Seahawks Crush Packers To Open The NFL Season

Posted on September 5, 2014 by admin

On Thursday night in Seattle, the defending champion Seattle Seahawks delivered a beatdown to the Green Bay Packers 36-16. Once the Seahawks took a 17-10 lead with 3:41 remaining in the 2nd quarter, they took over the game, outscoring the Packers 26-6 after the game was tied at 10.

Seattle dominated the Packers defense with their running game. Running back Marshawn Lynch rushed for 110 of their 207 yards on the ground, along with 2 touchdowns. The Packers only rushed for 80 yards in the game.

The quarterbacks were pretty even , except Seattle’s Russell Wilson had 2 touchdowns with no interceptions, while Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers had 1 touchdown and 1 interception. They both passed for just under 200 yards in the game. But with the defense that the Seahawks have, and their pounding running game, Wilson rarely has to throw for a lot of yards for them to win.

The Packers were disappointing to say the least. Even with the addition of Julius Peppers, they had virtually no pass rush, with fellow outside linebacker Clay Mathews healthy over on the other side. Supposedly, their defense would be much better with all their injured players returning…uh no.

Rookie Ha Ha Clinton-Dix showed the tackling ability of a young Darren Sharper, which isn’t good. Seattle ran him over for 2 touchdowns. He also dropped a sure interception, when it dribbled between his hands to the ground. He did however record a sack, for no yards lost. All this time I thought the quarterback had to lose yards to get sacked, apparently not. I know this was his first regular season game as a pro, but any reminder of Sharper’s tackling ability, especially when he played against Randy Moss, is a very bad sign.

The Packers have serious injury problems after the first game of the season. They played this game with a rookie center, Corey Linsley, who actually played quite well, since he never even played with the first team offense in preseason. Right tackle Bryan Bulaga left the game with a knee injury, after missing all of last season. They also lost running back Eddie Lacy to a concussion. He suffered a concussion early last season too.

Regardless of the injuries mentioned above, the Seahawks were dominant in this game. The Packers’ early touchdown was set-up by a muffed punt by Earl Thomas. Other than that, their only success was short passes, and a few runs now and then. All Pro cornerback Richard Sherman was avoided by Rodgers, but the Green Bay passing game still didn’t have enough success to make-up for their toothless defense.

Seattle looks to continue what they finished last season, winning their first Super Bowl. With a healthy Percy Harvin creating havoc in the passing and running game with his speed, the Seahawks should be better on offense, which is a scary situation for the rest of the league. Having that defense, their running game, and an improved passing game, look for the Seahawks to make a strong push to become the first back-to-back Super Bowl Champions since the New England Patriots in 2003-04.

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Texas A&M Crushes South Carolina In College Football Opener

Posted on August 29, 2014 by admin

#21 Texas A&M whipped #7 South Carolina 52-28 on Thursday night in the biggest game of the first day of the new college football season. The Aggies also ended the Gamecocks‘ 18-game home winning streak, the longest home winning streak in the nation.

Apparently the loss of #1 NFL draft pick, defensive end Jadaveon Clowney of South Carolina, was a bigger loss to his team than Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel was to Texas A&M. Manziel’s replacement Kenny Hill threw for a school record 511 yards, on 44 of 60 passing and 3 touchdowns.

South Carolina’s new starting quarterback Dylan Thompson threw for 366 yards and 4 touchdowns himself. This was not your old fashioned SEC defensive struggle. The teams combined for over 1100 yards of total offense. The 393 yards that the Aggies had at halftime, was more than the Gamecocks allowed in 9 of 13 games last year.

With the new college football playoff starting at the end of this season, consisting of the top 4 teams in the nation, South Carolina is already in serious danger of missing out, after their first game. With 4 games remaining against teams currently ranked in the Top 25 preseason rankings, and a 24-point home loss against Texas A&M, they may need to run the table to have a chance to earn a spot in the playoff.

