Sports Talk: What Is On Your Mind?

“Sports Talk” is a graded a activity. Assessment will be based on

EYES: focused on the speaker (not your cell phone)

EARS: Actively listening to the discussion

ENGAGED: This means you are taking it all in. You should participate if you feel comfortable and if you are knowledgable about the topic. Questions to others are another way to be actively engaged. At the conclusion of some of the “Sports Talk” sessions, there will be a written reflection.

Some of the topics will based on the season. Often it will involve current events.

  • September Sports Talk
  • Tattoo

April 26th, 2021: 1st day of the 4th Sports Season. Fall II eneded yesterday.

Terrance Clarke: A Sports Tragedy

Spring Athletes

Sports Season

 

Patriots Day DVD

Boston Globe: Meet the Real People Behind “Patriots Day”

Previewing Questions

Does anyone know anyone who

  • was working in the Boston Hospitals?
  • running the 2013 Boston Marathon?
  • working for the Boston or Watertown Police?

Harold:

Ed Davis: Smoothie “Chowda Head” Officially out of the dog house:

Downes Residents: Nurse “Stage 4” Disseration.

3 Things:

  1. Watch the Marathon
  2. Run the Marathon
  3. Watch the Red Sox

MIT (Zach Brown)

Blood Alcohol (2 pops)

6:34

Tsarnaev residence

“Muffin or Bagel”

8:42 AM (Billy Evans) “A trade off to get your job back.”

Brothers: “Martin Luther King was not a Muslim.” “Are you ready for this?”

Double amputees, every day citizens, B.A.A. Moment of silence for 26 seconds (the countdown to the start of the Marathon and introduction of main stories that will be followed.)

Call of Duty

11:08 East Cambridge

Lobster (Marathon Juggling Record) “joggling”

Wheelchair finishers

Bombs go off: “All medical personal to the finish line.” “We are going to take your son and get him some help.” (Leo Wolfenden)

Confiscate all cell phones.

3:14 Mass General Hospital

FBI Special Agent in Charge

Politics of Terrorism “It is terrorism. A really big Command Center”

6:48 PM

Interviews at the hospital

That is weird? My daughter.

Patrick Downes (Stress of being a Police Officer)

Get out of here!

PTSD: “8 year old boy. These images ain’t going away.”

Video surveillance (Sporting Events, Season Tickets.) Amazing scene,

Whisky Steak House

Not Ready to Release the Photos. (Big Decision)

“The do not look like prototypical Jihadists.”

Obama’s Marathon Speech

Watertown Role Call:

3:30: 73 hours after bombing

“Terrorism want to talk. Let Boston work for us? Release the pictures.”

Fox is going to show the pictures.

We will release the pictures once the President’s wheels are up.

Wold Wide

UMASS Dartmouth

Cell phones “the pictures are really good.”

“Fireworks & BBs”

9:14

Shooting of Sean Collier

All Voice Bulletin: (Real Footage)

10:46

The Escape:

The Interrogation: “He didn’t even kiss you before he left.”

Are there any more bombs? “There is a spot for her in hell.”

“She’s not talking!”

“Do you think this is preventable?”

“Crying does not describe that kind of sound. It wasn’t pain, it was war. Like a war between good and evil. We couldn’t have kids. What could I do?”

“It’s love. That is the only thing you can’t touch. I don’t think there is anyway they could ever win.”

“4 days ago we stood over a dead body.”

6:35 PM (filmed in Quincy)

“That boat ain’t gonna float.”

“Big Papi”

Billy Evans

FBI

Patrick “They took lives and limbs. Some of . The took less. They gave us back some things they didn’t. They gave us  a stronger sense of community.”

Dun Meng

Steve and Amber Wolfenden

Jessica “The worst and the best! I miss my legs every day.”

The hardest part of the race.

Krysatell Campbell

Lu

Sean Collier

Martin Richard