P.S. In case you wanted to see some of this magic for yourself, here is the URL for one of the videos about his game on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7W_pgfhms
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Sometimes, you hear or see things that seem impossible. You might think to yourself "There is no way that someone could have possibly done that." Yesterday, I got that feeling. I was watching T.V. when I came across this news story on ESPN that was about this kid named Jack Taylor. He is a sophmore at Grinnell College, which is a Division III school, which is one of the lower divisions of college basketball, and he is one of his team's point guards. For those who don't know, the point guard is the one that takes the ball up the court. Continuing the story, Jack Taylor had a pretty good game yesterday. His team was playing a school called Faith Baptist Bible. Through the first few games of Grinnell's regular season, Taylor had been averaging a very good 24 points per game. By the time the game was over, that number had risen to 61 points per game. Right now, you might be wondering "How is this possible?" This was possible because in that one game, Jack Taylor scored an astoundingly-high 138 points. This turned out to be an NCAA record. This total also surpassed the NBA record of 100 points scored by Wilt Chamberlain. While listening to the story, I learned that at halftime, Taylor thought that he had about 30 points. It turned out he had actually scored 58 points, which means that he somehow scored 80 points in the second half. In the end, Taylor's team won by a score of 179-104, which means that Taylor outscored the other team by himself by 34 points. His stat line showed that he had made 52 of the 108 shots that he attempted, and he made 27 of the 71 three-point shots that he attempted. He only made 7 free-throws during the game, though. Not very surprisingly, he did not even have one assist.
P.S. In case you wanted to see some of this magic for yourself, here is the URL for one of the videos about his game on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7W_pgfhms
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I couldn't think of anything to write about because this week has been a pretty uneventful week, so my mind started to wander. When my mind wanders, I tend to start thinking about things that are really weird and have no correlation to anything that has happened recently. This was one of those times. I started to realize how good Americans in our generation have it and about how much we rely on technology. I realized that until about twenty or thirty years ago, there were no cell phones. Now, it seems like practically everybody our age has cell phones and those who don't have them are always complaining about how they need a cell phone. I don't know how, but somehow, civilization was able to survive without cell phones, or phones for that matter, for thousands of years. Also, all around the world, millions upon millions of kids do not have cell phones. We actually are called the "1 percent" for a reason. So the next time you think about how horrible it is that you do not have a cell phone, remember what it had been like for people up until thirty years ago.
This year, I have blogged about sports a lot. I feel that since I have done so much sports blogging, now I must rant about how unfair sports can be.
Right now in the United States, there are millions of hard-working people who have gotten laid off from their jobs that are now desperately trying to find work. It seems that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to find work. Then, there are professional athletes. Many of them are making millions of dollars every year for hitting a ball with a piece of wood, running with an oddly-shaped ball from one end of a field to another without being knocked down, or trying to throw a spherical ball into a hole. For example, in January, Albert Pujols, the first-baseman for the Los Angeles Angels, signed a ten-year contract worth $240 million. That means that he will make $24 million a year for the next ten years, compared to the average American household income of about $50,000. That means that Albert Pujols alone is making 48 times the amount of money that the average American FAMILY makes, and he really only works for about 8 months of the year. Doesn't that seem pretty unfair? This weekend, I have been in Ann Arbor, Michigan, celebrating my grandma's 85th birthday. We had to get up at about 7 A.M. to pack, and we left by about 8:30 so we would have plenty of time to get to Ann Arbor, check into our hotel, and get ready for the party. With stops, it took about 5 hours to get there, and with the time change, we got into Ann Arbor by about 2:30 P.M. Michigan time. Then, we went to the M Den, which is the main store for all things that are about the University of Michigan. We left the M Den by about 3:35 and after getting lost a few times, we got to the hotel at about 4 or 4:15. The problem was that my dad got to Ann Arbor on Friday so he could get ready for the party (He and his brother set the whole party up). He thought that we were going to go straight to the hotel from the highway, so he was waiting for us for about 2 hours. We had to get ready so that we could take some videos of us talking about our grandma. We got to the party on time, and in the end, the party was a great success. Most people left at about 9:15, but some of the family stayed and talked and sang until about 11:45. Even though the singing got kind of annoying when we were trying to talk, the whole party was very fun. (This picture is of me, my sister Erin, my grandma
With Halloween approaching, I was reminded of something that has been really bugging me. It seems like people have turned every major holiday from an opportunity to relax to an excuse to have a sale. Every two weeks or so, it seems like there is another sale for some holiday or another. We just had a Columbus day sale, and soon we will have the Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales. Instead of trying to relax and have some time off from school and jobs, everyone is trying to get to as many stores as possible so they can take advantage of the great savings that they can use to get every single item that is so "vital" to everyday life. I have heard stories on the news of people who have gotten killed because they fell and they got trampled by thousands of people who were trying to get to a Black Friday sale at two in the morning at some store or another, like this one. I know that it is sometimes nice to get something on sale for 20 or 30% off, but is it really worth to get up at midnight and accidentally trample people to death?
