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Felt it all the way in southern Richmond, albeit very slightly. I thought I was dizzy for a moment.
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nice. is the drawing supposed to be of something or is it just a random creation?
I think it's supposed to be the FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU face, but they morphed it into something else.
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So proud to be a Clan member right now. So full of win.
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Should I pull the trigger...so tempting.
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Anybody going to watch the semi-finals in just over 4 hours?
Some pretty good match-ups; Djokovic v. Federer AND Nadal v. Murray...
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Thunder and lightning x 2 here in Richmond! It came out of nowhere too.
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Yeah but so would GSP and Silva, and that was total dominance by Jon Jones. That was the toughest guy he has faced so far, and he maybe only got hit around 3-5 times. He is in the class if GSP and Silva.
I just recently became a UFC fan, so haven't been following it as tightly as some others. Was GSP this dominant against a fighter like Rua when he was 23? I mean, this was almost complete domination by Jones. It wasn't even close.
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Those were absolutely vicious punches and elbows, and Shogun's eye was all bloated up. No doubter, that's for sure.
Jones' next opponent is his training partner Sugar Rashad, which will definitely be interesting. Calling Jones' win right here. That guy is just too tall, too much reach and too good for Rashad, IMO.
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HOLY MOTHER!!!
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Shogun's getting his lunch handed to him right now. He just can't seem to get past the long reach of Jones.
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Shogun looks shaken. Jones looks good out of the gates.
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Look at this - I'm confident you will be BURNING with rage like I am. Absolute disgusting.
:facepalm:
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Pics form the Boston Globe: http://t.co/pp7UTXU
Wow, great find. I would +1 you if I had any left for today...
Just crazy images. Incomprehensible.
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HONOLULU — Officials say a tsunami watch has been issued for the entire western coast of the United States and Canada from the Mexican border to Chignik Bay in Alaska.
The Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska issued the watch after a massive earthquake hit Japan.
The watch alert came after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for a large swath of the Pacific including Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Central and South America.
Tsunami watches are issued as an advance alert to areas that could be impacted by a tsunami. Tsunami warnings are issued due to the imminent threat of a tsunami.
Russian authorities on Friday evacuated some 11,000 residents from Pacific islands in anticipation of tsunami waves.
The regional emergency officials said that the tsunami could hit several coastal towns and villages on four Pacific islands, which the Soviet Union seized from Japan in the final days of the World War II. The islands lie as close as 10 kilometres to Japan's Hokkaido island.
The first tsunami wave was 50 centimetres when it reached the village of Malo-Kurilks, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said. There were no immediate reports of damage.
Authorities on the Kamchatka Peninsula further north said the tsunami posed no danger to the area.
Kamchatka, which juts into the Pacific, is studded with active volcanoes, some of which were spewing gases to a height of up to 5,800 metres Friday, prompting authorities to issue warning to planes in the area.
Kamchatka volcanoes are part of the "Ring of Fire" string of volcanoes encircling the Pacific.
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Huge props to Raonic. He's really made a huge move up the standings in the past couple of months:
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Milos Raonic became the first Canadian to win an ATP Tour title since 1995 by winning a hard-fought match Sunday over defending-champion Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5) in the final of the SAP Open.The 20-year-old Raonic came through in his first career final, becoming the youngest winner on tour since Marin Cilic won in New Haven in 2008 at age 19. The last Canadian to win on tour was Greg Rusedski, who won in Seoul in April 1995.
In a match that featured two tiebreakers, one break point and no breaks of serves, it was the smallest differences that decided the winner. Verdasco squandered four set points -- including two on his serve -- in the opening-set tiebreaker and then lost the only minibreak in the second tiebreaker when he hit a backhand into the net after a strong approach shot by Raonic to fall behind 4-2.
Verdasco fought off two match points on his serve but once again had no answer for the big-serving Raonic, who won it with a 222 km/h serve that Verdasco hit into the net. Verdasco was upset because a fan yelled out just as he was about to hit the ball, but the point stood and Raonic got the final win in just his eighth career tournament.
