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VOLUME 2, NO. 2! OCTOBER 23, 2009 Lafayette Elementary School Sports X-treme Skins Continue To Struggle CONTENTS by Caleb Murphy, 4K ! Redskins Struggle.....1 ! The Redskins are not doing well in the NFC East. An Caps Lose.................1 example is their recent loss to Carolina two weeks ago. Clinton Portis rushed for 57 yards and a touchdown. Meanwhile, Jason US Clinches Cup Spot.2 Campbell threw for 145 yards and one TD. On the Panthers side, NFL Ovetime Rule......2 quarterback Jake Delhomme threw Football Forecast ........3 for 181 yards while Panthers WR, Steve Smith, had 65 yards. Prior to Cavs Get Ugly Win....3 the Redskins loss to them, Young Footballers ....4 Carolina had no wins. Last week"s 14-6 loss to the Panthers Winless......4 previously-winless Kansas City MLB Playo#s ...........5 Chiefs makes it three times that Yankees Can Win......5 the Redskins have lost to winless teams this year. (They lost earlier Meet Dave Wright.....5 to Detroit, and the Lions hadn"t Coach$s Corner.........6 won for 19 games). And this was supposed to be the easy part of Fastest Runners........7 their schedule. Extreme but Gentle..7 Continued on p. 7 QB Jason Campbellʼs Serena the Great.......8 performance is uneven. Gilbert$s Back........8 Devils Take Caps To Underworld ! by Will Shamma 5G ! . ! On Monday Oct. 12, the Caps lost to the New Jersey Devils 3-2, in Shootout Overtime. It was heartbreaking but Devils goalie Martin Brodeur held his ground. The Caps came out and Like Sports? scored two early goals and it looked like they were going to win. Twenty minutes later the Devils scored to make it 2-1. David Like to Write? Clarkson raced down the wing and tied it up. It went to overtime Be a Sports X"Treme and they almost won, but Jose Theodore made an amazing save! In the Shootout Nicolas Backstrom scored, followed by Zach reporter! Parise and Jami Langenbrunner. Hopefully, the Caps will rise from the depths and eventually bring home the cup. See Ms. Echave soon SPORTS X"TREME ! PAGE1 VOLUME 2, NO. 2! OCTOBER 23, 2009 Good And Bad News For The US National Team ! by Eric Meade and Michael Foose, 5G ! Hello soccer fans! ! Have you been watching the World Cup qualifiers lately? Well, the good news for the US team is that they clinched a spot in the World Cup. Even so, they played Costa Rica on October 14th. They tied two-two with the US scoring only in the second half. Costa Rica"s Ruiz scored two goals in rapid succession. Michael Bradley and Jonathan Bornstein both scored goals to tie up the game. Despite several great chances, the US failed to score until the 72nd minute. Some failed Ravens and Giants await the coin toss. attempts were made by Conor Casey who completely bluffed one easy shot which he could NFL Overtime--the have tapped around the goalie. Instead, he shot it straight into him. Worst Rule Ever ! As we said, there was also some bad news. Here it is: one of the US"s best players by Joe Spaeth, 5G Charlie Davies was severely injured in a car crash. He will stay in the hospital for at least week and How many times has your favorite will take six months to a year to recover team lost a game because of the NFL"s completely. Let"s hope it doesn"t take a year, or overtime rules? The NFL"s sudden death else Davies could miss the World Cup. overtime is played like this: flip a coin, whoever calls it right gets the ball, and about 80% of the time goes on to win. ! Many people believe the NFL"s overtime should be played like in college football: both teams have a chance to score, each team gets a first and 10 at the opposing 25-yard line, and the one in the lead after a pair of possessions wins. ! Many people believe that in 2010 the NFL should change their overtime rules to the college rules.