The British Olympic Association (BOA) has officially endorsed Glasgow’s bid for the 2018 Youth Olympics with the project set to focus on the substantial legacy offerings of the Scottish city’s staging of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and London’s 2012 Olympics.

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

Eventually the US will produce (already have a few) top rated players that can excel in the premireship. I would assume that since they are from this country they would make there money in Europe and come back to the US. Eventually they will come back in their prime to contribute.

I think this will attract more overseas players. MLS is not far off from being considered a top level league. I do not think anyone can dispute the fact that they are close to it now.

Premiership teams would not travel to this country during there preseason to play subpar opponents. They can get that from there own sub leagues.

MLS is on the rise and I love it. 10 years ago I was embarrased by the level of play. Now I tune it all the time.
I appreciate all the view points. As both leagues differ dramatically they both offer different styles. I truly believe that the premiership is a top heavy league; Spain, Italy, and england. Take Dallas, DC or New England and they would finish bottom of the pack, not relegated. The top teams are actually destroying the competition. Soon these leagues will have to adopt a salary cap, the money does not grow on trees.

With that being said, the leagues will eventually become even. Whether that is 10 or 20 years.

Thank you all for your responses. But we will never know until there is a world wide tournament. World cup does not count because a premier league team is always going to be better.

Best answer:

Answer by David D
MLS will unfortunately not ever be even with the Premier Leagues. I would love for that to happen, as a soccer fan. However, Americans do not care. They are a bandwagon country, and only pay attention when they are playing in the World Cup, or another big tournament, and as soon as they lose, they turn off their sets.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

The long-running legal dispute between England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Giles Clarke and IMG has been settled out of court, but former Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi has expressed his intention to maintain his action against Clarke.

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

The PGA Tour has strengthened its commercial portfolio by striking a new five-year agreement with FedEx that will extend the shipping company’s umbrella sponsorship of the golf organisation’s showpiece playoff system, the FedExCup.

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

One day before the start of the Dallas Mavericks’ five-day All-Star Weekend break, Lamar Odom bailed on a chance to play against the Los Angeles Lakers on national television.

Family Matters. Not Steve Urkel. Not Carl and Hariette Winslow.

Nope. We’re talking family matters, which in all likelihood means Lamar was in Los Angeles while the Lakers and Mavericks battled in Dallas because of something to do with Khloe Kardashian, Lamar’s reality-star wife.

Bart Scott voice: Can’t wait!

Can’t wait to hear the Mavericks and Odom fully explain what was so urgent in Los Angeles that Odom couldn’t wait 12 to 24 hours before starting his All-Star vacation. Professional athletes, like a lot of responsible people, work through and around many family emergencies. Short of death and the birth of a child, most professionals show up at work and do their jobs to the best of their abilities, even in times of personal crisis.

I hope that Odom has a good reason for skipping Wednesday’s contest, a five-point Lakers victory. I hope Odom didn’t skip the game for the same reason he’s mentally and emotionally skipped most of this season — a broken heart.

Odom has been whining and loafing ever since the Lakers purged his contract by giving him to the defending champion Mavericks. Odom just can’t muster the courage and energy to suffer through an NBA season playing away from the Kardashians, his reality TV set and Kobe Bryant.

A season after winning the NBA’s sixth-man award, Mr. Kardashian’s scoring and rebounding numbers have fallen in half. He’s averaging 7.7 points and 4.5 rebounds for the Mavericks. Instead of seizing an opportunity to be the key ingredient in Dallas’ bid to defend its title, Odom has chosen to sulk and brood and hide.

He wants to move back to LA, and he apparently is willing to withhold his services in an effort to make it happen.

The Lakers dumped him, and, citing family matters, Lamar declined the chance to exact revenge in a nationally televised game.

Are you kidding me? Did Jordan skip games against the Bulls? Did Favre pass up a chance to play the Packers? OK, Lamar Odom is not Jordan or Favre. Kyle Orton took his shot against the Broncos and Tim Tebow. I bet Jeremy Lin will relish his chance to play against his hometown Golden State Warriors.

Family matters. You have to grow a pair to start a family, Lamar.

The same is true for Pau Gasol. For a 31-year-old, 11-year veteran, he’s doing way too much whining about being on the trading block.

It’s just not that difficult. Let me share a secret with Pau and Lamar. Most people work some place where they’re not appreciated, not valued and, perhaps, not even wanted. Real men (and women) make do. It’s like a marriage. You fake it for the sake of the kids.

