Saturday, August 28, 2010
A Big Saturday Night
ESPN is coming to San Antonio tonight, and it’s not for a Spurs game. Tonight is the High School Football matchup of San Antonio Madison and Cibolo Steele. More importantly, it is a chance for all of the world (or everyone with Cable) to witness the Best Running Back in America, Texas Commit Malcolm Brown, and highly ranked Madison Back Aaron Green. Both have been putting up enormous stats since their sophomore years, and should be poised for big seasons. It will probably be sold out due to the ESPN factor, but for anyone wanting to watch in person it will be at Heroes Stadium. It should be a close offensive shootout, but I'm predicting Madison will come out on top.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Season Almost Here, Hard Knocks, and a little Recruitin'
Got to start by apologizing to my faithful followers about the delay between posts. Two-A-Days just seem to drain my enthusiasm for blogging. Speaking of the dreaded double sessions, they mean football season is almost here! As any Hard Knocks (more on that later) fan knows, the NFL preseason has already started. If you're looking forward to games that actually means something, High School Football starts up this next week (along with school.. Yuck!), and College will start the first week of September.
Anyway, I watched the first two episodes of HBO's Hard Knocks and was surprised at a few things. Of course Jets Coach Rex Ryan's cursing jumps out. It seemed like it was pretty standard for the NFL, but it still offended longtime NFL coach Tony Dungy. You could tell that Rex tried to tone down the swearing in the second episode, but who knows if it was because of Dungy. The funniest part was probably Antonio Cromartie trying to remember his own children. I lost count, but it seemed like he had a baby mama in every state and a couple in Canada. Also, about half of them were three years old, which didn't make sense to me, but hey I'm no math whiz. If he is willing and able to support them all, then more power to him.
Lastly, there was some big football recruiting news. In today's recruiting world, a "commitment" means pretty much nothing.But it is still exciting that Five Star prospects James Wilder Jr. and San Antonio/Cibolo product Malcolm Brown have committed to Florida State and "The" University of Texas. It will be interesting to see how a big bulldozer back like Brown does in Texas' Spread Offense, but they have been doing more under center stuff, so we'll see. For all those interested Brown's High School Team will be playing Madison on ESPN August 28.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Heat Team G.O.A.T?
For all my non-LL fans out there, I am talkin' about the Miami Heat being the greatest basketball team of all time. The best ever. Former NBA Coach Jeff Van Gundy (a pretty knowledgeable guy when it comes to basketball) commented on how good the team will be , hyping them as breaking both the Bull's all-time record for wins in a season (72), and the Lakers record winning streak (33 Games in a row). I am not sold on the Heat this year but of the two records mentioned, the 72 wins are most likely. The Win Streak? Forget about it. The L.A team that year (1972) was a special group. It had such stars as Jerry West, Gail Goodrich, and Wilt Chamberlin. Just as importantly they had been together the season before, unlike this year's reassembled Heat. I like Miami, but they won’t be the greatest ever, they may not even get past the Celtics.And besides, Chris Bosh is no big dipper.
Wilt "The Big Dipper/The Stilt" Chamberlin
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Mississippi Masoli: Jevan Snead or Eli Manning?
The big College Football news over this week was disgraced Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli's decision to accept Ole Miss' "invitation" (did he really have any other choices?)to join their football team. Unlike most Transfers, Masoli can play immediately this year since he has already graduated from Oregon. The big question is: Will he be any good? The last heralded Ole Miss QB was Texas transfer Jevan Snead and that didn't go so well. Masoli did dominate the Pac-10, but the SEC is a different animal.
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