No More Lock Out

The NBA has finally come to an agreement with the players having 51% and the owners getting 49%. Got to love missing many teams play just because they wanted one more percent than the original offer of 50-50. When you grow up as a kid splitting something 50-50 was all ways the fair thing to do. Why do we change? The answer is money. As soon as money is involved people become greedy and arrogant. The saying is true in my mind that money is the root of all evil. Would these players play for free? I believe some would just for the love of the game. Agents is what make this sport and baseball, and football a money hungry industry. To reach an agrrement the owners and players had an exhausting, 15-hour negotiation session. So after 149 days of the lockout an agreement is finally reached.The training camps will start on Dec. 9 and we will now havea 66-game season beginning on Dec. 25 compared to the normal 82 game season. On opening day of the season which is Christmaswe will three great games to kick it off: Boston at New York, an NBA Finals rematch of Miami at Dallas, and Chicago at the Los Angeles Lakers. I am excited that we have a season now and hope my team(Thunder) can do work again this year. Calling Durant as the MVP this year. LA Lakers Forward Pau Gasol on twitter said," After the recent news about the possible end of the #lockout , we're all excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel! #WeLoveThisGame." Lucky we did have the light at the end of the tunnel before the fans starting rebelling if their was going to be no season. Cheer for your team and I hope we have a great season this year, just like last season.

OU stands for Over Rated University

SO at the beggining of this year OU college footbal where ranked number 1 in the nation. They had ESPN all access covering them like it was their Natinal title year. The defense wheer called the sharks. Well I have seen them be sharks in 2 games this year and it was against 2 ok teams. That was Florida STate and TExas. Other than that the defense has no right to call themselves sharks anymore. Travis Lewis better take the shark out of his pathetic haircut this weekend, because he and hi9s defense do not deserve the title. The reason for all this is the 45-38 loss against Baylor University last night. Wjhat the hell is Bob Stoops thinking calling a time out with 46 seconds on the clock on Baylors 33 yard linewhen they clearly where trying to go to overtime. With Stoops calling the time out it gave Baylor the chance to throw it and Robert Griffing the 3rd proved he is a great Quarteback on that winning drive. DEfense should be covering that endzone on the last play like their season depended on it, which it did. You are Oklahoma University how do you think you can not beat Baylor in overtime. As a Sooner fan I am not blaming Stoops for the loss, but that time out at the end was a big factor in the loss. I am excited for next year now because of Blake Bell( The Bell Dozer). I think he will be the man to lead them to a national title if Landy Jones goes pro. THis is an overrated Oklahoma team and I believed we where a national title team, but the Tech loss, and now Baylor loss proves otherwise. Sad loss boys, but keep your head up and dominate Iowa State next week, then absolutely dominate in the Bedlam game.

Flinch of the week

Week 9 of the NFL saw some impressive games. Philip Rivers threw for 6 touchdowns, but 2 of them where for the other team, which help the Packers to stay undefeated. The Patriots lost to the Giants snapping a 32 home win streak. Tim Teabow got himself another win in the NFL. The story of my blog today is about quarterback Mark Sanchez. Sanchez Flinched because Bills CB Drayton Florence Scared the Jets Quarterback Before Snap making him looking scared and foolish out their. Sanchez was lined up on the line of scrimmage, when Florence made Sanchez flinch and I thought sanchez handled it well by laughing it off during the play. He was called for holding on the play too. This will for sure make sports centers not top 10 this Friday. To see the flinch check out this website. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/06/mark-sanchez-flinch-drayton-florence-jets-bills_n_1079004.html

World Series

We have reached the end of the baseball season with the St Louis Cardinals winning the world series. What an outstanding achievement for this ball club. David Freese who hit .348 average, 1 home run and seven runs batted in. He was the MVP of the series. Game 6 in my mind proved St Louis were destined to win the world series. The rangers were one strike away in game six not once but twice from winning the World Series. Freese came up clutch in the ninth inning of that game to tie it at 7-7. . Rangers scored two runs in the top of the 10th off a Josh Hamilton home run. Then Lance Berkman tied the game in the bottom of the 10th. Then in the bottom of the 11th MVP David Freese said sorry bout it to the rangers and forced a game seven with a solo home run. St Louis won game 7, 6-2. In my mind this was one of the most impressive teams in baseball history. If the Phillies do not sweep the Braves the last three games of the season St Louis never would have earned the wild card. they were ten and a half games back in the wild card on September second and our now World champions. This is a remarkable under dog story and all credit is due to Tony laRussa. He in my mind deserves manager of the year. To be able to work with so much adversity this season and still win a world serious is a true story of what champions do. Sad to see the season end, but looking forward to the off season trades and the Yankees to be the 2012 World champions.

Sports and social media anti strategy

The reason for this post is to talk about Carson Palmer the former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback. He was recently traded to the Oakland Raiders. Palmer has not played all year and we have heard very little about him this year. We knew that he was under contract still with the Bengals at the start of this year, and wanted out and the Bengals would not trade him, hence why Andy Dalton is the starting QB, and why they drafted him. With Palmer being benched and now traded to the Raiders brings more talk in the sports world. The point of this blog is to talk about Palmer's anti strategy. Think about it, we have not heard a thing about him this entire year. Now we hear he is traded just like that, when the Bengals said they would not trade Palmer. Oakland did give up a big payoff with a potential first round draft choice. With Palmer not having a Twitter account, or being in the limelight, did this strategy end up getting him where he is now? Think about it he stays away from potential stories and rumors, he was able to sit back and not let social media tools obtain him from playing. I do believe that by having the anti social media strategy was an impact to creating a deal so quietly and under the radar without rumors or anything, until the day he signed, which was only Monday.

Jets vs Dolphins

Failure with Technology

I was trying to cover the Vikings and bears game tonight on cover it live, but could not link it to my blog page. I am not that great with computers yet but still learning. Looking forward to streaming my first live event for the Jets and Dolphins game for Monday Night football now. On another note how about the Texas Rangers this post season. Nelson Cruz had 6 homeruns and 13 RBI for the ALCS. That is an MVP for you. I love post season baseball and being so close to Dallas it is fun to see the Rangers go back to back to the world series. Hopefully I can catch a live game in Arlington. Follow my live blog tomorrow night for the Chalker sports freak version of Monday Night Football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!