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Different Strokes Jukeanomics 101 Can the Kings Reclaim their Throne Player of the Month Plan B Their Life Your Entertainment Becoming a Legend Getting Locked out Beyond the Matt

Letter from the Editor

We at Anything Sports would like our readers to enjoy this magazine as much as we loved making it. The entire experience we had making it was amazingly insightful and also fun. Our mission is to influence our readers and inform them about influential and topical issues in sports today. We hope you enjoy! THE ANYTHING SPORTS TEAM

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Charles Smith Joel Eguiza

Vignesh Vasu Daniel Reyes

Meet the Editors Charles Smith is a freshman at LASA high school that used to play basketball since he was 5. Almost playing in nationals. He is now playing lacrosse. He goes out and practices lacrosse for an hour every day. He wants to play professional lacrosse. If he ever gets tougher.

Joel Eguiza is a freshmen at LASA high school. He has had 3 years of soccer experience, once almost placing in regionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for his local team. He is now currently on the wrestling team at LASA, and swims during the summer time.

Vignesh Vasu is a freshmen at LASA high school. His sports is swimming, and he swims 7-8 times a week, for 1.5-2 hours a day. Vignesh is a freshman at LASA, and hopes to one day swim in college. If he ever gets fast enough.

Daniel Reyes is a freshman at LASA high school. His main sport is football but he also equally likes to play soccer, rugby, track, basketball, baseball and throw shot-put. but would like to go to Austin high and hopes to play college football. If he ever gets taller.

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s you walk near the pool deck, you see a man in board shorts and a faded white t shirt. He is slightly overweight, but also incredibly tall. He is Coach Chic, or Ryan Ciccarelli. So swim practice starts, and Coach Chic starts to yell at the swimmers who are putting on their gear to get in the water. As some lag getting into the water, he threatens them with ten laps of lunges around the pool. The pool splashes as they jump in the water, but he doesn’t flinch. Sometimes Ryan Ciccarelli narrates stories about his life and his experiences coaching. He jokes to the swimmers about how bad they used to be, but also gives thorough advice to make them better now. Ryan Ciccarelli is the combination of an expert swimmer and also an expert

coach with ten years of experience. He knows what it is like to be a nervous swimmer up on the block and he uses this to tailor his coaching experience. He is a Texas born and bred swimmer who was born in 1980, but only started swimming in his freshman year of high school. With hard work and natural talent he became the champion who made it to Olympic Trials. But, unfortunately for him, not the Olympics themselves. He missed the cut by just two tenths of a second, “,but lots of people tied,” he says. The Olympics was a close miss for Ryan Ciccarelli. But he says that he “,doesn’t think about it much anymore.” The Trials themselves were “nerve-racking, but it would have been twice as nerve racking performing at the Olympics.” Ryan says that he still has contacts with “,all the Olympians”, in the swim world today. If he had made it to the Olympics, he says “I would still have the same life I have now. I would still be a coach. I probably would have had more money.” You couldn’t tell by his mannerisms or facial expressions that he cared about not making it to the Olympics. Then again, he wears Ray Ban sunglasses every day, even at night. Coach Chic knows what motivation is needed for a swimmer. He swam a whopping 24 hours a week. An exact day of his life was spent in the water every week, and that was not all the practice he did. “I did weights Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Tuesdays and Thursdays I ran. Saturday I had a 3 hour practice”, Ryan explains. This was the kind of dedication needed to be an All American swimmer. And he applies that kind of effort to his coaching, coming up with different drills every day. When

