50. my generation. you re probably right. 50, right? anyone under 40 doesn t care. there used to be things where so when after september 11th, whenever a player of any sport said something that was politically related, i would get a flood of e-mails. i m never coming to an mavs game if you do a, b or c. i ve never got an e-mail saying if you get a gay player. jason collins played for 12 years. he was showering with everybody. nobody died. no one got checked out in the shower and had problems. and so he actually was the perfect guy to change everything. what about guns in sports? the knicks guard raymond felton was arrested on gun charges. there have been a lot of these stories in the last couple of years. obviously i ve had a whole position about gun control. probably because i m not american and therefore don t quite see the culture in the same way. but what about that? what about the fact of sportsmen believing they need a gun? i think that s anecdotal. i think raymond, i
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let s talk sports. a controversial proposal became official in major league baseball. many say the most exciting play at the plate in the sport. they are putting forth a new rule that says a catcher can t block the plate unless he already has possession offer the ball. it also says a runner cannot go out of his way to make contact with the catcher. this is subject to replay. after more than 100 years of collisions, it may take some time for players to adjust to this one. we go to nba high lights. the lowly knicks hosting the mavericks. this was a tight one. new york down three in the fourth forces the turnover. carmelo from deep tying the game. there. all right. after another turnover, nicks with a chance to take the lead. j.r. smith comes up empty.
All right. let s talk sports, shall we? michigan state topped off a season by winning the granddaddy of them all in the 100th rose bowl. fredricka, it really surprised a lot of people. after being fifth ranked in this game, they really approved they belonged among the elite teams in college football. the 100th edition of the rose bowl, tied all the way to the fourth quarter and tied until connor cook found tony lipid for a touchdown. this happened in the fourth quarter. here it is. cook to lipid, 25 yards, putting them up by 7. then the spartan s top rated
Cooper was there. 6,000 people died as a 200-mile-per-hour wind ran through tack loban. there are millions who don t have homes right now still in the philippines. all this happened in a year that the ipcc put out their climate report, the gurus for the united nations and they say we ll have more heat waves in the future, more floods, and we re also going to have more drought because of climate change. maybe what we think of right now as extreme weather might just be the new normal. okay. let s lift the mood on this christmas day. let s talk sports, my favorite thing to talk about. we ll take about a-rod and peyton manning. a about ig year for sports in 2013. after the break, we will look ahead to 2014. what will the big stories be in the wonderful year coming our