(Reuters) - Popular Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow lost his starting job to newly-acquired Peyton Manning on Tuesday and the National Football League team said a decision on his future has not yet been made.
"We're going through that process now," John Elway, Denver's head of football operations, said at Manning's introductory news conference when asked about Tebow's status.
Tebow became a sports and cultural phenomenon last season when he made up for his poor accuracy throwing the ball with powerful runs and charismatic leadership. He salvaged Denver's season with a six-game winning streak that helped them secure a division title and playoff berth.
But his performance was not enough to keep the Broncos from signing 11-time Pro Bowl quarterback Manning to a reported five-year $96 million contract that would give him the league's top average annual salary.
Tebow, a college-style quarterback whose public displays of religiosity polarized public opinion, became the talk of the NFL and inspired a wide following of fans.
Elway, a Hall of Fame quarterback who won two Super Bowls with Denver, said he spoke with Tebow on Monday evening about the possibilities, which include being traded.
"The toughest thing about this whole thing is Tim Tebow because of what I think of Tim Tebow," Elway said.
"The things that he did last year was tremendous and helped turn this organization around from a 4-12 team to a playoff team and winning the division. I've got a great deal of respect for him as a person and the things that he does.
"We just had to make a decision ... what would be the best opportunity for the Denver Broncos to be competitive for a world championship ... and Peyton Manning was that."
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Elway said Tebow was disappointed, but did not say so.
"It was a typical Tim Tebow response in the fact that he was very positive. He said, 'Well, we're talking about Peyton Manning and I understand exactly what you're doing.'
"Now we'll go look at that and see what is the best thing for the Denver Broncos."
The Jacksonville Jaguars have been nike skate shoes men
mentioned as a possible landing spot for Tebow, who rose to fame at the University of Florida, where he won a pair of BCS national championships and the Heisman Trophy as most outstanding college football player.
The Miami Dolphins, New York Jets and Green Bay Packers were other teams that have reportedly inquired about Tebow.
After being named Denver's starter last October, Tebow was the talk of the NFL. The phrase 'Tebow Time' was coined to capture the fact that five times his Broncos won games with late comebacks despite his woeful 46.5 percent completion rate.
His post-touchdown, knelt-in-prayer pose - known as "Tebowing" - inspired fans around the world. Many have posted pictures of themselves "Tebowing" on sites such as Tebowing.com.
Manning called Tebow a greatnike sb blazers sale
player, said he has plenty of respect after watching him play last season and would welcome him as a team mate if the Broncos do not trade him.
"If Tim Tebow is here next year I am going to be the best team mate I can be to him, and he and I are going to help this team win games," said Manning.
"If other opportunities present themselves for him I am going to wish him the best. He is going to be a great player wherever he is."
(Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue)
2012年3月21日星期三
Late Gundogan strike fires Dortmund into cup final
Substitute Ilkay Gundogan hit the winner in the last minute of extra time as German league leaders Borussia nike shoes sanfrancisco
Dortmund beat second division Greuther Fuerth 1-0 in Tuesday's German Cup semi-final.
"It's going to take a while for that goal to sink in, I need to have a sit down in the changing rooms to take it in," admitted the 21-year-old after his 120th-minute winner.
Just seconds before the match went to penalties, Gundogan fired home from the edge of the penalty area after Fuerth's coach switched goalkeepers just two minutes before and Jasmin Fejzic was beaten at the near post.
Dortmund will now face either Borussia Moenchengladbach or Bayern Munich, who meet in Wednesday's other semi-final, in the German Cup final at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on May 12.
"I don't care who we play now," said Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp.
"We deserved to reach the final, but I had already resigned myself to penalties and I do feel really sorry for the goalkeeper."
Fuerth battled hard throughout at nike store airport
their sold-out Trolli Arena stadium with each one of the 15,500 seats taken as the second-division leaders were denied their first cup final appearance.
Dortmund could have won the game over the 90 minutes as both Japan winger Shinji Kagawa and Germany midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz fired just wide in the second half.
Borussia had the better of the chances with 17 shots on goal after the first 100 minutes compared to the Bavarians' four.
