In the world of the X-Games. At this year's Winter X-games (held in Aspen) the first death in the history of the X-games occurred. Caleb Moore, a freestyle snowmobile rider, crashed while preforming a back flip he had done many times before. The skis on the front of his snowmobile caught the top of the landing zone flipping Caleb and his snowmobile over. He died Thursday Jan. 31, 2013, age 25. His brother Colten Moore was injured in a different crash, separating his pelvis. Here's a link to the X-games article on Caleb.
Lindsey Vonn was injured in a Super-G race and needed to be air lifted to a hospital. She tore two liniments in her knee and broke a bone in her lower leg. She under went surgery on the 10th and is recovering.
Now, the Washington Capitals have struggled. There's no denying that fact. But we shouldn't given up hope for the playoffs. The players hadn't played with each other until the mini camp, they have a new coach and a new system to get used to. With a short season that is compressing everything to such a fine point everything is stressed. If you loss one game you're starting to slide. The Caps did lose 9 of the first 11 games, and are now 5-9-1, but they are only short of the 8th seed for the playoffs by 4 points. There are still games left, they have players who just need to step-up and play good hockey, and if their goalies continue to play at the caliber they are and even improve, well there is still a postseason waiting for them.
I just want to make a point about Ovie. He isn't as good as he was his first 5 years, but he could be. He still plays with passion and has drive. Ovie needs to listen to his coach and player where he's told. Adam Oats has been moving him over to the right side instead of the left. The other teams are starting to know how he plays and what he's going to do when he plays on the left side. Can Ovie still be great? Yes, most likely not as good his first 5 years but he could have a great rest of his career. Oh, and Capitals, Ovie is a franchises player. If you trade him be prepared for what will happen if another team gets him, because most of them want him.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Turkey Day Football
I got the awesome gift of going to the Patriots-Jets game on Thanksgiving and it was amazing. It was the perfect game to end of day of food, family, and weird football.
I'll go in order starting with the Texans and Lions. The Lions might have won if refs had called the fumble that turned into a Texan touchdown. I think it was the right call to make, it wasn't clear enough to me that he was down by contact. Since there was no whistle the play continued. The game went into over time and the chaos broke out. The up-rights must have been cursed or something. The Lions had the ball first but fumbled it and the Texans recovered it. They lined up for a field goal attempt and it went wide left. So the Lions had the ball again. They got into field goal range and went to kick for the win. It looked good up until it bounced off the right up-right and the lower bar on the goal post. The Texans got the football back again and marched down the field. Once in field goal range they lined up to try again for the winning field goal. The announcers I was listing to were saying that they could make the field goal but having seen what had happened before they weren't so sure. The goal was good, just barely making it in side the up-rights. It almost went wide left again. Final Score: Texans 34 Lions 31
The Redskins won in Dallas. But they didn't just win, they steamrolled over the failing Cowboys. At the end of the game to kill time and avoid giving the football back to the Cowboys they stopped the clock by sliding just short of the end-zone. By the time most of the Redskin game was happening I was at Metlife stadium and saw some of the plays. Every time I looked over at the TV where they were showing the Skins game there was a score alert. The Cowboys didn't just lie there and take it. They did fight back to come within 7 points of tying the game up. Final Score: Redskins 38 Cowboys 31
The Patriots are on top of their game right now, while the Jets... well not so much to put it nicely. The Pats came onto the field with load boos coming from all over the stadium. But the boos soon turned to groans of disappointment, frustration, and the pain of suffering another loss to New England. The Pats just marched down the field to score when on offence and forced the ball back to the offence when playing defence. Or they just took the ball and scored for themselves. By halftime the stadium was half empty. By the forth quarter Patriots fans were the only ones remaining. There were a few Jets fans here and there but most had given up and left. Those who were left just wanted pain to end. One Jets fan shouted at one point after a kick off, "Just take a knee, just take a knee the rest of the game! Give them the ball!" Needless to say there was no hope for a late game victory for the Jets it was over after the first touchdown. Final Score: Patriots 49 Jets 19.
Pictures from the game:
Pre-game shot of the field.
Final Score with an empty stadium.
Edelman being helped off the field.
Post Game
I'll go in order starting with the Texans and Lions. The Lions might have won if refs had called the fumble that turned into a Texan touchdown. I think it was the right call to make, it wasn't clear enough to me that he was down by contact. Since there was no whistle the play continued. The game went into over time and the chaos broke out. The up-rights must have been cursed or something. The Lions had the ball first but fumbled it and the Texans recovered it. They lined up for a field goal attempt and it went wide left. So the Lions had the ball again. They got into field goal range and went to kick for the win. It looked good up until it bounced off the right up-right and the lower bar on the goal post. The Texans got the football back again and marched down the field. Once in field goal range they lined up to try again for the winning field goal. The announcers I was listing to were saying that they could make the field goal but having seen what had happened before they weren't so sure. The goal was good, just barely making it in side the up-rights. It almost went wide left again. Final Score: Texans 34 Lions 31
The Redskins won in Dallas. But they didn't just win, they steamrolled over the failing Cowboys. At the end of the game to kill time and avoid giving the football back to the Cowboys they stopped the clock by sliding just short of the end-zone. By the time most of the Redskin game was happening I was at Metlife stadium and saw some of the plays. Every time I looked over at the TV where they were showing the Skins game there was a score alert. The Cowboys didn't just lie there and take it. They did fight back to come within 7 points of tying the game up. Final Score: Redskins 38 Cowboys 31
The Patriots are on top of their game right now, while the Jets... well not so much to put it nicely. The Pats came onto the field with load boos coming from all over the stadium. But the boos soon turned to groans of disappointment, frustration, and the pain of suffering another loss to New England. The Pats just marched down the field to score when on offence and forced the ball back to the offence when playing defence. Or they just took the ball and scored for themselves. By halftime the stadium was half empty. By the forth quarter Patriots fans were the only ones remaining. There were a few Jets fans here and there but most had given up and left. Those who were left just wanted pain to end. One Jets fan shouted at one point after a kick off, "Just take a knee, just take a knee the rest of the game! Give them the ball!" Needless to say there was no hope for a late game victory for the Jets it was over after the first touchdown. Final Score: Patriots 49 Jets 19.
Pictures from the game:
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