Schumacher's Return is a Great Anti-Climax

Four races into the Formula One season, proof is gradually accumulating that Michael Schumacher is no longer the unconquerable driver he once was.

Michael Schumacher-seven-time Formula One champion's much-hyped comeback is quickly proving an anticlimax. In its place of being carefully thought out, it is beginning to look like the futile idiocy of a middle-aged man who got bored in retirement and who missed racing's adrenaline buzz but who also made the mistake of joking himself that he still has that old magic.

At 41, Schumacher is viewing his age. There's no slip-up how the close face-squeezing fit of his race helmet groups and accentuates the telltale wrinkles around his eyes. The racing corrosion is proving upsetting, hard to shake off. If not he can quickly get back up to speed, F1's most successful driver could, at this rate, go the entire season without winning a race.

Young drivers have easily had his measure, even in the rain where Schumacher's sure touch of the wheel, controlling the love of risk and steady nerves once made him so hard to beat. The feeling of quasi-invincibility that once surrounded Schumacher hasn't followed him out of withdrawal. Now, he simply looks ordinary, a chilly fact that McLaren's Lewis Hamilton indirectly acknowledged this weekend.

"It's just as thrilling as racing with any other driver" was Hamilton's ho-hum answer when asked what it is like to compete against the German who owns a big chunk of F1's records.

The most derogatory evidence of Schumacher's beg off is that his teammate Nico Rosberg, 17 years his junior, is driving brilliantly in precisely the same car.

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Injured LeBron Help Cavs To Eliminate Bulls in 5

The KING (LeBron James) pulled his right arm tightly to his chest, incapable to do anything but frown as the final seconds expired on Cleveland’s series-clinching win.

The Chicago Bulls were lastly out of the way. However, for the Cavaliers, touching on in the NBA playoffs wasn’t pain free.

LeBron playing regardless of his right elbow injury that went numb and forced him to shoot a free throw with his left hand in the dying seconds, just missed a triple-double as the Cavs advanced to a playoff date with Boston by beating Chicago 96-94 in Game 5 on Tuesday night in possibly Vinny Del Negro’s final game as Bulls coach.

Despite of the injury James scored 19 points – 16 in the second half – added 10 rebounds and contribute 9 assist as the Cavs finally burden the obstinate Bulls to end the series 4-1. After making single free throw, James then lifted and missed the second with his left with 7.8 seconds remaining and the Cavs only ahead by four.

LeBron James doesn’t know when he injured the elbow, which he said troubled him the entire second half. He exposed after the game that he underwent an MRI and X-rays two days ago.

“It troubles me because I don’t know what it is,” James said. “Hopefully it doesn’t continue to burden me. But I’m not worried. There’s nothing to worry about for the fans. No reason to panic. I don’t mind it’s that serious.”

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British Open Waiting for Tiger Woods Entry

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – The British Open Organizers are still waiting the confirmation of the entry from Tiger Woods but expect him to try and become the primary player to win the title three times at St. Andrews on the tournament's 150th anniversary.

Peter Dawson, the Royal and Ancient Club executive told the news conference on Thursday that Woods had not yet shows a confirmation of his entry to the tournament, however, the American normally waits longer before confirming his entry. May 27 is the deadline of the entry.

Tiger Woods come back to competitive golf at the Masters after an elongated layoff following a sex scandal.

Tiger Woods among of the five players to have won the Open twice at St. Andrews. He dominates the last two majors played there, in the year 2000 and 2005. This year tournament will be takes place on July 15-18.

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Wade’s 46 Leads Heat Past Celtics 101 – 92

Staring playoffs elimination in the face and the opportunity of playing his last game in Miami, Dwyane Wade explodes with a career playoff-high 46 points to help the Miami Heat to a 101-92 victory over the Boston Celtics last Sunday.

At the end of the season Dwyane Wade become a free agent and possibly be on his way out of Miami. He gives his team an assurance to stave off elimination for another two days anyway, by scoring a 19 of points in the fourth that includes three quick-three-pointers.

The win reduced their deficit in the Eastern Conference best-of-seven series to 3-1 with Game Five heading back to Boston on Tuesday, despite the fact that no team has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win in the playoffs.

In an interview, Wade says, “Were always going to fight” after leading the heat to a 25 – 8 run to open the final quarter.

"We fought today and I finally had an excellent shooting game the way I wanted to, he added.

Rajon Rondo provide 23 points and nine assists while Kevin Garnett finished with 18 and 12
rebounds for the Celtics who had formerly defeated the Heat in all six meetings this season.

Shedding Paul Pierce's buzzer-beater shot to bring the win in Game Three, Boston fell behind by 13 after the first quarter but claimed a six-point lead after the third before Wade twisted the game with his fourth-quarter performance.

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Playoff Preview: First Round Match Up - Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls

This is one series I feel in no doubt speculating about: The Cleveland Cavaliers is obviously the better team and will undoubtedly best the Bulls in this best of seven series in the first round of the play off. On the other Chicago has had a great run to make it into the playoffs; unfortunately they don’t have enough strength and size to take on the Cavaliers.

With the guidance of the KING, the league MVP LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers are just too deep and too experienced. Equipped with high caliber weapons like Shaq, Z, Williams and Jamison there is nothing that this team doesn’t have – they have size, scoring, defense, rebounding. And they are on a mission to get in to the Finals.

In Cavaliers mind, they want to take Bulls out right away. Fortunately, LeBron get right back into his rhythm as he returns to the court after taking some time off and give Cavaliers a two nothing game advantage over Bulls.

Chicago is competing two things have to happen for as the play offs goes on: Noah has to play off the charts like he did during the past games and guards Rose and Hinrich have to make shots. Deng also has to play big because he’s probably going to be guarding LeBron, in order to retain their moral after losing two times in a row at the Quicken Loans Arena.

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