You think Kobe’s not faking it with all this mumbo jumbo about wanting Pau to stay and being upset Lamar was let go?

In Kobe’s mind, everyone on the roster except Andrew Bynum is expendable, and Bynum is expendable if Dwight Howard is available.

Kobe is frustrated because general manager Mitch Kupchak is taking too long to surround him with the right pieces to make a run at title No. 6. Kobe wants a real point guard far more than he wants Pau Gasol to stick on the roster. Kobe was done with Derek Fisher the moment the ink was dry on the horrendous collective-bargaining agreement.

Kobe is an assassin. He discarded Shaquille O’Neal, one of the 20 greatest players of all time. And you think Kobe gives a damn about Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, two of the most mentally soft players in the league right now?

Have you forgotten it was just last year that Gasol went into a funk over rumors about his girlfriend and Shannon Brown? Kobe hasn’t forgotten. Kobe is leading the league in scoring while going through a divorce.

Yeah, I don’t blame Lamar for missing Kobe. And I don’t blame Pau for being scared to death of leaving Kobe’s protective cocoon. Lamar and Pau don’t have Kobe’s lower guts. They’re sidekicks who enjoy gravy-training off Kobe on the court and living the Hollywood life off it.

Family matters. Kobe’s in the market for a new one on and off the court.

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

It was a night of late strikes in the Uefa Champions League with big guns Bayern Munich and Inter Milan both face deficits after their first legs.

*FC Basel 1 (Stocker 86’) def Bayern Munich 0

The German giants threw plenty at the Swiss champions with Franck Ribery going closest but Yannick Sommer was in an inspired mood at Basel celebrated another famous night at St. Jakob-Park. Basel did have their chances, with Alexander Frei and Marco Streller causing problems throughout, but it was two substitutes who combined for the late winner, when Jacques Zoua strode forward before finding Valentin Stocker unmarked and he slotted home.

Basel boss Heiko Vogel said: “Now we are in a great position ahead of the second leg. My team have unbelievable willpower, a good sense of who they are and a healthy self-confidence.”

Vogel added: “Every day we enjoy the work we do and that will pay off at some point. This victory is one thing; the overall result another. But we are capable of scoring away goals and if we do that in Munich it will be very difficult for Bayern.”

Bayern trainer Jupp Heynckes said: “It’s an uncomfortable situation, but I have been in these situations before in my coaching career. It was a balanced match with good chances for either side. We lost 1-0 and now we’re not in an ideal position ahead of the second leg.”

Heynckes added: “We are making a lot of mistakes. The alarm bells are ringing, though we have a second leg and can still correct this result. It is certainly possible to beat Basel 2-0 at home.”

Olympique Marseille 1 (Ayew 90’) def Inter Milan 0

The French side take a slender advantage into the second leg after a hard-fought win over Inter. The match was a tight contest with both sides having opportunities, however Marseille, who were postive throughout the match, ramped up the pressure late and eventually it told when Andre Ayew headed home from a corner.

OM boss Didier Deschamps said: “We stuck to our tactics. There is always a risk with pushing on that you can be punished in the end, but scoring in the final minute didn’t give them time to come back. Now we must be ambitious and must go there with the intention to get through, though Inter remain a great team.”

Inter manager Claudio Ranieri said: “We have lacked some luck in the last few weeks. Tonight we conceded when the match was over and until then we controlled Marseille. In any case, we showed that we are still a lively team and we can overturn this result with the help of our full stadium.”

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

Top Performers

Los Angeles		Dallas
	A. Bynum Points: 19 Reb: 14 Ast: 3 Stl: 1 Blk: 1		D. Nowitzki Points: 25 Reb: 12 Ast: 2 Stl: 1 Blk: 0

DALLAS — Andrew Bynum had a huge smile on his face after he grabbed a rebound of his own miss and got fouled on an attempted putback.

Not long after making both those free throws that put the Los Angeles Lakers ahead to stay, Bynum was running after teammate Derek Fisher to give him a big hug following a 3-pointer.

Bynum had 19 points and 14 rebounds, including several big plays in the final 5 1/2 minutes, as the Lakers hit the halfway point of their season with a 96-91 victory over the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night.

“Andrew was great,” coach Mike Brown said.

The free throws by Bynum broke an 82-all tie with 5:29 left, and put the Lakers (20-13) ahead to stay after 13 ties and 10 lead changes.

