football help, complete question this time, sorry

[insurancepi]

I have been shooting football at night and I am getting frustrated. I have been shooting with a 300d and a sigma 70-200 2.8 lens. Here is my question, a lot of myÂ*pictures have been turning out blurry,probably from me moving the camera, however on many pictures the subject that I am trying to shoot will turn out to be not in focus and a subject to the side and closer to me will be in focus. I have been shooting in the m mode and using all 7focusing points, if I select only the focus point in the middle will it give me sharper pictures on the subject that I am trying to shoot and not focus on subjects closer and to the sides of my objective. my galleries are at www.pbase.com/insurancepi/ if you want to see my poor shooting. please help, thanks

[12345Michael54321]

Fortunately, your problem has a simple solution.

Just make sure that your camera 

[Belmondo]

Oh! Oh! This is one I can actually answer.

Use your

[IanD]

Oh! Oh! This is one I can actually answer.

Use your
I think it would be preferable to

[smudge]

then after two weeks boil for one minute. That should fix it.

[robertwgross]

Suggestion: Why don't you start out the way most shooters do? Set your camera on Green Box (full auto) and use only the central focus point. If you are shooting football, then try Sports mode as well.

In many cases, you can make sure that your intended subject is where the camera is trying to focus on, especially if your intended subject has a lot of contrast (like a clean football jersey). If your intended subject had a muddy jersey, and if two others to the sides were clean and contrasty, then the camera might accidentally fall onto one of the others for focus.

---Bob Gross---

[insurancepi]

shooting at night, so I pretty much have to shoot in the m or av mode

[robertwgross]

shooting at night, so I pretty much have to shoot in the m or av mode

And that is because ... ... ?

---Bob Gross---

[insurancepi]

auto mode I can not change the shutter speed or set the apature or change the iso settings. I don't believe that I can get good shots at100 or 400 iso (I think that is the settings in the auto mode) In addition the shutter speed is to fast in sports mode and to slow on the green box, I am shooting highschool football not college, the lighting is poor.

[robertwgross]

...and you excluded P mode with high ISO and fast shutter because... ... ?

---Bob Gross---