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Nadal falls to Djokovic, yet again — Novak Djokovica wins back-to-back Austrilian Open Championships in the longest Grand Slam Final in history (5 hours 53 minutes). He defeated Rafael Nadal in yet another Final and has won the last 7 finals meetings against Rafa. This is Nole’s 5th Grand Slam title, winning 3/4 in 2011.
It was an epic battle between the two best tennis players in the world. Djokovic seemingly had the had the match won in the 4th set, but a late run by Nadal (including fighting off a triple break point) forced a 5th..
Nadal was being out-played. It’s just not a good match up for Rafa—as he himself is with Federer and Murray. Rafa just dug deep and willed his 4th set tie-break win.
Rafa had his chance to close the match as he went up a break in the final set. At this point, Novak was noticably winded and exhausted after every long ralley. It reminded be of the unrefined Novak that had visible limits and quit matches in the past. It was Rafa’s time to win. Unfortunately, Rafa made crucial mistakes and missed costly, game-securing shots.
Djokovic fought through his exhaustion and found his second wind. This time it was Novak who willed himself to greatness. He overcame his fatigue and wrapped up the match inspite of a valient last effort by Rafa.
Novak has reached another level of his game. The potential for him to be great was always there. He is a different player now, who refuses to give in and not let his conditioning determine an ill fate..
I have always been a huge fan of both guys and excited for future epic battles. As for the state of the game right now, it looks like Nole has Rafa’s number. In a few month’s Nole is going to Rafa’s house in Paris, the French Open. If there was any opportunity to end this Grand Slam slump against Nole, it would be by retaining his French Open Championship and uphold his status as the King of Clay.
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“Breaking Bad: POV Compilation”
An awesome collection of Breaking Bad’s signature POV shots.
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The MACHINE is back at it!
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Rick Ross- “Stay Schemin’” (Drake vs. Common)
Essentially, I gutted out the track and left both Drake and Common’s verses for easier listening. Recently, Common [Sense] himself took the proactive approach and unleashed verbal shots at Drake over Rick Ross’ Stay Schemin’; a song which features a Drake verse full of subliminal warnings and insults aimed at Common. The download link below if you wish…
Personally, I think Com is just bored. He’s a certified legend with classic albums under his belt. He has nothing to prove. He doesn’t need to earn the co-sign of today’s rap fan because he’s earned his position in hip-hop when they were still in diapers. With Drake’s growing appeal in our pop culture, it’s not a stretch to say a chunk of Drake’s fans don’t even listen to Common or any music similar.
I myself am a big Drake fan but it looks like he’ll never be a hip-hop artist of Common’s calibre. Not that he doesn’t have the potential to—it has a lot to do with our generation of music and how it has influenced popular hip-hop. Drake’s a different artist than Common and has already developed tools that distance himself from a traditional hip-hop artist i.e. singing (which is one reason Common has this distaste towards him).
These days in hip-hop, beef has become something of the past; at least these two arent afraid to trade bars. Gotta miss those days where there was tension in hip-hop. Not serious, life-threatening tension, but tension through competition and the art of battle rap. This new wave of rappers seem like they’re all on each other’s team; I guess they don’t possess the no nonsense mindset that popular rappers had when I was growing up i.e. Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, The Game, Jadakiss, Ja Rule etc. Where if you do something I don’t like, I’m calling you out. Maybe this generation is scared because many rappers I just mentioned careers’ went cold due to their quarrels.
Even still, these emerging rappers lack the grit that was tied to the typical on-paper rapper. Kinda sucks to see the more ‘hood’ rappers stray away from mainstreams’ eye, but that’s just how hip-hop is changing and how this generation decided to define what’s relevant.
Anyways, even though the justifications of the ‘beef’ are a little blurry, it’s good to have a little sport again.
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“This is the only way we could have ended it, isn’t it?”
(Source: perfecti0nist)
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“The Dark Knight Rises” Trailer
The final movie of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy. It’s predecessor is a very hard film to follow as it had one of the greatest villian performances of our time. I guess we’ll just have to impatiently wait and see how this one fares.
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The key to learning.
(Source: afterthesmoke)
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“I guess that means I’m a Laker if the trade didn’t go through. I don’t know what to do for the Lakers. I’m even weirded out by the league doing what they did. I don’t know what to do.
Imagine how Pau [Gasol] feels. Pau came to the Lakers and played here for four years, went to the Finals and lost, won two NBA championships and then got swept [by the Dallas Mavericks this year]. Wow! Imagine how he must feel.
Man, I’m just in total disbelief about all of this. They don’t want my services, for whatever reason. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I was proud to be a Laker, so I’ll try to help them in the process as much as possible.”
- Lamar Odom on the current trade/non-trade situation between the Lakers & Hornets.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvx6apkKAk1qzb7vjo1_500.jpg)
“I guess that means I’m a Laker if the trade didn’t go through. I don’t know what to do for the Lakers. I’m even weirded out by the league doing what they did. I don’t know what to do.
Imagine how Pau [Gasol] feels. Pau came to the Lakers and played here for four years, went to the Finals and lost, won two NBA championships and then got swept [by the Dallas Mavericks this year]. Wow! Imagine how he must feel.
Man, I’m just in total disbelief about all of this. They don’t want my services, for whatever reason. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. I was proud to be a Laker, so I’ll try to help them in the process as much as possible.”
- Lamar Odom on the current trade/non-trade situation between the Lakers & Hornets.
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