Spring has come and gone and now Summer is here in all of its vengance. May saw one of the great lacrosse games where Syracuse undeservedly won their second in a row championship against a very game Cornell team. The Red Sox are winning (how I don't really know after watching their starting pitching alternate good starts with truly awful ones). The Celtics and the Bruins got bounced in the second round of the playoffs which brought great disappointment.
My son's soccer season is now over as well. I was his coach for a third season (and I signed up for another fall as well for this year, I must be crazy) and it was a frustrating season in that I had no assistant coach which was pretty tough with 13 boys and trying to teach them fundamentals. I had great kids and they had fun (I think) and I've still got to do their evaluations too (sheesh).
I enjoyed the US Men's win yesterday against Spain. I can only compare it to Appalachian State beating Michigan - HUGE upset. The second goal was pure gritty, and I loved it. Let's see if they can do well in the Fed finals.
I noticed that Maria Sharapova got bounced from the All England Championships at Wimbledon. Too bad, she was coming back from injury and getting beat so early in the tourney doesn't bode well for her summer. In addition, Wimbledon may also be the site of another record breaking moment if Federer wins his 15th major. He's a great player - wish Roddick would play up to his potential and give a better show of it in majors.
The Red Sox are in town and I've had zero luck in getting tickets to the games with the last one being tonight and the long-awaited return of John Smoltz. I'm watching that foh showah.
In writing about the Red Sox, it brings me no small amount of joy to witness the Yankees in their new stadium (where the triple-A Nationals took 2 out of 3 last week, tee hee). Makes you wonder why a new stadium was necessary, but then what's a billion dollars spent on a stadium in a crap neighborhood?
Congrats to LSU - they can play baseball (and football it seems). I was pulling for my alma mater (George Mason) but they fell in the early rounds.
That's about it for now - I hope to get more chances to update this page in the future. Happy Summer!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, November 24, 2008
An odd thing happened
Well, the week of Thanksgiving 2008 is upon us and a few things have happened since I last wrote.
1. The Red Sox didn't make the Series
2. The Celtics picked right up where they left off in June
3. The Bruins are in first place
4. Boston College is on the verge of going to the ACC championship for the second year in a row
5. The Patriots are in the playoff hunt right now but really need to win out.
6. Texas Tech teased us all, but the Big 12 is the league to beat this year.
7. George Mason is off to a 3-1 start (can't believe they lost to Howard).
8. Barack Obama, president-elect, talked about having a division 1 playoff system.
9. Dustin Pedroia won the silver slugger award, golden glove award, and the MVP award.
10. The Redskins have won 7 games.
Well, that's more than a few things but I'll delve into a few of them here.
The Red Sox losing like they did to Tampa was extremely disappointing. Jason Varitek, though great with pitchers, had one hit the entire series. Lester pitched a whale of a game and still lost. At least Philadelphia won, can't stand those unintelligent Ray's fans with cowbells.
I'm impressed by the Celtics not letting down after winning the championship. The three amigos are fun to watch but their offense still confuses me. Is it just two in and outs and a jumper? No, it's a drive and kick, no wait it's a clear out, no, was that a wheel?
How the Bruins are kicking butt astonishes me - I know they have a lot of raw talent, but really? The fact that they spoiled "Patrick Roy Night" in Montreal makes me all giddy inside.
Boston College is making a late season run and their come from behind win over Wake on Saturday was nothing short of surprising. Combined with the fact that Maryland got smoked, repeat, SMOKED Saturday BC looks like a less flashy team that played in the ACC championship last year.
The Patriots are a good team, in need of a better defense. How could they have let Favre have that much time in OT to fling the ball around? The smackdown the Patriots gave Miami yesterday while giving up 28 points shows the offense can go, but the defense really needs a lot of help.
I see a good CAA season again for Mason, and hopefully the new mascot will do okay (I prefer Gunston though, poor animal). Laranaga is a hoot, met him once when I was in grad school at GMU and he couldn't have been nicer to me.
Why oh why do folks HAVE TO HAVE a college football playoff? WHY? Why does it matter so much? Who cares about the controversy? That's what makes Division 1 football that much more interesting. If it was a question of a playoff then you'd see a lot less teams playing in December and January, a lot less. And that's not good for college football. Bowl games are great and they have a grand tradition that goes beyond what some newly elected personage thinks should happen. He (Obama) went to Ivy league schools (who used to play in bowl games a long time ago btw) so his opinion on this is just like the rest of the nonsense that comes with sports opinions.