Coach Chic announces a set, there

is generally only one reaction from the swimmers below him. A collective groan. But all the swimmers do it, no matter how long it takes them. “Even though sometimes I feel like I cannot push through the set, I do not want to quit. If I do, I would feel really bad”, Ganesh Vasu, a swimmer for Coach Chic today, says. Nobody seems to be bored, day after day, by the sets he gives. In fact, most people come at least 5 days a week, and some even come every day. Coach Chic knows how to create sets that push, but are also not tedious enough to disinterest a swimmer. That is the kind of coaching that motivates a swimmer to push till the end. Cameron Darwin, a former swimmer under Coach Chic, says to “, listen to Coach Chic’s meet advice. It will definitely drop SECONDS off all of your times.” Coach Chic’s advice comes from his wealth of experience, starting at T3 (Total Technique Training) – an organization specialized in teaching and coaching triathletes of all levels and ages. In 2004 he founded his own USA Swimming team, the Austin Texas Piranhas. Now he works at Capitol of Texas Aquatics. When Coach Chic had to start coaching, he knew nothing about it. He didn’t mix his “learning experiences with swimming and [his] experiences with coaching.” He had to over come the struggles of learning how to teach and help children with the knowledge that he had. But when coaching, he learned some profound things about each person. “I learned that each person is a separate individual and a swimmer have to teach them differently or else they won’t learn.” In fact, he coaches a myriad of different swimmers today, from the first time swimmers in Age Group, to the seniors in his most advanced group who plan to swim for colleges. Many swimmers ask Coach Chic how he swims, or to show them what he looks like when he swims. “I can’t tell a swimmer how I swim, or

show a swimmer what I do. I have to tell a swimmer what A SWIMMER need to do to get better,” Ryan says. And that’s what he tries to do, make each and every person on his team better. Coach Chic doesn’t assign “garbage yardage”, or sets that are long, hard, and just make a swimmer’s muscles grow. “I assign sets that make a swimmer faster. Not extra miles that just make a swimmer stronger.” Coach Chic says. Speed is the word with Coach Chic. With times that got him an All American ranking six times, and a full 4 year swimming scholarship from the University of Texas, a swimmer know that he had to be fast. He tries to pass that on to his swimmers. But a swimmer wouldn’t know from his times that he only started swimming when he was a freshman in high school. “I skipped practice the first day to see if all the other kids wore Speedos or board shorts.” He acquired the speed he had at his prime from hard work and practice, dedication to the sport, and raw natural talent. That is the kind of athlete that a budding swimmer wants to embody. Coach Chic could be making much more money by doing private swim lessons every day. “But being a private coach is like being a dentist. If the supply is there, you will make a lot of money. But if there are not enough kids, you won’t,” Ryan says. However, Coach Chic says he loves his job now, and not just for the hours. “I love it. I have a passion for it. This is my vacation. Coaching is what I love to do. I would not rather be anywhere else.” Coach Chic says. Swimming has been the biggest single impact on Coach Chic’s life. “Swimming is what guided my career as a coach. I would have a desk job if I wasn’t coaching, and not have a good life.” Coach Chic says. Coach Ryan Ciccarelli was a prime athlete and is now a successful coach. He does what he loves, and lives the

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Jukeanomics

101 An easy way to improve your game, and get you to the top. By: Joel Eguiza

onaldinho is running with the ball, a defender approaches, you’d expect him to pass, yet he doesn’t, he uses fancy footwork and works his way around him, shoots…. and scores, as the crowd goes, “GOOOOOAAAAAL!” Juking can help you score/prevent opponents from scoring Juking should help you score by getting past defenders and getting a clearer shot at the goal. The truth is that passing can be beneficial for good reasons, such as it can prevent the opposing team from getting the ball, it can lower their moral, and it can tire them out, (just to name a few). But the thing about passing is that it can be excruciatingly slow, unlike juking, which is straight forward and gets you to the goal quickly. Let’s imagine that your team is down by one, and you have a minute left on the clock, you have three options. You can either shoot, pass or juke. If you were to shoot from where you are, you would likely miss and passing takes too long, so you go for juking and there for increase your probability of scoring, and tying up the game. And also, if you’re the goalie and you have the ball, but a forward is preventing you from kicking it, then you

can juke him and then kick the ball, hence preventing him from scoring. Juking can Increase your dribbling skills If you learn to juke very well then you will increase your dribbling skills. This means that you can run down the field at full speed while keeping the ball as close to you as possible, which prevents opponents from stealing the ball. Juking can help you do this because in order to juke someone, the ball must be very close to your legs or else you will lose control of the ball, or you will not do a successful juke. Learning to keep the ball close to you is critical to soccer (even more so if you are a forward) if you do not learn to do so, then you will not be able to advance down the field and score. Also, learning to keep the ball close can actually help you run faster, because it gives you momentum, and can help you outrun players. Juking can decrease you opponents moral Both juking and passing can help your team by decreasing your opponent’s moral. However, I find juking to do a better job at this than passing, because it makes your opponents believe that they are outmatched. If you can learn to juke