Dortmund will be looking to claim their third German Cup title having last won the trophy in 1989.
In Wednesday's other semi-final, Gladbach host Bayern looking for their third consecutive victory over the Bavarian giants this season.
Gladbach have won both their Bundesliga matches against Bayern this season, a 1-0 victory in Munich on the first day of the season and then a 3-1 home win in January.
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Herrman, who scored two of the three goals against Bayern in January, is set for a return against the Bavarians a month after fracturing his collarbone.
Bayern will be without Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger who is working his way back to full fitness after tearing ankle ligaments in February.
Bayern are in fine form having scored 20 goals in their last three games while Gladbach needed a late goal to seal a 2-1 win at Leverkusen on Saturday in the league, the same day Bayern won 6-0 at Hertha Berlin.
Dortmund beat second division Greuther Fuerth 1-0 in Tuesday's German Cup semi-final.
"It's going to take a while for that goal to sink in, I need to have a sit down in the changing rooms to take it in," admitted the 21-year-old after his 120th-minute winner.
Just seconds before the match went to penalties, Gundogan fired home from the edge of the penalty area after Fuerth's coach switched goalkeepers just two minutes before and Jasmin Fejzic was beaten at the near post.
Dortmund will now face either Borussia Moenchengladbach or Bayern Munich, who meet in Wednesday's other semi-final, in the German Cup final at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on May 12.
"I don't care who we play now," said Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp.
"We deserved to reach the final, but I had already resigned myself to penalties and I do feel really sorry for the goalkeeper."
Fuerth battled hard throughout at nike store airport
their sold-out Trolli Arena stadium with each one of the 15,500 seats taken as the second-division leaders were denied their first cup final appearance.
Dortmund could have won the game over the 90 minutes as both Japan winger Shinji Kagawa and Germany midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz fired just wide in the second half.
Borussia had the better of the chances with 17 shots on goal after the first 100 minutes compared to the Bavarians' four.
Dortmund will be looking to claim their third German Cup title having last won the trophy in 1989.
In Wednesday's other semi-final, Gladbach host Bayern looking for their third consecutive victory over the Bavarian giants this season.
Gladbach have won both their Bundesliga matches against Bayern this season, a 1-0 victory in Munich on the first day of the season and then a 3-1 home win in January.
Moenchengladbach midfielder Patricknikeid football cleats
Herrman, who scored two of the three goals against Bayern in January, is set for a return against the Bavarians a month after fracturing his collarbone.
Bayern will be without Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger who is working his way back to full fitness after tearing ankle ligaments in February.
Bayern are in fine form having scored 20 goals in their last three games while Gladbach needed a late goal to seal a 2-1 win at Leverkusen on Saturday in the league, the same day Bayern won 6-0 at Hertha Berlin.
2012年3月15日星期四
Assad’s in-box: Alleged emails of Syrian dictator and wife give glimpse into inner circle
As the Syrian death toll continues to mount, countries from around the world have vehemently condemned its leader Bashar al-Assad for prolonging his bloody, year-long crackdown on unrest. But the dictator and his London-born wife Asma al-Assad appear to live in a surreal psychological bubble, insulated from the grotesque violence that has claimed the lives of 8,000 Syrians, according to a cache of some 3,000 alleged emails and documents obtained by Syrian activists and published by the Guardian Wednesday.
The supposed emails portray a dictator both sentimental and sinister. Assad, who allegedly used the email address Sam@alshahba.com according to the hacked emails, took to his iPad to send his wife American country music favorites from iTunes and to search for "America's Got Talent" videos. In addition to the light fare, he also sent out rabidly paranoid articles to his inner circle that accuse the American envoy to Syria of recruiting al-Qaida-linked "Arab 'death squads'" to try to topple him, as the Guardian reports:
Assad's emails reveal his inner fears and suspicions. On 16 October, as the UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, called for international action to avoid "full-blown civil war" in Syria, Assad circulated from his iPad an article to a list of undisclosed recipients an article alleging that the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, was responsible for "recruiting Arab 'death squads' from al-Qaida-affiliated units in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Chechnya to fight against Syrian military and police".
