Starting for the East:

Derrick Rose, G

Dwayne Wade,G

LeBron James, F

Carmelo Anthony, F

Dwight Howard, C

Starting for the West:

Chris Paul, G

Kobe Bryant, G

Kevin Durant, F

Blake Griffin, F

Andrew Bynum, C

With that sort of talent on the floor, this is going to be one high-scoring affair, as usual.

Last year’s NBA All Star Game was won by the West by a score of 148-143.

Fans can still find NBA All Star Game tickets and tickets to the other All Star Weekend festivities like the Rookie Game and the All Star Saturday Night which features the Slam Dunk Contest.

Scheduled for February 26 in Orlando, Florida, the 2012 NBA All Star Game and other related events are a celebration of the sport.

Featuring great events all weekend long, the All Star Game also has the NBA Rookie Game, the All Star Rookie Game, an All Star Practice Session, All Star Saturday night which is essentially a Skills Competition which includes the now famous Slam Dunk Contest and then it is all capped off with the All Star Game itself.

Featuring the greatest current players, the NBA All Star Game is traditionally a highlight reel event of players showing off their extraordinary talents which they don’t get to use in real game situations. The offensive creativity is off the charts and the defensive responsibility goes out the window!

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Featuring the games brightest stars in a game featuring almost no defense, you really get to see just how talented these players are. The tic-tac-toe passing will have your head-spinning and leave you breathless. The talent level is the highest in the world and don’t be mistaken, these guys still want to win. Especially in the skills competition where the players want to earn bragging rights as the best at what they do.

This past weekend was the 2012 event in Kanata, Ontario and former Ottawa Senator Zdeno Chara broke his own NHL Skills Competition record with a  whopping 108.8mph slap shot! I don’t care what kind of padding you have on, I wouldn’t want to be a goaltender trying to stop that shot.

The All Star Weekend is a great event for the fans as there are activities surrounding the event for fans to take part in.

Fans in Columbus and traveling to Columbus are in for quite a treat. Not terribly far from Detroit or Pittsburgh, expect there to be quite a turnout for this event as fans just eat this one up.

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Fans already voted in the starters, the game will be played in Ottawa and the opening lineup reflects that as it is heavily loaded with hometown Ottawa Senators: Jason Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson,Milan Michalek and Erik Karlsson.

There is much speculation about who else will make the team.

Also being named today will be the Young Guns teams, a collection of younger players who are hoping to become future All Stars.

Last but not least there will also be the famous NHL Skills Competition where players prove who has the hardest slap shot, the fastest skater and accurate shooter — among other contests.

The celebration of hockey is quickly approaching. The NHL All Star Game will be held on January 29 at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, Ontario.

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• RW Daniel Alfredsson
• C Jason Spezza
• LW Milan Michalek
• D Erik Karlsson

The All Star Game will take place January 29 game at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, Ontario - the home ice of the Ottawa Senators.

Karlsson, in the midst of the strongest season of his career and among the league leaders among defensemen scoring, was the top vote getter with 939,951.

Alfredsson is the long-standing captain of the Senators, he’s been an Ottawa Senator dating back to the 1995-96 season. Over his long career Alfredsson has eclipsed the 1,000 games played mark, has amassed over 1,000 points to date and as of this writing is a career + 135. His best season came in 2005-06 when he racked up 43 goals and 60 assists for 103 total points in 77 games.

The annual All Star Game is accompanied by the very popular and “fan-forward” skills competition. The entire weekend is a great celebration of the sport and to see it done in Canada, you will see it done right. The intensity and passion for the sport will pour out of everyone involved and in attendance.

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Location for the 2013 game has yet to be officially announced but there is strong speculation throughout the hockey community that the game will be hosted by the Detroit Red Wings at either Comerica Park or “The Big House”, Michigan Stadium at the University of Michigan.

Not matter where it is, hockey fans have demonstrated beyond any doubt that they love the NHL Winter Classic and will come out to cheer on their heroes no matter what the temperatures may drop to!

The outdoor hockey game has become a huge success for the league and having attended the Winter Classic myself, I can say that they really do things right. There is a huge fan fest of sorts outside the stadium where you can collect several giveaway items from corporate sponsors and participate in some fun activities like hockey trivia, shooting foam pucks at a live goalie or posing for pictures in pre-set scenes and giant inflatable jerseys of the participating teams.

