Big Ten

Will the Big Ten have a Championship game? Now the Big Ten has enough teams to have an actual championship game, but will they have one? They haven't had one their whole time as a conference and now because Nebraska has joined they have enough. I think that having a championship game might be a good thing for the big ten. It might give the chance for top ranked teams to go head to head and maybe an upset to happen and change the whole bowl system. the winner of the championship game would then go to the rose bowl unless they are going to the national championship. In the case that the champion is going to the national championship the loser of the championship game will go to the rose bowl. It is simple, but may cause problems because the big ten has always had a certain way to tell the winner; by how many wins they have and who is the best. Maybe the Big Ten should just try for one year with a championship game and then if it doesn't work and seems too complicated, then just change it back to the way it was and always has been.

ONE GOAL. acheived

the blackhawks are the stanley cup chammps. i know that this is late, but i had other things to talk about. Now im going to say it all. This is the best thing that has happened in sports for me. The white sox won the world series after 76 years without a world series. THe blackhawks only had a drought of 49, but this year was just amazing. I plan on buying plenty of gear from them winning and will remember the day they won for the rest of my life. I LOVE THE BLACKHAWKS!!!!!!!!

World Cup

NICELY DONE!! to the england goalie. he basically gave us an opportunity to come back and win, even though we couldn't get it done. He made a save like a goalie on my 5th grade soccer team, embarrassing. So we ended up getting a tie in our first game against England. This gives us an ok chance to move on to the next round. I think that if we really just play soccer like our team can, then we will move on to the next round and not have the same ending as 4 years ago, which was terrifying. LETS GO USA

HAWKS WIN!!

and... the Chicago Blackhawks are the stanley cup champs! We finally did it and ended the 49 year drought. Patrick Kane made a shot, but only he knew it was in and started to celebrate. The horn was never sounded and the light never went off, but Kane knew his childhood dream had just come true and he scored the game-winning goal to get the stanley cup. It was a great moment to see all the players and coaches hoisting the cup. Another special moment was Marian Hossa finally getting to feel the cup after three long years of getting there and losing. This was a special night!!

Night of history

last night Stephen Strasburg took in all the hype about himself, and EXCEDED it. That to me was very impressive. He had 14 K's with no walks. The great Nolan Ryan did that in his 6oo something start, this kid did it in his first. This may be only one game against the pirates, but this kid just said i have talent and i will prove that. I think that the nationals have some good things coming for them if they keep getting the number 1 pick. With bryson and Strasburg they can be a powerhouse pretty soon. When both those players mature the Nationals will be a team to watch. and by then maybe they will have had about 5 other number 1 picks. Stephen Strasburg was untouchable other than the homerun given up to Delwyn Young. This kid has more to prove, but so far he is going above and beyond what we expected.

Blackhawks

The blackhawks are going to win the stanley cup. Some people say that they will not win it. They also have good reasons, such as our team is too young and our goalie is not consistent and sometimes gives away games. I think that we will win because we have Marion Hossa who is experienced in the Stanley cup. We also have a very dangerous starting line. With Hossa, Toewes, and Kane the chances of scoring are very good. We also have the power to come back like we did earlier in the season against a 5-0 lead in the first period. If our goalie stays relaxed he can preform well and will stop many shots. Im confident that the blackhawks are going to make it to the Stanley cup. What they do from there depends on how nervous they are or how well the goalie plays. I hope that the blackhawks win it all, so that i can get a free t-shirt. I also want them to win because i made a bet with jake anderson and i am going to win.

Super Bowl wrap

Probably the cutest thing you will ever see, Drew Brees holding the super bowl trophy and his son and just lifting his son in the air like he is the trophy. Nobody will ever forget that moment nor will they think that it wasn't cute. It doesn't matter what team you wanted to win or thought would win. That was cute. I was expecting the colts to just destroy the Saints, but Drew Brees went into that game wanting a ring and wanting to give New Orleans its first super bowl win, and i respect that. Drew Brees truly deserved the MVP award, because he lead his team to a very very very important win over the colts who were picked to be favorites. I am a little happy about this because the colts got a taste of their own medicine. When the Colts played the bears, the bears had a tremendous amount of people saying they were going to win, and then the colts just went in there and beat them. That is what the saints did to the colts this year. so CONGRATS TO THE SAINTS!

