Sooner Baseball

The Sooners are playing the best baseball of the season now. Many claim that they were a bust. I would agree because they were picked to win the Big 12 and be a Championship contender. The Sooners struggled with adversity and arguments within the teams and coaches. Coach Golloway got on to his players in a team meeting as well as in a press conference. This changed the hole attitude of this team.

Since the press conference the Sooners beat Nebraska twice (the third game got rained out) and beat number 10 TCU for the second time this season. The Sooners look like a hole new team since this movement went through the team. Captain Tyler Ogle went up to coach Golloway and told him the things that were going wrong causing this team not to play well. It was then up to Coach Golloway and Ogle to turn this team around and thats exactly what they did.

The Sooners moved up to number three in the Big 12 and number ten in the NCBWA. Oklahoma will play a crucial series against Texas this weekend. If the sooners win this series they will move up to number two in the Big 12. Texas is number 8 in the league at batting following the Sooners at .264. Michael Rocha will get the start in game 1 for the Sooners. I think that OU must win game one to have a chance at the series. The team who wins game one will have the momentum and the confidence to finish up the series.

NBA Playoffs

Oklahoma City closes up their series and now we have four series left to be completed here is what the the bracket looks like.

WEST

1.SAS- Won 2
8.MEM- Won 3 The Memphis Grizzles will close out this series Friday night.

4.OKC- Won 4
5.DEN- Won 1 The Oklahoma City Thunder pulled out a win last night to win the series.

3.DAL- Won 3
6.POR- Won 2 Dallas will end this series tonight making it 4-2.

2.LAL- Won 3
7.NOH- Won 2 The Hornets will tie the series up tonight making it 3-3.

EAST

1.CHI- Won 4
8.IND- Won 1 The Chicago Bulls will advance to the next round of the playoffs.

4.ORL- Won 2
5.ATL- Won 3 Atlanta will win this series tonight in a close one.

3.BOS- Won 4
6.NYK- Won 0 The Celtics swept New York and will advance to the second round

2.MIA- Won 4
7.PHI- Won 1 The Heat win this series and have a spot in the second round.

Oklahoma Sooners Running Back Core

The Sooners have always been a team who used more than one back. Even with Adrian Peterson you had Allan Patrick who would come in and give Peterson a rest. Coach Stoops has already said that the Sooners will have three or four backs subbing in and out. But the question is who will be the work horse. Who is going to get the most carries and the most playing time? We already know that Brennan Clay, Roy Finch, Brandon Williams, Jonathan Miller, and Dominique Whaley are all gonna get carries.

Many think that it will be Finch getting the start and being the work force because of what little we saw of him last year. In my opinion the start will go to the big back Jonathan Miller who will also be the work horse. Coming in behind Miller will be Finch who is a sophomore. The guy is one of the smallest backs Oklahoma has ever had. Much like Quentin Griffin he is small and fast, and will hide behind the offensive line until a hole opens up. Dominique Whaley is another guy everyone is talking about. I had the chance to tour the Oklahoma campus with Coach Merv Johnson. He kept talking about Whaley, he says that he will have a bigger role in this offense than people expect. Whaleys stats and workout are better than Adrian Peterson expect for the 40 yard dash.

I want to know who you guys think will be the work horse for this offense.

NBA Playoffs Update

Last night playoffs game were very unexpected at least for me. I went 1-2 on my predictions. The Thunder played one of the worst games of the season. They looked as if they were an elementary team throwing the ball away and jacking up shots. As for the Spurs, do they even care? The Spurs came into the series thinking easy sweep. Now it is the Spurs on their heels to stay alive in the playoffs. Dallas played like I expected the Thunder and the Spurs to play last night. Great ball movement and nice shot selection gave them a fairly easy win.

Last nights Scores

1.SAS-86
2.MEM-104 Memphis leads series 3-1.

4.OKC-101
5.DEN-104 Oklahoma City leads series 3-1.

