For One Thing Dodgers are cleaning house

In the world of sports at the end of the season is all about who’s getting Trading or Chopped?

Dodgers Cleaning House, will it help?

No matter what the sport, at the end of every individual sport season everyone associated with that sport ends up not knowing if they will keep their job.

This is especially true when there was a high expectation for a team ‘to go all the way’ and for whatever reason they don’t.

This was true with the Los Angeles Lakers last season when not only was Paul Gasol traded to the Bull, but even their coach Mike D’Antoni was replaced by Byron Scott.

www.NBA.com/lakers

Now it’s the MLB’s turn. There are many baseball teams that were expected to a whole all better than what they actually did. It didn’t seem to matter how much money the owners of the teams spend on players, they did not live up to huge price tags.

So, who will get the axe? Who will be sent back to AAA baseball and who will get traded? No one knows for sure, but the rumors are flying all over the sports world.

The Dodgers have already made the news with the hiring of a new GM, Andrew Friedman, and the former GM of the Tampa Bay Rays. What happen to Colletti, you ask? Well the owners actually kept Colletti as a senior advisor.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/14/how-dodgers-swiping-the-rays-gm-shakes-up-baseball-world/

http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/98487820/andrew-friedman-named-dodgers-president-of-baseball-operations-colletti-becomes-advisor

But I don’t think the Dodgers are done with cleaning house, high priced players that don’t earn their pay will need to either be traded or somehow, someway show the Dodger owners that they are worth the investment.
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However, it just isn’t the Dodgers, how about the Los Angeles Angels, the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Socks, the Atlanta Braves, and all teams that on paper should be playing in the World Series.

www.MLB.com

This year the Oakland Raiders did not even wait until the end of their season to try and change from a losing season by firing their coach Dennis Allen, after only 5 weeks into their season. Then the owner hires Tony Sparano as their interim coach.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/raiders-return-to-work-under-new-coach/

But there is still the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New York Jets, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the St. Louis Rams, each and every one of these teams have a losing season so far this year! Their owners are already looking at how to get their
‘product’ producing and become winning teams. New Managers, coaches, quarterbacks, whatever it will take.

www.NFL.com

Then you have the owner of the Washington Redskins. They have already replaced their coach, traded their under-producing players and there are still facing a losing season.

http://www.nfl.com/teams/profile?team=WAS

What it comes down to is no matter how good you are in you particular sport, have a bad year and you could end of being traded or become a ‘free agent’

It sometimes doesn’t even matter that you played you very best and the term as a whole wasn’t having a good year, in the eyes of the owner, someone will take the
Fall, to become the scapegoat so to speak.

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Sports updates 9/14 in Major League Baseball, Pro and College Football

Are you ready for the 2nd half of September and Sports? There is only a few months in the year where the ‘hype’ for various sports comes crashing together. September is such a month!

We are in the last month of the regular season of Major League Baseball. The 2014 Baseball Playoffs will start the very first week of October and to add even more drama, each league will send 2 wildcard teams to the playoffs this year instead of one each! www.mlb.com

With the Major League Baseball Playoffs just around the corner in the month of October. Who will represent the National league and who will represent the American league is the baseball lover’s first question on their mind? The second question is who will survive the playoffs to meet in the 2014 World Series.

Some familiar teams and a couple of new ones look like they will be fighting all the way to the end for a chance to make the ‘Playoffs’ and move on to the chance to play in the World Series.

The first wild card playoff game is already schedule to be held October 1st with ‘The World Series Games’ scheduled to start October 23rd. There is also the game of the moving and trading around of players and managers, which will start as soon as the very next day after the end of the regular season.

Both Dodger and Angel baseball fans are getting very excited just thinking about the possible of a playoff scenario between the Dodgers and the Angels, who at the beginning of September were both in first place.

However, in the National League, the Dodgers first have to stay in first place by staying ahead of the Giants, then get past the Washington Nationals and the St Louis Cardinals plus 2 wild card teams. www.dodgers.com

The American League will see the LA Angels have to get past the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals, and again 2 wild card teams. www.LAAngels.com

Also in September, we see the start of the NFL season, and due to the increase in popularity of football, brought on by the millions of people that play fantasy football, we will now see NFL football on Thursday, Sunday and Monday’s.
www.NFL.com

Starting in September and lasting all the way until January you have millions now
playing Fantasy Football. It has been so ingrained in our way of life that it is hard to imagine life before someone invented the thing. All I know that it has changed the way people now watch football. It is now more about the individual players and their stats than the actual teams. Amazing!
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For those of us that want more than just watching the NFL, there is also College football which has also just started with both UCLA and USC winning their two game of their new season.

