Monday, May 18, 2015

                                    Brady Deflated Balls? Or Nah?

   SO we all have heard about the Brady Scandal. In my opinion he is innocent and should not be charged with any games at all. The league has no idea what they are doing at all! The NFL is a joke. Considering Ray Rice pretty much knocked his girlfriend out. He gets a 2 game suspension and Brady gets a 4 day for "deflating balls"? this is the must bull crap suspension ever. If deflating balls is more serious than someone either murdering someone or knocking his girlfriend out than that's not okay at all. When Robert Kraft comes out and says Tom is innocent that means something, he is a very respectable person. The Wells report had no proven facts. Tom is sending in an appeal and will probably win it as well. They don't have any proof to suspend him anyway. In addition, the $1 million fine and 2 draft picks is a bit excessive because the Patriots have done nothing wrong. Think what you want but Tom is Tom and he is wicked handsome and charming and will be not suspended anymore, i hope. 

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

                     CURRY OBVIOUSLY WINS


          Steph Curry has gotten the most credible award in the NBA. He has won the MVP award for 2015. My prediction was correct and I knew he was going to get it. There was no reason not to give him the MVP award. It was a close run with James Harden and Chris Paul and Russel Westbrook but Steph Curry got 100/130 first place votes. Curry led the team to 67 wins this year and he himself set the single record for most three-pointers made which was 286. He has 1200 points on the year which is more than any other candidate by a lot. He is the second Warrior player to win this award. He also averaged about 37.5 minutes a game which is the lowest by a MVP winner. He was 6th in points, 6th in assists, 4th in steals, 1st in ft% with a 91.4%. He has the highest plus/minus in the NBA this season. He is such an inspiration and a good role model. He has won by a lot and i knew that he could win and hopefully repeats next year!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-j_XzzueEs

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Who Will Lock the Starting Position for Ohio State Quarterback?

The Ohio State football program went through three quarterbacks this year. Braxton Miller who was supposed to be the starter for last year, then after Miller got hurt J.T. Barrett came in and became he Big Ten Freshman of the Year who rewrote Ohio State and Big Ten record books. Then J.T Barrett got hurt and Cardale Jones came in and just 3 starts he won the Sugar Bowl and a national title. Best case scenario for OSU is Cardale Jones as the starter in 2015 with J.T. Barrett as backup. Jones seems to have the highest ceiling. The key for Urban Meyer is to get Jones and Barrett to stay, so Ohio State is covered at QB the next two seasons. As for Braxton Miller, he needs to find a team where he can start next season. I don’t think it’s in his best interest to stay in Columbus. Although Braxton Miller is a two-time silver football award winner as the Big Ten's top player, he is coming off a collarbone injury and I don't think Ohio State will have him start when they have Cardale Jones who won them a national title and the Sugar Bowl.  Also freshman J.T. Barrett is really good too so it is a toss up between Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett; personally I think Cardale Jones will start for them. He was a third-stringer coming in to the year and through injury he finally got his shot to shine and he did really well when the spot light was all on him. I think we will see Cardale Jones as defending championship Ohio Stats's starting quarterback.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Matthew Berry Reflection

In Matthew Berry's "some things you just don't forget" article, Matthew Berry talks about his fears. It sucks when you get bullied but when I don't agree with him is when he connects his bulling to fantasy advice. I feel bad for him and all but there are kids out there that are getting bullied right this second and he compares it to fantasy. That is not okay and you can't compare your bulling to the Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin situation. They are two grown men in the NFL, you were a 12 year old kid, it is not the same. In addition bulling isn't okay and never should be. In the end, some things I do not agree with but it is not okay what happened to Matthew Berry.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The NBA MVP Race