The fact that a 5-5 guy can win the MVP award should give heartening hope to those who toil in the world under six feet. Pedroia was fun to watch this year, really fun, and he and Youkilis really made the Red Sox go.
The Redskins (originally a Boston team who used to play at Fenway park) are curiously winning. Their new coach has become quite a popular guy since beating the Cowboys earlier in the season. If the Skins can somehow overtake the Giants next Sunday, things here are going to get really silly. I grudging like the Redskins, but the fans are the silliest people I've ever met, but then pro-football fans are really silly.
I hope things turn out well for the Eagles on Saturday against the Terps - that would be GREAT!
1. The Red Sox didn't make the Series
2. The Celtics picked right up where they left off in June
3. The Bruins are in first place
4. Boston College is on the verge of going to the ACC championship for the second year in a row
5. The Patriots are in the playoff hunt right now but really need to win out.
6. Texas Tech teased us all, but the Big 12 is the league to beat this year.
7. George Mason is off to a 3-1 start (can't believe they lost to Howard).
8. Barack Obama, president-elect, talked about having a division 1 playoff system.
9. Dustin Pedroia won the silver slugger award, golden glove award, and the MVP award.
10. The Redskins have won 7 games.
Well, that's more than a few things but I'll delve into a few of them here.
The Red Sox losing like they did to Tampa was extremely disappointing. Jason Varitek, though great with pitchers, had one hit the entire series. Lester pitched a whale of a game and still lost. At least Philadelphia won, can't stand those unintelligent Ray's fans with cowbells.
I'm impressed by the Celtics not letting down after winning the championship. The three amigos are fun to watch but their offense still confuses me. Is it just two in and outs and a jumper? No, it's a drive and kick, no wait it's a clear out, no, was that a wheel?
How the Bruins are kicking butt astonishes me - I know they have a lot of raw talent, but really? The fact that they spoiled "Patrick Roy Night" in Montreal makes me all giddy inside.
Boston College is making a late season run and their come from behind win over Wake on Saturday was nothing short of surprising. Combined with the fact that Maryland got smoked, repeat, SMOKED Saturday BC looks like a less flashy team that played in the ACC championship last year.
The Patriots are a good team, in need of a better defense. How could they have let Favre have that much time in OT to fling the ball around? The smackdown the Patriots gave Miami yesterday while giving up 28 points shows the offense can go, but the defense really needs a lot of help.
I see a good CAA season again for Mason, and hopefully the new mascot will do okay (I prefer Gunston though, poor animal). Laranaga is a hoot, met him once when I was in grad school at GMU and he couldn't have been nicer to me.
Why oh why do folks HAVE TO HAVE a college football playoff? WHY? Why does it matter so much? Who cares about the controversy? That's what makes Division 1 football that much more interesting. If it was a question of a playoff then you'd see a lot less teams playing in December and January, a lot less. And that's not good for college football. Bowl games are great and they have a grand tradition that goes beyond what some newly elected personage thinks should happen. He (Obama) went to Ivy league schools (who used to play in bowl games a long time ago btw) so his opinion on this is just like the rest of the nonsense that comes with sports opinions.
The fact that a 5-5 guy can win the MVP award should give heartening hope to those who toil in the world under six feet. Pedroia was fun to watch this year, really fun, and he and Youkilis really made the Red Sox go.
The Redskins (originally a Boston team who used to play at Fenway park) are curiously winning. Their new coach has become quite a popular guy since beating the Cowboys earlier in the season. If the Skins can somehow overtake the Giants next Sunday, things here are going to get really silly. I grudging like the Redskins, but the fans are the silliest people I've ever met, but then pro-football fans are really silly.
I hope things turn out well for the Eagles on Saturday against the Terps - that would be GREAT!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
It's really October and I was wrong and right
It's October, the Red Sox are playing to get to the World Series (most likely against the Phillies it looks like) and Manny Ramirez is playing in Dodger blue. Funny, when the Red Sox won the World Series on 2004, they got rid of Nomah, this year they got rid of Manny, coincidence?