Raonic had 13 aces and 20 service winners in the match, hitting 240 km/h on one serve in the first set. Verdasco summed up the difference in the match succinctly: "His serve."
Raonic has had a strong start to the season, going through qualifying and winning three matches in the Australian Open and making it to his first ATP World Tour final. He has shot up the rankings from 156th at the end of last year to 84th heading into this week. He is expected to be 59th after this victory.
It's a far cry from where he was at a year ago at this time, playing Futures tournaments in Europe with a ranking of 360th in the world.
"It's been quite a month and a half, but an amazing month and a half," he said. "I just hope to keep this going."
In a scheduling quirk, he will have to do it against Verdasco, who gets a shot at a rematch in the first round of the tournament in Memphis on Wednesday. The draw for that tournament was Friday, before this matchup was even set.
Verdasco lost just seven points in 12 service games, but it was the four dropped points on his serve in the two tiebreakers that proved to be the difference.
He took a 6-2 lead in the first-set breaker with help from a double fault by Raonic. But Verdasco hit a forehand into the net to squander the first set point on his serve and then was unable to win it on Raonic's serve, cutting the lead to 6-5. Verdasco then hit a forehand wide to even up the set and Raonic won it with a backhand winner followed by a service winner. He hopped off the court in excitement.
Raonic fought off the only break point of the match in the ninth game of the second set and once again took it in a tiebreaker, completing his perfect run through the week where he lost no sets and just one serve.
The Bay Area has been kind to Canadian tennis players in recent years. Aleksandra Wozniak ended a 20-year title drought for Canadian women when she won at Stanford in 2008. And now Raonic ended the drought on the men's side in the same building where fellow Canadians Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Dany Heatley and Dan Boyle star for the San Jose Sharks.
Raonic was given a Sharks jersey and a bottle of maple syrup, along with the winners check for US$92,000.
"It's nice to know a hockey arena isn't new to me," Raonic said. "I've been in a few of these. This feels like home."
The run to the final here comes after a difficult start to the season for Verdasco, who broke a bone in his left ankle at an exhibition in Kooyong in January. The injury affected him greatly in his fourth-round loss at the Australian Open to Tomas Berdych and Verdasco had to have a cortisone shot in order to avoid surgery.
As soon as he was ready to return to practice after the shot, he got a fever so he missed two full weeks of practice before coming to San Jose. But he was in fine form all week, not losing a set until the final and dropping just one service game all week.
"For all the practise I did the past two weeks, I did pretty good this week," he said. "I'm happy to be in the final again."
http://tsn.ca/tennis/story/?id=353805
He's #59 in the world now!
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And his celebration is...stripping.
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For the championship...
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1 game away...
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Honestly, it just seems as if Djokovic is sucking the life out of him. He can't win any rallies against him. He's making mistakes. His serve has been the only thing working for him lately in the match.
A good analogy would be an animal caught in a python's death grip, and that grip is getting tighter and tighter until the animal gives up and accepts death. Murray looks like he's about to hit that point.
Except the snake would then have to exert a ton of pressure. Joker doesn't seem to NEED to go full-on right now. Murray's hitting a lot into the net.
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Murrays got the break, but I still think its over. This is going to be Murray's last chance for a major for a long time I think. No one is going to touch Rafa on clay if he comes back healthy, and Wimbeldon and US open are Feds are Rafas to lose again. And Murray just gave his break back. Nothing going right for him.
Definitely true. Perhaps Murray has an injury of some sort? Nevertheless, still a poor showing by him so far.
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Finally Joker finishes him off in the 2nd set. Took about 10 minutes longer than needed, when Joker had 2 set points at 5-0, but whatever.
We'll see what Murray can muster up.
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Come on, Joker, finish him.
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Murray comeback?!
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Joker's got everything going for him right now. I know those lobs take a tremendous amount of skill, but all of them have been falling just inside the line. You gotta be good to be lucky, and lucky to be good.
What a contrast from the 1st set.
OMG Windy?
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Just got power back in southern Richmond.