and pass well, then your opponents will become intimidated and so their defense (mostly) will become inefficient. If you are able to get past defenders and score, then it will make the other teams players just want to give up, and not want to play anymore, because they will find their attempts to be useless. Juking can help you get recognized by team and scouts. If you are able to juke and be an independent player, then other teams and scouts will recognize that and will most likely want you, as to a player who is constantly passing and can’t juke at all. If scouts see that you can juke a defender with ease then they will know that you are a gifted and dedicated player, and will probably sign you up for their team in a heartbeat. And also, most of the top players are forwards which means that they get paid more, which means that it is definitely a good idea to learn how to juke

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How do you turn a 5-7 team that didn’t even go to last year’s bowl into the team it use to be? Just ask Mack Brown, who when he had a team that at the beginning of the season was 3-0 and had a freshman quarterback who lost the national championship last year of that year and then as they advanced to the real teams they started getting under pressure and getting embarrassed by the teams they always beat throughout other years. Now they haven’t gave up and now this year they are 4-0, beating teams that they lost against last year, and all he had to do was make a few changes. The Longhorns will get another national championship even after all these disadvantages. Point 1-The Coaching Staff This year finally, the coaching staff from last year was replaced by a different coaching staff. As for defensive coordinator Will Muschamp who was causing most the problems for the Texas defense of line well he left and was replaced, by Manny Diaz former defensive coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, “Manny has proven to be a bright defensive mind and will bring an aggressive and exciting style of coaching to our defense.,” Mullen said This was said by the coach of the Miss. State bulldogs. The same was and is said by the Longhorns head coach Mac Brown. He began his coaching career at Florida State in 1998, working alongside defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews for two seasons. During his stint, the Seminoles won a national championship in 1999 and were runners-up in 1998. Also made some changes to cooffense coordinator, the new coaches are Bryan Harsin who coached for 11 years for most of those 11 years coached Boise state and was even part when they came close to a National Championship and Major Applewhite former offensive coordinator at Alabama and the hero to Texas after getting out of

the shadow of Chris Simms and then won 4 games and was better than Simms and then went on to coach right after graduating from UT and went back to UT as the graduating assistant. Point 2-The Players The new changes that have been added to this new Texas offense are younger brothers of Texas stars such as Case McCoy, Jaxon Shipley, and Emmanuel Acho. For the recruits, the Longhorns also signed the nation’s No. 2 running back Malcolm Brown; they also signed No. 1 cornerback, Quandre Diggs, one of the early enrollees and the younger brother of former Texas standout Quentin Jammer. They also have commitments from five other members of the ESPNU 150: linebacker Steve Edmond, defensive tackle Desmond Jackson, offensive guard Sedrick Flowers, cornerback Leroy Scott and athlete Josh Turner. The younger brothers of the Texas stars are good and are almost better than them like Case McCoy he is already surpassing his total completions/interception record, as for Jaxon Shipley he has an advantage his brother did not have he is taller and is faster than his brother. Now Emmanuel Acho he is just an exact copy of his brother and doesn’t really need to change because his brother was the perfect defensive linebacker. Point 3-The History The Longhorns have one won 4 national championships one in 1963, 1969, 1970 and 2005. But from the span of all that, they have also been close to getting 8 more championship; they have always fell short because of some little thing even to the little things like being nervous but all they need

was some one that needed to lead them such as Vince Young who was a main guy in all of those 4 years as was Colt McCoy, wins only to lose the championship game and get Big 12 championship titles. Texas is known for its big players, it is also known for the power and domination of the field especially their home field. So far this year Texas is 4-0 and they have beat teams such as Rice University and BYU, At home, and now on the road and beat UCLA in their home in Pasadena, California and Iowa State in their field. Conclusion- My Conclusion to my opinion is that the readers will know who Texas is and why they are famous for it. They will know that they are a team that can come back from a 5-7 season and make it a 12-0. All they need is change. And as Vince Young said in the 2005 BCS bowl as they won another National Champions “Were coming back.”

