SportsEffectLive.com brings you the hottest events going down this past weekend.....With NFL week 1 goin down, the Knox vs Indy Challenge along with the Dayton Revival Festival, there was plenty of great things to do in the Miami Valley and beyond.
Heres our
SELIVE HOT 5 SPORTS WEEKEND RECAP
- 1st Annual Knox Pro Am Indy vs Ohio Challenge a HUGE Success
With local NBA ballers such as
Norris Cole, Daequan Cook, and Chris Wright flexing their hoop games, the hoop challenge at Trent Arena was a battle down to the finish. With thousands in attendance, the people was treated to great basketball from not only the Ohio legends, but from the Indy ballers as well. There were live music performances, raffles and giveaways from all of the NBA players in between TV timeouts, with
Wolfie Mr. Sportsknowitall providing the commentary. President
Carlos Knox felt like that it was a success as well, and looks forward to this being a yearly event in the city.
Look for the
SELive TOP 5 plays from the event coming this weekend.
NFL Week 1 goes down
NFL week 1 is over, and it brought some of the biggest suprises - and dissapointments - to ever start a season in history. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights of the week:
- Highlights: Cowboys set the tone: Dallas is the one franchise who has supposedly wasted the most money and talent in trying to get to the elusive Super Bowl. However, with a revamped secondary, they shut down the Giants and won 24-17. Can they do it at the end of the season when it counts?
- Highlights: Mark Sanchez, Jets - Sanchez, who has been ridiculed to no end since having a sub-par last season, and pre-season; However Sanchez led the Jets to a 48-point outburst, leaving the haters in the rear view, for a week at least.
- Lowlights: Bengals get smashed by Ravens
This is the season that the
Bengals can change their culture, but if they play like they did against the Ravens Monday night, the only thing that will be
changing is their fanbase. Now granted, the Ravens are Super Bowl contenders, but even without Terrell Suggs in the lineup the Ravens snatched the Bengals up and tossed them around like a fresh salad. The Bengals will have to bounce back next week. Or they could be in some real trouble this season.
- Lowlights: Browns Rookie QB Brandon Weeden
I guess you could say that
Weeden looked lost from the start, as he inexplicably got swallowed up under the Flag on the field during the pre-game ceremonies. Once the game actually started, looks like Weeden never found his way out. His stats?
12 -34, 4 INT's and a
fumble. And when he had a chance to take the Browns down for a Game Winning FG? No chance. Management feels he will get better. I hope so. Because you have a better QB (Colt McCoy) sitting behind him wondering why he didn't get the chance.
- Highlights: RG3 lights up scoreboard, beats Saints
The only thing
Robert Griffin III didn't do on Sunday was wear his Sunday's best at the press conference; He decided that his first interview would be done in his Skins uni, which was fine considering the day he had in it;
19-26, 320 yards, 2 TD's and 0 INT's, and most importantly, leading the Skins' to a 40-32 win over the Saints. In watching RG3 you seen a confident, cool customer who looks like a franchise QB. And yes he will have bad days, but on this day? He showed his worth, outlasting future hall of famer
Drew Brees. Redskin fans are foaming at the mouth right now....He definitely outshined #1 pick Luck and his other rookie QB counterparts...And was the only one to get
a W as well.
- Highlights: Referees do a good job.
When it was first announced that there would be
"scab" refs due to discussions about the new agreement for the refs, most thought it would be settled by Week 1. Not so. And after all the complaining and whining, it seems that
Principal - I mean Commissioner - Goodell is deciding to stick with the new blood. Although everybody and they mama feels like the old refs are better, the new refs (which includes female refs as well) have been steadily getting better. Question is, how long will Goodell go with the newcomers, as the longer it goes, the more antsy the other refs, along with the coaches and players, get?
- Lowlights: Referees do a bad job.
Although some of the refs did a good job, there were a few instances that were not as good. Like
Victor Cruz being held on a obvious play in the Cowboys game, which might have cost them a TD; like the refs giving the
Seahawks a extra timeout during crunch time against the Cardinals; And so on; The point is this: The refs are HUMAN, therefore they will make mistakes. It happens. As long as they man (or woman) up, and don't make any amazingly bad mistakes, then the replacement refs will and are doing a good job.
- Highlights: Fantasy star RB's get their money
If you took one of the 3 best RB's in the game (
Arien Foster, Matt Forte, Adrian Peterson) you did well....All three of those performers did their thing and scored TD's and ran for a lot of yards, and caught for plenty of yards. Look to add
Maurice Jones-Drew to that list for next week.
- Lowlights: Fantasy Star QB's dissapear
If you took the likes of
Mike Vick, Matt Stafford, or Eli Manning in fantasy, then it was a uneasy day for you. Although Stafford and Vick were in Top 5 in yards, they both threw
too many INT's for you to capitalize on it. And although Eli was solid, he wasn't spectacular. Vick and Stafford tled their teams to comeback W's, so they will probably come back with vintage games. I'd definitely play em.
Highlights: Serena Williams, Andy Murray hoist US OPEN trophies
Serena Williams is showing why she could be considered the
GREATEST FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER EVER. Williams continued her amazing season with a comeback win over #1 Ranked Victoria Azarenka, giving her another Slam this season.On the other side of the spectrum,
Andy Murray held off former US champ
Djokovic in five sets, giving him his
first ever Major Championship, and second consecutive major victory (if you count the Olympics); when Murray lost Wimbledon to Federer, he told the English faithful
"im getting close"...well he wasn't playing, and this could lead to Murray making his own spectacular run.
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