Saturday, January 12, 2013

So far in the month of January.........
Well, the winter sports are in full swing, Basketball is getting near the all star break. Hockey is back in time for a 48 game schedule. We've seen the start of a dynasty in Alabama and the continuation of SEC dominance in college football, also want to state this was the last year for bowl game, starting next year there will be a 4 team play-off. And to top it off, in a couple months, baseball will start up with spring training. 

Today has been a good day, I get the NHL back, even if I had to wait till early January. It will be interesting to see how the teams can adapt to playing so many games in such a tight window of time. I get to see how my sabres can play against quality teams right out of the gate when they play the flyers in their first game of the year. With no training games, this will be the first time they (the players) will have played with their respective teams either for the first time, or last year. Many have gone over sea's to play, so rust won't be an issue.

On the 7th of January, we saw the last BCS bowl game for the time being. I though Notre Dame had a chance, I was wrong big time. Notre Dame looked like little kids playing grown men on steroids  It didn't look good, especially when Alabama ran the ball, it was like the defensive line for Notre Dame didn't want to touch their ( Alabama's) Backs.

In the NFL, the battle to get to the superbowl continues with the greenbay packers and the Broncos of Denver ending their season tonight. On Sunday, the New England Patriots play the Houston Texans, and the Seattle Seahawks go to Atlanta to play the Falcons. Both look to be great games to watch. I'll be paying more attention to the New England game because I'm  a patriots fan, but I'll definatly watch the Falcons game as well. For anyone who isn't sure of the times. Falcons-Seahawks are at 1pm EST and the Patriots-Texans is at 4:30pm EST.
 








ITS OFFICIAL
The schedules have been released, there will be a 48 game schedule this year for the NHL.
If you're wondering when you're favorite team begins playing, here is a link for all the teams.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=85750&navid=DL|NHL|home

Sunday, January 6, 2013


A new year for sports

First off, happy new years. With the new year, we have a new year of sports. Spring training starts up in a couple months, bowl mania is in full swing with the BCS national championship game in a couple days. The NBA is gearing up for a fresh looks as new teams emerge to fill the roles of others. The NHL is still in a lock out, and It looks like we're going to have another lockout.

With the New Year comes two of footballs biggest games, The super bowl and The BCS championship game. On January 7th, at 8 PM, #1 Notre Dame and #2 Alabama will square off to see who is the best college football team in the country. Notre Dame is coming in with a 12-0 record, not playing in a championship game since 1993, and hasn't won one since 1988. Alabama, coming off a 12-1 year, is trying to become one of the few programs to win 3 national titles in 4 years, yes 3. That's how much Alabama has dominated football the past couple years. If you want to go back even further, you can say that the SEC has had a choke hold of college football for a good while now with schools such as Florida, LSU ,Auburn and Alabama winning titles in the last 13 years. LSU has 2 titles (2003,2007), Florida  has 2  (2006,2008), Auburn has 1 (2010) and Alabama has 2 (2009,2011) with the possibility of continuing the SEC dominance. An SEC school has won the championship for the last 6 years.

The NFL playoffs are underway with wildcard Saturday concluding with victories for the Houston Texans and the Packers of Green Bay. Tomorrow, we get to see two of the best rookie quarterbacks in last years draft. Russel Wilson and the Seahawks play host to the Washington Redskins and the RGIII. I have this game going down to the wire, both teams have great quarterbacks, good running attacks to balance the plays, and superb defenses. I wonder how many packer fans will rooting for the Seahawks later today. Early in the year, there was a contraversial call that gave Seattle the win over the Greenbay Packers. It was this game that many believe got the regular refs back into service and the replacement refs out.

I wish you luck if you're team is in the hunt for a bowl game or is playing today. 


*EDIT, The Redskins are playing at home, not the seahawks
*EDIT, the NHL and the NHLPA have agreed to a 10 year CBA