NBA Live Coming To A Store Near You!

Tomorrow marks the release of NBA Live 2010, the NBA video game series by EA Sports that originally came out in 1989. This year’s video game offers a whole new different experience then in years past. “I can’t wait to buy it, NBA Live is my favorite video game” said Darrell Peters of Howard. EA sport makers are saying it’s the most complete basketball game today. This game is different then years in the past because it enhances the game play controls which makes the players move more realistic. “The game looks a lot different then last year. I think the makers made some positive changes” said Bianca Dru of Howard. The game makers also made an emphasis on utilizing the fundamentals of basketball. The games goal is to get NBA Live players to feel closer to the real life NBA experience. It also has the DNA technology which first came out last year, where player stats, trends, and streaks from the real NBA transfer into the NBA Live game. “I buy NBA live solely because of the DNA technology; it’s amazing how a video game can update a player’s trends and stats like that. It makes the game far more realistic then any other basketball game” said Aaron Wade of Virginia. The graphics have also been upgraded. Each player has its own person realistic look with authentic tattoos, armbands, and shoes. The crowd has even been enhanced with different movement, cheering, booing, and chanting.
Many people are excited about the release of the new NBA Live, “basketball is my favorite sport, I love video games, and NBA Live is defiantly a game I have to get every year” said Marquis Roll of Howard. He’s not the only one who’s excited about the release,” It seems like every year EA Sports upgrades NBA Live to be the best basketball game possible. I’ll be sure to buy a copy” said Shaun Wills.
NBA Live is set to be released nationally October 6!

Nike Signs Vick???

Yesterday it was reported that Nike had reached a deal with Michael Vick to endorse him. Nike had originally signed Vick as a rookie in 2001, although when he pleaded guilty for dog fighting in 2007 Nike immediately dropped him from the label. Michael Principe the managing director of BEST, the agency that represents Vick came out in a press conference to announce the news. However today Nike announced it has made no such deals with Michael Vick, and that all rumors were false. Nike did say in a statement that, “Nike has agreed to supply product to Michael Vick as we do a number of athletes who are not under contract with Nike."
Contract or not Vick is still getting supplies by Nike in which most fans seem to be ok with.” Why cants Nike just endorse him? Everybody deserves a second chance” said Deshawn Butler of Tennessee. He’s not the only one who feels this way. “I’m so tired of hearing negative things about Michael Vick, why doesn’t America just move on an let the man live his life? I don’t get why Nike or anybody else thinks it’s a bad thing to endorse him” said Zia Manes from Virginia. Most people interviewed all agree Michael Vick deserves a second chance; however a lot are still frustrated by the public not fully embracing Vick. “Michael Vick is a role model to a lot of people, and I think he’s a great role model for people that have made mistakes in life an have been locked up. If he can come out of prison an still succeed in life, and his career other people will ask why cant they?” said Ahmad Broody.
It’s been about a mouth since Michael Vick got reinstated back to the NFL, and he’s been in headline news weekly. Lucky just about all the news has been good. Let’s just see if Nike, other endorsers and the generally public can do Michael Vick some good by giving him a fresh new start.

Vicks first game back

Instead of talking about each of the NFL games this week we are going to talk about the headline news for week 3, and that is no other than Michael Vick. Yesterday marked the first day of Michael Vick’s comeback where he was officially eligible to play football again. Vick’s numbers yesterday wont impress anybody (he was 0-2 passing with 1 rush for 7 yards) however it’s the big picture that Eagles fans and other NFL fans are looking for.” I think he did ok for his first game back, I mean two years in prison away from football what do you expect?” said Ade Carter an Eagles fan from Philadelphia. Most people feel the same way. “I think he did well for the first time back, if anybody thinks different I wouldn’t understand why, since he had a long layoff” said Ashley Lach’e from Baltimore. Journalist and NFL analyst were all covering Vick’s first game and critiqued his every move. For the most part everything surrounding Vick’s first performance was optimistic. A lot of fans feel the same way. “You cant expect to see the old Michael Vick so soon its going to take awhile maybe the whole year. I don’t know why some people are expecting so much so soon” said Robert Taylor of California. A lot agree including Vick and his coaches, always telling the media to give his progress time. “I took a couple of years off from football before in high school, and when I came back my senior year I felt far behind and I never recovered the whole year, it just seemed like the whole year I was behind. I can only image how Vick feels and he’s in the NFL” said Keshawn Merritt of Florida.
People are willing to give Vick time to process after his two year lay off, and he’s earned it. “Were pulling for your Vick” added Carter. He’s not alone most fans want to see Vick succeed in his second chance. Will see and we’ll keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Here are the week 2 NFL results

