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Monday, March 1, 2010
UCLA 2010: Behind the Sports Scene At My Doctoral Programs Football Signing Day
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We are proud of those youth who excel in school and life as they pursue their sports careers.
On the other side of things, I personally hope UCLA and the various coaching staffs take care of all of the students admitted for their athletic talents, while also making the University of California a more accessible education institution for all of its citizens regardless of socioeconomic background. I have added a bit of critical commentary because like can be fun but it is not a game!
All the best,
Kwame Tumi
We are proud of those youth who excel in school and life as they pursue their sports careers.
On the other side of things, I personally hope UCLA and the various coaching staffs take care of all of the students admitted for their athletic talents, while also making the University of California a more accessible education institution for all of its citizens regardless of socioeconomic background. I have added a bit of critical commentary because like can be fun but it is not a game!
All the best,
Kwame Tumi
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Daily Optimism (1A) - Contributed by Kwame Tumi
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(Contributed by Kwame Tumi's personal blogspace www.optimismofthemind.blogspot.com)
Things that keep me OPTIMISTIC in a 'world' so...??? I am not sure that what it is "so"?! Yet I know babies, puppies of course, my family members when they are happy, folks I do not know who are friendly and have 'good energy', and much more along with most sports but specifically hoops (aka basketball) and highlights are the best but the commentary on this one is entertaining as well...
former NBA point guard Eric Snow and colleagues (in this episode its Chris Webber)
Enjoy
Kwame Tumi signing out!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sports and Life in 2009 (what a year)
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So the end of the time period known as 2009 came and went and I am just getting back to this blog :-)
Things in the sports world on the field have been exciting, suprising in some cases and always entertaining. Problem is I find it hard to recall it all in the midst of life, work, school and the large variety of entertainment I take part in (clubs, concerts, flag football with friends among other activities) or observe (hoops from high school to the nba to fiba, american football (college & nfl, good thing I can not get canadian football and I will pass on australian football), football (aka soccer), baseball (primarily mlb though I have watched japanese baseball online), no rugby viewing for me though I have a rugby ps2 game, and I also like boxing and mixed martial arts, why choose one when you can watch both?, I think you get the point and you can see why my memory is cloudy with factoids and results of so many sorts. Nonetheless, I will highlight huge events which come to mind.
College Football: The Florida Tebows, I mean Gators beat the Oklahoma Sooners (both QBs returned to college, now we wonder if Tebow who had a good year can QB in the NFL...I think he will become a FB in the 'new' Wildcat formation (how timely for Tebow, I would say :-). OU's QB Bradford on the other hand had the misfortune of getting injured early in the FBS football season. In both cases, no point was made by returning to college. Although I support education as a history professor and academic in-training yet I think they both should have gone to the NFL. Believe me, education helps but money matters in this nation!
NFL: The Steelers did it in the last moments which is why coaches say they their teams must pay a full 60 minutes. Although the state did not initially celebrate Martin Luther King's Birthday, I put that aside to support the former grocery store stock clerk, dreadlocked RB and plethora of talented receivers to no avail! It was a great game though. So far this season, the Colts are still undefeated and the Saints lost their first game this weekend, yes the "Ain'ts" are by my measure the best team this year, and the lost may be better for them ask the 2008 Patriots!
College Hoops: Time will tell who will survive the NCAA tourney but Kentucky continues to look good and Kansas looks hard to beat. Outside of those two teams I can only see Villanova winning because of Scottie Reynolds whose 'hard-nosed' Senior play I like...
So the end of the time period known as 2009 came and went and I am just getting back to this blog :-)
Things in the sports world on the field have been exciting, suprising in some cases and always entertaining. Problem is I find it hard to recall it all in the midst of life, work, school and the large variety of entertainment I take part in (clubs, concerts, flag football with friends among other activities) or observe (hoops from high school to the nba to fiba, american football (college & nfl, good thing I can not get canadian football and I will pass on australian football), football (aka soccer), baseball (primarily mlb though I have watched japanese baseball online), no rugby viewing for me though I have a rugby ps2 game, and I also like boxing and mixed martial arts, why choose one when you can watch both?, I think you get the point and you can see why my memory is cloudy with factoids and results of so many sorts. Nonetheless, I will highlight huge events which come to mind.
College Football: The Florida Tebows, I mean Gators beat the Oklahoma Sooners (both QBs returned to college, now we wonder if Tebow who had a good year can QB in the NFL...I think he will become a FB in the 'new' Wildcat formation (how timely for Tebow, I would say :-). OU's QB Bradford on the other hand had the misfortune of getting injured early in the FBS football season. In both cases, no point was made by returning to college. Although I support education as a history professor and academic in-training yet I think they both should have gone to the NFL. Believe me, education helps but money matters in this nation!
