Sporting News

The MVP Awards In MLB For 2013

The 2013 MLB regular season is coming to a close and the time has come to consider who will receive the coveted honor of being named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for each league. In the National League is would be difficult to place anyone above the Pirate’s Andrew McCutchen.  Pittsburg is poised to either win the NL Central or …

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by admin on September 26th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Dog Day Sunday In The NFL

 It all got underway on Thursday Night Football when the 3.5 point underdog Kansas City Chiefs went to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles and their new head coach Chip Kelly.  But it was Andy Reid, who coached in Philly for 14 years, whose team took the day as the Chiefs beat the Eagles outright… by 10 points, 26-16. J.J. …

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by admin on September 23rd, 2013 Leave a comment »

NASCAR Rolls On To New Hampshire

The Chase is on in NASCAR circles and the most exciting part of the season is underway for race car fans all across the country. After the first 26 races were in the books, the field was filtered down to the top 10 drivers in the point standings plus two wild card spots… you have to have wild cards, right? …

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by admin on September 20th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Student Athletes Should Not Be Employees

There are changes coming to NCAA athletics coming slowly but coming surely.  The recent realignments of the conferences and the changing of decades old affiliations give witness to the fact that NCAA Sports will never be the same. The most lamented outcome of these recent changes have come in the form of ages old rivalries being negated overnight and new …

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by admin on September 19th, 2013 Leave a comment »

NASCAR’s Chase Expanded To 13 Drivers

Jeff Gordon has made ‘The Chase’ after all.  In what was a topsy-turvy week in NASCAR circles, positions were won and positions were lost and, in the end, “The Chase” for 2013 ended up with 13 drivers competing for the Sprint Cup Championship in the final 10 races of the season. Citing extraordinary circumstances, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France …

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by admin on September 19th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Lakers As Theatre

Phil Jackson fans have been wondering when he would make a move back into the world of basketball.  A man who has more NBA Championship rings than fingers just figures to get back into the game at some point. Lakers fans wanted Jackson back to coach the team but, for yet undisclosed reasons, that never happened.  Some say it was …

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by admin on September 16th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Jimmie Johnson Favored At Chicagoland

Jimmie Johnson has been setting race track history and firmly installing himself as one of the greatest drivers of all times since he began racing with NASCAR back in 2002. Johnson won the NASCAR Cup Series five years in a row from 2006-2010 and he was the Sprint All-Star Race Winner in 2003, 2006, 2012 & 2013.  He won the …

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by admin on September 14th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Chase Is On For The Top 12 NASCAR Drivers

It was a wild and wooly finish to the final ‘Race for the Chase’ at Richmond International Raceway for the Federated Auto Parts 400 on Saturday evening. Richmond was the 26th race of the season and the point at which the field of contenders for the Sprint Cup this racing season is cut to the 10 top drivers plus 2 …

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by admin on September 12th, 2013 Leave a comment »

USA Soccer Still Contenders For World Cup

Costa Rica is a beautiful little country and the thousands of tourists that visit there each year always receive a warm welcome from the “Ticos,” as the Costa Ricans are called. Everyone that is except for the USA Soccer Team when they come down to challenge the Costa Rican National Team in a game of Soccer… or ‘futbol’ (pronunciation for …

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by admin on September 9th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Famous Jameis

Seminole fans were worried about losing EJ Manuel to the pros. At least they were before the game last Monday night on national TV when Jameis Winston took the field. Seldom has a freshman quarterback enjoyed such an awesome opening game not to mention Florida State fans! Winston was the number one quarterback in the recruiting class of 2012.  He …

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by admin on September 7th, 2013 Leave a comment »