By Tan Teck Joo
11 April 2011
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| Vettel successful continuing won two times champion in this season, made a perfect score. |
SEPANG, April 11 - Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won a dramatic Malaysian Grand Pix without facing too much challenged from his rival.
Vettel ran a sensible race, handling his tyres well on Sepang's blistering circuit and coping with intermittent use of the Kers power-boost system in the second half of the race.
The German comfortably collected the 12th grand prix win of his career to stretch his championship lead to 24 points.
"The fight behind him is close but Vettel has such an advantage out front in the championship now," said BBC commentator Martin Brundle.
The German’s ability to stay comfortably ahead of rivals McLaren, Ferrari and Renault in a car he could not even employ the effective use of KERS (kinetic energy recovery system or power boost) for portions of the race made his rivals scratch their heads in charting out how to stop the rampaging Red Bulls.
Closest rivals McLaren are, however, determined to close the gap.
Button finished three seconds behind Vettel on Sunday but the Briton was never in contention to win once the Red Bull driver come out from his final stop with a 10-second lead.
“The Red Bulls’ pace is very good. He’s won two races out of two and nobody else has been consistent. He’s got a 24-point lead and that’s a lot after two races,” said Button, who was still, nevertheless, satisfied to grab his first podium finish.
The 24 drivers will re-enter the fray in just five days' time for Friday practice in Shanghai for next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
By Tay Pang Chong
10 April 2011
KAMPAR, April 10 - The Faculty of Science (FS) was finally achieved their first basketball championship after four years participant in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) sport carnival which will held in UTAR’s sport complex annually. The winners for the first and second runner-up were goes to Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Team A (FICT) and Foundation Team A.
The basketball competition was running on the knockout system and consisted of eight teams which representing their own faculty: Faculty of Art and Social Science (FAS), FS, Foundation Team A, Foundation Team B, FICT Team A, FICT Team B and Faculty of Business and Finance (FBF) Team A and Team B.
During this competition, FS was defeated their opponents which are FAS and FBF Team A on the knockout stage of this competition and success proceeds to the final match versus with FICT Team A.
At the end, FS was defeated FICT Team A by 16 -7 scores in the final match and win their first basketball championship in UTAR sport carnival.
FS representative, Goh Khai Ming who was considered as the best performance player in all of the matches has gave his opinion after they achieve the championship.
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| We Won: FS posing with gold medals after winning the basketball competition in sport carnival. |
“I felt so excited now. We did not expect to win since our team is not the strongest team among all the participants,” said Goh.
He also highlighted that the technique bring them to victory is their teamwork but not rely on his own performance in the games.
“Have a good teamwork always is the key for me to success”, added him.
On other sides, one of the players from FICT Team A, Lee Kee Wei, 24, said that FS has really done a very out-standing performance in their games.
“They did well in the competition. Although my team been defeated, I still feel happy because I able to see my faculty have obtained this high achievement during my last year in UTAR and I felt proud of them,” said Lee.
Previously, FS was only ever achieved to first and second runner-up. This year FS has finally break the charm and advanced to the championship.
By Tay Pang Chong
7 April 2011
LOS ANGELES - By nearing the end of the season, the focus will always be discussing must be connected with the title of MVP (Most Valuable Player). There was a keen competition among the players who with the excellent performance in a whole season. Today, there were three star players in NBA will striving for this top honor’s title – Chris Paul, Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose.
The 2011 NBA Most Valuable Player race is shaping up to be another close one. The three leaders at the moment appear to be Chris Paul from the New Orleans Hornets, Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic, and Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls. History tells us that the MVP's team must be at least in the top three in their conference standings at the end of the season, meaning that it's unlikely for Paul will win it, despite his outstanding season thus far. However, if Hornets (46 wins) manages a better record, Paul may turn out to be a lot of people’s top pick for MVP.
So that means its likely going to come down to Howard and Rose. Both the Magic (51 wins) and Bulls (60 wins) have holding the league's best record. Both guys smoothly run the offense of their respective teams, and both are excellent defenders who are assigned to the opposing team's best player, night in and night out.
As of now, their stat averages look something like this (include Chris Paul):
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Chris Paul: 15.8ppg, 9.6apg, 3.9rpg, 2.4spg 46.6 FG%
Dwight Howard: 23.3ppg, 1.2apg, 13.9rpg, 1.2spg 59.7 FG%
Derrick Rose: ppg, 24.9apg, 4.1rpg, 1.1spg 44.1 FG%
By analyzed, Howard is the most deserving candidate of the MVP. He is keeping a horrendous Magic team at the top of the East. Without Howard's presence in the lineup, the bunch of role players like Jason Richardson or Jameer Nelson would not be as good as they are. Howard is in a nice situation with Orlando the paint is open for him because the Magic surround him with shooters. But that works both ways; the reason they are so open is because teams have to double Howard in the paint. No player means more to his offense than Howard. Besides that, he is also in place to win his third straight Defensive Player of the Year award.
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| Rose is fired up to take the Bulls back again to the NBA final. |
On the other hand, Derrick Rose has a great case for MVP and is seems to get a lot of push for the award lately. He kept the Bulls near the top of the Eastern Conference, even with injuries to key players like Carlos Boozer. He is the best player on the best team and it was hard to find the other player in the league now which can match his athleticism. The fact was, Rose is now the leader in the MVP award race, even against a man who has won few of these awards already such as LeBron James.
Who will win the award of MVP in year 2011? This will be decided over the next month. Let waiting the result patiently and observe the players. The important things, please do not forget to vote the players you favorite and you wish him to win.