NFL: The Steelers did it in the last moments which is why coaches say they their teams must pay a full 60 minutes. Although the state did not initially celebrate Martin Luther King's Birthday, I put that aside to support the former grocery store stock clerk, dreadlocked RB and plethora of talented receivers to no avail! It was a great game though. So far this season, the Colts are still undefeated and the Saints lost their first game this weekend, yes the "Ain'ts" are by my measure the best team this year, and the lost may be better for them ask the 2008 Patriots!
College Hoops: Time will tell who will survive the NCAA tourney but Kentucky continues to look good and Kansas looks hard to beat. Outside of those two teams I can only see Villanova winning because of Scottie Reynolds whose 'hard-nosed' Senior play I like...
This Summer, Black Star Sports will be up and running with periodic sports information of note...think Outside the Lines yet with more of an international vibe and hopefully insightful 'journalistic' content... www.blackstarsports.com
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Joy of Channelsurfing.net
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As I sit here watching
[Nippon (Japan) Professional Baseball] NPL - Yokohama BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants 5:00AM EST 5/13 at a little after 4am Pacific Standard Time, it is clear that we are in a global age. Currently 6-6 in the 6th ending, one man at firstbase for the BayStars....Ishikawa at bat, he missed his first bunt atttempt. Ground out. Runner advances to second. #2 gets a hit and puts them ahead 7-6 with am in field single, then #25 gets single to get another run, now the score is 8-6. Next player grounds out and then commercials...but what was interesting was the MLB Today update. The update started with a 'highlight' of a ground out by outfielder Hideki Matsui's of the Yankees, then a hit by outfielder Fosume Kosuke Fukudome of the Chicago Cubs, the Mariners Ichiro's [Suzuki] (one of me and my brother's favorite players) hits and ended with fellow Mariner Kenji Johjima getting a hit.
Besides my Vin Scully-level play by play prose, what's quite interesting is the level of crowd 'animation' and celebration during the games (matchs). There is a high-degree of passion for their favorite teams. Try it one day you my like.
For someone living without cable television and pushing them away from Facebook on a daily-basis. The program links offered on this day on Channelsurfing.net were the following:
Movie Madness 5/13
Movies 5/13
Viewers Choice Movies 5/13
Showtime Movies 5/13
MMA TV 5/13
ESPN 5/13
NFL Network 5/13
Sky Poker 5/12-->
FOX News 5/12
-->
FOX Business News 5/12
-->
Leafs TV 4/21
-->
TomGreen.com - The Channel 5/13
Boxing - Hatton vs Pacquiao 5/13
Sudirman Cup 4:00AM EST 5/13
NPL - Yokohama BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants 5:00AM EST 5/13
NPL - Yakult Swallows vs Hiroshima Carp 5:00AM EST 5/13
ITF Saint Gaudens 5:00AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (ATP Masters Madrid) 5:00AM EST 5/12
-->
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (ATP Masters Madrid) (IE ONLY) 5:00AM EST 5/13
CPBL - Brother Elephants vs Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 6:30AM EST 5/13
Mike and Mike in the Morning 6:30AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (WTA Masters Madrid) 7:00AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (WTA Masters Madrid) (IE ONLY) 7:00AM EST 5/13
Giro d'Italia 8:30AM EST 5/13
Giro d'Italia 8:30AM EST 5/12
-->
Coppa Italia - Lazio Roma vs Sampdoria 2:30PM EST 5/13
BCAPL Nationals 4:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Gonzaga at Oregon State 4:00PM EST 5/13
Ghost Hunters 7:00PM EST 5/13
NHL - Pittsburgh at Washington 7:00PM EST 5/13
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 8:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Pacific at Stanford 8:00PM EST 5/13
Copa Libertadores - Gremio Porto Alegre vs CD San Martin 9:00PM EST 5/13
WWE Smackdown 8:00PM EST 5/2
-->
WWE Raw 9:00PM EST 5/12
-->
ECW 10:00PM EST 5/12
-->
ECW 9:00PM EST 3/26
-->
TNA Wrestling Impact! 9:00PM EST 5/7
-->
NBA - Dallas at Denver 9:00PM EST 5/13
NBA - Dallas at Denver 9:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Loyola Marymount at Southern California 9:30PM EST 5/13
The Ultimate Fighter 10:00PM EST 5/13
Rules of Engagement 11:00PM EST 5/13
America's Next Top Model 11:00PM EST 5/13
Criminal Minds 12:00AM EST 5/13
90210 12:00PM EST 5/13
I mainly watch ESPN, NBA & NCAA basketball, some soccer (football), American football, tennis & Japanese baseball (NCAA baseball is available yet MLB baseball is a glaring absence!) There are other sports like badminton, billiards (aka pool) among other sports...well the Bay Stars won on a walk with the bases loaded in the 10th inning by the way...to be continued...