NY Giants 33 Dallas 31
NY Giants stats: E. Manning 25/38 for 330 yards and 2 touchdowns
E. Manningham 10 receptions for 150 yards and 1 touchdown
Dallas stats: M. Barber 18 carries for 124 yards and 1 touchdown

Pittsburgh 14 Chicago 17
Chicago stats: J. Culter 27/38 for 234 yards and 2 touchdowns
Pittsburgh stats: B. Roethlisberger 23/35 for 221 yards and 1 touchdown

Baltimore 31 San Diego 26
Baltimore stats: J. Flacco 17/26 for 190 yards and 2 touchdowns
San Diego stats: P. Rivers 25/45 for 436 yards and 2 touchdowns
V. Jackson 6 receptions for 141 yards and 1 touchdown

Cleveland 6 Denver 27
Denver stats: 19/37 for 236 yards and 1 touchdown
Cleveland stats: B. Edwards receptions for 92 yards

Seattle 10 San Francisco 23
SF stats: F. Gore 16 carries for 207 yards and 2 touchdowns
Seattle stats: S. Wallace 15/23 for 127 yards and 1 touchdown

Tampa Bay 20 Buffalo 33
Buffalo stats: F. Jackson 28 carries for 168 yards
Tampa Bay stats: B. Leftwich 26/50 for 296 yards and 3 touchdowns

Carolina 20 Atlanta 28
ATL stats: M. Turner 28 carries for 105 yards and 1 touchdown
Carolina stats: S. Smith 8 receptions for 131 yards

Minnesota 27 Detroit 13
Minnesota stats: B. Farve 23/27 for 155 yards and 2 touchdowns
Detriot stats: M. Stafford 18/30 for 152 yards and 1 touchdown

Cincinnati 31 Green Bay 24
Cincinnati stats: C. Benson 29 carries for 149 yards
C. Ochocinco 4 receptions for 91 yards and 1 touchdown
GB stats: A. Rodgers 21/39 for 261 yards and 1 touchdown
D. Driver 6 receptions for 99 yards and 1 touchdown

Houston 34 Tennessee 31
Houston stats: M. Schaub 25/39 for 357 yards and 4 touchdowns
A. Johnson 10 receptions for 149 yards and 2 touchdowns
Tennessee stats: C Johnson 16 carries for 197 yards and 2 touchdowns
Oakland 13 Kansas City 10
OAK stats: J. Russell 7/24 for 109 yards
KC stats: M. Cassel 24/39 for 241 yards and 1 touchdown

New England 9 NY Jets 16
NY Jets stats: M. Sanchez 14/22 for 163 yards and 1 touchdown
NE stats: T. Brady 23/47 for 216 yards

New Orleans 48 Philadelphia 22
NO stats: D. Brees 25/34 for 311 yards and 3 touchdowns
M. Colston 8 receptions for 98 yards and 2 touchdowns
Philadelphia stats: 35/51 for 391 yards and 2 touchdowns
B. Celek 8 receptions for 104 yards

St. Louis 7 Washington 9
Washington stats: J. Campbell 23/35 for 242 yards
STL stats: S. Jackson 17 carries for 104 yards

Arizona 31 Jacksonville 17
AZ stats: K. Warner 24/36 for 243 yards and 2 touchdowns
Jacksonville stats: D. Garrard 23/43 for 282 yards and 2 touchdowns
M. Sims-Walker 6 receptions for 104 yards and 1 touchdown