The Winter Classic is so much more than just a game and this year’s event in Philadelphia showed fans will turn out in droves to cheer on heroes of yesteryear as they had 45,000 fans for the alumni game between former Rangers and former Flyers.

The Winter Classic itself was a complete sell out with over 46,000 fans there to cheer on the Rangers and Flyers in a game New York won by a final score of 3-2.

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Canceling the season was not a good option for anyone involved. The players are already viewed as greedy, the owners are considered miserly and the fans would’ve been left without their favorite sport. More importantly and often overlooked are the people who work in the arenas and the front offices of the teams. These folks do not make millions of dollars, they need the league to be “on” in order to make a living. Without a league, these people are without a job so as fans we should be happy for these people that they’re not forced to look for work, all we would’ve missed was watching a game. They’d be out of a job!

But all is well for now as the teams are back and the games are on, not the least of which will be the 2012 NBA All Star Game. All Star Weekend is a great spectacle for the league, showing off the great talents in the game.

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Of all the all star games in professional sports, I think the NBA set the mold that the others try to follow. With the old 3 point contest and slam dunk contest being the first skills competition (at least as far as I can recall) they really set the tone that the other leagues have tried to capitalize on as well.

Baseball has the Home Run Derby, the NHL has the skills competition and have really ramped it up by having breakaways, fastest skater, hardest slapshot and target shooting among the many contests they compete in.

The 2012 NBA All Star Game is scheduled to be held in Orlando, Florida on Sunday February 25.

Fans of the NBA can celebrate the return of their sport and see the stars of the game compete in the highest scoring contest of the year as defense is only an afterthought in the annual NBA All Star Game.

Find 2012 NBA All Star Game tickets today and make your plans to be in beautiful, sunny Florida this coming February. Not far from Disney World, I am sure many NBA fans will expand this into a trip for the whole family and bring the kids to the amusement parks as well as the All Star festivities.

One of the off-season stories has been the steady stream of MLB All Star Game and Home Run Derby interest as fans are already making plans for next year’s Mid-Summer Classic in Kansas City.

For the first time in almost 40 years, KC will host the All Star Game. Fans in the Midwest take great pride in hosting national sporting events as much of the media focus is seemingly always on the teams along the coasts.

Just look at the game in St Louis a few years back, fans went nuts for that event! Ticket sales were brisk from the previous summer all the way up to the event weekend and this year is no different for Kansas City.

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Last season the three AFC quarterbacks were Peyton Manning, Phillip Rivers and Matt Cassel. Maybe there’s a Pro Bowl curse at that position as all three of them are having forgettable seasons at this point.

Peyton Manning has been physically unable to perform at all this season following off-season neck surgery. There’s still question as to whether he’ll ever return to play.

Phillip Rivers, last year’s Pro Bowl starting QB, is having a tough season in San Diego. Only nine games into the season, Rivers has already matched his career high for interceptions thrown in a season with 15 to date. Aside from the statistics, he has made some major mistakes at inopportune times for the Chargers, particularly that fumbled snap at the Chiefs’ 15 yard line with less than a minute remaining in the 4th Quarter. A game the Chargers should have easily won but lost due to that fumble.

On the other side of the coin, that fumble was one of the few things to go right for KC QB Matt Cassel this season, the third AFC Pro Bowl quarterback from the 2011 game.

Cassel suffered a rib injury early in the year, has completed just 59.5% of his passes, has thrown for only one more touchdown than interceptions and now has a hand injury that appears will end his season early.

When you look at it, it is shocking how far these three have fallen from the seasons they had last year.

But that is what makes the Pro Bowl such a fantastic event, especially when the league continues to hold the game in Hawaii.

Every year the game is different. Fans are not seeing the same old players marched out there year after year. There is variety in the rosters, and this year the AFC will have a totally new look with 3 new quarterbacks likely taking the field.

Who do you think will make it? Tom Brady, Ryan Fitzpatrick are my first two picks. My third pick would have been Matt Schaub but he is also injured so I am going to go with Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Whichever players reach the game, you know it is going to be a great time… you’ll be in Hawaii!

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