Golden State enters Game 1 on three days’ rest to just one day for Utah, which won on the road at Houston in a tight seven-game series. I think everyone knows what Golden State did.

I think the series is going to be exciting. You have a couple of veteran coaches who had very good playing careers in the NBA. If you ever get a chance to watch an old Celtics game with Nelson playing on Classic ESPN, you’ll see one of the weirdest free throw styles of all time.

Golden State will try to get the Jazz out of the gym. They had the highest pace in the league during the regular season. The Jazz can run and have a slightly more versatile team than Dallas. They also take on the Warriors better than the Mavericks.

Where Utah is significantly better than Golden State in rebounding and in their assist-to-possession rate. Utah was third in the league during the regular season in assist rate and was an impressive first in overall and offensive rebounding rate.

During the postseason, Golden State has the best effective field goal percentage of the 16 playoff teams, Utah is 12th. In true shooting percentage, which is a calculation of a team’s shooting percentage if we factored in free throws and 3-pointers, the Warriors also lead with the Jazz at a dismal 14th.

As for the two recent meetings between the two teams, each team won both home games. The first two games I’m not watching too closely, as they were before the Warrior trade that brought Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington to the team and Davis and Coach Nelson’s late conversion to small ball.

In Utah’s win, the Jazz came from behind in the fourth quarter to win by four, 104-100. Carlos Boozer, the excellent power forward from Utah, had a killer game with 25 points and 21 rebounds. Golden State only had 17 quick break points. Utah had 48 points in the paint. In the Warriors’ home win on April 9, 126-102, Golden State had 30 quick break points and scored 66 in the paint. It is notable that Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko did not play in that game.

I think the outcome of this series will be determined by the health of Baron Davis. If Baron’s hamstring doesn’t bother him, I think the Warriors will win. Utah has a big, strong point guard in Deron Williams to protect Davis, something Dallas lacked. In the three games Davis played against Utah this year, he’s averaged just under 14 points, down from the 20.1 he averaged in the regular season and the 25 he scored in a game against Dallas. However, protecting Davis has cost Williams points, as he only averaged just over seven points per game less than his 16 points per game during the regular season.

I was surprised by the home crowd for the Warriors at Oracle Arena. As a student at the University of Kansas, I am used to large home basketball crowds. This is one of the few NBA stadiums I’ve seen that comes close to the best college venues.

The bottom line is that I like the Warriors if Baron is healthy. If he isn’t, the Warriors aren’t the same team and Utah will prevail.

In some ways, soccer has become similar to religion.

Every weekend for nine months, large groups of people make pilgrimages to stadiums across the country to support their team. They often wear replica jerseys or their team colors to identify themselves.

However, like religion, rivalries have caused conflict, often resulting in violence between the two parties. Of course, hooligans don’t really think about religion when they’re beating up rival fans, but they still go around thinking they’re following. the true faith.

With the amount of money now in the game, it is often forgotten that several of Britain’s top clubs were formed by religious groups. And ironically, eradicating violence was one of their goals when they installed them.

Even today, there are many schemes to get young people off the street and into sports, but religion does not play as much of a role in society as before.

In the 19th century, the church was more influential, and in several cases, clubs set up by parishes have become multi-million dollar companies.

Brother Walfrid’s Boys

North of the border, there is one such club that still has ties to religion: Celtic.

Irish Catholic communities formed several clubs, the first of which was Hibernian in Edinburgh.

(its name is Latin for Ireland).

Unlike the others, however, the connections between the Bhoys and their roots remain strong to this day.

They were first thought up on 6 November 1887 by the Marist Brother Walfrid (also known as Andrew Kearns) in the hall of St Mary’s Church in Calton, Glasgow.

The club was created with the intention of alleviating poverty in the East End of the city. The name, Celtic, was immediately adopted and reflected the club’s Scottish and Irish roots. Surprisingly, the club’s first official match was played against Rangers on November 6, 1888 in what was probably the only “friendly meeting” between the two teams.

The Bhoys became the first to claim bragging rights, as they won 5–2, with several of the starting XI players on loan from Hibernian.

Brother Walfrid himself wanted to keep the supporters’ club and had only charitable intentions for the club. However, he was unable to carry out his wish, as local builder John Glass would sign eight Hibs players without the committee’s knowledge in August 1888, while he offered them huge financial incentives.

