Thursday February 16th Top Sports News

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NFL:

• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cut Albert Haynesworth. He played in six games for them and I don't think that it will be easy for him to find another team.
• Add the St. Louis Rams to the teams interested in Randy Moss as Jeff Fisher likes him a lot.
• The Met Life Stadium, home of the Giants and Jets, will host Wrestlemania next year announced the WWE.
• Mark Sanchez wants Santonio Holmes to be his Valentine. Weird. Why would you want Holmes when you are rumored to be dating Kate Upton? Just kidding, why would you want Santonio in the first place?

Holmes : "Nope"

NBA:

• The NBA announced that the All-Star three-point shootout will feature : James Jones, Kevin Love, Anthony Morrow, Joe Johnson, Mario Chalmers and Ryan Anderson.
• Jeremy Lin gets a double-double to help the Knicks beat the Kings at MSG, 100-83, by doing so the Knicks extended their winning streak to 7 and are back to .500 (15-15). Tyreke Evans led the Sacramento Kings with 19 points. Linsanity Meter: 4. He put up 10 points and 13 assists in 26 minutes but we've seen a lot more Linsane things and the bar is high so this wasn't so crazy but another very good performance by him.
• Ryan Anderson (27 points) and the Orlando Magic beat the 76ers 103-87 as Howard added a double-double for the Magic, the Sixers were led once again by Lou Williams who recorded 7 assists and 21 points.
• The Boston Celtics were upset by the Detroit Pistons 98-88 as Stuckey scored 25 points and was followed by Gordon and Monroe who both had 22. The top scorer of the game was Rajon Rondo who exploded for 35 points. Do you think that the Celtics will make a trade before the deadline to shake things up? Tell us in the comments.
• The Hornets got their 6th win of their season and their second straight by beating the Milwaukee Bucks 92-89. Ilyasova led the Bucks with 23 points while the Hornets were led by Bellinelli who scored 22 points.
• The T'Wolves snapped out of their 4 game skid as they beat the slumping Bobcats 102-90. All-Star Kevin Love got another double-double while Charlotte was led by Kemba Walker who had 21 points.
• The Houston Rockets are one of teams who actually beat the Thunder even when Durant had scored a clutch three-pointer in the final 20 seconds of the game as they won 96-95. Martin had 32 for the Rockets while Kevin Durant had another big performance with 33 points.

Not this time Kevin.

NHL:

• NHL defenseman Bryan McCabe has retired.
• The NHL is planning to bring a team to Seattle, the plans will be unveiled tomorrow. Which team will land in Seattle? I say the Coyotes as they want to move from Phoenix. What do you think?
• Yesterday Flyers player Jaromir Jagr turned 40. Happy belated birthday!
• The Anaheim Ducks inched closer to a the 8th place in the Western Conference by beating the Penguins 2-1. They are now six points behind the 8th placed Phoenix Coyotes . Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne each scored a goal for the Ducks while Jordan Stall scored the Penguins' unique goal.
• Ottawa demolished Florida 6-2 Wednesday night. O'Brien, Daugavins, Butler, Alfredsson, Michalek and Kuba each scored a goal for the Senators while the Panthers' one goal came from Matthias and the other one from Campbell.
• No game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins could not be decided during the regular time so they went to overtime and then to a shootout in which the current NHL Champions prevailed.

MLB:

•  Yankees and Phillies are going hard after Jorge Soler according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports. The Cubs are also known to have shown interest so this will get interesting.

• Manny Ramirez still hasn't signed with a team but the A's look like the favorites.
• Danny Knobler of CBS Sports reports that Magglio Ordonez who is still without a team, is not willing to accept a minor league deal. Well its better to have something then nothing Magglio...

Soccer:

• In the Champions League AC Milan thrashed Arsenal 4-0 and the English's hopes of moving to the next round seem diminished. In the other game Zenit beat Benfica 3-2, the game in Portugal should be very interesting.
• In the Serie A in Italy, Juventus and Parma had a blank tie while Genoa fell to Atalanta 1-0.
• In International friendly competition Chile lost to Paraguay 2-0 while Nigeria beat Liberia 2-0 too.

Predicting tonight's games:

• NBA
• Pacers over Nets
• Chicago over Boston
• Clippers over Trail Blazers
• NHL
• Rangers over Blackhawks
• Philly over Buffalo
• Sharks over Bolts
• St. Louis over New York Islanders
• Jets over Wild
• Dallas over Calgary
• Kings over Coyotes

Noteworthy thing of the day:

• Olympic swimmer Matt Grevers proposed to his girlfriend Annie Chandler after winning at the Missouri Grand Prix. Aww. #WINNING

(THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED AS THE DAY GOES ON)