To my Sports Journalism class...you have the option of answering today's assignment here online by posting a comment. In that comment you must write your class color at the top as well as YOUR NAME. Then, place a link to your article and 3-5 sentences about why that article's headline caught your eye.
Remember, it's double credit to use the blog this week.
Good sites to check for sports articles:
Daily News Sports Section.
ESPN.com.
NY Post Sports Section (you must subscribe to read these articles but it is free)
NY Times (Free subscription)
Newsday
Good luck with the assignment and feel free to drop me a line at Mr.Donohue@gmail.com with any questions.
Also, enjoy a YouTube highlight reel of LeBron James (below).
-Mr.Donohue
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3022848
THIS IS THE ARTICLE WITH THE HEADLINE THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION OUT OF THE REST OF THEM. I SAW THAT IT SAID "D.A. expects Simpson to be charged with seven felonies." I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHEN IT WAZ GOING 2 HAPPEN BECAUSE I HEARD ABOUT O.J SIMPSON IN A WHILE.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09182007/news/regionalnews/double_dribble.htm
This article was about the Isiah Thomas case. The reason why this article cought my eye was because in class we read about this and i wanted to learn more about it. Another reason is because of the headline "FRIEND: ACCUSER COMPLAINED OF THOMAS' BEHAVIOR".
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09182007/news/regionalnews/what_if_they_openend_a_school_.htm
"WHAT IF THEY OPENED A SCHOOL WITH ONLY TWO STUDENTS?"
The reason the article caught my attention was because I have never heard of a school with only two students showing up. How does a school even start up with only two students? Even the extremely messed up schools have a better student count.
Ex-coach backs Knicks' accuser
I picked this article because I think it was interesting. Not only that but we discussed this in class earlier in the week. This article talks about Isiah sexually harassing Anucha Sanders. But some people think that Sanders is lying and just wants money.
by Denzel M. Class Red
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2007/09/18/2007-09-18_former_coach_backs_knicks_accusers_claim.html
This article caught my attention due to its clever wording and alluring topic. It discussed the point and issue of the article and new information on the topic. It was informative and told us of the Knicks scandal and the new edition to its supporting evidence.
Xavier Acevedo Green
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09182007/sports/yankees/yankees_win_o_so_good.htm
The headline that caught my attention was "Yankees' Win O So Good." It caught my attention because the yankees are my favorite team and they beat the orioles by three runs. Also the headline has a slick twist to it, it says that the yankees win "O" so good. The orioles are known as the O's. that is why the headline sticks out
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2007/09/17/2007-09-17_amid_spygate_patriots_blow_out_chargers.html
this article caught my attention because well it has to deal with the patriots. which is also if u havent noticed the laffayette hs football teams name. and is also the most successfull franchise in modern football history by winneng three out of 4 superbowls in four years the last 6 years ago!
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2007/09/17/2007-09-17_amid_spygate_patriots_blow_out_chargers.html
this article caught my attention because well it has to deal with the patriots. which is also if u havent noticed the laffayette hs football teams name. and is also the most successfull franchise in modern football history by winneng three out of 4 superbowls in four years the last 6 years ago!
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2007/09/17/2007-09-17_amid_spygate_patriots_blow_out_chargers.html
this article caught my attention because well it has to deal with the patriots. which is also if u havent noticed the laffayette hs football teams name. and is also the most successfull franchise in modern football history by winneng three out of 4 superbowls in four years the last 6 years ago!
Anthony Mendez, Red Class
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2007/09/17/2007-09-17_eli_manning_guts_through_injury_but_fail-2.html
This article was about Eli Manning and how he gets through his injury but doesn't overcome his opponent the Packers to win. The headline of this article caught my attention because it states," Eli Manning guts through injury, but fails to lift Giants to win." This headline interested me because Eli Manning is what the Giants need to be successful, without his improvement the Giants wont play to well.
jhonal Powell yellow
The name of the article that caught my attention was Code Blue. This caught my attention because if someone sees this heatline they would want to read it and find out what happens next.
www.espn.com/nba
Updated: June 15, 2007, 4:26 AM ETMVP Parker joins Spurs' eliteBy Chris Sheridan
ESPN Insider
CLEVELAND -- Tony Parker was wearing a semi-damp shirt -- not soaked, mind you, but merely moist -- as he held the Larry O'Brien trophy in one arm and the NBA Finals MVP trophy in the other and was told it was his turn to make the long trek to the interview room.