I wrote back in June that the Sox were in trouble - well I was a bit off to put it mildly, however it's clear that though they've made it this far, after what I saw from Becket last night, our Sawx going to have to lean, really lean hard on John Lester. Lester is another guy I got wrong, really wrong. It's great to be wrong when your team wins, thankfully for this life-long Sox fan I've been very wrong this year.
Why do the playoffs have to be covered by the most knucklehead commentators? I mean, Buck Martinez and Ron Darling? PULLEEEZE. Bring back Al Leiter, dump Martinez and McCarver, put in Uecher, get some entertainment instead of idiocy.
Anyways, this is becoming an interesting October.
I wrote back in June that the Sox were in trouble - well I was a bit off to put it mildly, however it's clear that though they've made it this far, after what I saw from Becket last night, our Sawx going to have to lean, really lean hard on John Lester. Lester is another guy I got wrong, really wrong. It's great to be wrong when your team wins, thankfully for this life-long Sox fan I've been very wrong this year.
Why do the playoffs have to be covered by the most knucklehead commentators? I mean, Buck Martinez and Ron Darling? PULLEEEZE. Bring back Al Leiter, dump Martinez and McCarver, put in Uecher, get some entertainment instead of idiocy.
Anyways, this is becoming an interesting October.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
They're winning but I'm concerned
Well, it's late June and my Red Sox are in first place but my pre-2004 worries are coming back. If it weren't for J.D. Drew and a somewhat steady pitching staff I doubt that first place would even be on the radar screen. I watched both games on ESPN this week and it was clear that not having Big Papi even in the lineup, let alone 100%, could have made a huge difference against Herren on Monday. What last night showed me is that Randy Johnson has become a smarter pitcher than he was before. However, his velocity and slider location are more in the average range and that's what hurt him last night. Tim Wakefield is fun to watch. There are, what? maybe three pitchers who currently throw the knuckler? When Wakefield retires I wonder if we'll ever see the knuckle ball again. He made their hitters look silly, almost like a bugs bunny routine trying to swat the "slow-ball".
Back to the point, the Red Sox are in trouble. They have a decent makeshift lineup and their pitching has been mostly reliable (though the bull-pen is sketchy), BUT, without Dice-K, Schilling, Ortiz, and Buckholtz this team is going to struggle. If they can't win on the road consistently they will not make the Wild Card, let alone win the AL East. The most pleasant surprise this season has been watching Jacoby Elsbury - he already owns the rookie record for steals by a Red Sox player and I see him possibly joining the 30/30 club (the last Red Sox player to do that was Tommy Harper I believe, back in the 1970's). He has great instincts on picking up where the pitcher is going from the stretch. The fact that the Red Sox aren't the team I always knew (slow, slower, and slowest but could hit home runs) is in many ways a lot of fun. I don't feel as nostalgic for the days of Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Remy, Burleson, Hobson, Scott, Evans and whatever farm hand they used on the mound. Speed opens up so many possibilities and creates the opportunity to manufacture runs if your big hitters aren't doing it for you. Having Crisp and Lugo is also a plus since both have good speed (though Lugo needs to hit better, my word, his paycheck is not deserved).
With all that in mind I can see the Sox being competitive, but I suspect that if Ortiz doesn't make it back and if Dice-K is really injured it will not be another repeat of an AL title.
Back to the point, the Red Sox are in trouble. They have a decent makeshift lineup and their pitching has been mostly reliable (though the bull-pen is sketchy), BUT, without Dice-K, Schilling, Ortiz, and Buckholtz this team is going to struggle. If they can't win on the road consistently they will not make the Wild Card, let alone win the AL East. The most pleasant surprise this season has been watching Jacoby Elsbury - he already owns the rookie record for steals by a Red Sox player and I see him possibly joining the 30/30 club (the last Red Sox player to do that was Tommy Harper I believe, back in the 1970's). He has great instincts on picking up where the pitcher is going from the stretch. The fact that the Red Sox aren't the team I always knew (slow, slower, and slowest but could hit home runs) is in many ways a lot of fun. I don't feel as nostalgic for the days of Fisk, Lynn, Rice, Remy, Burleson, Hobson, Scott, Evans and whatever farm hand they used on the mound. Speed opens up so many possibilities and creates the opportunity to manufacture runs if your big hitters aren't doing it for you. Having Crisp and Lugo is also a plus since both have good speed (though Lugo needs to hit better, my word, his paycheck is not deserved).
