Six Questions Lost Fans Should Ask Themselves

Tonight is the first night you'll notice it's really gone. It's Tuesday, the night Lost fans made excuses not to leave the house for the past dozen-and-a-half weeks. But come 9pm, we won't be glued to our TV screens, we'll be trying to fill the empty hole in our hearts that once belonged to Jack, Hurley, a four-toed statue, a donkey wheel, and a lush paradise simply known as "the island."

The divisive finale left some blown away and others wishing they'd blown themselves away. Like with a gun. The debate over its quality rages on, but the healing process must also begin. We're here to help you find closure with six therapeutic questions all Lost fans should be asking themselves (I'll answer them, too!). Write down your answers in the comments section below, and let the healing begin!

What's the "next Lost"? What's your next obsession?

For me, there simply isn't another show on TV right now that's as wonderfully demanding as Lost. While I think Breaking Bad and Supernatural are just as good in quality, if not better, neither really merits being an obsession. So to answer my own question, I think the "next Lost" is yet to come.

Will you ever re-watch the series now that you know what happened?

No. I'm done with it. It was a great ride, but I don't feel the need to re-watch any part of it. (I've already watched the thing through twice.)

Would you recommend Lost to those who haven't seen it?

Without a doubt, yes. Even though I had my issues with the finale and parts of Season 6, it's still an excellent show. That said, I'd probably tell people that it's okay to quit sometime around Season 4 if frustration sets in.

Do you think the writers knew where they were going the whole time?

I'm struggling with this. I do believe they knew what the final scene was (Jack's eye closing), but that's hardly a surprise, and something that any junior film student could have come up with. However, I'm not totally convinced they had the final 10 minutes planned from the get-go.

Did the finale improve or hurt your impression of the series overall?

I wrote my opinion on this already, but I'll say it again. It didn't sway me either way. I remember the things I loved about Lost, and to me, it remains one of the best shows I've ever seen. I'd say I got my money's worth and then some.

Do you think it ended at the right time? Did you want the show to go on longer?

Honestly, I think the show would have been a lot tighter and would have been better served if it'd been shorter. I think four seasons would have been enough to tell the whole story; condense it, trim the fat, and please leave Ilana, Nikki, Paulo, and Zoe out of the new version.

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Real line up Mourinho as Pellegrini sacked

Real Madrid opened the way for Jose Mourinho to take over as coach after they sacked Manuel Pellegrini on Wednesday.

Florentino Perez, president of the Spanish giants, said that a need for change had necessitated the dismissal of the Chilean incumbent and the courting of Mourinho from Inter Milan.

"We have dedicated the last few weeks to analysing and reflecting upon the past season. And we have decided to bring to an end Manuel Pellegrini's time at the club," Perez told a press conference here.

"We want to thank him and his team for their hard work, professionalism and conduct.

"The board also agreed to contract Jose Mourinho as the new coach of Real Madrid once his contractual relationship with Inter Milan has been resolved."

Mourinho has long been in Real's cross-hairs, none more so than after he guided Inter to a unique treble this season of the Champions League, Italian league and Italian Cup.

Perez added: "It's not been an easy decision to reach but we're 100 percent behind the need for a change.

"We're very happy that Jose Mourinho will be the man to take over the reins of Real Madrid for the coming years - he's won everything possible.

"We want to have the best person in every position out on the pitch and in the dug-out - we want to sign one of the best managers in the game."

Italian news agency ANSA earlier reported Mourinho as saying that he was heading off on holidays before going "to work in Spain".

"Now I'm on holidays. Then I'll go to work in Spain," Mourinho said, accompanied by his agent Jorge Mendes, after meeting Inter Milan official Rinaldo Ghelfi, who is in charge of finances at the Italian club.

"With Inter it's not yet over, but everything is going well and there are no problems," Mourinho later told journalists.

Asked by journalists: "Is it possible that you'll stay at Milan?" Mourinho replied: "It's impossible."

According to media reports, the transfer to Real Madrid will only be completed when Inter are certain of recuperating the 16 million euros stipulated in the get-out clause for the coach whose contract runs until June 2012.

Pellegrini, 56, spent just one season with Real after arriving from Villarreal, ultimately paying the price for again finishing behind Barcelona in La Liga and their round-of-16 exit from the Champions League.

He had one year on his contract to run.

