This Week in Sports (4/26-5/2)

The world of sports is constantly moving at a high speed and because of this we have decided to include a segment in which we summarize a week in our crazy world of sports.

The first round of the NBA playoffs has ended, it is now down to 4 teams in each conference. Utah and San Antonio were able to knock off higher seeded teams in the Nuggets and Mavericks, respectively. Only one sweep occured and it was by Dwight Howard's Magic over the Bobcats who made their first playoff appearance in franchise history. Only one series went to the seventh game and surprisingly it was the Bucks that somehow managed to stay in the series against the Hawks regardless of missing starting center Andrew Bogut. The matchups for the second round are set, EAST: (1) Cleveland vs (4) Boston (LeBron's Cavs took game 1), (2) Orlando vs (3) Atlanta. WEST: (1) LA Lakers vs (5) Utah, (3) Phoenix vs (7) San Antonio.

I would also like to congratulate Floyd Mayweather Jr. on defeating Sugar Shane Mosley by unanimous decision in a welterweight title bout on Saturday night. Notice how I said welterweight and not heavyweight, yeah I am not kidding. It is ridiculous how the biggest fight of the year was of welterweights and not heavyweights. Boxing in America would be much bigger if there was a dominant heavyweight such as an Ali, Liston or Frazier.

In our Minnesota sports world the Twins have improved to a record of 16-9 and lead the division by a half a game over Detroit with whom we start a series tomorrow at Target Field. Francisco Liriano fresh off a shutout against the Tigers in mid-week went seven innings today and is now 4-0.

Savor my last paragraph because the purple is not looking so good. News was received that Brett Favre will have to undergo offseason surgery if he plans to participate in an NFL season next year. Without Brett it would be tough and they would really come to regret not drafting Clausen but at the same time everybody knew Favre would have missed training camp even without an injury so hopefully he gets it cured and can get back to business for our opening trip to the bayou.

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