Highlight Reel Blog

Hello all sports fans and welcome to an old fashioned, smashed mouth, in your face, welcome to the league weekend. When you saw upsets in basketball, NFL playoffs, Pete Carroll coming in terms with the Seahawks, and the next years predicted top 25 for college football post. These are just some of the big news to come in the year of 2010.
Not to mention you got an NBA player who decided to bring in guns to the locker room and claim it was a joke. The only joke in this situation are the Wizards. Maybe he brought the guns to put everybody out of thier misery but hey if you wanted off the team, you should of asked for a trade. If Iverson can get traded then anybody can get traded Oh, speaking of trades if I hear one more trade rumor of Lebron going to the Knicks I might just have to stop watching NBA news. Give it up Lebron loves Cleveland and he wants to finally put that city on the map.
In the NFL playoffs, I saw a couple of things that surprised me. First, the Cowboys actually pulled together and took the Eagles to the woodshed twice in two weeks. Two words:very impressive. How did the bungalos choke two weeks in a row? I thought personally the last week of the season's loss to the Jets were just to put off the show for the playoffs. So much for pulling together as a team and getting it done. But hey at least you made it there>not. The Ravens just took it to the "has been" Patriots 33 to 14. One word:Wow. The best game this weekend was of course starring ex bagger Kurt Warner-Super Bowl Champion Quarterback- winning in stunning fashion in overtime over the Packers 51 to 45. Now Kurt Warner is saying after the playoffs he will retire and return to bagging groceries. Just kidding.
College men's basketball had a lot of surprises with some top ten teams crumbling to defeat. Let me start with the best upset of them all with Kansas getting beat by an under matched Volvs team by a margin of 8 points. This is suppose to be the best team in the country but they fall to the 15th ranked team in the nation. But the Volvs have been nothing less than perfect at home posting a 8-0 record this season. Thanks to the walk on McBee who hits a three point stunner to seal the victory and lop side the big mo to the Volvs. Kansas (14-1) will try to regain themselves with a game coming up with Nebraska Wednesday at 9:00 pm in the national spotlight.
Other big upsets occurring in men's baskteball include: Maryland over 19th Florida State, Arizona over 22 Washington, 17GT over 5Duke, Notre Dame over 8WVU, Missouri over 10Kansas State, UNLV over 14 New Mexico, Miss St over 16OleMiss, and the other big upset 20 Wisconsin over 4 Purdue giving them their first loss of the season. So many upsets to report hope I did not miss one. If I did I am sure no one is begging me to post you in this blog. RIP top 25>someone put a hit out on the top 25?
The final thing I want to bring up of course is the Pete Carroll affair with the Seattle Seahawks. We all saw what Pete did the last time he was in the NFL, it wasn't like in Southern California where people were begging for Pete's attention. In Southern California Carroll posted a 88-15 record in eight years, he reached 50 wins faster than any other USC coach in history, 7 pac 10 titles, 11 win seasons in the past 7 years most in school and national history, and not to mention national championships. There is more to his resume but I would be writing this blog for about a month.
Now let's look at his NFL resume: entered the NFL in 1984 as Bills defensive backs coach then held the same position with the Vikings for five years (1985-1989).Carroll was head coach of the New York Jets posting a record of 6-10 in 1994, only three other rookie coaches posted more wins in Jets history. Carroll's defense lead the league in pass defense in 1989 and won the NFC Central Division. In 1995-96 he spent some time in San Fran where they won the NFC west and had the leagues top defense posting a record of 12-4. In 1997-99 he was the Patriots head coach, guided them in the playoffs first two years, 9-7 record in 1998, 27-21 record 1-2 in playoffs, and has second best winning percentage in Pats history with 54 percent.
So after taking this all in I have come to a conclusion that Pete Carroll could potentially do big things with the Seahawks but it will not be an easy road. Since we saw a man of pure genius Mike Holmgren fail eventually in Seattle although getting them to the Super Bowl. Does Pete Carroll have enough left in the tank and will he be able to spark the Seahawks back to the Super Bowl and one day living like a Spartan in Seattle.