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.