Hall of Fame Speech

The basketball hall of fame induction is a ceremony that happens once every year where the greatest basketball players of their time get the greatest individual honor in their sport. During the ceremony the inductees give a speech thanking people, and reflecting on their career. However this year’s basketball hall of fame class and one individual speech has been causing a national buzz around sports analyst and fans.
Sports analyst and fans regard the 2009 basketball hall of fame class as the best ever. “This is the best basketball hall of fame class of my lifetime, and it has my all time favorite player in it” said Jordan Ambers a basketball player from California. This year’s class boosts the likes of Michael Jordan, David Robinson, Vivan Stringer, and Jerry Sloan. “The is a great class but it starts and ends with Michael Jordan, no offense to the other great players and coaches but Michael Jordan is the best of all time” said basketball fan Jerome Best from Virginia. It seems as though everyone agrees with Best claim, even the national media is focused the spotlight on Jordan. However Jordan’s induction speech has also got national attention, and a lot of it has been negative.
Many view Michael Jordan speech as arrogant, and biased. Others say he talked about people that had a part of his career negatively. “Jordan was a great player but he shouldn’t have talked negative about anybody, there wasn’t a need for that” said Jade Cosby. The speech came of wrong for a lot of people, “Jordan seemed arrogant, I mean he’s the best but it’s good to be humble” said Omar Leshaun from Virginia. During his speech Jordan talked about how former Utah Jazz guard Bryon Russell motivated him, and he made sure he got the best of him each time they played. He called out his high coach who cut him, and talked about the player who made it over him. Lastly he took a shot at former Bulls general manager Jerry Krause for saying that” organizations win championships”. Jordan believed he was wrong, saying that, “the players win championships”, and implying that it was his fault that the Chicago Bulls broke up in 1998.
The national media has a split view of Jordan’s speech some believe it was good, and some believe it was on called for. This is also the case with the people around the country that were interviewed for the story. “I liked his speech, he was just talking about what motivated him and there’s nothing wrong with that” said Richard Thistle a student from California. A lot of people view his speech as different but ok. “Michael Jordan is the best player of all time he can say anything he wants, whatever happened to freedom of speech?” said Chicago Bulls fan Brandon Walton.
Fans and all media outlets seem to be split whether they liked Jordan’s speech or not. Some say it was arrogant, biased, and unethical. Other says it was good, unique, and the best hall of fame speech ever. There’s obviously a disagreement about Michael Jordan’s speech, but there isn’t a disagreement that Michael Jordan was the best basketball player of all time, and if anybody dissevered to be inducted into the hall of fame it’s Michael Jordan.

Kanye West Good or Bad?

His actions have made national news; you can see it on T.V. from CNN to your local news channels. The president is even rumored to have called his actions “acting like an asshole”. Kanye West taking the microphone away from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech hasn’t won him over a lot of positive feed back. So why did he do it? Are his actions justified? I interviewed 10 people from different parts of the country to represent how the general public feels about his actions.

“I believe Kanye West should be ashamed of himself. He had no reason to do that, this is people stereotype black so much” said Mathew Horn a college student from California

“Kid look up to people they see on T.V. Kanye West is on T.V. often what kind of roll model is he representing himself as?” said Adrienna Christy a mother of three from Baltimore

“I liked his actions he stood up for what he believed in, we talk about freedom of speech in the country right? He didn’t hurt anybody he was just speaking his mind” said Brandon Knight a college student from California.

“I don’t mind what he did, I wouldn’t of done it, but in a way he was right” said Chris Calvin a Costco employer from Arizona.

“I hate what Kanye did, its unethical, and rude” said Claudia Davis a college student from New York.

“What did Taylor Swift do to Kanye West? Its not her fault she won, and its not Kanye’s job to go up on stage an express his opinion, his opinion doesn’t matter” said Courtney Miller from Texas.

“I though it was funny, but it was very rude” said Enise Mccormick a college student from New Jersey

“People care to much about this it’s not that big of a deal to me” said Jazie Shaw from Virgina.

“I have no problem with what he did, its true, the MTV awards are superficial” said Kellan Carter a basketball player from Louisiana.

