Sports Info and Highlights: April 2012

Saturday 28 April 2012

NHL - Stanley Cup Playoffs: Round 2

The Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs started yesterday with victory of Phoenix against Nashvilee (4-3).

Here's the Playoffs bracket for the Round 2:

West
LA Kings vs ST Louis Blues
Nashville Predators vs Phoenix Coyotes

East
Washington Capitals vs NY Rangers
NJ Devils vs PHI Flyers

Friday 27 April 2012

NBA - Playoff Bracket

With the "mini" regular season over, it's time to the playoffs. The regular season was very difficult because the players average only 1 day of rest between games. We saw a lots of injuries because of the intensity and the huge amount of games played with so little days. Every game was important, a 4th seed team could lose the playoff spot with just one loss. I'm a Lakers fan but it will be difficult to win the championship. I think that the semi-finalist will be the SA Spurs, OKC Thunder, CHI Bulls and MIA Heat. I would love to see the Thunder win the championship (if LA is already eliminated) because they have such a young an great team built with the draft and I think that Kevin Durant deserves a championship.

Here's the Playoff Bracket:

NFL - Draft 2012: 1st Round

With the 1st round of the nfl 2012 Draft, We got plenty of surprises like the 1st DT drafted: Dontari Poe, David DeCastro sliding to 24, Melvin Ingram only to the 18th pick and a record of trades.

Here's the picks in the first round:

1. Indianapolis -- Andrew Luck, quarterback from Stanford
2. Washington -- Robert Griffin III, quarterback from Baylor
3. Cleveland -- Trent Richardson, running back from Alabama
4. Minnesota -- Matt Kalil, offensive tackle from Southern California
5. Jacksonville - Justin Blackmon, wide receiver from Oklahoma State
6. Dallas - Morris Claiborne, cornerback from LSU
7. Tampa Bay - Mark Barron, defensive back from Alabama
8 . Miami - Ryan Tannehill, quarterback from Texas A & M
9 . Carolina - Luke Kuechly, linebacker from Boston College
10. Buffalo - Stephon Gilmore, cornerback from South Carolina
11. Kansas City - Dontari Poe, defensive tackle from Memphis
12 Philadelphia - Fletcher Cox, defensive tackle from Mississippi State
13. Arizona - Michael Floyd, wide receiver from Notre Dame
14. St. Louis - Michael Brockers, defensive tackle from LSU
15. Seattle - Bruce Irvin, linebacker from West Virginia
16. New York Jets - Quinton Coples, defensive end from North Carolina
17. Cincinnati - Dre Kirkpatrick, cornerback from Alabama
18. - San Diego - Melvin Ingram, defensive end from South Carolina
19. Chicago - Shea McClellin, linebacker from Boise State
20. Tennessee - Kendall Wright, wide receiver from Baylor
21. New England (acquired from Cincinnati) - Chandler Jones, defensive end from Syracuse
22. Cleveland - Brandon Weeden, quarterback from Oklahoma State
23. Riley Feiff, offensive tackle from Iowa
24. Pittsburgh - David DeCastro, offensive guard from Stanford
25. New England (from Denver) - Dont'a Hightower, linebacker from Alabama
26. Houston - Whitney Mercilus, defensive end from Illinois
27. Cincinnati - Kevin Zeitler, offensive guard from Wisconsin
28. Green Bay - Nick Perry , defensive end from USC
29. Minnesota (from Baltimore) - Harrison Smith, defensive back from Notre Dame
30. San Francisco - A.J. Jenkins, wide receiver from Illinois
31. Tampa Bay (from Denver, New England) - Doug Martin, running back from Boise State
32. New York Giants - David Wilson, running back from Virginia Tech

Here's the list of the 1st Round Traded Picks:

# 2 and # 6 - Washington receives the St. Louis's 2012 1st round pick (# 2) for a 2012 (# 6), 2013 and 2014 1st round pick, as well as a 2012 2nd round pick (# 39).

# 3 and # 4 - Cleveland receives Minnesota's 2012 1st round pick (# 3) for Cleveland's 1st (# 4), 4th (# 118), 5th (# 139), and 7th (# 211) round pick.

# 5 and # 7 - Jacksonville receives Tampa Bay's 2012 1st (# 5) round pick for Jacksonville's 2012 1st (# 7) and 4th (# 101) round pick .

# 6 and # 14 - Dallas receives St. Louis's 2012 1st (# 6) round pick (via Wash.) for Dallas' 1st (# 14) and 2nd (# 45) round pick.

# 12 and # 15 - Philadelphia receives Seattle's 2012 1st (# 12) for Philadelphia's 1st (# 15), 4th (# 114) and 6th (# 172) round picks.

# 17 - Cincinnati receives Oakland's 2012 1st round pick and a 2013 conditional pick (1st round pick if Oakland wins a playoff game this year, a 2nd round pick if they don't) for QB Carson Palmer.

# 21 and # 27 - New England receives Cincinnati's 1st (# 21) round pick for New England's 1st (# 27 via NO) and 3rd (# 93) round pick .

# 22 - Cleveland receives Atlanta's 2012 1st and 4th round pick, 2011 1st (#27 - Jonathan Baldwin - Cleveland traded up to #21 - Phil Taylor ), 2nd (#59 - Greg Little) , and 4th (#124 - Owen Marecic) round picks for a 2011 1st round pick (#6).

# 25 and # 31 - New England receives Denver's 2012 1st (# 25) for New England's 1st (# 31) and 4th (# 126) round draft pick.

# 27 - New England receives New Orleans 2012 1st round pick and a 2011 2nd round pick (#56 - Shane Vereen) for 2011 1st round pick (#28 - Mark Ingram).

# 29 - Minnesota receives Baltimore's 2012 1st (# 29) round pick for Minnesota's 2nd (# 35) and 4th (# 98) round draft pick.

# 31 - Tampa Bay receives Denver's 1st (# 31 - via NE) and 4th (# 120) round draft pick for Tampa Bay's 2012 2nd (# 36) and 4th (# 101) round draft picks.

Sunday 22 April 2012

NFL - Schedules released

The 2012 NFL Regular Season Schedules were already released. You can check them at:

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17

Soccer - Borussia Dortmund assured Bundesliga Championship

"Borussia Dortmund retained the Bundesliga title when it beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 Saturday. It was Dortmund's eighth German league championship.

Ivan Perisic scored in the 23rd minute and Shinji Kagawa got the celebrations under way in the 59th.

Dortmund has an unassailable eight-point lead over Bayern Munich with two rounds to play. The team also sealed the title at the same stage last season.

Dortmund stretched its record unbeaten run in a season to 26 games. It became the first team other than Bayern to retain the title since it last did so 16 years ago.

Franck Ribery kept Bayern's slim hopes alive hours earlier when he scored in the 90th minute to earn his team a 2-1 win at Werder Bremen.

Elsewhere, U.S. under-23 player Andrew Wooten scored his first Bundesliga goal for Kaiserslautern, giving the visitors a 2-0 lead in the 38th minute of a 2-1 win at Hertha Berlin." @ espn.com

Tuesday 17 April 2012

NHL - Playoffs

The battle for the Stanley Cup has started. Some teams are already well underway to move to the next round as the LA Kings and PHI Flyers that are already winning 3-0. The biggest surprise is the LA Kings who were the eighth seed from the west and are winning the series 3-0 against the first seed: Vancouver Canucks.

NBA - Standings @ 17th March

With just six games to finish the NBA regular season, there are still some places in dispute to the access of the playoffs. With the regular season reduced to 66 games, every defeat has an even greater value, a team that is on the top seed can be out of the playoff's place with just one loss.