Too Real!

                                                               Freestyler Kilan Martin

If it aint broke, don't fix it.......well at least not yet

Emmit Smith once said, "all men are created equal, some just work harder in preseason." Well the Patriots' Jermaine Cunningham made sure Michael Vick got all he could ask for last night. Yesterday Michael Vick was a victim to another hit that sent him off the field and out for the game. Thankfully, it was a preseason, but nevertheless, he was forced to leave a game due to injury.
         After Vick was released from jail he had a breakout season with the Eagles and properly earned himself a huge new contract. Everyone was discussing how this was a new Vick that was being displayed, one who had the pass first mentality unlike his past. Vick made a name for himself in the mi 2000's with his electrifying plays that mostly consisted of him running with the ball and abusing the ankles of defensemen. Many have saluted the likes of Andy Reid for conforming Vick into the pocket passer that he is today, but that has only brought concussions, broken ribs, and jammed fingers to their start quarterback. Vick needs to get back to the basics, back to what made the Eagles want to take a chance on him by awarding him a 100 million dollar contract. The contract guaranteed Vick 40 mill, but if they don't let him switch back to his old style, it wont guarantee the Eagles many more years with him. There is a danger in changing too much in the search for perfection.

One Team, One Goal!

Why is the American media attacking its own athletes during the olympics. Isn't this the time of the year where we are suppose to come together as a country. We have media sources over here looking for a story to write so desperately that they will look for anything to write about even if its at the expense of our own country men and women. We have people getting on Michael Phelps for "not trying his best" during these olympics. How quickly we forget the amount of work he put in the last olympics to come away with a record eight gold medals. Then we still have those people who keep comparing this years basketball team to the dream team and continues to criticize of what they lack but fail to recognize what they have. One of the most shocking ones might be about the people who got on gold medal winner Gabby Douglas about how she was wearing her hair. Yes you read that right, we have stooped to the level of criticizing a 16 year old girls hair like a bad MTV reality show. The most recent criticism came towards LoLo Jones and how she was a bad sport after losing to two other fellow Americans. They pretty much described how she deserved it because of all the unearned attention she was receiving throughout the olympics. I mean we give back up quarterbacks in New York their own press conference, but talking about a woman who used to hold the olympic record in her event is "unearned attention," but I wont get into that. All I'm saying is, our athletes don't have to be over there playing for our country, they do that by choice. We should be supporting our athletes instead of trying to find anything to bring them down. Looking for little stupid stories like that is simply lazy journalism, step it up.

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Middletown High School 2011 Soccer Season Trailer

The Beauty Of The Game

Cooler than the other side of the pillow is how you can describe the emotions of rising soccer star Alex Morgan. If you missed the game yesterday, in the words of ESPN analyst Ian Darke, you missed a "sure cracker." USA and Canada traded blows like a heavy weight slugfest. Christine Sinclair from Canada made sure it would take a Hollywood ending to beat them. Sinclair, one of the most gifted players in the world, put on a show with a hat trick and it still wasn't enough to break the will of the United States. Megan Rapinoe had two fantastic goals and Abby Wambach had her usual addition of another goal to tie the game, but the star of the game was Alex Morgan. The 23 year old had been on a little scoring drought, but waited for the perfect time quench that thirst in the 120th minute of overtime. Morgan has clearly left her footprint in the soccer world and has made sure the millions who have been watching at home don't forget it. To think, only one year ago Morgan and this team were walking off this field in defeat against the world champions from Japan. Now back for a second chance, the team hopes to regain their rightful thrones as the queens of the soccer world. Theres something about the conviction in the American spirit that makes sports and almost every thing else so precious to our society. I believe the reasons we watch sports are to witness moments like yesterday, ones that make us look around and say "did that really happen," even if we are watching in a room alone. That right there is the beauty of sports.

Alex Morgan after scoring the go ahead goal to be Canada

Flying Into The History Books

Higher, faster, stronger, that has been the motto for this years Olympics. Last night, American, Gabby Douglas had to be just that to win the prestigious crown in the world of gymnastics. Thousands of miles away from Virginia Beach, VA, Douglas was the unlikely favorite, if that makes any sense, in last nights competition. Everyone knew the Russians would bring what they always bring, pure dominance, and that's what they did. When the final scores were in, Douglas found herself in between two Russians. It just so happened that when she was in between them, she was standing above them, right on the pedestal. Douglas now enters the Mount Rushmore of American gymnast with Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, and Nastia Liukin as some of the greatest gymnast this country as seen. More appropriately, Douglas became the first African American women to win the all around individual title. As much as sports has evolved, it is still a magnificent precedent. Keep on flying Gabby.

The G.O.A.T.

Michael Phelps after winning 19th olympic medal

G.O.A.T. That is the term used now-a-days to describe the greatest of all time. Yesterday, Michael Phelps distanced himself from the pack of average and into the realm of legends. Phelps won his 19th record olympic medal, an accomplishment that no other olympic athlete has ever reached. Surprisingly, in the shadows of Michael Phelps, the United Staes women's gymnastic team won all-around gold for the first time since 1996. The win may not be legendary because it has done before previously, but that does not relinquish the the greatness that follows the victory. All of this brings to debate, could this be the greatest team USA we have sent to the olympics? We had our previous years when we dominated in basketball and track but lacked depth in others. This year the United States is drooling with talent in about every olympic sport. Our volleyball teams are dominate, our depth in swimming is bar none, our gymnastics is back world class talent, and our basketball teams have stayed consistent. It has been a while when we flourished in so many sports at one olympic. But hey, this is just my opinion, in the words of the great Jay Crawford, "Embrace Debate!"

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