“I just shook my head the whole time Kanye West is an idiot, his judgment was very poor on that night” said Keshaun Murphy a college student from Tennesse.

From the people I interviewed from around the country seven believed Kanye West was wrong for what he did, and three people either didn’t care or said his actions were justifiable. Based from the results I got its 70% (Bad move) 30%(good move or don’t care)

NFL WEEK ONE RESULTS

Here are your week one NFL results:

Green Bay 21 Chicago 15
Green Bay stats: A. Rodgers 17/28 for 184 yards
G. Jennings 6 receptions for 106 yards
Chicago stats: J. Culter 17/36 for 277 yards
D. Hester 4 receptions for 90 yards and 1 touchdown

NY Giants 23 Washington 17
NY stats: E. Manning 20/29 for 256 yards and 1 touchdown
S. Smith 6 receptions for 80 yards
Washington stats: J. Campbell 19/26 for 211 yard and 1 touchdown
Randell El 7 receptions for 98 yards

San Francisco 20 Arizona 16
SF stats: S. Hill 18/31 for 209 yards
I. Bruce 4 receptions for 74 yards
Az stats: K. Warner 26/44 for 288 yards
T Hightower 12 receptions for 124 yards

Seattle 28 St. Louis 0
Seattle stats. M. Hasselback 25/36 for 259 yards and 3 touchdowns
J Carlson 6 receptions for 94 yards and 2 touchdowns

Atlanta 19 Miami 7
Atlanta stats: M. Ryan 22/36 for 229 yards and 2 touchdowns
Miami stats: C Pennington 21/29 for 201 yards and 1 touchdown

Denver 12 Cincinnati 7
Denver stats: K. Orton 17/28 for 243 yards and 1 touchdown
B. Stokley 1 reception for 84 yards and 1 touchdown
Cincinnati stats: C. Ochocinco 5 receptions for 84 yards

Minnesota 34 Cleveland 20
Minnesota stats: A. Peterson 25 carries for 180 yards and 3 touchdowns
Cleveland stats: B Quinn 21/35 for 205 yards and 1 touchdown

Indianapolis 14 Jacksonville 12
Indianapolis stats: P. Manning 28/38 for 301 yards and 1 touchdown
R. Wayne 10 receptions for 162 yards and 1 touchdown
Jacksonville stats: M Jones-Drew 21 carries for 97 yards and 1 touchdown

New Orleans 45 Detroit 27
New Orleans stats: D. Brees 26/34 for 358 yards and 6 touchdowns
Detroit stats: C. Johnson 3 receptions for 90 yards

Dallas 34 Tampa Bay 21
Dallas stats: T. Romo 16/26 for 353 yards and 3 touchdowns
Tampa Bay stats: B. Leftwich 25/41 for 276 yards and 1 touchdown

Philadelphia 38 Carolina 10
Philadelphia stats: D. Mcnabb 10/18 for 79 yards and 2 touchdowns

Baltimore 38 Kansas City 24
Baltimore stats: J. Flacco 26/43 for 307 yards and 3 touchdowns
R. Rice 19 carries for 108 yards
Kansas City stats: B. Croyle 16/24 for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns
M. Bradley 4 receptions for 74 yards

NY Jets 24 Houston 7
NY stats: T. Jones 20 carries for 107 yards and 2 touchdowns
D. Keller 4 receptions for 94 yards

Pittsburgh 13 Tennessee 10
Pittsburgh stats: S. Holmes 9 receptions for 131 yards and 1 touchdown
H. Ward 8 receptions for 103 yards
B. Roethlisberger 33/43 for 363 yards and 1 touchdown
Tennessee stats: K. Collins 22/35 for 244 yards and 1 touchdown

New England 25 Buffalo 24
New England stats: T. Brady 39/53 for 378 yards and 2 touchdowns
R. Moss 12 receptions for 141 yards
Buffalo stats: T. Edward 15/25 for 212 yards and 2 touchdowns

San Diego 24 Oakland 20
San Diego stats: 24/36 for 252 yards and 1 touchdowns
A. Gates 5 receptions for 85 yards
Oakland stats: J. Russell 12/30 for 208 yards and 1 touchdown