First of all, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS and WHO DAT NATION on your Super Bowl XLIV win! In case you are living under a rock, the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Miami, FL. Also, NO Quarter Back Drew Brees won the MVP award. HOWEVER, there was something that tugged at my heart strings (literally) for about the entire game. No it wasn’t the onside kick by the Saints to start the second half, no it wasn’t Tracy Porter’s pick-6 INT of Peyton Manning, nor was it Drew Brees holding his infant son at the podium with tears of joy streaming down his face. Like a true fan of the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS, it was the PSA heart commercial by our QB, Mark Sanchez.
I like to think I know everything, I know, I know. But I had NO IDEA THAT Sexi-Mexi himself would be in a Super Bowl commercial, let alone one that spoke right to the female football fan. 
So without typing anymore I give you sports chicks, Mark Sanchez’s PSA about women and heart disease… swoon! 
Filed under: NFL
With the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts making it to Miami for Super Bowl XLIV all the talk seems to be about the great Peyton Manning and the phenomenal Drew Brees. But what is lost with the NFL season coming oh so close to a close we are forgetting that there are some serious QB questions now erupting in the NFL.
Before I write anything more, let me say this, Kurt Warner and Brett Favre could very well come back for the 2010 NFL season, and Donovan McNabb and his mother could still film Campbell’s Soup commercials in the City of Brotherly Love. But don’t you have the feeling that that won’t happen? That Kurt Warner’s noggin got knocked around a little too much this year, that Brett Favre will FINALLY hang ‘em up, and that the marriage between McNabb and Andy Reid will finally divorce? I think so! Also there are a TON of teams that need QB help, and if rebuilding is in their plans, then this draft class is the perfect one to go fishing in!
No matter what happens in the off-season, I can guarantee this … there will be QB MADNESS in 2010!! 
RETIRE SITUATIONS:
It all starts with Brett Favre. IF Favre retires for good this time, then the Minnesota Vikings need another QB. It was clear this year that Tavarias Jackson is NOT the man in Minnesota and if they want to make it back to the playoffs, let alone the NFC Championship Game, then they absolutely need a big time QB. Now IF McNabb and the Eagles part ways, then Donovan could very well likely end up in Minnesota. Here’s why. Before Brad Childress was the Vikings Head Coach, he was Donovan’s Offensive Coordinator with the Eagles! Another friendly face for Donovan in Minnesota is his former Asst Coach at Syracuse University, Kevin Rogers. Rogers is also currently on the Vikings staff, and the two have a close relationship. So close that McNabb publicly stated last year that Rogers should be the next SU Orange Head Coach, a job that went to Doug Marrone.
Another possible landing spot for McNabb could be with Arizona. We all know that the McNabb’s make their off-season home in Chandler, AZ (something that Cardinals fan took advantage of last year). Another factor is out of all the teams in need of a QB next season (assuming that Warner retires) the Cardinals have the best ready-made passing attack with Fitzgerald, Boldin, Doucet, & Co.
Also if Warner packs it in, then is Leinart really this answer for the Cards? I say NO! This actually became clear when Pete Carroll came back to the NFL with the Seahawks. Don’t be surprised to see McNabb as a Cardinal, and Leinart reunied with his former USC Coach as Matt Hasselbeck’s back-up in Seattle.
DRAFT SITUATIONS:
So what about the teams that need a fresh young start? The NFL the past few years has shown that you CAN win with a rookie QB, see Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco, and my fave Mark Sánchez . Also, the NFL Draft this year is FLOODED with young great QB talent: Sam Bradford, Jimmy Clausen, Colt McCoy… Tim Tebow (even though I strongly believe Tebow will be an RB/Wildcat experiment for a team).
Now anything can happen with the draft: trades *cough Browns cough*, dumb picks *cough Raiders cough*, and expired time *cough Vikings cough*, but if all the picks stay put, then I see Bradford landing in Washington with Shanahan, Clausen freezing his ass-off in Buffalo, McCoy will NOT go in the first round and my gut tells me it’s between St. Louis, Seattle, and Carolina, and as for Tebow I say the Jaguars jump on the Wildcat Wagon and keep Florida’s native son.
I vowed to write more on the blog for the new year, a month later this is a good start!
