Super Bowl Week is here!!

1/28/08 – 2/3/08
The Super Bowl is less then seven days away, but there is only one question remaining, Are you ready for it? If not it’s about time to make your last minute trip to the store, so that you can get all your favorite game day foods and drinks. Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday.This year “big game” is between, the New England Patriots and the New York Football Giants; the word “football” is the Giants organization full legal name. This will also be the first time in National Football League history, in which a team has reached to the super bowl as 18-0.


That team is called the New England “Brady Bunch “Patriots and no “Brady Bunch” is not the Patriot’s legal name. Although one, might argue that it should be. It just seems that way from time to time, make no mistake the Patriots are pretty darn good, they have a great offensive of line and there defense is good when it needs to be. Add in a Tom Brady and you have a team of Perfection.


The Football Giants on the hand, have been playing pretty good, considering that they have won ten straight road games and there last lost came from the Patriots during week 17 of the regular season. Since then the giants have been in the hands of who I think should be the Coach of the Year in Tom Coughlin. Coach Coughlin went from sure to be without a job at the end of the season, to not being fired.



I believe that this year super bowl game, which will be held in Arizona, will be a high scoring affair just like that last time these two teams played each other. The outcome could be different, but just to put me on the safe side of things.


I think New England will win this game, but I don’t see them covering the 14 point spread in which they are the favored. Nonetheless this will be one great game to watch, but until Super Sunday enjoy this year Super Bowl week because it only comes once a year.
RJ

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College Tennis is serving and taken names at the same time.

1/21/08 – 1/27/08

The person who thinks I must be talking about nothing is a shameless one at best. Different college sports are now finally getting into the spotlight thanks in part to the television and the internet.

The attention is finally getting shifted a little as before it was just the ‘two” big money sports being Football and Basketball that would be getting all the attention. If you really did not pay attention to college sports in general, you would not even have known that there is such sport like that on the college level.

So with that said I will be opening up your mind to college tennis, right now the college tennis season is underway as it concludes in May. The conference titles games are in April followed with the NCAA tournament on May 9th.

So without further due I had conducted an interview by email with my cousin Jennifer Meredith. This past week who just so happens to be a fellow reader and is a college tennis player who is in her freshmen year at the University of Tennessee.

This is my cousin Jennifer tennis profile; this shows what she has accomplished before coming to the University of Tennessee it includes:

Winning 2 National Open titles in doubles, Clenching the Davis Cup win for GA in 2002 and 2003 and Coming in at third at this past year USTA Girls’ 18 and under National Championships that was played on May 29th।

So Here is my five questions interview that I did with her:

1। Do you have a personal routine that you do before a match on game day?

“ We have a brief stretching session with our fitness trainer, then we hit for about 30 minutes, change into our match clothes, hit for about 15 minutes more and then get started. Personally my routine is to check everything in my bag and make sure my racquets are ready to go, I also like to listen to my music to get me pumped up for the match.”

2। What is it like being on a Tennessee team that is rank twenty - two nationally and second in doubles?

“I am incredibly fortunate to be on such a great team। We work very hard and it shows by our rankings। I love practicing with my team because we all push each other to do our best. Everyone is very talented and works very hard and it’s great to be in such a great atmosphere.”

3 What are all your coaches like and how do they get your team ready to play for game day?

“My coaches are great. They both do everything in their power to make you the best player that you can be. We have been practicing very hard on and off the court and I think that is definitely going to show this season.”

4। If you could change one rule in college tennis what would it be and why?

“I would love to have line umpires for all lines. Right now we just have a chair umpire and unfortunately they cannot see and call every ball, which is disappointing when you play someone who is cheating you. I think it would be great if we have somebody watching all lines to make sure that we have a fair match.”




5. How long does it take your body to recover from a hard long match?


“Our fitness trainer has made sure that we are in very good shape, so it shouldn’t take too long to recover but it definitely takes time. Collegiate tennis is very intense and takes a lot out of you. Before and after my match I will get rubbed out by my trainer, and probably take an ice bath after. We have a day or two in-between our next match so we will do some stretching and get massaged so that we are ready to go”.


I would like to say thank you again, to my cousin Jennifer for being so nice to take the time out of her busy schedule and answering those question. There is also some good news as of Saturday the Lady Volunteers are 1-0 to start the season. They won all of their matches against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 7-0.

RJ
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Jags had a great season, nonetheless.

1/14/08 – 1/20/08


Coming into this past Saturday night game, this was the little team from Jacksonville that could derail a perfect season for the Patriots. In the end Jacksonville could not pull up; perhaps which would have been one of the greatest upsets in sports history.


But by losing to the New England Patriots, who are now 17-0. It does not diminish in anyway or form the great season. The Jacksonville Jaguars have had.


This was the 13th season of play in the Jacksonville Jaguars history, in witch it will be remember for the Jaguars, as finding a franchise Quarterback in David Garrard, as well as some other great accomplishments like:

First playoffs win in eight years, over the Steelers in Pittsburgh, becoming the first team in the Steelers 75 year history to beat them twice at home, Fred Taylor rushing over the 10,000 yard mark, becoming only the 21st player in the National Football League, to do so. Taylor would finish the season with 1,202 yards for a career total of 10,712 yards rushing. Finding out they have great depth, as 13 players were on the injured reserve list for the season, which included Pro Bowler Defense Tackle Marcus Stroud.


All of the above adds more tradition and history to a team that is on its way of becoming one of the “premiers” franchises in the National Football League. If not already, all of these milestones will also make this franchise fan base grow and develop into the type of those of the Packers, the Cowboys and the Steelers.


This was the season in mind when the Jacksonville Jaguars said to the league other thirty- two teams: “watch out, because we our coming after you at full speed ahead and be prepared to become “Jaguars Bait”. Come next season.


RJ
rjintampawsa@aol.com

The Camster got what was coming from the Tuna

1/7/08 - 1/13/08
It was really just a matter of “when” Coach Cam Cameron the former coach the Miami Dolphins would get fried. In these days of the NFL If your team goes 1 and 15, what NFL coach in his right mind would not expect to find a pink slip in his office after the worst season in the thirty seven years history of the Miami Dolphins.

I believe even if had Coach Cam Cameron put on a good and decent showing in font the new Dolphin in town Bill Parcells, who was hired on Thursday of that week, to fix and clean up the mess that Miami is in for the team owner Wayne Huizinga.

The Camster still would have gotten the boot, but in the end it ended up being another lost to cap the season for the Dolphins. Should Miami have giving him the “Camster” another shot?

Absolutely not, lets be honest with our selves here, I believe Coach Cameron shot himself in the foot, by not going for it on the forth downs, in the last game of the season. By still implementing his ultra conservative game plan in the last game of the season, with absolutely NOTHING to play for but at least he proved one thing and that is what a total scam the cam really is.

He was consider to be one of the best up and coming coaches in the league, that’s when the Dolphins hired him in January of last year. But his horrible play calling and his poor decisions making during the off season of last year. Have landed him out of the job and has the Dolphins looking for there fifth replacement coach, in five years.

Cameron also made another little note of history for himself, as he will forever go down as the first ever coach, to be fried form the Miami Dolphins in their 37th year of a National Football League franchise.

Whoever is the next coach, of what once use to be one of the greatest franchises in the National Football League, will no doubt have his hands full in coaching the Dolphins. I just hope whoever it is; they can do better then a one win season, come next fall or else things could get really “ugly” down in Miami.

RJ