After scoring the first 10 points of the game, Texas A&M held a 17-14 lead early in the 2nd period, before scoring 2 more touchdowns to close out the first half with a 31-14 lead. South Carolina never got any closer.

This was the first game on the new SEC network, and South Carolina fell miserably short of how they hoped to start the season. After 3 straight 11-2 seasons, the Gamecocks will have to play a lot better defensively to even get close to that mark this year.

It’s great to have college football back finally, and the season started off with a bang, with the introduction of a possible new star quarterback at Texas A&M. Manziel tweeted after Hill’s record performance “Kenny Football”, but Hill said he didn’t really like that nickname. This is just day 1 on the way to the inaugural college football playoff, the beginning of a new era.

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Ohio State & Notre Dame Are In Trouble Before The Season Begins

Posted on August 20, 2014 by admin

Ohio State‘s quarterback Braxton Miller is out for the season with a shoulder injury. Meanwhile, Notre Dame has suspended 4 players due to academic misconduct. As a result of this, both teams have basically lost any chance to play for a national championship before the season even begins.

Miller was supposed to be one of the front runners to win the Heisman trophy this season. So now they will have to turn to redshirt freshman J.T. Barrett. Going from the 2-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year to a redshirt freshman should be devastating, except they still play in the weak Big Ten Conference.

The only game in Ohio State’s regular season that is against a team ranked in the Preseason Top 25 is against defending conference champion Michigan State. But even if the Buckeyes manage to get past Michigan State, and somehow be ranked high enough to get into the inaugural college football playoff, they will get smoked by whoever qualifies to play them.

Last year they won their first 12 games until Michigan State beat them 34-24 in the Big Ten Championship Game. Then they lost in the Orange Bowl to Clemson 40-35, and Miller played in both of those games. Ohio State also lost most of their offensive line to graduation, which makes life even harder on new starter Barrett.

Before the devastation to Ohio State occurred, Notre Dame suspended four of their players due to academic misconduct. The investigation is ongoing, but all four players are suspended indefinitely. Three of the four are starters, including KeiVarae Russell, one of the best cornerbacks in the nation.

The other starters suspended were wide receiver DaVaris Daniels, and linebacker Ishaq Williams.  Kendall Moore was the other suspended player. If all four of these players is suspended for the entire year, head coach Brian Kelly will need all the luck the Irish can get, for his team to earn a spot in the college football playoff.

Notre Came also has one of the toughest schedules in the nation, including 5 games against teams in the Preseason Top 25. On October 18th, the Irish have a road game against defending national champion and #1 ranked Florida State. That’s tough enough with all of Notre Dame’s starters, let alone missing 3 key players.

It’s sad and rare to see 2 teams virtually eliminated from competing for the national championship before they even play a game, but that’s the way this 2014 college football season is starting. Of course new stars could emerge, but don’t count on them being able to replace the absences of Miller and the 3 starters for Notre Dame. Will this keep me from watching as much college football as I can? No way!

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The NFL Is Back…Even Though It’s Preseason

Posted on August 10, 2014 by admin

The first full week of the NFL preseason concluded Saturday night. Most of the attention Saturday was given to the first professional game of rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel. He came into the Cleveland Browns-Detroit Lions game late in the 2nd quarter, and played into the 3rd quarter for the Browns, in a 13-12 game won by the Lions.

Manziel played pretty well in his first game in the NFL. He was 7 for 11 passing, for 63 yards, with no touchdowns and no interceptions. He also ran for 27 yards on 4 carries. The starter for the Browns was Brian Hoyer. Hoyer was 6 for 14 for 92 yards passing, but had a few drops, including a possible touchdown pass to Josh Gordon. So Manziel didn’t gain any ground on the starting job in this game.

Interestingly, the best performance by a quarterback in this gain was by Kellen Moore of the Lions. He was 11 of 13 for 121 yards, and the only touchdown of the game, which put the Lions ahead for good. After the game, all the attention was on the losing Browns and Manziel. Well he is Johnny Football.

