Archives for April, 2009
Posted on Apr 29, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Miami Heat star basketball player, Dwyane Wade is again in a playoff battle that he might not make it through. Wade is suffering from a sore and stiff back that most had counted him out from playing a must win game five. Wide said that he will play despite the pain in his back. Wide already missed playoff games in the 2005 and 2007 seasons when he was suffering from a rib gage injury and then had shoulder pain. On Monday Wades back issues got so bad that Heat teammate Jamaal Maglorie had to help life Wade of the bench, so wade could go back into the game. Most of the Heat players are not concerned with Wades back issues they believe that once he steps onto the court he will be ready for action.
Posted on Apr 27, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Tonight is the nights for the Utah Jazz if the don’t show up to play against the Lakers the season ends. For the Jazz after this season the future will be unknown since power forward Carlos Boozer will be a free agent this summer. Also, head coach Jerry Sloan can retire and has said that his future with the Jazz is on a year by year basis. Sloan is now in his 21st season coaching the Jazz and is expected to have a knee replaced at the end of the year. This will cause him to delay his decision due to his rehabilitation process. The Jazz also have other issues center Mehmet Okur and guard Kyle Korver have the option to opt out of their contracts at the end of the season. The best thing for the Jazz would be to start winning before the team falls apart.
Posted on Apr 24, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The Houston Rockets are having an interesting time in the playoffs this year. There are a lot of different tactics that a team will employ to beat a team. Well the Portland Blazers seem to be trying to hound the Houston center, Yao Ming. Houston is rather upset about it, saying that Portland is playing dirty. In addition, Ming will now have less time to relax in place, because his replacement, Dikembe Mutumbo was injured badly this week and announced his retirement from basketball. Like a wounded soldier, they carried him off the field of battle. This is a very exciting year for the Rockets, and it’s going to keep getting better all the way, with tough competition and a lot of talent. Buy a pair of Rockets playoff tickets and see these great teams really fight it out!
Posted on Apr 21, 2009 under Uncategorized |
A sad incident happened over the weekend in Wellington, Florida. There was a major polo tournament going on and suddenly several of the horses from the Venezuelan team started to become disoriented and they started to fall. In all 21 horses died in this incident. It wasn’t an airborn infection or anything like that, it just happened very suddenly. They were apparently not in pain either, just sick and a little bit disoriented. Since they were all from the same team, it’s been decided that it must be some kind of poisoning, either that their food had gone bad or that there is some kind of toxin in something else around. They haven’t found out yet, and the various toxicology reports wont be ready until later in the week or early next week. The competition will resume, as it didn’t appear that other horses were in danger.
Posted on Apr 15, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Six weeks before the NFL draft, wide receiver prospect Michael Crabtree is recovering from surgery. Crabtree had surgery to repair a stress fracture on his left pinkie toe. Every morning Crabtree wakes up at 11:30am watches movies and listens to Young Jeezy on his laptop. Then Crabtree takes a bath because he can’t shower due to the fact that he has a cast on his foot. As for now GMs can’t watch Crabtree during pre draft workouts so the only way they can size him up is by, speaking with him and watching him on film. Crabtree is known for his good height and strong build. He also has quick feet and good use of his hands.
Posted on Apr 14, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The Los Angeles Angels are still having trouble coping with the death of Nick Adenhart, the young pitcher who was killed in a car accident last week along with a couple of his friends. Earlier that evening, he’d pitched a game with six shutout innings in the game. He really helped his team that night and it was kind of a coming out of the shadows for him. We’ll never know what he was capable of. The Angels are now still learning to deal with the loss and playing baseball as well. It’s a sad situation, but the team will be ok in the end. It will just take awhile.
Posted on Apr 10, 2009 under Uncategorized |
If the Lakers are thinking about winning it all this year it is going to take another role model on the team to step up. Andrew Bynum’s return to the Lakers for the Thursdays night game against the Denver Nuggets showed that his injured knee is healed. Bynum returned Thursday for his ten weeks off and put up 16 points and shot 7 out of 11, with seven rebounds while only being on the floor for 22 minutes. Bynum wore a stabilizing brace over his right knee to prevent another injury from occurring and will have to ware it for the remainder of the season. In the first half Bynum was not looking like his old self but in the second half he relaxed and started playing a lot more efficiently. With Bynum return it leaves Lamar Odom to go back to the bench where he is not used to being.
Posted on Apr 07, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The NBA Hall of Fame has received some of the best players this year. John Stockton, part of the Stockton-Malone team, was inducted. He is one of the leaders all-time in the NBA in terms of assists and one of the best three-point shooters in history. David Robinson was also inducted. One of the best rebounders, scorers, and general team players, he deserves it too. But the main event was the “coronation” of Michael Jordan. This is no surprise. He is perhaps the best player ever to have played the game. He led his team again and again to the championship. Made last second shots at will and played through illness and injury. He is one of the players that has gone down in legends, almost like the Nordic heroes in some ways. He was always fun to watch, and now he’s officially a Hall of Famer. Congrats to all inductees.
Posted on Apr 03, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The biggest news today is that the Chicago Bears have gotten Jay Cutler to come to their team, making a big trade with the Denver Broncos. The Bears traded several things to them, including one of their QBs and several first round picks. It’s going to be interesting to see if Cutler makes it in Chicago, where they have had several years of bad luck in getting their throwers to really thrive. The team has had injuries and QB attitude issues and all kinds of strangeness. It’s too bad, but the team needs to really jump in take command in the otherwise fairly weak NFC North. The NFC North is, however, one of those places where you will see a lot of teams really bashing into each other, no matter how strong or weak they are. It’s going to be exciting to see.
