TEXAS WINS TOSTITOS FIESTA BOWL

In what was meant to be a great game, seemed one sided for the most part. Ohio State’s defense was not letting the Texas offense spoil there chances of winning the bowl game. As a matter of fact, Ohio State only gave up 6 points in the first half. The game changer occurred in the last 16 seconds of the game when Texas QB, Colt McCoy, threw a short pass to receiver Quan Cosby which turned into a 26-yard game winning touchdown for the Texas Longhorns. There are only two bowl games left in college football. Tonight is the GMAC Bowl between Ball State and Tulsa and the bowl games wrap-up Thursday night with the FedEx BCS National Championship Game which has Florida playing against Oklahoma.

By: Adrian Gonzalez

NOTORIOUS THE MOVIE: 01/16/09

The most anticipated movie during current times in the world of hip-hop is close to its official release. The movie is about the life and death of legendary rapper Christopher Wallace aka the Notorious B.I.G. The movie has most of the Bad Boy Record label original members in the movie including: Diddy, Lil Kim, Lil Cease, and Faith Evans, but their roles are played by actors/actresses. The movie goes through real life experiences that Biggy experienced and even has moments that only members in his camp and the record label knew actually occurred. The movie is set to release Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, here it is!

By: Adrian Gonzalez

OBAMA NEEDS A NEW COMMERCE SECRETARY

New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson decided to relinquish his nomination as president-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary yesterday, just a few weeks to the presidential inauguration. The reason for withdrawing his position was that Richardson is part of a grand jury investigation in which some of his political donors won an enormous state contract. A California based company contributed to Richardson’s political activities and after won a little more than a $1 million dollar transportation contract after that. The investigation is saying that Richardson played part in how much the company was given in the contract. This is the second disruption that has plagued Barack Obama during the period before inauguration, as the first was when Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for trying to apparently auction off Obama’s senate seat. Obama has done a good job in keeping quite with these two incidents, but now he just needs a new commerce secretary.

By: Adrian Gonzalez

WEEKEND SPORTS RECAP

This weekend was the start of the NFL playoffs, full of big bowl games, and one important upset in college basketball!

NFL: This was the opening weekend of the 2008-2009 NFL playoffs. Saturday and Sunday brought us 4 interesting match-ups. Saturday’s two games were the Falcons at the Cardinals and Colts at the Chargers. Both home teams won their games as the Cardinals took care of business with a 30-24 victory and the Chargers pulled off an overtime victory with a 22 yard rushing touchdown in overtime by running back Darren Sproles. Sunday’s games were the Ravens at the Dolphins and Eagles at the Vikings. The Ravens showed why their defense is one of the top in the league as they went into Miami and stopped the Dolphins with a 27-9 victory. Next week’s games will be the Cardinals at the Panthers, Chargers at Steelers, Ravens at Titans, and Eagles at Giants.

NBA: Every team was in action Friday! On Saturday, the 76ers loss a heart breaker right at the end of the game as point guard Tony Parker shot in a last second basket to help the Spurs defeat the 76ers 1008-106. Sunday was a bad day for the Cavs as they blew a 16 point lead against the Washington Wizards 80-77. The Toronto Raptors topped the Orlando Magic 108-102 despite a 39 point game by center Dwight Howard. Finally, veteran Darius Miles made his debut with the Memphis Grizzlies as he played against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday in a 102-82 victory for the Grizzlies.

ELSEWHERE: In college football, Ole Miss defeated Texas Tech in the AT&T Cotton Bowl 47-34. In the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Kentucky defeated East Carolina 25-19. In the AllState Sugar Bowl, Utah completed a perfect season as they defeated Alabama 31-15. In the International Bowl, UCONN defeated Buffalo 38-20. Tonight is the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, putting Texas against Ohio State. Finally, number 1 ranked college basketball team, North Carolina, loss its first game of the season yesterday as they were defeated by Boston College 85-78.

Check me out next Monday for the Weekend Sports Recap!

By: Adrian Gonzalez

USC DOMINATES PENN STATE IN ROSE BOWL

What was the most awaited bowl game besides the National Championship Game, turned out to be almost a one-sided victory for the Trojans of USC. Going into the game, Penn State was known for its tough defense and legendary Coach, Joe Paterno’s overall most bowl wins as a coach with 23 wins overall. USC was known for its high flying offence and well-respected coach Pete Carroll. Talks about the results were that the game was either going to be a close one and win by Penn State or blow out and win by USC. Well, from the first quarter it was all USC’s offense and help by defense which helped them seal the Rose Bowl victory. USC quarterback Mark Sanchez threw for over 400 yards passing and passed for 4 touchdowns. Penn State was down big but rallied somewhat in the 4th quarter, only to turn up short. USC made sure that their lead would not be given up and won the game 38-24.

By: Adrian Gonzalez

NFL TEAMS - CLEANING OUT THE CLOSET

Just days after the final regular season game past and several NFL teams started passing out the pink slips. The Cleveland Browns, New York Jets, and Detroit Lions all fired their head coaches the night of the season’s final weekend during the regular season. On Tuesday the San Francisco 49ers fired their offensive coordinator Mike Martz. Also, what was kind of shocking, the Denver Broncos fired long time head coach and vice president of football operations, Mike Shanahan. The Browns have already expressed interest in former Jets head coach Eric Mangini who just missed the playoffs with the Jets by losing to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. There was talk of the Cowboys head coach, Wade Philips, possibly leaving but owner Jerry Jones said he will be staying. With the NFL season not even completely done, expect a lot more pink slips being handed out before the start of the 2009-2010 season.

Happy New Year everyone!

By: Adrian Gonzalez