Derek Jeter's latest injury

 Derek Jeter had to sit out 91 games to play for the New York Yankees this season.
In just one game for him to land back on the shelf.
An MRI revealed the Yankees shortstop and captain has a Grade 1 strain of his right quadriceps. He will miss the team's final three games before the All-Star break, and he will be re-evaluated after that.
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In summoning their captain too soon, the Bombers forgot Derek Jeter is 39 now -- not 29.

"It could resolve after that time frame, it could take more time, and I can't rule out ultimately a disabled list [stint]," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.
Jeter suffered the injury during Thursday's win over the Royals. He was activated prior to the game after missing the season up until now recovering from a broken ankle. Jeter served as the designated hitter, going 1-for-4 before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the eighth inning.
He had to run hard to beat out an infield single in the first inning, as well as on groundouts in the second and fifth, and said his quad tightened up during his third at-bat.
"It's frustrating. I don't know what else you want me to say," Jeter said in a team news release Friday. "I worked hard to get to the point of rejoining the team yesterday. It's not how you draw it up, but hopefully I'll be back out there soon and help this team win some games."
The Yankees' original plan was for Jeter to play one more game with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Thursday as the RailRiders' DH before re-joining the big club Friday. Cashman called Jeter up one day earlier because of injuries to Brett Gardner and Travis Hafner on Wednesday.
"Thought it was a safe harbor because it was a DH situation," Cashman said. "All the reports were he was running extremely well and responding well. But obviously the intensity at Yankee Stadium or another major league environment is obviously more, and certainly stuff can happen."
Jeter played four games with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre earlier in the week without incident, going 1-for-9 with four walks, and playing 17 innings at shortstop.
"I guess you've gotta be careful even when it's just a DH situation," Cashman said. "If there's a lesson to be learned on that, moving up one day appeared to be a harmless circumstance at the time. But listen, you go through the [rehab] process for a reason."
In spite of  trying five shortstops, the Yankees have had little success replacing Derek Jeter this season. Yankees shortstops rank last in the majors in slugging (.283) and second to last in batting (.211). With the glove, the fill-ins' .768 zone rating is 14th in the AL.


 

Peyton Manning

Following high school graduation, Manning decided to attend the University of Tennessee where he, once again, became a star quarterback for the team. While proving his skills on the field, Peyton Manning proved that he had equal skills in the classroom. Earning a BA in speech communication and graduating with honors was important to Manning, which is why he decided to put his football career on hold until he earned his degree.

As 1998 rolled around, Manning became a candidate for the NFL draft. The Indianapolis Colts welcomed Peyton Manning as their first pick in the draft and, as they say, the rest is history. Today, Peyton Manning is the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts where he has remained since his rookie season in the NFL.

On October 29, 2005, Manning's #16 University of Tennessee player number was retired as he, his mom, dad and wife were on hand along with a capacity crowd prior to the University of Tennessee Volunteers game against the South Carolina Gamecocks. Everyone at Neyland Stadium watched as Manning's number was unveiled in the endzone. From 1994 to 1997, Peyton Manning played at the University of Tennessee where he broke nearly every passing record and led the team to 39 victories. Prior to the game, Peyton's PeyBack Foundation held a fundraiser, which raised over $12,000.00 to be used for funding grants and events involving disadvantaged youth in Knoxville.

On Friday, February 3, 2006, Peyton Manning was recognized as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. This award was named in recognition of the legendary Chicago Bears running back, Walter Payton, who passed away in 1999. This award is the only one in the league to recognize a player's off-the-field community service in addition to his playing excellence. Connie Payton, the wife of Walter Payton, proudly presented the award. Fans around the nation celebrate Manning's accomplishments and achievements in football and in life.

When you think about Ervin "Magic" Johnson's game, you wonder how he could have been one of the best point guards in the history of the NBA. Magic lacked great speed his moves weren't exactly smooth or graceful, and he wasn't a great leaper. He wasn't exactly a great shooter as well. What he did do that was great, was play each moment of every game with one thought in his mind. He asked himself "What can I do, right now, to help my team win this basketball game?

