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'...