He sent another rabid article to his wife on 23 July that described Rupert Murdoch as a Jew and an Israeli citizen and "pretty much" Satan.
But the dictator, who trained as an eye doctor in the UK before assuming the Syrian presidency from his late father Hafaz al-Assad, also "kept up a flow of personal, loving emails to his wife using the disguised accounts....Sometimes he searched the internet for video clips that impressed him, on one occasion sending her a clip from America's Got Talent of 'the best illusion of all time' — a man appearing to saw another man in half and then putting him back together again, to the delight of the judges David Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan," the Guardian wrote.
The hacked emails show his wife Asma al-Assad (who allegedly used the email address ak@alshahba.com), to be mostly obsessed with luxury shopping.
"On 3 February 2012, she was browsing the internet for luxury shoes, according to an email titled "Christian Louboutin shoes coming shortly," the Guardian reports. "Does anything catch your eye" she asks a friend, who responded frankly: "I don't think they're going 2 b useful any time soon unfortunately."
The authenticity of the emails has not yet beennikes for cheap
independently verified. The Guardian explains why it believes the emails are genuine, and its extensive efforts to vet them, here.
"Activists say they were passed username and nike outlet park city
password details believed to have been used by the couple by a mole in the president's inner circle," the paper writes. "They say the details allowed girls nike shox
uninterrupted access to the two Inboxes until the leak was discovered in February."
The UN's special envoy to Syria, former UN chief Kofi Annan, recently returned from meeting Assad in Damascus last weekend, and is due to brief the UN Security Council on Syria this Friday.
The supposed emails portray a dictator both sentimental and sinister. Assad, who allegedly used the email address Sam@alshahba.com according to the hacked emails, took to his iPad to send his wife American country music favorites from iTunes and to search for "America's Got Talent" videos. In addition to the light fare, he also sent out rabidly paranoid articles to his inner circle that accuse the American envoy to Syria of recruiting al-Qaida-linked "Arab 'death squads'" to try to topple him, as the Guardian reports:
Assad's emails reveal his inner fears and suspicions. On 16 October, as the UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, called for international action to avoid "full-blown civil war" in Syria, Assad circulated from his iPad an article to a list of undisclosed recipients an article alleging that the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, was responsible for "recruiting Arab 'death squads' from al-Qaida-affiliated units in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Chechnya to fight against Syrian military and police".
He sent another rabid article to his wife on 23 July that described Rupert Murdoch as a Jew and an Israeli citizen and "pretty much" Satan.
But the dictator, who trained as an eye doctor in the UK before assuming the Syrian presidency from his late father Hafaz al-Assad, also "kept up a flow of personal, loving emails to his wife using the disguised accounts....Sometimes he searched the internet for video clips that impressed him, on one occasion sending her a clip from America's Got Talent of 'the best illusion of all time' — a man appearing to saw another man in half and then putting him back together again, to the delight of the judges David Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan," the Guardian wrote.
The hacked emails show his wife Asma al-Assad (who allegedly used the email address ak@alshahba.com), to be mostly obsessed with luxury shopping.
"On 3 February 2012, she was browsing the internet for luxury shoes, according to an email titled "Christian Louboutin shoes coming shortly," the Guardian reports. "Does anything catch your eye" she asks a friend, who responded frankly: "I don't think they're going 2 b useful any time soon unfortunately."
The authenticity of the emails has not yet beennikes for cheap
independently verified. The Guardian explains why it believes the emails are genuine, and its extensive efforts to vet them, here.
"Activists say they were passed username and nike outlet park city
password details believed to have been used by the couple by a mole in the president's inner circle," the paper writes. "They say the details allowed girls nike shox
uninterrupted access to the two Inboxes until the leak was discovered in February."
The UN's special envoy to Syria, former UN chief Kofi Annan, recently returned from meeting Assad in Damascus last weekend, and is due to brief the UN Security Council on Syria this Friday.
Gingrich: No One Understands Me
PALATINE, Ill. – Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich late Wednesday expressed frustration with both the news media and the Republican Party establishment for failing to understand his “large ideas” for transforming American politics.
