February 2011 Layout: Isaac Frumkin SPORTS XTREME Contents Super Bowl.................p.1 Carmelo Trade............p.2 Blake Griffin................p.2 All-Star Weekend........p.3 Fired Coaches............p.4 Indoor Track...............p. 5 Flyers and Penguins...p.5 Redskins Wrap-Up.....p.6 Lafayette Bears..........p.6 Caps Win...................p. 7 Super Bowl XLV College Bowls.............p.8 by Isaac Frumkin 5-J Rothlisberger completed an 8 yard pass to Hines On February 6th, the Green Bay Packers and the Ward for the touchdown. GB 21-10. Pittsburgh Steelers battled each other for the Super Bowl Title. You may have watched it at The only scoring in the third quarter was for the home or you might have watched it at a party, but Steelers. Rashard Mendenhall ran for 8 yards and no matter where you saw it, you saw one of the the touchdown. GB 21-17. Early in the fourth most exciting games ever. quarter, Clay Matthews forced a fumble and Green Bay recovered. They went on to score on Nick Collins celebrates After Christina Aguilera messed up the National an 8-yard completion to Gregg Jennings. GB his pick and TD. Anthem, the game began. It took a little while for 28-17. the teams to start scoring, but with 3:44 left in the first quarter it started. Aaron Rodgers threw a 29- When the Steelers got the ball, they didnʼt waste yard completion to Jordy Nelson for the first the opportunity to pull close. Ben Rothlisberger touchdown of the game. GB 7-0. Twenty-four threw a 25 yard pass to Mike Wallace for the seconds later the Packersʼ safety, Nick Collins, touchdown. Then Antwaan Randel-El ran it into intercepted a pass and returned it for 37 yards the end zone for the 2-point conversion. GB and a touchdown. GB 14-0. 28-25. Soon after, Green Bayʼs Mason Crosby secured the lead with a 23 yard field goal. GB Aaron Rodgers posing Early on in the second quarter, Pittsburghʼs Shaun 31-25. Pittsburgh had another chance but they with the MVP and the Lombardi Trophy. Suisham made a 33-yard field goal. GB 14-3. Ben failed to get the first down on 4th and 5. Rothlisburger threw another interception, but this time to safety Jarrett Bush. Then Gregg Jennings The Green Bay Packers are our 45th Super Bowl caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Champion!! Rodgers. GB 21-3. With only 39 seconds left in the half, the Steelers began their comeback. Ben second-round picks in 2012 and Carmelo Anthony’s 2013, and cash. Amare Stoudemire, BLAKE’S PICS Long Awaited Trade the Knicks other star, has led the Knicks to a 28-26 record this season. by Matthew Harris 5-B In Carmelo’s debut with New York he scored 27 points in the 114-108 win The New York Knicks completed a over the Milwaukee Bucks. three-team,13-player trade with the Denver Nuggets for Carmelo Anthony on Tuesday. The Minnesota Timberwolves were also involved in the trade, which was agreed to on February 21st but couldn’t be finalized until Anthony signed his Griffin getting a lift three-year, $65 million contract from Knicks’ center, extension with the Nuggets. The Timifey Mozgov Knicks got guards Chauncey Billups ‘Melo on his new team and Anthony Carter, and forwards Renaldo Balkman and Shelden Williams from Denver. The Nuggets got forwards Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari, guard Raymond Felton and center Timofey Mozgov. New York also shipped centers Eddy Curry and Anthony Randolph to Minnesota for forward Cory Brewer. Denver acquired center Kosta Koufos from Minnesota plus New York’s first ‘Melo on his old team Blake rises above round draft pick in 2014, the Knicks’ Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom Blake Griffin by Caleb Murphy 5-B Coming out of Oklahoma University, Blake Griffin was the first pick of the 2009 NBA draft by the Los Angles Clippers. Blake Griffin averages nearly 23 points and 13 rebounds per game so he gets a double-double almost every game. In Griffin’s early years he was home schooled and his best friend was St. Louis Rams’ quarterback Sam Bradford who also went to Oklahoma. Blake Griffin’s high school was Oklahoma Christian University where his varsity basketball team won the state championship, then the next year, went undefeated. In college Blake averaged 21 points, 12 Blake Griffin won the rebounds, and four assists per game. Blake Griffin’s nimble footwork 2011 Sprite Slam Dunk and ability to finish hard around the basket, is leading him to be the Contest with this first rookie since Allen Iverson to play more than 40 games in the a alley-oop dunk over a rookie season. Aside from him being the best rookie, he might be car. the NBA’s best dunker. He won the 2011 Slam Dunk contest during All-Star weekend. 