Sports May 2016

Sports Blog – May 2016

Sports May 2016, as I tried gathering my thoughts as to what my main topic would be for this month’s sports blog, I did a little remising of my past blogs for the month of May. I did one a few years ago on Little league baseball, or how about the one on the fall of the LA Lakers, which to this day they have not yet recovered and the rise of the LA Clippers. The Clippers have made the playoffs again this year and are heavily favored.

www.nba.com/clippers

I could write a whole blog on the many upsets that occurred during this year’s ‘March Madness. What a tournament that was. My bracket was so destroyed by the 3rd round, I just had to give up and throw in the towel, as did many of my friends and family members. I even had the nerve to pick Kansas winning the whole thing, like I said, ‘bracket destroyed’!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/sports/2016-ncaa-tournament
I was even leaning toward doing this month’s blog on Baseball and my two favorite teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but already did that last month. Besides we are only a month into the season, plenty of months leave to tackle that topic again.

However, I do have a major beef, with all the money the Dodgers have spend on pitchers and the Dodgers have a ton of them to choose from on their roster, why do they keep using the same ineffective relieve pitchers, day after day after day! I know it’s still early in the season and maybe they are hoping for some improvement, but most fans, including me would rather lose a game with a new relieve pitcher than keep losing with the same ones over and over again!

www.Dodgers.com

So, I guess I am left with either the NBA playoffs or the NHL playoffs, or better yet Kobe Bryant.

It’s hard to believe that Kobe will not be back next year and it’s unfortunate that the LA Lakers are still ‘bottom feeding’ in the rankings for 2016. I think this makes either the third or fourth year in a row that they didn’t even make the playoffs, let alone come in dead last.

Kobe Bryant Retires Tonight

And even through this was Kobe last year as a Laker, the Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, he did manage to go out in style, ‘Kobe style’ that is. His last game as a LA Laker, he scored a record high of 60 points. That in its self was totally amazing!

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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000641930/article/peyton-manning-announces-retirement-from-nfl

There was also Adam LaRoche, of the White Sox, who decided to throw in the towel when he could no longer bring his son to work and hang out in the dugout.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/no-one-is-wrong-about-adam-laroche/
However, the retirement of Vin Scully is the one that personally I will feel the most. I have been a Dodger fan for many, many years and one of the reasons I am a true blue fan is the voice of the Dodgers, Scully! It didn’t seem to hurt as much somehow that the Dodgers lost, he always had a way of letting the fans know that it was only a game, and there is always another game right around the corner.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Dodgers-Scully-says-he-s-retiring-after-2016-6473854.php
I also loved the baseball stories and yet never missed a pitch or a hit. Besides all the baseball stories came the personal ones, not about him, but about our players, making them just a tad more human to us, the fans. He had a way of making it look and sound so easy and yet personally I don’t think there is anyone that does it better.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/146129476/vin-scully-announces-2016-will-be-last-season
I am looking forward to continue watching Dodger baseball as the season continues, even though I am definitely not looking forward to this being Scully’s last season as the one and only Dodger announcer.

http://www.si.com/more-sports/2016/04/17/media-circus-vin-scully-world-series-nba-finale-ratings

One last comment regarding Vin Scully, there is a push for Vin to one of the baseball announcers for the 2016 World Series game. This would be a great way for Scully to end his career. Hopefully he will get enough support from MLB to make this happen.

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Sports Blog – March Madness 2016

It’s March again and that means it’s also ‘March Madness’ again!

Did your favorite college basketball team make it into this year’s tournaments?

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basketball/

The 2016 Men’s NCAA March Madness Tournament Bracket matchups will be announced on Sunday, March 13th between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 P.M. EST. And this is just the beginning.

Just a few days later on Tuesday, March 15th, the Play-in games will start with the actual
‘March Madness’ tournaments start on Thursday, March 17th around 12:20 EST.

March Madness 2016

The pace is fast with 68 teams that start. Then we move on to 32 games played in just the span of a few days, then a couple of days off and then round two will start with 16 games. This keeps going until there are only two teams left.

Over the past several years the March Madness craze has jumped clear off the charts.
Is this due to the love of college basketball by the American sports fan or is it due to the love of gambling by the new sports fan.

The average sports fan will join one of the several thousand groups that will download their favorite teams on their so called Brackets. The term that is used by these sports fans is ‘bracketology’ this term covers the filling out of a person’s individual bracket and summiting it to one of the several sites that will keep track of your wins and losses.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2016/02/08/ncaa-tournament-bracketology-college-basketball-march-madness-bubble-cinderella/79996380/#

With the introduction of ‘Bracketology’ came the increase in the attention being paid to these games and even more so came the huge increase in the TV viewing of these college games.

http://www.sbnation.com/march-madness
Although it has gained pop it is not even close to what the ‘Super Bowl’ gets, but considering it’s only college basketball, it is amazing how many people actually watch each and every game. It’s been call ‘a yearly phenomenon with NCAA schools and sports’.

http://www.ixgames.com/march_madness/

March Madness 2016

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One of the reasons ‘March Madness has gained in popularity is that is it so much fun picking the teams that will win each and every round, even President Obama will get into it with his own bracket. With each win you pick up a few points and eventfully you either win or lose with the Championship game, which is scheduled to be played Monday, April 4th.

The NCCA March Madness tournament is also making a lot of money for Las Vegas.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorial-march-madness-means-money

You can easily download your bracket using the link below.

http://www.printyourbrackets.com/when-are-the-ncaa-march-madness-tournament-brackets-released.html
Even if you are not a fan of actually sitting down and filling out a bracket, you still can enjoy the
games for what they truly are, and that is that the players are college students, not even being
pay for all their hard work, and yet playing their hearts out for their school.