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By: Daniel Reyes

In the dungeon and going past the double doors. At LBJ there is a trophy case full of every achievement that LBJ high school has ever accomplished to this day, that is still being filled with other achievements. Then passing all of those achievements athletes worked so hard for, going into the office It’s about coach who went from playing the game to teaching it. Why he became a coach and what were the influences that made him want? To become a coach, a figure in the community because without the coach how is the team organized and how are the decisions made since he is the head coach? (Well when I was in high school one of my football coaches Coach Ray Jackson) “He came to me one day he saw I was always the kind of the guy that was kind of inquisitive about why we did certain things on the football field why we were doing that, doing such things.” Why he wanted to become a coach the things that influenced him to become someone that is a decision maker of the team. “Coaches would ask me for my opinion at times on the field he said he told me one day you would be a good coach one day and it always stuck with me, I always love the game and wanted to be a part of the game if I wasn’t playing:” He kind of knew he already knew that he wanted to coach. “I kind of knew I wanted to do that when I was in college from high school.” Coach Odems said.

When I graduated from college I already had a couple of tryouts to a couple of NFL teams and didn’t make the teams so I didn’t waste time or spend time trying to continue to pursue that deal. I knew I had to start a career and came back home and was fortunate enough to get a job coaching here at LBJ as an assistant coach for my high school coach who coached me when I was in high school, Jim Davis. I was fortunate that he gave me an opportunity to start my coaching career the year that I graduated. I was back in Austin back in my alma Mater coaching I just jumped on the ball and started going.” Coach Odems said. The reason he stopped playing football and went on to pursue a career that he liked to do next to football. “Well I can’t play anymore because I’m out of shape, I really love playing the game, I enjoy playing the game, and I love coaching the game I wouldn’t trade it for any other job but playing the game was a great experience for me.” Even though he is a coach in person he is a football player at heart. Coach Odems said Academically what was it like as you went from high school football to the more prestigious college level football. The stress you built to compete for the number one spot increases. “In my opinion yes, it is a big difference the time put in to practice the time put into preparation the types of preparation it a full time deal almost as far as lifting weights, film studying, preparation time you might not put as much of that time in high school at the competition level everyday there was someone there trying to take your position or if you didn’t have a position you were trying to earn a position and sometimes we get into high school were it might not be that difficult to earn a spot.” Coach Odems said.

As coach Odems went to the college level classes and to go to the football practices and to compete for the number one spot he still had the mentally of becoming a coach and trying to balance that. But how do you balance that preparing to be coach while still being the thing that you teach? “Very hard, and once you get to college it about planning really planning schedule and balancing your time because of course school first and again if you’re not passing your classes or don’t make the grade in college you flunk out of school so you have to be able to balance it and it’s a full time deal we didn’t have an opportunity during the season to work jobs and do things that normal student might be able to do so it’s a balancing act.” Coach Odems said. This is coach Odems a head coach at LBJ high school from Austin, Texas. He is a graduate from the University of Iowa. He played for the University of Iowa as a wide receiver and was part of the win in the 1996 Alamo bowl, and went on after his college career to try-out for a couple of NFL teams but unfortunately did not make the teams. Fortunately he did become a coach the career he pursued the most next to becoming a professional football player. He is now the coach of the LBJ Jaguars.

Player of the Month

Arian Foster

Serious Talk

or a 3 year running back this is a pretty good record. This is why Arian Foster is the player of this month. Arian Foster made an amazing recovery from a hamstring injury and never left one of the leading spots in fantasy football. He was out for a month of the season and is still almost past the last season record of rushing yards and is half way to his touchdown record. Foster is on pace for 1,901 scrimmage yards and 13 TDs He was the first running back to get 100 yards out of Atlanta’s scout defense in 15 games. Adrian foster has almost been the rushing yard leader for the Texans for 5 weeks straight.

So many teams are doing poorly without their stars on the team. The Houston Texan didn’t have Andre Johnson for a while. They also are on their third string quarterback and Arian Foster is helping the 3rd string quarterback out. Playing on an injury last year proves nothing will stop this running back not even 300 pound line men made of solid muscle. With every game statistically being proven to be the equivalent I don’t see anyone more fit for player of the month than Arian Foster.

