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The First episode of the Glass House. In this episode we discuss, Linsanity, why Kevin Durant is the greatest player ever, Kevin Love’s epic 3-point shooting skills and the crippling sinkhole of sadness that is Cleveland sports. We also let you know why Josh Hamilton’s relapse might have been fantasy baseball related, offer our predictions for the 2012 MLB season, contemplate Peyton Manning’s future, and let you know who should be on Dancing with the Stars.
In this week’s edition of “The Mirror Sportscast” I break down the Super Bowl, offer my thoughts on Giselle, discuss the Buckeyes win over Wisconsin, talk about Murray St’s improbable season and of course talk about those horrible Blue Jackets. Enjoy!
Here is the full version Sportscast from this week’s episode of “The Mirror” that aired on 1-26-2012 (The actual aired version was cut shorter for time reasons). Again please listen and let me know what you think.
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I’m thinking of posting the stories/scripts I write for The Mirror on here every week. Maybe along with the clips of the show they go to (after it’s recorded.) For now though I’m just going to post the sports script I wrote for this week:
In the NFL this past week, Tebow-time finally ran out. The Denver Tebows (clear throat) I mean Bronco’s, suffered a humiliating loss to the New England Patriots. Pat’s QB Tom Brady set an NFL playoff record by throwing for six touchdowns in the absolute pummeling of the Broncos in Foxboro on Saturday. Even Tim Tebow didn’t have enough faith or will power left in the tank to slow Brady as the Patriots cruised to a 45-10 victory, and a spot in next week’s AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaking of the Ravens, they will be holding open auditions for an offense this upcoming week after an uninspiring performance on Sunday. The Baltimore Ravens, without any help from their offense, barely squeaked out a victory against the Houston Texans and their fourth string QB. Next week Ray Lewis and the rest of the Ravens defense will be taking their geriatric show to Foxboro to take on the Patriots for a chance to advance to the Superbowl.
In the NFC, the mighty Packers fell once again. Apparently, Packers QB Aaron Rogers should have spent more time preparing for the Giants defense instead of dancing his way through State Farm commercials. Giants QB Eli Manning threw for more than 300 yards and three touchdowns as he cemented his place in the current elite quarterback ranking with an impressive 37-20 victory over last year’s Superbowl champions. Manning and the New York Football Giants will head to San Francisco to face the 49ers next week for the NFC Championship.
In the best game of the weekend, and possibly the entire playoffs, the San Francisco 49ers upset the New Orleans Saints in a thrilling shoot out 36-32. After nine mediocre seasons, the 49ers returned valiantly to the NFL Playoffs, when they shut down the high-flying Drew Brees led Saints offense on Saturday at Candlestick Park. After going up 17-0 early in the second quarter, the 49ers almost blew the game when they gave up a 66-yard touchdown pass from Drew Brees to Jimmy Graham with less than 2 minutes left on the clock. Alex Smith…yes that Alex Smith, marched the Niners down the field and threw a beautiful 14-yard touchdown pass to Vernon Davis with only nine seconds left on the clock to give the 49ers the victory. Davis ended the game with seven catches for 180 yards. The stingy 49ers D will look to continue riding their wave of success into next week as they face the Giants for a chance to play in Superbowl 46 in Indianapolis.
In the NBA this past week, the Miami Heat suffered a three game losing streak and the loss of one of their handful of star players as Dwayne Wade will miss an indefinite amount of time with an ankle injury. Kobe Bryant continued his magnificent ball-hogging streak over the weekend as he had three straight 40+-point games including 42 in a victory over the Cleveland Cavilers last Friday 97-92. In the East, Chicago, Philadelphia and Orlando all lead their divisions. The standings out West have Oklahoma City, the LA Lakers, and San Antonio all sitting atop their perspective divisions. This Friday the Bulls will head to Cleveland to take on the Cavs in what is shaping up to be an exciting matchup. Tip-off is at 7:30 p.m.
In Men’s College Basketball this week, the rankings saw some change as the North Carolina Tar Heel’s tumbled 5 spots to number 8 after they were routed by Florida State last week. The top five has the still unbeaten Syracuse Orange at number one, followed by Kentucky, Baylor, Duke & Missouri. The Ohio State Buckeyes slipped one spot, to number six after a loss to #25 Illinois last Tuesday and an impressive avenging victory over the #13 Hoosiers on Sunday night. Ohio State will travel to Nebraska this Saturday to take on the Cornhuskers. Tip-off is at 8pm local time.
In the NHL the New York Rangers, Boston, and Washington remain on top of their divisions in the East. While Chicago, Vancouver, and San Jose top their respective divisions out West. The Columbus Blue Jackets, even after firing their coach last week, remain dead last in the standings. This weekend they head to Detroit to take on the Red Wings, let’s hope they can avoid slaughter and further embarrassment to the city. The game starts at 7pm.
The Raiders improved to 3-2 today, a day after Al Davis’s death. It wasn’t a pretty win-McFadden was shut down for the second straight week, Campbell completed less than 50% of his passes, and the D gave up almost 500 yards to a Houston Texans team that was missing star wide out Andre Johnson-but it was a win nonetheless. One that I am sure Al Davis would have loved to of seen. The Raiders, who have had an incredibly rough schedule this season (the two losses are to Buffalo and New England) get a break of sorts as the next three games (all at home) are against the Browns, Kansas City and Denver. The Raiders can easily be 6-2 by the time they head to San Diego.
Hopefully Oakland can get RUN DMC back on track though, as he has been less than spectacular the past two weeks. On a bright note Heyward-Bay, an Al Davis favorite, has had two highly productive weeks in a row and with Ford back, Murphey back any day now and Moore we are finally starting to develop a solid receiving core. If Jackson can figure out a way to keep mixing things up and spread the ball between the four, while using Moore and Ford on some trick plays this Oakland offense should have no problem putting up some huge numbers.
