Brad Pye’s National Sports Beat (4/20-4/26/17)

Check This! The Chicago Cubs’ Carl Edwards, Jr. is one of only 13 black pitchers in the majors and in all of baseball and one of five relievers.

Four-star General Colin Powell has a message for President Donald Trump and his gang. General Powell says; “Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.”

Check This! There still only two Africans Managers—the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts and the Nationals’ Dusty Baker. Baker has been recycled several times since Frank Robinson broke the color line in the Managerial ranks.

Now is the time for prime basketball, a Four game beat down …..Everybody will take note, especially the Warriors from the West Coast.

A Notre Dame High School baseball player is projected to be one the top picks in the June Draft. Just 1.5% of all the players in the game today are African Americans including Notre Dame’s prep pitcher Hunter Greene. And the beat continues!

MLB has a lot of catching up in order to properly thank Jackie Robinson for what he did in integrating baseball and in making the world a better place for all of us. And the beat continues! Jackie Robinson wouldn’t be satisfied for keeping integration on track since his death.

Virtually everybody in the NBA says that LeBron James and his “Killers” are the best in the basketball until or if Stephen Curry et al knock them off

Right now at Camden High School in New Jersey, Lenaami Morton recently won the 55 meter hurdles @ (8.25) and ran anchor for the first place (4/51.5) shuttle hurdles relay (33.04) at the State Championship. A week later she finished first in the 55 meter hurdles (7.94). Lenaami also took the state title in the event last year (8.37). Lenaami Morton is being called the greatest all around High School athlete since LeBron James. And the beat continues!

The words of Dr. Willie Parker an ob-gyn a Christian from Alabama who writes; There hasn’t been a day since Roe vs. Wade became legal in 1973 that women haven’t had to fight to maintain access to this very service ( abortion)” Yes, Dr, Parker gives me hope for each of its own.

Mark Davis, the son of the late Oakland Raiders legion Al Davis declared,” it is ok, when the team wants to make money, I just want to protect my father’s legacy.”

Which one of these playoff bound players will emerge as the NBA MVP honoree? Your guess is as good as mine. The top candidates are LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, DeMar DeRozan, Klay Thompson, Kawhi Leonard, John Wall, Damian Lillard, C.J. McCollum, Tony Parker, Eric Gordon. Blake Griffin, Chris Paul et al.

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