"Best Athlete" Quarter-Finals
We have advanced to the quarter-finals of the first ever Sports Action “Best Athlete” Bracket. There were several upsets in the first round and could be many more before this bracket is all said and done. Here is how the bracket now breaks down.
In the Deion Sanders Bracket the top overall seed, LeBron James, moved on over Miami Heat teammate Dwyane Wade. He will face the only UFC athlete in the competition, Jon “Bones” Jones, in the next round after Jones upset fourth seeded Bryce Harper of the MLB‘s Washington Nationals. The Boston Red Sox’s Carl Crawford, a three-sport all-state athlete in high school and number six seed in this bracket, also pulled the upset over the Philadelphia Eagles’ DeSean Jackson and will face Calvin “Megatron” Johnson in the quarters.
In the Bo Jackson half of the bracket the second overall seed Blake Griffin advanced easily, and now will face Dwight Howard who beat out the Atlanta Falcons’ Tony Gonzalez, who has been called one of the best athletes in NFL history. Finally Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers upset fellow NFLer Jimmy Graham of the New Orleans Saints, who played both basketball and football at The University of Miami, and will be facing Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder who dispatched the only soccer player in the bracket, Christiano Ronaldo.
Here is how the quarters look:
Deion Sanders Bracket
1. LeBron James vs. 5. Jon “Bones” Jones
2. Calvin Johnson vs. 6. Carl Crawford
Bo Jackson Bracket
1. Blake Griffin vs. 5. Dwight Howard
2. Russell Westbrook vs. 6. Cam Newton
We will post these on social media so people can vote, or you can vote by leaving a comment on this page. Voting will close tonight at midnight and the results will be announced in the morning tomorrow.
"Best Athlete" Bracket Update
The Sports Action “Best Athlete” Bracket has gotten underway and here are the specifics. Today Jonnie and myself will be revealing the first round results. Jonnie will reveal the athletes who advance from the Deion Sanders bracket via Twitter and I will be announcing the athletes that move on in the Bo Jackson bracket via Facebook.
From there we will each announce one athlete from each side of our bracket to advance on each day until Friday when Jonnie will reveal the winner of the Deion Sanders bracket. I will then reveal the winner of the Bo Jackson bracket on Saturday. Sunday we will then reveal the best athlete in sports right now on 88.7 KBVR at 8pm.
Sports Action "Best Athlete" Bracket
Here it is sports fans, the Sports Action “Best Athlete” Bracket! Jonnie Motomochi and myself have narrowed down our list of the best athletes in professional sports today to 16 individuals. We set up two sides of the bracket which are named the Deion Sanders bracket and the Bo Jackson bracket, two great athletes who played multiple professional sports in their days. Over the next week Jonnie and myself will be breaking down the match-ups and declaring winners of each round via social media, Facebook and Twitter. We will take all input into consideration so leave comments on this blog, on our Facebook‘s, or out Twitter accounts. Below are the match-ups/seeds for the first round.
Pat Casey Becomes Winningest Coach in OSU Baseball History
Oregon State head baseball coach Pat Casey became the winningest coach in program history this past Friday night when his Beavers beat rival Oregon in game 1 of the three-game Civil War series. The win was the 614th of Casey’s decorated career as head coach of the Beavers, which includes two national championships. Moving to 614 wins allowed Coach Casey to surpass Jack Riley at the top of the wins list. Theis season marks the 18th for Casey as head coach of Oregon State. Over those 18 years he has averaged 34 wins per season. He also moved to 13th on the wins list in Pac-12 history.
Sports Action 5-27-12
On this week’s edition of Sports Action Mr. Motomochi and myself will be discussing the NBA Playoffs again as well as talking about the Lakers and what they need to do this off-season in order to get back to the top of the NBA. We will also debate about where the Orlando Magic go after firing head coach Stan Van Gundy and GM Otis Smith.
We will then shift our focus to the Oregon State Baseball team, talking about the Civil War with rival Oregon and previewing the college baseball post-season. We might even have time to make predictions and give our thoughts on the expectations for the Beavers in the post-season.
Finally we will start our discussion of “Best Athletes”. We will begin with our definitions of the word “athlete” then dive into which sport produces the best athletes. Then we will give our top-8 athletes in the sports RIGHT NOW, and preview a bracket of the best athletes that we will breakdown the following week.
Tune into 88.7 KBVR this Sunday from 8pm-10pm to hear all of this and more from Jonnie and myself. You can also stream the show live at kbvr.com/listen.
Unfair Suspension Mar’s Heat/Pacers Game 6
The Miami Heat‘s starter, and top “enforcer”, Udonis Haslem has been suspended for tonight’s game 6. For any of you who watched game 5 you have a pretty good idea about why he was suspended. Early in the second quarter on Tuesday Indiana forward Tyler Hansbrough committed a flagrant foul, later moved to a flagrant two, on Miami star Dwayne Wade. Later on in the quarter Hansbrough was driving to the basket when Haslem came in from the left side of the key and laid a hard foul on Indiana’s enforcer.