During the 1980's nobody came up with the right answer more often than Magic did. 9 times in 12 seasons Magic Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA finals. Five of those times the Lakers won the NBA championship. During three of those championship victories, Magic Johnson was awarded the MVP.

Interesting Facts About Magic Johnson:

One of Magic's most embarrassing moments was when he was leading the LA Lakers out of the locker room in his first basketball game ever as a Laker. He was so nervous that he forgot to tie the drawstring on his warm up pants, which caused him to fall flat on his face when he went out on the court to take his warm up shots. Every time that the Lakers played in Detroit, his mom made fried chicken and fixings for the whole team. Her sweet potato pie became tradition after the game. When Magic moved into his Bel Air mansion, the boy that lived next to him asked if Magic Johnson could play. The next thing the boy knew, Magic Johnson had grabbed a pair of shoes and was out shooting baskets with him!

Magic Johnson Timeline Biography

1980: Wins 1st NBA Championship trophy

1982: Averages an NBA best 2.7 steals per game

1987: Leads the league in assists for the 4th time

1991: Wins 2nd All Star MVP award

Other interesting facts about Magic Johnson:

As a child, Magic Johsnon belonged to the Boys and Girls Club in Lansing, Michigan. As an adult he supports their national organization and the Challenger Club of South Central Los Angeles. He also organizes a Mid Summer's night's Magic, a basketball game to benefit the United Negro College Fund. Since learning he was HIV positive back in 1991 he has set up the Magic Johnson AIDS foundation. Till this day Magic Johnson has done wonders for communities all over the world with his charitable efforts.

Pele

Soccer or football is a popular sport all around the world. One of the most famous players is from Brazil. He is known to millions of fans as Pele: the king of soccer or the soccer magician. Pele was born on October 23rd, 1940 in the city of Tres Coracoes.

Pele in his childhood practiced football tricks with a home made ball. He didn't even have shoes to play. He played with bare feet later. When he was eleven, he played for the team- Little America in Bauru. His team won the match because of a spectacular goal scored by Pele.

Pele was from a poor family. Therefore, he worked as a shoemaker at the railway station to help his family. Later, Santos team of Sao Paulo invited Pele to join their club when he was just fifteen. He played for Santos first team. Only in two months, he became so well known that he was chosen to be on Brazil's all star team.

Pele is the only player in the history of the game to have been a member of three world cup winning teams. He played for Brazil's All Star Team and won the World Cup for them three times in 1958, 1962 and 1970. No any player in the world has achieved this landmark. FIFA declared him as the greatest player in the history of the game alongside Diego Mara Dona in 2000. Pele has scored an amazing 1,283 goals which is the highest number of goals by an individual player till date.

Top dollar trading baseball cards

In the world of sports card and memorabilia collecting there are a few sought after pieces that hold a tremendous monetary and historical value to them. One of these cards is the T206 Honus Wagner vintage baseball card, considered to be the Holy Grail of all sports cards by some collectors. The main reason for this is due to the rarity and age of the card. It is rumored that there is possibly between 50 to 200 cards in existence only, and a few of them may still be lurking out there in the market place.

Honus Wagner, as depicted in the card itself, was a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates during what is referred to today as the 'dead ball" era. Considered to be one of the greatest players of the game, it is no surprise that between the years of 1909-1911 the American Tobacco Company (ATC) wanted to have Wagner's image put on a card as incentive for people to purchase their particular brand of tobacco. Wagner's picture was to be apart of the T206 series, but certain issues arose surrounding the authorization to use his image, which is what led to the low print numbers of his card.

There are two theories floating around that could explain the reason as to why Honus Wagner stopped production of his card. The first school of thought was based on Honus Wagner's personal ethical feelings about having fans that were children, purchasing cigarette packs in order to obtain his card; he did not feel that was right. The second school of thought has to do more with the fact that Wagner was said to be a very shroud negotiator and he did not like the compensation that was being offered to him by the ATC.

