This course Strategic Presentation has taught me several skills that I can continue to use. The main thing I take away from this course is learning how to create and manage a WordPress website. This was a great thing for me to learn how to do because I had a great amount of fun on it. I did a topic I wanted to do and that made me want to keep posting to my site. On my website, I was covering sports. Sports is a passion of mine so whenever I made a post, it wasn’t too hard to do, and it also was something I truly wanted to talk about. When creating a WordPress, it was a process that consisted of several steps that took time. These steps helped me make sure my website was properly organized and layed out so it would be easier for my audience to use. Another tool I learned in this course is how to make a podcast. I am interested in podcasting in the future and this course gave me a taste of it. I would also like to cover sports there. All of my podcasts were posted to Soundcloud, and that is one of the largest audio platforms for everyone around the world. We also made a video in this course about our blog sites and I feel like that gave me another look at how I can produce my work to the world. What made me work even harder is the feedback I would get from my group members and classmates as we would work together in group work as well as class discussions. Receiving feedback is a great lesson each time as it allows me to improve. Also, whenever we covered a topic, there would be a reading attached to the topic. These readings we would have to read and refer to provided me with a different insight on the topic. These readings would include ways to improve our knowledge on the provided topic. All in all, this course provided me with more skills than I came in with. This course provided all the ways I can produce some quality work into the media. Last but not least, I gained experience. Some of the skills that I learned in this course will allow me to excel in future courses I take. 

1. Each meme found on knowyourmeme.com relates to my page in several ways. Currently we have been focused on the NBA for the stoppage of play due to COVID-19. The first meme is a photo of LeBron James of the US olympics team sitting with olympian Carmelo Anthony. This meme has been used because it shows him laughing about something. The second meme is a tribute to the late Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant. This is a photo that I’ve seen often as well. Last but not least, MJ! This is one of the most popular memes ever by one of the greatest to ever do it! The target audience intended for these photos and this discussion is anyone that loves sports! If you love sports and active in the media, you’ve seen these and may have something to say!
2. According to Davison’s framework, memes determine the behavior. I agree with this point because you can quickly view a meme and have a feeling attached to it that relates to the meme. The perfect examples are the ones I listed above. With the LeBron James meme, I think about when I was laughing at something that I thought was pretty funny. This is a mental process of understanding what you are looking at and determining if that can be relatable to you or not. Citation to Davison: Mandiberg, M. (2012). The Social Media Reader. New York University Press.
3. I found these memes I posted on knowyourmemes.com . However, the behaviors of the memes are easily comprehensible. The first photo with LeBron James is a good laugh feeling. The second photo with Kobe Bryant relates to a accomplished, smooth, “I did it” feeling. Photo three with Michael Jordan is can be from a disappointed or highly upset, to tears of joy. These are all photos I’ve seen before because they spread on something called social media! This is where everybody can see the meme and add their own twist to it for others to see!
4. The manifestations of each photo is different. LeBron James is sitting on the bench in a game, but he’s enjoying himself, laughing! He’s not in an as serious game mode which is the typical LeBron we are used to seeing. With the passing of Kobe Bryant we have been saddened and reflected a lot about his career, so I just wanted to take a good moment and flip that meme potentially into something we can relate to. With the Jordan meme, ESPN recently aired his documentary, The Last Dance, I had to include him somehow. We are very aware of this crying meme but we are used to seeing this assassin on the court, not crying.
5. To conclude, I feel like my best meme is the Jordan meme. This meme can take this blog discussion and potentially boost the conversations because of how famous this meme is. Also, as stated earlier, The Last Dance just aired. To include Michael Jordan to a part of this can bring in more bloggers as he is currently trending.

In my final podcast my audience can expect more sports content. With this current pandemic going on I will provide detailed overviews for football and basketball on what the current state is and what to expect moving forward. I will also do something different, I will put together some All-Time lists in both sports to create some sparks in our blog. You don’t want to miss it! It will be our most exciting one yet!

In the recent podcast we did a PSA on the LeBron James Family Foundation and elaborated on the programs that they provide to their students. Here is the link to check them out some more. https://www.lebronjamesfamilyfoundation.org

My group members have contributed substantially, heres some info on their blogs!