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ichael Phelps. A legend in his own right. 8 Gold medals in one Olympics. Hailed by the world as an amazing athlete. Then, a picture was released of him smoking a bong. Bam. A Kellogs endorsement deal lost. The entire country in shock. But it was just a mistake. A simple mistake. Everybody regrets bad decisions in their life, but they weren’t publicly humiliated for them. But that’s what athletes get. People should not consider athletes as role models. On and off the court , if they do something bad, it is publicly announced and shown to the world. People should not consider athletes role models, because of the simple fact that when athletes make a mistake it turns into a huge, giant affair that everybody knows about. We don’t see perfection in athletes because the media makes their internal lives available. Stories about Ben Roethlisberger, a famous football player, giving a couple million bucks to charity do not make headlines. Stories about Ben Roethlisberger sexually assaulting someone make headlines. The vices of their lives off the field air every day and people measure the bad with the good. Sadly, the public is more interested in the gossip of famous people than the more important news of the day. Impressionable young kids who think of these athletes as their role models see these gossip articles and may try to imitate their favorite athlete. Athletes should not be role models because they think they can do whatever they want. In

Serious Talk an interview with Nerve.com, Steven Ortiz, a sociology professor at Oregon State and the author of several published studies on athletes’ bad behavior, explains: Spoiled athletes since birth “ could be picked out of a lineup........ because of their exceptional athletic ability, coaches, classmates, teammates, family members and partners pamper and cater to them. As they get older, this becomes a pattern. They’re spoiled and they don’t feel accountable for their behaviors off the field. They’re so used to people looking the other way.”

“We should only consider athletes for their actual skill.” Tiger Woods, heralded as a golf genius since he hit his first golf ball at the age of 9 months, a junior champion through middle and high school, praised and spoiled all the while. So he assumed he could do whatever he wanted. A child watching this could emulate the mindset of Tiger Woods and commit the same mistakes he did. We should only consider athletes for their actual skill. We should only look at what athletes do on the court, and how well they play, and/or how well their team does. We should try to play as good as them if not better, sports wise, but not to mimic them. Love an athlete for his skill. Not his moral caliber. In an interview with Credit Suisse, Roger Federer, when talking about his role models Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, “I emulated them, wanted to be as good as them, to win Wimbledon.” Adults and children alike, think greatly of sports players. The difference is that adults understand

that people love and adore sports players because they win. In a recent ad about Tiger Woods, Nike directed a bunch of kids of different races to say “I am Tiger Woods.” But all adults would understand that Nike doesn’t like Tiger Woods for his interracial prototype. They sponsor him because he wins. Opponents who say that athletes should act as role models, argue like this. Athletes comprise a percentage of role models anyway. Even if they feel averse to, or we don’t want to, athletes are still considered as role models.A study by the American Bible Society shows that 18.3% of teens think that sports players constitute role models. They also say that most athletes represent normal people anyway for they struggle with the same financial and social problems. Like a middle class family, but on a larger scale. My response is, Yes, teens may think of some sports players as role models, but they should not. We should give them better role models, such as parents, uncles, aunts, and others, and we should not let them think of sports players as role models. Sports players don’t equal us. They are rich, idolized, and possess incredible skill with the ball. People worship skilled athletes, however spoiled. Generally not the type of people you want your kids to follow around. Do you know who the real role model should be? The real person they should look up to? The parent. Parents and relatives constitute quality role models. Not gods. Not legends of the game that they only see in TV and magazines. The people they see every day.

Serious Talk

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Legend Becoming a

Geting in shape for basketball.

By. Charles Smith

“H

e can’t go left, He can’t go left!” Darrel Smith the creator of Austin Wildcats basketball heard this every day in high school. “My buddies figured out I couldn’t drive down the court left.” They had figured out Darrel’s weakness and used it against him every day. That’s when Darrel realized the importance of being in shape for basketball season. If you can only drive one direction you can’t go anywhere. whether you are going to basketball tryouts or just wanting to play wiht friends in a game on the street. No matter what, being in shape can help one’s performance in a game. “For getting in shape there are really two categories that they fall under. Basketball shape and conditioning shape.” Being good at one or the other doesn’t help any, one has to be good at both. It doesn’t matter if Michael Jordan was good at shooting or dunking if he wasn’t in shape. He wouldn’t be able to run fast enough or long enough to stay with the team or be faster than the other team. “Basketball shape is when the player is good at shooting, Lay-ups, drib-

