Kobe Bryant's induction to Hall of Fame postponed to next year

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( DJ Malanga )

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony for Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett and six others is postponed until 2021.

Hall of Fame Board of Governors chairman Jerry Colangelo broke the news on Wednesday (May 27) to ESPN.

The ceremony was due to be held Aug 29 in Springfield, Massachusetts, following a presentation the previous day in Uncasville, Connecticut.

The Boston Globe recently reported that the Hall of Fame was looking to postpone the events until October, but Colangelo told ESPN that holding the ceremony this year won't be possible due to the ongoing effects of the Covid-19, pandemic.

"We're definitely cancelling," Colangelo said. "It's going to have to be the first quarter of next year. (The board will) meet in a couple of weeks and look at the options of how and when and where."

He told ESPN that the Hall of Fame explored the possibility of moving the ceremony from Springfield's 2,611-seat Symphony Hall to the city's 8,319-seat MassMutual Centre to provide more opportunity for social distancing, but ultimately the decision was made to wait until next year.

Kobe Bryant died on Jan 26 aged 41 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, that also claimed the life of daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

Indignation of Lebrón James and the entire planet over the death of citizen George Floyd, in Minneapolis

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( Dj malanga )

Today when I watched the video, I felt helplessness, anger, resentment, wanting to get on the screen of my cell phone, and smash the face of those two unhappy people who call themselves police, it is not possible that four or two irresponsible savages, stained the honor and kill a citizen who was already controlled and with handcuffs on.

Incredible that these atrocities happen in the middle of the 20th century, not only did they kill this citizen, but they stained the honor of the Minneapolis police department, I am sure that in that police force, there are honorable police officers who deserve to wear that badge , plus the awful scene, that we observe today with so much indignation, through that video, has gone around the world, and left that entire police department badly stopped.

 The late George Floyd, 46, was a close friend of former player Stephen Jackson, who went through nine franchises and lived his best years with the Pacers and Warriors. On social media, he has mourned the death of his friend he calls "brother" and "twin." Floyd was detained by the Minneapolis police on charges of forgery. There are images in which he can be seen on the ground while a police officer has his knee on the detainee's neck, who on more than one occasion says he cannot breathe. After a few minutes, the detainee was put on a stretcher and transferred by ambulance to a hospital where he finally died. The Mayor of Minneapolis has already said that the four police officers involved have been fired.


"Please. His knee in my neck I can't breathe!" Was what Floyd was pleading. For his part, a witness told the police officers: "Take off his knee from the neck, check his pulse. He is not breathing, check his pulse!" Jackson and Floyd were born in Texas and grew up in Cuney Homes, a Houston social housing . "Anyone over there knows you were my brother. Not many came out, but my twin was happy that I did. I'm going to keep making you feel proud. It makes me so angry that after all the things you went through when you got to your best version you serve like this ... Rest Easy Twin, "wrote the former NBA player.

The event has also been commented by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who said he gave orders to the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate the case of atrocity in the city of Minneapolis.

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At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd...

BundesLiga / Bayern Munich 1 vs Borussia Dortmund 0 / Goal: Joshua Kimmich

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( Dj Malanga )

Tonight the classic in the German soccer league, Fc Bayern Munich, was defeated 1 x 0, the team of Borussia Dortmund, corresponding to date 28. of the BundesLiga.

The game was played behind closed doors, by the COVID-19 Pandemic, which attacks the entire planet.


The only goal of the match was scored by the player Joshua Kimmich , to give three important points to the team from the German capital, who are on the verge of conquering a new title.

Manchester United: Solskjaer, counting on Pogba, Rashford for restart

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Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said on Tuesday (May 26) he is confident of having Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford fit should the Premier League season start next month.

Pogba has missed the majority of the campaign with an ongoing ankle injury, while Rashford seemed set to miss the rest of the season when he suffered a double stress fracture in his back in January.

United returned to training in small groups last week and preparations are expected to be ramped up further for a return to action when Premier League clubs vote on resuming contact training on Wednesday.

Hopefully now we've proved we can do this safely and we can move to the next step. It's been really enjoyable being on the training ground again," said Solskjaer.

"They (Pogba and Rashford) are looking good, they've joined training now and they've done everything the other boys have been doing. No reaction so far, touch wood.

"When we get started, it looks like we can have a full squad to choose from." The return of both players could be a major boost to United's hopes of ending the season on a high in three competitions.

