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| Walcott to miss England World Cup qualifiers Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:47 AM PDT Walcott's injury means he will be sidelined from the Wembley fixtures against Montenegro and Poland on October 11 and 15 respectively, with England still to book their place at next year's World Cup finals in Brazil. The winger missed Sunday's win over Stoke City after developing slight damage to his posterior abdominal wall and the club believe Walcott should now undergo what the Arsenal website called a "minor procedure" as this will enable him to start his recovery immediately afterwards. "Theo will be out for a few weeks," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told the website. "He has developed some damage to his posterior abdominal wall. It's not a hernia, but it's a little structural problem in his abdomen. "He will have the procedure in Germany on Wednesday and, because it's so minor, we can begin his rehab immediately. "We are pleased it's being dealt with quickly and he shouldn't miss too many Arsenal matches. But he will miss the forthcoming international matches with England," the Frenchman added. Walcott will now miss this week's League Cup tie with West Bromwich Albion followed by Saturday's league match at Swansea as well as the Champions League home game against Napoli next Tuesday. He joins an Arsenal injury list that already includes Lukas Podolski, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Santi Cazorla, leaving long-serving manager Wenger with few other options in wide positions. - AFP, September 24, 2013. |
| Call them Shaq-ramento as O’Neal buys into Kings Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:36 AM PDT Indian businessman Vivek Ranadive, a software company founder who became the owner of the NBA Kings in May for a record $534 million (RM1.7 billion) after the team appeared set to move to Seattle, confirmed the move on a Twitter posting. "Join me in welcoming @SHAQ to the @SacramentoKings! Only one way to go from here!" Ranadive tweeted. O'Neal's minority stake in the club gives the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar 7-foot-1 center a new nickname to go alongside dozens of others such as "The Big Aristotle" and "The Big Shaqtus" he coined in his career - "The Big Owner". O'Neal has been talking with DeMarcus Cousins, the young Kings big man, in the past few months after finishing his season stint as an NBA television commentator. Having been a thorn in the side of the Kings during championship playoff runs by the Lakers in 2000-2002, O'Neal told USA Today the Kings can only get better after going 28-54 last season, in part because of a deal with the California capital for a new arena. "Once that new arena comes, once that new downtown is up, once we have a conversation with the players and get everybody to step up, they'll be knocking on the door," O'Neal said. "Hopefully Vivek, with (fellow part-owner Mark) Mastrov and myself and the team and organization can get it back to where it used to be. I'm telling you these new plans, you are going to be like, 'Sacramento is doing what?' That's what we want people to say. "What interested me in this deal is the new vision, the new Kings, the new everything. I've always wanted to be part of something like this. ... It's going to be great." The move comes after ESPN ranked the Kings the worst of 122 combined teams in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and NBA, based upon the team's mediocre attendance and seven consecutive seasons of having missed the playoffs. "Hey ESPN, Nice Airball" reads the opening message on the Kings' website." - AFP, September 24, 2013. |
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