June’s sports blog 2015

Supporting Our Local Southern California Sports!

 

Apparently there doesn’t seem to be enough room in dodger fan’s hearts for both the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers. I don’t know why either.

Dodgers fans booed Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers and his son at Dodger Game.
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Article by By Eric Freeman

I have been a Laker fan since before Magic Johnson played for them instead of being a part owner of the Dodgers. For the most part, the Lakers have been a great team winning the NB Championships year after year. However, for the last couple of years there have been problems with the chemistry between players, the age of several of the players and the injuries. And although I know that it is just a matter of time that the LA Lakers will once again become the first class team that they once were.

http://www.nba.com/lakers/

The fact that I am a LA Laker fan doesn’t stop me from cheering for the Clippers, after all, they are a LA Team. I am still a Laker fan, but I am also a fan of LA Sports.

Any time a team from Southern California makes it to the playoff games, as a whole, we are better for it. Shouldn’t matter what LA Basketball team makes it to the playoffs, as long as someone does, I would prefer the Lakers, but will root for the Clippers. Why? Simple, it adds money to our local economy and it’s another notch in the belt for LA Sports.

Downtown business, whether it is hotels, motels, restaurants, or local stores, they all benefit. It also gives us, the Los Angeles Fan base, a reason to gloat.

You hear it all the time about how Southern CA and in peculiar, Los Angeles, is not into sports, how we don’t support our local teams. You especially hear this from the NFL, they love to use that as an excuse as to why LA doesn’t have or need a Football team.

The politics behind why Los Angeles doesn’t have an NFL team
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The only time a Laker Fan should be rooting against the Clippers is when the Clipper are playing the Lakers or they are both tied for first place and the Lakers need a win.

www.NBA/clippers

It is sort of the same thing that happens between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I am a true Dodger fan, in other words, I ‘bleed blue’. However, I will root for the Angels, except when they are actually playing the Dodgers. I will especially root for the Angels when they are playing a ‘National Team’ and from the same division as the Dodgers. Example is when the Angels play the D-backs or the Giants.

How about all the LA King fans that openly support the Anaheim Ducks when the Ducks instead of the LA Kings make the playoffs, as in this year! Would they prefer to be rooting for the LA Kings, YES! But, still better to have a Southern CA team in the playoffs than none! Go Ducks! Again this is good for Southern CA
Sports, there are a whole lot of hockey fans up north and on the east coast that didn’t even know we had a hockey team, much less two and that the LA Kings won the Stanley Cup last year and the Ducks just missed the Stanley Cup Finals by a single loss.

http://ducks.nhl.com/

What it comes down to is simple, as a Southern CA sports fan, we need to be there for all our teams regardless of what our favorites are.

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Spring and Sports go hand-in-hand!

Sports April 2015, a month to remember

April was a fun month for us sports fans! No matter what sports who follow, there was something going on.

April was the beginning of professional baseball, whether you are a Dodger fan or an Angel fan, it was great just to have the season start again.

www.Dodger.com

www.LAAngels.com

However there is still a dark side to the LA Dodgers; close to 70% of the market still is unable to see the Dodgers play and Vin Scully the game due to ‘Time Warner’ not making the games available outside their own customers.

Dodgers fans to remain in the dark as TV deal reportedly falls through!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/dodgers-fans-to-remain-in-the-dark-as-tv-deal-reportedly-falls-through-143820583.html

No matter who or who is not watching them, the Dodgers are off to a good start. In my opinion, several of their new players, such as Pederson, Anderson and Rollins are a real fine. However I do think that the Dodgers still need a great closer, especially with Jansen still out at least until mid-month. It’s not bad and it could be worse!

Rollins Plays Hero As Dodgers Open 2015 With 6-3 Win Over Padres.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/04/06/rollins-plays-hero-as-dodgers-open-2015-with-6-3-win-over-padres/

April was also the end of a very exciting men’s college basketball ‘March Madness’. We saw the end of Kentucky run for a perfect season with their loss to Wisconsin. Then it was on to watching Wisconsin loss to Duke in the finals. It was indeed a thriller!

Duke Beats Wisconsin 68-63 To Win 2015 NCAA Tournament

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/duke-wisconsin-final-score_n_7014744.html

Just as we got use to the fact that college basketball was done for the season, on comes the NBA playoffs. It was a bit concerning that once again the LA Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, the LA Clippers did. Go Clippers!