So far this season, College Football has proven why it has also grown in popularity over the last several years. There has been several huge upsets already and in a playoff system that doesn’t left much room for teams that lose every one game, losing your first or second game can end the collage team’s dream of making it to the BCS Championship game in 2015.

www.bcsfootball.org

By the way, in case you have heard, the NCAA Football playoff system has been changed to further meet the demands of the growing amount of fans. You might want to check out this link if you need an update.

http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=8099512

You can also keep an eye on the BCS football weekly team rankings by clink on

http://espn.go.com/college-football/powerrankings

So far, the month of September has proven to be both exciting and surprising, can’t wait to see what happens next month.

This is your Sports update 9/14 from
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April 2014 – Sports Blog

It’s spring time again and many of us it’s also means

Baseball

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is back!

As spoken often by our favorite sports announcer, Vin Scully ‘It’s time for Dodger Baseball ‘ and if you are a Dodger fan it hasn’t come soon enough.

www.Dodgers.com

This year, however, it was a bit confusing, at least for me it was. It seems that the Season opener was played down under in Australia on March 22. But it was only the season opener for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamond-Backs. The rest of the MLB was still in their spring training mode.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers-prove-it-s-just-a-game–even-in-australia-135056854.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AextNbK5_

It was fun to see the Dodgers play in Australia at Sydney Cricket Grounds, to see the all the Dodgers and D-Backs fans in attendance.

Dodgers returning home from Australia with two wins, villain role still intact

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers-returning-home-from-australia-with-two-wins–villain-role-still-intact-072221837.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AeBtNbK5_

In fact, it seems that after a few days of rest, the Dodgers were also back in spring training with the very popular ‘freeway series’ being played against their cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. One game being played in at the Dodger Stadium and the second game played at the Angel Stadium.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/angels-beat-dodgers-7-5-052656674–mlb.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7AFkZTMn8AehtNbK5_

The second opening of the Dodger season came with them playing the San Diego Padres in San Diego on March 30. Which they won two and loss one

March 30, was also the official start of the 2014 baseball season for The North American part of the season with the season officially coming to an end on September 28 with the playoffs stating right after that.

The Dodger’s Home Opening game was on April 4, against our arched rivals, the San Francisco Giants and it was a total sell out with over 53,000 fans in attendance. Unfortunately, the Dodgers lost. They looked tired and played sloppy. You have to wonder if ‘jet lag’ had anything to do with it. It didn’t help either that Kershaw was unable to pitch for the opener due to injuring his back from either his pitching in Australia or somehow injured the back during the long flight home.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/trip-down-under-not-necessarily-to-blame-for-kershaw-injury-040414

However how his back got hurt, he was unable to pitch at the Home Opener, which had become a Dodger tradition at the Stadium. Hyun-Jin Ryu made his third start in five games due to him replacing the scheduled starter Clayton Kershaw, and it
did not bode well for the Dodgers, they lost that game 4 to 8.

My questions to the MLB, is why not play the games in Australia or where-ever the MLB chooses, done at the beginning of or during Spring Training? This way the players would have a chance to totally recover from the time-change, jet lag and/or the lack of sleep. It would also fix the problem of having 2 ‘opening days’ for the teams and their fans that do the traveling.

www.mlb.

It has been a rocky start for the Dodgers, but it is only the beginning of the season, there is still plenty of games left for the Dodgers to show off their strengths and I, as well as many other Dodgers fans will be there with them to the end of the season and hopefully the playoffs and the World Series.

Leave a comment and let us know what you think

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Sports blog – February 2014

One of the biggest myths around is that women love to gossip and not men. Yet gossip seems to take center court over and over again in the world of sports.

Why? Simple it sells! And not just to the women fans but all fans across all ages!

Why does the stories surrounding A-Rod capture the front page of the news over and over again, does anyone really care who he suing today or will be suing tomorrow or that the MLB players Union wants him gone or that the Yankees, themselves want him gone as well? Apparently yes!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb-players-association-would-expel-a-rod-if-it-could-171857810.html

Let’s not forget there is also the fact that ‘bad news’ sells. If you watch or listen to Sports Central, or ESPN the headlines are usually reserved for the ‘bad guys first. Who trashed talk who takes up more TV time than who actually won the game. First comes the ‘trash talk’ and the comments from every sports commentator that can be found, then of course the time allotted to the ‘I’m Sorry’ campaign by the trash talker himself.