Pressure. Everyone has felt it. Whether it has been in school, sports, or just at home, everyone at some point has felt that they were under pressure. Maybe no one knows this more right know than Jose Valverde. In the last three days, Valverde has blown two games for the Detroit Tigers (and Miguel Cabrera). The Tigers made it into the playoffs, and because of Valverde, are thankful to still be there. In the 4th game of the first round of playoffs, the Tigers were three outs from advancing to the next round. Insert Jose Valverde. Valverde somehow how gave up three runs in the ninth inning while only getting one man out, losing the game, and blowing a save. Last night, he came into the ninth inning of game 1 of the Tigers' playoff series against the New York Yankees with a 4-0 lead, which doesn't even qualify as a save opportunity. He walks the first batter. After getting the first out of the inning, Ichiro Suzuki, not known for his power, hits a two-run home-run to make the score 4-2. Then, Valverde gets the second out. It looks like the Tigers are going to win after Valverde gets the first two strikes against Mark Texeira. He can't get the final strike, and walks Texeira. The next batter is Raul Ibanez. As many Tigers fans watched and worried, Valverde gave up another two-run home-run, now making the score a 4-4 tie. Valverde then got replaced. The picture in the right is a picture of him exiting Yankee Stadium. In the end, the Tigers somehow won the game, but all is not good in the world of Jose Valverde. My last post was about a tiger, so I thought that the perfect follow-up would be about another ferocious beast. I have a dog, and her name is Ginger. If you ask anyone who has met her, they will tell you that she is one of the most ferocious dogs that you will ever meet. For those of you that have met Ginger, you know I'm kidding. We got Ginger when she was only about one year old. We got her at a shelter called Orphans of the Storm. When we got there, all of the dogs were barking and going crazy except for her and one other dog. We also contemplated getting the other dog, but in the end we got Ginger. When we met her, she had only been at the shelter for three days, and the people working there already said that she was one of the nicest and most well-behaved dogs that they had ever met. Now, she is over six years old, but she still loves to play fetch with a tennis ball and can run like she is still a little puppy. Yesterday, Miguel Cabrera(pictured at the right) became a part of baseball royalty. The Detroit Tigers' third baseman clinched the Triple Crown, one of the most elusive awards in baseball. In fact, before Cabrera, no one had won the Triple Crown since 1967. Carl Yazstremski won it that year. That's 45 years! To win the Triple Crown, you have to lead your league, either the American or National League, in batting average, home runs, and RBI's. Batting average is calculated by how many times you get on base divided by how many times you bat. Hopefully, you know what home runs are, and RBI's stand for runs batted in. You get an RBI whenever someone scores a run during your at-bat. This year, Cabrera hit .330, he hit 44 home runs, and he drove in 139 runs. All of these numbers are very high, and nobody else came close to leading all three categories. The Tigers also made the playoffs this year, and they start their first playoff series against the Oakland Athletics on Saturday. Two months ago, on July 15, a guy named PSY (short for psycho) published a song and music video called Gangnam Style. The song is practically all in Korean, but there are still a few words in English. Gangnam Style was the major song on PSY's sixth album. Now, just two months after the song and album were published, the song is known around the world. It has over 326 million views on Youtube, and it is the most popular song and music video on iTunes (remember that a majority of people who use iTunes are American, and the song is almost all Korean, so most people can't understand any of it). Ever since the song's release, PSY has been on Saturday Night Live, the Today Show, and on Ellen Degeneres. For any of you that haven't seen Gangnam Style, you have to see it. It is hilarious. Other than PSY, my favorite person is the little kid who is doing this crazy dancing right at the start of the video.
I thought they could do it. I thought that they would do it. I thought Michigan would beat Notre Dame. They really should have, considering they had more total yards and more first downs. Well, in the end, Michigan lost to Notre Dame, 13-6. It was very hard to watch because of all of the times that Michigan could have scored and actually pulled away from Notre Dame and won easily. Instead, they could never get the ball into the end zone, and they ended up losing. Michigan got the ball into the red-zone (inside the Notre Dame twenty yard line) five times, but they could never score a touchdown. They only converted two field goals and failed to score a touchdown or to get a field goal three times. One of their misses was because of an interception. Another one was because of a Denard Robinson fumble. The final missed attempt was because of a missed field goal.
In the end, Michigan really should have been able to win the game. Notre Dame could never really stop the Michigan offense until Michigan would give the ball to them.Also, Notre Dame really could not score on Michigan unless they started with the ball in Michigan territory. They really should have, but they |
AuthorHi. This is Ned. I am in 8th grade and these are my blogs. I will be updating them every week. Enjoy. Archives
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