Now that the club is a professional team, they soon established themselves as one of the best teams in Scotland, winning their first trophy (the Scottish Cup) in 1892, and their first league title the following year. Since then, along with Rangers (who were made up of rowers) they have dominated Scottish football for over a century.

The other team that has played at Anfield

Today, Everton play their home games at Goodison Park.

But it’s often forgotten that they once played on the other side of Stanley Park, where their deadly rivals Liverpool now live.

In fact, the Toffees may claim to be indirectly responsible for the formation of their neighbor.

Everton became the first of Liverpool’s major clubs to form in 1878.

The minister of the Methodist Church of Santo Domingo, Rev. BS Chambers, created a soccer club so that the members of the church’s cricket team would have something to do during the winter.

The club was originally called St Domingo FC but was changed to Everton in November the following year after men from outside the parish wanted to come and join.

Everton became one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888 and by then the club was renting Anfield, owned by John Orrell with his friend John Houlding as the lessee.

Eventually Houlding bought the land from Orrell and promptly raised the rent, something Everton refused to do.

So they left Anfield in 1892 and moved to the other side of Stanley Park and their current home, Goodison Park, which resulted in Houlding forming Liverpool.

But this is not where Everton’s religious ties end, as Goodison Park is the only Premier League stadium with a church on its grounds: St Luke the Evangelist.

The church is located between the three-tiered main stand and the end of Gwladys Street and the walls are a few meters from these two stands.

It even has a role to play on match days, selling refreshments.

blue faith

While its more illustrious neighbors were made up of employees of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Manchester’s blue half team was thought up by a rector’s daughter.

Two years after the creation of what became Manchester United, Anna Connell, whose

Father Arthur, rector of St Mark’s Church in Gorton, in the northwest of the city, sought to provide activities for men who had nothing to do in the winter.

Like Everton, a cricket club already existed and more activities were needed to curb the levels of violence and alcoholism in the local area.

Ironic, considering these are the sorts of things now associated with the football fan.

Alcoholic fights between different religious and racial groups often broke out, and the problems were made worse by high levels of unemployment in the area.

With the help of two church keepers, William Beastow and Thomas Goodbehere, Connell created West Gorton (St Mark’s) FC, the club that eventually became Manchester City.

The club played its first game against Macclesfield Baptist Church on November 13, 1880.

The initiative was so successful that it led the Archdeacon of Manchester to comment of Connell: “No man could have done it, it took a woman’s tact and skill to make it so successful.”

Eventually the club would move away from its roots.

He dropped St Mark’s from his name to become Gorton AFC in 1884 and three years later moved across town to Ardwick and turned professional.

It adopted the name of its new home before finally becoming Manchester City in 1894.

well of uncertainty

It’s not just the most famous clubs that owe a debt of gratitude to the Church, and in this case, the man in the cloth even got in on the action.

For a long time there was some debate as to when Swindon Town was formed and the club switched between the founding dates of 1879 and 1881.

For a long time the later date was considered official as on 12 November of that year, Swindon, under their previous guise of Spartan Club, merged with St Mark’s Young Men’s after a match between the two teams.

But last year, substantial evidence led the Robins to recognize 1879 as the correct date.

It is now accepted that the Reverend William Pitt, curate of Christ Church in the city centre, formed the club in an attempt to unite the communities of Great Western Railway workers and those who were there before GWR came along.

There are two main pieces of evidence that suggest this was the case.

One of these is a local report, discovered by former club statistician Paul Plowman, of a match between Swindon AFC and Rovers FC on 29 November 1879.

The report included a team photo that included Pitt himself.

Pitt broke ties with the club in 1881, when he was appointed rector of Liddington Church.

However, he provided the other proof during a speech in 1911, during which

said the name was changed to Spartan Club as members found the original name too complicated.

He also mentioned that his removal from Swindon led to his departure.

Two years after his departure, Spartan Club became Swindon Town.

The clue is in the name

When Southampton moved from The Dell to St Mary’s Stadium in 2001, it was a bit of a homecoming.

Because the club moved back to the part of the city where it was originally formed in 1885.

The name of the stadium was a welcome change from the current trend of selling naming rights, as it referred to the nearby church.

The club was set up by members of the Young Men’s Association of St Mary’s Church of England, meaning their first name was rather wordy, leading to them being referred to as St. Mary’s YMA in the local press.

St. Mary’s played a variety of venues around Southampton, one of the first being Southampton Common.

Or at least they tried to play there – the Saints often had their games interrupted by pedestrians wandering the field!

