How this NBA lockout is affecting the fans...especially Me?

      As a girl who loves sports, I've always looked forward to the beginning of the NBA season, especially the holidays when they play big games, like the Christmas day game with the Los Angeles Lakers against the Boston Celtics but this year I have nothing to look forward to.

     As I watch reports of the players and owners still in limbo about a deal which would end this lockout I began to wonder why they're being so greedy, none of them are thinking about the fans. Fans who buy their memorabilia, purchase season tickets, attend or watch games, those who devote their hard earn money and valuable time to cheer on their favorite team or player.

     As someone who is a fan and spends my money supporting my favorite team I have started to feel left out, like they don't care. So with the feelings I have started to wonder that if they don't consider the fans then why should we consider them. If the lockout ends today they expect things to go back to normal when it shouldn't, for we have missed games, great plays, good food and heartfelt cheers, because they can't make up their minds.

     So what if we acted like them and decided to not come back when they want us to, to watch international basketball and support our players that had to play overseas because of the lookout. Missing basketball has made me so furious that I've considered boycotting the 2011-2012 season....If we have one!

A Different Angle

       As the Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal continues to evolve I can't help but to think why the media and the school is making this all about Coach Joe Paterno. Ever report involves him when it should be about the victims and Sandusky. The media has made it such a frenzy that you forget that Sandusky is even involved in the situation.

       With the recent firing of Paterno the scandal has really taken a different angle placing him in the front for not reporting the alleged 2002 incident to the police however what I don't understand is why McQueary was not fired. He's the person who actually witnessed the incident. With the incident going unreported the question asked is "Why?"

       I think the way in which Joe reported the situation was accurate because he didn't witness it and who's to say that what was actually reported to him is true. I mean McQueary could have had it out for Sandusky...he did end up with his position after the incident. McQueary not reporting the incident when he witnessed it begs to ask "did he really see anything and is he telling the truth?"

Why are we so homo-phobic?

         In a recent conversation with my boyfriend about gay rights, he revealed that he's homo-phobic. I always knew that he didn't feel comfortable when talking about the subject but I never knew he felt this way. Upon learning this I asked him why, he told me 'because they annoy him."

         At first i thought this dude is weird but he's entitled to his own opinion, so I continued by asking him why they annoy him he said "because they're gay and that's not right."

         I asked him what would he do if one of his children turned out to be gay he told me he'd send him or her back to Africa. This completely shocked me because my boyfriend is a Nigerian and in his country people are beaten and sometimes killed for being homosexual or having homosexual tendencies. I also did some research and saw a documentary where an African male was describing what they do to the women who are lesbian. In Africa a women is rape for the belief that raping her will make her not want to be gay.  

         After this conversation and seeing the documentary I began to wonder why we as a society are so homo-phobic, is it because we don't like when someone is different, is it because of our religious beliefs or is it because we fear that we may actually be what we're so against. I mean if we saw it as love and not their body parts would will still hate them cause at the end of it all that's all they're trying to do....love the person they're with regardless of their gender.

McDonald's Beat Down

     After watching the McDonald's Beat Down video I am extremely pissed and disappointed.

      I don't believe the employee should have lost his job and been arrested. I mean when does it become a crime to defend yourself, maybe he shouldn't have used the rod, but what do you do in that situations. I know that if I was in his position I most likely would have found the closest item to me to use in helping to defend myself. 

      A lot of people would say I'm wrong because those are women but they attacked him first. All of this happened because he was simply doing his job of making sure a large bill was not counterfeit. Also at the end of the video the reporter lists his charges and the two female charges but what concerns me is why they(the females) were not charged with. So I ask "were the right actions taken against him for what he did?"