Solskjaer's men were three points off the top four in the Premier League when play was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic in March.

English Premier League, training, resumed, from May 19, in small groups

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval . ( dj malanga )

The clubs voted unanimously to allow players to start socially estranged training in an attempt to meet the Premier League mid-June date to resume the season.

Contact training is not allowed at this stage and corner flags, balls, cones, posts, playing surfaces, and other equipment will be disinfected after each session.

Tests for the coronavirus have been carried out in the Premier League clubs in recent days and will continue throughout the training period.

"Strict medical protocols at the highest level will ensure that everyone retrains in the safest possible environment," said a Premier League statement.

"The health and well-being of all participants is the Premier League's priority, and the safe return to training is a step-by-step process.

"The full consultation will now continue with players, managers, clubs, PFA and LMA as protocols for full contact training are developed."

The training protocols were presented to players and managers last week before being sealed during Monday's video conference.

Other rules in phase one include players who do not travel with anyone to or from training, while the use of public transportation and team vehicles is prohibited.

Newcastle was one of the first high-flying teams to confirm that the players had been tested in their training ground.

The club said the players would return on Tuesday, at which time all test results would be known.

Players will be asked to use an app daily to record any symptoms.

Timo Werner nets hat-trick as Leipzig crush hosts Mainz 5 x 0

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Timo Werner scored a hat-trick as RB Leipzig demolished hosts Mainz  5 - 0,  on Sunday (May 24) to reclaim third place in the Bundesliga with an emphatic victory after three straight draws.

Germany international Werner, a target for several top European clubs this summer, opened his account in the 11th minute and Yussuf Poulsen nodded in the second goal in the 23rd.

Marcel Sabitzer killed off the game before the break, flicking in from close range as Mainz collapsed.

Werner scored again three minutes after the restart and the 24-year-old forward chipped the ball over keeper Florian Mueller in the 75th for his 24th goal of the season and 91st in all competitions for Leipzig to become their all-time top scorer.

Timo Werner has developed a very good sense not to move only on the wings but to go over to the 10 position, said Leipzig coach Julian Engelsmann of his striker’s work in a more central attacking role.

“Coupled with his speed, that makes him a more versatile player and makes it harder for his opponents to control him.”

Leipzig, who crushed Mainz 8-0 earlier in the season with Werner grabbing another hat-trick, moved back into third on 54 points, one place ahead of Bayer Leverkusen and two clear of Borussia Monchengladbach.

They have the upper hand in the battle for a Champions League spot.

Bayern Munich 5 vs Eintracht, Frankfurt 2 / BundesLiga of Germany

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( Dj Malanga ) 

Today has been played, the beginning of the date 27, of the BundesLiga, where Bayern Munich thrashed Eintracht Frankfurt 5 x 2.

Leon Goretzka opened the scoring for the home team, with Thomas Müller adding a second before the interval. Martin Hinteregger seventh and eighth league goals of the season gave Eintracht hope after Robert Lewandowski scored Bayern's third, the fourth goal was scored by Alphonso Davies and the fifth goal was scored by Hinteregger in his own goal


The match was played at the Allianz Arena stadium, behind closed doors.

With this result, Bayern Munich continues in first place with 61 points, after 27 games played, followed by Borussia Dourmond, with 57 points.

Arturo Vidal, FC Barcelona player, is celebrating his birthday today.

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( Dj Malanga )

This Friday the player of Chilean origin, former Juventus, former Bayern Munich, and current player of FC Barcelona, has celebrated his birthday and has done it surrounded by all his friends, children and his partner.

  The Chilean midfielder wanted to share it with all his fans on social networks.

"A wonderful day with my loves. They are 33 years old and I feel better than ever !!! Thank you all very much for your greetings and unconditional love, many blessings for everyone !!!", said Arturo Vidal in a comment published on his Twitter .

A wonderful day with my loves They are 33 years old and I feel better than ever !!!  Thank you all very much for your greetings and unconditional love.  Many blessings to all !!! 🙏

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka

Written by : Jose Alvarado Sandoval ( Dj Malanga ) 

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has become the world's highest-paid female athlete, making US$37.4 million  in the past one year, for an earnings record, Forbes magazine reported on Friday (May 22).