From January of 1909 the ATC looked for permission from the player themselves, in order to be included in the T206 series of cards, I believe the whole set had about 524 major league players at the time and roughly 76 of these players then went on to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame. The ATC was anxious to get Honus to be apart of their Ad campaign, seeing as he was rated one of the best players in the league at that time. Wagner had done previous Ad work with other companies such as, a gunpowder company, a soda drink company, as well as a chewing gum company. Whether it was his strong moral feelings, or his tough as nails negotiating skills, no one knows for sure why he actually put a stop to the printing of his cards, but it has kept his cards to a small number, which has now rocketed it's price value sky high.

One of the most notorious of all the Wagner cards has to be the "Gretzky T206 Honus" Card, mainly because of the story of how this particular card traded hands from an average collector, to a sports memorabilia shop, to a top sports memorabilia dealer; who later founded Mastro Auctions. The card then again changed hands to another prominent business man who was affiliated with George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees, long story short the Honus card ended up with a memorabilia collector named Copeland who eventually decided to sell off his entire personal baseball collection which consisted of around 873 pieces.

The Wagner card being apart of this collection, Mastro Auctions contracted Sotheby's New York, to take the collection on consignment. There was a lot of publicity surrounding this collection going up for sale, and it brought out a large number of hobbyist and curious a like. Many of the items that were up for sale went for much more than the estimated pre-auction price. The initial pre-auction price for the Honus card was set at around $114,000.00 but within minutes of the opening bid it had swelled to a whopping $451,000.00, which was paid by Mr. Wayne Gretzky and Mr. Bruce McNall who was the owner of the NHL team the L.A Kings, the pair purchased the card via phone in bidding. After this the card became known as the "Gretzky T206 Honus."

It was determined that the purchase of the card was orchestrated by Mr. McNall. He stated that if you purchase the best in the world, there will always be another buyer who would want to purchase the best as well, so it was bought as an investment for both individuals. Gretzky did eventually resell the card, and he of course made a profit, so I suppose in the end Mr. McNall's thoughts regarding the purchase of the Wagner card were correct. None of the other Wagner cards have been quite as successful in terms of having such a story to tell. The publicity that the Gretzky T206 drew to the existence of the card propelled the card even further into the collecting stratosphere. While the Gretzky card has great entertainment value, it is not the most expensive card to be sold. In fact, the most expensive card to be sold was indeed a Honus Wagner T206, and that took place on an eBay online auction put up by Robert Edward Auctions. The card sold for an insane $1.265 million! So in closing this card currently holds the world record for the most expensive baseball card

Golf

For the golfer, the simplest golf swing is the one that you have perfected. It may have cost you a lot of money to get where you are now, but the end result is satisfying. On the other hand, if you are new at golf, trying to learn how to swing a golf club with good results can be difficult. If you are teeing up, the best way to approach the ball is make direct contact with perfect body and eye coordination.

If you are amazed at the ability of Tiger Woods and other golfers who seem to have their swing down to a science, though you may never reach their ability, it is fun to keep trying. To have that great golf swing requires not only a lot of practice, but patience as well.

To hit the ball squarely on a consistent basis, a great deal of concentration is required. There will be times when everything seems to go right. Then for some reason, the very next time you are out on the course, it seems that every time you take a shot, it does not go where you had hoped. Such is the game of golf. They say that practice makes perfect, but in reality, knowing the proper techniques and practice would be more accurate to say. By repeatedly doing the same motions, you should be able to get to the point where you can be very competitive at the game of golf.

For the best results you should play the game of golf with those that are well experienced and well at the game. Rather than competing with them, you should be competing against yourself while at the same time asking for tips. The key to success is not to over-think the simplest golf swing. With consistent practice and reading articles, you will get the hang of it and eventually lower your handicap to an acceptable number