The club had changed its name to Southampton St Mary’s when it became a limited company in 1897, ending its association with the church.

In 1898 the Saints, now simply called Southampton FC, moved across town to The Dell before making the return trip 103 years later.

more cloth sticks

There are many other football clubs that have their roots in the church, some more successful than others.

This season’s FA Cup semi-finalists Barnsley were originally a club trying to give football a foothold in an area dominated by rugby union.

The Tykes were formed in 1887 by the wonderfully named Reverend Tiverton Preedy of St Peters’, whose church lent the club its name as Barnsley St Peters’.

He wanted to create ‘a football club that rugby players don’t crush’.

The club moved to Oakwell soon after, but by 1897, Preedy had left the area and their fan base now included those outside the local parish, leading to a name change to Barnsley FC.

Aston Villa also had to deal with other sports when they were created.

They were formed by members of the Wesleyan Village Chapel of the Cross in 1874 who, like several

of the other clubs mentioned were cricketers looking for something else to do during the winter.

It took them a year to find opponents in an area where rugby was more popular and they were in fact a rugby team.

In March 1875 they faced Aston Brooks St Mary’s in which the first half would be played under the rules of rugby and the second football.

Villa won this encounter, keeping the first half scoreless and scoring a solitary goal after half time.

Tottenham Hotspur’s Jewish connections are well known, but were in fact founded by a Bible class.

‘The Hotspur Football Club’ was born in 1882 thanks to a group of children from the primary school at All Hallow Church.

These boys later made their teacher, John Ripsher, the club’s first president, a position he held until 1894.

Ripsher died in poverty in 1907 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Dover, until Tottenham presented him with a suitable headstone a century later.

The Church of England Church on Star Road, West Kensington can be credited with the formation of Fulham in 1879.

The Cottagers were originally a Sunday school team and began their existence, like Southampton, with a neat name: Fulham St Andrews Church Sunday School.

The church still stands and a plaque outside acknowledges its place in the club’s history.

The signs that the economy is beginning to improve are subtle, but they are out there. Whether it’s the slow decline in gasoline prices or the fact that the housing market is starting to stabilize, the country is starting to breathe a sigh of relief that maybe we can stop stinging so hard on our pennies. However, in some areas keeping a tight rein on your dollar is more than just trying to stay afloat in tough economic times; it is simply the price you pay to live and have a mortgage in an expensive city.

Each quarter, the Council for Community Economic Research (C2ER) produces a cost of living index that measures the average cost of living in metropolitan cities across the United States. To compile the data, the C2ER gathered approximately 60 different items that were common to a variety of metropolitan areas, from groceries to housing and medical costs. From that, the C2ER compares the price of these items and calculates an index number. An index number greater than 100 indicates an above-average cost of living. For example, if you earn $100,000 in an average city, you would need to earn $121,000 in Seattle, which has a score of 1 to 1.21.

The following are the 5 most expensive cities in the US.

5. Boston, MA 1-1.30

Boston is one of the most desirable cities to live on the East Coast. It is a comfortable city that prides itself on its historic charm and beauty. The city boasts the highest concentration of universities in the country (making it an educated and studious city), an extensive public transportation system, and some of the best cultural attractions in the US. One downside, however, is A city with a range of culture, history and the charm of its inhabitants is the high dollar cost of the house. The reason Boston made it to No. 5 on our list is almost entirely a factor of house prices.

4.Washington DC 1-1.38

Washington DC, our nation’s capital, has one of the strongest job markets in our country. This is largely due to the number of employers and government contracts based in the city. This plus the central location make it a highly desirable place to live. Keep in mind that the median price for a one-bedroom apartment is about $1,100 per month, quite a bit for a small space. But you are paying for the location and the luxury. Add in the mild winters and beautiful summers, the national museums, and the variety of activities available year-round, and it becomes clear why Washington DC is number four on the list.

3. Los Angeles, CA 1-1.40

Los Angeles: home to celebrities, movie stars, glamor and thousands of hopes and dreams of gold-plated wealth. Everyone has entertained the idea of ​​moving to Los Angeles to “achieve.” It is the hot spot of Los Angeles and anyone has lived or worked there at some point in their career. While Southern California may be the very embodiment of excess and luxury, it’s also home to family-friendly places like Disney World, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, Knott’s Berry Farm. In general, the overall cost of living in Los Angeles can be quite affordable, surrounding areas like Bel Air and Beverly Hills, and the lack of public transportation really drives up the cost of living and home prices as well.

