Category Archives: Sports

TSN: Tebow Sports Network

If you turn on your television to one of the ESPN networks, there is one topic that is sure to come up no matter what sport is being discussed. If the discussion is about the New England Patriots, then there … Continue reading

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Five Banned for Six Over Doping

Announced today, Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie, Tom Danielson, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie were banned from the world of cycling for a reduced sentence of only six months after agreeing to testify against Lance Armstrong in his recent doping … Continue reading

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Our City Needs Orlando City

Recently the Orlando City Soccer Club started an exploration into a new stadium for the team and it has all been assured that with the new stadium, the team will be moving up to the highest level of professional soccer … Continue reading

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Seeing Changes at the Mosquito Lagoon? Concerned? Come Talk about it!

Recent concerns over the large losses of sea grasses and increasing prop scars are causing concern for local fishermen and boaters who regularly visit the Mosquito Lagoon. While the lagoon typically sees a large decrease in sea grass during the … Continue reading

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The NFL Officials Lock Out is Over: A Look Back

At the midst of two incorrect game changing calls by the replacement officials during last week, the NFL and the officials union reached an agreement to end the lock out. The lock out which began before the season started forced … Continue reading

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A Black Eye On America’s Sport

I love baseball.  I’ve loved it ever since I was a little boy back in the early 1980s.  Every April, my older brother and I would sit around and hope that our team, the New York Yankees wouldn’t come in … Continue reading

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Where is the Balance?

Where is the balance?  Reading the latest chapter from our Principles of Convergent Journalism book, I wanted to find inspiration for this blog post, so I went to the Orlando Sentinel’s web page looking for a local story that might … Continue reading

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Dwight Howard and the “new” Media

The other day I was in a tiny shop in Winter Park, and the sales woman was making small talk, and asked me what my major was. When I told her Radio-Television she made a face and said,”The media ruins … Continue reading

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Sportmanship Takes a Back Seat

During the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder game. Metta World  Peace who is also Ron Artest made an impressive dunk, in which he began to celebrate, while doing so James Harden was violently elbowed in the face by Ron … Continue reading

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Numerous NFL Shake Up’s Dominate Sports News

Just when you think it doesn’t get much bigger than Peyton Manning shopping for a new team, a bounty program involving the New Orleans Saints is unveiled and Tim Tebow gets traded to the Jets.  This week was definitely exciting … Continue reading

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