Teddy Bridgewater Tears ACL

Yesterday Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered a knee injury during a non-contact injury. Bridgewater was taken to the hospital where they found out that he had a torn  ACL and other structural damage to his knee. Fortunately, there was no nerve damage done to the knee so there are no long-term concerns. Unfortunately, he will not be playing this season. This is a huge blow to a Minnesota Vikings team, who was ready to take it to the next level after finishing  11-5 last season and losing in the playoffs against Seattle after missing a game-winning field goal.

Shaun Hill will now take over as starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. There have been rumors that the Vikings could go after Mark Sanchez as a backup. The Vikings need to look for another quarterback quickly because right now they only have two healthy quarterbacks on the roster. With Teddy Bridgewater going down this will make Adrian Peterson face more blitzes than he already faces based on the fact that the defense knows he's going to have to put this team on his back as he has done before. If the Vikings expect Shaun Hill to be able to do half of what Bridgewater did, they're sadly mistaken and in for a long season. Especially since he has never even had a 3,000 passing yard season. Will see if the Vikings go after a veteran backup quarterback to be on the safe side.

South African Defies the Odds

As you all may know records are made to be broken. But yesterday Wayde Van Niekerk from South Africa did more then just break a record he broke track stereotypes as well. Track coaches will always say lane 8 is the worst lane to be in. But, yesterday Niekerk showed that was a myth. Normally people who are in lane 8 run like a chicken with their head cut off because they can't see anybody behind them or in front of them.

So basically they're running blindsided most of the race. Many were in the stands to see Usain Bolt vs. Justin Gatlin 100 meter final race. But by Niekerk doing the unthinkable out of lane 8 and breaking the 400 meter world record with a time of 43.03 that left the crowd speechless. Even Usain Bolt was shocked at the time while he was coming out the tunnel for the 100 meter finals. Wayde Van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson 400 meter world record that stood for 17 years up until last night.

Team USA Men's Basketball Dismantles Team China

Team USA Men's Basketball started their Olympic preliminary play yesterday against China. The game was basically over right from the tip off. China only lead the game once which was at the beginning of the game where they were up 2-0. After that, Team USA never looked back. Team USA ended the first half up 59-30 over China.

China really didn't have a chance. They had some decent big man, but there guard play was terrible. Hence, why the game got away from them pretty fast. China did have one bright spot during the game from former NBA pro Yi Jianlian who finished with 25 points and 6 rebounds. Jianlian was the only player that scored double figures for China. Hopefully China plays better during the rest of the Olympics.

Team USA dismantled Team China by beating them 119-62. Kevin Durant finished with 25 points, 6 assists, and 4 rebounds. Demarcus Cousins finished with 17 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 rebounds. Paul George finished with 15 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 assists. Kyrie Irving finished with 12 points, 5 assists, and 2 rebounds. Carmelo Anthony finished with 9 points and 7 rebounds even though he started off the game on fire.  Demar DeRozan finished with just 6 points but had a highlight posterizing dunk. Team USA will resume Olympic play on Monday at 6 PM against Venezuela.