Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Monday, October 16, 2006
Fort Wayne Metro 2006 Youth Football Coach of the Year
...better than all the rest you're simply the best !!!
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Fort Wayne Metro Pee Wee FootBall
Metro sports is about the youth or is it? Is that a Pepsi sign on the scoreboard? Does Metro get advertisement dollars for that? Metro does not like the taking it to the street vendors' self-initiative spirit supported by Kweku Akan and friends as reported in today's News-Sentinel. In the meantime here's some more pictures of football played by the youth.
The Pee Wee Lions beat Seminoles 20-6.
The ultimate winning team-brother and sister.
And that's the rest of the story.
The Pee Wee Lions beat Seminoles 20-6.
The ultimate winning team-brother and sister.
And that's the rest of the story.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Football Weekend
Metro Youth Sports Pee Wee Lions won another game, this time against the Spartans
The score Lions 20-Spartans 7.
Note:
I am not a sports fan, but I peek in from time to time to see what's going on. This is what I saw from this weekend's quick peek.
I am still disappointed in the way Indiana treated Edgerrin James , but looks like he found a new home with Arizona. Arizona Cardinals won 34, with James 3rd and 1 touchdown, to San Francisco 49ers 27. Peyton Mannings, Indianapolis Colt 26 pulled off a win against his brother Eli Mannings, New York Giants 21. My feeling is that Indianapolis is nursing Manning individual passing record instead of team that will win the Superbowl.
The score Lions 20-Spartans 7.
Note:
I am not a sports fan, but I peek in from time to time to see what's going on. This is what I saw from this weekend's quick peek.
I am still disappointed in the way Indiana treated Edgerrin James , but looks like he found a new home with Arizona. Arizona Cardinals won 34, with James 3rd and 1 touchdown, to San Francisco 49ers 27. Peyton Mannings, Indianapolis Colt 26 pulled off a win against his brother Eli Mannings, New York Giants 21. My feeling is that Indianapolis is nursing Manning individual passing record instead of team that will win the Superbowl.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Go Tiger Woods, Go.and Metro Youth Lions
When you're hot..you're hot! Tiger Woods, the greastest golfer in the world has pulled off five back to back wins. I watched him hit a ball from behind a tree and out of a sand trap, and win a golf game.. won. But Tiger stated that building a center for children through his foundation gives him an even greater pleasure. You go, Tiger..
Tiger wasn't the the only one hot this labor day weekend: Metro Youth Sports Pee Wee Lions pulled off a 6 to 0 win over the Tigers.
First a little practice:
Action
Fans and cheerleaders
Tiger wasn't the the only one hot this labor day weekend: Metro Youth Sports Pee Wee Lions pulled off a 6 to 0 win over the Tigers.
First a little practice:
Action
Fans and cheerleaders
Monday, August 28, 2006
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of African-American Atheletes
Rhoden writes about a history that I lived through and learned using my eyes and my ears, not books. Questions that were not asked but still were answered through naïve observation. Rhoden tells the stories and tales of the sport world that are down right ugly, but warriors stood in the mess and challenged, with a simply, watch me work. The hardship old school endured to make a way for the young cats today.
Rhoden demands more from the young cats arrival on the scene as big ballas. He encourages them to learn African-American athletes’ struggle in paving the way for them to be able to demand huge salary. To simply pour out a little wine, for the brothas, who were not paid their weight and gold, but endured the slights, for a better environment for those who would follow. Rhoden called old school, “activists” and young cats,” symbolic markers of progress.” If the conveyor belts continues to deliver these types of young cats, those “absence of vision and leadership to help define the next stage in the struggle, which is, according to Rhoden, “the historical mission of black athletes to push for progress and power” will be lost.
Rhoden, suggest that these young cats are not only well paid and talented but they have what old school was missing to create power back in the day. That is juice, investment capital, that these young cats can own something, These young cats, don’t have to go back to the impoverished neighborhoods themselves, but they can create jobs for those who will never have the opportunity to earn the kind of money they command.
Rhoden gives an example, in five young cats that decided to ban together rather than go their separate ways. Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, All-Americans high school seniors, as package collectively chose Michigan to continue their basketball career. This teamwork model can be replicated for real power, The rainmakers can ban together to make a difference in the lives of folks who will never accumulate the wealth, but will not have to wait on donations, if only businesses by these wealthy cat would built in these communities.
