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"Best Athlete" Bracket Semis Announced

It’s time for the unveiling of the Sports Action “Best Athlete” Bracket Semi-Finals. For those of you who don’t know yet Jonnie Motomochi and myself are on a quest to find the best athlete in professional sports today. On our show, Sports Action on 88.7 KBVR, this past week Jonnie and myself debated about who should be considered the best athlete. We got nowhere so we decided to make a bracket with the top-16 athletes in professional sports today and break it down until there was only one athlete left standing. We have just finished the quarter-finals and here is how the bracket now breaks down for the semis.

LeBron James of the NBA‘s Miami Heat will face Calvin “Megatron” Johnson of the NFL‘s Detroit Lions in the finals of the Deion Sanders Bracket. James, the number one overall seed in the bracket, was able to beat out the UFC‘s Jon “Bones” Jones while Megatron, the number two seed in this half of the bracket, beat out the talented Carl Crawford.

In the Bo Jackson Bracket the number one seed, Blake Griffin of the NBA, will square off with Russell Westbrook of the NBA. Westbrook was the number two seed in this bracket and dispatched Cam Newton in the closest vote that the Bo Jackson Bracket has seen yet. Griffin was able to advance by beating out fellow NBAer Dwight Howard.

Again, the Finals of the bracket will be released at the beginning of our show, Sports Action, on Sunday when we first come on air at 8pm. Be sure to tune in to 88.7 KBVR or stream live at kbvr.com/listen. We will then announce the best athlete in professional sports today in the last half hour of the show.


"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. 

Deion Sanders Bracket
1. LeBron James vs. 8. Dwayne Wade
4. Bryce Harper vs. 5. Jon “Bones” Jones
3. DeSean Jackson vs. 6. Carl Crawford
2. Calvin Johnson vs. 7. Maya Moore
Bo Jackson Bracket
1. Blake Griffin vs. 8. Tiger Woods
4. Tony Gonzalez vs. 5. Dwight Howard
3. Jimmy Graham vs. 6. Cam Newton
2. Russell Westbrook vs. 7. Christiano Ronaldo
On the season finale of Sports Action next week we will reveal the winner of the bracket. Tune in to 88.7 KBVR from 8-10pm next Sunday next week.

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.


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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Sports Action Blog

Hello sports fans! Welcome to the “Sports Action” blog. Sports Action is a student-run sports talk show based out of Oregon State University on 88.7 KBVR. OSU student-athlete Jonnie Motomochi and myself started the show this this term and we go on the air every Sunday from 8-10pm.

Jonnie specializes in hockey, golf, baseball, and basketball while I specialize in golf, basketball, and football. Together we form a deadly combination of sports knowledge and entertaining banter.

This blog will serve as another way for Jonnie and I to connect with our fans and listeners and get feedback on our show every week. There will be trivia questions, interesting facts, and follow ups on show topics. Follow us on Twitter by clicking on our links above.

Get ready because this…..is…..SPORTS ACTION!