Category: General sports

Daily Prompt 4/22/2024

Daily writing prompt
What topics do you like to discuss?
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S. Samek

Seeing that this is sports blog the main topic covered here is sports. Though we do cover a variety of sports-themed topics here.

One of my favorites is baseball. More specifically minor league baseball and top prospects. I also like discussing fun minor league baseball names and jerseys.

Though I will also discuss Major League Baseball too. Talking about records and milestones, or even how well the Pittsburgh Pirates are playing, or how bad they are.

Bowling is another sports topic I like to discuss. Talking about all the events and happenings on the PBA Tour.

Esports is probably the next sports topic I like to cover/discuss the most. With quite a few regions to choose from in League of Legends professional play there’s a lot to discuss. With MSI 2024 coming up soon it’s going to be a key point in the esports discussion. Overall, I just love discussing anything and everything sports.

Jomboy Media Slap Ball

S. Samek

The Warehouse Games Captains league is moving into their next sport, Slap ball. It’s a game that looks like a bit of soccer, hockey, basketball and dodgeball. I think it looks like it should be interesting to watch and see how it plays out.

They drafted teams the other night for this stage of the tournament. Here they are. Note the Captains stay the same, but the draft can be different for each event/spot played during the captain’s league. So, this does look different than the teams from the first event, ball in play.

This is the second event towards the cup with the Breakdowns currently in first place with six points. The team captain sitting in the relegation spot after one event is the Goodfellas.

The first video/game of the event takes place on Sunday Apil 7th, 2024 at 8 PM. The Story will take on The GoodFellas in this game. The schedule is then shared here for the rest of the event. be sure to tune in to what should be quite entertaining.

Clemson Files Lawsuit Against ACC

S. Samek

Earlier this year Florida State University was looking to leave the ACC and was suing them to be allowed to do so.

Now it looks like Clemson might be the next team to leave the ACC. They are filing a lawsuit against the ACC over the fee required to withdraw from the league.

Will this lead to further ACC schools wanting to leave, or will it stop with the Clemson Tigers?

Daily Prompt 3/6/24

S. Samek

Daily writing prompt
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?
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So, the prompt is movies, or TV Series I’ve watched more than five times. I figured I would do that but for sports related movies and shows.

The first one that comes to mind is Major League. It’s my favorite baseball movie ever and always worth a watch for a good laugh. Other baseball movies I’ve watched a lot are Bull Durham, Moneyball, Angels in the Outfield and The Sandlot.

For Football movies my most watched is the Blindside. It’s always on TV it seems like. Also, the Game Plan is another one I’ve seen many times.

For Hockey I’ve most watched the Mighty Ducks trio of films.

Of course, for bowling, has to be the Big Lebowski, or the Big Bang Theory episode where Sheldon bowls against Will Wheaton. The Suite of Zac and Cody bowling episode with Arwin as a champion bowler is great too and I’ve seen it many times.

In terms of Basketball, I like the Parks and Recreation episode with the basketball league where Ron and Andy are opposing coaches.

Lots of good sports movies and Tv shows worth watching more than five times.

2028 Olympics New Sports

S. Samek

2028 will see six new sports added to the Olympic Games. Baseball, softball, cricket, squash, flag football and lacrosse. Pretty cool that they have new sports being added to the games. I’m probably most excited to see the return of baseball. I feel like with the success of the World Baseball Classic this could be similar to that and be successful. Flag football should also be fun to see how it is played at the top level of competition.

JomBoy Floorball

S. Samek

So apparently Jomboy isn’t just wiffleball, or blitzball. They have a tournament I haven’t seen before in a sport I haven’t heard of prior to finding the video. The sport is called floorball.

I think it’s really cool. It looks like an indoor hockey sort of game. Though the thing that stood out to me was how much it reminded me of floor hockey that we played during gym class. I remember from second grade all the way to eighth grade having a unit on floor hockey. It was always the class favorite too, we lived for floor hockey. Just fun to see a sport similar to it getting some media attention.

Return of The Ocho 2023

S. Samek

ESPN will have the Ocho return this week. From August 3rd to 5th 2023 you can catch all the lesser-known sports offerings as ESPN becomes the Ocho. Though the Savanah Bananas will leadoff the show against the Party Animals, while the rest of the card features all kinds of events like a Microsoft Excel championship, corgi racing, kickball, wiffleball and so much more.