in front.When Saha came in to bat on day one, memories of Kanpur - when he had become part of a collapse that was arrested by Ravindra Jadeja in the end - would have been fresh. When Saha came out to bat here, India had lost three wickets for 13 runs. More importantly, these three wickets had fallen in the lead-up to the new ball becoming available. Trent Boult was ready. Matt Henry was ready. This was a pitch different from the one in Kanpur, where there was no bounce on offer for the quicks. Here there was bounce, some seam, and India were going at well under three an over. India needed to arrest this collapse badly because a score 220-230 in the first innings hardly puts any pressure on the team batting second. And the collapse had to be arrested without getting bogged down, because the new ball might do tricks and New Zealand could have gone flat out with just 10 overs to stumps.Saha attacked dextrously, hitting a six in the last over before the new ball. The shot was selected perfectly. He got one too full from Jeetan Patel and wristily lofted it over cow corner. In Kanpur Saha had been caught inside the line of a Boult delivery, but that didnt put him off his game plan. Saha likes to stay beside the line of the ball and score through the off side. He did that to two Boult deliveries before stumps to end the day with 14 off 22.Still, having lost R Ashwin to a questionable umpiring call just before stumps, Saha had it all to do on the second morning against the new ball. He continued to bat enterprisingly, punishing errors, running hard, and then farming the strike with his Bengal team-mate, the last man Shami. Along the way, he wore one in approximately the same place as he did during his St Lucia hundred. Just like St Lucia he batted with a swollen forearm, but that clearly didnt take away the punch from his shots.Towards the end Saha, in the company of Shami, had frustrated New Zealand enough to make them veer from their plans. He did so by playing out the first halves of overs, and then hitting boundaries when the field came up. One such was an inside-out beauty to clear long-off and bring up his fifty. As the dressing room applauded, he reacted - not with flashy celebrations, but a thumbs up. He had had a job, he had done it. But he shouldnt always have to do so.The good news for the team is that the lower order is no longer a pushover. Since the start of the England tour of 2014, around the time this lower order came to its own, Indias last four wickets have averaged 23.16, behind only England and Australia. 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