Pages

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Pelicans road to NBA playoffs just got a little tougher thanks to new tiebreaker rules

NO.pelstrailblazers.961.jpg
This Season the Pelicans OWNED the Portland Trailblazers. Portland Trailblazers point guard wasn't in both of the games but even if he played it wouldn't make any differences because before the All Star break the Pelicans beat the Trailblazers 138-117 even with their star player Damian Lillard playing. The Pelicans dominated the Trailblazers head to head so they got an inside track of a spot in the play-offs. The NBA has decided to play out the remainder of the season, the Trail Blazers are favored in Las Vegas to get the eighth seed. Why? The NBA has determined that winning percentage. not head to head tiebreakers will determine who will be the higher seed if teams are tied in the number of games back.

Atlantic University Sport suspends all competition until January 2021



Every university in Atlantic Canada will cancel any sport tournament there because of Covid 19. They Cancelled it so their students don't take risk of catching Covid 19. It's gonna be cancelled until 2021 in January. The Announcement was by Atlantic University Sport on Monday. That means sports like soccer, football, rugby and cross country will be postponed until the next year. Phill Currie Said "This decision to suspend didn’t come easily".

U Sports cancels 6 National Championships due to COVID-19 pandemic


U Sports has canceled the 6 National Championships due to risk of catching the CoronaVirus. The previous winner was Louisiana State University and they still hold the title probably until next year. The varsity football championship was set for November 28 in a city yet to be released into the public yet. I looked forward to seeing who would win the 6 National Championships but LSU still holds the championship.

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Hong Kong leader says ‘everyone has to learn their lesson’ a year into protests


Hong Kong is a anti goverment protest. The chinese city semi-autonomous leader made a anoucement that "Tuesday that all sides should learn from the difficulties and challenging times over the past year". Carrie Lam said "Everyone has to learn their lesson, including the Hong Kong government" She said that before having a meeting with her advisors. I think this is really intresting because more countrys are protesting.

Players form Hockey Diversity Alliance to combat racism


A group of Hockey players of all racial came together to create a Hockey Diversity Alliance to combat racism. It's formation of the team would be announced next week Monday. What they are doing is Inspiring other players to fight racism. I'd really like to see them play because it sounds entertaining and because I've never seen a sport ever do this which is quite interesting.


Most Canadian Premier League teams resume training after COVID-19 delays start to season

Atletico Ottawa midfielder Francisco Acuna and defender Vashon Neufville stretch during Atletico Ottawa’s first team practice of their inaugural season in the Canadian Premier League (CPL) in Ottawa, Wednesday June 3, 2020. .
Forge FC came back to training on Monday around 220 days in the wake of winning the debut inaugural Canadian Premier League title toward the beginning of November. While the Hamilton group managed in about fourteen days of preparing time before the pandemic, coach Bobby Smyrniotis at long last got the opportunity to see all the ability available to him.
 

Paulo Dybala 'It is not only people of color that should be fighting racism. We all have to'

Coronavirus: Juventus star Dybala gives update on health - AS.com

Paulo Dybala wanted to take action and support his teammates who are being racially treated. Last year in April Paulo Dybala's teammate Moise Kean was racially mocked. Other football stars has also been mocked due to the colour of their skin like Raheem Sterling, Leonardo Bonucci and Romelu Lukaku. I'm actually proud that people are protesting for racial equality because when people get mocked because of their skin tone it racially effects them for the rest of their life.