Carmelo Anthony scored eight points in his possible goodbye to the West team. The weekend was dominated by talk of a potential trade to New York or New Jersey, and the Denver Nuggets forward appeared alternately entertained and annoyed by the constant questions.

“At times, it can be tough, but it’s fun at the same time,” he said while walking on the magenta carpet before the game. “During this weekend I’m still having fun.”

Bryant matched Bob Pettit’s NBA record with his fourth MVP award in just 10 years.Although the protracted courtship of West starter Carmelo Anthony dominated much of the All-Star weekend discussion, Kobe gave the Los Angeles crowd another memory to go with Clippers rookie Blake Griffin’s dunk contest win on Saturday.James had 29 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for the East, but Miami teammate Dwyane Wade limped off in the third quarter. Wade finished with 14 points.Bryant didn’t score in the final 6:48, falling short of Wilt Chamberlain’s All-Star Game record of 42 points in 1962.Bryant won the All-Star MVP trophy in 2002 and 2007 before sharing it with Shaquille O’Neal in 2009. Pettit won four MVP awards with the St. Louis Hawks from 1956-62.NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant had 34 points for the West, and New York’s Amar’e Stoudemire had 29 for the East.

While hearing some of the usual “MVP! MVP! chants he’s usually serenaded with at Staples Center, Bryant tied Bob Pettit’s record for All-Star game honors. He was scoreless for the final 6:48, but Lakers teammate Pau Gasol had a big basket to help the West hold on.

Gasol scored 17 points, helping the West hold on against an East team featuring a combined seven players from Boston and Miami, considered two of the biggest threats to end the Lakers’ reign.

The exhibition game had a bit of a finals feel with the presence of a record-tying four players from the rival Celtics.

Paul Pierce – who grew up in nearby Inglewood – and Kevin Garnett received the heaviest boos during the starting lineups. Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo were also here from the group that lost Game 7 on this floor last June and would love another chance to come take the title back.

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Rampage did only coverage because he was pushed backwards suddenly. He tried his best to answer with a few shots of  his own but Machida grabbed him down and earned a sharp take down.

before this, he done a very good job on top and passed from half guard to side control and eventually full mount. He threw his leg over to look for an arm bar and Rampage swiped over and picked him up to execute a slam. But Machida smartly let go of  his arm and they reset.

Jackson got aggressive to end the fight but Machida clinched up and earned another quick take down and worked submissions as the round ended.

Jackson, who was born in Memphis got back to his feet and fought back disappointedly.

After the fight Jackson said that Machida is hard to hit and he did a great job. It was different but interesting fighting Machida than looking at him. I have got more respect for his style now. Honestly, I had like to move like him. But I wouldn’t want to watch his style.

Further Jackson said he felt Machida deserved a rematch. UFC president Dana White also said at the post fight news conference that was not going to happen for the time being anyway.

Jackson seemed to be  Shogun’s style of walking down Machida but unfortunately forcing him to counter more hardly.  Joe Rogan commented that Machida laying down with his feet Karate style rather than his shins like most MMA fighters who were trained Muay Thai striking. Rampage started chase Lyoto down and came in swinging. Machida tied him up. Jackson landed some foot stomps and body punches against the fence.

Marshall ‘s performance is not so good he was just trying  to caught a few passes for almost 41 yards and also through a 15 yard taunting bad penalty before limping off the field in the first half. He would only return to the sidelines wearing street clothes. Brandon Marshall injuries might be effected his performance badly.

Tony Sparano, the  coach of  Dolphins commit  after the game there was “tightness” in Marshall’s hamstring, but he provided no further updates regarding this.

Officials flagged Marshall when he threw a football at Bears QB Jay Cutler after a second-quarter catch that gave the Dolphins their initial first down. It cost the Dolphins 15 yards on a drive that would eventually stall at their own 46-yard line.

Cutler, who played with Marshall on the Denver Broncos from 2006-2008, dismissed the significant of the penalty after the game.

“Brandon’s a competitor,” he said. “I was getting after him early in the game, telling him he wasn’t going to catch any balls.

“He’s just a competitor.”

Bears coach Lovie Smith said Marshall’s penalty did not provide the Bears with any extra motivation.

Early in the second quarter after picking up a first down and getting forced out of bounds, Marshall tossed the football at Cutler while the quarterback stood on the sideline. There appeared to be an exchange of words as the receiver made his way back onto the field. The flag was thrown and the Fins were sent back 15 yards.

Gonzaga was already  repaired to demonstrate he wasn’t as inconsistent as some perceived him to be. The big question heading into this fight was whether or not Schaub was ready to assert himself as a real contender or whether the MMA world had looked past Gonzaga too early.

While Schaub was not overly impressive, it was enough to get it done.

The Amal Easton/Grudge/Greg Jackson product did enough to keep Gonzaga at bay. While Schaub boasted he’d do enough to break Gonzaga, he’d only do enough to control him.

