Congratulations to the amateurs from the DC/MD area who won championships at the East Coast Regional Silver Gloves Championships this past weekend in Augusta, GA.
The DC/MD team won the Team Championship at the event and 23 Beltway Boxers have advanced to next month’s National Silver Gloves Championships in Missouri:
JO-10/11, 60 Pound: Devonte Jefferson
Luton
1-1
Liverpool
John Arne Riise 77 (og)
Peter Crouch 74
The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON
Third Round Proper
4pm, Sunday 6 January 2008
Kenilworth Road
Winning clubs receive £40,000
The FA Live TV fee is £150,000 per club
Stoke City
0-0
Newcastle United
The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON
Third Round Proper
6pm, Sunday 6 January 2008
Britannia Stadium
Winning clubs receive £40,000
The FA Live TV fee is £150,000 per club
Stoke City
0-0
Newcastle United
Tony Pulis
said: “I thought we were a bit tepid in the first half. The second half was more like us. We got the tempo up and took the game to them. It’s desperately disappointing because we had numerous opportunities.
“The chairman will be very pleased. They will be a different proposition at St. James’ and we know that. We had a great opportunity today but I’m very pleased and very proud of the players. The second half was more like us.”
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Earlier in the evening, 39-year-old former IBF light heavyweight champion Glen “Road Warrior” Johnson (47-11-2, 32 KO’s) earned a title shot with the current champ Chad Dawson by easily disposing of a fat and out of shape Hugo Pineda (38-4-1, 28 KO’s), inside of eight rounds.
Fighting for only the fifth time since 1999, the 36-year-old southpaw from Barranquilla, Colombia was slow and fleshy. Pineda’s reflexes and will appeared shot and in the 7th, Johnson (174) caught the lefthander with a volley of clubbing right hands to the top of the skull and a left hook to the jaw. Pineda (177) hit the deck on the seat of his trunks and skidded across the ring coming to rest halfway through the ropes.
Mikhail Youzhny
Chennai, India (Sports Network) – Russian Mikhail Youzhny stunned top-seeded Rafael Nadal in straight sets to win the Chennai Open final on Sunday.
The fourth-seeded Youzhny blitzed Nadal from the outset and was never threatened in an easy 6-0, 6-1 victory.