            There are ten candidates for this years NBA MVP award. Only one can win this honorable and amazing award. We got Stephen Curry from the Golden State Warriors who is just stupid good. Second is James Harden from the Houston Rockets, third my man Chris Paul from the L.A. Clippers, fourth is Russel Westbrook from Oklahoma City Thunder, fifth is Anthony Davis from the New Orleans Pelicans, 6th Lebron James from the Cavs, 7th Blake Griffin from the L.A. Clippers, 8th Jimmy Butler from the Bulls, 9th Damian Lillard from the Trail Blazers, and lastly we have LaMarcus Aldridge. This is your top 10 NBA Candidates for the 2015 MVP award. By looking at the stats its between the top 6. The MVP award almost always goes to the best player on the best team. I think it is between Westbrook, Harden, and Curry. Many people have their own opinions, I believe Stephen Curry will win this year. Steph Curry can lead his team to an NBA title, Russel Westbrook can only go so far without Kevin Durant. Once Westbrook starts playing tougher teams he can only do so much! Steph Curry closes games in the THIRD quarter, not fourth. He should get credit for this by winning that MVP award. Curry should win the MVP because he doesn't play meaningful fourth-quarter minutes; if you look at why he doesn't it is because he destroys teams in the third quarter. Curry is No. 1 in Real Plus-Minus and has been almost all season and that is just a great, great stat. (Harden is second, LeBron James is third.)Curry is +1.81 in Defensive RPM, which, among the top candidates, is second-best behind only Davis’ +3.88. LeBron is at +1.68 and Harden is +0.90.Curry has made an NBA-best 241 three-pointers (in 564 attempts), while Harden has made 180 (in 485 attempts). In 79 more attempts, Curry has made 61 more three-pointers than Harden. I know Curry doesn’t have dominant individual stats, and some of that is because he doesn’t play as many minutes as the other top candidates, some of it is because he has very good teammates who also carry consistent offensive loads.Still, although Harden and Westbrook have had great seasons, often with lesser talent around them, Curry can match or come close to them in other areas. Plus, he’s doing it at a more efficient rate, and again, I won’t go point-by-point on this, though I know many will.He also is winning more games. A lot more.
Main theme: I don’t see where Curry gets overwhelmed by anybody in individual statistics, and I just don’t buy that Harden or Westbrook have to get the nod because he has had a lesser group around him for most of this season due to Houston and OKC injuries.That would be a better argument if the Warriors didn’t have 10 more victories than the Rockets, but they do.Or if the Warriors didn’t go 4-0 vs. the Rockets in the season series, but they did.Or if Curry didn’t play defense, but he does.Or if Curry wasn’t clearly the best player on the Warriors, but he is.
(One little stat-dive: Curry currently is an incredible +12.1 in raw plus-minus per game. Every game, in the minutes he plays, the Warriors out-score opponents by an average of 12.1 points. And the Warriors are +10.9 as a team this season. So they’re -1.2 in the minutes he doesn’t play. (Harden is +4.6 per game, while Houston is +3.2. So the Rockets are -1.4 in the minutes he doesn’t play. Great stats for harden. But Curry’s are historic on the plus side.)
To some team arguments for Curry’s MVP candidacy. The Warriors currently have a +10.9 point-differential this season. The next-highest are the Clippers at +6.2.
Teams with this kind of historic point-differential tend to produce MVPs, for good reason: They deserve it. The Warriors are on pace to register the sixth-best differential in NBA history and would be only the eighth team ever to finish above +10.0 in this category.Of the seven other teams that had > +10.0 season point-differentials, five had players who won the MVP that season (and one that didn’t win the MVP happened to lose the award to a player on another team that had a > +10.0 differential. Steph Curry will win this year. End of story.





Top Candidates


RkPlayerTmWLW/L%GGSMPFGFGAFG%3P3PA3P%2P2PA2P%FTFTAFT%ORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTSProb%
1Stephen CurryGSW6013.822717132.88.116.8.4823.58.1.4314.68.7.5294.04.4.9160.73.64.37.92.10.23.12.023.742.8%
2James HardenHOU5023.685727236.88.018.1.4392.56.8.3695.411.3.4818.810.1.8670.94.85.77.01.90.84.02.627.224.7%
3Chris PaulLAC4925.662747434.96.914.4.4831.64.2.3885.310.2.5223.33.7.8880.64.04.610.11.90.22.42.518.89.8%
4Russell WestbrookOKC4232.568595934.09.121.4.4251.23.9.2977.917.5.4538.29.7.8461.95.37.28.62.20.24.42.627.66.7%
5Anthony DavisNOP3934.534595936.39.617.8.5410.00.2.1009.617.6.5455.46.7.8122.67.810.42.01.52.91.42.124.75.5%
6LeBron JamesCLE4827.640646436.39.218.8.4891.85.0.3537.413.8.5395.67.8.7170.75.25.97.31.60.74.12.025.74.3%
7Blake GriffinLAC4925.662595935.28.517.0.5010.10.4.3648.416.6.5044.76.5.7211.95.77.65.10.90.52.22.921.81.9%
8Jimmy ButlerCHI4529.608585838.76.514.1.4631.13.0.3535.511.1.4926.17.2.8401.84.15.93.21.70.61.41.620.21.5%
9Damian LillardPOR4725.653727236.17.116.6.4302.47.0.3404.89.6.4964.45.1.8660.64.14.86.31.30.32.72.021.11.4%
10LaMarcus AldridgePOR4725.653646435.79.420.0.4680.51.4.3608.918.6.4764.35.1.8452.57.910.41.80.71.01.81.823.61.3%