Lakers eliminated from playoffs, team’s earliest elimination in 54 years.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/11/lakers-eliminated-from-playoffs-teams-earliest-elimination-in-54-years/

You also have the NHL playoffs being played during the month of April. The Anaheim Ducks are in the playoffs, but sadly the LA Kings managed to miss the playoffs.

It was quite a shock for LA King fans when after wining last year’s Stanley Cup, they failed to even make the playoff this year. However, that means that us, the fans that were rooting for the Kings, will now turn our support to the Anaheim Ducks, after all, it would still be a Southern CA team winning the Stanley Cup!
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The Ducks have already won the first round of the NHL playoffs, and they did it in four straight games. Way to Go Ducks! Good luck in round two!

Check this link for playoff updates and schedules

http://www.nhlschedule2014.com/playoffs.html

It is a good thing is that Southern California has at least two teams for most sports, your team does make the playoffs, chances are the other team might. Such as, Lakers out, Clippers in, Kings out, Ducks in, Dodgers in, Angels out, (or the other way around, to early to tell yet).

Even USC or UCLA fans will route for the other team if their team doesn’t make it to the playoffs. Still beats an ‘outsider winning’. It’s always better for Southern CA when one of our local teams win!

Too bad the same can’t be said for professional football, LA still has no team! But that’s a whole other topic for another blog.

April is also important for the NFL. Most teams are in the hunt for new players, trading old ones, gaining new ones, even restructuring old contracts and make new ones.

There has even been a few surprises, such as the Washington Redskins deciding to pull the ‘franchise tag’ for RG3, when everyone else thought the owner would use the opportunity to trade him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/why-in-the-world-would-redskins-pick-up-rgiii-s-option–let-s-explore-151647567.html

The NFL also releases it’s fall schedule in April. LA Fans can start marking their calendars, booking their air flights, hotels and whatever they will need in order to attend either San Diego Charger or the Oakland Raiders games.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/2015-nfl-schedule–league-releases-the-full-regular-season-slate-000758569.html

This year, some team are really going outside the box in their attempt to gain depth in their rotations, even to the extent of the Eagles hiring Tim Tebow as their 4th Quarterback, A bit of an overkill, having 4 QB, but who knows. . .

Eagles VP of player personnel explains why they signed Tim Tebow
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/eagles-vp-of-player-personnel-explains-why-they-signed-tim-tebow-211405324.html

April also brings us freaking weather in which baseball players have to deal with, we are all use to a bit of rain, in which we deal with rain delays, but how often do we see snow falling dealing a National Baseball Game, well it happened.

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-04-22/yankees-tigers-snow-game-david-price-detroit-comerica-park

All in All, April was a great month for being a Sports Fan, can’t wait to see what May will bring!

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WHAT IS ‘MARCH MADNESS’?

What is it about men’s college basketball? Especially the NIT and the NCAA tournaments.

We spend hours agonizing over what schools to pick, do we go for the long shot or pick the favorites.

Some fans will use the school mascots as the deciding factor.
What school’s mascot will win over the other school’s mascots?
There are still others that will simply flip a coin, but no matter how it gets done, it seems that
everyone had their bracket.

Use to link to set up your bracket or to follow who’s in and who’s out

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1

It starts with smaller tournaments all over the United States, each division only able to send it best college teams to the tournament.

It all comes down to only 68 teams competing over a matter of just a few weeks starting in March, hence the term ‘March Madness’ and it doesn’t end until there is just one team left standing.

The winning college teams enter the NCAA tournament; the college teams that are the runners up enter the NIT tournament as their consolation prize.

But it’s the NCAA tournament that will have people glued to their TV, radios and their computers.

Well over 3 million people signed on to ESPN’s March Madness last year to filled out their brackets, with many more just doing it for fun and not using ESPN at all.

If you are not a basketball fan it would hard for you to imagine what all the fuss is about.

http://www.ncaa.com/

I joined in on the fun last year and picked most of the favorites to win and before the end of the tournament even got close, most of my bracket was a complete bust.

However, while it lasted I was glued to the TV, watching and holding my breath as my teams either won or lost, (mostly lost) and enjoying every minute of it.

