Boston fans racist.

No,  fans should not be considered racist based off what one person said. there's an entire city of people and one person doesn't speak for all of them. The case would be different if it was someone who actually represents the people of the city, like the governor. To take these comments and blame an entire city for being racist is absolutely ridiculous. This completely takes what the city believes in out of context.

What is a sport

      I think a sport is any physically demanding game that requires skill and is competitive. This definition keeps anything that could be competitive but not skill worthy out of the "sports" category... For example, competitive beer bottle smashing is competitive, but in reality it doesn't require any skill because anyone without any prior knowledge of how to do it can take a beer bottle and smash it "competitively"
       It needs to be competitive because any non competitive activity cannot be classified as a sport. You can do dance outside of school, or you can do competitive dance. It's not a sport until it become competitive. Without the competitive nature it is simply a hobby or game.
     In order to be a sport it has to be widely recognized as a sport as well. You cannot have it be a sport in some random part of the country and somewhere else it is not. Sports have to have wide spread recognition. In the end everyone's opinion of what a sport is, is different. But without the competitiveness it is just a hobby or activity, and without the aspect of skill it is simply a game. The thing that sets sports apart is the fact that you have to build up your competitive and skillful nature.

Red Sox 2014 season

The 2014 Red Sox were supposed to have whats believed to be a fun easy going season. 13 games in and we see that is definitely not whats going on. With a good fraction of the team feeling some types of injury the Red Sox are feeling the struggle. No one was expecting them to take the world series, but to have what seems so far as a very rough season ahead of them. With Koji having a sore shoulder and Ellsbury wearing pin stripes 2014 might very well be disastrous. The Red Sox do not have in my mind a chance this season, but if they play like they did in 2013 who really knows what could happen. What seemed like a the beginning of the golden age for the Red Sox is starting to seem like a disastrous start for this defending world champion team. Who knows though. When the Red Sox won in 2004, it took until 2007 for them to regain their momentum. Either way, the Red Sox had an amazing season last year and that's enough glory to last the people of Massachusetts a good couple of years.

Jerry Sunduskys Crazy Wife

Jerry Sandusky's wife is completely delusional. Not only is she in denial that her husband was a pedophile, she is an enabler. He would go down to say good night to the kids? What? She didn't find it weird that he was so close to these kids? The man was taking showers with them and she found it to be completely normal. Apparently its because that how people were in his time.. But strangely enough I don't remember of any time period that encouraged grown men to take showers with young boys. She needs to come to terms with what actually was going on. Either she is completely delusional or she is in it for the money. Now that her husband is in jail she's losing a $4,900 monthly pension. Media and attention could be her only means of getting money. Which is quite ironic considering she is claiming that all the boys who came out against her husband are in it for the money. Strangely enough I doubt 45/48 allegations would be found true by boys who are "faking" it.

Sports Related Question

Do you prefer professional or College sports? Why? What aspects of each do you like or dislike?

Sports interview

          Paige Monast is a teenage student as Norton High School. When asked whether or not she enjoys watching sports she replied with "No". Many girls are not particularly interested in sports, and Paige, an avid dancer and artistic type certainly is interested in other things more so. Paige does consider lesser known, or less popular events as sports. For example, Dance, Competitive Cheer, figure skating. Being a dancer herself this was an easy question to answer. Sports stars have been considered over paid by many people. When asked if she considers them to be over paid, she said she does think they are over paid.
          Paige is not a very frequent sports watcher, so as someone who already has a lack of interest in sports she said that Football is the least exciting sport to watch. In the Monast residence Basketball is a very popular sport watched by several family members, so football isn't popular even among the sports watchers. When asked how many live sporting events Paige has been to, she stated that shes been to about 20 live sporting event all of which were Red Sox games with her dad.
          Joey Delgrasso is a Norton High student in the 11th grade. He enjoys basketball and is an over all athletic kid. Joey does enjoys sports. He quickly replied with "Yes of course" when asked if he enjoyed watching them. Joey said that he does consider uncommon events as sports, such as figure skating, cheer leading etc.. as long as they are competitive. When asked if he considers athletes over paid he said Yes, but only baseball. This makes sense because baseballs players commonly sign 100 million dollar deals.
          Joeys least favorite sport to watch is soccer. This isn't unexpected because soccer isn't a very popular sport in the united states.. and especially among american males. Joey has been to 8 live sporting events in his life. This is still more than the average person, but considering he is a sports fan it's not completely unexpected.

The Best Norton Will Ever Have

Coach Coleman and the Norton Wrestling team could not have wished for a more dominating season. With an almost perfect record, the team took the State d3 title with ease. This being their second state title, the Lancers swept the competition with the sectional title as well. Norton can’t be stopped.

The State title was in the hands of the wrestling team from the beginning of the season. There was no competition. “Norton did not  just win the MIAA d-3 state wrestling championship at Foxboro. They owned it. Dominated it. Yanked it away from everybody else, stamped their names on the banner and hung it on the Laroque Gym wall.” Being the best of 56 teams, Lynnfield was still a whopping 41 points behind the lancers. A crushing victory for the lancers considering no one even came close to them. Mike Travers became the third Norton Lancer to win a state title for himself, coming first in the 190 pound weight class. Jonathan Taylor came Third in the 145 weight class, and Myles Mcalpine got fourth. In Sectionals Mike Travers, Jonathan Taylor, Myles Mcalpine and Elliot Johnson won their weight classes. Norton also won the Canton tournament and the Tri-Valley league.

