Josh Leafer's Bio

- I Have played most of the main sports; basketball, baseball, soccer, and football
-I currently play soccer and do track
- My position in soccer is playing midfield and I throw a javelin for track. My high school soccer team went 14-2-2 while my club came in second in the league. The track team is projected to get a TVL title and a state run this year.
- My favorite athlete is Gareth Bale who plays for Real Madrid, a professional soccer club in Spain
- One of the best sports quotes I ever heard was from the legendary NFL manger, Vince Lombardi, '" If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"'





Sunday, May 31, 2015

BP 10


 In Grimsley's informative article, he provides information and facts about the boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Clay Liston resulting in the quickest knock out in boxing history leaving many fans uneasy about paying $100 for such a short fight that just lasted a little under 2 minutes long; fans were left thinking that the fight was faked or fixed. Within the article the author uses all  10 tips for scholastic sports writing, and argues his bias by using key points from the rhetorical triangle. Initially, Grimsley explains how Ali was not favored to win match. Many people thought that Liston would of been crowned champion at the end of the night.Also, the author is able to show a strong emotional appeal between the fight and the fans. People watching the fight went in thinking that it was going to be a nice well fought fight, but were pulled back from this when Ali knocked Liston out so early in the match. This left the fight to be torn at by critics and people that the match was staged, and Liston said that he could of gotten up, but the referee confused him. Lastly, Grimsley is able to keep this article strong by stating the facts and how the result of this iconic fight will always be in doubt.



Left to right-Suarez, Neymar, Messi
In the article, "Barcelona's Messi-Neymar-Suarez trio sets Spanish goals record with 120" by ESPN Staff, the audience which would consist of many soccer loving people learns about how FC Barcelona's strikers have surpassed the previous record for the amount of goals scored by a club that competes in a league called La Liga. Barcelona was able to build a fantastic squad in order to do this type of damage to other teams by scoring 120 goals just from the offensive line of the team, and how they contest to being one of the best teams in La Liga history. The staff is definitely bias to Barcelona because they do not use any negative words or language against them,they only seem to praise them by providing many statistics about goals scored by the club this year and in recent years. The staff seems to address almost all of the components of the 10 tips for scholastic sports writing exceptionally well as he ties in many ideas to the main point for writing the article. The logical appeal to this article is simple and to the point. FC Barcelona is a brute force when it comes to putting the soccer ball in the back of a net from their main offensive players;Messi, Neymar and Suarez. The emotional is very uplifting and explains how these players work hard and believe in what they do and how they do it even through criticism. To end, the ethical appeal shows how three extremely talented players with different styles of play can still pull together and get a win at the end of the day.

1 comment:

  1. I thought this blog post was very well written. You explained the rhetorical strategies in each article very thoroughly and clearly. Your use of vocabulary such as "brute force" kept me intrigued.

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