Carroll says Sherman sorry rant overshadowed win
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/carroll-says-sherman-sorry-rant-004022049–nfl.html

Now you add the time for the rebuttal by the fans of the team that the trash talker plays on that were interview and you have an awful large amount of time spend on ‘bad news’

Seattle soft? 12th Man shows it has Richard Sherman’s back amid criticism of Seahawk’s postgame behavior.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/seattle-soft–12th-man-shows-it-has-richard-sherman-s-back-amid-criticism-of-seahawk-s-postgame-behavior-012206913-nfl.html

Even more time than was spend showing the highlights of the game. I personally get a little frustrated with this. I would love the ‘sports world’ to spend more time with showing the positive aspects of sports, but then again, apparently that isn’t what gains views/fans.

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Another example of this phenomena shows up again when a book is written by someone in the sports world and although the book has probably many sport stories in it, the one that gets noticed by ‘Sports TV’ is the negative ones.

Example of this is when Former prominent NFL agent Leigh Steinberg wrote in a book released Tuesday that he advised quarterback Ryan Leaf not to attend a meeting with the Indianapolis Colts, who would then select Peyton Manning instead with the top overall pick in the 1998.

Steinberg: Leaf duped Colts out of drafting him in ’98
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/steinberg-leaf-duped-colts-drafting-183729125–nfl.html
Like I said, only the fact that someone might have done something ‘bad’ to some else, did the fact the Mr. Steinberg even got his book mentioned on TV.

And even then the world of sports didn’t stop with just mentioning the book; they have actually taking time to track down the persons involved for their side of the story to air on TV.

All this makes for good drama TV and slowly and completely taking over our sports world. We care more about what players do off the field of battle. What drugs they might have taken, who they are dating, or who’s getting a divorce. The average sports fan is still obsessed with any and all news that hits the airwaves concerning Aaron Hernandez, it doesn’t even matter that he is in jail and no longer playing football for the New England Patriots.

Police: Hernandez eyed as gunman in 2012 slayings
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/warrant-hernandez-eyed-gunman-2012-160757215–spt.html;_ylt=AwrSyCMg0N5SAjQAt0BNbK5_;_ylu=X3oDMTBmMnFmanUyBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQ–

It’s tough to explain to a small child who is just starting to show an interest in sports, that there is more to sports than the above, that there are still players out there that play for the sheer joy of being able to play. There are still players out there that are good but never make the headlines, they play by all the rules, even the ‘golden’ rules.

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Sports News 2014

NFL Pro Bowl for 2014

The New and ‘Improved’ NFL Pro Bowl for 2014

The NFL announced a few weeks ago the rosters for the 2014 Pro Bowl, which for the

first time will be “Unconferenced” with players selected without regard to conference in voting by fans, coaches and players.

http://www.nfl.com/probowl

Over the last several years, the NFL Pro Bowl has lost favor with the fans of football and if no one is watching, then advertisers won’t pay the huge amounts of cash to get their Ads shown during the game.

This new format takes into account the huge success of ‘Fantasy Football’. Fans of Fantasy Football don’t exact follow teams or whether the teams are AFC or NFC, it is all about the individual players.

The first-ever Pro Bowl Draft will be nationally televised during a live three-hour primetime broadcast on NFL Network at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders will serve as alumni team captains for their respective squads.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sbnation/SBNation_20131227_2014_NFL_Pro_Bowl__Player_draft_highlights_change_in_format.html

The 2014 Pro Bowl will be played Jan. 26 and air live on NBC at 7 p.m. ET from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The following players have been voted in by the fans, coaches and other players and are available for the draft.

http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story/0ap2000000304771/article/2014-pro-bowl-complete-roster

For the Offense

Quarterback: Tom Brady, Patriots; Drew Brees, Saints; Peyton Manning, Broncos; Cam Newton, Panthers; Philip Rivers, Chargers; Russell Wilson, Seahawks.

Wide receiver: Antonio Brown, Steelers; Dez Bryant, Cowboys; Josh Gordon, Browns; A.J. Green, Bengals; Andre Johnson, Texans; Calvin Johnson, Lions; Brandon Marshall, Bears; Demaryius Thomas, Broncos.

Tackle: Branden Albert, Chiefs; Jason Peters, Eagles; Tyron Smith, Cowboys; Joe Staley, 49ers; Joe Thomas, Browns; Trent Williams, Redskins.

Guard: Jahri Evans, Saints; Ben Grubbs, Saints; Mike Iupati, 49ers; Logan Mankins, Patriots; Louis Vasquez, Broncos; Marshal Yanda, Ravens.

Center: Ryan Kalil, Panthers; Alex Mack, Browns; Mike Pouncey, Dolphins; Max Unger, Seahawks.
Tight end: Jordan Cameron, Browns; Vernon Davis, 49ers; Jimmy Graham, Saints; Julius Thomas, Broncos.

