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(04/29/13 8:58pm)
At the beginning of my freshman year in the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, I never thought I would have so many opportunities my freshman year. I’ve interviewed athletes, gone to countless basketball and softball games and, of course, written this blog. I never expected to obtain a position at the State Press, much less a position where I got to write about my passion in sports.
(04/26/13 3:23pm)
Ever since video games began in the 1970s and 1980s, they’ve been synonymous with sports. They’ve taken a journey from the arcade to your living room TV screen and from Tecmo Bowl to the latest Madden or FIFA game. Here is my list of the top five sports video games. My guidelines were that it had to come out in my lifetime (since 1994) and I had to have extensive experience playing the game. The games themselves are ranked five through one on how “fun to play” they were and how much the title was a “game-changer” in the sport which the game covered.
(04/22/13 1:23pm)
The last time I caught up with ASU lacrosse was late February. They were off to a quick 4-0 start, but a lot has changed since then. I must have had some sort of jinx on them because they lost to Chapman 8-7 that next week. Since the loss to Chapman, the team has won nine of their last ten games.
(04/19/13 1:24pm)
Autographs have been around since people could write. A signature is one of the most personal things one person can give to another. The John Hancock of someone famous is especially valuable — the business of buying and selling autographs, especially in sports is booming, but also has an underbelly.
(04/15/13 4:05am)
In this day and age, pro athletes only continue to make more and more money. Contracts for players are now stretching into the hundreds of millions of dollars just to play a professional sport. This unfortunately now seems to be the rule and not the exception. However, there was a different time. A time when the money wasn’t everything and players dropped everything in favor of their country to serve in the armed forces.
(04/12/13 5:57pm)
Tragedy is never something that is easily dealt with. Every so often, it hits the world of sports. Occasionally there is no explanation. Numerous drug overdoses, murders, car and plane crashes have all caused athletes to be taken from this world all too soon. It happens inevitably because no matter how invincible those athletes look on the field, at the end of the day they are still human. There is no way to stop tragedy from happening, but they can be remembered for everything they did on and off the field. Here are the five worst tragedies of the last 50 years. I’ve ranked them based on media coverage and national remembrance, as well as the prominence of the people or event involved.
(04/08/13 11:29am)
You either love or you hate referees. There is no indifference for fans. A call in favor of your team and they’re your favorite person on the field, a call against it and they are your sworn mortal enemy. Some referees and umpires even get hate mail for calls they’ve made such as umpire Don Denkinger or the crew of the controversial Monday night football game last year between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers.
(04/05/13 8:37pm)
Opening Day in Major League Baseball is unlike any other event in sports. It is the culmination of a long winter leading into spring, it is a new beginning for every team — a clean slate and a fresh hope that each team has to make it to the Fall Classic.
(04/01/13 2:58pm)
Staying fit has always been an important part of life at college and soon it will become much easier thanks to nicer facilities for students at ASU’s downtown campus.
(03/29/13 3:32pm)
What’s not to like about college sporting events? The fans, the atmosphere, every athlete working hard just for the name on the front of the jersey and not the name on the back is a formula that can’t help but make you feel good. However college sports has always had its flaws. Boosters paying players under the table and the Jerry Sandusky case are just a few examples of the underbelly. There are a few ways to help college sports move forward. Most just have to do with pace of play and a few involve recruiting. Here are my five rule changes to improve college sports.
(03/25/13 4:02am)
This story starts on a humid late August afternoon in St. Louis, Missouri. I step into a coffeehouse where I’m scheduled to meet Fox broadcaster Joe Buck. I thought I only had 45 minutes to pick his brain thanks to a friend. It turned out I would have a lot more time to observe than that.
(03/22/13 4:00am)
The last person you might think of quelling the tense relations between the United States and North Korea is a character such as Dennis Rodman. Late last month Rodman visited North Korea in hopes of bringing peace to the country. “You have a friend for life,” he told Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator, while they watched a basketball game in the capitol city of Pyongyang. The White House later condemned Rodman’s trip. The man of many hair colors said he plans to return to the country. So why was Rodman’s trip so successful? How could Un and Rodman bond so quickly? The simple answer is sports.
(03/18/13 2:14am)
When it comes to photography, shooting sports is one of the hardest things to do. Everything is in constant motion. The game and the players are always changing directions. You never know when the play of the game is going to happen, so it’s difficult to anticipate when a game-changing moment could occur. If you’re not ready you could miss that one “perfect” photo. Here are five tips to make your sports photographs the best they can be.
(03/04/13 5:00am)
Would you jump into freezing cold water without some monetary incentive for yourself? Well that’s exactly what thousands of people do every year in order to raise money for the Special Olympics in an event called the Polar Plunge. ASU held its own Polar Plunge last Friday night sans cold water at the Sun Devil Fitness Complex on Apache Rd.
(03/01/13 4:03pm)
The ASU lacrosse season has started. The 2010 and 2011 national championship runner-up is off to a 4-0 start with wins over Cal, San Diego State, Cal-Poly, and Minnesota-Duluth all on the road.
(02/26/13 5:00am)
It’s almost that time of year again. March madness is almost here. Millions of people will be filling out brackets both by hand and online submitting them into pools of friends and offices alike in hopes of obtaining the perfect bracket. The strategies to picking which teams will win are numerous. Some people will put their favorite team all the way through while others may pick their favorite mascots or just go with their gut. However, there is a science that will help you choose the next George Mason, VCU, or Butler. It’s called bracketology, which may help you win it all in March, but in order to better understand bracketology, one must first understand how the bracket is decided upon.
(02/22/13 5:00am)
Pickup basketball is unlike any other experience in sports. Basketball is the one sport where you only need two things: a ball and a hoop. It’s also the only major sport where only one other person is needed to make it a game. The unwritten rules are plentiful and sometimes things get a little more heated than necessary.
(02/18/13 12:53pm)
Social media exploded within the last decade. Facebook came first and then Twitter. “Hashtags” “twitpic” “tweet” and “handle” have all become a part of the daily American lexicon. Twitter is basically everything about your day that you wouldn’t want to share on Facebook. A “tweet” is a jumble of words or sentences thrown together in 140 characters or less.
(02/15/13 5:00am)
Phoenix FC, a new member of the United Soccer League Professional Division (USL PRO), will play their games in Tempe in the Sun Devil Soccer Stadium beginning this spring.
(02/11/13 5:00am)
You could have bought the Territorial Cup for $20. Rest assured this was in 1910 in a metal manufacturing company named Reed and Barton catalog. The Territorial Cup is not just any old trophy and is certainly now a priceless artifact. It’s disappeared, it’s been fought over, and it’s the most highly sought after prize between ASU and the University of Arizona.