The worst beatdown of the weekend was the final game of the evening. The Arizona Cardinals clobbered the visiting Houston Texans 32-0. The Texan quarterbacks threw for a total of 82 yards in the game, while the Cardinals’ quarterbacks threw for 326 yards, and each of their 3 quarterbacks tossed a touchdown pass, and had a passer rating well over 100.

The highlight for the Texans was a tackle for loss by the #1 pick in the last draft, Jadeveon Clowney. If the Texans play the regular season anywhere near as poorly on defense as they did in this game, against an offense that isn’t one of the strongest in the NFL, then they will have another miserable season. I don’t expect big production by any of their quarterbacks in the near future.

While this is only the first week of preseason games, other than the Hall of Fame game last weekend, and they mean virtually nothing, sometimes it’s clear that your team stinks right from the get go. These next few weeks are mainly to figure out which players the coaches want on their team, and also whether they will start, be 2nd string, or designated to just special teams.

Even so, it’s great to have football back, after the longest offseason of any of the major sports. Of course it is the most grueling, so that makes sense. Welcome back NFL!

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Oakland A’s and Detroit Tigers Add Pitchers At The Trading Deadline

Posted on August 1, 2014 by admin

At the trading deadline in Major League Baseball, the Oakland Athletics acquired pitcher Jon Lester, while the Detroit Tigers traded for a pitcher also, David Price, formerly of the Tampa Bay Rays. The Oakland A’s had to give up back-to-back Home Run derby champion Yoenis Cespedes in the trade to get Lester.

Both the A’s and the Tigers lead their prospective divisions, even though the Tigers, who have the largest division lead in baseball, only have a 4-game lead in the American League Central, with over 100 games played in the regular season.

The A’s have the best record in the major leagues, but only lead the geographically confused Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim by 2 games in the American League West. For some reason the Angels think they are in Los Angeles the last several years, even though they didn’t move there.

The A’s formula for winning was made famous by the movie “Money Ball” in 2011, starring Brad Pitt as general manager Billy Beane. Their formula was based on an analytical, sabermetric approach to assembling a low budget winning team. With the recent moves by the A’s, it seems as though money ball has been abandoned to some point.

Lester is 6-6 in his 2014 season with the defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, but those Red Sox are in last place in the American League East with a 48-60 record. Lester’s ERA is very good however at 3.15.

The A’s also traded for Jeff Samardzija on July 5th, who was formerly on the Chicago Cubs. Samardzija has to be the best former college football wide receiver who currently pitches in the majors. He was an outstanding receiver at Notre Dame, where he played football and baseball. Although he is only 4-8, with most of those losses coming with the hapless Cubs, his earned run average for this year is at 2.92.

With the Tigers getting Price today, they now have the last 3 Cy Young winners on their team, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer being the other 2. Scherzer leads the American League in wins with 13 this season.

Oakland leads the American League in runs scored, followed by the Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, and Detroit Tigers. Although the Tigers have 2-time MVP Miguel Cabrera, and the Angels have Mike Trout, who finished right behind him both years, the A’s still score the most runs.

Before these pitchers are added to their new rosters, the A’s are 2nd in ERA, behind only the Seattle Mariners, while the Angels are 5th, and the Tigers are 10th in the American League.

These 3 teams – the A’s, Tigers and Angels are the best teams in the American League. Yeah I know the Baltimore Orioles, who lead the American League East, have a slightly better record than the Tigers, but that will change by the end of the season. Look for the A’s to survive, and win their first World Series since 1989. Their opponent will be the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have too much pitching for any other team in the National League. Brad Pitt, I mean Billy Beane will finally win the big one in Oakland!