The conveyor belt process writes, Rhoden, as described by Rudy Washington, “‘How tough is it to buy an inner-city kid? Buy him some shoes, take him to dinner, get him some nice clothes, maybe a car. You become his best friend, and he gets hooked, like a junkie..” They you control the product. The secret is controlling the product early. It’s just like slavery. Modern-day slavery is what it is. And you know the saddest part? The kids benefit from the system—at least a few lucky ones—with education and money, but what they often lose is any identification with the black community.’’’
Those athletes like Michael Jordan, who believes that these owners are their friends, or that all African-Americans can assimilate, Rhoden warns that the Naturalization Act of 1790 was for European immigrants to become free white persons. And Abe Pollin of the Washington Wizard fired Jordan, the universal man, after turning a losing franchise into a winning franchise. Jordan was told not only would he never own the franchise but also he was not even wanted as a franchise partner.
It makes sense as to why so many African-Americans males use and allow the use of N---er in their presence when in the company of raced whites after reading the 40 Millions Dollar Slaves. The male bonding with raced white males in sport, in order to show good sportsmanship, cultivates a permissible environment for the usage.
This book should be read by young players' coaches and the parents who push their children into playing sports as a way out of poverty.
The Jockey Syndrome:
The jockey syndrome ejected African-Americans athletes from the game of competitive sports, by banning them all together at the whim of fans or owners.
"..the white power structure chose blacks who made whites feel comfortable."
Later, when African-Americans were dominating sports, coaches refused to recruit African-Americans players:
"The manager said that it was not the 'conduct of the Negroes [that]was objectionable, but their mere presence.'"
"..the White South's revulsion at the presence of blacks, but on the other, they couldn't suppress their admiration of---and Need for---the black physical presence."
"..mental scourge of segregation."
"..the basis for integration---in the minds of many white people---was not to embrace quality, but to seize an opportunity for exploitation."
By now there was a need for teams to recruit African-Americans or risk having a losing team competing against winning teams that were recruiting them.
"By the beginning of the 2006 Major League Baseball season, four of thirty big league managers were African Americans. There were no African American owners."
However, I was intrigued by terms used by Rhoden, the author, in describing the strategy for eliminating African-Americans from the world of sports.
Rhoden demands more from the young cats arrival on the scene as big ballas. He encourages them to learn African-American athletes’ struggle in paving the way for them to be able to demand huge salary. To simply pour out a little wine, for the brothas, who were not paid their weight and gold, but endured the slights, for a better environment for those who would follow. Rhoden called old school, “activists” and young cats,” symbolic markers of progress.” If the conveyor belts continues to deliver these types of young cats, those “absence of vision and leadership to help define the next stage in the struggle, which is, according to Rhoden, “the historical mission of black athletes to push for progress and power” will be lost.
Rhoden, suggest that these young cats are not only well paid and talented but they have what old school was missing to create power back in the day. That is juice, investment capital, that these young cats can own something, These young cats, don’t have to go back to the impoverished neighborhoods themselves, but they can create jobs for those who will never have the opportunity to earn the kind of money they command.
Rhoden gives an example, in five young cats that decided to ban together rather than go their separate ways. Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, All-Americans high school seniors, as package collectively chose Michigan to continue their basketball career. This teamwork model can be replicated for real power, The rainmakers can ban together to make a difference in the lives of folks who will never accumulate the wealth, but will not have to wait on donations, if only businesses by these wealthy cat would built in these communities.
The conveyor belt process writes, Rhoden, as described by Rudy Washington, “‘How tough is it to buy an inner-city kid? Buy him some shoes, take him to dinner, get him some nice clothes, maybe a car. You become his best friend, and he gets hooked, like a junkie..” They you control the product. The secret is controlling the product early. It’s just like slavery. Modern-day slavery is what it is. And you know the saddest part? The kids benefit from the system—at least a few lucky ones—with education and money, but what they often lose is any identification with the black community.’’’