2. San Francisco, CA 1-1.62

San Francisco: Los Angeles’ cool northern brother. The atmosphere in Northern California is much more relaxed and friendly than in the South. The greenery, cooler climates, and views enhance the city’s laid-back vibe. It’s a big city with a culturally diverse community, which means more places to explore, more sights to see, and definitely more delicious food. Living in San Francisco means plenty of access to outdoor activities, an active nightlife, and a relaxed atmosphere. However, the rise of technology has made it highly sought after by individuals and businesses around the world, further raising the already high cost of buying a home as the product does not meet demand. .

1.New York, NY 1-2.17

Are you so surprised that New York ranks first on the list of the most expensive American cities to live in? It is one of the most famous cities forever immortalized in movies, comics, cartoons and the hearts of millions of people around the world. The Big Apple wins the top spot on the list due to the scandalous housing market for both renters and buyers. On average, New York City has a median home price of $1.1 million, while an average apartment can cost renters $3,400 per month. While it may seem outrageous, the price of having a place to hang out is well worth it when you have places like Central Park, Broadway, Yankee Stadium, or some of the best museums in the world at your disposal.

The thread that unites these cities is not location or amenities; is the cost of owning or renting a home. Homebuyers looking to stop renting or current homeowners looking to take advantage of historically low interest rates should look no further than Quicken Loans. Whether you’re looking for your dream home in the city of angels or the city that never sleeps, one of our highly trained mortgage experts will help you finance a new home loan or refinance your existing loan.

Half-Elf Ranger Class Build (PvP/PvE)

In my opinion, the half-elf ranger build is the king of solo. This build is designed to bombard enemies from insane attack range. The Ranger has a decent critical rate and some great rooting spells.

Stat Build: Your leveling points should be spread out as 1VIT – 3 DEX o This ranger build has no psyche, so you’ll be relying on pots for your mana, so be careful not to deplete it too early. You will have decent HP. with 130 VIT points in case someone is lucky enough to get close to you.

This build has a great DEX spread to boost your ranged attack quite a bit. You will have high damage and a long range to do it.

PvE: Easiest class to solo play by far and one of the fastest classes to level up as well. Most mobs won’t even get close enough to you to deal damage, since you have a long attack range and have the ability to slow down your target’s mobility. Only ranged mobs will get a chance to fire off a few shots before they fall to the ground bleeding. You really only need to cast one ability per mob before they die, since you’ll be doing some nasty normal ranged attack damage. You will also have a good time when you are in a high level mob grind party. You don’t really have to move much, just let the tankers stall and pull a bit here and there.

PvP – The Ranger class is one of the few classes that works well against both ranged and melee classes in PvP. You take out magic-type classes pretty easily and melee classes can be stunned and slowed down before they can get to you. You can do powerful critical damage at long range using Critical Shot. The ranger has a lot of PvP ability at his disposal, including Luxury Shot and Premium Shot, leaving enemies with missing parts of their HP bar lol. A good spell to start your PvP sequence is Speed ​​​​Wind, which increases your attack speed to an incredible speed that lasts for 10 seconds. When a melee class finally reaches you, hit it with Brandish Kick, which has a 70% chance to stun the target for 9 seconds. You can get away from enemies easily as you have higher mobility skills.

Bottom line: This ranger build is balanced and will have long use of his abilities and will be able to solo and pvp well. You don’t have much mana, so be careful. Remember range is your advantage, don’t let the melee get close or they will rip you apart 🙂

Building stat points at level 99

Recommended spell upgrades:

(Half Elf Archer Tree)

1. Darkness-Level 5: Increases dark damage by 100%, res50%, 8% chance, 30% slow attack speed of the target for 7 seconds.

2. Psychic Pierce-Level 1: 160% of normal damage.

3. Long Shot-Level 5: Increases attack range by 50% for 9 min.

4. Enchanted Arrow – Level 5 – Increases arrow damage by 30 for 30 min.

5. Fainting Pierce-Level 5: 35% chance to slow the target’s movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds, last 18 minutes.

