Posts Tagged ‘ESPN’
Has your opinion of Mcnabb changed after 2010?
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan Squabble!!
Friday, December 31st, 2010Turn Out The Lights: Dallas Cowboys Version
Thursday, December 30th, 2010Andy Reid: Yeah, But…
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
In the words of Roy Jones Jr. “Y’all Musta Forgot”, but I damn sure didn’t. Those who know me best can attest to my glass-half empty personality. With that being said, let me commence to raining on the parade of the Philadelphia Eagles and Coach Andy Reid. As an Eagles Fan, I am ecstatic about Sunday’s win against the midgets. But I haven’t forgotten about the things that pissed me off though.
(1) Andy Reid’s gross misuse of the red flag makes me want to scream. We witnessed this dude challenge a play in the first quarter of a game because he didn’t like the spot, yet on Sunday he didn’t challenge a play where DeSean Jackson was clearly down before he fumbled. That play led to the Giants’ final touchdown. I don’t get it. It has bothered me for years. We all know that if the Eagles had lost that game, Birds fans everywhere would have been calling for everyone’s job, especially Big Red. Everybody says, it’s not his fault. He has someone up there looking at it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Andy Reid the H.N.I.C., The Lord and Savior, and The Alpha & Omega in the organization? That means he had to hire whoever the chump is telling him when to throw the flag or not. Andy Reid is a hell of a coach, I won’t deny that, but when it comes to that challenge flag he makes me want to throw things at him.
(2) Dimitri Patterson. It’s still hard for me to say his name without cursing. After the game and celebrations ended, Dimitri Patterson should have visited the nearest police station to file assault charges on Mario Manningham for the abuse he endured during that game. Towards the end of the game, Eli stopped looking for open receivers and started throwing wherever Patterson was positioned on the field. It was embarrassing. The Eagles defense has been depleted and it seems they lose another key player every week. Therefore, we get left with the Dimitri Patterson’s of the world. He played better in the second half than in the first (that ain’t hard to do but still…), but if this is what they’ll be going into the playoffs with, I hope the offense is ready to light up the score board.
(3) Why no adjustments? When Dimitri Patterson was getting burned, toasted and scorched by Manningham, did it ever occur to Andy Reid to make an adjustment?
(4) Mike Vick and DeSean Jackson are making plays that are out of this world, but can Shady and Maclin get some love? While Jackson is an electrifying player, Maclin is more consistent. He leads the team in touchdowns. The speed of Jackson makes Maclin look like a pedestrian, but he is fast as well. The Eagles have long since been identified as a passing team, but McCoy has been playing well in the running game. Now he won’t be mistaken for MJD or Jamaal Charles, but he’s doing what’s asked of him and in my opinion, he is the Co-MVP of the team.
(5) The Eagles have given up an average of 24 points per game, that‘s more than the 4-10 Detroit Lions. If the playoffs began today the Eagles would be a (3) seed and they would face the Midgets who would be the (6) seed. Based on what I saw during the two match ups between these teams, big mistakes by the Giants have been the difference. As a Birds Fan, I want nothing more than to party on Broad Street, but as I said before, I have a glass half-empty personality and on top of that, I haven’t forgotten the first 3 ½ quarters of Sunday’s game…have you?
Monica Pierce, Guest Blogger for War Room Sports. Read more of her writing @ monicasthoughts.com.
Are rookie contracts getting out of hand?
Sunday, December 19th, 2010Sports Has Become Soft!
Friday, December 10th, 2010The sports I grew up watching were a lot tougher and a lot more competitive. Now I have nothing against sportsmanship but what I have been seeing lately is utterly ridiculous.
In the NFL you are not allowed to hit anybody without giving the NFL a rebate, in the NBA you are not allowed to have any emotion without hurting your team by getting a technical foul.
I watched Lebron James go back to Cleveland and make jokes with his former teammates after an off-season where he basically called them all garbage. He chose to leave a team that won over 60 games to play with his two friends and a bunch of players that wouldn’t make it on the bus if this was an And 1 try out.
