Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is finally here and I’m so pumped!!! The Arizona Cardinals play against the Pittsburg Steelers and I can’t wait for the Cardinals to be VICTORIOUS!! My favorite player is Cardinals’ wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. He has the best hands in the game and can catch any pass sent his way. If I were the Steelers I’d be scared right about now.

I’d have to say that besides the actual game, my favorite part about the Super Bowl is the commercials. Any other time I watch TV I just change the channel when the commercials start, but for the Super Bowl I just have to watch them because they are so funny. Did you know it costs 3 million dollars for advertisers to buy a 30 second time slot just to advertise one of their products? That’s 100 thousand dollars a second! How many weeks of allowance will you have to save in order to buy a Super Bowl commercial spot for just 100th of a second? Do the math. You might need a bigger allowance.

Here is my prediction for the game: Cardinals’ quarterback Kurt Warner will throw for 300 yards and three touchdowns as the Cardinals win 31-24 in an all out battle.

Is anybody having a Super Bowl party? What’s your favorite food to eat while watching the Super Bowl?

Mercy

Recently a high school girls’ basketball game in Dallas ended with a score of 100-0. With the score 80-0 in the fourth quarter the winning team was still shooting 3-pointers and piling it on. I’ve seen games where the final score is 15-8 so 100-0 seems a little ridiculous right? Do you think the coach of the winning team should be fired for pressing his players to keep scoring again and again?

I’ve been on the losing end of a blowout game a few times and it doesn’t feel good, but I also know what it’s like to win big. At what point in a game do you stop competing and show a little compassion? Tell me about a blowout game you participated in. I’d love to hear your story.

Dwight Howard is Superman

Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic is the most dominating center in the league today. He leads the NBA in blocked shots, rebounds, and double-doubles. Last year Dwight Howard wowed everyone with his spectacular dunking display during All-Star festivities. He came out to participate in the dunk contest wearing a Superman costume - cape and all! He'll try and defend that title at the Slam Dunk contest this year in Phoenix.

Yesterday he was awarded by the fans for all his hard work when they voted him starting center for the Eastern Conference All-Stars. He received a whopping 3,150,181 votes from fans to break the previous record of 2,558,278 votes received by Yao Ming four years ago.

Here is a list of the All-Star starters this year:

Eastern Conference
F- LeBron James, Cleveland
F- Kevin Garnett, Boston
C- Dwight Howard, Orlando
G- Allen Iverson, Detroit
G- Dwayne Wade, Miami

Western Conference
F- Amare Stoudemire, Phoenix
F- Tim Duncan, San Antonio
C- Yao Ming, Houston
G- Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles
G- Chris Paul, New Orleans


Do you think another player should be starting instead of one of these guys? Who else deserves to play in the All-Star game?

Candace Parker

Candace Parker is simply amazing! She is my favorite WNBA player and has compiled so many awards over the years that my brain hurts thinking about it. For starters she is known for being the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game as well as the first woman to dunk twice in a college game.  She is 6 foot 4 inches so that probably helps. I only wish I could dunk. I'd be happy just touching the rim.

Parker attended Naperville Central High School and lead her team to state titles in 2003 and 2004 and in the process became the only two-time winner of the USA Today Player of the Year Award.  As a senior she competed in the Slam Dunk contest against future NBA Slam Dunk contestants JR Smith and Josh Smith and won! Isn't that awesome?

In college she lead the Tennesse Lady Vols to national championships in 2007 and 2008 before declaring for the WNBA draft where she was the #1 pick. 

You won't believe who is in her family! She married Sheldon Williams of the Sacramento Kings and her brother Anthony Parker plays for the Toronto Raptors so now there are three people in the family that play professional basketball. That's the start of a pretty good family basketball team if you ask me. 

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