As many of you already know I bleed green and white, in fact I was born into loving the J… E… T… S… JETS JETS JETS! So whatdoyaknow when I left SUNY Cortland for winter break wayyyyyyyy back in December my Jets were on the bubble of a playoff berth despite an up and down season. So I come back home to LI and brace myself for another same ol’ jets season. Trust me it’s much easier for things to crumple back home, then listen to every Buffalo Bill idiot in upstate NY!
Being home on the island meant I get to enjoy Sundays like I always did growing up: 7-11 coffee, reading the NY Post (along with the Steve Serby Q&A), my Mom makes everyone eggs and bacon on NY bagels. HOWEVER being home for winter break also meant I got to watch the first Jet game of the season with my Dad and brother on our big flat screen in our cozy basement! So what was that game? Oh you know when Mark Sánchez (or Sexi-Mexi as I like to call him ) decided to throw 3 picks to a lackluster Atlanta Falcons team. The game was AWFUL, besides the fact that our stellar D gave up a last minute TD, it was boring, low scoring, blah blah blah!
A few days after the Atlanta-debacle was Christmas. Now with any holiday us “twenty-somethings” like to text the crap out of our entire phonebook. Needless to say you get “Merry Xmas” texts from people you haven’t heard from since Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July before that! For me one of these texts came from my BFF at Cortland, KTM. KTM also happens to be a die-hard Jets fan like moi’. After our “Merry Xmas” back and forth I decided to invite KTM over to watch our Jets take on the undefeated Indianapolis Colts. That Sunday KTM came over in her “REVIS 24″ jersey, I wore my “SANCHEZ 6″ jersey, Pops had on a green Jets tee, and my sister unintentionally wore blue and white (Colts colors). My mom decided to make “tailgate dinner” consisting of piggies-in-a-blanket, chips and dips, sodas and beer, nachos, buffalo wings, and potato skins. And guess what? Wait you already know, THE JETS CAME TO INDY AND BEAT THE UNDEFEATED COLTS! We clearly had a winning formula!
Fast-forward weeks later and we haven’t changed a BIT! KTM came over every Sunday for the rest of the season in her “REVIS 24″ jersey, I wore my “SANCHEZ 6″ jersey, Daddy has worn a different green Jets tee, my sister wore 2 different orange outfits and baby blue last week, my brother has sat in the chair BEHIND the rocking chair, and my Mom has made more “tailgate dinners” than she has all year!
Now here we are … just TWO DAYS away from the Jets – Colts AFC Championship Game, but CORTLAND DECIDES TO START CLASSES THIS WEEK!! So what does my Dad declare right after the Jets beat the Chargers in the Divisional Round? That him, my Mom, and KTM will be driving up to Cortland on Saturday WITH tailgate dinner and our big screen TV intact!
In the words of the Jets messiah and our resident big guy, Rex “Sexy Rexy” Ryan, “We’re not superstitious, but we’re not dumb, either!” Sexy Rexy has his pizza stained shirt, Sexi-Mexi and Steve Wheatherford refuse to shave, T-Rich hasn’t changed his underwear, and the Family Chick is all comin’ together with the lucky big screen TV! Superstitious, nah we’re SUPERstitious!
In every professional sports draft there are labeled superstars. They are those can’t miss athletes which teams absolutely need to pick in the first round. They are frequently predicted to be the last piece to a championship puzzle. But more often than not they are a bust.
Let’s take the five most buzz-worthy draft prospects in the NBA from 2002 – 2007, the number one overall picks: Yao Ming, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Andrew Bogut, Andrea Bargnani, and Greg Oden. Now Ming, James, and Howard have developed into the superstars they were hyped up to be. But what about Bogut, Bargnani, and Oden? Andrew Bogut has been below-average at best and the Milwaukee Bucks only made the playoffs once (in his rookie season). As for Bargnani, “Il Mago” his Italian nickname for “the magician” has been just that a magician. He appeared in the playoffs his first two seasons, but not the last two. He also finished second for NBA Rookie of the Year, and recently signed a 50 million dollar contract extension with the Toronto Raptors that will start in the 10-11 season.
So what about Greg Oden? Is he among the LeBron’s? Yum, no! Greg Oden is officially a bust for the Portland Trailblazers, but it’s not for lack of skill, but rather lack of playing. Oden has been hurt in every single NBA season he is played in. And wouldn’t you have guessed it; Oden is already out for the 09-10 Season. In Saturday night’s game against the Houston Rockets Oden had to be carted off the court due to a knee injury. Turns out that the “knee injury” in question is a broken kneecap and it will require season ending surgery.
