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- Sam
- Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- About Me...Hmm. That could be a lot. To put it simply, I'm crazy, cool, calm and collected, I love having fun and I've matured a lot from when this blog started to now.
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The Rookie Who Had a Chance
You knew him as number 5 in a blue in yellow jersey. Thats right, that rookie is Joe Flacco. He was on the University of Delaware. After graduating from college, Flacco was invited to the 2008 NFL Draft. The eight-teen year old was pick number eight-teen in the first round, by the Baltimore Ravens. On July 16th, he sighned for a five year contract with a maximum value of around $30 million and $8.75 million guaranteed.
Flacco got his chance to start in the Ravens opening game against Cincinnati Bengals because the Ravens other two quaterbacks, Kyle Boller and Troy Smith were injured. He completed 15 of 29 passes throwing for 129 yards. His longest pass was a fifteen yarder to Derrick Mason. But his shining moment was when Flacco rushed the ball himself for a 38- yard touchdown. Flacco lead the Ravens to a victory over the Bengals which was 17-10. Flacco was rewarded by starting in game number two for the Ravens against the Texans. This will decide if he does well in the Texans game.
Will our once hometown college quarterback get his time to shine? Lets just keep our fingers crossed that he will have a very succesful and healthy career.
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Eat, Sleep, Swim Repeat
By: Madison Hill
Have you been watching the Beijing Olympics? Everyone knows about the horses on drugs, to the world’s fastest man with a record breaking 19.35 seconds in the 200 meter dash. But have you been aware that six more records were broken in Beijing? He broke four individual events, one with his relay team, and one with most Olympic gold medals received in one Olympics. Can you guess who that person is? That person is Michael Phelps.
Phelps appeared in the past two summer Olympics which was Athens, Greece ( 2004 ) and in Sydney, Australia ( 2000 ) in which he received six gold medals. In Beijing he received eight gold medals coming to a total of thir-teen gold medals in his career.
Phelps was born on June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. Weighing one hundred and ninety-five pounds, twenty-three year old Phelps grew up to be six foot four, with an arm spam of six foot seven which gives him more of an advantage of hitting the wall first. Michael may look like a typical swimmer, but he isn’t. His torso is longer compared to his legs allowing him to stay above the water better. He has flexible ankles, plus size four-teen feet which gives him a powerful kick. He moved out of his home for the first time to go to Michigan Collage, were he now trains. When Phelps was a kid, he had a hard time focusing in school. His teacher said to his mom that he will never be able to achieve or focus on anything, but that was until Phelps discovered swimming at the age of seven. At the age of twelve, Phelps parents were informed that he could make the 2000 summer Olympic team, and also that 2004 and 2008 could be a target also.
Coming in to Beijing, Phelps qualified for 200 meter freestyle, 100 and 200 meter butterfly, 200 and 400 meter individual medley, 4x100 and 4x200 meters freestyle relay. Four years ago in the Athens Olympics, Phelps would have gotten eight medals if he participated in the 4x100 medley relay, instead he let one of his teammates get the gold medal. Well, Phelps was in the same situation this year too. So, Phelps teammate, the one who he gave up his position for, gave up his spot on the 4x100 meter relay so Phelps could get his eighth gold medal in Beijing. That was true sportsmanship.
Eat, Sleep, Swim Repeat
By: Madison Hill
Have you been watching the Beijing Olympics? Everyone knows about the horses on drugs, to the world’s fastest man with a record breaking 19.35 seconds in the 200 meter dash. But have you been aware that six more records were broken in Beijing? He broke four individual events, one with his relay team, and one with the most Olympic gold medals received in one Olympics. Can you guess who that person is? It's Michael Phelps.
Phelps appeared in the past two summer Olympics which was Athens, Greece ( 2004 ) and in Sydney, Australia ( 2000 ) in which he received six gold medals. In Beijing he received eight, coming to a total of thirteen gold medals in his career.
Phelps was born on June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. Weighing one hundred and ninety-five pounds, twenty-three year old Phelps grew up to be six foot four, with an arm spam of six foot seven which gives him more of an advantage of hitting the wall first. Michael may look like a typical swimmer, but he isn’t. His torso is longer compared to his legs allowing him to stay above the water better. He has flexible ankles, plus size fourteen feet which gives him a powerful kick. He moved out of his home for the first time to go to Michigan College, where he now trains. When Phelps was a kid, he had a hard time focusing in school. His teacher said to his mom that he will never be able to achieve or focus on anything, but that was only until Phelps discovered swimming at the age of seven. At the age of twelve, Phelps parents were informed that he could make the 2000 summer Olympic team, and also that 2004 and 2008 could be a target also.