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Rory McIlroy wins The Open Championship

Posted on July 21, 2014 by admin

Rory McIlroy won his 3rd major championship, by winning The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, England. McIlroy, 25, led after every round, and won by 2 strokes over Sergio Garcia of Spain, and Rickie Fowler of the United States.

Each of McIlroy’s major championships are at different golf tournaments. He now just needs the Masters to win all 4 majors. He is the 3rd youngest in history, behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to win 3/4 of a career grand slam. Woods barely made the cut, finishing in 69th place, 23 shots back, his largest deficit in a major ever. This was the first major tournament since back surgery for Woods.

Adam Scott finished tied for 5th, and remains the #1 ranked player in the world. McIlroy moves up to #2 with his championship this weekend. Winning the Open Championship is particularly gratifying for him, since he is from Northern Ireland. McIlroy will have to wait until next April to attempt to finish off a career grand slam with a victory in the Masters.

After 3 rounds McIlroy had a 6-shot lead, but it dwindled down to 2, with Garcia and Fowler making a strong push in the last round. But McIlroy held strong, even chipping out of a bunker on the 18th hole, and finishing with a par. Fowler shot in the 60s in every round, but it still wasn’t enough to catch McIlroy. Garcia has now finished as a runner-up in major tournaments 4 times.

Interestingly, Rory wasn’t the only McIlroy that was a big winner on Sunday. His father made a wager 10 years ago, along with 3 friends, that Rory would win The Open Championship before he turned 26. Each person put up 100 pounds ($170) at 500-1 odds. That’s $85,00o for each of them. Rory did win $1,665,788 for his efforts, in winning what used to be called The British Open, or maybe it was just called that by Americans.

Look for McIlroy to win several more majors in his career if he stays healthy. When he’s on, like he was this week in England, he’s almost impossible to beat. There are several other good young golfers coming up, but McIlroy is the best.

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LeBron James Goes Back To The Cleveland Cavaliers

Posted on July 12, 2014 by admin

Four years after leaving the team that drafted him out of high school, LeBron James is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers. This announcement was much more low-key than the “I’m taking my talents to Miami” television show proclamation 4 years ago. So the prodigal son has returned to his roots in Ohio.

James forgave the statement by Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert where he referred to James as a “coward” when he left in free agency to join the Miami Heat in 2010. He joined forces with Dwyane Wade, who had already won a championship in Miami in 2006, and Chris Bosh, who had been on the Toronto Raptors. Together the “Big 3” made the NBA Finals all 4 years, and won the championship in 2012 and 2013.

The Cavaliers were only 33-49 last year, but have a lot of changes since then. In addition to James, the Cavaliers had the #1 pick in the last draft, for the 3rd time in the last 4 years, and chose Andrew Wiggins from Kansas. They also have All-star Kyrie Irving, so the cupboard is not bare. But other than those 2, there isn’t much high-level NBA talent.

They also will start the season with a new general manager and head coach. Former general manager Chris Grant was fired on February 6th, and replaced for the time being with former vice president of basketball operations David Griffin. Mike Brown was fired as head coach on May 12th, his second stint with the team.

The new head coach of the Cavaliers is David Blatt. He has coached since 1993, but never in the NBA. All of his coaching experience is in Europe, where he was very successful. In his last 4 years coaching Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel he had a 225-55 record, and won a bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics in London, coaching the Russian team.

It will be interesting to see how this works out for James. He will playing for a new team, with all new teammates, and a new head coach, who is new to the NBA. Since the news of James going back to Cleveland, some sports betting books in Las Vegas have installed the Cavaliers as favorites to win the NBA title this year. This is ridiculous, considering the San Antonio Spurs crushed James’ old team in 5 games in the finals, and they were a better team than James will have in Cleveland.

There are rumors that Cleveland is trying to attain Kevin Love from the Minnesota Timberwolves in a trade involving Andrew Wiggins. If that does occur, the Cavaliers will certainly be the favorites in the Eastern Conference, but the Western Conference has several good teams, that may still beat them even with Love. James isn’t predicting all the championships this time, like he did when he went to Miami 4 years ago.