bling, and passing. For shooting; shoot 250 shots a day at least. Just practice dribbling for about 5 minutes on each hand every day. Also with dribbling cross over, behind the bag, spin move etc.” In reality this is a lot of shots. There is a great reward for just going outside and shooting around. The reason why this works is muscle memory. Muscle memory is when you do some act with your muscles for a long period of time, your muscles do the same thing over again even without trying to think about it. While your shooting baskets you always can work on dribbling. Dribbling will helps get to the basket to score. Dribbling also lets people get around a defender to get down court. Lay-ups falls in line with this because, when getting to the basket not dribbling is a travel. You need to practice lay-ups often, Coaches normally run layup drills at practice and tryouts. Practicing the drills ran at tryouts will give you a better chance to be on the team. Passing is a thing to work on too. One needs to know how to use their team effectively. Throwing the ball against the wall will Increase your accuracy passing the ball and catching. “It really depends on what you need work on. Suicides and six

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“If there is no discipline there is no learning. You need to know when to listen and when to watch. Coaches are more likely to pick you, if you are paying attention to and learning what is going on. If your sitting on the bench because your second string, sub, or even injured . You can still get better by finding out what both teams did, good and bad.” Discipline is needed to go outside and practice following the schedule. Setting up a schedule to practice is a good idea, but you have to stick with it. You can get out of shape in three days, if you don’t stick with practice that cuts improving time while getting back in-shape.

Being in shape helped Michael Jordan become a legend in the NBA. If He wasn’t in shape he couldn’t dunk like this over his career.

teen’s are usually the best things to do for cardio.” Suicides involve you to run to the three point line and back, half court and back, the other three point line and back, full court and back. Sixteen’s are when you stand at one of the sidelines facing the other one, you have to run down to the other side and back in one minute when down and back is equal to two. You almost always need to be timed when running suicides. If needed to because you can’t motivate yourself, get someone to push you.

“Playing pick-up games are important, because it gives you experience at applying your skills that you are developing and making quick responses.” This can teach a player a real game experience. If you just work on your skills and you can’t make decisions or react as fast as some other people do, even if you are better in practice. There is something called tunnel vision people get when they haven’t practiced in enough games. It is like if you were to put your hands on the sides of your face. Be aware of players and don’t hyper-focus on one thing.

“Attendance is important because if you don’t go to every practice you could get out of shape and with most coaches if you don’t contact them ahead of time, then your whole team usually runs for it. Most of the time you could miss something that happened last practice.” This falls in line with discipline. You have to have discipline to have good attendance. If you don’t attend without a reason you will probably condition for it. Attendance also affects that schedule that you should make, show up for almost every single day. “You start with a team, you finish with a team.” Darrel yells this at the team every day during conditioning. If you can’t go left like Darrel, you most likely need practice. wisely.

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Getting Locked Out By: Charles Smith

Basketball

he lockout has been good for charities “the players are playing in tournaments”,but bad for basketball fans. Owners started controversy with their stupid “money problems, because they already make 2 billion a year and need more.” Anybody with common scene realises that they make more than they could make in a million years.The current policy states that the owners aren’t aloud to make more than 2 billion dollars a year but they want more for some unknown reason. In reality the owners own piles of 100 dollar bills. The only reason they want more money is to say I want more money then you. I believe that there won’t be a basketball season because the teams have to Draft free agents and new players. The NBA needs to make camps to get them in shape and to give new players a chance to learn plays, and last schedule the season. I don’t think there’s gonna be a season because the owners don’t seem to be sticking with their argument “We owners need more money.”

“And with that, the remainder of the preseason was lost and the first two weeks of the regular season moved to the brink of cancellation.The NBA shelved the rest of its exhibition schedule Tuesday and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement by Monday.” According to the writer of NBA talks break down over money, games in jeopardy. This proves that the NBA is still millions of miles from reaching common ground. “The 82 game season is still feasible if you relate this to 1999 when the negotiations lasted 4 to 5 weeks beyond the beginning of October,” according to Steve Perrin the writer of The NBA Lockout End Game - How Late is Too Late? But sorry Steve Perrin I don’t think it’s gonna happen. The NBA teams still need to make the schedules and convince some players to come back to the NBA for the camps. Also said by Steve Perrin “Which means that the pressure will be off again. The pressure is on from now until the beginning of October. But if no deal is reached by then , it's too late to save the start of the season, and just like 1999, the owners will likely decide to just sit back and let it play out for a couple of months.” If this pattern occurs then the owners wont agree to the deal. This also proves that this writer and people who care about the sport want it to see a season.