With all that in mind I can see the Sox being competitive, but I suspect that if Ortiz doesn't make it back and if Dice-K is really injured it will not be another repeat of an AL title.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Manny - summer and silly Washington area fans
Well, Manny Ramirez has reached and surpassed the 500 homer threshold. I didn't like him much when he was in Cleveland since he killed the Sox in the playoffs, however, he's become something altogether different from those days. Joe Morgan on ESPN loves Manny - it's fun to listen to Morgan do color/commentary instead of Tim McCarver (cannot stand the man, plus the fact that he's a HUGE anti-Red Sox commentator - he had to eat so much crow when the Sox came back in 2004 over the Yankees). Manny did it in the Red Sox's second home, Camden Yards, with their favorite punching bag providing the fun. I watched all of the games and it is still amusing to me to see the huge amount of Sox fans in the seats in Oriole Park (official name of the baseball field). I went to Memorial Stadium when I first moved to the DC area and I found myself and maybe three others in the whole place who had Sox paraphernalia on. Nowadays the reverse is true, where there are so few O's fans you have to really look hard to find black and orange (horrible colors) apparel on someone not hawking it to someone else.
I get a kick out of listening to Jim Palmer talk about the Red Sox, he's really a big fan of how they do baseball and not a fan of the current Orioles (or for the past six years it seems) crew they've got going. That's my impression from listening to him this past weekend, even when the O's won on Monday night (let's see, lose three straight and then win one, yeah, that'll keep you in last place). Palmer is so nostalgic for the "Oriole Way", too bad that the team hasn't had a winning season since, um, was Clinton president then?
Washington area fans spend so much time on the Redskins here that they miss out on baseball and other diversions. I've never seen such homers in my life. Oh, wait, that's right, I have, but that's for another time. DC United has won four championships in the past 12 years, the Redskins have made the playoffs three times in the same time frame. Do Washington fans even know that? I highly doubt it. When it comes to baseball Washington fans are ambivalent at best (I'd venture slightly retarded at times) which is unfortunate because the Nationals are a decent mediocre team. Kinda like Houston really, nice ballpark but the product between the lines will lose more than win but are gamers mostly. With a huge potential fan base the Nationals are poised to become a 2nd tier team (up from bleacher bench seats) - they'll not get much higher until they start trading for pitching and start building some good support minor league teams. The Washington Post does some fair coverage of the Nats but I get the impression they're waiting for the prom queen to take off her brassiere and prance around center field. The cynicism in regards to the nationals is really annoying. The Post or the Times will do everything possible to have kids over the Redskins and the Nats are acknowledged as a strange relative even though their stadium is better, is better situated, and has better food.
Summer is here again and my oldest just finished his second soccer season. I have high hopes for him and I am trying not to be the pyscho dad (which is doubly hard since I'm now an assistant coach). He's going to soccer camp this summer (I hope he has a blast). My youngest is already out of school and so I've got figure out what he can do, maybe I'll sign him up for tots practice this fall. The hot weather arrived yesterday and the obligatory thunderstorm struck as well (some poor woman got killed by a tree yesterday). DC gets so hot during the summer - the only other place I've been to where it's hotter is the Gulf Coast where the sweat streams out of your body like water fountain. I'm hoping that it will cool off a little bit this summer - another hot summer will kill my $$$ (which I have almost zero anyways). I look forward to a fun summer and maybe I can keep losing weight, but that's for another time.
I get a kick out of listening to Jim Palmer talk about the Red Sox, he's really a big fan of how they do baseball and not a fan of the current Orioles (or for the past six years it seems) crew they've got going. That's my impression from listening to him this past weekend, even when the O's won on Monday night (let's see, lose three straight and then win one, yeah, that'll keep you in last place). Palmer is so nostalgic for the "Oriole Way", too bad that the team hasn't had a winning season since, um, was Clinton president then?