6. Bleeding Shot-Level 1: ‘Bleeding’ effect deals 70% of normal damage every 3 seconds, occurs 5 times.

7. Nimble-Level 5: Increases dex by 30%, lasts 30 min.

8. Brandish Kick-Level 5: 70% chance to stun the target that lasts for 9 seconds.

9. Weak Arrow – Level 1: Decreases the target by 3% of strength for the last 30 seconds.

10. Fatal-Level 5: Critical damage increases by dex * 3.0, last 15 min.

11. Sprint-Level 4: Increases movement speed by 80% in 27 seconds.

12. Evasion-Level 1: Increases evasion rate by 10% for the last 18 min.

13. Piercing Root-Level 4: Normal Attacks 130%, 50% chance to hold target in place for 5 seconds.

14. Double Strike-Level 1: Increases normal damage by 20%, attacks the target twice.

Recommended spell upgrades:

(Half Elf RangerTree)

1. Crossbow Mastery: Level 5: Increases crossbow attack by 25%, for the last 30 min.

2. Open Eyes-Level 1: Instantly removes the root state.

3. Cheat-Level 1: Would not be attacked by guard npc during gvg and during red name period, last 5 min.

4. Detection-Level 1: Detect hidden targets within 10m range, last 30 seconds.

5. Disappear-Level 1: 50% chance to hide, last 30 minutes. moving, atking or using the item will expose.

6. Siege Shot-Level 5: Unable to move for 10 seconds, while atk +90%.

7. Murder Shot-Level 5: Increases atk damage per kill count *90.

8. Wind Speed-Level 5: Increases atk speed by 160%, last 10 seconds.

9. Arrow of Kael-Level 2: Creates 100 bolts with 120 damage.

10. Alacrity Strike – Level 5 – Increases dex by 15%, lasts 30 min.

11. Strip Shot-level 5: ignores defense, increases damage by 70%

12. Range Shot: Level 1: Total Damage = Weapon Range * 50.

13. Critical Shot-Level 5: When you hit the target, 90% chance for a critical hit to occur.

14. Premium Shot-Level 1: Increases weapon attack by 200%.

15. Magic Guard-Level 1: Don’t be affected by magic for 10 seconds.

16. Shot Deluxe – Tier 1 – Increases weapon attack by 200%.

17. Winged Foot-Level 5: 18 mp per second, party members increase movement speed by 100%.

The wish of every father is to see his son grow up and become a responsible man when it comes to caring for his wife and children. Parents worry when their son cheats on his wife, especially if his wife is honest, understanding, and loving. Being in a relationship with a cheating husband is very depressing and heartbreaking. If your son continues to be unfaithful to his wife, he will eventually end up ruining his marriage.

Parents should talk to their children about why it is important for him to be faithful to his wife. However, there are some parents who find it very difficult to talk to their child about marriage issues. There are those who will never admit that his son is cheating on his wife. Instead of parents helping their child save their marriage, they defend it.

What will you do if you find out that your son has been cheating on his wife? If you have discovered that your child is cheating on you, there are certain ways that you can address the situation. To get started, some of the ways are described below.

The first approach is to avoid talking about it altogether so your child learns a lesson. You must allow your child to learn a lesson because experience is the best teacher. Later you will discover that it pays to give your child the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them. However, if you think your son might be putting his health and the health of his wife at risk, he should warn you. Warn her of her cheating habit by informing her of the consequences of cheating on her.

Another approach to consider is making decisions for your child. If you have decided to take this approach, you should consider her feelings. Ask him to put himself in the place of his wife who lives with a husband who is unfaithful to her. The effectiveness of this approach might surprise you.

Take the time to discuss with your child the consequences of his actions. Your son’s cheating habit may have been fueled by the endorsement of his friends. Therefore, looking “cool” to your friends is vital. You should try to convince your child that having an affair is not okay. You should also tell him that he shouldn’t cheat on his wife just because his friends think it’s cool to be unfaithful.

Your son may not understand the consequences of cheating on you the way he does. In fact, his son may not consider losing his wife through divorce. By reminding him that he must be faithful to his wife, you will prevent him from cheating on you again.

By following the steps mentioned above, you may be able to change your son who is cheating on his wife. Even if you fail to change his cheating habit, your advice to be faithful will still be fresh in his mind. Chances are, one day he will reflect on your advice and eventually stop cheating on his wife. Therefore, parents have the responsibility to interfere in their son’s marriage if he is not faithful to his wife.

Four very important areas to focus on when betting on NFL games.

1. NFL Parity – The NFL focuses each year on parity between the teams. On any given weekend, any team can win. Why not score some points with your selections?