2 NBA All-Star Weekend by Isaac Frumkin 5-J In the real All-Star Game the teams consist of the 12 best players in the East and the West. Even though they were reserves, the Celtics’ four players (Rajon All-Star Game Starters Rondo, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett) set a record for most players in the All-Star game from the same team. At half-time the West was up 74-64. In the mid third-quarter, Dwayne Wade twisted his ankle on a behind-the-back-pass. The Blake Griffin, Winner East caught up a little bit but the West won The Sprite Slam Dunk Contest is in the end, 148-143. LeBron James had a where 4 players perform dunks for triple-double but Kobe’s 37 points and 14 judges and get a rating for their assists won him the MVP award. dunk. Whoever gets the most points at the end wins. The finals ended up being between the favorite, Blake Griffin, and the Wizards’ Javale McGee. Even though McGee had just done a 3- ball dunk, Blake’s dunk over a car made him the winner. Clockwise starting from top left: Amare Stoudemire, Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Dwayne Wade, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, & Yao Ming, James Jones, Winner due to injury, was replaced by Kevin The Foot Locker 3-point Contest consists of 4 players who try to make the most 3-pointers in a certain amount of time. The Celtics’ Ray Allen and defending champion, Paul Pierce, were in the competition. The Heat’s James Jones ended up winning in the final round with 20 3s. Stephen Curry, Winner The Haier Shooting Stars is a team The Taco Bell Skills Challenge is an obstacle competition where a state or city course that includes passing into a bucket has a team of three people (WNBA and curving around cones. Team Atlanta, winners player, NBA player, Basketball There are six players who compete for the Legend). This year it was between Team Atlanta, Team Chicago, Team LA, best time. The Wizards’ John Wall was in the contest but got out in the first round. and Team Texas. Team Chicago and Team LA were eliminated in the first The finals was between Stephen Curry of round, so the Finals was between Atlanta (Coco Miller, Al Horford and Steve the Golden State Warriors and Russell Smith) and defending champion Texas (Roneeka Hodges, Dirk Nowitzki, and Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Kenny Smith). Team Atlanta went first and finished with a horrible time of Stephen Curry ended up winning with an 1:10, but it didn’t matter because Team Texas didn’t even finish. amazing time of 28.2 seconds. SCHEDULE FRIDAY NIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT Justin Haier Shooting Stars Bieber Rookie-Sophomore won the Game 60th Annual Celebrity Skills Challenge Game Celebrity Game All-Star Game MVP 3-point Contest Slam Dunk Contest 3 not be returning to the team. The Goodbye NFL Fired Coaches Raiders had until Jan. 18 to decide if Guys! they would pick up the two-year option by Matthew Harris 5-B on Cableʼs contract. Five more NFL coaches were fired this year, and Iʼm going to start with the Moving on to the Denver Broncos. The San Francisco 49ers. Mike Singletary Broncos fired coach Josh McDaniels on was fired after the team made an Dec. 7.The announcement was made announcement late on January 7, by John Elway, the teamʼs vice several hours after the 49ers were president of football of operations, who eliminated from playoff contention with has been leading the search for the a 25-17 loss to St. Louis. Their new replacement for the fired Josh head coach is Jim Harbaugh. He was McDaniels. On Jan. 13, John Fox was the head coach of Stanford, but after named the new head coach. signing a 5-year contract worth $25 John Fox isn’t happy million heʼs now the 49ersʼ coach. The Panthers announced the dismissal with how his team of Coach John Fox, signaling the end of Now Iʼm moving on to the Browns. The nine-year run in which he led the played last season. Browns hired Pat Shurmur on January franchise to its only Super Bowl. Owner 13, ending a search that began when Jerry Richardson said the contracts of Eric Mangini was fired on January 3. Fox and the rest of his staff wouldnʼt be Pat Shurmur used to be the offensive renewed after the Dec. 12, game at coordinator of St.Louis. Atlanta. He ended the season with the worst record in the NFL 2-13.