Playoffs

More and more high school injuries are occuring from football. Take Andre Smith (17) for example. He was hit hard on the last play of an October 22 game against Chicago Vocational High School and died of a traumatic head injury. Tyrell Cameron (16) died after his neck was broken on a punt return. Evan Murray (16) died of a lacerated spleen. Last year 11 players died from on field injuries. (Tribune) This is a common occurrence in football and this is why football should be banned from high…

Since the birth of the NCAA, college athletes have been battling the fight of whether they should be able to receive a salary when they play a sport at the Division One level in college. Universities on average earn millions of dollars of revenue from these athletes, but the athletes that make this revenue possible do not earn any money. College athletes should be compensated for their skills and for the attention and revenue that they bring to their college during the years that the athlete…

In baseball the bigger teams get to spend the most money and get the best players.Other teams that don’t have as much money will have a disadvantage because they cannot afford the high priced player.Salary caps would limit the better teams to be able to spend as much as they want.Baseball should not have a salary cap is that teams will be limited to reaching their full potential.Also, teams will not be able to get the players they want because they will cost too much.I can see why people think…

Today Michael Jordan is known as one the greatest basketball players to ever play the game. When he first started playing the game it wasn’t as easy as you think it would be. When he first tried out for the high school basketball team he was cut. Jordan’s sophomore year he was only 5’8 but eventually grew to 6’3 before his junior year. After high school the all American went on to play at the University of North Carolina. As a freshman in college he played in the shadows of other players until…

We usually wait awhile to write our histories until they fully unfold. It's too hard to tell in real time where the chapter breaks are. But sometimes you just know when to dog-ear a page for future reference. The night lives up to the narrative. All the details matter for posterity. The mid-January game when LeBron James and Kobe Bryant went head-to-head as if they were in their own personal All-Star Game was one of those times. The best player of this era and the best player of the one before…

Throughout the last several years, the emergence of the point guard position in the NBA has been evident. The traditional "pass first" PG is slowly becoming more absent throughout the league. Point guards are rapidly improving from year to year and the position is very much as competitive as it has ever been in NBA history. Point guards are taking on more responsibility such as scoring the ball efficiently and more often, setting teammates up to score and defending at a high level. These…

What We Learned from the Rockets in Round 1 The Houston Rockets put an end to Russell Westbrook’s historic season Tuesday night with a 105-99 victory. They will now face the winner of the San Antonio Spurs/ Memphis Grizzlies series. I had predicted before the series started that the Rockets would win in six games, but I was blown away by the performance of the Houston bench. Despite video game numbers from Westbrook, the Rockets showed how much team chemistry they have going forward and will…

lose. I jumped ahead with the sunday games getting me up by twenty to thirty points. Then Monday night football sent Carson home with one loss and that was the only loss he had for the rest of the season. I stayed undefeated and soon enough the playoffs came around the corner. I definitely got the one seed because I never lost, Carson second seed, Cade third seed, and in last with the four seed was…

My first interview was with Yosef Fares. He is a Head coach for Madera High School in California. He is in his second year in that position. He was a perfect person to interview because in his first his team was 0-10. And this season they made the playoffs and won in the first round. Bring them to a 6-6 season record. I found during this interview my thoughts on Leadership were not a far off as I expected them to be. I found that the emphasis on empathy was very important in Coach Fares opinion.…

Hard work will lead you far in life and it will eventually pay off in the long run. Hard work is required to reach a goal but it isn’t easy. Baseball is seen as a fairly good, competitive sport at Northeast. There is some pressure when it comes to keeping the tradition going and being successful in baseball. In the past two seasons, Northeast has been only one win away from the school record for wins in a season. Beating this record was a goal for the 2016 baseball season. A couple of goals for…