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Is Braxton Miller Rooting for Oregon to the Buckeyes?

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After The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide people have been picking sides on who they think will win the championship game between the Buckeyes and the Oregon Ducks. Vegas already has the early line with the Oregon as a 7 point favorite.

Well Vegas aren’t the only ones rolling with the Ducks, injured Buckeyes qb Braxton Miller is picking them to win as well… Wait what?!

I didn’t believe it either until I saw the picture proof evidence.

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While I’m not the biggest conspiracy theorist, let’s examine a few of the reasons Braxton might’ve picked Oregon to beat his own school.

5. He’s using reverse psychology to motivate his teammates. Out are locker room speeches, in are twitter beefs and social media stunts.

4. He wants his own team to lose so he has a better chance of getting his position back. Face it, he’s technically third behind Cardale Jones and JT Barrett. He can basically start the ball rolling on they aren’t good without him.

3. He hit the wrong button. We know how funny touch screens can be, you’re half ass paying attention to what you’re doing and next thing you know you’re being insubordinate against your own school. Honest mistake.

2. He was bookmarking this tweet to re tweet it out later. For whatever reason he didn’t just re tweet in right then, he wanted to make sure all his followers saw it.

1. He was hacked/someone else was using his phone. We’ve heard this excuse many times before. Perhaps this is one of the few times it’s actually true and it wasn’t him at the helm of the smartphone faux pa.

If you ask me I’m going with reason number 3, it makes sense and he couldn’t lack that much self awareness to think that no one would look at his favorites right?

P.J. Hairston Arrested on Drug Possession

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Following a breakout season at Chapel Hill, in which P.J. Hairston led the team in scoring he was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with possession of marijuana. He was arrested along with two other men at a checkpoint in East Durham when he was driving without a license as well.

Hairston is out on bond according to university officials and the school is continuing the investigation today. The Tar Heels sports information director Steve Kirschner told ESPN, “We’re currently looking into it to gather the facts. We will issue a statement when we have enough information to do so.”

Hairston considered going to the NBA following his standout sophomore year, but decided to return to bolster the Tar Heels for the upcoming season. It is still up in the air if Hairston will go to Colorado to try out for the 2013 USA Basketball World University Games.

Douglas Day   @YankeeBaller415    http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9349115/pj-hairston-north-carolina-tar-heels-arrested-drug-charges

 

The ESPN Factor

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The image of thousands of rowdy and excited college hoops fans is becoming less of a surprise and more of a precedent in the game of college basketball this year. This years influx of upsets in college basketball has left many analysts speachless and awestruck for answers on the cause. Today I will give you the answer why 19 teams ranked in the top 5 have fallen to the unranked this year.

In time where Twitter is king and ESPN is a 24 hour sports new outlet. The magnitude of every game is more emphasized than ever. This is what I like to call the ESPN Factor. Every game is more scrunitzed, analyzed, and victimized more than ever, giving the underdog more knowledge and confidence to pull off the unthinkable. If this impossible upset can be pulled off the unknown team will jump to the top highlight on Sportscenter. So know that we understand that ESPN and the hype and popularity they bring causes more upsets. How will the ESPN Factor effect the outcome of the NCAA Tournament.

The perception of how the NCAA Tournament usually goes is that of a microcosm of the season at large. I think that will not be the case. Once the teams are locked into the tournament, focus will be reestablished and the upsets will be lower than ever in the Big Dance. I think once again whoever the top 4 seeds are will make it to the elite 8 with maybe one lower seed sneaking into the Final Four (hopefully my Syracuse Orange).

So in the year of the court storming they will likely begin reduce as the big dogs gain control, refocus, and look past the might and powerful sports god that is ESPN.

Doug Day @YankeeBaller415

Johnny Football a Little too Famous?

Since winning the Heisman Trophy back in December, Johnny Manziel’s life has changed for both good and maybe even some bad. With appearances at Okahoma City Thunder basketball games, on the town with his model girlfriend Sarah Savage and most recently with the cast of Duck Dynasty at the Super Bowl, Johnny is truly living the dream of winning the most prestigous honor in sports.

On the other side of things according to an article by the AP, Johnny is still finding time to be an almost normal college student. Due to his recent streak of fame, Manziel finds it tough to go to campus sometimes and is now currently enrolled in 4 online classes that he takes from his off campus home. He was at one point enrolled in an English but then switched out of it to avoid such extreme distractions and scrutiny that comes along with being a newly found public figure.

The other part of his fame that has been questioned is how is he paying to go to all of these professional sports events. Manziel though has submitted all information about where he was going and how he payed for both the Thunder games and the Super Bowl to the school and NCAA before attending. When asked what he thought of all the scrutiny he has been under Manziel said, “People are gonna say what they want regardless.”

Manziel will be back on the field hoping to lead the Aggies their first national championship since 1939 when spring practice opens on March 2nd.

(http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8962707/johnny-manziel-texas-aggies-adjusting-post-heisman-fame)

Doug Day @YankeeBaller415

Manti Te’o Knew Girlfriend was Fake December 6, Received Call that She Faked Her Death

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As more information comes out on the whole Manti Te’o situation the weirder it gets. From a post on the Star Advertiser, Manti found out on December 6 that the girlfriend he thought he had was indeed fake when he got a call from her phone saying she had faked her death because she was scared for her life.

Here’s an excerpt from Star Advertiser story;

Manti Te’o has told family and friends that the woman who was the voice of his fictitious girlfriend “Lennay Kekua” called him in December and said she had to fake her own death months earlier to elude drug dealers, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser has learned.

The woman, who has yet to be identified, tried to re-engage a relationship with Te‘o months after she supposedly had died of leukemia in early September, the Notre Dame All-American linebacker has told the people close to him. The account was shared with the Star-Advertiser by a source close to the Te‘o family.

According to the account, Te’o asked the woman to transmit a photo to him with a date stamp, which she did, but this did not allay his suspicions and he later told his family and Notre Dame officials about being scammed.

At this point Te’o needs to come out and give his side of the story, instead of it leaking out little by little and at this point people are tired of hearing things in statements and from everybody else but him.

Source Star Advertiser