Elise's Point of View on Sports

This season of college of basketball has been like no other. Last season Kentucky held on to the #1 spot for a long time. In fact, they went 42-0 (including the NCAA tournament) until they finally lost to Wisconsin. This season there has been so many upsets and so many changes. Every team that has had the #1 spot in the rankings have all seemed to go down with upsets. In fact according to an article on Sports Nation,  the main title reads "Top ranked college basketball teams are being upset more than they have in 67 years". Ricky O'Donnell, the sports journalist goes on to explain how 5 #1 teams have fallen before the month of February. That's pretty incredible to say the least. In all my years of watching basketball I have never seen so many upsets happen to ranked teams. I  give credit to the state of Iowa. Their teams fought hard to knock off previously #1 ranked teams. It all started with Northern Iowa. They knocked off Marcus Paige and the Tar heels and...

Next Sunday will be another epic showdown between Tom Brady and the Patriots vs Peyton Manning and the Broncos. The Patriots are highly favored in this game. Statistically speaking Brady holds the advantage against Manning in passing yards as well as touchdown passes. Manning has been suffering through a foot injury though and just recently got back to play against the Steelers. The Broncos scored 5 field goals in the game against the Steelers on Sunday. They only had 1 Touchdown in the game, which came because of fumble by Steelers running back Fitzgerald Toussaint. In order for the Broncos to win against the Patriots they need to be scoring more Touchdowns than field goals on Sunday.  Brady and the Patriots are dangerous when they get in the red zone. Julian Edelman is now back from a injury so Brady has Edelman, Gronkowski, as well as Danny Amendola to throw to. These three have all came through for Brady, especially Gronkowski. The tight end has been very impressive t...

As we start a new year in 2016, I thought it would be fun to look back on 2015 and comment and post my thoughts on the top sport stories of 2015. There's a lot to choose from but I have narrowed it down to my favorites. This list is not in any particular order. To start off, let's go back in February of 2015 with the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. Coming into the game the Seahawks were looking to become one of the few teams to win back to back Superbowl titles. The past season they blew out Peyton Manning and the Broncos. They were looking again to come back on top and win against a very different New England Patriots team. The Patriots, came into this game with a lot of controversy. The speculation was that in preparation for a game held against the Indianapolis Colts, the patriots were accused of deflating the footballs, therefore making it easier for Tom Brady to grip the ball. (A few months after the Super Bowl Tom Brady would be sus...