4 arbitri asistenţi prahoveni dau joi examen pentru promovare

Pentru cele 15 locuri de arbitri asistenţi pentru Liga a III-a scoase la concurs de CCA s-au înscris 123 de concurenţi, printre care se numără şi 4 prahoveni. Este vorba de Ştefan Călăraşu (Câmpina), Daniel Bunea (Buşteni), Alexandru Chivu (Ploieşti) şi Laurenţiu Dragu (Colceag). Lor li se adaugă un alt prahovean, Romulus Sprânceană, din Buşteni, care va reprezenta la acest concurs Bucureştiul.
Cei patru arbitri asistenţi prahoveni vor intra la probele fizice în grupa de la ora 14.00.

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Radu Petrescu a fost delegat în Cehia, la un turneu de calificare "under 19"

Prima delegare internaţională ca arbitru pentru Radu Petrescu (foto) după dobândirea ecusonului FIFA a venit. Bucureşteanul a fost delegat de UEFA la un turneu de calificare pentru Campionatul European Juniori sub 19 ani. Turneul va avea loc în Cehia, în perioada 25-30 mai, iar Radu Petrescu va arbitra următoarele jocuri:
25 mai, ora 18.00, Slany (Cehia):
Olanda - Norvegia, arbitru
27 mai, ora 18.00, Praga:
Cehia - Olanda, arbitru
30 mai, ora 18.00, Slany (Cehia):
Norvegia - Cehia, arbitru de rezervă (jocul va fi condus de ucraineanul Anatoli Abdula)
Cel mai probabil, arbitrul asistent care îl va însoţi în Cehia pe Radu Petrescu va fi bucureşteanul Adrian Radu Ghinguleac.

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Liga I, etapa a 29-a, partidele de marţi

ora 17.00, Sibiu:
Voinţa Sibiu - Ceahlăul 1-2
Zăgrean 81 - Golubovic 62, Pavel 64

Arbitri: Sebastian Colţescu (Craiova) - Marius Nicoară (Herculane), Gero Szabo (Cluj) - Florin Ghimbăşan (foto) (Braşov)
Observatori: Silviu Bogdan (Craiova), Emeric Dembrovski (Timişoara)
ora 19.00, Tg. Jiu:
Pandurii Tg. Jiu - Sportul Studenţesc 1-1
Cristea 36 - Curelea 64
Arbitri: Alexandru Tudor (Bucureşti) - Mikloş Nagy (Cluj), Ciprian Danşa (Oradea) - Marcel Bârsan (Bucureşti)
Observatori: Ion Turculeanu (Craiova)
 ora 21.30, Cluj:
CFR Cluj - FC Braşov 1-0
Kapetanos 47

Arbitri: Ovidiu Haţegan (Arad) - Adrian Ghinguleac (Bucureşti), Petruţa Iugulescu (Târgovişte) - Marius Omuţ (Oradea)
Observatori: Aron Huzu (Sibiu), Mario Agiu (Bucureşti)

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2012 NFL Draft: Thoughts on the draft

First off, I will start talking about the Giants Draft. I was shocked when they drafted a RB in the first round. Then a WR in the 2nd. I like the CB pick and the TE pick. They seemed to have been looking for offensive weapons for this draft. I think they could have used an MLB, but just my opinion. We will see how this Rb turns out. I have heard he had trouble holding onto the ball. But Coughlin should be able to help with that like he did with Barber.

The Randal pick will help replace Manningham. 

Giants Draft:
1st: David Wilson RB VT
2nd: Rueben Randle WR LSU
3rd: Jayron Hosley CB VT
4th: Adrien Robinson TE Cincy
4th: Brandon Mosley OT Auburn
6th: Matt McCants OT Auburn
7th: Markus Kuhn DT NC State

Overall I will give the Giants a draft grade of C+. They filled some needs at CB. But late round o-line help might not turn out that well. And a surprise RB pick that I don't think was a need.

As for the rest of the draft. A couple of things stuck out to me. Why did the Browns trade up to get Richardson? He was obviously going to fall to them. Not unless they bought into the Jets trading up to get him. But, it cost the Browns extra picks they could have definitely used since they have a lot of rebuilding to do. And speaking of the Browns, they had a good qb already in Colt McCoy. Why draft another?? What a waste of a pick. What they needed was another weapon to help him. Not a qb to replace him.

And San Francisco stuck out to me as well. Why draft a Rb. Yes, he was probably one of the best players left on the board. But they could have used the help elsewhere. Now with a crowded backfield, how do you give everyone a chance to play?

Teams like Dallas, Indy, New Englad were teams who had great drafts. Especially New England, who filled a ton of defensive needs. As much of an enemy they are to me and my team, they rocked the draft and the Free Agency I think as well.

I liked this years draft overall. Teams moving up and down. Like a game of chess. Trying to outplay their opponents. It's why football is the number one sport in America. And it shows that the season never truly ends.