It wasn’t always like this, long before the idea of March Madness, there was still college basketball.

I can remember watching college basketball long before I had ever heard of bracketing.

However I did a ‘google’ search to find out that the use of brackets go all the way back to 1943.

But didn’t catch on until the mid 1982 when CBS actually showed the use of the bracket on TV. However, I personally think the whole bracket obsession really began with ‘social media’ .

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Anyone that owns a cell phone, Pad, or computer can keep track of all the basketball teams, the scores and get immediate updates regarding the status of their personal bracket.

That in itself opened up the game of college basketball to everyone and anyone.

All I know is that I am a UCLA Fan, but I have also been known to root for USC, Stanford, Cal, and a few other California College team, but my heart still belongs to the Bruins.

There was hope this year for UCLA and several other CA college teams to immerse from their local tournaments and onto being one of the 64 teams to go to play in the March Madness tournament.

We all know that Baseball is still listed as ‘The Great American Past Time’.

But with the invention of the brackets, and social media, college basketball might be the new great American past time at least during March Madness.

There has been quite a bit of news regarding the loss of production in the work force do to this madness for college basketball.

Some employers have tried to embraced it and use it as a means to improve moral in the workplace, others just see it as a waste of time, their time and their time is money.

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/march-madness-will-cost-businesses-134-million-why-arent-employers-concerned/

I see no end to this phenomenon known as ‘march madness, as long as everyone loves a winner and these games are set at such a fast pace, what’s not to love. TV sponsors know this and have adjusted the showing of ‘March Madness’ to guarantee a large viewing audience. No longer does March Madness actually end in March but closer to mid-April, ensuring the games are mostly played over weekends thus a larger audience. There are now 68 teams that will start the ‘Madness’ on March 17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

Last year I had to toss out my bracket before even getting to the ‘Final Four’ I am hopeful that this year
I will actually have a enough teams left to make it all the way to at least the ‘final four’ .

But no matter how bad or how good I do, it is still so much fun to at least try my luck and there is always ‘next year’.

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Here the sports update February 2015.

Southern Californian’s and Their Sports!
Football, Baseball, Hickey, college and pro teams.

The National football league completely ignores us here again in Southern California, (no surprise), but that has not stopped us from being Sports Fans!! Great Sports Fans at that !!

And there are plenty of sports to go around here in Southern CA; if you prefer baseball, are you an Angel or a Dodger fan? Do you bleed red or blue? And, although, it has been awhile, but both teams have won the World Series with the DODGERS winning the National Division Title for 2014.

www.LADodgers.com www.LAAngels.com

If you love Hockey, are you a Duck Fan or a Kings Fan? Both teams have won the Stanley Cup and both teams do every well selling out their home games, even though we might not be able to watch them very often on our local TV/cable. Hopefully when the NHL’s contract with whatever company is responsible for showing the games on cable/TV, the NHL will push for a better deal and once again our favorite hockey teams will be shown again in prime time.

www.NHL/Ducks.com www.NHL/LAKings.com

Perhaps basketball is your choice of sports, okay then, are you a Laker Fan or a Clipper fan? Both teams share the same arena, The Staple Center. This year has been a pretty good year for the Clipper fans. In the past the Clippers have always the bride’s maid never the bride, until this year that is, with the Lakers in last place and the Clippers fighting to take over first place. If you are a Laker fan, perhaps the best news will be that the Lakers are looking to add some younger player to their rouster and ditch some of their older players with over-the-top contracts. There is lots of gossip out there regarding Kobe finally tossing in the towel and retiring. Who knows? He has been saying that now for several years!

www.NBA/Lakers.com www.NBA/Clippers.com

As for Football, we do have two of the best college teams available, are you a UCLA Fan or a USC Fan?
Each team has its share of devoted fans; some fans go back generations and have passed their choice of teams on to the next. You ask a young fan of either team and you will find that one of their grandparents went there or a cousin, uncle, whomever and it’s the same, whole families are fans for year after year after year.

Try getting tickets to any of the above sporting events and you know that no matter what the NFL says, Southern CA‘s love their sports. Our sporting events sell out game after game! Yet, the NFL repeatedly
States that southern CA cannot support a professional football team.

I had the opportunity to attend the last UCLA vs USC game, and although it wasn’t consider a complete

Sell-out there was close to 100,000 tickets sold. That’s more than a lot of the NFL stats for several of their teams.

