“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.” April 25, 2014
SPORTS
FROM EAST
-Knute Rockne
The Ukiahilite
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Senior Athletes Continue Athletic Careers
T. Abe Rawles
Staff Writer
Class of 2014 Athletes competeing in College
TO WEST Harris Bedford
&
Staff Writers
With the NCAA tournament over now and the NBA finals approaching, all exciting sports are about to go through “winter” phase. It is that time of the year when nothing entertaining is happening, and nothing exciting is starting. Sure, baseball is starting but nothing rings excitement like the 162 games they play each season. The games are an hour longer than basketball games on average, which can take what already seems like forever with timeouts, fouls and commercials. But for now we are going to enjoy what has and will happen this year. Overall, the NCAA boys tournament was very exciting with some good upsets and many close games. The championship game was nothing extraordinary and it did not have a sense of a college championship. UCONN had the game in their pocket the entire time. It was more of how they were going to win rather than if they were going to win. NBA playoffs are coming up soon My playoff predictions go as follows: Heat are going to win it all. No need to even comment on the rest of the East, it does not even matter. The West is a different story. San Antonio will beat Memphis or Phoenix, but it will be a good 5 games though. Oklahoma will take Dallas in 6. Warriors will beat Clippers in 6. Houston beats Portland in 5. Houston will lose in 6 to San Antonio. and finally San Antonio will get the business done with the Thunder and will beat them in 6 possibly 7, and it will be a repeat of finals from last year. This is only true if every major player for a team stays healthy. If Steph Curry finally gets knocked out when he tries to break up those fights, my entire bracket is out the window.
T. Abe Rawles
I hate this time of the year for sports. Why? Because it is baseball season. Now don’t get me wrong I love baseball it is a wonderful sport I have a high amount of respect for. It is America’s Past time. The reason why is because we live in Northern California and everyone and everything is about the San Francisco Giants. Everywhere you look someone of both sexes is wearing a Giants t-shirt, hat or sweatshirt. People in conversations out of no particular reason mention what situation the Giants are in. What really grinds my gears is how people just jump on the Giants bandwagon when they start a playoff run. And usually those people cannot name 7 players on the Giants roster. I mean does anybody care about the Athletics. I would just like to point out that the A’s have more World Series’ than the Giants do. Another thing is now the only sport that is aired on television is baseball games. Baseball games are only fun to watch at the ball park. Watching a baseball game on television is almost as torturous viewing a Kardashian episode. Now I am going to call out Mr. Silva-Brown. The guy has a good portion of his back wall in his class filled with newspaper clippings and posters all about the Giants. Looking at a perspective of a parent or student I think it is a distraction and unnecessary. However in the perspective of a sports fan I give mad respect to a man who shows his pride of a team he is proud to support but should be affiliated with. Shout out to all the people not going to Prom. Do not worry your not missing out, Prom sucks!
- Dylan Lancaster Mendocino Junior College Baseball - Ali Miloni Santa Rosa Junior College Track and Field - Cheyanne Noda Santa Rosa Junior Football - Hugh Pegan Oxidental University Track and Field - T. Abe Rawles William Jessup University Basketball - Marcus Scott Central Methodist University Football - Brian Sherwood Butte Junior College Basketball
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