NBA FINALS
San Antonio 4, Cleveland 0
Game 1: Spurs 85, Cavs 76
Game 2: Spurs 103, Cavs 92
Game 3: Spurs 75, Cavs 72
Game 4: Spurs 83, Cavs 82
"C'mon Michael, you're coming with me. Make sure you bring that champagne," Parker said to Michael Finley, who had one request before he complied.
"You go first. I'll follow you," Finley said. "We've all been following you all season."
The Spurs locker room was indeed a happy place, but it wasn't anywhere near as smelly or wet of a place as the champions' locker room was a year ago when the Miami Heat finished off the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 and unleashed nearly 20 years of pent-up excitement in a raucous, crazy celebration the likes of which I've never seen before.
The scene Thursday night was so much more subdued, so much more refined -- a snapshot moment that illustrated how different it was to have a known, proven commodity, rather than a first-rime titlist, emerge on top after the long NBA season.
Yes, I saw some beer bottles being shaken up and sprayed around the room (they had Bud Light, Corona and Labatt's Blue) when I was one of the first reporters allowed inside the Spurs' locker room. And yes, that sweet but pungent champagne smell (the brand was called Cristalino, which I suspect is not related to Cristal) was wafting through the air.
But any similarities to the celebration scene of a year ago ended right there.
Not once did I hear a single Spurs player emit even the slightest whoop. Not a single guy was jumping up and down.
A cellophane wrap covered the untouched postgame spread of turkey on wheat sandwiches, a sight that struck Beno Udrih as so uncommonly weird that he called over to Brent Barry, who was filming the scene with a handheld video camera, and said "Bones, you need a sandwich?"
A larger piece of cellophane slipped off the television set it was covering, revealing a news station broadcasting a helicopter view of the scene outside, the headline along the bottom of the screen reading "Championship Dream ends."
Nearby, Matt Bonner took it all in as he munched on a green apple. On the other side of the wall, the Spurs coaching staff puffed on victory cigars. Fabricio Oberto stood in the center of the room and took questions from many of the same members of the Argentine media contingent who danced with him on the court in Athens three years ago following the Olympic gold medal game.
Down the hallway a few minutes later, LeBron James was arriving at the door to the interview room just as Tim Duncan was exiting, and they stopped and shared an embrace.
"Some day you're going to own this league," Duncan told James, "but thanks for giving it to us this year."
The Cavs didn't actually give the title to the Spurs on Thursday night in an 83-82 Game 4 victory that completed a 4-0 sweep, it was much more of a case of San Antonio earning it. The finale was yet another game that -- as Spurs coach Gregg Popovich so succinctly put it two nights ago -- set offense-oriented NBA basketball back a decade, but it was a compelling watch down the stretch nonetheless, a game in which the Spurs withstood the Cavs' final flail at salvaging some lasting dignity to take into the summer with them.
After allowing Cleveland to open the fourth quarter with an 11-0 run that gave them a one-point lead, the Spurs summoned their greatest strength -- their ability to stay calm, execute and play with poise -- to respond with a 14-3 burst that put them back in control.
Ginobili was the catalyst down the stretch, scoring 13 of his 27 points in the final quarter, the last of which came on the second of two free throws with 1.9 seconds left to give the Spurs a four-point lead that clinched it. Ginobili thrust both fists in the air after hitting the shot, and James was already congratulating Bruce Bowen with a handshake as Damon Jones was nailing a meaningless 3-pointer at the final buzzer.
An instant after that buzzer sounded, James made a beeline toward the exit tunnel leading back to the Cavs' locker room.
"I didn't want to turn around at all and look at it, but I've seen other teams win the title before, me watching on TV, so I knew what they were doing. But I didn't turn around and look at it. I didn't want to look at it," James said.
He probably won't want to look at his stats from this series, either, because as good as a player as he is, James' numbers were not in the superstar stratosphere. Yes, he averaged 22.0 points, but he shot 36 percent from the field and just 20 percent on 3s, and his 27 assists were nearly matched by his 23 turnovers.
Now let's compare that to Parker, who garnered all but one of the 10 votes in balloting for the MVP award. Parker shot 57 percent for the series and averaged 24.5 points, dominating the point guard matchup to the point where the first question Cleveland general manager Danny Ferry will be asking himself on Friday morning is how that spot can be shored up in the offseason so the Cavs can be best able to try and replicate this run a year from now.