As calls for Gingrich to bow out of the race grew louder following his second-place finishes in Mississippi and Alabama – two states he said he had a chance of winning – the candidate seemed to be in low spirits and offered a grumpy analysis of the state of the GOP primary to a crowd that gathered for a Lincoln Day Dinner in this Northwestern suburb of Chicago.
“The thing I find most disheartening of this campaign is the difficulty of talking about large ideas on a large scale, because the news media can’t cover it and candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,” Gingrich said, while also vowing to continue his campaign to the convention in Tampa this summer.
He called himself the only candidate of the four still in the contest “focused on ideas and … solutions and not just the usual politics” and the only one advocating wholesale change to a political system that is “methodically and deliberately stupid.”
Other parts of his speech covered topics ranging from President Abraham Lincoln promoting the transcontinental railroad to the anti-fraud system of the American Express credit card company. Gingrich spoke of the need for a “technological revolution” in government, but lamented that no one but him seemed to understand that.
“Let me just talk for a second about technology and grand opportunities,” he said. “Other than Ronald Reagan, I know of no Republican in my lifetime who’s been able to talk about this. That’s why I’m still running.”
The former House speaker from Georgia has recently focused his campaign on the issue of high gas prices, promising as president to restore them to no more than $2.50 a gallon. But he often also speaks at length on a wide range of topics, covering everything from brain science to space exploration to the need to utilize modern management practices to reform entire sectors of the government.
“I want to be the candidate of science and technology,” he said. “Whether it’s on energy, it’s on stopping crooks in Medicare and Medicaid, it’s on getting into space, which I was ridiculed (for), or it is on helping you makebuy nike air max
sure that your family doesn’t suffer from something that could be avoided.”
And he chided fellow Republicans for failing to see nike outlet albertville mn
the need for a party makeover. The GOP, he said, has been governing like the Democratic Party since 2006, when it lost control of the Congress.
“We cannot be a normal party,” he told the nike shox girls
suburban Republican crowd. “If we run a normal campaign, trying to govern within the framework of the current system, we have no future, because people would rather have Democrats do it. They at least enjoy it.”
As calls for Gingrich to bow out of the race grew louder following his second-place finishes in Mississippi and Alabama – two states he said he had a chance of winning – the candidate seemed to be in low spirits and offered a grumpy analysis of the state of the GOP primary to a crowd that gathered for a Lincoln Day Dinner in this Northwestern suburb of Chicago.
“The thing I find most disheartening of this campaign is the difficulty of talking about large ideas on a large scale, because the news media can’t cover it and candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,” Gingrich said, while also vowing to continue his campaign to the convention in Tampa this summer.
He called himself the only candidate of the four still in the contest “focused on ideas and … solutions and not just the usual politics” and the only one advocating wholesale change to a political system that is “methodically and deliberately stupid.”
Other parts of his speech covered topics ranging from President Abraham Lincoln promoting the transcontinental railroad to the anti-fraud system of the American Express credit card company. Gingrich spoke of the need for a “technological revolution” in government, but lamented that no one but him seemed to understand that.
“Let me just talk for a second about technology and grand opportunities,” he said. “Other than Ronald Reagan, I know of no Republican in my lifetime who’s been able to talk about this. That’s why I’m still running.”
The former House speaker from Georgia has recently focused his campaign on the issue of high gas prices, promising as president to restore them to no more than $2.50 a gallon. But he often also speaks at length on a wide range of topics, covering everything from brain science to space exploration to the need to utilize modern management practices to reform entire sectors of the government.
“I want to be the candidate of science and technology,” he said. “Whether it’s on energy, it’s on stopping crooks in Medicare and Medicaid, it’s on getting into space, which I was ridiculed (for), or it is on helping you makebuy nike air max
sure that your family doesn’t suffer from something that could be avoided.”
And he chided fellow Republicans for failing to see nike outlet albertville mn
the need for a party makeover. The GOP, he said, has been governing like the Democratic Party since 2006, when it lost control of the Congress.
“We cannot be a normal party,” he told the nike shox girls
suburban Republican crowd. “If we run a normal campaign, trying to govern within the framework of the current system, we have no future, because people would rather have Democrats do it. They at least enjoy it.”
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