Por Juan Carlos Agüero / @juankaguerom

Para FOX Deportes 

El peor Boca Juniors con el mejor técnico de su historia. La ecuación puede darle errada si analizamos ambas partes por separado. 

El equipo xeneize suma doce partidos consecutivos sin victorias bajo el mando del timonel que los llevó en más de una ocasión a la gloria. La pregunta ¿que es lo que pasa?  la podría responder con una sola frase “Es el mismo Bianchi, no así los jugadores”. 

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Y así lo quiso demostrar el rapero 50 cent, cuando en la carrera de NASCAR de Daytona 500, quiso darle un ‘regalito’ a la bella conductora de FoxSports, Erin Andrews.  ¡Muak!

Lo cara de la mujer de la derecha, llama la atención.  (claro, no más que Erin)

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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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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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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By Jose M. Romero

Major League Soccer’s Western Conference has produced the last three league champions – Real Salt Lake, the Colorado Rapids and the L.A. Galaxy – and also is home to the top club in the 2012 regular season, the San Jose Earthquakes.

Between the top-seeded Quakes and the No. 5 seed Vancouver Whitecaps, a team in only its second season of existence, the second through fourth seeds were separated by three standings points in the regular season. All of which should make the MLS postseason pretty entertaining in the West.

The Whitecaps and Galaxy open the postseason with Thursday’s knockout round match pitting No. 5 at No. 4. The Galaxy, the defending MLS Cup champion, probably feels a little disappointed with how its regular season went, and now must play the extra game just to keep its season alive.

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By Jose M. Romero

The Giants won the World Series. Yay. Hooray for Sergio Romo and his banda music intro.

Sorry. I’m neither happy about it nor inclined to write about it. So I’ll instead write about the BCS and college football.

It’s safe to say that this system isn’t fail-proof. Two human voters polls and computer rankings. Like one of my favorite R&B artists, Keith Sweat, used to say, “Something just ain’t right.”

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By Eduardo Maisonet, III / @edthesportsfan

There’s nothing worse in this world than being average as a basketball. Your team is good enough to not be shamed in front of your home fans by the worst teams in the league, but when a team worth a damn stands in your way, you fold like a lawn chair. Is this a team that’s on the rise, building towards a championship? Or is your team on the decline, ready for an overhaul of sorts? Battling for an 8th season can be fun for a team on the rise, but always teetering on the playoff mendoza line for years on end is a tireless exercise in futility. Average futility.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your 2009-12 Houston Rockets. With a 119-111 record over three years, just missing the playoffs year after year, and a roster full of promising young players and cagey veterans, the team has been one part overachieving and one part mediocre.

Enter, Jamed Edward Harden, Jr.

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By Adry Torres

First of all, hours before Game 1 of the World Series, I predicted that Detroit would take it all in five games. So right now it seems impossible unless they win three straight, Bud Selig changes the rule book and gives the Tigers an extra win somewhere along the way.

They can still win their first championship since 1984 but if those broken bats, weird bounces and rolls of the ball don’t start going their way after Game 3 on Saturday night is over, we’ll soon be talking about why San Francisco was able to it all.

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By Eduardo Maisonet, III / @edthesportsfan

Cam Newton’s had one heck of a week from a media coverage standpoint. After being the captain at the helm of the Carolina Panthers as his squad lost a winnable game versus the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, the scrutiny poured on the man who wears No. 1 on his chest.

Newton stood at the podium with that baffled look on his face, talking about setting up a suggestion box because he didn’t have the answer, calling a female reporter “sweetheart” at the press conference….you know, spewing gibberish in front of millions and millions of people. It was a bad look all around, and many are now questioning if Newton’s the man for the job. Others, like Warren Moon, question if race has something to do with the harsh judgment many have levied against Newton. The man with a golden smile was now being scrutinized to the high heavens.

None of this matters. Not one bit.

What matters is the following, in a nutshell:

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By Jose M. Romero

So David Stern is finally stepping down as NBA commissioner. He said so on Thursday.

Two things here. It’s about time, and can he quit before he announced when he said he would, Feb. 1, 2014?

Commissioners in general, sports commissioners, have complexes about the power they have. Look at Roger Goodell of the NFL. But at least Goodell has a firm hand and doesn’t have his authority undermined, even if he might have gone a little overboard on the Saints suspensions and let the replacements stay for too long.

Stern is just too much. He’s pompous, ultra-sensitive and has been involved in too many controversies in the NBA. And on Thursday, he made it all about himself, announcing that Feb. 1, 2014, would be his last official day as commissioner because it would mark 30 years for him in that position.

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By Adry Torres

Tigers’ Roar

As the home plate umpire is hours away from yelling ‘Play Ball’ in the 108th edition of the World Series, if the history of the Fall Classic is once again correct, the Detroit Tigers could come away with their first championship since 1984.

In World Series history, three times has a team that won a Game 7 in league championship series faced off against a team coming off a sweep. And if you believe in the baseball gods, the team coming off the Game 7 win swept its opponent in the World Series once as the Boston Red Sox brought out the brooms against the Colorado Rockies in 2007. In both other cases St. Louis had it easy against the Tigers in 2006 and during the 1988 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers took out the Oakland A’s in five games.

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