Mourinho backs himself and Van Gaal for football history

Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho believes both he and Bayern Munich counterpart Louis van Gaal will join a select group of Champions League winners with two different teams, but hopes he'll be first.

The two charismatic coaches go head-to-head in the Champions League final at the Santiago Bernabeu with the winner joining Ottmar Hitzfeld and Ernst Happel as winners with two different clubs.

But Mourinho believes whoever losses on Saturday will still make history as a two-time winner at a later date.

"Tomorrow myself or Louis van Gaal will for sure become the third man in that group," he said.

"Hopefully, and I speak for myself and also for Louis because I saw him today and he seems to be in very good shape, if we continue in our jobs the one who doesn't do it tomorrow (Saturday) will do it in the future.

"I feel we will both join that group, one tomorrow and one later."

Mourinho won the European title with Porto in 2004 while Van Gaal triumphed with Ajax in 1995.

Despite the success of both men, Mourinho, who like Van Gaal has won titles in three different countries, admitted that he will still be nervous on the morning of the match.

"I will feel the pressure because I know myself, I know how my day before and during the event goes," said the Inter boss.

"Tomorrow morning I'll wake up and know that in a few hours we'll be playing the Champions League final.

"My heart will beat a bit faster and the temperature of my body will go up a bit and then I'll go to work and prepare the game and when I arrive at the stadium and step off the team bus, everything begins.

"That's the bit I like, my natural habitat, without pressure or tension."

Earlier in the day Van Gaal had said he felt that despite reaching the final, Inter and Bayern were still not at the same level as Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona.
But Mourinho disagreed.

"When the season starts and the Champions League starts it's normal for everyone to look around and say these are the strongest teams with the most quality and tradition and the best chances to do it," he said.

"That's why you go to the bookmakers and see there's different percentage levels of success.

"Barcelona are a super team, Real Madrid with the possibility to play the final at home were there, Manchester United got to two consecutive finals and Chelsea were in the semi-final or final four or five times in five or six seasons.

"Of course Bayern had a new team and a new coach and were not there, Inter were not there because we couldn't even reach the quarter-finals for several years.

"But step by step, this is the Champions League, it can happen and it didn't happen by chance.

"Because Inter and Bayern can both do the treble as they've won both domestic competitions.

"No doubt we are great teams and that's why we're in the final. Are other teams better than us? I dont know."

Mourinho once again batted away any speculation about his future, particularly those rumours linking him with a move to Real Madrid next season.

"I don't know Real, I don't know their mentality or their philosophy, I only know their history.

"And really today not I'm not concerned with knowing it. My concern is Inter and the final."
The final will have a special significance for Inter captain Javier Zanetti who will play his 700th game for the club in a glittering nerazzurri career that began 15 years ago.
"If I think about all those games in this shirt it fills me with desire and of course playing in one as important as tomorrow night in which we could enter into history (as first Inter or Italian team to win the treble)," he said.

"It's down to lots of hard work and having faith in myself, day after day in training.

"The belief that I can do well and give my best for Inter, that's what interests me the most."

Ballack out of World Cup

Germany captain Michael Ballack has been ruled out of this summer's World Cup following scans on an ankle injury.

The midfielder suffered the knock during Chelsea's FA Cup final victory over Portsmouth at the weekend after a clash with Kevin-Prince Boateng.

He went for a scan in Munich on Monday morning but the German Football Federation (DFB) has confirmed that the results mean he will play no part in South Africa and will not train for eight weeks.

It is a huge blow for Germany as Ballack has been an integral part of their side in the last decade and is nearing the 100 caps mark.

The 33-year-old has played in every major tournament since 2000 and has enjoyed a successful season with Chelsea this term, clinching a Premier League and FA Cup double.

But his campaign has ended prematurely and Germany coach Joachim Low will have to alter the shape of his team with under a month until the start of the competition.

A statement from the DFB said: "National team captain Michael Ballack is out of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

"This is the result of an MRI on Monday morning in Munich. A tear of the medial collateral ligament of the right ankle was found.

"The right ankle is immobilised in a plaster. He will have to wear a special shoe for two weeks.

"After the diagnosis of national team doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt today, a complete healing of the injury is expected.

"Ballack's return to training is possible at the earliest in eight weeks."

Germany have been drawn in Group D alongside Australia, Ghana and Serbia, who may be buoyed by the news.