March Madness 2016

Only a very small percentage of these players will ever get drafted into the NBA and yet they play and take the losses personally. It is basketball at its purest!

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Sports blog for December 2015

There Still Sports In December

Happy Holidays

For a sports fan, besides all the regular Christmas and family items, buying the tree, do the decoration, buy the gifts, etc, etc. (and the list does seems endless) there is still sports!

December can be a hectic time of the year in the ‘Sports World’ for any sports fan. Starting with the baseball trades going on and this time of the year there has been many surprises and a whole lot of money once again being spent by the Dodgers.

All this and more to come, just to help prepare themselves for next season and a chance to make it to the World Series. Hopefully it will be money better spend than the last couple of years. Dodgers take the Division Title, but get bump out of the playoffs the very first round, this year it was the New York Mets that sent the Dodgers packing.

Then there is College Basketball and the attempts by each college team to make it to “March Madness’. Sports fans are starting to take an interest in the top schools, taking a peek at who will be in and who will be out. All this to help them get an edge in preparing their ‘Brackets’. As of today’s date, UCLA and USC are holding their own and hopefully they will both make it past the first couple of rounds.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/standings

Of course, if you a sports fan? There are also the college bowl games, which started December 19 and will end with the BCS Championship game on January 11. There is always the January 1, 2016 famous Rose Bowl game following the Rose Parade, a great way to just relax and rest up after celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends and/or family.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13004471/2015-2016-college-football-playoff-schedule-bowl-schedule

Of course, if you are not a fan of basketball or even football, there is also hockey! We have two teams, the Los Angeles, Kings and the Anaheim Ducks.

Before the season started, both teams looked like they had the players that would and could take them to the playoffs, unfortunately that has not come to past for the Ducks.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/standings/

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Teams that appeared not to be able to lose at the start have lost, take the Miami Dolphins, the New Orleans Saints or even Green Bay. Denver Broncos are also struggling with Peyton Manning out for the season, as well as the Baltimore Ravens, again with their Quarterback, Flacco also out for the season.

Then you have the winners, the usual, New England Patriots, but how about them, Bengals or the Carolina Panthers? Then there are the spoilers, no chance of getting into the playoffs, but can still do a lot of damage to their rivals by knocking them out of the playoffs. Fun, Fun, FUN!

www.NFL.com
So while you, the Sports fan, are working on that Christmas tree, wrapping gifts, or just out with the family, you will have one eye or one ear fixed to a TV or radio, trying to stay informed.
It is just how it works with us, the sports fan!

Oh, a word to the wise, while you are at that holiday function anywhere near LA, you may not want to bring up the Lakers, that is unless you are a Clipper fan!

Happy Holidays from the Sports4Dummies and good luck to your favorite team.

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’ .

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304537904577279624141400742
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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 . . . . . . . .

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This the Season to be Jolly, especially if you are a sports fan! As 2014 nears its end, many sports are doing the same. The regular season for College Football is over and, ‘let the college bowl games began!

List of 2014-2015 College bowl games
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11419086/2014-15-college-football-bowl-schedule

There were several major upsets in the world of college football, almost every Monday or Tuesday we saw the rankings change. When the regular season finally ending, there was only one college still undefeated, and that was Florida State with 12 wins and 0 losses. However, even with their perfect season, Florida State is ranked 4th by the Polls and with Alabama ranked 1st.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls

As the month of December proceeds, the list of who plays who and in what College Bowl game will be announced.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/college-football-bowl-schedule.php

However, College football isn’t the only sport, coming to end of their season, the NFL regular season is also slowly drawing to an end. In a few short weeks, we will be tuning in to the NFL to watch the several rounds of playoff games and finally ending with the ‘Super Bowl’

The Super bowl game will be held Sunday February 1, 2015 , and Super Bowl XLIX (49) will be played in the Phoenix, Arizona.

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/49 or http://phoenix.about.com/od/superbowl/a/Super-Bowl-2015.htm

There are a few sports that are not done yet, in fact, a couple of them are not even half way through their seasons.

Basketball is one of them, both college and professional. We all know about the College Basketball March Madness, right?
Sport fans barely have time to gather their thoughts from the Super Bowl when College basketball will be taking center stage in February and March.

http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness

March Madness[/caption]Then there is professional basketball, and just as Thanksgiving is all about turkey, family and football, Christmas is all Ham, family, presents and NBA basketball.

This year the Chicago Bulls will host the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas Day
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/12/report-bulls-to-host-lakers-on-christmas-day/

There is also going to be special Christmas uniforms for the basketball players this year. Can’t wait to see them.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-christmas-jerseys-to-feature-players–first-names-on-back-193859848.html;_ylt=AwrSyCQWLmlUqUQA4NvQtDMD

Below is a chart of all the games that will be played Christmas Day for our enjoyment. You can check it to see if your favorite team is playing and at what time.

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Let’s not forget hockey, a true winter sport, they are only into their 3 month of a 7 month regular season. The final games won’t even be played until April 12, 2015. At this very moment, the Anaheim Ducks are in first place in the Western- Pacific Division.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/standings/

All in all, it has been a great year for sports, no matter what sport is your favorite.
There has been some great wins and some very unexpected losses this year and you can’t forget all the drama both on and off the field of play this year as well. Some of which are still be played out in the courts.

We, here at Sports for dummies, want to wish you and your family, Happy Holidays, Season Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

If you would like to revisit any of this past year’s sports blogs, no problem! just go to < href="https://www.sportstalk4dummies.com> home page and go to archives

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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 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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