Wednesday February 15th Top Sports News

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NFL:

• Jim Irsay the owner of the Colts said that he wants to keep Peyton Manning in Indy but with a reduced salary. If I was Manning I'd get out of there as for me he is not getting the respect he deserves from the owner of a team he gave so much too.
• The agent of Randy Moss said that three teams are already showing interest in him.
• Giants running back Brandon Jacobs is willing to restructure his contract with the Giants as he said that he would like to retire a Giants player but otherwise he would like to join the coach he bashed on live TV, Rex Ryan and go to the Jets.

NBA:

• J.R. Smith is coming back to the United States Wednesday and the contenders to get him are the Knicks, Clippers, Bulls, Pacers, Magic and Lakers. Those are the teams listed on his biography in Twitter with question marks next to each one of them.

I say Clippers or Knicks.

• Linsanity goes on! Jeremy Lin hit a game-winner three pointer for the Knicks against the Toronto Raptors with 0.5 seconds left on the clock! The Knicks had Stoudemire back who sported a new tattoo (a teardrop because of his brother's death a week ago due to a car accident) and their winning streak continues as it reaches six games. To show you how big the Jeremy Lin story is right now, the official site of the NBA (www.nba.com) had a Breaking News graphic on their site saying that Lin hit the winner. Normally the NBA only has those Breaking News graphics when a player gets injured, if there's a trade and when a team moves on to the next round of the playoffs. All he does is Lin. Linsanity Meter: 9. Another amazing game by Lin and he hit the game-winner so that's as amazing as it gets.

Linderella Story

• Tim Thibodeau will coach the Eastern All-Stars team the NBA announced after the Bulls beat the Kings in a very high scoring game, 121-115.
• The Indiana Pacers fell to the Miami Heat (who got their 4th straight away win) 105 to 90. Miami was led once again by Lebron James who scored 23 points.
• The Denver Nuggets snapped out of their 5 game home losing streak by beating the Phoenix Suns 109-92.
• In another very high scoring game the Washington Wizards beat the Portland Trail Blazers 124-109. It was a very impressive performance by the Wizards as Wall had 29 points and 9 assists, Nick Young had 35 points and Joe Crawford added another 21 points. Batum and Wallace had 33 and 25 points respectively for the Trail Blazers.

NHL:

• The Red Wings made NHL history last night. They beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 to reach 21 straight home wins which is a new NHL record. For the Red Wings Zetterberg, Stuart and Hudler scored one goal each while the goal of the Stars came from Burish.  Congratulations to Detroit.
• The Boston Bruins lost the Rangers 3-0 on Tuesday night. By doing so Henrik Lundqvist got his 7th shutout of the season and the Rangers extended their Eastern Conference lead to 9 points. Are they looking like a Stanley Cup contender? Yes Sir.
• The Chicago Blackhawks lost their 9th straight game as the Nashville Predators beat them 3-2. Things are not looking good for Chi-town and with the trade deadline approaching they should look for a trade.

MLB:

• The Tampa Bay Rays extended Joe Maddon's contract for another three years. 

• In other managerial news, the Kansas City Royals picked up Ned Yost's option for 2013.
• The Yankees and Pirates are still discussing the AJ Burnett deal but two other teams got into the mix for AJ Burnett. It was the Indians (Trade centered around Travis Hafner) and the Angels (trade centered around Bobby Abreu) but talk concerning those two teams are dead according to
• The Athletics did not give Cuban defector Yoennis Cespedes a no-trade clause according to Ken Rosenthal. If he turns into a star maybe he wont go Jason Giambi or Johnny Damon on the A's and leave them for another team with a lot more money than the A's.
• Let the rumors begin as Jorge Soler, the 19 year old Cuban OF is garnering a lot of attention from teams.

Soccer:

• In the Champions League Lyon beat APOEL 1-0. Not a big advantage as APOEL is known to upset and the next game is in Cyprus. In the other game Barcelona beat Bayern Leverkusen 1-3. Alexis Sanchez scored 2 goal for Barca while Messi scored the other one. The only goal for Bayern Leverkusen came from Kadlec.
• Olympiakos beat Rubin Kazan in Russia 1-0 for the Europa League in the other game Besiktas beat Braga in Portugal 2-0 by goals from Sivok and Simao.

Predicting tonight's games:

• NBA
• Spurs over Raptors
• Orlando over Philadelphia
• Celtics over Pistons
• Memphis over New Jersey
• Knicks over Kings
• Cleveland over Indiana
• Bucks over Hornets
• Oklahoma City over Houston
• T'Wolves over Bobcats
• Denver over Dallas
• Hawks over Suns
• Golden State over Portland
• Clippers over Wizards
• NHL
• Penguins over Ducks
• Montreal over Boston
• Senators over Panthers
• Toronto over Edmonton
• Canucks over Avalanche

Noteworthy thing of the day:

• The Yankees will release their official fragrance on February 21st, now you can smell like a Yankee. There will be two fragrances. One called "New York Yankees" and one called "New York Yankees for Her".