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains Winner Revealed

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains came down to the final five finalists in competition for the Sole Survivor title and the $1 million prize.

After 37 days and the return of 20 of the game's most memorable players, it was four against one as lone remaining Hero Colby Donaldson (The Australian Outback) battled four Villains: Jerri Manthey (The Australian Outback), Sandra Diaz-Twine (Pearl Islands) , Parvati Shallow ( Cook Islands) and Russell Hantz ( Samoa).

Colby was arguably one of the series' original heroes after his honorable game play in Season 2. Unfortunately, almost ten years after his rise to reality TV fame, Colby proved a lackluster physical competitor, and ultimately one of the biggest surprises of the season. After his poor performances in challenges throughout the season, Colby needed an immunity challenge win to stay in the game against the Villains' strong alliance.

Given those facts, it was perhaps unsurprising that Colby was the first eliminated. Despite his best efforts to sway Russell, only Villains remained in the running for the $1 million prize.
The final physical challenge, in which the players were forced to make their way through a maze blindfolded, was based on luck rather than will and determination. Russell beat Parvati and Jerri by a hair to claim a spot on his second final tribal council.

Sandra convinced Russell to take her to the final three with the argument that the jury would never vote for her since she already won the million dollars. The past winners argument is a strong one — who really wants to give someone else another million bucks? — and made Parvati a logical choice for the final three as well. But at camp, Russell sounded intent on taking Jerri with him to the end.

At the penultimate tribal council, Parvati seemed truly nervous she would fall short of the final council, despite her close (but complicated) alliance with Russell. But Russell surprised viewers and took Parvati to the end, pitting two previous winners against one of Survivor's most notorious villains.

At the final tribal council in front of the jury (consisting of five Heroes and five Villains), Russell, Parvati and Sandra each made similar arguments that they played the best game. Sandra said she had no alliances to rely on and was truly a sole survivor. Russell acknowledged his betrayals, but also argued he made it to the end solely on his big game and not on luck (pretty much his argument last season). Finally, Parvati said she was the best because of her physical prowess and because she was able to use Russell as her "pet" from Day One.

Even though he's never won the prize, most of the jury was still out for Russell's blood, especially since he played a role in most of their exits. The jury members argued Parvati was a strong player, but Candice and Rupert, among others, condemned her for her alliance with Russell. In the eyes of the jury, Sandra sometimes did not give 100 percent in the challenges, but proved herself to be very loyal, and, as Candice said, more of a Hero than most of this season's contestants.

And so the winner of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains is: Sandra! She beat out runner-up Parvati and Russell to become the first person to ever win twice.

However, Russell didn't walk away empty handed. For the second season in a row, he won the fan vote for Sprint Player of the Season and $100,000, defeating Rupert Boneham.
Finally, Jeff Probst announced that Season 21 of Survivor will take place in Nicaragua.
Do you think the right person won?

Messi adds Golden Shoe to trophy haul

Lionel Messi added the European Golden Shoe to his growing list of awards after scoring twice against Real Valladolid on Monday, to finish the La Liga season with 34 goals.


The rankings on www.eurotopfoot.com showed the Argentina striker had amassed 68 points, 10 more than his closest rivals Didier Drogba of Chelsea and Antonio Di Natale of Udinese who scored 29 each.
Messi netted Barca's third and fourth goals in a 4-0 victory over Valladolid that delivered Barca their second consecutive league title on Sunday.


"Messi is the best I have ever seen, of this there is no doubt," Guardiola told reporters on Monday.

"As well as being a winner he has great ambition. At 3-0 up, with the league in the bag, he continued chasing as hard as anyone else. He's impossible to emulate."


His haul of 34 in the league matched the club record set by Brazilian striker Ronaldo in the 1996-7 season, when he also won the Golden Shoe.

Atletico Madrid's Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan won the shoe last season with 32 goals.

Messi : Argentina Not One-Man Team

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi says Argentina is not a one-man team and believes the South American outfit can succeed at this summer's World Cup, despite a disappointing qualifying campaign under coach Diego Maradona.

"Argentina is not just Messi," he told CNN in an interview. "In the national team there is not one sole leader; we are a group, like at Barcelona."

And Messi hopes both he and Argentina go on to do well this summer, adding: "Let's hope this is my World Cup and Argentina's World Cup. We didn't qualify in the best way, but we can be the surprise team.

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