2. A win is a win: Unlike college football, most teams (except New England) don’t try to run up the scoring in games. A large percentage of the lines are covered by teams that close the gaps at the end of games. There is no voter poll to impress.

3. No Respect – Obviously, Las Vegas is well aware of the favorite betting trend. It is always the same concept, if I had to bet my mortgage I would take Pittsburgh -7.5. Your average punter can’t help but pick the favorite, but the pros know how to scout the underdog.

4. The difference in points matters less than you think. Historically, point spread matters in the NFL only about 16% of the time. In other words, 84% of the time, the team that covers the spread also wins. If you combine this with a lot of research, you can really find some great advantages in the NFL.

When you combine these four very important principles in professional football betting, you’ll see why underdogs are often a very good play. The idea is to be able to find big advantages on underdogs on a consistent basis.

Obviously, he’ll like to incorporate a mix of favorites and underdogs into his picks on a weekly basis. However, good research and good stats will usually find more advantages on underdogs with great potential.

In the NFL, home dogs that have solid defenses and the ability to rush the ball will simply find ways to throw down the line. If you can find where the audience is in your bets, simply following the line moves will reveal some strong underdogs. You know you’ve become a very effective handicap when you check your line sheet Monday morning and can pick games before the lines jump. When the lines move your way, you are what the public considers Sharp Money.

Effective sports betting incorporates the ability to fade the crowd, understanding cheating, the courage to take on weak teams in strange situations, calculating important statistics and trends, and our personal favorite, knowing what’s going on inside the locker room.

Dish Network offers many sports packages to its subscribers to quench their thirst for sports. Soccer Package is one such sports package that allows subscribers to enjoy different live soccer matches. World Football Travel offers soccer travel packages to soccer fans that include soccer travel packages with top-tier soccer match tickets.

MLS Direct Kick, FIFA club World Cup and Euro 2012 are the soccer packages that allow subscribers to enjoy their favorite soccer matches.

On Dish Network, subscribers can watch various football matches on channels 454-472. Subscribers can watch Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia. Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela are fighting for a place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

MLS straight kick

MLS Direct Kick is an out-of-market sports package distributed through cable and satellite providers in North America. Subscribers can watch more than 13 Major League Soccer games, including regular season and MLS Cup playoff games featuring star players Landon Donovan, Freddy Adu, Christian Gomez and, best of all, David Beckham. .

MLS Direct Kick is available from cable and satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network, iN DEMAND Team, Cablevision(iO), Comcast, cox communications, Time warner cable, Adams cable, Blue Ridge Communications and Grande communications.

Subscribers can purchase the Half Season package and can enjoy from the second half of the package. Subscribers can get 60 Major League Soccer games in this half-season package. Games will appear on ABC, ESPN 2 and Fox Soccer Channel. On Dish Network, subscribers can watch various MLS Direct Kick soccer games on channels 455 through 465.

Subscribers can order this package by calling 1-877-DISH PPV (347-4778) or by ordering via remote where they can save $5 on individual match purchases.

Dish Network offers New Soccer Network, GOL TV in Spanish language to its subscribers. GOL TV is a 24-hour channel in Spanish dedicated solely to the most popular sport Soccer. Includes the main international soccer news and events, hundreds of games each year from Mexico, Italy, Salvador, Guatemala and South America. GOL TV will be broadcast on channel 632 at no additional cost in its three popular DISH Latino programming packages. A DISH 500 antenna is required to receive the new channel.

If the subscribers are soccer enthusiasts, then the MLS Direct Kick package is your best option.

Scoffers are losers. That’s why they make fun of it. If you already feel bad about yourself, why not spread negative karma? You may find yourself in certain situations where you think the person being mocked is “cool” as long as they aren’t directed at you. Teasing or teasing is never okay. Why not?

Children and adults make fun of others to feel “better” or “superior” for a short period of time. In the long run, it proves that scoffers are losers. There is something radically wrong when a person tries to feel good by making fun of others. Taking others down, especially in front of a crowd, is never a good idea. When you make fun of others, you are putting them down and showing others what a loser you are.

Samuel M. Silver wrote: “To belittle is to be small. To be grateful is to be great.” Please don’t be small. Praise others. If you really feel bad, choose a lamp. Right now I want you to point at a lamp. Say: “Lamp, you are the dumbest lamp ever invented!” Now freeze! Look at your hand. How many fingers are pointing at you? My guess is three. Your index finger is telling the lamp that it’s dumb, and three fingers are pointing at you! So who’s really dumb, you or the lamp?