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Review: Upper Deck World Of Sports 2011

First off, we want to thank Upper Deck for providing us with this box to not only review, but to be able to do some giveaways from :) Look for those in the near future!!


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Box: The box design has premier athletes on the outside of it such as Michael Jordan and Landon Donovan.

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Wrapper: Matches the box. Shiny. Kinda Catchy.

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Base Cards: Clean. Good photography. Upper Deck has always done a great job with this and with not covering the cards with borders. And this brand covers all sports from Lacrosse to Golf to Football. Some of the base cards also have SP versions to them. We got 5 in our box.

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Inserts: The only insert this brand has is World Of Politics. We got Newted. Some of these, not ours, are short prints.

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Memorabilia: It, just as the title of it states, covers all sports. We got an Lacrosse swatch. its pretty cool.

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Autographs: The autographs were nice. Some people don't care for sticker graphs, can't say we can complain. However, the only complaint we have is the dullness to the Athletes Of The World autograph. No pic of the person. Not very creative. And we didn't really hit it big with big name autos. Some of whom you can get is Michael Jordan, Cam Newton, and Landon Donovan.
  
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Overall: A very, very unique product covering a ton of sports and over the world athletes as well. We beat the odds and got 4 hits instead of the stated 3. But, don't really know if the value is there. At least for the box we got. Maybe others did better. But still is a nice product and should you have a chance, give it a try if you like to go outside one sport and looking for something new.

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Tanking, Incentives, and the NBA Draft

Several years ago, Mike McCannanalyzed tanking on the Sports Law Blog (see posts here and here). More recently, ESPN’s TrueHoop blog had astring of posts devoted to tanking in the NBA. ESPN’s coverage included a discussion of emerging research by Adam Gold,a PhD student at the University of Missouri and President of Winning Unlimited,LLC.

Issues involving tanking overlapconsiderably with my own inquiry into competitive integrity andgambling-related corruption (more on that topic later this year), so I havefollowed the research line closely. Withthe close of the NBA’s regular season last week and non-playoff teams in thelottery set, Adam agreed to provide a guest post outlining a numberof important issues germane to incentive-based tanking that may occur late(early?) in the NBA season.

Adam’s guest post is below:

Mathematical elimination can be used as a mechanism to determine draftorder and maintain competitive balance in professional sports leagues. The worst teams are awarded the most games toearn the top draft picks. Teams areranked based on functions of winning. Here are a few key points from the 2011-2012 NBA regular season.

(1) The Charlotte Bobcats’ streak of 23 losses to end the regularseason 7-59 compromises the integrity of the NBA (and all professional sportsleagues that use reverse order drafts generally). There is an inherent incentive for teams tointentionally handicap themselves and limit improvement throughout theseason. Fans are asked to support ateam’s attempt to manipulate the NBA’s draft lottery. Inequities triggered by incentives to losethreaten the accuracy in identifying which team is the worst.

(2) The New Orleans Hornets and Washington Wizards could have ended theregular season playing for the first overall selection. The Washington Wizards could clinch the firstoverall pick if they beat the Miami Heat and if the Houston Rockets beat the Hornets. Games among the worst teams could have beenplayed with an intensity that parallels playoff atmospheres.

(3) In a desperate attempt to keep Anthony Davis out of their division,the Miami Heat play superstars LeBron James and Dwayne Wade in the final gameof the season in Washington. Miami’s dreamof a dynasty is threatened by the possibility that their division rival earnsthe first overall draft pick. The Heat reconsider the risk of entering theplayoffs with injuries and fatigue against allowing Washington a better chanceto get the top prospect.

Teams can be ranked based on functions of winning that give the worstteams the best chance at the best draft picks. Methods based on mathematical elimination shift the entertainment fromthe lottery towards games featuring the worst teams in the league. Supporting fan interest in their favoriteteams is more important than the attempt to award the first pick to the worstteam. Using my methodology, draft orderin the NBA for this year would be a function of the following:

A detailed video discussion of mathematical elimination draft ordersfor the NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL, as presented at the 2012 MIT Sloan SportsAnalytics Conference, is available here. In the coming months, I will disseminate periodic updates via Twitterand can be followed at @WinUnlimited.

