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For the past several seasons, the Orlando Magic always plays a role as No. 2 contender in the East, with Boston Celtics No.1, but those days will be gone. Since the LeBron James joins the Heat, everything has changed.

Miami keeps Dwyane Wade. Orlando keeps J.J. Redick. Chris Bosh moves to Miami. Chris Duhon moves to Orlando. Oh, yes, then there's LeBron James.

Since the Miami has the big three now, nobody felt the searing flame of the blowtorch on the back of their necks like the Magic. Magic GM and Coach Van Gaudy have different opinions as everybody considers the Heat as the No.1 winning team candidate.

"Is Kobe Bryant retiring?" general manager Otis Smith.asked, referring to the fact that the Lakers are the two-time defending champions. "Let's not give (Miami) a ring so fast...They have a chance ... that's all they have. Just like everybody else."

It is, of course, the same speech that Smith will give to his players when training camp opens and to every member of an organization that has to feel like it was just passed by the latest model Porsche on the autobahn.

One minute Orlan do is going into the season as the likely No. 1 contender it the Eastern Conference and the next everyone is wondering if they'll have what it takes to hold off Miami to merely win the Southeast Division title.

Van Gundy and Smith know they still have the best big man - Dwight Howard. But now Howard has to overcome three of his ex-Team USA teammates. That is not an easy job for him and for the Magic.

The situation is tough but we should never neglect our opponent, not only in the sports, but in any place.

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Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed is recovering from offseason hip surgery and he is expected to be placed on the physically-unable-to-perform list, missing the first six games of the season.

Reed had estimated in a recent radio interview he was only 35 percent healthy. He said Tuesday his rehab is a slow process. With training camp drawing near, the chances of Reed landing on the PUP list increased.

Reed, 31, missed four games during December because of a variety of injuries, including problems with his neck, hip and groin.

"I'm going to get out there when I feel good. I can't give you a date. I don't know," Reed said.

Ravens veterans are schedule to report to training camp on July 28. But it seems that Ed Reed is not healthy enough to join the camp on time. And it is likely that the Ravens will miss him at the beginning of the season.

Once Ed Reed is well and ready, he will be back. At this moment, he should focus on reconstructing his whole hip.

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Maybe Josh Johnson is not so popular and shining, maybe other pitchers have had more fanfare and more recognition, but none of them played better than Johnson this season. He pitched like the MLB’s best.

Johnson racked up 11 strikeouts while surrendering one run over 6 1/3 innings on Thursday afternoon in the Marlins' 3-2 win over the Rockies at Sun Life Stadium. The 26-year-old Florida Marlins ace continues to amaze and flirt with benchmarks that don't come along very often.

Although he didn't get the victory, Johnson ran his string of starts of working at least six innings while allowing no more than two runs to 13 consecutive games. It's the longest such stretch since Greg Maddux also had 13 in 1995.

You have to go back to Mike Scott in 1986 to find the last pitcher with 14.

The way Johnson -- who is 10-3 with an MLB-best 1.61 ERA -- has performed all season, an argument can be made that no pitcher in the big leagues has been better.

Josh Johnson has played better and better year after year and his performance this season is amazing. With Johnson on the mound, all the Florida Marlins feel that they can win. His consistency and the streaks are amazing.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military is on track to cut numbers in Iraq to 50,000 by end August, when the 7-1/2-year combat mission launched by former President George W. Bush ends and operations switch to assisting Iraq's armed forces.
The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the last brigade mainly focused on combat, handed over to Iraqi forces on August 7 and pulls out this week. Its 100-strong "trail party" will leave in three days after turning over facilities.
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"My personal experience is it was worth it. We paid a huge cost," said Staff Sergeant Christopher Hush from the First Battalion of the 116th Infantry regiment which headed to Kuwait earlier this week.
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Most U.S. military units began switching their focus to training and assisting Iraqi troops and police over a year ago when they pulled out of Iraqi towns and cities on June 30, 2009.
U.S. forces have not been legally able to conduct unilateral operations in Iraq since a bilateral security agreement came into force in January 2009, and the U.S. military began a steady cut in troop numbers, from a peak of 176,000 soldiers.
"Every soldier is a combat soldier. It's about the change of mission. It doesn't change who we are or what we do," Lanza said. "You won't see this big change on 2 September."
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The end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will still be a milestone in the war that began in 2003 with the invasion to topple Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, whose long rule was marked by an eight-year war with Iran, the invasion of Kuwait and economic decline and diplomatic isolation.
More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers have been killed, while at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians also died, according to various counts, in fierce warfare unleashed between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunnis who dominated the country under Saddam.[color=#ffffff]jordan shoes[/color]
Overall violence has fallen sharply since the height of sectarian slaughter in 2006/07. But Sunni Islamist-led insurgents still carry out attacks and Iraq is a fragile place.
Its leaders have not resolved a number of politically explosive issues, such as tensions between majority Arabs and minority Kurds, and reconciliation between Sunnis and Shi'ites.
Nor have they been able to form a new government five months after a national election that produced no outright winner.
Tensions have been stoked by a steady stream of suicide bombings and other attacks by insurgents trying to exploit the political vacuum ahead of the end of the U.S. combat mission.
Nevertheless, Iraq's tentative experiment with U.S.-imposed democracy holds the potential to upset political power balances throughout a region accustomed to autocratic governance.
Much of the U.S. war materiel and many of the soldiers leaving Iraq are being redeployed in Afghanistan, where NATO forces are fighting a resurgent Taliban. The 50,000-strong force left in Iraq will remain formidable -- almost twice the size of the U.S. deployment on the Korean peninsula.[color=#ffffff]ed hardy clothing[/color]
Obama has said not a single U.S. service member will remain in Iraq come January 1, 2012, even though it will be impossible for Iraq to stand up its own air force and be ready to protect its territorial integrity on its own by then.
Yet the U.S. public is weary of war, and any decision to remain longer in Iraq would likely be highly controversial.
The war in Iraq has gone on longer than the U.S. Civil War, World War One and World War Two.

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