AFC/NFC Championship predictions

lets start with the first game first. The AFC game between the Colts and the Jets. Nobody but the Jets and Rex Ryan thought that they could have made it this far. I knew that i thought Rex Ryan was crazy when he said that his team was the best in the playoffs. I thought that they wouldn't even get past the wild card game. Now they are here in the AFC championship game. The Colts, well I fully expected them to be here. I also expected them to be undefeated at this point, but for some reason the coaches thought that they would make the players and all the fans mad by taking the starters out of the week 16 game. This game should be very exciting even though I think that the Colts are a huge favorite. They have a lot of talent and want this year to end with a trophy and huge rings so bad that they are going to make it happen. The way that Peyton Manning, a veteran quarterback, takes over the game and leads his team to victory compared to Mark Sanchez, a rookie, kind of just goes along with things is the difference. The quarterback position is meant to be a position of leadership and it isn't with the Jets and that might cost them. That is why I am picking the Colts to win.

The NFC championship game will also have to do with the leadership of the quarterback. This time, though the match-up is a little more even. Still there is a favorite between the two. Would you pick Brett Favre or Drew Brees. This year some people might have picked Drew Brees, but if you know Brett in the playoffs and so far this year in the playoffs, he has really stepped it up as a leader. The thing that I love about the Vikings is that they have a great running back in Adrian Peterson, probably the best in the league. They also have one of the best quarterbacks ever, Brett Favre. When you have a great running game and a great quarterback that gives you so many play action options that just makes you dominant. That is why I am picking the Vikings to win.

National Championship wrap

This game was very exciting for me to experience and watch. i enjoyed the game and thought it was good entertainment. I had picked Texas to win and i think that they maybe would have had a chance if Colt McCoy wouldn't have gotten an unavoidable injury. It was unfortunate for Colt and i like him, but that unfortunately led to the longhorns losing this game. Alabama went in the favorite, but the few minutes up until colt was hurt it looked like Texas had this game by the horns. The momentum was changed when colt was injured. The whole team of Texas seemed to play worse and with less swagger than they had before he left. Alabama might have been a little effected by this at the end of the game, but not really at first. The True freshman came into his first collegiate game and came in replacing the win ingest quarterback and came in during the national championship. That is a lot of pressure on a true freshman. He played not very well until right around the beginning of the 4th quarter when he threw touchdown passes to Jordan Shipley to come within a field goal of the tide. Then he fumbled, entirely not his fault, and that really ended the game. I wish Garret Gilbert the best on the rest of his collegiate career because from what i saw last night he is pretty good, and i think that he chould just say that he did good and not get down on himself for that fumble or for the loss. I hate to say this because i like the longhorns, congratulations alabama crimson tide

BEAR DOWN!

i am soo excited. the bears beat the vikings and it was exciting. i loved watching that game so much. I just felt like i could be happy as a fan of the bears again. finally in the second-to-last game of the season they start playing like a real football team. I'm asking myself, Where have these guys been all year? to me this season with the bears has been so disappointing. They went into the season with a supposidly good quarterback and a running back who was supposed to be good also. They also went in with a good defense. None of these expectations were true. The bears had to battle many injuries and most importantly one to MLB and defense star Brian Urlacher. hunter Hillenmeyer has stepped up into big shoes, though and shown that he can be a very good defender.
now onto the actual game. The bears played with an outstanding offense, even though the run game was stopped a little. The bears also for the most part stopped adrian peterson. All these were the keys to winning this game. The vikings defense was not very good and could not stop chicago, and in the first half the whole team didnt really have any life at all.
I will give the vikings credit, though because they mostly showed up the bears in the second half, but the bears managed to keep it tied until the end of regulation. Then it was overtime, and the bears won the toss. They drove down the field and had to settle for a 48 yard field goal. This is a kick that Robbie Gould would almost never miss. HE MISSED IT!! i couldnt believe it. I said to myself that the game was over, because Favre had been so dominant in the previous half that i thought they would march right down the field and score. the bears defense actually stopped FAVRE. wow... so the bears get it and screw themselves and the vikings have it again.
this is my favorite part and one of the reasons that i brought up Hunter Hillenmeyer before. He made an outstanding play running down adrian peterson and stripping the ball. I WAS SOO HAPPY!! then BAM like that cutler throws to the end zone and a touchdown and the game is over. no need to put pressure on Robbie Gould. just score

i am so proud of the bears for winning this game and really just putting the vikings in their place.
this shows that any week any team can win. (theres still hope for the rams then) (i think)