Elizabeth Kramer | The Informer
It was two years ago that I joined the Informer as a freshman. I started as just a normal sports writer, however the following year I became the Entertainment editor, and now I’m Editor-in-Chief.
I’ve never had the opportunity to give an op-ed on sports because I was never the editor at the time. Sports for a long time was my number one love, and I’ve always wanted to give my opinion on everything that has been bugging me but, I never had the chance. That is until now. After being in the Informer for two years, its time I write a sports column.
The first thing I’d like to talk about is my New York Knicks. What in the world is going on with them right now? Going into today, they have a 1-3 record, two of their losses coming to the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Charlotte Bobcats. Yes, let me repeat, the Charlotte Bobcats. This doesn’t surprise me though because the Knicks did nothing over the summer. Don’t tell me how they got Metta World Peace and Andrea Bargnani.
Peace is nothing like he was back in the day, except being older. Bargnani, a former number one draft pick, never lived up to expectations and now he can’t make jump shots, the one thing he was good at.
If the Knicks want any chance to make the playoffs, Carmelo Anthony is going to have to put the team on his back. And no James Dolan, cutting the amount of time the Knicks City Dancers actually dance will not make the team better. But it doesn’t matter because unless Lebron gets hurt, expect the Heat to win a title for third straight year.
Let’s move on to football and all I can say is, how about those Chiefs. The Chiefs come into this week at 9-0, the only undefeated team in the NFL. Who would have ever expected that? They were 2-14 last season and received the first draft pick picking offensive tackle Eric Fisher. They did trade for quarterback
Alex Smith, who played well for the 49ers. He couldn’t even lead them to be undefeated up until this point, and the 49ers were better than the Chiefs when Smith was there. Smith is a good quarterback, don’t get me wrong, his play this year is shocking. I do still believe though that this is the year of Peyton Manning and the Broncos will reign supreme in the NFL at season’s end.
And finally baseball. Well congratulations Boston, that’s is three World Series titles in the past ten years. The Red Sox showed that anything can happen within one year. Last year, they had the worst record in the American League East at 69-93.
The Red Sox showed that if you make a few moves in the offseason, you can go from last to first just like that. They didn’t sign any flashy players, but they signed good, hard-nosed players that worked well together. I expect many teams to follow suit in what the Red Sox did and hopefully we can have one World Series where it doesn’t feature the Cardinals, Giants or the Red Sox.
As much as I’d like to talk about hockey as well, not too many people care enough so I’ll just leave it for another. I will say this though, the new divisions are awful and they should have just stayed with the format from previous years. I mean, the Columbus Blue Jackets in the Metropolitan division? They aren’t even in the metropolitan area.
Well that is all for now. I hope everyone reading this will enjoy my one and only sports column of my Informer career. The final thing I will say is lets go Jimmie Johnson and win your sixth career Nascar Spring Cup Series championship. And yes, I do watch Nascar.