Friday, October 24, 2014

Monday Matters #8

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This Image of I <3 New York Spoorts Convey's the broad area of topics that Lupica writes about every week. Lupica's life and career revolves around New York Sports. From What I have read, his favorite teams that he likes to write about most are the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. Lupica has the best job in the world because he gets to do what he loves to do every day, cover and write about New York Sports,.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Monday Matters #7

Mike Lupica, over the past few weeks, covered what he believed to be the biggest deal in sports for that week in the state of New York; The first one concerning Jeter, then Eli Manning, and lastly, the high school football team cancelling the rest of their season because of the hazing that was going on there. He likes to address both sides of the story, however it is easy to interpret the strong bias that he seems to give off and his articles seem a bit one sided. Over all, I like to read Lupica's articles because he views society from the sporting standpoint, like myself.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Monday Matters #6

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high-school/lupica-forget-victims-article-1.1971412

This week, Lupica wrote an article about the hazing that recently occurred on a New York high school football team. Some members did some very inappropriate things to some of the younger members of the team and are being punished by the New York Police. Some parents are more upset over the fact that the school cancelled the remainder of the team's games for the rest of the season than they are mad over the hazing that occurred at the school. Mike Lupica believes that it doesn't make sense that the coach or none of the other students knew anything about this and thinks that something should have been done immediately to put an end to it. Lupica is pretty angry at what occurred at Sayreville War Memorial High School. He believes that what was done there was very wrong and inappropriate and those students involved in the hazing are completely responsible for their actions and deserved to be punished.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Monday Matters #5

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/lupica-goodell-law-victims-article-1.1963759

The subject of Lupica's post this week is on Roger Goodell and why he is doing what he is doing. It all started with Ray Rice. Goodell knew the intensity of how hard Rice hit his wife. Goodell didn't want to make one of the best players in the league look bad, which would make the NFL look bad, which is why he left it at a two week suspension. When the video was realeased and people realized that Goodell was hiding evidence, he all of a sudden is cracking down on everybody in the NFL for something that they did in the past but the NFL never did anything about, such as star running back, Adrian Peterson.

Lupica is clearly against Roger Goodell and does not agree with how he is running the National Football League, one of the most watched sports in the country. Lupica Writes, "One more huge problem for Roger Goodell and the National Football League these days is that Goodell himself has been laid out by the very conduct policy that he instituted when he succeeded Paul Tagliabue and set himself up as prosecutor and judge and jury, “The Enforcer” who posed on the cover of Time magazine and was praised — at least in his early days — as the guy who had taken care of the bad guys in his sport like he was Clint Eastwood in “Unforgiven.”" (Lupica 1) Mike Lupica is upset over the fact that Roger Goodell made such a small punishment in the beginning for such a serious incident. Then, he proceeded to make it worse by trying to suspend everybody else. This article is basically Lupica trying to tell Goodell to step down before he makes it even worse than it already is.