Both the Dodgers and the Angels also fill their stadiums on a continuous basis. And the fans here are loyal, they attend year after year always in hope of a repeat visit to the World Series. It takes over 50,000 to sell out a Dodger game, and yet before and after the McCourt disaster, the fans have done just that and on a continuous bases year after year.

Even with a dreadful start to the season, the Lakers are still selling tickets to their home games, perhaps not selling out the games, but enough to let the Lakers know that the fans are still there and supporting them. The Clippers are also doing very well with their ticket sale.

It seems that although the NFL continues to think that our ‘market’ isn’t strong enough to support a ‘nationally rank team’. We, here in Southern CA are doing much better than other areas of the country that already have team, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars or how about the Arizona Cardinals, or my favorite, the Miami Dolphins. We continue to supporting our local teams no matter what the sport is.

NFL COMMISSIONER AXES LA TEAM IN 2015
http://espn991.com/nfl-commissioner-axes-la-team-in-2015/

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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/news/story?id=6057731

The talk of moving a team here as gone as far as investors locating 2 sites that could possibly work. One being near the Staples Center in downtown LA and the other being in the City of Industry where the
57 and the 60 freeways meet. Investors have drawn of plans, submitted them for approval and even put out feelers for NFL teams interested in moving here.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8994427

What does Southern California get back in response for all this work, the NFL commission had decided to put the idea of moving a team to LA on the back burner for now. The NFL has more pressing problems to deal with according to Roger Goodell, who on a side note has just received a huge salary of nearly 30 million with bonus for his handling of the ‘lockout’ back in 2011.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031107057.html

It is too bad that Southern CA can’t find a way to put pressure on the NFL and Goodell to place a higher
priory on this and get it moving again. There is money to be made by the NFL, the team that moves here , the owners and Southern CA. The sports fans here are ripe for the pick’ens, we just need a local team to support!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-made-nearly-30-220809067–nfl.html

Now there’s talk of the new owner of the St Louis Rams wanting to move the team back to LA. It seems
That he owns property here, right next to the ‘Hollywood Park’ in Inglewood. He has informed the NFL that it would be the perfect spot for the new NFL stadium to be built.

Rams need to follow NFL process to move to L.A.: stadium panel chief
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-stadium-20150117-story.html#page=1

But again, it seems that the NFL commissioner is backing off making a decision and has informed the
Owner of the Rams that he must go through proper channels, yada -yada -yada . . . . . . . .

Let Talk Sports
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NCAAF

Well, now that it is finally over, what did you think of the new playoff system for College Football???

It ended with the Oregon Ducks playing the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Ohio State Buckeyes taking home the win and the trophy with the final score 41 to 20.

A ‘monster’: Ezekiel Elliott’s performance keys Buckeyes in win over Oregon.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/a–monster—ezekiel-elliott-s-performance-keys-buckeyes-in-win-over-oregon-070817842.html

It was a strong win for Ohio, especially when Oregon was favored to win. There were a whole lot of
Sports fans that didn’t even think that Ohio should have even been in the finally four, but Ohio showed them by first beating the number one ranked team, Alabama 42 to 35 to go on to play in the very first
Collage playoff Championship game played in the Arlington Texas stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

The playoff system was a huge success for college football as a whole. The highest TV rated college football ever! This will guarantee this form of college football playoffs will continue and most likely will be expanded to maybe six or eight terms ending up in the playoffs, something very similar to the NFL playoffs, which includes ‘wild cards’ terms playing for their right to play in the final Championship game.

College Football Playoff title game delivers highest overnight rating in ESPN history

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/college-football-playoff-title-game-delivers-highest-rated-overnight-rating-in-espn-history-170456738.html

When the college football rankings came out in mid-December, the final four were Alabama ranking 1st, Oregon ranked 2nd, Florida ranked 3rd, and Ohio State ranked 4th.