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Liga B Prahova, rezultate

Seria Est

Progresul Bucov – Ştiinţa Albeşti 2-2

Gloria Plopu – AS Pleaşa 3-1

Prahova Tg. Vechi – Energia Pietroşani 3-1

Unirea Teleajen – Avântul Tomşani 3-1

AS Strejnic – Voinţa Ciorani 2-3

Avântul Iordăcheanu – Viitorul Fulga 9-0

CS Şirna – Prahova II Tomşani 4-0

Sportul Valea Călugărească – CS Brazi 3-4

Voinţa Vadu Părului – Progresul II Drăgăneşti, amânat

Clasament

1. Gloria Plopu 24 20 2 2 77-19 62

2. Unirea Teleajen 24 15 3 6 57-28 48

3. Prahova Tg. Vechi 24 15 3 6 51-34 48

4. Voinţa Ciorani 24 14 5 5 53-29 47

5. Voinţa Vadu Părului 23 13 4 6 74-43 43

6. Ştiinţa Albeşti 24 11 6 7 50-45 39

7. Avântul Iordăcheanu 24 11 5 8 51-35 38

8. AS Pleaşa 24 11 5 8 56-47 38

9. Avântul Tomşani 24 11 5 8 45-37 38

10. AS Strejnic 24 10 6 8 47-36 36

11. CS Brazi 24 9 6 9 54-66 33

12. Progresul II Drăgăneşti 23 9 4 10 47-33 31

13. Energia Pietroşani 24 8 3 13 68-76 27

14. Sportul Valea Călugărească 24 6 7 11 56-41 25

15. CS Şirna 24 5 3 16 42-79 18

16. Progresul Bucov 24 4 2 18 24-71 14

17. Viitorul Fulga 24 4 1 19 38-102 13

18. Prahova II Tomşani 24 2 4 18 27-96 10

Seria Nord

Teleajen Văleni – Voinţa Livadea 3-2

AS Podenii Noi – CSO II Plopeni 3-3

Flacăra Mălăieşti – Tineretul Bucov 3-2

Intersport Filipeşti de Târg – Luceafărul Drajna 4-2

Victoria Bordeni – Unirea Lipăneşti 2-5

Voinţa Măgurele – Brădetul Ştefeşti 0-1

Gloria Vâlcăneşti – Găzarul Surani 2-5

Real Rio Cocoşeşti – Voinţa Gornet 2-3

Voinţa Vărbilău – Petrolul Teleajen 0-3

Clasament

1. Intersport Filipeşti de Târg 24 20 0 4 60-27 60

2. Găzarul Surani 24 15 3 6 84-49 48

3. Brădetul Ştefeşti 24 15 3 6 57-37 48

4. CSO II Plopeni 24 13 5 6 47-34 44

5. Voinţa Livadea 24 13 2 9 54-41 41

6. Tineretul Bucov 24 11 5 8 56-47 38

7. Real Rio Cocoşeşti 24 12 1 11 47-39 37

8. Petrolul Teleajen 24 10 5 9 52-48 35

9. Teleajen Văleni 24 11 2 11 51-49 35

10. Voinţa Gornet 24 10 4 10 49-49 34

11. Voinţa Măgurele 24 9 6 9 43-38 33

12. Flacăra Mălăieşti 24 10 3 11 56-58 33

13. Victoria Bordeni 24 10 2 12 47-46 32

14. Gloria Vâlcăneşti 24 9 4 11 39-42 31

15. Unirea Lipăneşti 24 8 4 12 56-61 28

16. AS Podenii Noi 24 7 4 13 41-74 25

17. Luceafărul Drajna 24 2 2 20 26-74 8

18. Voinţa Vărbilău 24 1 5 18 32-84 8

Seria Vest

Prahoviţa Măgureni – CS Valea Doftanei 1-1

AFC II Filipeşti – Sori Tg. Nou 5-0

Gloria Ologeni – Dalina Bărcăneşti 5-2

Precizia Breaza – Tricolor Varniţa 4-3

AS Tg. Vechi – CS Cornu 1-0

CS Brazi Negoieşti – Conpet II Ploieşti 1-2

Unirea Cocorăştii Colţ – Prahova Nedelea 2-0

Cetatea Coada Izvorului – AS Mislea 3-1

Viitorul Ariceşti – Petrolul Băicoi 2-1

Clasament

1. Precizia Breaza 24 20 1 3 93-28 61

2. Unirea Cocorăştii Colţ 24 17 3 4 69-24 54

3. Tricolor Varniţa 24 16 2 6 70-31 50

4. Cetatea Coada Izvorului 24 16 1 7 78-41 49

5. CS Brazi Negoieşti 23 15 1 7 51-39 46

6. Petrolul Băicoi 24 15 0 9 51-35 45

7. Prahova Nedelea 24 12 3 9 52-30 39

8. Conpet II Ploieşti 24 12 2 10 62-43 38

9. AS Tg. Vechi 24 10 3 11 38-41 33

10. CS Cornu 24 10 1 13 49-49 31

11. AS Mislea 24 9 4 11 36-46 31

12. AFC II Filipeşti 24 9 2 13 40-60 29

13. Viitorul Ariceşti 24 8 3 13 36-49 27

14. Gloria Ologeni 24 7 5 12 61-78 26

15. Dalina Bărcăneşti 24 6 3 15 51-81 21

16. CS Valea Doftanei 24 6 3 15 28-68 21

17. Sori Tg. Nou 24 2 6 16 24-58 12

18. Prahoviţa Măgureni 23 3 1 19 22-110 10

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