3.DAL-93
6.POR-82 Dallas leads series 3-2.

Stayed tuned for predictions of tomorrow and Thursdays game after tonights games.

NBA Playoffs

The 2011 NBA Playoffs has started off unlike any before. Who would have given the Grizzles a chance to win? Who would have thought that the Thunder would have a chance to sweep the Nuggets? This years post season is going to be one to remember. Lots of upsets, and games that are going to have you so stressed you wont know what to do.

Here I am going to show you the scores from the previous game and predictions for the next.

West


1.SAS 98 93 88
8.MEM 101 87 91 The Spurs will win game 4 to tie the series 2-2.


4.OKC 107 106 97
5.DEN 103 89 94 The Thunder will sweep the Nuggets tonight in Denver.



3.DAL 89 101 92 82
6.POR 81 89 97 84 Dallas will win game 5 to take a 3-2 lead.



2.LAL 100 87 100 88
7.NOH 109 78 86 93 The Hornets will win game 5 to lead the series 3-2.


East


1.CHI 104 96 88 89
2.IND 99 90 84 84 The Bulls will win game five to close this series up.




4.ORL 93 88 84 85
5.ATL 103 82 88 88 The Hawks will win this series in game five.




3.BOS 87 96 113 101
6.NYK 85 93 96 89 Boston swept the Knicks.



2.MIA 97 94 100 82
7.PHI 89 73 94 86 The Heat will win game 5 to close the series 4-1

Thunder Update

The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Nuggets Sunday night to win game one of the series. The Thunder will play again Wednesday night for game two.

The keys for the Thunder wining this series is to keep Perkins out of foul trouble. If the Thunder move the ball around and use Perkins inside the Thunder will win this series in five games. Kevin Durant and Westbrook need to be the leaders of the team even though they have the least experience. This is a young team, and even if they do not win this year, there will be many more to come.

Quick Update: OKC Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder move one step closer to winning the Northwest Division and earning a possible three or four seed in the playoffs.

The Final Four Wrap Up

Well its hard to believe this but both of my predictions were wrong. VCU falling to Butler 70-62 and Kentucky falling to Uconn 56-55. Out of the two losses I picked I am most suprised about the Kentucky loss. The VCU pick was more out of who I wanted to win and not really thought out who was the better team.

VCU trailed the whole game. They never really got off to that start that I had said. I was right on winning by less than ten, it was just the wrong team who won by ten. On the other hand Kentucky did start off like I had said but did not finish the game when Uconn was at their strongest point. Kentucky took a really questionable shot there at the end. I personnaly think that the shot was not neccesary but also there was to much dribbling before the shot. It comes down to the free throws. You make the second free throw there at the end, we are going into overtime.

The Final Four

College basketball is drawing close to the end. Today the final four play will begin starting with Butler vs. VCU. Shortly after that game has ended the Kentucky vs. Uconn game will begin. Since the Butler vs. VCU game is first we will start of with them.

I have said from the beginning of the tournament that VCU is going to win it all and I am not backing down now. Butler has had some pretty clutch shooting in the tourney but sometimes has the tendency to start out slow. This is the point where I think that VCU will take over. They get off to a very quick start and are very good at closing out games. VCU will beat Butler in todays game by less than 10.

I am not the biggest fan of Kentucky nor Uconn but I have said that both of these teams will have very good tourney runs. Uconn has proven to start out very slow much like Butler. Kentucky will need to watch out and take advantage of this because as you have seen in previous tourney games Uconn will heat up and take over the game. Kentucky will win this game if they make the simple shots, play good defense and take care of the ball. They will win this game buy 8 or more.

Quick Update: Oklahoma hires new head coach Lon Kruger

Oklahoma after have the worst two year stretch in forty years gets rid of Coach Capel. A great list of possible coaches has come to an end as Oklahoma officially announces the hiring of Lon Kruger.