It is ridiculous. I see players in football and basketball knock each other down and then rush to pick up the player they just knocked down. “WHERE THEY DO THAT AT?” I sit back and think of the “Bad Boy” Pistons or the Pat Riley Knicks or Heat teams and imagine them picking up a player they just knocked down. YEAH RIGHT!
I sit back and wonder what Buddy Ryan would have said if Andre Watters or Wes Hopkins would have picked up a wide receiver they just knocked down! That would have been an offense comparable to Colonel Nathan Jessup ordering the code red on William Santiago.
I know why Sports have become this way. It’s an amalgamation of free agency, corporate sponsorships, and athletes becoming businesses themselves. When Tom Brady said he hates the Jets I got excited and thought “that’s the way it is suppose to be”. Stop being politically correct and telling people what they want to hear! Tell your opponent you hate them and then do your best to defeat them.
I guarantee if sports stopped being so soft, the contest would mean more to the athletes and we as fans would get better contests. More players should be like Tom Brady and hate their opponent. Then again Tom Brady wears Uggs so he is also soft. Oh well!
We Got Next…For A Lot Less!
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
I like sports in general, but I have never been a huge basketball fan. This year that has changed. My 11 year old nephew has just discovered Derrick Rose and is now a basketball fan. I like to talk to him about his interests, so this year I have been watching a lot more basketball. We’ve attended a live game this season and even succumbed to purchasing the overpriced Direct TV NBA League Pass. Whenever I become a fan of something, I always wonder how much money people make doing whatever it is. So I went to the place I get all my answers, Google.
After a brief Google search, I learned about rookie salaries as well as veteran salaries. I learned that during the 2010-11 season, first round draft picks will make anywhere between 1 million and 4 million dollars during their first season. Veteran stars like Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett will rake in about 13 million and 18 million respectively. While role players such as Ben Wallace and Antonio McDyess should pocket approximately 2 million and 4.8 million dollars respectively. While I was Googling salaries of NBA players, I started to wonder how WNBA players salaries would compare to their male counter parts. What I found led me to ask this question, WHY IN THE HELL WOULD SOMEONE AGREE TO THIS?
The disparity between NBA salaries and WNBA salaries is just damn egregious. If my daughter told me she wanted to play in the WNBA, I’d tell her, she’s better off teaching. There is no possible way a woman could play in the WNBA if she didn’t love the game. Let’s look at the numbers. A WNBA player with 0-2 years of playing experience will make a minimum of 35,000 in 2010. 35,000 dollars, that’s it. This is four thousand dollars less than a General Manager at Wendy’s. What that means is that John Wall, the number one 2010 NBA draft pick can pay the number one 2010 WNBA draft pick’s (Tina Charles) salary about 114 times. The NBA has a sliding scale by which players get paid. The WNBA also has a similar chart, but it only has two rows, players with 0-2 years of experience and players with three or more years of experience. In 2010, a WNBA player that has three or more years experience will make at least 51,000 and max out at about 100,000. Are you kidding me?
It’s funny because just like the NBA, the WNBA has salary caps. The NBA Maximum Team salary cap for 2010 is 58 million dollars, while a WNBA team can spend at the most 800,000 dollars. This is hilarious considering the last pick in the first round 2010 NBA draft will make at least $ 1 million dollars for his first season.
WNBA players, often stay in college the whole four years and earn a degree. This is a good thing considering what their base salaries are. After they are done playing basketball for less money than IRS auditor makes, they are going to have to start a second career. I’m convinced; WNBA players have to love the game. Why else would they devote years to playing the game, when they could take their degrees to private industry and make way more money? I’m not naive, I know that the NBA is way more appealing and profitable than the WNBA, but I never would have guessed the gap between salaries was this big. Before retiring at the end of 2009, arguably the most marketable star of the WNBA, Lisa Leslie, was paid about 91,000. As if all of this information wasn’t bad enough, while NBA superstar Lebron James decided to tear down an entire franchise on the way to South Beach during his off season, WNBA players play in places such as Poland, Turkey and Israel to collect larger paychecks during theirs.
With all of this being said, if your daughter was a beast at basketball, and she came to you with a four year degree in one hand and a WNBA contract in the other, what would you tell her to do?
Monica Pierce, Guest Blogger for War Room Sports. Read more of her writing @ monicasthoughts.com.
