Feb 08
PHOENIX — Shaquille O’Neal had strong words for those who doubt he can fit in with the Phoenix Suns.
“I’m very upset,” he said Thursday at his introduction news conference. “You just don’t really want to get me upset. When I’m upset, I’m known to do certain things — like win championships.”
O’Neal, once the game’s dominant big man but now slowed by a hip injury, said he is motivated by the negative talk.
“This team has always been there in the Western Conference,” he said. “They just couldn’t quite get over the hump. I think with my experience and my on the court-off the court leadership, I can help them get over the hump.”
Asked what he felt when he heard he could be going to Phoenix, O’Neal said, “I wanted it to happen because I was going to be coming to a fabulous team with a lot of unselfish players, a lot of great players.”
He said people are “going to be very surprised” about his role in a Suns running game orchestrated by Steve Nash.
“The last couple of years I was in a system that we really didn’t run, so you automatically think I can’t run,” he said. “But I love to run, especially if I’m playing with a great guy like Steve Nash. I look forward to making people eat their words, I really do.”
O’Neal, who turns 36 next month, has been out for two weeks with a hip injury but cleared his physical Wednesday and hopes to play before the All-Star break.
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Feb 08
WESTS Tigers superstar Benji Marshall says the time for hiding is over as he looks to haul the NRL club back to the giddy heights of their 2005 premiership triumph.
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Feb 08
As he prepares to call tomorrow night’s bout between Darnell Wilson and BJ Flores, ESPN2 Friday Night Fights blow-by-blow man Joe Tessitore looks back on Wilson’s explosive knockout over Emmanuel Nwodo and how Flores will have to avoid the same fate.
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Source: ESPN’s Tessitore Reflects on ‘The Most Devastating Knockout I’ve Ever Seen!’
Feb 08
The Sooners stand eighth after 36 holes of the spring opener in Hawaii.
Feb. 7, 2008
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Feb 08
BBC World Service: Nations Cup Daily
Ghana, 20 January - 10 February
Nations Cup game | Team guides
Fixtures | Results | Tables
Squad selector for each team
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- Photos
- Gha 0-1 Cam
- Cameroon joy
- CIV 1-4 Egy
- Egypt delight
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Feb 08
The Bucknell wrestling team begins the final stretch of its dual meet schedule as the Bison (7-9-1, 2-3 EIWA) will play host to Lock Haven this Friday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. in Davis Gym. The match-up against the Bald Eagles marks the first of three straight home meets for the Orange and Blue prior to the squad’s dual meet season finale at Cornell on Feb. 23.
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Feb 08
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart dismissed three players charged with felony possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver.
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