Of course, you are not a fool or a loser. But kids who feel good about themselves and the direction their lives are taking don’t make fun of others. They accept others as they are, warts and all.

For years I only had one “rule” posted in my classroom: “You shall not make fun of others.” Yeah, I wanted it to sound almost religious, and if you only have one rule, it becomes the law of the land. No matter how old we are, we don’t want to be made fun of. We want to be treated fairly and well by others. That one rule turned a group of kids into one big extended family. We became a small community that cared and trusted each other. Introducing the “no teasing rule” on the first day of school was like waving a magic wand that brought us all together as friendly learners. Because?

The bottom line is that feelings always matter in life, especially in a classroom. And every student knew that when they walked into my classroom. I told the class the first day that your feelings were just as important as your big toe. No one wants to get stepped on or stepped on their big toe.

At school, as a student and a teacher, I was good at not teasing, but I did joke around in some silly ways. Sometimes when a student corrected me in class, I would slowly approach him or her with my arms outstretched, like I was Frankenstein. Then I would gently put my hands close to her neck. At this point the whole class was laughing. And, if I’d been a bit annoyed at being corrected, when Frankenstein got to his victim, Frankie was smiling too. With the whole class smiling, he would slide me to the front of the class and start teaching again. They always enjoyed the break in the usual routine.

I might consider this behavior unusual for a teacher, but being funny in unexpected ways was part of the fun of teaching. Children like teachers with a good sense of humor who are willing to laugh with them, take life easy, and not make fun of others.

However, as a child, I did not like to be called “Silly Sottile”. He annoyed me. Nobody likes to be teased. I tried to ignore any taunting of my name. Sometimes it was easy. Sometimes it wasn’t.

As an author, I just hope you remember my last name. “Silly So-til-e” works for me. I no longer consider him to be making fun of me. I like the alliteration in saying it that way. It rhymes, and the kids remember my name longer that way.

If you’re being made fun of, it’s always good to remember what Eleanor Roosevelt said: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” In other words, you have some control over your reaction to nasty words.

However, it is true that sticks and stones break bones, and mocking words CAN HURT, but the real losers are those who need to mock others to spread their own misery.

Be happy that you are not one of them because they can never really love themselves or feel happy. In other words, don’t be like them. or else you’ll never really feel happy. They must share their misery to feel much of anything. How sad! Such losers! I’d rather encourage sunshine (and liking myself!) than rain down on someone’s sense of self worth or dignity. What about you?

Shaquille O’Neal. Kareem. Magic Johnson. Larry Bird. Michael Jordan. MVP’s list of hardware winners includes only those who have brought their game and their team to the top many times. The holy grail of personal honors, earned through canvas, perseverance, and leadership. This season, one will rise up to achieve what the rest of the NBA yearns for.

Those in line are anxious. Stars who feel that the time has come to shine more than their counterparts. LeBron James, with long strides befitting his 6’8″ frame, has an early leap on the field. He carries his team on his sculpted shoulders for another season.

As he matured into the team leader Ohio faithfully prayed for when he emerged, King James did, of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, the pride and joy of Akron. What is that you say? Isn’t it LeBron’s year? That seems fine to me. His hour is drawing near. Strong dose of competition for the MVP, that is understood.

So it has to be The Big Ticket. Pummeled all the way to Boston by way of Minnesota, Celtics fans couldn’t trust their Irish eyes as the Boston papers yelled that Kevin Garnett would likely be wearing green and white for the rest of his career. Great season for the great man so far. The best player of the best team in the league. Leadership plus…. Doesn’t it happen to KG? Boy, who’s having the year to beat Garnett?

Is it a skinny whiteguard that takes home the prize? Oh, of course. Nash is a great choice. Little Stevie Wonder, Phoenix’s floor general, with his sights set on a title, dazzling assists and as selfless as possible. Neither did Nash? The Arizona sun must be reaching your head, you say. The list of skinny white guys as MVPs starts and ends with Nash. If not Nash, then who?

Heading back east, our NBA MVP quest finds us meandering through Haymarket and Freedom Trail, heading to the Boston Celtics practice. The shooting has begun as the rays of morning light slide across the beige court. Kevin Garnett notices that someone has entered the equipment space. Bald head shoots up, Garnett is wielding an orange and black Spalding in his gigantic right hand. Beads of moisture fall to the shiny strips of parquet from his chin like a New England autumn drizzle.

