Betting on the NBA isn’t over quite yet. July 1st marks the start of the free agency so let’s have a talks about some betting odds released on where some NBA stars will play next season. This year’s list is littered with perennial NBA All-Stars, including Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire and Carlos Boozer. However, it doesn’t have a genius to figure out that the crown jewel of this year’s free agency class is non other then LeBron James.
Let’s face it, athletes of LeBron’s stature make more money in endorsements chances are they do with their salaries. That’s where in fact the New York Knicks enter the race. Having been maneuvering their roster and salary cap for a few years now, the Knicks franchise thinks they have what it takes to bring King James to the Big Apple. Likely to New York wouldn’t be advantageous to James’ immediate title hopes. Outside power forward David Lee, the talent on the Knicks roster is pretty ordinary.
The Nets have a fresh Russian playboy owner Mikhail Prokhorov, a fresh head coach in the likeable Avery Johnson, but the same old roster that can only muster up 12 wins last season. To add insult to injury, the Nets are drafting third in Thursday’s NBA Draft despite having the NBA’s worst record. They do have some good young pieces in Brook Lopez and Devin Harris, but despite having James, they’d employ a difficult time making the playoffs – can’t see LeBron being too excited about that. However, with the Nets moving to Brooklyn eventually, James would be able to cash-in on all off that New York marketing money touched on earlier.
The 2006 Football World Cup supplies a timely opportunity to think about the wider social and political implications of sport generally and football in particular, with particular reference to the racial dimension to sporting competition. Now obviously, Dr Frances Cress-Welsing in her much acclaimed book, ‘The Isis Papers’ (1991), provided an in-depth psychological analysis of the racial/sexual symbolism of many different sports. Similarly, Abdullah Nazir Uhuru in his excellent book ‘Killing “Me” $oftly’ (2005), offers an insightful analysis of football, drawing upon Cress-Welsing’s work. The goal of this essay is to create upon these works and also to assist Afrikans to recognize that, life is politics and everything in life is political, therefore sport includes a politicised and racialised dimension to it, the same as all other styles of individuals activity.
According to this definition; Caucasians have already been waging a racial war against Afrikans for over three thousand years (and we must not forget their cousins the Arabs). This war manifests itself in various ways, as an example the physical war is not just confined to overt 1xbet вход violence but also includes acts made to directly attack the physical health of Afrikans e.g. the utilization of medicines banned from use in ‘the West’ in Afrika, the complete HIV/AIDS scenario and the deliberate and concerted attempts to lessen Afrikan fertility worldwide, of which it forms a component, being examples of European aggression.
One of the main tactics in war is what’s referred to as ‘Psych Ops’ or Psychological Operations. It has been well established that propaganda is crucial in warfare, even during overt military conflict, and the creation and dissemination of propaganda is an essential component of psychological operations. The objective of psychological operations would be to weaken or destroy the enemy’s will to fight and resist, or crucially – particularly with respect to Afrikans – convince the enemy that in reality there is no war taking place and that his/her goals and aspirations coincide with and come in harmony with this of the propagandist.