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Picture this. You’re twenty three years old, a third round draft pick, skipped school to grab that bonus, nothing to fall back on. This competition is fierce, and you’ve been left behind, lapped in fact. In an idyllic youth, a minor celebrity in a small town, you were the special one. Gifted. Bigger, stronger, faster, beloved by all, took pride in the popularity, destined for greatness.
The North Pole- The latest controversy over Baseball’s Hall of Fame voting took a bizarre turn last night, as Jim Rice, former American League MVP, intentionally petrified five to ten sportswriters in an apparent attempt to scare up some votes… the good old fashioned way.
Desmond Reed’s head-over-heels flip into the endzone for USC in the Rose Bowl, and subsequent celebration, drew a fifteen yard unsportsmanlike penalty and the token ire of Pete Carroll. But what if it didn’t? What if blatant self-aggrandizing meant the difference between a win and a loss? An extra extra point.
2007 is almost done and sports fans around the globe have questions that remain unanswered.
One question has a chance of being settled in 2008 if the New England Patriots manage to finish the season and run through the play-offs to a Superbowl victory without a defeat. Unfortunately, many others will never be answered on the field of play and we are left to speculate on the hypothetical.
I was born the oldest of two kids, five years older than my sister, Audrey. Within weeks of my birth, my mother and I moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where my dad was stationed in the Army as a paratrooper in the 82d Airborne Division, also called the All-American Division.
I hate NASCAR. Hate it. I can see cars driving anywhere and at any time. The last thing I want to do is watch 500 miles of it on a track that goes nowhere. Yes, I have heard it all, “It’s the environment and the people surrounding the race”, and “THEY ARE JUST SO FAST, IT’S AWESOME”. I get it. Not to knock these…drivers? I certainly can’t call them athletes, though what they do is very dangerous. But I just feel that it takes no athletic skill to drive a car at high speeds. Maybe I just haven’t done it, but I feel that it has more to do with mental awareness and attentiveness.
By Billy Fellin
I would be willing to bet that anyone who reads this column has been bowling before. Whether it would be a rainy day activity with friends or that cool birthday party when you were 5, most of us at one point or another have thrown a bowling ball down the lane. But how many of us actually would consider it a sport that takes just as much work as football, baseball, hockey or basketball? Or even a legitimate sport at all, able to even be mentioned in the same sentence as the four sports previously listed. Certainly fewer people than have ever bowled in their life actually take bowling seriously and consider it a thriving sport. I am one of the rare people who take bowling seriously, but I don’t think it will ever become a mainstream sport that people will jump up to watch as they do for football and baseball.
Yeah I know, the title startled me too after I wrote it. But as the old biblical saying goes, “You can’t truly love something until you hate it and point out all its flaws”. Now don’t get me wrong, football is the best thing since sliced bread, even Canadian football (which I would still watch over baseball), but there are definitely some things that I would change. Enjoy.
by Trevor Freeman
With the San Francisco 49ers out of the playoff hunt in October for another season and college basketball still a couple weeks away, I figured it was time to talk about my newest sporting love. The Blackburn Rovers. That’s right, not only have I not written for our site for over a month, but when I do I am hopping in on the topic of English Premier League Football. I have officially shifted gears to become the Vinnie Chase of our site. I am only writing articles that satisfy my own creative/sports needs.
If I’m to believe a recent survey, and I’m not, then 20 percent of sports fans believe that their actions influence their team’s performance. Do you know how silly that sounds? One-in-five think that they have an impact on the game?
Firstly, only one-in-five admits this; I know an additional one-in-five are too embarrassed about it and another one-in-five can’t mention it because speaking about it would jinx their team. And secondly, we don’t think that we alter the event; we know it.