It is quite interesting, after returning home, The  Eagles and  The Falcons on  Sunday night, they probably were reminded again watching them on ESPN and being updated on LeGrand by lying motionless in a North Jersey hospital bed. Well, don’t worry its the part of  the game.

“It definitely makes you step back and think about some things,” Eagles wide receiver Jeremy Maclin said about seeing Jackson lying on the ground. “That is life.”

Jackson, who is listed as having a concussion, really can’t be blamed for “thinking about some things” when he goes out for passes after he returns.

After all, the third-year pro is in the last year of his contact. Another helmet-to-helmet hit like the one by Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson early in the second quarter could severely injure Jackson.

If you love the game because it’s a tough game played by tough men, then you also have to accept the fact that plays like Robinson hitting Jackson are going to happen.

And by the way, I don’t even think Robinson should’ve been flagged for it.

Yes, the hit was difficult to watch, but you can’t fault Falcons corner Dunta Robinson for doing what his instincts as a cornerback have taught him to do — jar the ball loose from the receiver.

What we love about the game is also what we fear — that it’s physical, dangerous and played by men who are big and fast with bad atty-toods.

It was a North Jersey writer friend, who is a beat writer for the Rutgers University football team. He wanted the phone number of Adam Taliaferro.

The writer just received word Scarlet Knights junior defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who suffered a spinal cord injury in Saturday’s game against Army, had no movement below the neck after emergency surgery throughout the night at Hackensack University Medical Center.

It was 10 years ago when Taliaferro, the former Eastern High School star, suffered a severe spinal cord injury as a freshman defensive back for Penn State playing at Ohio State.

The super fast player of  baseball now in action  with one out in the 11th inning when Rick Ankiel hit a Ramon Ramirez fastball into McCovey Cove to give the Braves a super victory in a game the Giants led 4-0 and the game at once changed which was showing  just in the bag and Rick Ankiel put it near to win that  they loaded the bases with one out in the 10th. Posey reminded everyone he is mortal and hit into a double play.

It is superb performance by the giants to scored off such a remarkable points, The stone of  Giants’ team, bullpen, one of the best in the game. Giants manager Bruce Bochy went to his closer Brian Wilson in the eighth with two runners on, and he could’t hold the game and allowed the Braves to score three runs and tie the game. Amazing. The Braves needed that, and so did Alex Gonzalez who had the key hit in the inning, a game-tying two-run double.

The Braves battled back in Game 2 of the NLDS with their best efforts  to beat the Giants and they did so better just about as dramatically as an away team can do so.

In the tenth inning, closer Billy Wagner, who has been a rock for the Braves all season, left with an apparent oblique injury, and in stepped Kyle Farnsworth. Farnsworth, as you may remember, infamously gave up a 6-1 lead in the series-deciding Game 4 of the 2005 NLDS — the last postseason series the Braves have played.

Down 4-0 in the second inning, and on the heels of being on the losing end of Tim Lincecum’s masterpiece of a complete game shutout, the Braves rallied to tie the game in the 8th and ultimately send it to extra innings. They have Alex Gonzalez, the slumping shortstop who stepped up with a two-RBI double, to thank for that.

Dee Hart is now thinking  back again for  Michigan as a result of a commitment for Demetrius Hart. It is still in hot news that  Michigan for Dee Hart despite the latest headlines,  in the Orlando Sentinel and other rumors coming out of Alabama. It could be bad decision and may be  Alabama could have landed Hart if it went after him hard as a running back from the start, but the Tide want him as a receiver and Dee wants to be running back.

When making a reasonable marks 267 yards and scoring four touchdowns in a 45-0 Dr. Phillips High victory over Boone on Friday night, Hart, of Orlando, revealed his decision. He chose Michigan over Alabama, the Orlando Sentinel and several recruiting services for the best results.

He will announce his final decision on Friday, but has not set a time or site for the announcement.

“I don’t know, I was thinking about it,” said Hart, who has been contacted by ESPN to air his announcement. “They called me three or four times. I don’t know. I might just do it like little. We got a game Friday, so I don’t want to be distracting.”

Hart, ranked No. 3 in the sentinel’s 2011 Central Florida Super60, has great hands out of the backfield, excellent leaping ability to overcome his 5-foot-9 height, and once he gets the ball in open field, anything can happen. His hip movement angers embarrassed defenders as he cuts, stops, starts again — all, it seems, in milliseconds.

Clinton-Dix, a safety and ranked No. 1 in the Central Florida Super60, is already committed to Alabama and he reaffirmed that on Monday, saying, “Done, I am done. 100 percent done.”0 heading into Friday’s game with Orlando Boone. Hart has 70 carries for 569 yards and 12 TDs this season, an average of 142 yards per game and 8.3 yards per carry.