NBA SEASON IS HERE !! 10/27/08 - 11/2/08

The National Basketball Association, will be tipping off their season on Tuesday and Wednesday night of this week. For those of you that don't watch the league, the champions last season were the Boston Celtics. For me this league has lost a lot of fans for the obvious reasons.

Those reasons include:



The National Basketball League one side marketing, no more traveling calls, and NBA referee Tim Donaghy betting on basketball games scandal.


But I still watch the NBA, simply because of my die - hard love for the Orlando Magic. I have grown up as a magic fan, and I will stay that way till the end of time. but enough with me, lets move on to 3 reason on why you should watch the NBA season this year.


First reason is because of the new Oklahoma City Thunder. They moved from Seattle, Washington to the Sooner state of Oklahoma. when playing in Seattle they where known as the Super Sonics. They moved largely because of Arena issues and because their new owner is from Oklahoma as well as because OKC had a new Arena just waiting for a team.


Second Reason on why to watch: is because of the new rookies that are in the NBA. Its always fun to see how the rookies, will do in their first season of NBA play.


Third Reason on why to watch: is because to see if the Boston Celtic can repeat. I hope they do not as they are not only in the Magic division but also their are in the same Eastern conference which the Magic are in.



Now onto my Finals prediction this "might" be a little bias but so be it.



Orlando Magic Vs San Antonio Spurs, Magic in six.


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Sweet Tampa Bay !!! 10/20/08 – 10/26/08

The Rays have won the American League Championship Series!! They will now be the host for the first two games of The World Series!! In Tampa bay right now everyone has Rays fever, even those annoying Yankees fans. As they were cheering for the Red soxs to lose and I bet the same could be said for anyone not a fan of the Boston Red Soxs.



It came down to a game seven, and boy was it stressful and exciting at the same time. Nor did it help my heart beat or for the matter any Rays fan heart beat until the last out was recorded. As soon the last out was recorded, it was party time in the Tampa Bay Area, and the party will continue till the start of the World Series on Wednesday night against the Philadelphia Phillies at 8pm on fox.



I have been to Rays games since the 2000 – 2001 seasons. As that is when I moved down here from Jacksonville, which was during the late summer of 2000. In fact this season alone I went to a spring training game vs. the Yankees here in Tampa, and then I went to three games during the regular season across the bay in St Petersburg .



This is truly a special moment for the Tampa Bay area community as everyone has “Rays Fever “nowadays and for the one who says “sporting teams or events do not improve your community” to me is a total ambivalent person. But for now, SWEET TAMPA BAY!! . Go Rays!!



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No Article For This Week 10/13/09 - 10/19/09

Today(Monday) is Columbus day and this past weekend was a busy one for me. I was up in Chicago from Thursday till Sunday. I was in the windy city, for My cousin wedding. But I can tell you next week their will be an article.

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Three Questions For My Readers 10/6/08 – 10/12/08

Well its review time, and the only way that I know that you have enjoyed the articles in the past two years, is to hear from ‘‘YOU’ your take.

So I am begging all of my readers of new or old to give me some feedback. So for this week your assignment is to send in an email at this address RJINTAMPAWSA@AOL.COM . With either Negative or Positive feedback on:

In General how do you like the Articles?

What Topics from all of the previous articles did you like? Is it the topic that you wanted to hear my take on at the time?

Do you have any ideas or experiences, or better yet do you know someone in the sporting world that would be interested in doing an interview with me for an article?

So thank you again to all my readers for reading my work and I look forward in hearing from you on those three questions. Don’t disappoint or else I will have to put you on the bench.

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