NHLPA confirms Realignment; Big East becomes "America 12"; Flyers Heartbreak

1. The NHL's realignment that was discussed earlier on this blog has been approved by the NHL's Player Association. The PA's agreement comes under the terms that the system will be used until the 2015-2016 season and then their will be an evaluation period. The quickest change to another system would by 2017. All that is left to be done is for the Owners to have a final vote; the system should be in place next season.
2. The schools not leaving the Big East in the next few seasons are expected to call themselves the "America 12 Conference" which makes sense cause they have a team in pretty much every timezone (idk about western?).This is known because of the conference's law firm registering multiple URLs including the "America 12" wording.
3. Because of Wayne Rooney's recent time on the bench there has been speculation that the Man U was on the out in Manchester, but according to Sir Alex Ferguson, the Devil's manager if you didn't know, Rooney will be wearing red in Manchester next year and that he will be "involved" in the FA Cup match against Chelsea. I have no idea what "involved" means, it could be coming off the bench or starting, but since Rooney did eventually come in against Real Madrid I think it means starting.
4. For the second year in a row Mariano Rivera will be expected to retire at the end of the season. Last year the all-time save leader was not able to finish the season out due to an ACL tear. He is expected to make the announcement around 10am today.

WBC Recap

Schoop

There was a combined 26 hits in the Netherlands (1-0) and Cuba's (0-1) second round game. Netherlands won 6-2 thanks to Diegomar Markwell who through 6 innings allowing 9 hits and only on run which was a homer by Erisbel Arruebarruena. Jonathan Schoop was 3(single, double, homer) for 6 with 4 RBIs for the Netherlands Kingdom.
The Dominican Republic (1-0) defeated Venezuela (0-1) just a day after the death of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. The Dominicans got off to a fast start and never looked back winning 9-3. AL MVP Miguel Cabrera was 0-4 with 3 men left on base for Venezuela and Hanley Ramirez homered for the Dominicans. No pitcher threw more than 1.2 innings for DR and no more than 3.1 for Zuela.
Italy (1-0) defeated Mexico (0-1) 6-5 to begin play in Pool D. Adrian Gonzalez was 2-2 with 2 walks and Cub's first baseman Anthony Rizzo was 2-5 with a double and 2 RBIs.
It took extra innings to separate Japan (1-0) and Chinese Tapei (0-1). Sho Nakata scored Nobuhiro Matsuda with a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th to give Japan the 4-3 lead. It is possible to say that Chien Ming Wang was robbed of a win as he threw 6 scoreless innings for Chinese Taipei.

NBA Recap
J.R. Smith missed a last second shot for the Knicks as they lost to the Thunder 95-94. Kevin Durant scored 34 points for the Thunder but his performance was outdone by J.R. Smith who scored 36.
The Nuggets surprisingly had an easy time with the Cippers winning 107-92 for their 7th straight win, this one without 'Melo. Ty Lawson had 21 points and 11 assists in the win.

All NBA 3/7/2013
Pos	Player	Injury Note
G	Ty Lawson- DEN	Scored 21 points and had 11 assists. Shot 9-15 from field.
G	Kevin Martin- OKC	Never heard of him but he scored 16 for the Thunder and had 10 assists.
F	Kevin Durant- OKC	Scored 24 on 9-20 from the field and 14-15 from the line.
F	Danilo Gallinari- DEN	Played decent scoring 20, dishing out 6 dimes, and getting 5 rebounds.
F	Kenneth Faried- DEN	Had 4 blocks along with 11 rebounds. Scored a decent 11 points
WTF	Some of these players suc	what do you expect there were only two games last night