ekansekans's blog: "df"

MINNEAPOLIS -- Kevin Loves shooting stroke returned, and Andrei Kirilenko also was back for the Minnesota Timberwolves. The timing couldnt have been worse for the reeling Cleveland Cavaliers. Love had 36 points and 13 rebounds and Kirilenko delivered another solid all-around performance in the Timberwolves 91-73 victory over the Cavaliers on Friday night. Love missed most of the first month of the season with a broken right hand, and hes been struggling to regain his shooting touch since returning nine games ago. The release looked much more fluid against the Cavs, and the trajectory was better as well. He made 10 of 19 shots and 14 of 18 free throws and is cautiously optimistic that its all coming back to him now. "Hopefully its not fools gold," Love said. "Its a step in the right direction. Ive been putting in work, but its just one game." Kirilenko had eight points, seven rebounds, six assists, four steals and three blocks after missing four games with back spasms and Luke Ridnour added 12 points, seven assists and five rebounds for the Timberwolves, who improved to 9-9 in their best start since the 2006-07 season. Alonzo Gee scored 16 points and Anderson Varejao grabbed 14 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who have lost four in a row and eight of their last nine while star guard Kyrie Irving has been out with a broken left index finger. The Cavs turned the ball over 20 times, which led to 32 Minnesota points, shot 34.5 per cent and attempted just nine free throws to Minnesotas 35. "Im trying to figure out a way to say this without getting fined," coach Byron Scott said of the officiating. "It was that bad. It really was. It was that bad. I mean I understand were playing in Minnesota, but 35-9, we went to the basket just as much as they did. I think we had 38 attempts in the paint to their 34, we get nine free throws, I think that speaks for itself." It wasnt a pretty game offensively for either team, aside from Loves shooting. He entered the night hitting just 19.6 per cent of his 3s and 36 per cent overall while still trying to get the feeling in his hand back to normal. "I know I havent been the 25 (points) and 10 (rebounds) guy that I usually am. ... I havent been quite putting up the numbers and helping the team as much as I can," Love said at the shootaround on Friday morning. While Love was terrific in the matchup of two of the games best rebounders, Varejao managed just four points on 2-for-10 shooting and lost a streak of 10 straight games with at least 15 boards. C.J. Miles scored 13 points for Cleveland. Both teams were missing their playmaking point guards, and it showed in the disjointed mess that was the offence on both sides of the court. Irving missed his 10th straight game and Dion Waiters was out again with a sprained left ankle, robbing the Cavaliers of one of the promising young backcourts in the league. Once again, the Cavs struggled to create space for easy jumpers, turned the ball over 18 times and really were relegated to hoping for a dunk from Gee on offence. Gee threw down a soaring jam and then knifed through the lane for another two-hander that cut Minnesotas lead to nine points late in the third quarter. He made seven of his 12 shots, but his teammates shot just 30 per cent. Miles dunk pulled the Cavs to within seven in the fourth, but Minnesota closed the game on a 19-8 surge. "Hes definitely a luxury when youve got a guy that does what he does, who can break his guy down at any point in time," Miles said of Irving. "Thats definitely a luxury, but we did a good job, guys are stepping up. Weve been in every game to a certain extent, I think weve just got to figure out how to close games, how to win games." NOTES: Varejao did limit Wolves C Nikola Pekovic to four points and one rebound on 0-for-3 shooting. ... Cavaliers rookie Kevin Jones made his NBA debut. He had two points and four rebounds in eight minutes. ... Former No. 2 overall pick Derrick Williams did not play again for the Wolves, with coach Rick Adelman preferring to give the bulk of the minutes to Love, Dante Cunningham and Greg Stiemsma up front. Wholesale Jerseys Paypal . PETERSBURG, Fla. Wholesale Jerseys . -- Tony La Russa is already thinking about which players he might add to the National League roster for next months All-Star game. http://pavansukhdev.org/wholesalejerseys.html . The Americans are entered in doubles at the All England Club, their first tournament together since losing in the 2010 Wimbledon quarterfinals.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The top 25 players from the Web.com Tour are assured of getting PGA Tour cards under a new system announced Tuesday that does away with Q-school being a direct path to the big leagues. More than six months of discussions ended with what the tour felt was the most simple plan for awarding PGA Tour cards. Starting in September 2013, the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour and the top 75 players who do not qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs -- those who are No. 126 through No. 200 in the FedEx Cup standings -- will compete in three $1 million tournaments known as "The Finals." All players in the Finals will start from scratch, and 50 cards will be awarded based on the Finals money list. However, the top 25 from the Web.com Tour regular season already will be assured of getting PGA cards, even if they fall out of the top 50 on the Finals money list. They would play only for position going into the 2013-14 season, which would start in October. The player who leads the Web.com Tour money list in the regular season, and the player who wins the Finals money list, will be exempt into The Players Championship and have the same status as a PGA Tour player who kept his card the previous year. "We looked at a dizzying number of potential options," said Andy Pazder, the tours chief of operations. "This one provided the best blend of continuing to recognize the seasonal performance of the Web.com Tour. At the same time, it creates a way for the cream to rise over three weeks of head-to-head play." The change is part of a major overhaul of the PGA Tour season that starting next fall will do away with the money list as a way to measure performance. Currently, the FedEx Cup season ends with the Tour Championship in late September, followed by the Fall Series of events that give players a chance to finish in the top 125 on the money list to earn their cards for next year. Those who fail go to Q-school, a six-round tournament with 25 cards awarded. The Web.com Tour also awards 25 cards. Under the new system, the FedEx Cup still ends at the Tour Championship. The Finals -- for the Web.com players and leftovers from the PGA Tour -- will end the week after the Tour Championship. The next season then starts in October. Q-school will continue to be held in late fall, but only to award Web.com Tour cards. The model for the Finals was reached after much discussion by the toours board (which includes four players) and Player Advisory Councils that represent players from the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tours.dddddddddddd It was critical that they got it right the first time -- unlike the FedEx Cup points system, which was altered each of the first three years -- because jobs were at stake. Pazder said keeping the model simple was a factor, "but not a motivating factor." "The motivating factor was a system that would identify the best 25 players in those fields," he said. "And the best way to do that is head-to-head competition. Everyone starts on a level playing field. Its not based upon subjective seedings. Its based on results. One of the beauties of our sport is you go out and perform, and based on your performance, you get paid or you dont. "In this case," he said, "you get a tour card or you dont based on your performance." Tour officials had looked at trying to seed players from the PGA Tour and Web.com Tour, though that was abandoned a few months ago because it was seen as too complicated to explain, and difficult to compare performances between the major league and minor league. They also had considered awarding only 15 cards to the Web.com Tour regular season. It has not been determined where to play the three tournaments that make up the Finals. The tour expects the field size to range from 132 to 144 players. Even though 150 players would be eligible, some might not need to play if they have previous status, such as a two-year exemption from winning on the PGA Tour. Players who are not on the PGA Tour can earn either FedEx Cup points from the PGA Tour or money from the Web.com Tour that will appear on a nonmembers list. If it is equivalent to other players on tour, that would get them into the Finals. The change is likely to force college players to turn pro earlier, because they cannot earn points or money as amateurs. Dustin Johnson played in the Walker Cup, made it through Q-school and won his rookie year on the PGA Tour. Under the new system, he likely would have to spend a year on the Web.com Tour. If this system were in place when Tiger Woods turned pro after winning his third straight U.S. Amateur in 1996, he would have had two minor-league events to make enough points to get into the Finals. The season was longer, then, and Woods won twice on the PGA Tour in his first seven tournaments. ' ' '