Playoffs

gets to the batter's box. "Hopefully Danny doesn't get striked out" the team says. "Strike 1" the ump calls."Strike 2" he calls. Our team roars with a scared feeling in our guts. If Danny gets out we will lose the game and be eliminated from the playoffs I think to myself. 1,2,3 balls the ump calls. Our whole team rises with fear. "Full count" the ump says. Then I remember our fifth game when he saved us from losing by catching a pop fly. Then I notice that he can get the job done and get…

not only is he on my favorite team, he is my favorite player, and he is arguably the greatest QB to ever touch a football in the National Football League. Tom Brady has broken countless records, is tied for most superbowl rings, and has the most playoff wins in history! He always finds a way to win, no matter who he plays with, and I respect him for being such a great athlete. Tom Brady even tore his ACL and when he came back had one of the best seasons of his career, and since then he never…

Several sports seasons were wrapping up in the Sioux Falls area on June 9. The Sioux Falls U-12, U-14, U-16 soccer teams did extraordinarily well in the state soccer tournament. The boys and girls of Sioux Falls brought home six titles (Hoffman 1C). On the road to the tournament, construction was done on I-90. The border between South Dakota and Minnesota was redone, and the crew began to lay concrete (“Construction Crews Prepare to Lay Concrete on I-90 to Minnesota Border” 1D). Also in…

Out of First Round Donald Duck and the Quack Pack football team tallied 31 first-half points, including 24 in the second quarter, en route to a 45-27 triumph over Mortimer Mouse and the Dark Dynasty in the first round of the Mickey Mouse Athletics Playoffs. [event_results 11997] The Quack Pack (8-5) came into the game with the fourth best record in the league, and advance to Semifinals having won three of their past four games, where they will face top-ranked Rescue Rangers (11-2). The…

The Controversy Of College Athletes Being Paid To Play Have you ever thought about how NFL or NBA players can get millions from playing? But, when you think about the NCAA their isn’t much talk about money except having big deals with television networks such as ESPN, NBC, Fox, etc. That’s because the college athletes don’t get paid at all! That should change because, A. they work more hours than the average American does (per week), B. the NCAA is a 1 trillion dollar industry, and C. missing…

In sports there are many kinds of events going on. It may be something exciting or bad that has happened in the world of sports that everyone tends to look into. With the Super Bowl, NBA playoffs, and other sporting events coming in soon we will be seeing a whole lot of changes or adjustments that the fans may or may not be too happy about. Either there team is losing or winning. Well a big topic that has come up is the firing of Cavs Head Coach David Blatt. Just about two days ago we received…

As NBC was preparing to launch its new show they first realized they needed a name, and most importantly a host. NBC has decided to select Tony Dungy as their new host for their new sports talk show that focuses on the ins and outs of sports primarily focusing on basketball and football. The show will strive to be much like Real Sports and 60 minutes which have HBO and Showtime have found great success in. The reason for selecting Tony Dungy as the new host for the show is because he is a Super…

The release date for Like Mike the movie was released on July 3rd, 2002. Like Mike made a humungous profit, when it came down to their budget and the number of ticket sales they made. Their budget was $30,000,000 and the number of ticket sales or box office, was $51,432,760 rounding out to about an eleven million dollar profit. The production company that produced the film "Like Mike," was 20th Century Fox, which is known for some of the best movies. The main actors in "Like Mike," were Bow Wow,…

From the 1970s 56 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball but there are hundreds inductees from all sports that came from the 1970s. The 1970s was a great time for many athletes in their playing days. The 1970s, made it hard for athletes to play due to the press, sports have accommodated many great athletes, and many things that influenced the decade like basketball, football and boxing. In the 1970s, it was harder for people of great athletic ability to play sports due to the…

The lake Center Christian boys soccer team hasn’t won a district title in all of it’s years as a program. For the past three years it has been stopped by the same team every year, SouthRange High school. They have not won a district title in all of their years as a program also, until 3 years ago. They have won districts every year since then. Our season has been ended by them ever since. The lake center boys team of 2014, “the unstoppable team”, “the most gifted team” had been stopped by them…