Wins & Loses



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The week had a slow start but it surely got interesting. On Monday, the Philadelphia 76ers signed high school senior Kevin Grow on a two-day contract. Grow has down-syndrome and became famous after playing for his high school basketball team and scoring the buzzer beater point.   Grow debuted with the team on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

It’s time to change your March Madness brackets because no.1 Syracuse’s undefeated record was tainted with a loss on Wednesday by Boston College.  The game went into overtime and ended with a win for Boston College 62-59 points Syracuse had a record winning streak of 25-0.



Bryan Stow (center)
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On Thursday the two men accused for beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow pleaded guilty and received four years in prison each.  Stow was severely beaten in 2011 after he attended a Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants game. The beating left Stow brain damaged and disabled. As his sister Erin Collins said during court, “Brian can’t go to the bathroom by himself, he can’t shower by himself, he has to wear adult diapers.”


 

 

Women’s USA hockey team played against Canada on Thursday for the gold medal in Sochi, Russia. USA led the game until the third quarter when the Canadian women made a comeback. The game went into overtime with a win for Canada. The women’s USA team took the gold medal.

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 On Saturday Ronda Rousey defended her women’s bantamweight title against Sara McMann. The fight was over in the first round lasting only 1 minute and 6 seconds.

 

 

All-Star Weekend

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Valentine’s weekend or All-Star Weekend? The All-Star Weekend took place in New Orleans, La.  Saturday’s most awaited event was the Sprite Slam Dunk contest. 

This year’s participants were: Paul George, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Terrence Ross, Harrison Barnes and Ben McLemore. The rules for this year’s contest were different but to make things short the players were divided into teams two teams of three, the East vs. the West.  

Last year’s winner, Terrence Ross made an entrance when he brought out Toronto rapper Drake to hold the ball for him.  Then Sacramento’s Ben Mclemore brought ex- NBA player Shaquille O’neal to sit in a throne chair as he dunk over him. However D.C.’s John Wall set the bar as he reversed dunk over the team’s mascot. It was an undebatable win. 

The All-Star weekend concluded with the All-Star game and the usual rival East vs. West. Even though Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant was voted to play he declined. 

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Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin both each scored 38 points but it was not enough to hold back Lebron and his team the East took the win with 163 points to 155.  Kyrie Irving was crowned this year’s MVP. This is the first time in three years that the Eastern Conference has won the All-Star game.