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The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos are two celebrated teams in the NFL. The Cowboys have won 5 Super Bowl championship, 10 conference championship, 22 division titles in 31 playoff appearances. Currently, they are the 2nd spot in NFC Division holding a 5-1 record. On the other hand, the Broncos have won 3 Super Bowl championship, 8 conference championship, 15 division titles in 22 playoff appearances. Currently, they are tied for the 2nd spot with the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers,…

With the Detroit Lions' playoff hopes in the rear-view mirror, there is little motivation to continue watching their free fall into NFL irrelevancy. We may not often win, but it's the small victories from solid individual performances that keep our attention. Ameer Abdullah was one of the few players inspiring hope for the future after the first four weeks of the season, but with the good comes the bad. One of the most disheartening aspect of the blowout loss to the Arizona Cardinals was our…

Hank Greenburg was definitely a major influence on not only baseball but also society. He stood for so much and was very prideful of being a Jew. Back in the late 1990’s it was very rare to see different ethnicities and races participate in the game of baseball. This was not by choice but because they were prohibited from playing the game of baseball. Segregation as huge back then and Hank Greenberg stayed true to who he was and never gave into societies views of him being a Jew playing baseball…

Michael Lewis's article, The No-Stats All-Star discusses how a defensive basketball player has terrible stats but whatever team he's on does significantly better and the opponent notably worse. To begin with basketball player Shane Battier is considered a "marginal" basketball player by some but always seems to be the reason whatever team he's on is winning, yet he's often discredited for it. To continue, Daryl Morey was hired by the rockets head coach (Shane Battier's team) to rethink the…

The 20th century in the United States of America was an era of massive evolution. Through the decades, history was made; new discoveries, new society, and racial breakthroughs have shaped America. Baseball was originally believed to have been invented by Abner Doubleday of New York in 1839. Later it was discovered that the game was not invented by Doubleday but by Alexander Cartwright. Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the creation of the sport. Abner Graves, who shared the information…

year, Steve Lombardozzi. Lombardozzi is a former major leaguer who has played for the Nationals, the Orioles and the Pirates. Another addition to the roster this season is Gary Brown. Brown was originally a first round draft pick in 2010 for the San Francisco Giants amateur…

Agreeing to disagree Randy Cohen wrote The Good, The Bad & the Difference, which has articles that were written and published in the New Your Times Magazine, explaining the moral rights and wrongs of everyday situation. One of the articles that a boy wrote about from Houston, Texas, is on page 199 and is called, Take Me Out To The Cheap Seats. Cohen’s responses are understandable and are ethical; however, this particular article needs the ethics and the morals challenged. In brief summary, the…

2013. At that time, the Oakland Athletics made an attempt relocate to San Jose, despite the fact that the San Francisco Giants already had a minor league team in the same location. Major League Baseball ruled that the Athletics could not relocate to San Jose since it would be within 15 miles of another MLB team, albeit its minor league affiliate. Doing so would mean that the Athletics would be directly competing with the San Francisco Giant’s revenue stream. MLB sees this as bad since it wants…

Jackie Robinson HOME RUN! From Jackie Robinson! Jackie Robinson changed society, when he joined a major league baseball team. Jackie Robinson had a positive impact on our society. Jackie Robinson didn't impact society in one day, so in this research paper you will see the journey he took that change society. Who was Jackie Robinson? Was he rookie of the year in 1947, most valuable player in 1949, batting champion of 1949 or the first African-American to play on major league baseball. Turns…

Billy still spouts the same baseball dogma: he tells Volcker that his team’s success is a random fluke, nothing more. But although Billy doesn’t believe his own presentation, he doesn’t know what, precisely, accounts for his team’s success in recent seasons. Ch7- Starts with Yankees and the A’s at the beginning of the 2002 season. We also see another side of Paul. Paul, unlike Billy isn’t temperamental or emotional about baseball. He’s intelligent but he comes from a sports background, which…