It's Back!!

I have regained my love for sports. I really never lost it, but I just took a little break. Maybe because of the season I started my blog. The only major sport was baseball. Fortunate for me, football season is back. I always enjoy watching the sport and I think there are Web sites that do a good job of covering the sport. ESPN is one of them. Having the ability to follow your own team online is fun. It is better than not being able to keep up with them all. I am a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and the San Francisco 49ers. I rarely see 49ers games televised in this area, so in order for me to follow the game I have to look at play by play on ESPN. As we speak, I am following the Jaguars game. They play the Tennessee Titans this week. The 49ers game does not start until 4:15 p.m.

I love the main page of ESPN. At the top you can get quick score information on games around the league. At the top of each score, the channel is listed if viewers want to watch. Depending on your area you can only get certain games. In the future, when I get more dinero or money I would like to get NFL Sunday Ticket. This allows you to watch all games played on Sunday, so I could always follow my favorite teams.

Anyway, back to the site the front page has a nice photo of four top quarterbacks in the league. I do not necessarily agree with the bottom right quarterback, who is Vince Young. He is the Titans quarterback and they play the Jaguars today. So boo to him. David Garrard, the Jaguars quarterback, was a better player last year, so he should be on the front page in my opinion.

When your team is not televised on your local Fox or CBS affiliate, football fans have the option of following live play by play online with ESPN. There is a digital field, where you can follow precisely where the play is taking place. Updates are instant on each play showing who threw the ball, ran the ball and caught the ball. The updates tell you how many yards on the play, total yards overall, current position of the ball, how much time left in the game, current score, team statistics and individual statistics. This is a good technique to keep fans involved with football even if they are not watching it on television.

Even though I do not care for him today because he is playing one of my favorite teams I still think Young is a great talent. I am sure if you do not know about him then you will get a good idea of what I am talking about below.

From Baseball to Basketball

Searching some of the top stories in news for the day I came across an Alex Rodriguez headline. Rodriguez is the starting third baseman for the New York Yankees. The story is about his wife filing for divorce. I thought the photo included with the article was humorous. It is him and his wife in the stands of what seems to be a sporting event. He looks to be annoyed with her because she seems to be talking to him to . The article talks about his extramarital affairs so the photograph is fitting to the description of Rodriguez by his wife in the article calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."

I looked at headlines from cbssportsline.com, espn.com, foxsports.com and mlb.com and noticed they all had the same top story. The story was about pitcher C.C. Sabathia, who was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers from the Cleveland Indians. Both cbsportsline and foxsports.com had interesting plays on words for headlines. It seems sports news organizations are into clever headlines and in this case they are incorporating a players name. CBS used the headline "C.C. (ya) Sabathia." Fox used the headline "C.C. you later." The coverage on Sabathia is different between the news organizations such as foxsports.com which talks about the Sabathia trade in a news story along with other important story lines in professional baseball. Espn.com does a similar job but instead looks at the particular division the Brewers are in. The article looks at the effect the Sabathia trade has on the Brewers and the two other teams in contention for winning the division, which are the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals. The MLB page focuses more on video content to help tell the story. There is a video with baseball experts discussing the impact of the trade. There is another video included showing the report of the Sabathia trade by mLB.com. This was apart of a package including other top stories in baseball.

On a humorous note, the video showing Shaquille O'Neal of the NBA's Phoenix Suns badmouthing his former teammate Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers in a freestyle has to be one of the funnier moments for professional athletes and a low point depending on perceptions.