Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. This week, they discuss standout moments from the NHL and NBA Drafts, the Coyotes speaking frankly and FIFAs famous foam. Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star: My thumb is up to the NBA. Heres why. The NBA draft is a show about possibilities, and thats fun. Then, Thursday night, midway through the first round, Adam Silver stopped the proceedings to tell a story about a prospect named Isaiah Austin, whose career ended last week after he was diagnosed with a disease called Marfan Syndrome. Then Silver stepped up to make Austin a ceremonial pick on behalf of the entire Association. They took a moment about the cruel end of possibility, and the NBA made it beautiful. Best moment in draft history, hands down. Steve Simmons, Sun Media: My thumb is up to Don Maloney, general manager of the newly named Arizona Coyotes - and yeah, that sounds weird - for his unusual honesty in explaining why the club has chosen to buy out top-line centre, Mike Ribeiro. Normally youd get a little “blah blah blah” from an NHL GM on why a player was being let go. But Maloney was more than clear here: he said the team didnt want to put up with Ribeiros behavioral issues, could not tolerate them going forward and could not have him part of the team anymore. The Coyotes, who couldnt afford lunch a year or two ago let alone buying someone out, will be paying Ribeiro $2 million a year for the next six years just to go away. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is up to one of the great sporting advances of the past decade. Baseballs expanded replay? Advanced stats? Heck, no. Im talking about the so-called felony foam world cup referees have been spraying on the field to mark the spot for free kicks and, more importantly, delineate where defenders can set their wall. This low-tech marvel, which looks like shaving cream and dissipates in a minute, eliminates time wasting and the inevitable cheating by defenders who try to creep closer to the spot. While baseball needed a replay room in New York, FIFA found an inexpensive way to literally lay down the law. The gimmick belongs in the sports hall of foam. Sorry. Dave Naylor, TSN: My thumb is up to the sons of athletes who chose their own path to make a name for themselves. Im refering to the selection of Elfrid Payton Jr. in this weeks NBA Draft, going 10th overall to the Philadelphia 76ers. Payton is the son of CFL Hall-of-Famer Elfrid Payton - better known as SWAC to some - who played for five CFL teams including Baltimore, Montreal and Winnipeg. Like recent NHL draft picks Darnell Nurse and Seth Jones - whose fathers played in the CFL and NBA respectively - Payton put his good athletic genes to use in another sport. Its always a nice story to see a young athlete follow in his fathers footsteps. But its a little more interesting to see them go their own way. Isaiah Crowell Jersey .4 seconds left and dribbled up court, weaving through Pitts defence. Custom New York Jets Jerseys . The Extreme Heat Policy was enacted at Melbourne Park just before 2 p.m. Thursday, suspending all matches on outer courts until the early evening and requiring the closure of the retractable roofs at Rod Laver and Hisense arenas before play could continue on the show courts. http://www.jetsrookiestore.com/Jets-Chris-Herndon-Jersey/. Better still, its in the same team and there are 13 races left for it to develop. New York Jets Jerseys . 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Calls have been made for Russia to be excluded from this summers Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after 14 of their athletes tested positive for banned substances when samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics were re-examined.Russian media named the 14, two of whom won silver medals in the 4x400 metres relay that year - a race in which Sanders was part of a Great Britain quartet that finished fifth. Team GB could be awarded two bronze medals from 2008, after the Olympic Committee (ROC) was notified by the IOC that 14 of the 31 athletes are Russian.And Sanders told Sky Sports News HQ: What the authorities must do is set out a list of things the Russian authorities have to do in order to let their athletes compete.They cant just say youre definitely out, theyve got to have a list of criteria that theyve got to meet. Sanders in acction for Great Britain at the World Athletics Championships in 2011 From one side of it, you dont know that every single Russian athlete has been taking drugs.dddddddddddd. Obviously it has been suggested it is a state-run thing, so theres a culture thing there, but you cant necessarily ban the whole team.But, on the other side, there is such a big problem there that you have to do something. Unless theyre going above and beyond to try and get on top of it and you can be sure of it, then they cant be allowed back in.Sanders retired in 2014 without ever winning an Olympic medal, and she said: Two out of the four athletes from the 4x400m are on this list that have supposedly tested positive.One of them in particular we know had a ban before, so we were already suspecting of them. 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