Furthermore Oden is a joke… this is not my line, but rather Wikipedia’s. The often used “research” search engine usually has statistics and personal information about various athletes. Now I already wrote this article for my column in the SUNY Cortland Dragon Chronicle column ”The Sports Chick.” At that time Oden’s wiki page had this one-liner instead of statistics and information: “Greg Oden is a joke.” Since that time it has changed back. HOWEVER you my chick-a-dees are in luck because I already took a screencap of the wikipage, just click on the Oden pic in this post!
So what is it that makes these NBA athletes choke, bust, and fall off their straight track to superstardom? Is it unrealistic expectations but fans, teams, and analysts, or is it simply that these great athletes peak at the exact place in their lives that gets them a multi-million dollar contract? It doesn’t matter either way! But let’s see where Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls, 2008) and Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers, 2009) are in a few years!
I LOVEEEEEEEEEEE CSI: Miami and was midly pleasantly … umm well just confused when I heard that LA Laker, Pau Gasol, was to guest star on the hit CBS show this season! See below for the clip from last night’s show …
… what do you think of Gasol’s acting my Chick-a-dees?
Filed under: NCAA
The Sports Chick was kind enough to agree to a wager in which I would write a guest post on her blog when Ithaca College defeated Cortland State in this year’s Cortaca Jug game. In the slim chance that Cortland actually won, she would have written something on my blog, but naturally, Ithaca was victorious. The Sports Chick really didn’t think she would win, did she? Perhaps she just wanted a day off from writing, so that’s why she agreed to this wager!
Anyway, Ithaca College won Saturday’s game 23-20 at Butterfield Stadium in Ithaca, New York. That now makes three straight wins for Ithaca against Cortland and a 34-17 lead in the overall series. Using my incredible math skills, that means IC has won 67% of the Cortaca Jug games over the past 51 years. That would suck to be a Cortland fan and deal with so many loses to your rival.
Since I have the floor, er, blog, I want to point out Cortland coach Dan MacNeill’s quote leading up to the Cortaca game. He said, “The Cortland-Ithaca matchup is a big rivalry although this game is just the same as any other. The field measures the same as it does over in Ithaca as it does here.”
Was the variation of the Normal Dale-Hoosiers quote really necessary? Cortland’s Juniors and Seniors played at IC in 2007 and the team is not going to confuse Butterfield Stadium with Ohio Stadium or the Rose Bowl. Actually, maybe the field measurements are different at Ithaca and that caused Cortland to lose. That and the fact that Ithaca has a better football team!
Finally, although Ithaca College (along with Cortland) finished 7-3 and failed to reach the Division 3 playoffs, this marked the 39th straight winning season for the Bombers. It’s nice supporting winning teams like the Bombers, Penguins, Steelers, and the Pirates when they start winning again at some point in the next decade.
Although this was nice writing about Ithaca’s success on a Cortland fan’s blog, if we make a similar wager next year, I’d like dinner at A&W!
Go Bombers!
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There was some huge news on Twitter this Saturday night! In fact Hollywood was blowing up with tweets from media, fans, and celebrities alike. And it wasn’t for Lindsay Lohan’s latest drunken night out in LA, or some Kardashian reality hi-jinx. Hollywood was all a buzz about Boxing?
Lost in the world of MMA and UFC is the fact that Boxing is slowly making its way back to being a top topic of conversation in the world if sports. In front of a sold out crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas boxer Manny Pacquiao told not only the US, but the world that boxing is back with his all out battle with Miguel Cotto.
At first it seemed like Cotto had the upper-hand. He is undefeated versus southpaws and took the first two rounds from Pacquiao. However, “Pacman” refused to give up. After a few rounds seemed to flip-flip Pacquiao just came out wailing! In fact it got so bad for Cotto towards the end that his wife and son actually left the arena. Then in the 12th Round, Pacquiao defeated Cotto by TKO.
What is lost in this epic fight was the fact that Pacquiao rewrote boxing history! He has won titles in SEVEN different weight classes: flyweight, junior featherweight, featherweight, junior lightweight, lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight.
With this win Pacquiao also has the world buzzing about a possible bout versus newly unretired champ, Floyd Mayweather. If everyone was buzzing this much about Pacquiao vs. Cotto, then count on the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight to be an epic can’t miss event.