Those athletes like Michael Jordan, who believes that these owners are their friends, or that all African-Americans can assimilate, Rhoden warns that the Naturalization Act of 1790 was for European immigrants to become free white persons. And Abe Pollin of the Washington Wizard fired Jordan, the universal man, after turning a losing franchise into a winning franchise. Jordan was told not only would he never own the franchise but also he was not even wanted as a franchise partner.
It makes sense as to why so many African-Americans males use and allow the use of N---er in their presence when in the company of raced whites after reading the 40 Millions Dollar Slaves. The male bonding with raced white males in sport, in order to show good sportsmanship, cultivates a permissible environment for the usage.
This book should be read by young players' coaches and the parents who push their children into playing sports as a way out of poverty.
The Jockey Syndrome:
The jockey syndrome ejected African-Americans athletes from the game of competitive sports, by banning them all together at the whim of fans or owners.
"..the white power structure chose blacks who made whites feel comfortable."
Later, when African-Americans were dominating sports, coaches refused to recruit African-Americans players:
"The manager said that it was not the 'conduct of the Negroes [that]was objectionable, but their mere presence.'"
"..the White South's revulsion at the presence of blacks, but on the other, they couldn't suppress their admiration of---and Need for---the black physical presence."
"..mental scourge of segregation."
"..the basis for integration---in the minds of many white people---was not to embrace quality, but to seize an opportunity for exploitation."
By now there was a need for teams to recruit African-Americans or risk having a losing team competing against winning teams that were recruiting them.
"By the beginning of the 2006 Major League Baseball season, four of thirty big league managers were African Americans. There were no African American owners."
However, I was intrigued by terms used by Rhoden, the author, in describing the strategy for eliminating African-Americans from the world of sports.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Book Review
On the trip back home, I decided to buy two books to read, 40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete and, Trauma and Recovery. My intentions are to read them both before getting home. But that does not happen.
I found a bookstore in the Washington, D.C. area, that had one of the books and could order the other one for me. I decided to purchase 40 Million and wait to get the other when I arrived home from the library in my hometown. At the bookstore, I sat down in the oversized chair. Sitting on the couches would have put me to sleep. Reading in the library is not as warm, cozy, or inviting, I think, as I crack open my book to read. I decided to read a chapter, and would read the rest on the airplane. On the airplane, it is so uncomfortable, I decide to read the rest when I got on the bus. I read a chapter on the bus, decide I read the rest when I got home.
After arriving home, I hightailed it to the library, to get the other book, Trauma and Recovery, nowhere near finishing the $40 Million. I had called a head to see if our library would have to order it and they didn't. I ran into a few folks, and we chatted. During and while chatting with folks, I am asked about the book that I am holding, Trauma and Recovery. I explain it is about domestic violence, and eyes light up. At least four or five folks asked me about the book. By the third person, I am thinking, how interesting, that in less than an hour, four or five people, including strangers asked about the Trauma and Recovery, but not one person, asked me about the the $40 Million Dollar Slaves. Not one person, I think the title should be changed to The Rise and Fall and Redemption of the Black Athletes: 40 Million Dollar Slaves to be continued
I found a bookstore in the Washington, D.C. area, that had one of the books and could order the other one for me. I decided to purchase 40 Million and wait to get the other when I arrived home from the library in my hometown. At the bookstore, I sat down in the oversized chair. Sitting on the couches would have put me to sleep. Reading in the library is not as warm, cozy, or inviting, I think, as I crack open my book to read. I decided to read a chapter, and would read the rest on the airplane. On the airplane, it is so uncomfortable, I decide to read the rest when I got on the bus. I read a chapter on the bus, decide I read the rest when I got home.
After arriving home, I hightailed it to the library, to get the other book, Trauma and Recovery, nowhere near finishing the $40 Million. I had called a head to see if our library would have to order it and they didn't. I ran into a few folks, and we chatted. During and while chatting with folks, I am asked about the book that I am holding, Trauma and Recovery. I explain it is about domestic violence, and eyes light up. At least four or five folks asked me about the book. By the third person, I am thinking, how interesting, that in less than an hour, four or five people, including strangers asked about the Trauma and Recovery, but not one person, asked me about the the $40 Million Dollar Slaves. Not one person, I think the title should be changed to The Rise and Fall and Redemption of the Black Athletes: 40 Million Dollar Slaves to be continued
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