Blogging...

Although I am for the most part caught up on the post requirements, I do not find blogging too exciting. I enjoy finding stories in the sports world to blog about, but I just think the idea of a word count throws it off. Except I am very understanding of why this word count exist. Sports are the topics of interest in my blog; there is much to write about as sports change from day to day. I feel that as broad as I can make my topic, compared to others that I have read, most people seem to use it as away to express themselves. I wish I wouldn’t have narrowed my topic to just sports as I could blog about just life in general. I think this would have made blogging a bit more exciting. I will continue to blog about sports as long as the assignment still appears in the grade book.

A-rod

The story in major league baseball remains the same. Year after year for about the past six has been about someone and the use of steroids. First it was Pete Rose that was accused for the use of steroids. Everyone already knows of Rose’s history with the betting on games while playing on the reds back in nineteen eighty-nine. Rose who is the MLB all-time hits records holder with four thousand two hundred and fifty-six career hits. Next on the list is Mark McGuire who broke the record for most home-runs in a season back in 1998. Roger Clemens an outstanding pitcher for the Astros and Yankees throughout his career. Sammy Sosa, who was a former Chicago Cub, hit over sixty home-runs in multiple seasons. Barry Bonds, who broke the record of McGuire’s for most home runs in a season. Bonds also broke the all-time career home-runs set by hank Aaron. The record was 755 and now is held by Bonds with 762. None of these players will be in the Cooperstown hall of fame because of the use of steroids in their careers.

Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid player in Major league baseball was found guilty for the use of steroids. Tests that were taken back in two thousand and three turned out to be positive. The information was not supposed to be released, but accidents happen! Rodriguez who is on the path to setting the career record for home-runs will be removed from hall of fames to be inducted. If the results hold true one of the most respected players in the MLB will go down as the man who ruined baseball.

Super Bowl XLIII

The Super Bowl couldn’t have been a bigger nightmare for the Arizona Cardinals last Sunday night in Tampa, Florida. Pittsburgh starts off with a field goal in the first quarter and then adds a touchdown in the second before the Cardinals scored. Ten to seven and Arizona is about to go ahead until Kurt Warner throws an interception while in the Red Zone. Defensive player of the year James Harrison intercepted Warner’s pass and ran it back for a touchdown. The pick-six was the longest play in NFL history, one hundred yards as Harrison marched down the field, with little breath in the end. At half time the Steelers were on top seventeen to seven.

The third quarter wasn’t anything exciting, the cardinals did hold the Steelers to just a field after having several chances for six. A twenty-one yard field goal by Jeff Reed added to the lead and Steelers were winning twenty to seven at this point. Forth quarter, Warner throws one yard touchdown pass to Larry Fitzgerald cutting the lead to six. Two points were awarded to the Cardinals defense after Justin Hartwig committed a penalty in the end-zone creating a safety! Arizona gained the lead with two minutes and thirty-seven seconds left with a sixty-four yard touchdown pass to Fitzgerald. When we all thought that the Arizona Cardinals were about to with their first Super Bowl as a Franchise…they didn’t! The Steelers marched right back up the field and with thirty-five seconds left Roethlisberger hooked up with Santonio Holmes to give the Steelers back the lead. There is debate; did Pittsburgh really win this game? With five seconds left and the Cardinals last chance to change the outcome of this game, Kurt Warner was accused of fumbling the ball. If you watch videos it is clear that his arm was moving in the forward direction as he released the ball. Was it an incomplete pass?

KOBE

Monday night Kobe set the single game record in the Madison Square Garden arena with sixty-one points. He passed the record after making two free throws with two minutes and thirty-three seconds left. Kobe is averaging twenty seven point five points per game. The previous record in the Garden arena was sixty points held by Bernard king. Third on the list is Michael Jordan with fifty-five points on March twenty-eighth nineteen ninety-five. On Monday Night the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New York Knicks one twenty-six to one seventeen.
The Lakers played Monday night without seven foot tall center Andrew Bynum. Bynum is out for eight to twelve weeks after suffering a knee injury over the past weekend. In the first quarter of Saturday night’s game at Memphis, teammate Kobe Bryant drove to the basket and came crashing down into Bynum’s leg after missing the shot. “Bynum tore his medial collateral ligament in his right knee.” Bynum averages fourteen points per game and averages eight point two rebounds with the Lakers. He usually has two blocks in each game. Before the Injury occurred over the weekend Bynum was averaging twenty-six points a game. The question is how the Los Angeles Lakers do with out the contribution of two hundred eighty five pound center Andrew Bynum? Bynum was as first-round draft pick back in two thousand five and could now miss up to twelve weeks of this season. Los Angeles is thirty-nine and nine on the season, leading the Pacific division by twelve and a half games.