Are athletes role models? Many of them maintain that they should not be looked upon as role models. However, society on the other hand calls upon athletes to be role models to America’s youth. Therefore, athletes become role models to thousands and thousands of children, and they must accept that responsibility and act in the proper manner.
by: Kyle Benson
For those of you unfamiliar with the MLL (Major League Lacrosse), it is the premier outdoor lacrosse league in the US. It started in 2001 by founder Jake Steinfeld, owner of Body by Jake. The league currently has 2 conferences (Eastern and Western) with 10 teams. In the Eastern Conference the teams are the Boston Cannons, Long Island Lizards, New Jersey Pride, Philadelphia Barrage (defending 2006 Steinfeld Cup Champion), Rochester Rattlers, and the Washinton Bayhawks. The Western Conference Teams are the Denver Outlaws, Chicago Machine, San Francisco Dragons, and the Los Angeles Riptide. There are 12 games in a season. Now that you have a little knowledge about the MLL, here is my 2007 season preview.
Coming into the 2007 season the Boston Red Sox are going to be trying to forget about last year and focus more on a new ending that looks very much like 2004. This off-season they prove to be a team on a mission to build towards making a run in the playoffs. With the acquisitions of numerous pitching talents they seem to be listening to the age-old phrase, “Pitching wins Championships”.
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NHL Trade Deadline Awards
The 2007 NHL trade deadline has come and gone. Huge names like Todd Bertuzzi, Ryan Smith, and Mattais Nordstrom all found new homes. In the end of the bloodbath, there were over twenty-five trades. So, the biggest questions are who won the day, who is left scratching their heads, and who has a nice stock for the future? Here come the answers to those questions and more.
By Rob LaBrie
As if Manny Ramirez wasn’t unpredictable enough, now he’s so unpredictable, we can’t even predict his unpredictability. What?
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Final Pre-Deadline NHL Power Rankings
Here we are, the trade deadline. As the trades come flying in while I write this weeks rankings, the Sabres drop down to number two, with the Preds reclaiming their throne. Dallas has started to make moves to the top, while the Kings are the worst team in the NHL not from Philly. Where did your team end up before the deadline?
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Majors on the Bubble
It’s almost March, and that means the college basketball world is about to be shaken like a dropped can of soda. I’m talking about BUBBLES, and lots of them.
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NASCAR for Northerners
By Billy Fellin
NASCAR isn’t just a sport for people who consider y’all a word worthy of Webster’s Dictionary. Believe it or not, NASCAR is a sport and other people outside the South do like NASCAR. I was born in Connecticut and am a huge NASCAR fan. So here’s why people outside the South can, and do, like NASCAR.
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Shut Up
By Billy Fellin
Just a few days ago, spring training began in baseball when first the pitchers and catchers then the rest of the players showed up in camp and started to work out for the 2007 season. Great, I’m already excited about the weather getting warmer (gotta love nice spring days on a college campus-girl’s shorts get shorter ever year) as well as baseball getting going. But then we get drama worthy of a high school cafeteria out of New York where A-Rod has said his friendship with Derek Jeter has “cooled”. Honestly, guys, just can it.
I never thought I’d find myself writing these words. I thought they’d go the distance. I thought they were stronger than this… stronger than Andre and Steffi, stronger then Mia and Nomar. And yet, this President’s Day weekend, the earth-shattering news broke: Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter are no longer best friends forever. You read that correctly, folks – A-Rod and Jeter are BFFs no more. How will we go on? How will we cope? Can the Yankees even bring themselves to compete in light of the biggest of big chills?
Right.