After the Mavericks failed to take advantage of a turnover by Kobe Bryant when Jason Terry gave it right back, Bynum was underneath the basket with the ball. But he instead passed it to Fisher in the left corner for a 3-pointer. Bynum was smiling broadly as he chased down and hugged Fisher when Dallas called timeout.

Fisher, whose driving short jumper with 3:41 left ended a 9-0 run and made it 89-82, had given Bynum a pep talk before the game. They also were thinking about the playoffs against Dallas last season.

“We got swept last year, and it was on our minds,” Bynum said.

There was also Bynum’s alley-oop dunk from Bryant with 1:05 left that stretched the lead to 93-86. The Lakers then held on despite missing six consecutive free throws after that.

Bryant missed two free throws with 37 seconds left. After Dirk Nowitzki’s tip-in got Dallas within 93-91, Pau Gasol was fouled and missed both of his free throws with 20 seconds left.

“I’m a little overweight; I’m too young to have a heart attack,” Brown said after watching all those misses.

But Matt Barnes grabbed the rebound after Gasol’s second miss and was quickly fouled himself. He ended the Lakers’ charity-line slump with two free throws.

“That was big,” Fisher said. “The way last season ended, this game was big for a lot of us.”

Gasol had 24 points for the Lakers, while Bryant and Fisher each had 15. Bryant shot 4-of-15 while being held to 14 fewer than his NBA-leading scoring average and was scoreless until two free throws with 10 seconds left in the first quarter.

Nowitzki had 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Mavericks (21-13), who played their final game before the All-Star break after winning seven of their previous eight games. Vince Carter had 20.

“I’m [disappointed] tonight, I’m not dismayed,” coach Rick Carlisle said. “Our effort was there, we just didn’t make enough plays at both ends. … The break’s coming at a good time.”

The Lakers have one more game before the All-Star break. They play Thursday night at Oklahoma City.

Lamar Odom missed the game for the Mavericks against his former team. Odom was the NBA’s sixth man of the year for the Lakers last season and won three NBA championship rings in seven years in Los Angeles.

Carlisle said Odom was excused from the game to attend to a family matter and will rejoin the team after the All-Star break.

The Lakers had their biggest lead when Steve Blake had a steal and passed ahead to Gasol for a running one-handed slam that made it 42-28 with 6:21 left in the first half. That ended 12 consecutive points and a 17-2 Los Angeles run.

“I was aggressive in the beginning. I was able to knock down some shots and make plays,” Gasol said. “[This win] shows we’re on the same page and we’ve got a lot of character.”

But the Mavericks finished the half with a 20-6 run over the final 5:33 to tie the game at 48-all by the break.

Nowitzki scored the last six Dallas points, two free throws with 1:23 left and then a pair of jumpers in the final 42 seconds. He made a 15-foot floater, and after grabbing a long rebound of a miss by Gasol, Nowitzki made a tying jumper.

“It just seemed like we’d get a little momentum and then we had trouble sustaining,” Carlisle said. “Tough game, but you’ve got to give them credit.”

Game notes
All the Mavericks except Nowitzki, who will make his 11th consecutive All-Star appearance, have the next four days off. They play nine games in 12 days, starting with Tuesday’s home game against New Jersey. … Texas Rangers designated hitter/first baseman Michael Young was shown on the overhead video board before the start of the fourth quarter. Young is a big Lakers fan. Rangers position players don’t have to report to training camp in Arizona until Saturday. … The Lakers jumped out to a 12-3 lead in the first 4 minutes, and Carlisle used two timeouts in that span.

Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!

Best answer:

Answer by colourzebra
I m also soccer player. If U wanna learn dribbling the best way is to watch Christiano Ronaldo or other play makers. He is my favourite. My best dribble is First crossing my right foot over the ball without touching the ball and then same with left foot and again with right foot now move the ball the side U want. This is the best dribble in 1 on 1 tackle. Or If U wanna improve ur left leg just practice 1 hr everyday with left foot without even touching the ball with right leg. I had the same problem. Now I have improved so much that in last match I played, I scored the opening goal by my left foot. It was a great pass and I just finished off with just a fast flick. We won that match with 3-0. By the way I m 15 and without a gf. Check my profile. Pls Pls dont chat with me if U have the habbit of saying dirty.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Watch Live Sports Online

Watch live sports online with our high quality flash sports streams.

Click here to watch now!