I think it is now safe to say that boxing is once again towards the top of the sports world. Thank you Pacman!
It seems like every year around this time I write a post about the NFL’s crap choice of a Super Bowl act. In my opinion the last “good one” was a fave of mine, Prince (and he’s even outdated). Now some people where pleasantly surprised to have The Boss perform last year, but he’s outdated for my generation, 18-24 yo, as well!
This year I heard rumblings that Bon Jovi would be the halftime show in Miami for XLIV … like I said just rumblings because it was announced today that The Who will be the XLIV Halftime Show! WHAT THE F*CK! I my love the CSI shows, but I don’t need to hear their intro music during halftime!!!
Seriously NFL, the Who? My question is WHO is your Entertainment Director? Because they clearly need to be fired. Year after year the NFL is aging themselves by these poor choices of Halftime acts. Several years later Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson have still screwed the NFL, but ENOUGH already!
Just a thought but how about Beyonce’, or Lady GaGa, or Britney, or Dave Matthews Band, or Green Day, or Jay-Z, or 50 Cent, or Taylor Swift, or Keith Urban, or … I COULD GO ON FOREVER!!!
Sometime early this year I made the following threatening statement, “I don’t care what the hell I’m doing in the fall! If the Yanks win the World Series, then I’m coming home for ticker tape!” Fast-forward several months later and I enjoyed my Yankees 2009 World Series Ticker Tape Parade through lower Manhattan! I attended the Ticker Tape Parade when the Yankees won the 1996 World Series, but I really don’t remember much because I was 8 years old at the time, and I wasn’t the die-hard Yankee fan that I am today.
I must say the planning for everything was quite hectic! I couldn’t even book my flight from Syracuse to JFK until Mariano Rivera entered the Game 5 because I didn’t want to jinx anything! Also I had to make sure that my sister could drive me to the airport and make her class Thursday morning, I had to see if my Dad could leave work for an hour to pick me up at the airport, AND find someone to go to the parade with on Friday (which turned out to be my Mom)! Needless to say everything worked out perfectly!
The sky was baby blue and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was on Broadway next to the Wall Street subway station with over 2 million other die hard Yankee fans. We waited for hours, but certainly kept ourselves busy! There was the infamous toilet paper toss across the street, confetti throwing and silly string spraying, and of course trying to spot the best signs – which included: “I’m Your Daddy,” “Marry me Jeter, my boyfriend says it’s OK,” and many others that would get me fired for writing about them! Another classic was a fan had a mini, red, Phillies coffin with a Baby Pedro with the inscription “RIP Phillies.” Also with the Philadelphia bashing was a red cap with a white “P” being thrown into the street. This lead many fans to tear, spit, and write all over it. Needless to say it didn’t even look close to being a baseball cap by the time it went 20 people down!
All of us where shaking with anticipation by the time 11am came by, and the entire parade seemed like a blur. Thanks to pictures I do remember the following – Yogi Berra is incredibly tiny, Governor David Patterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg were the only people to get the infamous Bronx-jeer, there was a special float for the Bleacher Creatures, while people were in awe of Jay-Z throwing up “the roc” on one particular float it took us fans a minute to realize the dude with the fedora and sunglasses was A-ROD!, fans chanted “One More Year” for the floats carrying Johnny Damon and Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter got the loudest ovation … until Mariano Rivera came rolling by, and the World Series trophy in the hands of the Steinbrenner family was a beautiful sight that never gets old.
Now over the past week I’ve heard many non-Yankee fans say “Congrats on buying your 27th Championship.” To that I say … I rather have an owner who spends money back on the team, than an owner who pockets it! All I can say for myself is that this World Series was something I’ve been waiting for nine years for, and it was worth every win, every loss, every week, everyday, and every second.
“The Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!” -John Sterling
I’m literally in tears. My Yankees have won the World Series! I’ve often talked about my love affair with the pinstripes and how I’ve been a fan since birth. But, I haven’t been a “hardcore fan” aka watching every game and pining over every pitch since about 2002. I’ve been waiting for this moment for years and it is finally here! Thanks to everyone who reads this blog and knows how much my Yankees mean to me!!
and oh by the way, Game 6 hero Hideki Matsui is named the World Series MVP.
More to come later …
peace
the chick
