Blog post #6


         So yesterday my home town Boston Celtics hosted the Miami Heat. Now with a celtics 100-92 win last time they met in Miami it seemed to be a sure win for the Celtics. But sure enough i was proven wrong. Last night the Celtics were down by 22 in the third and seemed like they were gonna lose in a blow out even with Miami without Wade, and Bosh but the Celtics brought it within 6 with 43 seconds but ended up losing by a final score of 93-87. Even though Marcus Smart and Jae Crowder had an out standing offensive night for the Celtics it just was not enough to beat the red hot heat.

   I agree with the author that college student athletes are being treated unfairly and are exploiting their students. One reason is because when Fullback Devin Ramsey emailed his paper to his tutor and the tutor added another paragraph to his essay and the paper was never emailed tot the teacher. Then the NCAA found him guilty on frod on something he didn't do and for something he didn't do. So the NCAA revoked his scholarship which meant he couldn't play football. Also another reason is when a former Colorado running back became paralyzed after a player hit him hard during a game. the college then revoked his scholarship  and refused to pay for the medical expenses. I think that its just wrong for university to just turn their back on a former athlete that came and committed to play for their school like that and then for them to get injured and then for you just to turn your back is wrong. That's why i agree with the author that the NCAA are treating their student athletes unfairly and are exploiting them.

           Blog post #7


  In Trevor Martin's documentary " Schooled- Price of College sports,2013" he argues that college student athletes are being underutilized and miss treated by the NCAA. The author argues by first interviewing former players who were treated unfairly like North Carolina's Fullback Devin Ramsey wast typing his paper and emailed it to his tutor for revisions that he had to make and the tutor emailed him back and added an extra paragraph for him and he thought that the tutor was going to send it to the teacher but he never did and he was caught in a frod  scandal revoking him from playing football and couldn't even fight the situation, he then interviewed some tutors that helped the star athletes with there academics and the tutor said that some of the athletes had a reading level of a first grader and some didn't even know how to pronounce letters and he concluded with trying to interview people that were apart of the NCAA board and they all declined which sends a message that they know what they are doing is wrong and wont admit to their wrongs and treat layers more fairly. His purpose is to express that NCAA athletes are being unfairly treated and that they work their butts off to help their team win a championship and when they do they don't get rewarded like the coaches do with millions of dollars, and that college students aren't getting the education they payed for. Martin seems to have student athletes in high school and in college now and even former athletes that for college athletes that their miss treatment wont be silent anymore and that for incoming college athletes that NCAA sports isn't just a walk in the park that players in college sports are being treated unfairly and that there being exploited by the people who created college sports.

Celtics vs Warriors

          This past Sunday, Isaiah Thomas 20 points wasn't enough to hold the 26 point half time lead against Steph Curry who had an outstanding 37 points and the visiting Warriors. On Sunday at the TD Garden the c’s defense breakdown cost them the game. After a mediocre half the c’s fall 106-101.

         The Celtics came hot out of the gate with 38 first quarter points in large part of Isaiah Thomas’ 8 point out burst in the last 69 seconds of the first quarter. Then in the second quarter the Celtics big three off the bench ( Jerebko, Crowder, and Thomas) kept the scoring streak going early in the second. The Celtics hit three big threes in 60 seconds to expand their lead to 26 with 6:56 remaining in the first half.

 The Celtics looked promising to get a win but….. everyone knew the warriors would come back in the second half. Surely enough the Warriors chipped the lead away and with Draymond Greens tip in with 3:24 left which put the Warriors up 96-94.  The Celtics came back with a 3 pointer that put them back up by one with 1:43 left the go but the Warriors kept responding with more buckets.

   Then it finally came down to one finally attempt to put the game into over time and with Isaiah Thomas with the ball it almost was an absolute definite that he would hit the three but he got a great looked and missed and the Celtics lost 106-101.

     The big takeaway from Boston though is that “These Celtics can hang with the NBA elites and should not fear what lies ahead of them if the seek into  the playoffs”.( by Chris Forsberg).  Which this reporter is right they shouldn't really fear because with the addition to Isaiah and Jerebko this team could be a possible eight to seven seed.

        The Celtic’s “valued the ball” and were able to hang with the Warriors because of that. Also because they were able to take care of the ball they only had one first half turnover which played a huge factor in their 26 point half time lead. Unfortunately as the Warriors started to come back and when they ended up winning that’s when the Celtic’s didn't take care of the ball and let up SEVEN turnovers in the second half.

         But they were some positive things that came out of this game one is that the Celtics came and played one great half of basketball which makes you think if they could be a potential second round playoff team if they can come to play for 48 minutes instead of 24. Also another thing is that even without their big men and without really having any stars on the team for them to hang with these types of elite teams means that our coaching staff must be doing a fantastic job with this team. Finally the last positive thing that came out of this game was the fact that we almost beat the best team league in the league.

Reaction on the Superbowl!

                      Well to start off the Superbowl was very exciting! The patriots won by a score of 28-24, it was so cool to see our patriots come back against the Sea-hawks from such a big deficit. I was personally impressed with Tom Brady's because in the past two Superbowl he couldn't get the job done which really made me question his supremacy of a quarterback. But instead of tom being all panicky he was calm and cool and collective about being down so much and came out and showcased what and who the real Tom Brady was and why New England drafted him. I'm so excited that out home town Patriots won and I hope that's one of many Superbowl's top come!!!