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Bowden needs to own up to his mistake.First off, for those of you that don’t know, I was born a Seminoles fan, as both of my parents, graduated from the Florida State University. I cherish every moment of FSU football; either by watching the Seminoles games on television, or by going to the Seminoles games in person, either up in Tallahassee or down in Miami when they play the University of Miami.
So with all of that in mind, let me now begin this article on why I think coach and savor (that’s right) Bobby Bowden, needs to own up to his mistake. Like a lot of my fellow Seminoles fans, when the allegations came out about the football players, and FSU athletics in general regarding the cheating scandal on the online music course. I was in full fledge support of Bobby Bowden in that he did know what had happen. But like anything else with time, the real facts started to surface regarding Bowden knowledge about the incident. Let me now take this time, and say that Florida State did the right thing in reporting the incident right a way to the NCAA, and took action right away as well, as 12 players were suspend from playing in the music city bowl as well as some games going into the following season. Do I think the penalty is a little harsh, you might ask? I do, but that is what you have to expect as a major college football program, that is when you do the right thing, and report this kind of incident to the NCAA. I am also proud to say that, I think no other major college football program in the country, would have done the same thing that FSU did. As another big time college football program would have try to hide it for as long as they could have from the NCAA, and the public in general. Now onto Bowden in his part, in my view, as a coach or as a prominent career leadership role in life, when you have accusations, it is alright to fight for a little at first, but when the evidence comes out, and it is starting to mount towards against what you are arguing, right their and then you have to step up to plate, and take the heat for it, and own up to it as that is what a leader does. As when you are at that point, you do not play the “ I did not know card,” as Coach Bowden did. As it will not only make your words sound guilty, but it will only allow for the matter to get worst. So now not only are all of the above as I describe is happening, but also it is slowly ruining the legacy, of what should be remembered as of a great coach, and for coach Bowden stake, I hope he comes clean soon and own up to his own mistake, as people will forgive coach Bowden overtime if he did that. But if coach Bowden does not come clean soon, people will only remember him for being a liar for not admitting to his knowledge of the situation as a whole. RJ rjintampawsa@aol.com http://www.sportsaholicforum.com  Magic vs. Lakers 09 NBA Finals TakeThe 2009 NBA finals are set, it will be the Orlando Magic and the Lakers battling it out for the rights to be crown Champions of the 08 - 09 NBA season. In comparison, the Lakers of the Western conference advanced to the NBA finals by way of winning series against teams such as the Utah Jazz, the Houston Rockets and the Denver Nuggets For the first time in fourteen years, since the Shaq days the Orlando Magic will be making their second NBA finals in the team twenty year history. Orlando first time around was against the Houston Rockets in the 1995 NBA finals led then by star center at the time Shaquille O'Neal. It should be noted that under the guidance of Shaq the Magic were swept in four games. What also should be noted for this up coming finals is that in the summer of the 1996, Shaq bolted from Orlando as a free agent to the Lakers and took the money and run. Which leads me to my next point on this series. In 1996, Shaq singed a seven-year, $120 million dollar contract with the Lakers, and turn down a front loaded contract offer from Orlando of 115 million over seven years with 24 million alone in the first year. Needless to say, from that point on the Lakers became the Magic hated rival while Shaq was playing for them against the Magic in Orlando. Magic fans would let Shaq know on how they felt about that move in he had made in the summer of 1996. Payback would have too wait two years, till the day Shaq cane back as a member of the Lakers while playing in Orlando against the Magic. All Magic fans including myself remember that date. It was a Sunday, in late February, the exact date was February 22, 1998. Shaq was back, playing in Orlando for the first time since signing with the Lakers two years ago. Every time, Shaq had the ball in the game weather it be he was passing or about to take a shot he was booed, and hollered at by the more then 17,000 plus at the then named Orlando Arena. In that game, O’Neil totaled twenty points, but that alone did not help his Lakers win that game as the momentum was all Orlando as the Magic would ruin his return and beat his Lakers by a score of 94 - 96. This season in the year 2009, Both teams have played one game at home against each other. the Orlando Magic have visited southern California once and the Lakers have visited Orlando once. During those games the Magic came away victorious in both games. In the first game, the Magic defeated the Lakers in Orlando, by a score of 106- 103 defeating the Lakers by three points. In the second game, the Magic defeated the Lakers out west in California by a score of 109 - 103 defeating the Lakers by six points. Enable for either the Lakers or the Magic to be crown champions they will both have to take advantage of their home court, as well as steal a win from each other arenas. In my view, if the Magic take either game 1 or 2 out in Los Angles, the Magic will win this series. Game one is on Thursday night at 9 pm EST all game are on ABC.  Loyalty is absolute in today game of the NFL. 3/2/09 – 3/8/09When your team has to move on with certain Iconic players; that have been the face of their respected franchise for a long time, it’s a tough decision.
Those two situations are what the fate of that player will came down to. Just with in the past two weeks the: Colts, Jaguars, and Buccaneers had to make the decision of letting go of their iconic players. First up, it was the Jacksonville Jaguars who parted ways, respectfully with the greatest Jaguar of all time in running back Fred Taylor. It was respectfully done, as the Owner of the Jaguars Wayne Weaver flew down to Taylor house in south Florida, with General manger Gene Smith and Head Coach Jack Del Rio to tell Taylor in person of the decision before it was made public. The decision had been in the process slowly as the Jags had to move on with Maurice Jones – Drew as the starting running back. Second up was the Indianapolis Colts who were in a sticky situation, the new head coach wanted the player who is wide out Marvin Harrison back, but Marvin did not feel as if the team wanted him back. As he wanted a new contract, the team said no at first and Marvin started going public about how he wanted to be released from the Colts, so the colts granted him his wish and now he will be looking for a new team this off season. Finally, it was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers turn this past week. They have a new thirty two year old coach as well as a new young general manager. They said they wanted to get young and they did. They parted ways without a person-to-person talk, and let go of: Derrick Brooks, as well as Warrick Dunn and three others. Derrick Brooks is an eleven time pro bowler with an almost certain first time ballot to the hall of fame. He was the player that not only brought back respect to the Bucs, but he also gave them a new life as an organization, that before him was the joke of the NFL. Well not all Loyalty is lost, but you can be sure that when any team cuts an Iconic player, it was because of two reasons either it was time to move on or their was a new head coach involve. What are absolute in today game are not only players staying with one team, but Iconic ones staying with their original team their whole time while playing in the NFL. RJINTAMPAWSA@AOL.COM  Guess whose back on the Greens? 2/23/09 – 3/1/09Well since the question was “guess whose back on the greens?” By greens I am talking about golf course. So with that in my mind, who is the number one golfer in world? Well incase you still have not pictured who I am talking about I will tell you the answer right now. The person I am talking about goes by the name of Tiger Woods.
 Quick Hits 2/17/09 – 2/22/09Well sorry for the delay on these article, but this quick hits segment one should set things back into place from here on out. So with that here is my take on news from the weeks in the sporting world.
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