Football

NFL Wild Weekend-3 away teams and a home team win.

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NFL Wild Weekend it was!  You started out with the Tennessee Titans against the Cincinnati Bengals. Tennessee brought back the punishing running back in the name of Derrick Henry. When announcing him entering the game, you would have thought that the Bengals who not, but a week ago cured their playoff woes for over 30 years with a win against the Las Vegas Raiders. Remember Marvin Lewis who had brought this team to the playoffs many times, only to suffer defeat. Stephen A. Smith use to rag on this guy about the fact that he …READ MORE

This Year Last Year- A tale for the future

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Football, Growing America–

This Year Last year will be something to talk about ten years from now, provided that situations don’t escalate. Go back to last year, when the shocking news that we lost Kobe Bryant on a very overcast Sunday in late January. This was a shock to the world. This bothersome event lingered on throughout the Sports World and beyond. Early talks of the pandemic was just starting to get traction, and then March hit, where NBA games were canceled and then league play would be suspended until the summer. Baseball, Football camps were delayed. The …READ MORE

Christmas Holiday with the Pandemic in Mind

Lester–Basketball, Football, Growing America–

Christmas Holiday this year has brought on a strange and ominus feeeling! You can remember the times after the Thanksgiving Holidays, where folks were standing outside all night to get to the deals of the year and getting ready for Christmas. That chore turned out to be a ugly and dangerous practice this year.Customers honing masks and stores metering people into their buildings, as state laws and business responsibilities took hold. Yes you can’t crowd up folks like you use to in areas, as the pandemic has controlled the idea of togetherness and threw that …READ MORE

NFL Best 5 Teams 12/01/2020-Year of the Pandemic

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  NFL Best 5 Teams 12/01/2020. In the year that everybody would love to erase out of their memories, the National Football League continues to sputter along regardless of the Covid infections that many of the teams are seeing.  Guess it is a good thing that the stadiums are not in full capacity. Despite all of the problems of the world, I looked at the NFL standings and what teams are doing right now. Buitrago Cigars Jerusalem Old City Markets and Rooftops – 1 day tour The Pittsburgh Steelers are the team to beat. Right …READ MORE

NFC East 2020-What a pitiful Situation!

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NFC East 2020-Pitiful Situation- The NFL season is pretty much into full swing with every team about 10 games under their belts. You have the Pittsburg Steelers running away with a 10-0 start. Every game they have played, they have pretty much master each game. You have the Chiefs, Saints, Rams, and Seahawks competing to get to the playoff’s with decent records. Then you get to the NFC East, who for some reason can’t even break 500 ball. Washington football team, has the lead in the east by percentage points with a paltry 4-7 record. …READ MORE

Orange County-2nd-worst COVID19 outbreak-California

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Golf, Growing America, Uncategorized, WNBA–

Orange County now has the second-most coronavirus infections in California, as the region and state continue to grapple with sharp spikes in the number of confirmed cases. The cumulative COVID-19 case count in Orange Count was 29,986 Tuesday, just ahead of Riverside County’s 29,983. Only Los Angeles County is higher, with nearly 160,000 cases. Over the last 14 days, Orange County has reported 12,104 additional COVID-19 cases, a figure that trails only that of Los Angeles, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. During that same time, Riverside County has confirmed 9,428; San Bernardino County, 8,754; …READ MORE

Six Flags a preview of entertainment parks opening

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Six Flags Entertainment Corp. became the first major U.S. theme park company to release a set of safety protocols for the reopening of all its U.S. parks, saying it will limit the number of people allowed in, check guests’ temperatures and require everyone to wear masks and spread out in lines and on rides. The new protocols offer a preview of how theme park fans are likely to experience U.S. parks in the COVID-19 era. “It’s a new wave,” said Dennis Speigel, president of the consulting firm International Theme Park Services. “That is the way …READ MORE

Competition and Sports in American Society

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Golf, Growing America, Hockey, Nascar, Uncategorized, WNBA–

Competition and Sports in American Society plays a key part in American Culture. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes this, as sports took a hiatus since Mid-March; when the NBA shut down, and then other sports proceeded to shut down activity until they could get a handle on this unfortunate outbreak. Sports was just starting to heat up with the NBA, NFL hockey runs for the playoffs were just getting started. Teams were about to jockey for position in their prospective sports. The NFL had to zoom the draft; the MLB had to postpone preseason and the …READ MORE

2020 NFL Draft- Studio Setting this year

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We are less than 4 days away from the NFL draft and it looks to be a very intriguing event that will be different from all previous draft days as it will be held without the normal fanfare that we are use to seeing. The draft will be basically held in a studio setting.  This will be a challenging draft, as you know, because lines of communications between teams will not be so open. You have to remember now that teams will be in different locations, and to do deals on the run, it will …READ MORE

The Life We Know-Anxiety in getting the ball rolling again!

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The Life We Know – You go to a ball game and you are sitting about a few inches away from the seat next to you on either side. The seat behind you is only about a foot or more away, as well as the seat in front of you. You get up to get something to eat or drink, and depending where you sitting at; you will have to go by several folks at a close proximity. Then you get to the vendor where you want to purchase something to eat or drink and …READ MORE