Running back: Jamaal Charles, Chiefs; Matt Forte, Bears; Frank Gore, 49ers; Marshawn Lynch, Seahawks; LeSean McCoy, Eagles; Adrian Peterson, Vikings.
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The Defense

Defensive end: Greg Hardy, Panthers; Cameron Jordan, Saints; Robert Quinn, Rams; Cameron Wake, Dolphins; J.J. Watt, Texans; Mario Williams, Bills.

Interior lineman: Gerald McCoy, Buccaneers; Haloti Ngata, Ravens; Dontari Poe, Chiefs; Justin Smith, 49ers; Ndamukong Suh, Lions; Kyle Williams, Bills.

Outside linebacker: John Abraham, Cardinals; Ahmad Brooks, 49ers; Tamba Hali, Chiefs; Justin Houston, Chiefs; Robert Mathis, Colts; Terrell Suggs, Ravens.

Inside/middle linebacker: NaVorro Bowman, 49ers; Vontaze Burfict, Bengals; Luke Kuechly, Panthers; Patrick Willis, 49ers.

Cornerback: Brandon Flowers, Chiefs; Brent Grimes, Dolphins; Joe Haden, Browns; Patrick Peterson, Cardinals; Darrelle Revis, Buccaneers; Richard Sherman, Seahawks; Aqib Talib, Patriots; Alterraun Verner, Titans.

Free safety: Jairus Byrd, Bills; Earl Thomas, Seahawks; Eric Weddle, Chargers.
Strong safety: Eric Berry, Chiefs; Kam Chancellor, Seahawks; Troy Polamalu, Steelers.

And for Special Teams

Punter: Brandon Fields, Dolphins; Johnny Hekker, Rams.
Placekicker: Matt Prater, Broncos; Justin Tucker, Ravens.
Punt returner: Antonio Brown, Steelers; Dexter McCluster, Chiefs.
Special teamer: Justin Bethel, Cardinals; Matthew Slater, Patriots.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000304774/article/2014-pro-bowl-roster-snubs

The NFL organization is hoping that this change in format will increase the amount of viewers, thus saving the Pro-Bowl Game it self.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/pro-team-announced-where-got-few-got-wrong-193456237–nfl.html

Leave a comment on what do you think and this ‘new’ and ‘improved’ NFL pro-bowl ?

This isShorttalk4dummies.com
with your January sports news 2014

Are you ready for this?  

College Football Playoff set to replace Bowl Championship Series in 2014

After several years of being pressured by ‘sports fans’ the sports media and even the colleges themselves. It has finally happened.

The Bowl Championship Series, better known as the ‘BCS’
will be replaced by the College Football Playoff system starting in 2014.

This will be the last season of the multi-bowl system.

The BCS conference commissioners announced this new Football Playoff System will totally replaced the individual bowls games now played. This meeting was held this past April 2013 in Pasadena, California and lasted three days.

They also selected the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation in the new system and the site of the first championship game which will be held January 12, 2015.
The website www.collegefootballplayoff.com has been set up and is running. This site allowed fans to vote on a new logo. It also has a Twitter handle.

When it was finally announced that ”We’ve decided to call the playoff what it is the College Football Playoff,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said in a statement..

If you are interested in how the BSC commissioners arrived at their decisions; you can clink on any of the following links.

FOLLOW THE STORY
Sept. 2012: Commissioners work through playoff issues

June 2012: Consensus reached on playoff

April 2012: BCS big steps toward playoff

Jan. 2012: Emmert would support playoff

The BCS Commissioners even hired Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kansas to help come up with a name and brand the new system.

If everything works out perfectly, the new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, with the winners advancing.

The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal. Three semifinal spots have already been decided: the Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls.
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Four other bowls have bid for the final three spots. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid.

The first semifinals playoff games will be played at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar bowl.

The site of the first national championship game in the new system was also determined at these meetings and the finalists were Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., home of the Buccaneers.
Arlington is the favorite to land that first championship game. However, the home of the Dallas Cowboys won out and will host the very first College Playoff Game.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1616337-college-football-playoff-title-game-will-be-played-at-cowboys-stadium

Also on the agenda at this meeting with the commissioners was the composition of the selection committee that will set the field for the playoff. They have said they would like the committee to be similar to the one that picks the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors.

This is a huge overhauling of a system that at one time was the envied of the sports world, but as College Football
has grow up along with social media, fantasy football , which is not only being played in the NFL but also at the college level now and with the ever increasing amount of money that colleges get from TV coverage.  

The money doesn’t stop with just TV coverage either, it flow of money also comes from ‘games’ sold using the college logos and even more money coming from endorsements from advertisers, such as Nike.
 
College football is not just for college students and their alumni anymore, it is all about the TV coverage and money.

This is the main reason behind the fact that college football had to move beyond the crazy bowl system that they are using now and into a system that will clearly have a winner and only one winner!

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