In my opinion, and the opinion of a whole lot of fans and sports commentators, there were several really good schools that for whatever reason did not make the ‘final four’.

http://www.bgnews.com/sports/ohio-state-makes-the-playoffs-but-other-good-teams-get/article_424c06a6-81bc-11e4-baab-5f3ebc7917f2.html

You had the ‘Big 12’ which had two teams, TCU, Texas Christian University, The Horned Frogs (11-1) had the same ranking as Baylor, also went 11-1) and were completely left out. Boise State Broncos 11-2 was out and even Northern Illinois, Marshall of the 1st Conference USA from the East Division who was 12-1 at the end of the season.

http://fansided.com/2014/11/04/college-football-playoff-rankings-tcu-fans-react-6-ranking/

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/college/tom-jones-college-football-playoff-committee-seems-to-have-it-right/2209437
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What if the people who make their living rating teams every day were in charge of seeding the college football playoffs? What if the inaugural playoff season wasn’t decided by a group of people with different agendas that might factor into their judgment?
http://www.wtvm.com/story/27577874/in-vegas-ohio-state-isnt-a-team-worthy-of-top-4

However, this could be a simple fix, just expand the playoffs from the four that played to either 6 or 8 teams. Then TCU, Baylor and even Boise State Broncos might have made it into the playoffs.

The day after the College Football Championship Game, the new college team rankings were released. No surprise that Ohio was ranked the number one college football team and Oregon second, but what surprising was that TCU was ranked third instead of Alabama which placed Florida as fifth. Too bad
TCU did not get a chance to play in the final four.

Ohio State No. 1 and TCU No. 3 in final AP poll of 2014 season.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ohio-state-no–1-and-tcu-no–3-in-final-ap-poll-of-2014-season-081035803.html

1. Ohio State (59 first place votes)
2. Oregon
3. TCU
4. Alabama
5. Florida State
5. Michigan State

It is going to be a long off season for us college football

fans. We have to wait and see what and how the
Powers that be in the NCAAF ‘tweet’ the college ranking and playoff systems. It was way too profitable for them not to!

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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Sports Blog for June 2014

We are just about mid-way through the year and so far, it has been a year filled with sport headlines.

Basketball is just about done with their playoffs, as well as Hockey. Baseball is getting close to it’s midway with The National Baseball League All-Star game just around the corner. And there
is already talk about it being less than a hundred days before NFL has its season start again.

All this going on, and what makes the headlines constantly, the sale of the Clippers, of course.
Every Clipper fan at the news of the sale for 2billion dollars had to cringe a little.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/29/what-donald-sterling-could-make-if-hes-forced-to-sell-the-clippers/

For years the Clippers have always been the bridesmaid to the Los Angeles Lakers. Even after the Clippers won their division and went on to play in the playoffs, they were still the main LA basketball team. Now with the sale of the team, you just had to ask, where will they play next year or the year after? There are lots of cities out there that would love to get the Clippers to move to their city.

But first the LA Clippers have to work out something out with Donald Sterling, his wife, and the Natural Basketball League. Every day it is something new in the headlines, first Donald is told his has to sell, then his wife goes ahead and puts the team up for sale, then Donald say ‘no way’ and files a law suit. He then cancels the law suits and agrees to the sale if the NBA agrees to certain term and as of June 9, Donald is once again suing the NBA.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report–former-microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-to-buy-los-angeles-clippers-for-nba-record–2-billion-234227311.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/1282984/donald-sterling-will-go-away-drops-1b-lawsuit-okays-clipper-sale

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/23/us/donald-sterling-nba-clippers/index.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-hasnt-203442165–nba.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/attorney-donald-sterling-says-no-011930818–nba.html

However, the Clippers are not the only Sports team on the market, the owners of the Buffalo Bills have also decide to sell and have hired a legal firm to do just that. Due to the reasons behind the sale of the Clippers, the sale of the Buffalo Bills has had almost no press.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/buffalo-bills-hire-firms-facilitate-175142969–nfl.html;_ylt=AwrTWVWW.4dT6B4A_8fQtDMD

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When The Walt Disney Company took control of the team in 1997, it extensively renovated Anaheim Stadium, which was then renamed Edison International Field of Anaheim

When Gene Autry sold the Angels in 1997 to The Walt Disney Company, the only changes was their name from the California Angels, to the Anaheim Angels, and after Disney renovated Anaheim Stadium, it was renamed Edison International Field of Anaheim. When Disney sold the Angels to In 2005, new owner Arturo Moreno added “Los Angeles” to the team’s name in order to better tap into the team’s history and appeal to more Los Angeles fans as in the team’s past.