Coming in to Beijing, Phelps qualified for 200 meter freestyle, 100 and 200 meter butterfly, 200 and 400 meter individual medley, 4x100 and 4x200 meters freestyle relay. Four years ago in the Athens Olympics, Phelps would have gotten eight medals if he participated in the 4x100 medley relay, instead he let one of his teammates get the gold medal. Well, Phelps was in the same situation this year too. So, Phelps teammate, the one who he gave up his position for, gave up his spot on the 4x100 meter relay so Phelps could get his eighth gold medal in Beijing. That was true sportsmanship.
I love this article. lots of goood detail and stuff, awesome. i just edited some grammatical and spelling errors
Monday Night!
Possily the game of the century. Yes it is only the beginning of the season yet monday night football is getting more and more amazing. Focusing on monday night 9-15-08. Eagle's VS. Cowboys. The Eagle's started out with the ball. The team charged up the feild yard after yard easily but when they reached the redzone a fumble occured. What was supposed to be a simple screen was caught and with two step progress dropped it. Swatted at by an eagle hit it into the hands of a cowboy tipped his fingers and diving in for a touchdown with the ball is an eagle. After all of that the referee called him down when he dropped the ball so the eagles had to settle for a measly three points for a feild goal. After that Tony Romo threw a 72 yard pass to Terrel Owens for a touchdown and Felix Jones returns a 98 yard kickoff for a touchdown. also the eagles score another feild goal the score at the end of the first quarter is 6-14. In the second quarter Westbrook gets a short 6 yard pass for a touchdown and Chris Gocong of the Eagles recovers a fumble in the end zone. Then Terell Owens gets a short pass for a touchdown and by the end of the second quarter the score was 30-24 it was starting to look up for the Eagles. In the third quarter Marion Barber gets a 17 yard touchdown pass. Putting the score at 30-31 Cowboys. Just at the beggining of the fourth quarter the eagles get a touchdown and the cowboys get a feild goal putting the score at 37-34 eagles. But with just 4 minutes on the clock Marion Barber runs in a one yard touchdown for the cowboys putting the final score at 37-41 a loss for our highflying eagles
I thought the otherone was more of an editorial too so i made this one. SOULY based off facts
TANX!
Monday night could possibly be the game of the century. Yes, it is only the beginning of the season yet monday night football is getting more and more amazing. Focusing on monday night September 15, 2008, Eagle's VS. Cowboys. The Eagle's started out with the ball. The team charged up the feild, yard after yard, easily but when they reached the redzone a fumble occured! *What was supposed to be a simple screen was caught and with two step progress dropped it.* *Swatted at by an Eagle, hit it into the hands of a cowboy, tipped his fingers and diving in for a touchdown with the ball is an Eagle.* After all of that the referee called him down when he dropped the ball so the Eagles had to settle for a measly three points for a feild goal. After that Tony Romo threw a 72 yard pass to Terrel Owens for a touchdown and Felix Jones returns a 98 yard kickoff for a touchdown. Also the Eagles score another feild goal. The score at the end of the first quarter is 6-14. In the second quarter Westbrook gets a short 6 yard pass for a touchdown and Chris Gocong of the Eagles recovers a fumble in the end zone. Then Terell Owens gets a short pass for a touchdown and by the end of the second quarter the score was 30-24 it was starting to look up for the Eagles. In the third quarter Marion Barber gets a 17 yard touchdown pass. Putting the score at 30-31 Cowboys. Just at the beggining of the fourth quarter the Eagles get a touchdown and the Cowboys get a feild goal putting the score at 37-34 Eagles. But with just 4 minutes on the clock Marion Barber runs in a one yard touchdown for the Cowboys putting the final score at 37-41, a loss for our highflying Eagles.
ok, that was a good article. i was just really confused at the parts where i put little stars. so go back and look those over.
p.s. im not that into sports so i mite just be an idiot.
A screen is nothing but a pass from a QB to a running back and swatting at the ball is tring t pick it up but instead hitting it out of the way and what i meant by caught by an eagle is that an eagles player whos name was not recorded caught it
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