# Do you agree with Joe? Does this rule have to go? Or do you like it? Write your opinion about the NFL overtime rule and we"ll Jozy Altidore (in white) dribbles past put it in the next Sports X-Treme! Costa Rican defenders. SPORTS X"TREME ! PAGE2 VOLUME 2, NO. 2! OCTOBER 23, 2009 Football Forecast: Vikings vs. Steelers Will Be Great Game by Coleman Ayers, 5G This week there will be an even better game than I predicted last time; it is the Minnesota Vikings at the defending Super Bowl Champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers. ! I predict that this will be a good game but the Vikes will pull it out, 24-17. Some advantages that the Vikings have are: A, the electrifying running ability of Adrian Peterson. B, a great defense who, in my opinion. is the best in the whole NFL, and C, some pretty good WRS. Also, they now know that Brett Favre is for real. Some things the Steelers have going for them to make it close are the home field advantage, a good QB, and a solid defense/special teams. ! The Vikings are 6-0 facing a pretty mild schedule. The Steelers have faced a schedule of about the same difficulty and are now 3-2 and have had injuries that will benefit the Vikings. ! The game will be at Heinz Field, home of the Steelers, at 1:00 ET. this Sunday, Oct. 25. An Ugly Loss for Maryland by Matt Fenty, 4FJ ! On a rainy Saturday, Oct. 17, the Maryland Terrapins played the Virginia Cavaliers in a game that some sportswriters have called just plain ugly. Certainly, the weather was ugly; a steady rain fell all day, but the performance of both teams was sloppy, too. The final score was 20-9. ! It turned out that the rain was more steady than the play of either team. During the game, Maryland had four fumbles, and their quarterback, Chris Turner, threw two interceptions. ! Still, they didn"t have so much trouble moving the ball has they had holding on to it. Maryland"s record is now 2-5 and the Cavs stand at 3-3. Even though both teams continue to be rivals, Maryland is slipping--even when it"s not muddy. The Terps and Cavs slugged it out in the rain last Saturday, and the Cavs won 20-9. SPORTS X"TREME ! PAGE3 VOLUME 2, NO. 2! OCTOBER 23, 2009 Meet Lafayetteʼs Youngest Football Team ! Introducing the Tiny-Mite Panthers Photos and text by Matthew Harris and Elijah Singletary, 4S They are 7-0. Amazing! Especially when you consider that this football team--the Tiny- Mite Panthers--is for kids in Kindergarten and grades one and two! They beat FBR 28-7. Ethan Barnes ran a touchdown against Benning-Stoddart. Their last game is on Saturday. Wish them luck! Trevor Thiesfeld- Ethan Gadson, 2S Jones, 2B Michael Senko, 2N Xavier Gary, 2H Michael Rosebar, KD Armani Johnson, KS Mitey-Mite Panthers Report by Alex Fitzgerald, 4FM As we went to press, the Lafayette Panthers Mitey-Mite team had a record of 1-4, so the Mitey-Mite can definitely feel for the Redskins who are also having a losing season. The Mitey-Mite"s one win was by forfeit because the other team didn"t have enough players. They lost to the FBR, to the Beavers and twice to the Wolf Pack. ! The team has two QBs who go to Lafayette: Alex Fitzgerald (#7) and Elijah Singletary (#1). In all, there are 21 players on the team. The season ends the day before Halloween. In the whole season, we have not scored a single point. The only team worse than us is the Hornets. Although we haven"t played them yet, they"ve never won a game, and if we ever do get to play them, I think we can win. SPORTS X"TREME ! PAGE4 VOLUME 2, NO. 2! OCTOBER 23, 2009 Yankees Have the Power To Win the World Series Once Again by Isaac Frumkin, 4K and Sam Himmelfarb, 4FJ ! Back in the old playoffs. Team captain, Derek Jeter, is days there were leading his team to World Series #27. Yankee lineups that ! So far this post season, the d o m i n a t e d t h e Yankees swept the Minnesota Twins in o p p o s i n g t e a m s . three straight games, and now they are Some of their key facing the Los Angeles Angels. They sluggers were Babe were winning the series 3-1 as we went Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Yogi to press. If they beat the Angels in this Berra, Joe DiMaggio, five out of seven AL series, they will be R e g g i e J a c k s o n , on their way to the World Series. Mickey Mantle and ! I don"t know about you, but we Dave Winfield. So far think that the Yankees have the power to the Yankees have won win the World Series once again. the World Series 26 times, that"s far more Playoff Predictions than any other team, A Rodʼs got reason to smile over his post season play this but they haven"t won by William Ruppert, 4K year. one since 2000. ! This year the Yankees are rolling right Here are my predictions for the along, and they just might grab ahold of post-season. The Yankees will shut- another World Series ring.