Which I agree with. I don’t think that the owners will want to do anything about the negotiation. If the owners copy the paterrn of the 99’ lockout they will sit back and let this play out until they can make a move. The owners lose lots of money but, it doesn’t matter cause the owners have tons of money. But when the dollars are taken from player’s pay check that will open their eyes. When there is a lockout with the owners trying to change the policy the players don’t get payed. The owners are the source of money for the players. If the owner goes on strike the players have no source of money. They still need to draft free agents. “ Players have a contract with a team. When the contract runs out of time, the players become free agents. Anybody can bye a contract.” The draft that will take a day or 2. The owners don’t know who to sign, because they don’t know who will come back for the season. NBA has to make the rosters with the free agents on them and this doesn’t help because before that the owners still need to decide what free agents to take. The players need to get in shape for the season but that will take 3 - 4 weeks. Once again that leads back to the owners opening the doors and settling these little child tantrums because they don’t get what they want.

Anything Sports October 2011

Beyond the Mat

By: Joel Eguiza

he wrestler is worried; the feeling of hopelessness overwhelms him, as he is flung to the mat. The sweat of his opponent dripping off his brow and onto his face, the groans as he tries to finish the match, are all on his mind as he tries to reverse everything that is thrown at him, yet his opponent seems to evade everything effortlessly. The sport, although old, eludes people’s grasp and leaves them with many misconceptions about what wrestling really is, but the sport is still popular. Wrestler Ben Pfeiffer, although new to the sport, has already encountered many unnecessary comments about having joined the sports. When people learn that he is in wrestling he receives snide comments about the sport, and is even made fun of or accused of being a homosexual.

niques.” Julia said. Recently the team has gained roughly four new wrestlers, swelling the team to about 17 people, yet people still laugh and no one supports the team, we don’t even receive Gatorade or bags of ice after practice, so is our unimportance. Another wrestler, Ben...., stated, “ I believe that there ARE many misconceptions about the sport, people expect the sport to be full of gay guys and lesbian girls, but in reality it is one of the toughest sports and requires much conditioning. And anyways, most people wouldn’t last a match, you have to be tough in order to cope with the pain.”

Although many people seem shocked when they realize you’re in wrestling, they actually seem to be interested at the same time, which is exactly what happened to wrestler Julia... who joined the wrestling team just recently.

“Wrestling will really affect my life, it will help me maintain a low fat to muscle ratio and be ingood shape.” This is a sport that requires a very high level of conditioning. In order to be able to keep up with your opponent and last an entire match, you must eat healthy, and exercise everyday and stay in shape. “It has also helped me learn to defend and attack on the spot, its self defence, it’ll really come in handy.”

“ Wrestling is now my favorite sport, I love to watch video’s of people wrestling during my spare time, its also a great way to learn new moves and tech-

However wrestling isn’t just about conditioning and getting in better shape, its about mastering moves and learning to be a better fighter. “It takes time to

learn a move and even more to master it, but the hardest thing is to learn to apply it.” Pheiffer said. “Most if not all people would expect wrestlers to be aggressive people, when in reality its a sport that helps create and if not strengthen friendships. Its all about the mutual respect that one learns to have for another, its about knowing that both of you gave it your all, and no matter who comes out victorious, they both learn to respect each other for their effort.” Mrs. Hopkins said. good shape.” This is a sport that requires a very high level of conditioning. In order to be able to keep up with your opponent and last an entire match, you must eat healthy, and exercise everyday and stay in shape. “It has also helped me learn to defend and attack on the spot, its self defence, it’ll really come in handy.” However wrestling isn’t just about conditioning and getting in better shape, its about mastering moves and learning to be a better fighter. “It takes time to learn a move and even more to master it, but the hardest thing is to learn to apply it.” Pheiffer said. “Most if not all people would expect wrestlers to be aggressive people, when in reality its

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