He also stated that as Los Angeles is the second largest market in the U.S., its addition would benefit the team greatly. However in order to stay in compliance with the terms of its lease with the city of Anaheim, which required “Anaheim” be a part of the team’s name, the team was renamed the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels_of_Anaheim

Should fans worry about what can happen after a sports team gets sold? Yes, just ask any Dodger fan!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LA_Dodgers

Under the owner Real estate businessman Walter O’Malley, the dodgers moved from Brooklyn New York to Los Angeles and on April 18, 1958, the Dodgers played their first game in Los Angeles, defeating the former New York and now new San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

In 1998 the son of Walter O’Malley , Pete, sold the team to the Fox Entertainment Group, it only lasted a few years before the team was sold again to Frank McCourt in 2004. Under McCourt leadership, the fans were so fed up with all the garbage that they stopped going to the games. Not just a few fans at a few games, but a lot of fans, hundreds of them stayed away from almost every home game.

McCourt was finally forced to sell the team by order of a Bankruptcy Court in 2012.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/7180599/frank-mccourt-agrees-sell-los-angeles-dodgers

So, as a Clipper fan, you should be concerned, the Clipper Team could end up just like the Seattle Super Sonics, who in 2008 left Seattle and are now know as the Oklahoma City Thunder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder#Franchise_history

The best scenario for us, Clipper fans, will be that only the price of admissions will increase and the increase won’t be so high so to keep the fans at home watching the game on TV or the local sports bar.

Let me know what you think
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It doesn’t take long, just a few years and your child is already nagging you, they want to play sports. They have their favorites, whether it is basketball, baseball, soccer, or even football.

However, the number one favorite sport for the younger child is baseball.

As early as four years old, they want to play. Both girls and boys are encouraged to sign up for Little League at their neighborhood sign-up drive. Usually these are held at one of the local little league baseball fields.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball

It starts with T-ball.

It is where the ball is actually placed on a T and the child is encouraged to hit the ball and run to first place. It is so much fun to see the little ones get their first hit and get so excited that they forget where they are suppose to run to.

How many kids play Little League baseball in the US? How about over 50 million in the US alone and more than 100 million kids play little league in the world according to wiki.answers.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball

Playing Little League baseball teaches children all about fair play, rules and most importantly how to get along with other kids. It will teach them that losing is part of life and it is how we deal with the losses that helps built our children’s character.
http://www.ehow.com/list_7806834_little-league-baseball-age-rules.html

As parents of Little Leaguers we get to stand by our children, which means learn all the rules. We provide team snacks and encouragement for the whole team. There is also a really great side benefit for us, the parents. After spending countless hours watching our kids practice and then play game after game, we become very close to the other parents. We do the ‘car pool’ thing, exchange phone numbers and/or emails and we do it all for our kids. The funny thing is that long after our children have grown up and are no longer playing Little League, we, the parents are still friends and we still stay in contact with each other.
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Little League was founded by Carl Stotz in 1939 as a three-team league in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It is still is a non-profit organization based in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball

The non-profit organization of Little League does meet now and then, then take the opportunity to review the rules, make necessary changes it keep up with the times.

The latest rule change that will make a large impact is the change to the age limit. Starting in 2018, 13-year-olds will not be allowed to play in the regular Little League. However Little League will provide 13-year-olds with the option of playing in the intermediate 50-70 division or in its junior league classification

http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/04/rule_change_to_keep_13-year-ol.html

No matter how good or not so good your child plays baseball, the memories of playing baseball, hitting that baseball and their first catch will stay with them forever. It also does hurt that the local Major League baseball teams do support Little League and offer incentives to the kids. On April 27 of this year, over 10,000 little leaguers attending the Dodger game.

And on June 1 when the Dodgers play the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Dodgers will be hosting, the ‘Dodger Youth Baseball Parade Day #4 – celebrating Little League’s 75th Anniversary. Little Leaguers in uniform will get to parade the field before the game.
www.dodgers.com
There is also another benefit to playing Little League Baseball; your child might actually be good, good enough to make the high school baseball team, perhaps even a scholarship to college.
The grand prize would be if your child actually made it to the ‘Majors’. It not that farfetched, just about every single baseball player out there got their start playing baseball in Little League or some other youth baseball group.

Let’s Play Ball
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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.

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