In the case of veteran Minnesota Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield, his return from a foot injury surely hasn’t gone as planned. He has morphed from a shutdown cornerback to a guy who looks tentative in man coverage and doesn’t have the closing speed he had before his injury.

To his credit, however, Winfield isn’t pointing the finger at his foot for his recent troubles. At least, that’s not what he wants you to think he’s doing.

During an interview with Vikings’ radio voice Paul Allen Tuesday on KFAN-AM in Minneapolis, Winfield said the foot is not 100 percent, and he also admitted it probably won’t be without having time to rest it this offseason. However, Winfield also called himself out.
“I’m not going to say it’s the foot,” Winfield told Allen. “It’s just me. I’m just not playing good football right now. If you turn on the film you can tell the difference in the way I played early in the year and the way I’m playing now. We don’t have enough time to play like that. I have to correct my game, get my game back right and make plays that I’m used to making.”Watching Winfield the last two weeks, it’s clear that something isn’t right. Carolina’s Steve Smith is a great receiver, and Chicago youngster Devin Aromashodu obviously has plenty of talent. That said, neither is capable of torching a healthy Winfield the way they just did.

Credit the player for not saying something along the lines of “I’m trying to play before my foot is healthy,” but it’s hard to imagine that potential NFC playoff opponents haven’t noticed this precipitous dropoff in Winfield’s level of play since he returned.

He doesn’t appear quite as physical when dealing with players in space, and his coverage is well short of his previous standards. A good example of Winfield’s struggles are three plays in Monday’s game. On two of them, Aromashodu ran right by Winfield to get open deep. Safety Tyrell Johnson was able to break up a slightly underthrown pass on the first of these plays, which happened in the second quarter. Johnson was nowhere to be found on the overtime touchdown pass from Jay Cutler.

Another telling example came on the first play of overtime, when Aromashodu caught a 33-yard pass from Cutler on a play where Winfield gave way too much of a cushion off the line of scrimmage. He wasn’t even close to being able to recover in time.

Based on data from Hitwise comparing US traffic market share from January to figures from November Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) lost 37% of its visitors. Craigslist lost 43% of its traffic, making it the largest loser among the top 25 sites. Neither number is surprising. Ebay’s earnings have been lackluster. Classified postings for apartments and jobs at Craigslist may have been hurt by the recession.

Other sites that had sharp drops in visits include Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Yahoo! search, and News Corp’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace all of which were down more than 20% during the measurement period. The MySpace figure is not surprising. The social network has been losing members to Facebook. Among the top 25 sites, Facebook has the largest gain, up 236%. The Yahoo! figures support data from other research firms covering search traffic. Yahoo! has been losing ground to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). Google was the most visited of all sites measured by Hitwise and its traffic rose 7%.

Among the largest e-commerce sites, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), the 2oth most visited site among all US destinations, had a 64% increase in visits compared to Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), the No. 15 site, which had a 26% increase. Wal-Mart and Amazon are locked in struggle for holiday shoppers and both have cut prices on popular items including e-books and DVDs. Visits to Target.com (NYSE:TGT) were 69% higher. Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) visits rose 23%.

Other notable increases among large sites were MSN, up 58% and YouTube which rose 109%, confirming the trend of improving visits to online video sites.

Sports sites did particularly well. Visits to ESPN.com were up 48%. Yahoo! Sports traffic rose 51%.

Very few people would be surprised by the site among the top 50 that gained the most. Visits to Twitter were up 559%.

Hope  my site will get more traffice in last few days in 2009!

The Story of Air Jordan made by Nike and endorsed by Michael :.

Air Jordan is a brand shoe made by Nike USA. It was endorsed by

Michael Jordan a re-known american basketball player. Infact the

name Air Jordan was made according to the name of Michael Jordan.

It has a jumpman logo as it is used for jumping, running or playing

basketball and other sports. It is called by some other similar

names like Jays, JS, MJS, etc.

In the beginning of 1984 Nike was facing challenges in sports shoes market.

That time it had White Man Jogging Brand. But that was going down in the

market. Literally it had no remarkable market share in basketball market.

To overcome the situation it made a contract with Michael Jordan for 5 years At 2.5 million dollars along with other benefits to market a new brand.

Thus in the year 1984 Nike USA opened its sub-division Jordan Brand to

market its new brand Air Jordan. That time most basketball shoes were white.

But Air Jordan was colored with black and red. NBA banned that shoe due to

color. But Michael Jordan was continue wearing them inspite of thousand

dollars fine Thus it was being marketed and promoted to the success. Since

its beginning new and new designs are being released each and every year.

Later Michael Jordan retired from basketball but his endorsed air jordan is

Running with its pride.

The Air Jordan is classified by the year or realease and the model

names like OG or Originals, Retros, Retro + or Retro pluses, PE or

The earlier released shoes are also re-released periodically

considering its market demand. There are a series of air jordan

shoes starting from Air Jordan I to XX3.

A unluckily game  for Magic

where NBA happens