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EPL update

It is day 3 of the NBA pre-seasons and Miami Heat have returned. Dwyane Wade did not play and Lebron only scores 9 points. But Chris Bosh looks in mid-season form with 21 points, hitting 3 pointers. Chris Bosh had some lovely highlights with a double spin layup which impressed the home crowd. Box score below.

• The Bulls look really stable with Derrick Rose's second game into the pre-season. He shows signs of explosiveness and getting everyone excited with his lay-ups that he does. The Bulls look legitimate contenders this year with the return of Rose. 
• box score below.
  
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Fighter Dies From Weight-Cutting

Ever since the introduction of weight classes fighters have been using the method of weight cutting to achieve an advantage over an size advantage over their opponents. Some fighters cut around 20 pounds off their natural walking weight dehydrating themselves hours before the weigh in to cut as much water weight as their body will allow. Although some methods of weight cutting are safer than others they all pose some type of risk in excess. Everyone knows the dangers but there is simply too much money involved to completely for fighters to eliminate it from combat sports completely. The majority of deaths that have occurred in boxing are all from the lighter weight classes mainly because the human body can only cut so much weight before it gives in and the lighter weight classes have smaller fighters to begin with. They are losing a much greater percentage of their weight as higher weight classes tend to cut less weight. This is the first time that there has been a death in Mixed Martial Arts due to weight cutting. 26 year old Brazilian fighter Leandro Souza died as he was trying to cut weight for his flyweight fight. Just two pounds off his target he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital before being pronounced dead. The problem was the his walk around weight was over 30 pounds from his weigh in weight.

Although many fans are against it, believing that fighters should just fight at their natural weight classes, close to what they walk around with there are no real clear solutions to the weight cut problem. I option that has been talked about a lot is that fighter must be a certain percentage from their weigh in weight some time before the weigh in so they cant dehydrate themselves to extreme levels. You could weigh them in a two weeks before the fight then one week before the fight and finally 24 hours before the fight to ensure that they are properly cutting weight at a healthy rate. Another proposal are same day weigh ins like they do with boxing which would discourage fighters from cutting too much weight, however the problem is that some fighters may choose to go the extreme route and try to make the limit even when they're still 30 pounds over. Right now it just seems like a problem that cant be regulated by officials and its up to the coaches and fighters to know how much is too much.

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League of Legends Championships Final Result

So the League of Legends Championship Season 3 was played on the 5th of October, between SK Telecom T1 and Royal Club!

Although the 3 games showed high level of skilled plays the game was won by SK Telecom T1 in straight 3 games.

Once again the SK Telecom T1's AD carry Piglet and the superstar mid lane carry Faker performed at top form to carry the team to victory, below are the End of Game Stats of game 1.

As you can see from the end game stats SK Telecom T1 doubled in kills and had a 17k gold lead, as the game 1 was such a big win, SK Telecom carried the momentum and went on to finish the series 3:0. Although SK Telecom T1 seemed to be a strong contender it took the world by surprise when they finished the grand final in such a dominant fashion. 

Roster changes for Virtus.Pro

The former roster of Virtus.Pro, consisting of players, NS, LightOfHeaven, God, Goblack and Resolut1on has changed recently. The team has said that the reason behind this change of roster is internal conflict which is not a rare sight in professional gaming. The players leaving Virtus.Pro are Goblack and Resolut1on. 

Goblack is a drafter who many people have trouble dealing with due to his completely unpredictable hero picks during the drafting stage. Also, Resolut1on is a young player who had reached the level of professional gaming at an early age. It is safe to say these two great players will have other teams picking them up in the near future.

In exchange for the two, Virtus.Pro have added ARS-ART who was a former member of Virtus.Pro. With the addition of ARS-ART, the Virtus.Pro lineup has one empty spot, they are searching for their 5th player.

With the inclusion of ARS-ART, the new lineup has players: NS, LightOfHeaven, God and ARS-ART with one vacant spot. The addition of a great player like ARS-ART will hopefully have beneficial effects to the team which has been performing poorly for the past few tournaments. 

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NBA RETURNS

Hey guys,
Finally the NBA returns. Well technically it hasn't because it's only the pre-season, but highly anticipated teams such as Bulls with the return of Derrick Rose and Houston Rockets with new additions like Dwight Howard played in the pre-season opener of day 1.

The Bulls have Derrick Rose back. He showed us signs of the MVP Rose but looked rusty with 4 quick turnovers. He did not start and only played 20 minutes. He did score 13 points for a Bulls Victory of 82-76 against the Indiana Pacers. He was not afraid to go to the basket as he converted layups with his speed and power, even with big man Roy Hibbert guarding the rim.

As shown above he was not scared to drive to the basket asorbing contact and getting an And-1 layup. His knee looks in top form as well with a break-away dunk as shown below. This is a good sign for Bulls fans.

The end result bulls hung on with a narrow victory. Box score below.

• Rockets returned with a pre-season opener against the newly named New Orleans Pelicans formerly known as New Orleans Hornets. Anthony Morrow scores 26 points to help the Pelicans to a narrow 116-115 victory in Dwight Howard's exhibition debut for the Rockets. Dwight adds 19 points and 9 rebounds for his first Rocket game since joining the rockets for a $88 million dollar/4 year deal. Howard shot 6-11 from the field and his free throw was decent 7-11. He got ejected for a second technical later in the 3rd quarter. Though there was some good chemistry going on with fellow team mates James Harden who looked in mid season form scoring 21 points and point guard Jeremy Lin. This gives Rockets fans a hope for this season with high expectations.
  
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