I can’t help wondering if James would have left Miami to go to the Cleveland if the Heat had won their 3rd straight NBA Championship. Actually I can’t see him leaving if he had a chance to win a 4th straight title in Miami. Bosh has re-signed with the Heat, and Wade will probably stay also. The Heat will remain a contender in the weak East, which is up for grabs now, but the winner of that conference will get beat in the NBA Finals again next year, by the survivor in the West.

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Djokovic Beats Federer and Kvitova Dominates in Wimbledon Final

Posted on July 7, 2014 by admin

Novak Djokovic won his 2nd Men’s Wimbledon Singles Championship with a victory in the finals over 7-time champion Roger Federer. Petra Kvitova also won her 2nd Wimbledon on the Ladies side, with a 55-minute thumping of Eugenie Bouchard.

Djokovic, who is 27 years old, lost a match point in the 4th set, and ended up losing the set, but regrouped to finish off the 32 year old Federer from Switzerland 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4. The biggest reason for Djokovic’s victory was second serve percentage. Djokovic was 64% on his second serves, while Federer was only at 44%. It says a lot about Federer that he was able to prolong the match, with such a disparity.

Djokovic has now won 7 Grand Slam tournaments. He also kept Federer from becoming the oldest Wimbledon Champion in the Open Era, and the sole leader in most men’s single titles, which he still shares with Pete Sampras with 7.

With the victory, Djokovic has now regained the #1 world ranking from Rafael Nadal. Nadal was eliminated in the 4th round by 19-year old Nick Kyrgios of Australia. Kyrgios, ranked 144th in the world, was the lowest-ranked player to upset a #1 ranked player in 22 years.

Kvitova of the Czech Republic, who is 24 years old, needed only 55 minutes to finish off Bouchard of Canada in the Ladies Final, with a 6-3, 6-0 victory.  Kvitova is the #6 ranked player in the world, and won her first Wimbledon title in 2011, similar to Djokovic. These are her only Grand Slam Tournament wins so far in her career.

The weirdest part of Wimbledon happened in a doubles match involving Serena and Venus Williams against Kristina Barrois and Stephanie Voegele. Serena was attempting to serve, but had trouble bouncing the tennis ball. She eventually did serve, but double-faulted 4 consecutive times. Her state seemed to indicate a balance problem, but after retiring from the match, the explanation was that she was suffering from a “viral illness”.  More to come on this situation I’m sure.

Serena Williams, who is 32 years old, has won 4 Ladies Single Wimbledon Championships, and is the top ranked player in the world. However, she lost in the 3rd round to 25th ranked Alize Cornet of France in singles competition. The Williams sisters have won 5 Ladies Doubles Championships at Wimbledon.

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The World Cup – Not For Me

Posted on June 24, 2014 by admin

The World Cup is happening now in Brazil. To those of us in the United States, that’s soccer. To the rest of the world it’s football. What we know as football, is called American football to the rest of the world. I love football, but only American football.

It’s still hard to ignore the World Cup, since hardly any other sports are happening, now that hockey and basketball have ended, and American football won’t start again until September. Yeah, there’s baseball, golf, auto racing, tennis, and some other sports, but that doesn’t do it for me.

I assume the rest of the world doesn’t understand American football, because that’s the only excuse for not being interested, in my opinion. Major contact sports, like American football, hockey, and basketball, to a lesser degree, are the sports I like.

I realize the global appeal of the World Cup. Every country can produce a team of guys that can run and kick a ball. So every 4 years, 32 teams qualify for the World Cup. There are 8 groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams in each group move on to the next round, which consists of 16 teams, like the hockey and basketball playoffs. This round is referred to as the knockout round, because it’s single elimination, so if you lose, you’re knocked out of the tournament.

