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The latter half of February is always an important portion of the NBA season, usually because of the trade deadline. Yes, the All-Star game tends to occur around this time as well, but as I have mentioned before , no one really likes All-Star games, in any sport. The NBA, however, has the unique ability to break this trend, due to its array of other competitions. In the All-Star game itself, either the East or West won, with an overall score of about 300, I think (as you can see, who cares). But the real excitement occurred earlier in the weekend, with the likes of the dunk contest and the three-point challenge. There are other competitions, such as the shooting challenge, but there's a WNBA player involved in that segment, so................ once again, who cares. The Slam Dunk competition, however, did impress, although the outcome was certainly expected. "Rookie" standout Blake Griffin (I say "rookie" because he was drafted a year earlier) wowed the crowd...

I want to start this post with a disclaimer: If you are a feminist, disregard this post, and come back next time. So now that all the feminists are gone, we can begin. Most people at least have a vague idea of what title nine is. But for those of you who don't, it's basically an attempt to eliminate sexism. However, today, we really only see examples of this law in place in high school and college sports. In an effort to create gender equality, schools must provide as much funding for women's sports as men's sports. So right there, there is the first puzzling example of title IX. Besides the phenomenon which was the Connecticut women's basketball team, and people like Danica Patrick , who doesn't even really play a sport, women's sports are meaningless. Yet schools are expected the spend as much money on these so called "sports" as men's sports. Subsequently, teams like women's gymnastics, and swimming, receive unrealistically large fun...

So, just being realistic, over half the country watched the Super Bowl , so there is no need to do any sort of recap. Thus, I will take this time to talk about the extracurricular aspects of the game yesterday. Ok yeah, the Packers won the Super Bowl. Congratulations. But honestly, the Steelers prized defense did little to nothing to stop Aaron Rodgers . He more or less picked apart Defensive Player of the Year Troy Polamalu's defense en route to the win. Thus, Ben Roethlisberger was left with the next-to heroic task of overcoming an extremely large defecit. Needless to say, his running efforts, as well as his beautifully crafted 2-pt conversion were all the Steelers could really manage. So now, let's get started with the commercials, most people's favorite aspect of the game. Well, in all honesty, they sucked. The usually-humorous Bud Light commercials looked like amateur productions, and the few highlights included Eminem and a little kid dressed like Darth Vader. Th...

The Pro Bowl is probably the least interesting game of the entire season, unless of course there were a Panthers-Bills matchup this year. In addition to it being a meaningless game with no benefits, other than the Cadillac SUV granted to the game's MVP, this year's game was unsurmountably less exciting than any other previous year. The NFC's slaughtering of the AFC, tells nothing of how the season went this year, because no one really tried. On every play from scrimage, the defensive line performed the same motion, slowly getting out of their stance and jogging towards the general direction of the quarterback. In addition, the extra rules for the game, made passes of under ten yards almost undefended, as press coverage was against the rules. No blizting and the outlaw of bunch formations (three WR's on one side), as well added to the dull atmosphere in Honolulu. Not to mention that no one in Hawaii cares about football. I truly think that the Pro Bowl should be play...