Camilo Villegas Supports BeLive Charity, Juan Pablo Montoya BeLive Gala, Baron Davis and Caron Butler Make History, Pete Sampras Beats Federer for Once, Italian Soccer Violence, David Beckham in Beijing, England Fails to Qualify for Euro’s.
MY WORLD: CAMILO VILLEGAS
Yearning for a little Columbian love, I perused the Golf Channel website for about a second before coming across a hot little sporno called ‘My World: Camilo Villegas.’ I don’t know which part of heaven Villegas fell from, but this must-see video highlights Villegas as he readies himself for a (gulp) photo shoot for a Golf magazine…lowering himself into that oh-so-notorious crawl, caressing his clubs and posing in some hot Lindberg gear. Priceless.
What the video didn’t cover was Camilo’s participation at the BeLive Charity Gala in Miami. On November 15 at Karu & Y Restaurant, the BeLive Gala, hosted by Connie and Juan Pablo Montoya, was held to raise awareness for Columbia. Benefiting their foundation, Formula Smiles, and five others, the red carpet was rolled out and Camilo walked it like a true champion, along with Colombian Fashion Designer Silvia Tcherassi, who held a fashion show during the event. (USA Today)
B-DIDDY-LICIOUS
Someone tapped into their testosterone and put up 33 points, 15 assists and 11 rebounds while ending the Wizards six-game winning steak. Baron Davis and his ferocious beard helped the Golden State Warriors to a 123-115 win over the Washington Wizards, who are playing without their injured star Gilbert Arenas. But another Wizard, Caron Butler deserves some love. Butler contributed 26 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and with that, he and B-Diddy became the first pair of NBA opponents with triple-doubles in the same game in more than 4 1/2 years. Orlando’s Tracy McGrady and New Jersey’s Jason Kidd did it Feb. 23, 2003. Ya really do gotta Fear The Beard sometimes.
THANK YOU PETE
Just prior to their final exhibition game in Macau, Roger Federer and Pete Sampras played tennis with ‘special needs’ kids for a charity event. I know it’s confusing, but Federer is the one wearing a baseball hat. The three-match Asian exhibition series served up a perfect platform for Federer to praise himself from-even AFTER Sampras beat him in the final game 7-6, 6-4. “It’s been tough beating my idol the last two times.” Federer said. “I’m sort of surprised. This guy can play tennis, you know.” (Yahoo.sports)
ITALIAN SOCCER
It’s not over yet…the shooting death of Lazio fan Gabriele Sandri on November 11 continues to have repercussions. (In case ya missed it: Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey from Rome and a Lazio fan, died after getting hit in the neck by a bullet while sitting in a car at a highway rest stop in Tuscany. Police said an officer fired shots to disperse a scuffle between two groups of rival fans. The officer is now under investigation for ‘murder’)
Seven suspects have been arrested in Rome, and another 18 people have been arrested in Milan and other cities where riots also erupted after news spread about the death of Sandri. Outta control fans have smashed windows, hurled stones at police cars and destroyed a few of their motorcycles. And now, two weeks after the incident, games have resumed. Atalanta’s fans protested by showing up 20 minutes after the pitch, and were held back by protection glass during their Serie A match against AC Milan.
Only four grounds have opened to visiting fans for this weekend’s games, and some Serie A fans planned a silent protest at games around the country. The operative words here are “silent protest”. I don’t think Italians are capable of such a thing-as evidenced by the increased violence-but lets see how they do. And before you say anything-I’m Italian so I can rip on my own peeps. If anything, they are passionate about their sports and don’t take kindly to a cop killing a fan. Power to the people…just don’t kill each other pa-leeze.
DAVID BECKHAM IN CHINA
England lost to Croatia 3-2 in a Euro 2008 Qualifying game at Wembley, in London, on Wednesday. I repeat, England has failed to qualify for Euro 2008. “It will be a summer without seeing the flags out in the streets and seeing the atmosphere around England, and that’s going to be devastating for the country,” David Beckham said. “We all know there are more important things than football in the world, but for us not to qualify for a competition it’s a huge, huge thing.”
Indeed. It’s the first major tournament England will miss since the 1994 World Cup, they last missed the Euros in 1984. This ONE loss hit manager Steve McClaren like a ton of bricks, “Ultimately I take responsibility and I accept that. It is my job to get us qualified and I failed to do that. I don’t want to discuss my future.” McClaren doesn’t have to discuss anything, because he was yanked and spanked immediately following the loss-essentially opening the floodgates of discussion as to who will be the new manager of our English babes.
Meanwhile, Becks wasn’t sitting around crying about the loss, he went to Beijing for a promotional event, where some very intelligent children swamped the beast and gave us a wonderful photo.
