DINHO, EL EXCLUIDO

¿Realmente Ronaldinho no merecía estar en la selección?

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22
Nov

Giving thanks for some great things in sports

By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM

Sports is kind and cruel, happy and sad, exhilarating and frustrating, but always there every day. And for sports, among other things in life, I’m thankful this Thanksgiving week.

Let me be more specific, with 17 things I’m thankful for in sports.  It’s just a number I came up with, nothing special about it.

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21
Nov

Pacquiao-Marquez IV: Again, really?

By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM

I’m watching HBO’s “24/7 Pacquiao-Marquez 4” with some interest, trying to figure out why Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez are fighting for a fourth time.

Is this the premier rivalry in boxing? Do fans have to see it four times? Does a fourth fight mean there just aren’t enough good rivalries in boxing right now?

Answers: Yes, no and yes.

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14
Nov

The Marlins move toward being irrelevant, and maybe a new home one day

By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM

The Miami Marlins were cool again. They’d hired a Latino manager and a good one at that, Ozzie Guillen. They were moving into a new ballpark close to downtown. They spent a ton of money on free agents like shortstop Jose Reyes, closer Heath Bell and starting pitcher Mark Buehrle.

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12
Nov

NASCAR-ro: Like it or not, it’s quite a spectacle

By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM

AVONDALE, Ariz. – When NASCAR reached out to me a couple of weeks ago inviting me to Sunday’s Advocare 500, something told me to jump at the chance. When they told me I’d get to ride in a pace car and be down on the track pre-race, I knew I couldn’t pass it up.

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12
Nov

If a lockout happens in the middle of NFL season and no one seems to care, does it matter?

By Jose M. Romero / https://twitter.com/RomeroJoseM

The National Hockey League lockout continues, and all indications are that the NHL players association and the league aren’t closer to reaching an end to the labor negotiations.

Talks broke off on Friday though it seemed possible there could be more discussions over the weekend.

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8
Nov

A sunny afternoon watching the Arizona Fall League

By Jose M. Romero / @RomeroJoseM

For FOX Deportes

PHOENIX – It was snowing in New York. In the 50s in the Pacific Northwest. Overcast and in the 40s in Chicago.

But there wasn’t a cloud in the sky with the temperature near 90 degrees in east Phoenix, where I watched an Arizona Fall League baseball game on Wednesday afternoon between the Phoenix Desert Dogs and the visiting Peoria Javelinas.

The league features six teams made up of some of the top prospects in professional, top young minor-leaguers who are their respective major-league club’s best hopes for the future.

The Desert Dogs have players from the Tampa Bay Rays, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland Athletics organizations. The Javelinas, based out of Peoria, Ariz., northwest of Phoenix, are made up of minor-leaguers from the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners.

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2
Nov

Sergio Romo: A champion closer with a cause

By Jose Romero / @RomeroJoseM

I’ll say it to just get it out of the way: I’m L.A. Dodgers for life, sworn enemy of all things San Francisco Giants.

It’s hard enough to have deal with the fact that San Fran has more World Series titles than the Dodgers, seven to six.  I don’t like them, none of them, never will.

And then came Sergio Romo.

I interviewed him at spring training in Scottsdale once. He was nice enough. It was fun story about those dark beards he and teammate Brian Wilson have. He was a good sport.

Then I saw Romo on Twitter, calling a fellow Mexican American pitcher “raza.” I started to think this was one Giant, but only one, that I could actually pull for.

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