Will Yang https://abakus.fashion.blog

Kunal Sinha, https://dragoballden.home.blog/

Enrico Borromeo, https://buzzerbeaters.food.blog/

Raaj Patel, https://dailysoccerupdates.sport.blog/ 

The purpose of this tutorial is to help you out. On this page we will be having plenty of discussions and debates on several topics around sports. I created this platform to have an audience that loves sports be able to talk amongst each other daily. It be can wide ranging broad conversations (who’s the greatest, who will win championship) or even smaller conversations on the games last night and to come. As stated in this tutorial, this blog is intended for anybody with the same passion as me. If you love sports, let’s hear what you have to say! There is no age limit, there is no preferred gender. I welcome everybody who is interested and would like to speak!

In my video you might find lots of highlights of the NBA and NFL as well as a sports debate. I used some video from NBA.com , NFL.com, ESPN.com , ESPN’s first take , and even mentioned Bleacherreport.com .

In my video I included a lot of tags to hopefully draw some views. But, how I relying on people seeing my work is by promoting myself. With the support I can get, it will be a great idea to get myself out there on social media. I already made pages on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and each page has followers to it. I will be promoting my blog here to draw as much attention as I can. This will lead to more people checking out the website and giving their take.

This also relates to Wolf’s reading. Wolf discussed diversity near the end and I feel like I can say that about my blog. This blog is open to everybody so in that own way it can be diverse. But I consider it more diverse when we discuss about many sports. This blog will have different avenues of sports which will bring in more people to talk. As of now we have the NFL, NBA, CFB, and CBB on our blog. I also intend to add soccer, MLB, XFL, hockey, trending high schools, and many more. Having so many sports involved is diverse in its own way and will lead to more people to join. This will also allow them to watch videos of mine as I plan on making several videos as I have a passion for producing videos as well.

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Skills Challenge, 3 point shootout, and the Dunk Contest

We can definitely say that this years NBA All Star Saturday was very controversial. Starting off with the skills challenge I must say the league has changed dramatically over the years. Some years ago, there was no such thing as a forward even in the challenge, it was strictly for guards. I remember watching my favorite player of all-time dominate the challenge for back to back years, and that player happens to be Dwyane Wade who we will discuss later. Seeing all the guards get eliminated in the first round by all big men I must say is quite impressive. Miami’s very own Bam Adebayo took the trophy home. I thought it was very competitive.

The 3 point shootout added a new Mountain Dew three point line which had two locations. Both locations 30 feet away in the “Steph Range, Trae Young, or Dame Dolla Range” were worth 3 points each. I was very excited as I think this was the best 3 point shootout I’ve seen in a long time. We had guys with over 20 points not qualifying to the final. I must say I was impressed with Devin Booker as he was a replacement. He killed those guys out there. Being a Heat Fan my prediction was for Duncan Robinson to win but he also got knocked out in the first round. Buddy Hield of Sacramento took home the trophy on the very last shot.

The Dunk Contest was very interesting. I sure didn’t expect Dwight Howard to win it as the 34 Year olds best years are behind him. However, I think his first dunk was very underrated. But anyways to what really matters, Derrick Jones Jr. and Aaron Gordon. Many say Gordon was robbed, many say it should have been a tie, few say Derrick Jones Jr. deserved to win. And I am in that few. Aaron Gordon had a spectacular night putting up 5 50’s! I personally just wasn’t impressed with the Tacko Fall dunk, just off the strength that he didn’t clear him. I mean Tacko almost fell if we are being honest. However, I think Derrick Jones Jr just happened to be the better dunker that night. Which isn’t taking away anything from Gordon. I believed Gordon was Snubbed in 2016, but not this year. These Dwyane Wade conspiracies I don’t understand. He gave Aaron Gordon a 9 and everyone said that he ruined it for a former teammate to win. When he gave that same guy a 9 earlier in the contest for missing a dunk. He was being fair. Common stated the judges said it was supposed to be a tie. But my question is since when do judges make collective decisions? I thought they were supposed to make individual decisions. Anyways, thats my take on DWade as a judge. Other judges also gave 9’s. If it was up to me, I would only allow Former contest champions and big game dunkers to be on the panel in the first place. Guys like, Vince Carter, Dr. J, Dominque, Shaq, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Blake Griffin, Spud Webb, Nate Robinson, T-Mac, MJ, LBJ, and yes even Dwyane Wade. Thats my take. What’s yours?