Cardinals Hurt Early By Injury

It was recently learned that this year the St. Louis Cardinals will be without their best pitcher for the entire 2011 season.  The Cardinals who are regularly in contention for the NL Central crown will now face an uphill battle without Adam Wainwright.  It now seems as if the Cardinals hopes for the upcoming season are now fading as other teams such as the Reds, Brewers, or even the Cubs are ready to take over.  If you take St. Louis out of the picture who do you think will win the NL Central Division, and do you think the Cardinals can still have a successful sesason without their pitching ace?

Here is a link on some injury news about Wainwright and other clubs around baseball: http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog?name=olney_buster&id=6260593&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fmlb%2fblog%3fname%3dolney_buster%26id%3d6260593

NCAA March Madness

This Sunday was Selection Sunday for the Men's National Basketball Championship field of 68 teams.  There will be four games on Tuesday to decide the field of 64.  Among the one seeds there were no surprises with Ohio State, Duke, Kansas, and Pittsburgh being named the top team in their regions.  The controversy started like always with the final teams selected into the field.  VCU was selected from the Colonial Athletic Conference despite its eleven losses and poor ending to the season.  Three or four teams from the traditional power conferences were left out of the tournament depite having a better overall season than VCU did.  Colorado beat 5 seed Kansas State three times and 4 seed Texas as well so shouldnt they have been included in the field over small school VCU? Every year the selection committie finds a way to make at least one mistake.

NFL Labor Talks

Im sure you all have heard about the talks between the NFL owners and the players union lately.  They have unitl this Friday at 5 pm to get a new deal done or the current CBA will expire.  Currently the two parties are 750 million dollars apart from a new deal.  Who is to blame for this?  Is it the owners some of which are billionaires and make millions in other areas besides football, and their teams for some are just a hobby? Or is it the players whose careers last for an average of three years and have to deal with injuries years later.  These injuries which they suffered as they made the owners millions.  Now the owners want them to play two more games and take more money.  Paul Allen, the Seattle Seahawks oner has a 114 foot yacht with a basketball court, gym, hot tub, and many other features as well as three houses and two ranches.  Does he need the extra billion? Dont think so:

Here is an artlicle related to the owners and the CBA: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6177574

BYU player dismissed from team

Many of you have probably heard BYU forward Brandon Davies was dismissed from the men's basketball team earlier this week for violating the schools honor code.  This code consists of things such as no premarital sex, no consumption of tea, coffee, alcohol among other things.  Davies was dismissed after he admitted to the school that he admitted to having sexual relations with his girlfriend.  BYU who is ranked third in the nation currently and possibly in line for a number one seed come March is having the best basketball season in their history, and probably will not have one like this ever again.  By dismissing their starting forward who is a key contributor on the team they could have just said goodbye to their dream season.  With many schools in Division I athletics putting performance before morals and rules BYU needs to be commended for standing up for what they believe in by sacrificing performance, and its national title hopes.  That being said, do you think BYU did the right thing? Is their honor code realistic in today's society or is it a thing of the past?

Here is the link to the article if you would like to check it out yourself: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6175090

Heat vs. Knicks Recap

With all the hype surrounding this star filled game it turned out to be as advertised.  While the Heat jumped out to an early lead and led by as many in the first half, the Knicks went on a 16-0 run to end the half.  Throughout the remaining of the game both teams battled back and forth as the game remained close.  With the Heat up by 4 with three minutes to go Chauncey Billups took over the game.  Mr. Big Shot as he is called hit a deep 3 pointer to put the Knicks up for good..  Billups made a steal on the next Heat possession and the Knicks were able to notch their first big win since acquiring Carmelo Anthony, 91-86.

This is the link to the box score and recap of the game: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=310227014.

NBA All Star Weekend

Did anyone watch the NBA All Star weekend? How about Justin Beiber scoring 8 points and winning the MVP on a losing team or Blake Griffen winning the dunk contest when Javale McGee clearly should have been the winner. Griffen jumped over the hood of a car, but so what so can the majority of the NBA. McGee dunked on two baskets at the same time and Serge Ibaka jumps from the foul line, but of course Griffen wins since the fans do not know how to vote for the winner just their favorite. Another example is Yao Ming makes the all star team once again even though his career is probably over.  This just doesnt make sense to me.  This happens in baseball and football as well.  Being selected to all star teams means something to the players whether they say it publicly or not. It is time we take the control away from the fans and have coaches and players select the deserving players and not our favorites.

New Technology

Has anyone ever heard of Habbo? Probably not. Habbo is the third largest social media network in the world, only behind Facebook and Twitter.  Habbo has over 162 million users, mostly teenagers throughout the world including the United States, Canada, and most of Europe.  Habbo was created in 1999 and started out as a virtual hotel website. Habbo opened for use in the United States in 2004. Within a year Habbo turned into one of the fastest growing social media networks worldwide.