The 22-year-old Asian star, a two-time Grand Slam champion, edged US rival Serena Williams by US$1.4 million in prize money and endorsement income over the past year.

Both shattered the old single-year earnings mark of US$29.7 million set in 2015 by Russia's Maria Sharapova, who retired in February with five Grand Slam titles, including a career Slam.

"To those outside the tennis world, Osaka is a relatively fresh face with a great back story," University of Southern California sports business professor David Carter told Forbes.

"Combine that with being youthful and bicultural - two attributes that help her resonate with younger, global audiences - and the result is the emergence of a global sports marketing icon."

Osaka, whose father was born in Haiti and whose mother is Japanese, ranks 29th on the 2020 Forbes list of the world's 100 top-paid athletes, four spots ahead of Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

The complete list, due to be released next week, has not featured two women since 2016, according to the magazine.

Williams, 38, had been the world's highest-paid female athlete in each of the past four years. Sharapova ruled for the five years before that.

Williams had annual incomes from US$18 million to US$29 million and has collected nearly US$300 million, much of it in endorsement deals.

Osaka won back-to-back Grand Slam titles at the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, her controversial and historic victory over Williams in the Flushing Meadows final the first Slam singles crown for a Japanese woman.

Osaka was a popular endorsement figure in Japan ahead of the now-postponed Tokyo Olympics and figures to remain a sponsorship dream through next year's rescheduled Games.

Nike signed a apparel deal with Osaka last year that paid her US$10 million in the past year and runs through 2025. Other endorsement deals include Nissan and Yonex racquets.

2021 'last option' for Tokyo Games, says Olympics chief Thomas Bach

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Olympics chief Thomas Bach said 2021 was the "last option" to hold the delayed Tokyo Games on Thursday (May 21), stressing that the postponement cannot continue forever.

Bach told the BBC that he agreed with Japan's stance that the Games will have to be canceled if the coronavirus pandemic is not under control for next year.

In March, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were postponed until July 23, 2021 when the coronavirus spread across the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people and making international sport impossible.

"Frankly, I understand a little bit (Japan's position) because you cannot employ 3,000 or 5,000 people forever on an organizing committee," said the president of the International Olympic Committee.

"You can't change the entire sports calendar worldwide for the major federations every year."

"You cannot have athletes in uncertainty, you cannot overlap too much with the future Olympics."


The Olympics have never been canceled outside of world wars, but Japanese officials have made clear that they have no intention of postponing the Games again beyond next year.

NFL set to lose $7.7 billion if stadiums are empty

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 NFL teams stand to lose a combined $5.5 billion (S$7.7 billion) in stadium revenue if the 2020 campaign is played without any spectators, according to a Forbes magazine estimate.

The magazine, which annually values each NFL club, said the amount teams would lose with no spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic equals 38 percent of total NFL revenue from the 2018 season, the latest from which figures are available.

That includes lost revenue from ticket sales, parking, sponsors, food and drinks and souvenir sales.

Itis uncertain whether or not fans will be able to attend 2020 NFL games, with state shutdown regulations against large crowds and possible medical advances likely to impact such plans.

The league announced its 2020 schedule earlier this month. It opens September 10 when the Houston Texans visit the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Players would also take a hit as well as club owners, since they are set to receive 47 percent of football-related income under a collective bargaining agreement reached in March.

The absence of spectators would hit some teams harder than others, but none more than the Dallas Cowboys, who would lose US$621 million in stadium income - more than the total revenue of any other NFL franchise and a huge chunk of their US$950 million total revenue

New England Patriots would lose US$315 million from total revenues of US$600 million while the New York Giants ranked third at US$262 million lost from US$519 million in total revenue.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 24th of 31 teams on the list with US$119 million in lost revenue from a US$400 million total, would expect a major jump in ticket sales and associated income after signing six-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady.

And the two bottom teams on the list, the Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders, are set to move into new stadiums with vast boosts in ticket sales and associated income to be expected from the venue switches.

The Raiders figures would show US$77 million in lost revenue from a league-low US$357 million total, but those figures came in Oakland while the team is set to play in a brand new 65,000-seat, US$1.8 billion stadium in Las Vegas in 2020.

The Chargers, second-worst in the report with US$93 million in lost revenue from a US$375 million total, are set to move from a smaller venue into a new US$5 billion stadium with 70,000 seats for regular NFL games.