Now if both players had been suspended I would have no problem with it at all. But the NBA came out yesterday and announced that Haslem had been suspended for tonight’s game, and Hansbrough had not.
Now I understand that, for the most part, the person who acts in retaliation for an act like the one that Hansbrough committed is usually the one to get the technical in the NBA. But this is a special situation because the NBA went back, looked at the replays, and then based it’s decision for suspensions on that.
It is a travesty that the NBA, after looking at the replays, came to the conclusion that it would suspend only Haslem and not Hansbrough simply because Hansbrough’s foul was a more blatant flagrant, it LED to Haslem’s retaliation, and Hansbrough’s foul on Wade resulted in a cut on Wade’s face while Hansbrough popped right back up after being fouled by Haslem.
Another Michael Jordan? Don’t Bet On It
I recently took to my Twitter account, @RealKigerPlews learn about it, to post about an interview that Jonnie Motomochi and myself were doing with an Oregon State baseball player when I saw a picture that really caught my eye (see below).
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| Courtesy of @KobeLogic |
The picture sums up just how great Michael Jordan really was, and how less and less recognition he is getting for it.
All I hear from people now-a-days is who most closely resemble Jordan, Kobe or LeBron. Now to be fair LeBron and Kobe are two of the greatest players that the game has ever seen, but they are no Jordan.
Jordan is the undisputed king of basketball, but to understand just how great, and why Kobe, LeBron and all others aren’t even in the same class as him you need to dig a little deeper.
Jordan won 6 NBA titles, the 10th most of all-time by a player, Bill Russell has 11. Jordan won 5 MVP awards during his career, second to only Kareem Abdul-Jabar’s 6. He is one of only four players in the history of the NBA to win both the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Award during their career. MJ is also the only player in NBA history to win NBA Finals MVP six times!
This is just a small sample, but it accurately shows just how special Jordan was and how he will, in all likely hood, never be surpassed as the greatest player in NBA history.
Official NBA Playoffs Picks
Almost mid-way through the NBA Playoffs me and Jonnie Motomochi have gone back and forth on our picks and who we feel is playing the best. This week on the show I made my final picks for the rest of the playoffs. Here they are:
Conference Semis
Spurs already advanced
Lakers/Thunder- Thunder in 5 (ends tonight)
Celtics/Sixers- Sixers in 6 (hasn’t changed)
Heat/Pacers- Heat in 7 (had them in a sweep, didn’t happen that way I guess)
Conference Finals
Thunder/Spurs-Thunder in 7 (best series of the playoffs thus far)
Heat/Sixers- Heat in 5 (Philly doesn’t have the height of Indiana, but the Sixers will make the games close)
NBA Finals
Heat/Thunder-Heat in 6 (Bosh will be back and finally at full strength, LeBron finally wins title)
The individual match ups in the NBA Finals will make it one for the ages. LeBron and Durant will battle, Westbrook and Wade will provide highlight reel plays, Bosh and Ibaka will bang down low and hit their outside jumpers. Spoelstra and Brooks are two of the best young coaches in the NBA right now. This will be the best NBA Finals since the 1998 Bulls/Jazz Finals.
Sports Action 5-20-2012
This week on the show Jonnie Motomochi and myself will be playing a game called “Who’s It Gonna Be?” in which we will be talking about head-to-head individual match-ups in sports today and choosing who we feel is the better of the two athletes. Examples include Rory McIlroy/Rickie Fowler, Kobe Bryant/LeBron James, Andrew Bynum/Dwight Howard, Peyton Manning/Tom Brady, Matt Kemp/Josh Hamilton, and Steven Stamkos/Evengi Malkin. Leave comments of the player debate that you most want to hear and don’t forget to listen to 88.7 KBVR at 8 p.m. on Sunday night, or stream live on KBVR.com, to tune in to Sports Action with Kiger Plews and JTMoto.
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| Matt Kemp is having a great season but is he better than Josh Hamilton? Courtesy of Keith Allison |
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| Josh Hamilton might be the undisputed king of baseball right now Courtesy of kla4067 |
Sports Action: 5-13-2012
This week “Sports Action” returns with a slate of topics to throw around. We will be talking about the Junior Seau suicide and what it means for the NFL‘s problems with bounties and player safety, the NBA playoffs, recapping The Players, and doing a rundown of OSU athletics. Plus in the always popular Finishing Strong segment I will explain how fashion can, or cannot, help your golf game. Tune into 88.7 KBVR at 8 p.m. PT on Sunday or stream live on KBVR.com.
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