NBA 1/16/2010

New Orleans 101
Indiana 96

Sacramento 86
Washington 96

Phoenix 99
Charlotte 125

New York 90
Detroit 94

Miami 80
Oklahoma City 98

San Antonio 86
Memphis 92

Milwaukee 95
Utah 112

Cleveland 102
LA Clippers 101

NBA 1/1/2010

New York Knicks 112 @ Atlanta Hawks 108

New York

Nate Robinson 41 pts 6 reb 8 ast
Wilson Chandler 24 pts 17 reb 4 ast
Danilo Gallinari 13 pts 6 reb 1 ast
Al Harrington 13 pts 4 reb 2 ast


Atlanta

Joe Johnson 28 pts 8 reb 5 ast
Joe Smith 24 pts 10 reb 3 ast
Al Horford 22 pts 19 reb 4 ast
Mike Bibby 11 pts 2 reb 7 ast

Orlando 106 @ Minessota 94

Orlando

Rashard Lewis 21 pts 2 reb 1 blk
Matt Barnes 17 pts 11 reb 1 ast
Jameer Nelson 16 pts 3 reb 6 ast
Ryan Anderson 16 pts 1 reb 1 ast
Vince Carter 12 pts 2 reb 6 ast

Minessota

Jonny Flynn 23 pts 2 reb 3 ast
Kevin Love 17 pts 10 reb 1 ast
Al Jefferson 14 pts 10 reb 3 ast
Wayne Ellington 13 pts 4 reb 1 ast
Corey Brewer 10 pts 3 reb 2 blk

Sacramento 108 @ LA Lakers 109

Sacramento

Spencer Hawes 30 pts 11 reb 5 ast
Omri Casspi 23 pts 6 reb 3 ast
Beno Udrih 19 pts 1 reb 13 ast
Ime Udoka 13 pts 5 reb 1 ast

LA Lakers

Kobe Bryant 39 pts 5 reb 5 ast
Lamar Odom 20 pts 10 reb 3 ast
Pau Gasol 17 pts 16 reb 4 ast
Andrew Bynum 16 pts 4 reb 3 ast

Eric Schmidt, CEO Google Interview

Highlighted comments include:

* Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.

* Today's teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years - they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.

* Five years is a factor of ten in Moore's Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.

* Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance - and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.

* "We're starting to make significant money off of Youtube", content will move towards more video.

* "Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results."

* There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.

* "We can index real-time info now - but how do we rank it?"

* It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that "is the great challenge of the age." Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

There's lots more in the full 45 minutes of Schmidt's interview, including a statement that a Google OS Netbook will be here in 2010, with HTML5 local caching for offline use.

That's the roadmap, though, that's guiding much of what Google is doing today. From Chrome OS to Google Social Search.

Does that sound like a compelling vision of the future? Not discussed were distributed social networking, structured data, recommendations, presence data and other factors that could complicate Google's plans. What do you think the web will look like in five years?

So Far Pacquiao - Mayweather not yet decided

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091231/sp_wl_afp/boxusaphiwelterpacquiaomayweather_20091231003916

says here

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) – Manny Pacquiao is fighting mad, and taking on Floyd Mayweather jnr in court even as a potential blockbuster bout between the two is on the ropes.

Filipino hero Pacquiao filed a lawsuit in federal court in Las Vegas on Wednesday alleging that Mayweather and others defamed him by falsely saying Pacquiao used performance-enhancing drugs.

"Calling a professional athlete a cheater is the most serious charge one can make," the lawsuit says, "and in today's world, accusing an athlete of using performance-enhancing drugs - however baseless and lacking in evidence - is toxic."

Pacquiao has been angered by the Mayweather camp's insistence on doping control blood tests in the buildup to their welterweight showdown - a demand that has the March 13 fight in doubt.

Mayweather has said the blood tests, which could detect substances not found by urine tests, are vital to ensure a fair fight, although blood tests are not routinely used in boxing.

Pacquiao - who says he fears having blood drawn less than 30 days before the fight would 'weaken' him - has taken exception to the demand and to comments made by the Mayweather camp in media interviews.

His lawsuit asks for damages in excess of 75,000 dollars and names Mayweather, his father, Floyd snr, and uncle Roger Mayweather as defendants. Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer, who operate Golden Boy Promotions and are promoting Mayweather, are also named as having "stated publicly that Pacquiao has used and is using performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids."

The lawsuit cites several interviews given by the Mayweather camp, including the unbeaten US boxer's comments in a radio interview in October about Pacquiao's physical development, when he said: "cause we know the Philippines got the best enhancing drugs."

Also quoted in the suit were Mayweather's remarks published in the british newspaper The Guardian, in which Mayweather said he had "great doubt as to the level of fairness I would be facing in the ring that night."

"The truth did not stop Mayweather and the others," the suit alleges. "That is because they are motivated by ill will, spite, malice, revenge and envy."

Pacquiao, who has supplanted Mayweather in the estimation of many as boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter, has earned titles in seven weight classes.

Their fight could bring each as much as 40 million dollars, and it had appeared to be virtually set after squabbles were settled over issues including the division of the purse and the type of gloves to be used.

The dope test procedures, however, have proved a sticking point.

The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is preparing to open negotiations with World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman as talks with Mayweather falter.

Arum, contacted by the newspaper while on vacation in Mexico, sounded pessimistic that Pacquaio-Mayweather would happen on March 13.

"This is only my opinion, but I don't see the fight happening now," he told the Times. "Positions are hardening ... Manny's fit to be tied. He's very angry."

Arum acknowledged there could still be a breakthrough, but said: "It might be best to visit this fight later in 2010."

I can say is this, if this fight will not pursue earlier this year, I'll be looking forward to it later in the year. I don't think there's anyone in the lineup of both Pacquiao and Mayweather to make money out of. We have to stand by and wait for the announcements.