As I sit here watching
[Nippon (Japan) Professional Baseball] NPL - Yokohama BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants 5:00AM EST 5/13 at a little after 4am Pacific Standard Time, it is clear that we are in a global age. Currently 6-6 in the 6th ending, one man at firstbase for the BayStars....Ishikawa at bat, he missed his first bunt atttempt. Ground out. Runner advances to second. #2 gets a hit and puts them ahead 7-6 with am in field single, then #25 gets single to get another run, now the score is 8-6. Next player grounds out and then commercials...but what was interesting was the MLB Today update. The update started with a 'highlight' of a ground out by outfielder Hideki Matsui's of the Yankees, then a hit by outfielder Fosume Kosuke Fukudome of the Chicago Cubs, the Mariners Ichiro's [Suzuki] (one of me and my brother's favorite players) hits and ended with fellow Mariner Kenji Johjima getting a hit.
Besides my Vin Scully-level play by play prose, what's quite interesting is the level of crowd 'animation' and celebration during the games (matchs). There is a high-degree of passion for their favorite teams. Try it one day you my like.
For someone living without cable television and pushing them away from Facebook on a daily-basis. The program links offered on this day on Channelsurfing.net were the following:
Movie Madness 5/13
Movies 5/13
Viewers Choice Movies 5/13
Showtime Movies 5/13
MMA TV 5/13
ESPN 5/13
NFL Network 5/13
Sky Poker 5/12-->
FOX News 5/12
-->
FOX Business News 5/12
-->
Leafs TV 4/21
-->
TomGreen.com - The Channel 5/13
Boxing - Hatton vs Pacquiao 5/13
Sudirman Cup 4:00AM EST 5/13
NPL - Yokohama BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants 5:00AM EST 5/13
NPL - Yakult Swallows vs Hiroshima Carp 5:00AM EST 5/13
ITF Saint Gaudens 5:00AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (ATP Masters Madrid) 5:00AM EST 5/12
-->
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (ATP Masters Madrid) (IE ONLY) 5:00AM EST 5/13
CPBL - Brother Elephants vs Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 6:30AM EST 5/13
Mike and Mike in the Morning 6:30AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (WTA Masters Madrid) 7:00AM EST 5/13
Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open (WTA Masters Madrid) (IE ONLY) 7:00AM EST 5/13
Giro d'Italia 8:30AM EST 5/13
Giro d'Italia 8:30AM EST 5/12
-->
Coppa Italia - Lazio Roma vs Sampdoria 2:30PM EST 5/13
BCAPL Nationals 4:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Gonzaga at Oregon State 4:00PM EST 5/13
Ghost Hunters 7:00PM EST 5/13
NHL - Pittsburgh at Washington 7:00PM EST 5/13
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 8:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Pacific at Stanford 8:00PM EST 5/13
Copa Libertadores - Gremio Porto Alegre vs CD San Martin 9:00PM EST 5/13
WWE Smackdown 8:00PM EST 5/2
-->
WWE Raw 9:00PM EST 5/12
-->
ECW 10:00PM EST 5/12
-->
ECW 9:00PM EST 3/26
-->
TNA Wrestling Impact! 9:00PM EST 5/7
-->
NBA - Dallas at Denver 9:00PM EST 5/13
NBA - Dallas at Denver 9:00PM EST 5/13
NCAA Baseball - Loyola Marymount at Southern California 9:30PM EST 5/13
The Ultimate Fighter 10:00PM EST 5/13
Rules of Engagement 11:00PM EST 5/13
America's Next Top Model 11:00PM EST 5/13
Criminal Minds 12:00AM EST 5/13
90210 12:00PM EST 5/13
I mainly watch ESPN, NBA & NCAA basketball, some soccer (football), American football, tennis & Japanese baseball (NCAA baseball is available yet MLB baseball is a glaring absence!) There are other sports like badminton, billiards (aka pool) among other sports...well the Bay Stars won on a walk with the bases loaded in the 10th inning by the way...to be continued...
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