Passing of the Torch In the World of Sports

 
It happens in every aspect of life ‘What goes up comes down’ ‘In today –Out Tomorrow’ and it is really apparent when the ‘Passing of the Torch’ happens in the world of sports.

It happened when the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup in 2007 and the Los Angeles Kings were on the down and out. The kings have since managed to retake the throne winning the Stanley Cup in 2012, but how long will it last. This season the Ducks are once again leading the way. score.espn.com

It also showed up with the Anaheim Angels winning the World Series in 2002 something that has alluded the LA Dodgers since 1988. The Dodgers have not been able to regain their top spot in Southern California for many, many years. Dodger fans are hopeful that with this year’s new ownership, things will change, but so far, it has been less than a good start for them. sportsillustrated

Now we get to the biggest ‘pasting of the torch’ that has occurred in recent sports history, and that my fellow sports fan is what has happened to the Lakers.

The mighty have fallen, so to speak, many claim that the team is just old and need new and younger players, but who knows?

However, whatever the reasons, The Clippers, which has always been ‘the other team’, the bride-maid, never the bride, the team that late night comedians poked fun at, have de-throned the Lakers this year. Have stepped into the lime-light. Clippers

The Clippers weren’t always the Los Angeles Clippers, in fact, from 1970 to 1978 they were known as the Buffalo Braves. Then in 1978 the team moved to San Diego and changed their name to the Clippers. Clipper History

In the team’s first season in San Diego, it posted a record of 43–39 under new head coach Gene Shue, leaving them two wins shy of the final playoff spot. It would be the Clippers’ last winning season for 13 years.
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The 1981–82 season brought changes to the franchise as Irv Levin sold the team to Los Angeles-area real estate developer and attorney Donald Sterling for US $12.5 million. The Clippers’ poor play in the final years in San Diego resulted in averaging only 4,500 fans a game. Sterling lobbied the NBA to relocate the team to his native Los Angeles. Which they did in 1984, and once again changing their name to ‘The Los Angeles Clippers. They played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

It wasn’t until 1992 when they added several players and a new the coach that the franchise had its first winning season in 13 years.

But, once again the Clippers were on the move, only this time is was a short hop from LA County to Orange County and from 1994 to 1998, the Clippers called the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, their home, sharing the venue with the NHL’s Mighty Anaheim Ducks.

However, in 1999, the Clippers joined the Lakers and Los Angeles Kings in the new Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles. This final movie did improve their fan attendance, but it also placed them face to face with fighting the highly-popular Lakers for the LA fan base and the Clippers, with relatively low success, have always being overshadowed by the Lakers until this year.

Congrats to the Los Angeles Clippers for finally winning their division.

 
Diana Olmos
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HOCKEY’S BACK, BUT AT WHAT COST?

NHL owners finally ratify new collective bargaining agreement and as we all know that means Hockey is back, as of January 19, 2013. It is scheduled to end on April 27, 2013, with the playoff starting in June.

However, Hockey was supposed to start October 11, 2012. What happened?

It all started back on September 13, 2012, when all 29 league ownership groups authorized commissioner, Gary Bettman, to lock out the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) upon the expiration of the NHL collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on September 15.

This action marked the fifth labor dispute in twenty years for the NHL, following a 1992 strike, lockouts in 1994 to 1995 and 2004 to 2005, as well as a referees lockout in 1993;. This is more than any of the other major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada during this period.

And it is not just the regular season that was shorten, the All-Star Game which was originally scheduled to take place January 27, 2013, in Columbus, Ohio, has cancelled as a result of the lockout

Gary Bettman, the commissioner, has apologizes to NHL fans for lockout, says he’s sorry. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/story/2013/01/09/sp-nhl-hockey-gary-bettman-apologizes-to-fans.html
He is apologizing to hockey fans for the lockout that delayed the start of the season by three months. He says he knows the apology will not ease hard feelings that have built up over the past few months but he feels the fans deserve one.

He also wouldn’t say specifically what the league would do to make it up to the fans. Hopefully the fans that had already purchased ‘season tickets’ before the lockout had no problems getting their refunds for games NOT played.

He adds that as commissioner he is sometimes forced to make tough decisions that disappoint and occasionally anger players and fans.
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It’s going to be a little more complicated this time around.
The league is planning to have teams play three games against the 10 opponents within the same conference but outside their division. They will then have an unbalanced schedule against division rivals, with five games coming against two teams and four against the two others, according to a source.

But what started the whole disaster? Who is to blame? Owners, Players ??? Actually the blame goes to ‘money’ and with both owners and players want more of it.

It’s the same old story with all the major sports, baseball, basketball and football; everyone wants a bigger piece of the pie. The 2012- 2013 NHL lockout was considered a labor dispute that began at 11:59 pm EDT on September 15, 2012, and ended at 4:45 am EST on January 6, 2013, lasting 113 days.

At issue for the owners were desires to reduce the players’ guaranteed 57% share of hockey-related revenues (HRR), introduce term limits on contracts, eliminate salary arbitration, and change free agency rules. The union’s initial offers focused on increased revenue sharing between owners and a fixed salary cap that is not linked to league revenues.

During the lockout, many NHL players went to other leagues in North America and Europe. Many businesses in the United States and Canada located near NHL arenas lost money as a result of the games not played.

The real loser of this whole mess is the fans, we will definitely pay more to see each game, we will see less games, no all-star game this year and the worst part is that there is no guarantee that is won’t happen again!

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