Welcome to Freakoutsports.blogspot.com. We are going to cover a plethora of different topics, but they will all boil down to sports. Everything from the actual games, to offseason news and happenings to general day to day events, will be covered, discussed and debated right here. Sports do not take a break, and neither do we, so expect hard hitting content year round.
Right now, football is in the midst of its off-season. Teams from the NFL, to College, down all the way to high school and Pop Warner are getting in their first practices together, and finding out what they have on their rosters for the upcoming season.
Right now, football is in the midst of its off-season. Teams from the NFL, to College, down all the way to high school and Pop Warner are getting in their first practices together, and finding out what they have on their rosters for the upcoming season.
This is the time of year for younger players or player’s who sat the bench last season to show the improvement they have made and let the coaches know that they can be counted on when it means the most; In the game.
It’s also a part of the year when coaches put in their new wrinkles and packages to their game plan. Championships cannot be lost right now, but the first foundation to a winning season starts in off-season workouts and conditioning, and you can best believe coaches are harping that point to their players.
In Basketball, the Lakers and Kobe Bryant just won the World Championship over Dwight Howard’s Orlando Magic, and the next stop for the NBA is its rookie draft next week. The top draft picks at the moment are shaping up to be Blake Griffin, Ricky Rubio, Hasheem Thabeet, Jordan Hill, and Stephon Curry.
Because of the economy, and because three-fourths of the teams in the league are near the salary cap, do not expect a busy off-season after the draft.
The top free agents this year are Carlos Boozer, Hedo Turkoglu, Ben Gordon, Allen Iverson, Rasheed Wallace, and Ron Artest.
The second tier of free agents would be Trevor Ariza, Lamar Odom, Shawn Marion, Memo Okur and Paul Millsap.
Because most teams are saving their money for next year’s free agent class of 2010, expect a small market, with short contracts for most of these players.
The market will seem even smaller when compared to 2010's free agent class which is headlined by, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, Manu Ginobili, Steve Nash, Shaq, Amare Stoudemire, Tracy McGrady, and Ray Allen.
Shifting gears, Major League Baseball is in the heart of its schedule, and some of the top storylines are the Yankees and its stacked lineup, the Red Sox and their usual (past decade) dominance, the upstart Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers making charges to win their respective divisions for the first time in many years, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Manny Ramirez, and more steroid talk which is always a bummer.
Honestly, I don’t care anymore about steroids. I do not want to talk about them and I especially do not want to talk about test results from five seasons ago. If testing is as stringent as Commissioner Bud Selig claims it is, then there is no reason for us to waste time on the topics of Performance Enhancing Drugs.
Let’s focus on the ball players out on the field, and on what they are doing right now.
MMA is always in season and they have a huge show coming up on July 11 at UFC 100. The main event for the night is a World Heavyweight title unification bout between Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir. Lesnar is an absolute monster and is a former NCAA wrestling champion. Mir is one of the top technical fighters in the game right now, and has a submission victory over Lesnar under his belt from a fight two years ago.
Boxing is also a year round event and they have a big fight coming up in July as well, as the undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather comes out of retirement to face off against Juan Manuel Marquez. The winner of the fight will presumably face off against Manny Pacquio, who is considered the top boxer in the sport at the moment.
Pacquio knocked out former champ Ricky Hatton in the second round a couple months ago. If it does indeed lead to a Mayweather-Pacqiuo matchup, it will be the biggest fight of this decade so far.
In soccer or futbol, the World Cup is exactly one year from this date, away. Many nations are competing in qualifying matches presently, for the right to go to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. Expect the usual suspects of world powerhouses to make a run at the title in 2010 like Argentina, Brazil, England, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, and Spain.
Well that’s it for now. Feel free to comment and discuss topics where you see fit. As time goes by, we will go more in-depth on subjects in the world of sports. This particular posting was more of an introduction to get things rolling.
Very nicely done!! Now I have more to read while surfing the internet on my phone for no reason!! That Brock fight is going to be insane... And good take on next years NBA free agents, it should be a wild one! Also I read where Pacqiuo and Cotto are in talks about a fight. Can't wait to read more.
ReplyDelete"Listen here, BROTHER!" In the words of the Hulkiest of Hogans, that wasn't half bad. I really enjoy reading your writing. All that's left now is to add some pizazz to your blog. It needs some kind of sport theme layout. I wouldn't mind being an editor of your blog...you know, it's always good to have another pair of eyes read your work before you turn it in. With a blog like this, I expect to see you sitting around the horn!
ReplyDeleteYeah Karen and I watched the Cotto fight last weekend, it was damn good.
ReplyDeleteI FOUND A COOL LIVE CHAT ROOM FOR MIAMI HEAT FANS
ReplyDeletehttp://miamiheatlockerroom.blogspot.com/