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Baby Lucas becomes the darling NBA because of his hair
Brazilian Lucas Baby undergoes funny moment in NBA draft, is compared to Anderson Varejao and has become darling.
Selected by the Boston Celtics with the 16th pick in the NBA draft, the Brazilian Lucas Baby has become a sensation in the United States. The reason? The big wig player 20 years caused the player hilarious moments during the ceremony, when Baby was chosen and tried to put the cap of the team, without success.
The pivot Brazilian however, will not play for the Celtics. The choice went through Dallas to get to Atlanta, the team the Hawks, who had drafted another Brazilian, Raulzinho Neto. Baby can partner with Al Horford in the paint, if the star Josh Smith quit the team, since it is no contract.



Campeonato Mundial é o segundo torneio mais importante do vôlei de praia.


The World Championship beach volleyball starts on Monday (1) Stare Jablonki, Poland. This is the second most important competition of the sport. The figures show his greatness: 96 doubles, 192 athletes, 31 nationalities, 208 games, 9000 seats on Centre Court, seven days of competition and a million dollars in prize money.
This is the ninth edition of the tournament that happens every two years. Among women, Brazil is the country with the most medals in the competition, are 4 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze. The United States also appear second gold 4. The American Whalsh May and won three straight editions (2003, 2005 and 2007) are the biggest winners of all time. But in this issue, the U.S. will not be present, since Whalsh mother was three months ago, as well as the current champions Juliana and Larissa are not part of the Brazilian team of the sport.

The Brazilian representatives are: Talita / Taiana, Maria Elisa / Agatha, Maria Clara / Carolina and rookies Competition, Barbara / Lili. Among females highlight the first placed world ranking and Talita Taiana who won three stages of the Grand Slam this year.

In the male, Brazil leads the competition with plenty of statistics with 5 gold medals, 3 silver and 3 bronze. USA, Germany and Argentina appear in sequence with only one gold medal each. The biggest winner of the tournament is that Emanuel is also the only flip to have participated in all editions. He has won on three occasions and all with different partners. Won in 1999 with Loyola in 2003 with Ricardo and rose in the latest edition in the highest place of the podium next to the current partner, Alison.

Brazilians in this year's competition are: Emanuel / Alison, Ricardo / Álvaro Pedro Solberg / Bruno Schmidt and beginners in the tournament Evando / Vitor.

Emanuel and Alison are the current world champions and this can help in confidence for a possible double winning the championship in Poland. But I must highlight the brilliant campaign of Peter and Bruno, who won a gold, a silver and a bronze in the World Tour this year and are the most regular players in the country at the time.

Among the foreigners, we have some partnerships that are making a good campaign in the international arena, where the Dutch Meppelink and Van Gestel who participated in 4 semifinals this year and won a stage. Another team with great chances of winning are the American Kessy and Ross, who has won the World Championship in 2009 and is the current vice Olympic champions. The male side, Americans Dalhausser and Rosenthal, winners of the last Grand Slam tournament for the next strong partnership and Latvia, and Smedins Samoilovs, are also quoted to climb on the podium.

At the World Championships, the 48 pairs in each suit are divided into 12 groups of four, and qualify for the second stage, the first two of each key, plus the eight best third places. The women's tournament begins on Monday (01), with the final being played on Saturday (06). But the male begins on Tuesday (02), ending on Sunday (07).

Ferrari shows concern over limit fuel flow 2014.Com new engines, Maranello think pilots will not walk 100% capacity during races.

The Ferrari team expressed concern with the new limit of fuel in the car tax by FIA from next year. Currently each car in F1 carries 100kg of fuel. This will be reduced to around 40-50 pounds less with the new V6 turbo units next season.

by:Leonardo,Raphael,Josue and Italo