The Los Angeles Rams, set to drop US$121 million off total revenue of US$401 million, would also make the move into the new stadium.

Qatar World Cup 2022...

Written by:  Jose Alvarado S. ( Dj malanga )

The Qatar World Cup in 2022 will be affordable for fans, or at least the Organizing Committee of the event wants it to be the event with the largest number of fans of all time. In fact, from the country of the Middle East they assured that there will be comfortable prices, understanding that after this pandemic is overcome, an economic recession will come more severe than the current one.

Qatar promises an economically accessible World Cup for fans
Qatar promises an affordable World Cup for fans
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The organization of the event that will take place in 2022 believes that the fans will be able to be present without spending a small fortune despite the economic crisis the planet is experiencing.

This will be the stadium that receives the World Cup final
The Qatar World Cup in 2022 will be affordable for fans, or at least the Organizing Committee of the event wants it to be the event with the largest number of fans of all time. In fact, from the country of the Middle East they assured that there will be comfortable prices, understanding that after this pandemic is overcome, an economic recession will come more severe than the current one.

"We have always said, from day one, that it will be an accessible competition. We want anyone who wants to be able to come to the World Cup without spending a lot of money," said Hassan Al-Thawadi, chairman of the Organizing Committee.

In fact, the clearest example, for them, was the Club World Cup last year when they received hundreds of fans who witnessed the victory of Liverpool, winner of the Champions League.

The Premier League: Six people from three different clubs have tested positive for Covid-19 earlier today.

Written by: Jose Alvarado S. ( Dj Malanga )

The Premier League said Tuesday (May 19) that six people from three different clubs had tested positive for Covid-19 from a sample of 748 individuals.

The new coronavirus tests were taken on Sunday and Monday before returning to small group training.

"Players or club staff who tested positive will now isolate themselves for a period of seven days," the league said in a statement.

The Premier League is providing this aggregate information for the purpose of integrity and transparency of the competition.

"The League will not provide specific details about clubs or individuals and the results will be made public in this way after each round of testing."

On Monday, the Premier League voted to allow clubs to start training in small groups and without contact, and some clubs will return on Tuesday.


The league will decide early next week when to allow contact training as it looks for a June restart for the season that stopped on March 13.

Usain Bolt and his wife welcome their new baby .

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The world athletics legend Usain Bolt, welcomed with his wife Kasi Bennett, their first daughter, this May 18.

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness congratulated sprinter Bolt in a social media post.

"Congratulations to our sprint legend Usain Bolt and Kasi Bennett on the arrival of their baby!" the politician wrote on the Twitter social network.

Bolt, 33, had revealed that he was expecting a daughter with Bennett on social media in March, jokingly warning prospective suitors to stay away from his daughter.

"Any man! Any child! Don't play with me!" joked the eight-time Olympic gold medalist.

Bolt, the world record holder at 100m and 200m, retired from athletics in 2017 after a decade of dominance in the men's sprint.


At the 2016 Olympics, Bolt became the only man to win the 100 and 200 meter titles in three consecutive Olympics.

Congratulations Champion. In good time. 

Bundesliga / Today Sunday/ FC Union Berlin 0 vs Bayern Munich 2

Written by : Jose Alvarado S. ( DJ Malanga ) 

Bayern Munich have beaten away at the Allianz Arena, 0 x 2 to the FC Union team of Berlin, the goals of the visiting team were scored by the players, Benjamin Pavard and Robert Lewandowski.

The game, like those held yesterday, was played behind closed doors and under strict security measures.

He restarted the soccer league in Germany / These were the results.

Written by : Jose Alvarado S. ( Dj Malanga ) 

Today the football league in Germany has restarted, with all games behind closed doors and under strict security measures.


Borussia Dortmund, defeated with a score of 4 x 0 Schalke 04 / FC Augsburg 1 vs Wolfsburg 2 / Fortuna 0 vs SC Paderborn 0 / Hoffenheim 0 vs Hertha Berlin 3 / RB Leipzig 1 vs SC Freiburg 1 / Eintracht Frankfurt 1 vs Borussia Mönchengladbach 3 Tomorrow Sunday: FC Union Berlin vs Bayern Munich and Cologne vs Mainz / Monday: Werder Bremen vs Bayer Leverkusen.

Definitely lacking the discipline of soccer, in this case the German league that has restarted again.

By: Jose Alvarado S.