He starts to move slowly in my direction, maybe two or three steps, then stops. His teammates have left their dribbles, their shots, their morning chores. The team stares at their new leader, who seems to have been there for years.

Garnett glows for a moment, fire in his eyes, beads burning from deep within. He nods slightly, turning slowly towards his teammates. “Work to do,” Garnett says to no one in particular, but everyone listens…and listens. The sound of Spaldings hitting the board again begins to echo through the gym. Paul Pierce dribbles left-handed twice, flips the ball to the right, and pulls out a jumper from the key as I slowly walk out of the room.

I take the elevator up to the team’s executive offices. A beautiful redhead greets me at the reception. Her curly hair falls smoothly to the middle of her back, her attractive legs wrapped around each other, clearly visible through the expensive glass desk. I tell you who I’m here to see. She smiles knowingly and points a well-manicured fingernail toward the corner office, where he’s waiting for me to arrive.

Home of the Boston Celtics. Moving through the pile of green carpeting, I pass the smaller, windowed offices where the business of running an NBA team is done. Finally, I get to his office. Standing there saying good morning to me, 6’4 and still close to his playing weight of 175 pounds, he is the NBA MVP not only for this season, but for years to come. The memory of his career .220 batting average is a dim memory of a former sporting life.

Once the forgotten man in a hall of fame started five, the only way he was said to get into Springfield as a player is to reach into his pocket, pull out his wallet, and shell out the admission fee. Don’t you think Danny Ainge is still a player in the NBA?

It was Ainge, as Boston’s Executive Director of Basketball Operations and General Manager, fighting through traffic, calling for the ball against the 28-GM defense in the Kevin Garnett draft. 29 if you count the last line of defense, Ainge’s old Boston teammate Kevin McHale, who concluded negotiations with Ainge when Minnesota parted ways with the best player the team has ever had.

That shot, perhaps a season winner, brought instant karma to the Celtics in what was a streak of Irish bad luck that spanned nearly two decades. This team is now stamped with his signature next to the shamrock.

The legend of Babe Ruth is as alive today as it was during her reign over baseball at the turn of the 20th century. There isn’t a baseball fan or baseball card collector in the world who wouldn’t want to get their hands on official Babe Ruth baseball cards, and he continues to have die-hard fans who didn’t even think of being born when he was hitting home runs.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Babe Ruth was actually named George Herman Ruth Jr., but became known by many names, including The Great Bambino, The Home Run King, and The Sultan of Swat. His record speaks for itself with 714 home runs that remained unbeatable by baseball players for 39 years. He was born to Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth, Sr., but did not spend his entire childhood with them. They worked long hours, and when Babe Ruth was seven years old, his father took him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys and gave them custody of him. There, he did not adapt well to his rigid environment. Family visiting days weren’t even highlights he could look forward to because his family wasn’t coming to visit.

As you can see, your father is not to be thanked for improving his then unrealistic baseball skills. The man entitled to that claim is brother Matthias of St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, who eventually became something of a father figure. He played on the school’s baseball team, starting out as a catcher and later having the opportunity to play the pitching position. His talent was evident. Babe Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles at the age of 19 by his owner, Jack Dunn. It was during this time that he got the nickname Babe, because people saw him as “Jack’s newest baby”…Jack Dunn had a reputation as one of the best talent scouts at the time. The Orioles were a minor league team of the Boston Red Sox, but Ruth’s contract was purchased by the Red Sox after he played for the Orioles for only five months. He was now playing with the big boys in the major league.

Babe Ruth is, of course, known primarily for his incredible hitting talent. However, for the first six years with the Boston Red Sox he was a pitcher. He set incredible records in both pitching and hitting positions in the years that followed. The good times lasted for the Red Sox until 1919, when Harry Frazee became the team’s new owner and decided to sell Ruth to the New York Yankees. What did he get in exchange for handing over the legend in this transaction? Ruth was sold for $100,000 and a $350,000 loan which Frazee in turn used to finance his dream Broadway productions.

It was this turn of events that led to the “Curse of the Bambino.” The Yankees experienced tremendous victories, while the Red Sox would not win a World Series title again until many years later, in 2004. The legend of Babe Ruth will always live on, and the curse will always be felt in the hearts of Yankees fans. Red Sox. . Therefore, Babe Ruth baseball cards will always be highly sought after.