{"id":46986,"date":"2015-03-09T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46986"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:05:57","slug":"the-peterson-principle-3915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=46986","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle: 3\/9\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17449\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=17449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17449\" class=\"wp-image-17449\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/vic-the-brick.jpg\" alt=\"Who's this freak with Peterson? \" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who&#8217;s this freak with Peterson?<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">If Chris Johnson wasn&#8217;t done before, he almost certainly is now. Johnson was shot early Sunday morning in the shoulder while he was a passenger in a vehicle where one person was killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><!--more-->Johnson is in stable condition after being shot in the shoulder. There was a minimal market for Johnson already after he had a less than stellar season last year. Now his suitors may be down to zero. What is it that they say? Nothing good ever happens when you&#8217;re out 4:00 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">When LeSean McCoy, the league&#8217;s leading rusher in 2013, gets traded for a linebacker that missed an entire season due to an injury, you know it&#8217;s a quarterbacks league. Now with Buffalo agreeing to sign McCoy for $40 million over five years, you have to wonder if the Bills aren&#8217;t grossly overpaying for the running back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Speaking of big bucks, Ndamukong Suh is going to hit the lottery in Miami. The defensive tackle is set to sign with the Dolphins for $114 million over six years with $60 million guaranteed. The Detroit Lions, his former team, were said to be in the hunt to retain Suh, but Miami&#8217;s offer just blew them out of the water. This might be just the move that could take the Dolphins\u00a0to that next level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">So the Chargers, Raiders and Rams are now all in play as teams that will potentially move to Los Angeles. I&#8217;d prefer the Rams but I could live with the Chargers. The Raiders? No thanks. It&#8217;s not so much the element that the Raiders bring it&#8217;s just that they seem recycled &#8211; like yesterday&#8217;s news. And although all of these stadium proposals are the strongest yet to surface over the last 20 years, I&#8217;m still of the mind that I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">One championship down, another one to go? Maranatha wrapped up a CIF title last Friday night with a 59-53 win over Campbell Hall, now the Minutemen embark on a new adventure. They open up the State Tournament Wednesday night at home against Pacific Ridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-width: medium medium 4.5pt; border-style: none none double; border-color: currentColor currentColor #000000; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in; margin-bottom: 0in;\">With 27,000 fans jammed into the StubHub Center Friday night, it was more evident than ever that MLS and the players union would have made a fatal mistake if they allowed a strike to wipe out the opening weekend or any part of the season. Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena touched on it after LA&#8217;s 2-0 win over Chicago. \u201cI don&#8217;t think we could have received the type of support we need if there was a strike and the season was delayed. I think it&#8217;s important that we got the season started on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-width: medium medium 4.5pt; border-style: none none double; border-color: currentColor currentColor #000000; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in; margin-bottom: 0in;\">Correction: In a previous story posted on Mid Valley Sports it was reported that the 605 All-Star game will be played on June 6. The game is Friday night, June 5. Darn typos!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">That&#8217;s my principle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Tim can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:tim@midvalleysports.com\">tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a> or on Twitter @tspeterson40 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson If Chris Johnson wasn&#8217;t done before, he almost certainly is now. 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