Positive aspects of sports

Being a physical education major at SUNY Cortland, I am highly involved in activities, and always involved in sports. Many people are unaware of how important it is to live a healthy lifestyle, and to continue to stay active all the time. Sports bring about physical activity and cause you to strain your muscles, and eventually making them stronger. It's easy to stay out of games and activities because you are not good at them, but people should look at that as a challenge and should want to get good at it.
A positive health aspect of sports is that it gets kids and people outside moving around and getting fresh air. It's scary to think about how our country suffers from so much obesity, but yet we are so technologically advanced. The problem is people aren't telling their kids to go out and play, they're trying to teach them how to work a remote or play on the computer. Promoting good habits at a young age could lead them to a healthy future. It sounds simple, but yet we still see less kids around neighborhoods playing games with each other. It could be our own fault because we do make these games and give them to kids, but this is how our society works.
Even getting off the topic of just sports being positive, we can also say that easy activities can be good too. Games like tag, spud and other childhood games were good to get the blood flowing and kept kids active. A major problem with our country is physical INactivity, too many people don't move. However this is a problem that cannot be solved in one day, or year probably, so well have to wait and see where sports will play a role in our life in the future.

College Basketball

I figured I would talk about something that really interests me, and thats basketball and more specifically college basketball. My whole life i've found it more interesting than the NBA, and I find that the players in college actually try because they have something to prove, they are just playing for the name on their jersey. These kids actually practice hard day in and day out to try and be the best they can for their school, and for themselves. College basketball brings a lot of opportunity to many kids especially on the professional level.
For some reason I have always liked Duke, and everyone always says they suck, and im a front runner, but it's just always been my team and I stick to em. The one thing I like about Duke is Coach K and how he manages his players, and the class they always bring to the gym. They haven't one a national championship in years, but they always make a run during march madness. This year duke is 7-1 this year and already won a tournament championship at Madison Square Garden. With a lot of young players, guard Jon Scheyer and forward Kyle Singler will have to hold some weight of the freshman. I expect to see them in the march madness every year, and they always bring excitement with the Cameron Crazies, which are the wildest fans in basketball. They are playing tonight, and will probably win, and Gonzaga on Saturday, until then i'm gonna have to settle for the awful Knicks.

Giant Move..

This past Sunday the Giants squared off against their rivals the Dallas Cowboys, and it was a great game. As in most big rival games their's lots of tension and trash talk going down, especially between Justin Tuck and Flozell Adams, who both had words to say about each other during and after the game. This was an exciting game throughout, and ended well for all Giant fans out their. The first quarter of the game was an exciting one, even though nobody scored. The defense was playing great on both sides, and the intensity was high.
To begin the second quarter Dallas took a 10-0 lead with 3:14 left on the clock, which is not a lot of time at all. Eli Manning finally got his act together and stormed down the field to give them a touchdown making it 10-7. Once Dallas got the ball back, Giants defensive end Umenyora picked up a fumble and ran it to the one yard line, where they took over and Jacobs got a one-yard touchdown carry. Going into the half it was 14-10 G-men. While everyone was walking back into the locker room, Flozell Adams pushed a Giants team member and this caused pushing and fighting. After the game Adams was fined a penatly, and it was well deserved for a bush league hit after the half ended.
The third quarter was just as good as the first two, with Romo leading his troops to a touchdown making it 17-14. But Eli would not be stopped, he also stormed down the field for a touchdown of his own with a long pass to brandon jacobs. In the fourth quarter is where the magic happened for the Giants, when Domenik Hixon returns a punt for a touchdown giving the Giants a 30-17 lead, ultimatley closing the deal. Finally the Giants are back to playing decent football, and are a serious contender in the wild card, and still got a shot for the division title, but it'll be tough.

It might be time for some new rules...

My post today is going to be a lot different then past weeks, because I will criticizing a team that is my favorite but its only right. Recent trade talks have started already in the world or baseball. Their are so many prospects out their right now just looking to hop on the badnwagon of a potential world series team. Names like Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Matt Holiday, Victor Martinez, Carl Crawfor, Miguel Tejada,Ken Griffey Jr., Vlad Guerrero, Cliff Lee and Josh Beckett. All these names listes are great players with game chaning potential. However in this post I will be talking about the Yankees future picks and who they are interested in. Their has been a lot of talk about pitcher Roy Holliday from the Toronto Blue Jays coming to New York in the spring. Holliday was the pitcher they wanted to get since the beginning of last off-season, when they picked up Sabathia and Burnett, but couldn't afford him. Unfortunatley for Holliday the Yankees won the world series this year, so maybe this year will change his opinion.
One thing that really comes to mind when hearing things like this, is how can the Yankees do this? For one, they are signing another all-star, making it about 9 on their roster, and their payroll will be out of the roof. This makes me think, should the MLB put a cap on how much teams can spend. This also brings about many of comments and questions like, 'well if they have the money, spend it' or 'its not fair that just because we have money and others dont' either way its going to bring about negative and positive comments. Commisioner Bud Selig has recently announced his retire date which will be after the 2012 season. This could bring a change to baseball at this time, because the commisioner has the right to do whatever he wants. The only thing that does worry me if this was to happen is, 'Would the game change, our national pastime?' I mean baseball has been like this forever, should it be changed now? A well known quote can help on this one 'Dont fix what's not broken'...