Six wrestlers qualified for the All-state competition. Mike Travers wrestled well and ended up in 6^th place. Myles came in second so he came out as an alternate for the New England’s competition. Other team wrestlers wrestled well but did not qualify high enough to get a medal. Elliot Johnson was unable to wrestle due to a previous injury he received in the State Competition. Last year the Pin record was set by Mike Travers with 35 pins for the year. This year Jonathan Taylor set the new school record with 37 season pins.
This years team was filled with many competitive and highly skilled wrestlers. The dedication each wrestler put in, with the leadership of an amazing coach lead to the best season they could have possibly had. Norton may never have another wrestling team like the one that competed this year. 

The New Big Red Machine

Few things in this world are flawless, but the Canadian Olympic hockey team is definitely one of them. Many people including, Bruce Bennett of CBS News have called the Canadian team this year the "new Big Red Machine." Canada went undefeated in 6 games. Something like this has not happened since the 1984 Olympics where The Soviet Union did the same. Canada did amazingly but many people speculate that they could have been defeated if conditions for the Swedish team were different. Already missing two of their star players, Henrik Zetterberg and Henrik Sedin due to injury, the Swedes faced another fatal blow when Nicklas Backstrom failed a doping test due to his allergy medication. Many speculate that if the Swedish team had been at full force they could have taken down this "New Big Red Machine". I do not think that Sweden would have been able to take on Canada even with all their players healthy and in the game. Not only was this their second Winter Olympic Gold but Canada crushed the competition with 0 losses in the Olympic games.Canada has a huge selection of players to choose from because of its massive hockey leagues. This allowed them an upper hand in the Olympics because they were able to create the best possible team with far more options than any other team in the Olympics. The Sochi Olympics were dominated over all by the Canadian mens team because of their large selection of talent and ability to play well with each other. As we saw on the U.S team, having super stars play well with each other is not an easy thing. This was something Canada was able to accomplish. They got their best players and gave them the conditions to play efficiently with one another. Canada could not be touched by anyone.

Ken Ross Response

I don't think Sam will be very well accepted in the NFL. The NFL is filled with a lot of Macho men, many of whom have grown up viewing homosexuality as wrong and strange. Sam will face great challenges being openly gay in such a male dominated sport.

Hernandez

Hernandez's childhood was a large contributor to his outlandish life style. His father left at a young age and as a result he was left with no father figure in his life. This shows his inability to deal respectfully with disciplinary authority figures in his life such as police officers and some of his football coaches. His mother is partially to blame as well. Instead of getting a responsible father figure who could guide her children properly in life, she married a violent coke dealer. This greatly contributed to his violent gangster lifestyle. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and although he wasn't his biological father, he was still greatly affected by him. The patriots should have been more careful and read the warning signs of Hernandez's past. First off it was pretty well known that he was involved in gang activity. At one point in time he shot someone in the backseat of his car causing the person to lose an eye in the incident. He got low in the draft due to his inability to comply with coaches. Aka everyone knew he was trouble. During his time of excessive partying and increased gang activity the Patriots organization should have stepped in and applied some sort of disciplinary actions to straiten him out. Athletes appear so untouchable because we view them as having achieved such a high goal that many people strive for, when in reality they're normal people who can have troubled past's just like any of us.

Super Bowl 42

First off let me say that I hardly considered that a football game. It was pathetic. I predicted that the final score would be 34 to 27 in favor of the Seahawks.. Although my scoring for the winning team was a little off.. boy was I wrong when it came to the Broncos score. The game started with a horrible miss snap by the broncos which lead to a safety giving the Seahawks an immediate 2 points. The game proceeded on with two back to back field goals by the Seahawks in the read zone. 8-0 wasn't too bad of a score to over come but after Mannings second interception things really started to get bad. He threw a pathetic pass for an interception which eventually lead to a touchdown making the score 15-0. To me this was the point where I lost interest in the game and started going to social media. If i'm going to watch two teams that I care absolutely nothing about the game should at least be interesting. It was slaughter. The Seahawks had no competition. The Half time show was decent. Personally when I think halftime show I think over the top and crazy. Bruno Mars is a good performer but there was nothing about the performance that really stood out for me. Having a small Superbowl gathering at my house i found that eventually almost everyone lost interest. Eventually majority of the people went from watching the game, to going on their phones, to sitting in my kitchen talking about the local school drama. I personally really enjoyed the puppy commercial by Budweiser.

Superbowl 2k14

The big questions lately is who will win Super Bowl 2014. Based off of various sources, many people, including myself believe that the Seattle Seahawks will take the prize. Manning has not been known to handle cold weather very well. This year in New Jersey that's exactly what they're expecting. Manning cant and wont be able to handle the cold. The Seahawks is a relatively young team. Non of their players have been in a superbowl, but with the best defense in the league that shouldn't be much of a problem for them. The Broncos have a strong offense.. but i dont think itll be strong enough to tackle the Seahawks defense. Statistically speaking the Seahawks are favored to win as well. On Odds Shark the Seahawks have a score of +3 to Broncos who have -1. This clearly indicates that the majority believes in the Seahawks. My prediction for the Final score is 34 to 27 Seahawks. Although i don't usually follow sports I find myself watching the superbowl year after year regardless of which team plays. I guess its the commercials that always keep me coming back.

What a Shocker

College athletes are being accepted into schools they don't even qualify for simply because of their athletic abilities? WHAT A SHOCKER.. Sarcasm intended. When there's money on the line, there is definitely going to be people cutting corners. Its no secret that a great majority of skilled athletes are from "ghetto" environments. Suddenly a teacher finds out they're under educated and its a surprise? Common have you heard some of these athletes speak publicly? Its an embarrassments. I'm not saying there is no athletes with an education, or who at least have some sort of brain in their heads. But this is honesty nothing new. Ten years from now when these athletically gifted young men are going into bankruptcy, the same people who consider this news are going to be shocked about many of these athletes inability to manage money. With a fourth grade reading level.. what do you honestly expect?