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   After missing last weeks Sports Market, the Monday staple returns bigger and better than before with a beefed-up amount of topics. The weekend was full of stories that can match up with last weeks bombshells such as Manny Ramirez and Brett Favres likely return to the NFL.

Los Angeles Lakers- The Lakers have looked a bit bleek in this series with the Houston Rockets and it doesn’t appear any better. Los Angeles was blown out of Game 4 from start to finish and needs to get serious about this series and not expect to walk over the Rockets with ease.

Until the Lakers learn this, they are down in our Market.

Manny Ramirez- If it wasn’t the use of performance enhancing drugs that has hurt Manny’s reputation, it is certainly not a great week for Manny. Now he has reportedly got under the skin of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt who has demaned Manny address his team.

Manny is down.

Alex Rodriguez- Speaking of alleged steroid users, A-Rod has had a sort of re-birth in the New Yankee Stadium as he attempts to rebuild his reputation. In his first at-bat since admitting the his use of steroids, Rodriguez belted a home-run.

That is the first step to rebuilding his reputation, and that leaves A-Rod up in the Sports Market.

Roy Jones Jr.- As Jones Jr. tries to keep a career in professional sports, he will attempt to use his boxing skills for a career in Mixed Martial Arts. The problem is no major MMA Promotion wants to take a chance on Jones Jr., so he will likely have to start from the bottom and work his way up.

With that, Jones Jr. is down.

Darrius Heyward-Bey- Do you know the name? Well I didn’t either but he was the Oakland Raiders first pick in the draft this year. Apparently, Heyward-Bey had a rough first mini-camp where he would drop three wide-open passes and would tweak his hamstring.

For that, Heyward-Bey is down.

Last Week: There was no Market last week. We will return the review section next week.

J.M.Saucedo