My problem with soccer, is the extreme boredom of watching the games, along with the fact that so many guys end in ties, let alone scoreless ties. Since these teams aren’t but maybe twice a week, make them play until a winner is declared. Soccer is a little bit more fun to play than watch.

Spain won the World Cup in 2010, but after just 2 games, both losses, they are already eliminated. The United States, was said to be in the “group of death“, with Germany, Portugal, and Ghana. They weren’t supposed to make it to the next round. But if they tie Germany in their next game, which of course happens a lot, they will earn a spot in the knockout round.

The country versus country aspect of the World Cup is the best part of the tournament if you ask me. But I’d rather watch the Olympics, especially the Summer Olympics, where you can pick from several different sporting events, rather than have to suffer through a 90-minute plus scoreless soccer tie.

By the way, why doesn’t the teams actually know when the game is going to end? All of a sudden, the game is declared over after the added time expires. No one has ever thought of actually stopping the clock, so that when the 90 minutes are up, both teams know when the game is over. I assume this is still the way it is, because I of course haven’t spent any time watching these games.

I don’t even know how they break ties in the knockout round. Do they keep playing sudden death, or do they do penalty kicks, or something else? I tried to find the answer, but all the articles I found were about breaking ties to qualify for the knockout round.

Anyway, enjoy the World Cup if you like it, but it’s not for me. The thing I’m really looking forward to is the start of the next American football season.

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The San Antonio Spurs Crush The Heat To Win Their 5th Title

Posted on June 16, 2014 by admin

The two year reign of the Miami Heat has come to an end, as the San Antonio Spurs crushed them in Game 5, 104-87, to win their 5th NBA Championship. In fact each of the Spurs’ wins were by at least 15 points, while their only loss was by 2 points.

Kawhi Leonard was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. Leonard started slow in the first 2 games of the Finals, but exploded in the last 3 games to become the 2nd youngest player to ever win the award, with only Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers earning the honor twice, at a younger age. Leonard led the Spurs with 22 points and 10 rebounds in the closing game of the NBA playoffs.

The Spurs winning the championship wasn’t a big surprise, in fact I predicted that they would win, but I thought it would take 7 games, not 5. The decisiveness to which they dominated the NBA Finals was stunning. If they hadn’t missed 4 free throws at the end of Game 2, they may have swept the defending champions. Instead, they took an extra game, and stomped a mud hole in the Heat in all 4 wins.

In Game 5, the Heat actually stormed to an early 22-6 lead, but it didn’t last. By halftime, the Spurs had not only closed the deficit, but had taken a 47-40 lead. Then they kept their foot on the gas pedal, pushing the lead to 19 points by the end of the 3rd quarter. San Antonio ended up outscoring Miami by an average of 14 points per game in the Finals, which is an NBA record. This is a Heat team in their 4th consecutive NBA Finals, winning their 2nd and 3rd trip.

LeBron James once again led the Heat, scoring 31 points and 10 rebounds, but he didn’t have much help. Chris Bosh was next on the Heat, with 13 points. The Spurs had 5 players with at least 14 points. They are the essence of a team, and how the game of basketball should be played.

Head coach Gregg Popovich has coached the Spurs to all 5 of their NBA Championships, and Tim Duncan was with him since their first title back in 1999. Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker have been Spurs for the last 4 championships. Not bad for this trio that has been talked about as being too old for the past few years. Now I hear the Heat is too old.

Remember what Tim Duncan said after they finished off the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. He said “We have 4 more to win. We’ll do it this time.” I thought to myself, did Duncan just say that? That’s the closest I’ve ever heard him get to trash talking. But he was right. He knew he had the better team. Not the best player, but the best team.

Now all the speculation will begin with who will retire, and who will switch teams. There are rumors that Popovich and Duncan will retire, There’s also the speculation that James will join forces with Carmelo Anthony. But who knows what’s in the cards for these guys? Let’s allow the 2014 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs to celebrate for a little while, even a few days.

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