Sports Journal: Friday February 17th Top Sports News

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NFL:

The IFL is interested in Randy Moss. I think that an NFL team will get him in the end.
Stevie Johnson and the Buffalo Bills exchanged contract proposals according to Rodney McKissic.

NBA:

Jeremy Lin was added to the Rising-Stars draft. Get ready for Linsanity Orlando.
Andre Iguodala agreed with Floyd Mayweather saying that Lin's success is due to his race. Bad comments, bad comments...
Knicks are closing on a deal for J.R. Smith according to Frank Isola. Not a surprise as the Knicks are considered frontrunners for him along with the Clippers. Update: J.R. Smith has indeed picked the Knicks and could make his debut as soon as Sunday. One player will be cut though to clear up a place on the roster and that player seems like he will be Renaldo Balkman

Lebron James has not ruled out a return to the Cavaliers and hopes that fans will accept him if he comes back. Well Lebron can't go to a team without two All-Stars so except if he returns for the last year of his career, I don't see him coming back.
The players that will compete in the Dunk Contest were announced today and they are : Derrick Williams, Chase Budinger, Paul George and Iman Shumpert. Looks like a nice and young lineup.
Nicki Minaj, Will.I.Am, Ne-Yo and Pitbull will all perform at the All-Star Week-end.
The Pacers went back to their winning ways Thursday night by handing to the Nets their 8th straight loss by beating them 88-93.
The Rose-less Bulls beat the Boston Celtics 89-80. The Bulls were led by Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer as they both scored 23 points while the Celtics were led by Kevin Garnett who scored 18 points.

NHL:

The Rick Nash trade saga continues as there are five teams that Nash will accept a trade to : the Rangers, Kings, Bruins, Sharks and the Leafs according to Aaron Portzline.
The Dallas Stars sent Nicklas Grossman to the Flyers for draft picks while the Sharks sent a second round pick to the Bolts for Dominic Moore.
The Chicago Blackhawks finally snapped out of their nine game losing streak by beating the Rangers in NY last night 4-2 and by doing so ended the Rangers' five game winning streak.
The Tampa Bay Lightning and the San Jose Sharks were involved in a very high scoring game in which the Bolts prevailed in Overtime 6-5 as the game-winning goal came from Martin St. Louis.
The Flyers demolished the Sabres 7-2 and the Three Stars were the following:

Credit to NHL.com

MLB:

Johny Damon still has not found a team and it looks like he will go into Spring Training without a team. It has been said that teams don't want him because he is looking for 3 000 hits while they want him to look for walks.
Teams won the arbitration hearings this year 5-2. Poor players... Just kidding they are all millionaires.
The Houston Astros saw Scott Kazmir throw and the Mets are expected to check him out too.
MLB Legend Gary Carter died yesterday at the age of 57. He was battling cancer. Rest in peace.
There is a mystery team in for A.J. Burnett according to Buster Olney. The talks between the Pirates and Yankees are going very well and a trade is expected very soon but now with this mystery team in we will see where A.J. ends up. The mystery team is not the Angels, nor the Indians. Any guesses? We should watch out for the mystery team because they usually win.

Soccer:

Thursday night's Europa League action was highlighted by the win of Manchester United against Ajax 0-2, Lazio losing to Atletico Madrid 1-3, Legia Warsaw tying with Sporting Lisbon 2-2, Manchester City making a comeback to beat Porto 1-2 and Stoke City falling to Valencia 0-1.

Predicting tonight's games:

Noteworthy thing of the day:

In probably the best advertisement of the year so-far, super-model Kate Upton teaches Justin Verlander, CJ Wilson, Joey Votto and David Price how to play the new MLB 2K12 game. You can't say that 2K doesn't know how to sell games.

(POST WILL BE UPDATED AS THE DAY GOES ON)

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