After getting a huge embrace from fiancé Eva Longoria, who jumped at him and curled her arms and legs around him, Parker had a French flag wrapped around his waist like a beach towel as he stood at center court and received his MVP trophy from commissioner David Stern.
"Congratulations, and bon chance," Stern said, mixing in a little French with his English.
C'est magnifique would have been a fitting choice of words, too, on a night when Parker graduated to the level of sustained greatness previously reserved in San Antonio for icons Duncan, David Robinson and George Gervin.
Parker makes it four -- four championships, and four franchise heroes.
Chris Sheridan covers the NBA for ESPN Insider. To e-mail Chris, click here.
• Finals Dimes: 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Another Title For Tim And Tony
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
Finals MVP Tony Parker and Tim Duncan celebrated the clinching win in refined style.
Numbers Say This Was Best Spurs Team Of All
CLEVELAND -- All throughout the Finals, a lot of folks have been asking me where I rank each of these teams in the list of the top 60 post-merger finalists that I created prior to the Finals. Now that all the results are in the books, I can give you an answer.
The Spurs just edge out the '99 edition as the best of the four San Antonio champions, ranking ninth among the (now) 62 teams. Every team ahead of them won 61 games while they only won 58, but that mirrors what I've been saying about the Spurs all year -- their victory margin was that of a vastly superior team, and that's what we should have been paying attention to all along. San Antonio could have ranked higher if it had maintained such a strong margin in the playoffs, but it didn't.
Still, with 275.3 points, the Spurs are just a hair behind the eighth-ranked 1992 Chicago Bulls -- that's some pretty lofty company. And consider this -- the Spurs now own the two best-rated post-merger team that didn't feature Michael Jordan, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, and two of the five best that didn't have Jordan. There's some more fuel for Tim Duncan's all-time great resume.
As for the Cavs, it may surprise some to learn that they're not the worst finalist ever, as some have claimed. In fact, they're not terribly close. Cleveland's 146.3 points would rate them 56th, or seventh from the bottom, but nowhere near the 100.1 put up by the 1982 Rockets.
But some other recent Eastern Conference champions have been worse --including the 2001 76ers, the 2002 Nets and the 1999 Knicks. It wasn't a good team for a finalist, mind you, but the Finals have seen worse. This blowout was as much a result of their unusually strong opponent as it was the Cavs' unusually weak conference champion resume.
-- John Hollinger in Cleveland
Series By Numbers
• Cavs' 322 points in the series were the all-time post-shot clock low for a four-game NBA Finals.
• Spurs 67 assists were a low for a four-game NBA Finals.
• The Spurs are just the fourth franchise to win at least four titles. San Antonio joins the Celtics (16), Lakers (14) and Bulls (6).
• Robert Horry (7 titles) and John Salley are the only players in NBA history to win rings with three different teams. Horry won with the Rockets, Lakers and Spurs. Salley won with the Pistons, Bulls and Lakers.
• LeBron James completed his second postseason with a career playoff average of 27.3 ppg. That's already fifth best, trailing only Michael Jordan (33.4), Allen Iverson (30), Jerry West (29.1) and Tracy McGrady (28.8). (Minimum 25 games, 625 total points)
-- NBA
Driven By Duncan
Spurs step to the four
Honey, We Won
AP Photo/Eric Gay
Tony Parker has the NBA Finals MVP award, and the admiration of Eva Longoria, who you just may have seen at her fiancé's games.
Extreme Behavior
Thursday's Best
Spurs forward Manu Ginobili:
His play in the second half was the difference in San Antonio getting its broom on. Finished with 27 points, crushing the Cavs with clutch free throws down the stretch.
Thursday's Worst
Cavs forward Sasha Pavlovic:
When Cleveland needed Pavlovic's assertive drives, nothing. Made 1-of-6 shots, committed four fouls.
Quote of the Day:
"I don't give a s---."
-- Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, when reminded that the four-time champions still have never won back-to-back titles and asked if the opportunity to finally repeat would provide extra motivation next season.
• Complete linescore for every player
-- Andrew Ayres
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dailydime
TONY PARKER is now consider one of san antonios best players.after recieving finals MVP in the nba finals.Parker also played great throw out the season and playoffs.
Dream Team still the best ever ... or is it?
This headline tells me that they are going to make another dream team just like the team of micheal Jordan,Larry bird and Magic Johnson. Just that this Dream team has Kobe,Carmello,and J.Kidd On it
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