9/28/2011- Mid Week Blog

Writer's Note: This was originally supposed to be published on Monday, but due to getting caught up on other assignments this was delayed. Bear with me if anything is out of date.


What's up everyone! I have some good, bad, and worse news for New York fans that occurred this past weekend. The good news is that the Yankees def. Red Sox 2 out of 3 at home, the Mets def. Phillies 2 out of 3, and for the first time since 2008, the Giants defeated the Eagles. The bad news is that the Jets fell short of 10 points of a victory to Oakland, and the Yankees blew it (as usual) in the extra innings last night against the Red Sox. Worse news is that the Jets will be facing Baltimore and New England, respectively in the next 2 weeks so attaining a victory is slim to none. Here's all the info on what happened this weekend.

MLB
The New York Yankees were scheduled to have a 3-game series against the Red Sox at home this weekend, but Friday was heavy rain, so that game was moved to a doubleheader on Sunday. The Saturday and the early Sunday game the Yankees dominated the Red Sox and showed a lot of strength. However, in the late game, Red Sox were catching up and the game was tied after regulation. I don't know why, but the Yankees always blow it when it comes to extra innings. At least one good thing is that the Yankees are going to postseason and will be gaining home field advantage.Meanwhile for the New York Mets, they also had their Friday game rescheduled. Unlike the Yankees, the Mets had their doubleheader on Saturday. The Mets swept the doubleheader, but the Phillies averted a Mets sweep on Sunday.

The Yankees went to Tampa Bay to face the Rays and lost the 1st 2 games. The Mets have hosted Cincinnati to a 2 game loss as well. I will give more info on Friday.
NFL
This past Sunday was a day of upset victories as the Giants defeated the heavily favored Eagles for the 1st time since 2008. I didn't see the whole game, but it was a tremendous victory by the New York Giants. Here are the highlights:

Later that day, the Jets faced the Oakland Raiders in the West Coast. Although the Jets looked favorable to win, the Raiders pulled off an upset victory in the end. Does this appear to be karma? If you noticed, 2 years ago the Jets shut out the Raiders, and back in August during baseball season, the Yankees defeated the Oakland Athletics in double digits by 3 grand slams. I had a feeling that Oakland wanted revenge for that shut out loss and the 3 grand slams created by the Yankees. Here are the highlights from that game:

All I can say is this. Giants, you proved me wrong and got a victory against the Eagles (something which I never expected). Jets, this was a disappointment. Jets got to step it up in the next 2 weeks because their opponents are very tough and they are entering enemy turf.

College Football

This past Saturday on College Football, Rutgers attained a victory against Ohio 38-26, Notre Dame achieved a victory against Pittsburgh 15-12, Oklahoma Sooners extended their winning streak 38-28, and last but not least, Kean Cougars extended their winning streak against Western Connecticut 44-33.

Strikeforce
This past Friday was a Strikeforce Challengers event that took place in Las Vegas and aired on Showtime. Here are the results:

• Brian Melancon def Felipe Portela via unanimous decision
• Jason High def Todd Moore via unanimous decision
• Ryan Couture def Maka Watson via majority decision
• Shawn Jordan def Lavar Johnson via submission at Round 2
• Lorenz Larkin def Nick Rossborough via unanimous decision

UFC
UFC had a PPV called UFC 135 that took place on Saturday night in Denver, Colorado. Overall, there were 10 fights on the card. 3 were streamed on Facebook, 2 were aired on Spike, while the rest aired on PPV. Here are the results:
Facebook

• James Te Huna def Ricardo Romero via KO at 0:47 of Round 1*
• Takeya Mizugaki def Cole Escovedo via TKO at Round 2**
• Junior Assuncao def Eddie Yagin via unanimous decision

Spike

• Tim Boetsch def Nick Ring via unanimous decision
• Tony Ferguson def Aaron Riley via doctor stoppage after Round 1

PPV

• Nate Diaz def Takanori Gomi via submission of Round 1
• Travis Browne def Rob Broughton via unanimous decision
• Mark Hunt def Ben Rothwell via unanimous decision
• Josh Koscheck def Matt Hughes via KO at Round 1
• Jon Jones def Quinton Jackson via submission at Round 4 to retain the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship

Bellator
Bellator Fighting Championships had an event on that night as well, but unlike the UFC it was on MTV 2. Here are the results of the main card:

• Ed West def Luis Nogueira via unanimous decision
• Marcos Galvaio def Chase Beebe via split decision
• Eduardo Dantas def Wilson Reis via KO at Round 2
• Alexis Vila def Joe Warren via KO at Round 1

Here are the highlights:

WWE/ROH

I won't be giving any updates on professional wrestling on this blog but I will on Friday. I will give the results of WWE Raw and my reaction to Ring of Honor Wrestling 1st episode under the ownership of Sinclair Broadcast Group

See ya later!

- NYCKNP