Monday, March 23, 2015

Norton high football team looking good

     Norton high schools football teams future for 2015 season is looking good. During my freshman year here we went 6-5 not making playoffs, I did not play varsity. During the next season, I was a sophomore and ready for varsity. We went 8-3 and made a playoff run losing in the first round. It was a pretty successful year wish it brought more to us but that is okay. Junior year we went 6-5 again it was a decline and we did not have any leadership. For the upcoming year we have 5 captains, 4 TVL all stars returning, 3, 3 year starters returning. We also have a bunch of our starters returning. This should be a successful year seeing how when we were freshman we went 9-1 for the freshman team. We also have some talented juniors and sophomores that will have some kind of impact on the varsity game. We are hoping to get past the first round in the playoffs. This year coming up should be a good one and I hope we have good support. I project we go far in the playoffs, come out and watch us make it far.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Brady and Patriots Best Team Ever? 

          In all of NFL the Patriots team over the last 15 years. Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and Robert Kraft have been apart of 6 super bowls and have won 4 out of them. If you look in the stats book, no team has come close to winning 4 out of 6 with the same owner, head coach, and starting quarterback. Tom Brady is the best quarterback to ever live. This Patriot team is just so good it is unbelievable. Their 2007 season was an undefeated season and even though they lost in the Super Bowl they should have won. The Patriots became the first team to do it since the NFL expanded its schedule to sixteen games in 1977 and thus broke the record for victories in a single season that had been shared by the 1984 San Francisco 49ers, the 1985 Chicago Bears, the 1998 Minnesota Vikings, and the2004 Pittsburgh Steelers who each finished with fifteen victories against one defeat.
   Brady has won three Super Bowl MVP awards, two league MVP awards (2007, 2010), has been selected to ten Pro Bowls, and has led the Patriots to more division titles than any other quarterback in NFL history, with twelve. Brady is fifth on the all time list for career passing yards and fifth for career touchdown passes. His career postseason record is 21–8; his playoff win total is the most in NFL history. He helped set the record for the longest consecutive win streak in NFL history with 21 straight wins over two seasons (2003–2004). He also set the record for most consecutive playoff wins with 10, and in 2007 led the Patriots to the first undefeated regular season since the institution of the 16-game schedule. He has thrown for more passing yards and touchdowns than any quarterback in NFL postseason history, and has the sixth highest career passer rating of all time (95.9) among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 career passing attempts.
Tom Brady is generally considered among the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He and Joe Montana are the only two players in NFL history to win the NFL Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP awards multiple times. Brady is the only quarterback to lead his team to six Super Bowls, and holds the record for the most total Super Bowl touchdown passes. He was named the NFL MVP in 2007 and 2010 (becoming the first player since 1986 to be unanimously chosen as MVP) as well as the 2007 Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, the first NFL player to be so honored since 1990. After the 2010 season, Brady was ranked as the top player in the NFL Top 100, a poll of league players. He also became the first quarterback to throw for 50 or more touchdowns in a season. In 2010, he set the NFL record for consecutive passes without an interception (358), and broke his own record for the highest season touchdown:interception ratio, among players who have started a full season, at 9:1.
Brady and Bill Belichick have combined to form one of the most successful quarterback-coach tandems in NFL history,winning 160 regular season games and 21 postseason games together, as well as appearing in six Super Bowls together, all NFL records. There for the Patriots are the best team ever.