G-Men.. Playing like girls

Just when i thought the New York Giants had a shot at another super bowl, we mess it up. It seems like ever since we got rid of Plaxico Buress the Giants offense hasn't been able to do anything. Eli manning with that stupid look on his face was absolutley terrible this week, as the Giants played the Broncos for a Thanksgiving night massacre. To start the game, everything was looking fine, as the Giants recieved the ball first, but couldn't do anything with it. After the first quarter Denver was up 3-0. Not a bad score, but the offense needs to pick it up for once because the defense has been carrying them for the last two years. As the game goes on the Giants still cant seem to do anything in the second quarter putting up a fat egg on their side of the scoreboard, while the broncos put up 13 making the halftime score 16-0.
In the second half the giants looked just as terrible, and were making the broncos look like all stars. Eli put together two nice drives, but couldn't convert them to touchdowns leaving us with only six points at the end of the third quarter. Thing didn't get any prettier for the Giants as they let the broncos put in ten more points in the fourth quarter and they held the giants to 0 making the final score 26-6, and leaving many fans upset. Their was only one positive in the game that I saw and that was Osi Umenyiora yelling at the offense and trying to get everyone hyped up. The offense has been putting up terrible number the past four weeks, while the defense has been giving it all they got. One motto ive always lived by in sports "You can't win, if you dont score, no matter how bad the defense was."

Life in Sports This Week

Unlike my other posts where I concentrated on one team, this blog im going to talk about what's been going on in all sports in the past week or so. One thing that came to my attention while watching sports shows this week was how much attention labron james gets, whether it be because he got hurt, or made a cool dunk, or because he made a funny statement. He said that he thinks he could play in the nfl if given the chance. This started huge controversies on all talk shows, and I heard several opinions. One being that if Lebron tried out for a football team who wouldn't be able to make the practice squad, and others saying that he would be a big time star. Personally I think that Lebron is a bsketball player, and should stick to it, if he gets carried away with this football garbage he might actually think of trying out. I think he wouldn't make the practice squad either, those guys are professionals at their sport, just like he is at ball. Another thing that came to my attention while watching some basketball highlights, is the talk of Allen Iverson coming to the Knicks. Being a Knicks fan I would never want to see them pick up Iverson because he is not a team player, and it would lead to another stephon marbury kinda deal. All they have to do is wait one more year, save their money and get some superstars.
College basketball has finally arrived, and im proud to say my Dukies (Duke Blue Devils) are starting off strong, as well as many other teams. Every yearI hear a lot of talk about how college basketball is so much better to watch then the NBA and I agree. I think it's more appealing because of the atmosphere the fans bring, and how intense the players are throughout the whole game. They actually run plays, set off the ball screens, and play defense, which the NBA lacks. Of course their's so much more thats been going in the world of sports, but thats up to u to find out.

One more year

As the New York Knicks starting off another season, this time against the Miami Heat. For those who don't follow the knicks, we have been awful for the past ten plus years. In the past three years our overall record has gone up in the win category a little, but not enough to make it into the playoffs. Seeing as how the Boston Celtics are stacked again this year, I don't see the knicks making any moves towards the playoffs once again. So far this year we are 1-8, and not looking good at all. I feel like every year is the same thing, we go up early in the game, then blow it at the end. They don't have that key player that can finish games like we used to have like Patrick Ewing, or John Starks. In the 1990's when the knicks were a dynasty, Madison Square gardenb would be packed every night, and it gave the garden a really good name, but now, they can barely fill the seats even when lebron james is in town. One major problem that the knicks have is their ability to get a great player and have him adapt to the city, and team. It's not easy coming to new york and being accepted by the fans, just ask Patrick Ewing, who had lots to say about the fans in new york, both good and bad.

For the past three years, the knicks have been getting rid of their highest payed players and picking up low paying players to make room for the 2010-2011 draft. After this season's end, it will be the biggest free agent market possibly ever. Players like Lebron James, Tracy McGrady, Chris Bosh are all going to be free agents, along with a list of about 100 other players. The knicks currently have one of the lowest salaries in the league after being one of the highest for years. The word on the street is that they are looking to pick up Lebron James as their first pick, and will most likely propose an offer that he cannot refuse. Their is also a lot of talk about how he wont leave Cleveland because he feels at home their, seeing as how hes from Ohio. One thing that many people do not know is that last year when Lebron came to New York, he bought out three hot dog stands and gave free hot dogs all game while he was playing. Personally this sounds like hes trying to gain the city over little by little, and when it's time for picking a team, new york will be one of the top prospects. With the Knicks having another game tomorrow night, coach D'antoni hopes to pull out win number two, but with this years squad, it might be hard to reach 20 wins. But we will see in one year where this basketball program plans to head.