Washington area fans spend so much time on the Redskins here that they miss out on baseball and other diversions. I've never seen such homers in my life. Oh, wait, that's right, I have, but that's for another time. DC United has won four championships in the past 12 years, the Redskins have made the playoffs three times in the same time frame. Do Washington fans even know that? I highly doubt it. When it comes to baseball Washington fans are ambivalent at best (I'd venture slightly retarded at times) which is unfortunate because the Nationals are a decent mediocre team. Kinda like Houston really, nice ballpark but the product between the lines will lose more than win but are gamers mostly. With a huge potential fan base the Nationals are poised to become a 2nd tier team (up from bleacher bench seats) - they'll not get much higher until they start trading for pitching and start building some good support minor league teams. The Washington Post does some fair coverage of the Nats but I get the impression they're waiting for the prom queen to take off her brassiere and prance around center field. The cynicism in regards to the nationals is really annoying. The Post or the Times will do everything possible to have kids over the Redskins and the Nats are acknowledged as a strange relative even though their stadium is better, is better situated, and has better food.
Summer is here again and my oldest just finished his second soccer season. I have high hopes for him and I am trying not to be the pyscho dad (which is doubly hard since I'm now an assistant coach). He's going to soccer camp this summer (I hope he has a blast). My youngest is already out of school and so I've got figure out what he can do, maybe I'll sign him up for tots practice this fall. The hot weather arrived yesterday and the obligatory thunderstorm struck as well (some poor woman got killed by a tree yesterday). DC gets so hot during the summer - the only other place I've been to where it's hotter is the Gulf Coast where the sweat streams out of your body like water fountain. I'm hoping that it will cool off a little bit this summer - another hot summer will kill my $$$ (which I have almost zero anyways). I look forward to a fun summer and maybe I can keep losing weight, but that's for another time.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A weekend of highs and lows
Well, Memorial Day came and went but I got to see some superb lacrosse. The outcome from yesterday's game was, well, extremely disappointing. Syracuse is a great school and has great sports programs. That aside, I can't stand them. Syracuse alums and fans alike are among the most pain the arse people I've ever met outside of Yankees fans. Anyways, Johns Hopkins played so very badly yesterday, I mean, that last goal was because of two stupid plays, of course Syracuse would win, Hopkins couldn't wait to lose! With a goalie who was standing on his head for most of the game and a decent scoring effort what happened to the defense? I mean, hello, GROUNDBALLS?!?!?! Paul Rabil had an excellent game and showed just how awesome he is as an outside shooter. I'll miss lefty Huntley with that cannon he's got. Hopefully, the MLL won't muck it up when drafting the folks who played yesterday.
I liked the coverage and the fact that so many folks showed up to Foxyboro for a lacrosse game, and not just one, but five over three days. Sunday's games showed just how dominant one or two schools are in DII and DIII. Salisbury has only lost once in the past four years, and that was to the team they beat on Sunday. The Gulls are great, I just wish that ESPN would do a better job in covering the lower divisions (which they don't AT ALL). Exposure creates more exposure (look what it's done for lacrosse since they've been covering it on ESPN) and if ESPNU could expand its reach so that the other "college" sports cable network can focus on what it really wants to do, replay the NCAA men's basketball tournament from the past 20 years 24/7. Also, most of the CBS College Sports anchor folks are all from Syracuse (bleech!) and can't wait to act like Yankees fans which makes this Boston/Hopkins fan want to, well use your imagination.
On Saturday, that double overtime was awesome. The UVA goalie played his heart out but that kid Brooks has got a canon, man, he's pretty dern good. I was impressed on Saturday and on Monday with Syracuse's effort in regards to team defense. Their goalie isn't very good, he really isn't, but the defense in front of him plays great. Danny Glading had two of the most amazing goals of the tournament (Huntley's behind the back on Saturday was pretty cool too), I hope he gets some love for next year.
The flashback part of the halftime show was AWESOME! Gary Gait's description of Pietramala was sooo righteous. He said he was the hardest and toughest player he'd ever played against, ever. Petro is a god of lacrosse, as a player, he was awesome, as a coach, he is a dedicated task master, and kids love to play for him even though he's a hard-ass. Look at the players he's gotten, Rabil, Huntley, all the Peyser brothers, Harrison, Schwartzman, the list goes on and on. I still watch that 1989 championship game from time to time and I'm still amazed at how great Syracuse was that year and just how gritty Hopkins was. Petro single-handedly gave his team a chance to win in every instance. Kessnich, who does color for ESPN, was his teammate and goalie for that 1989 team, and mentioned last year about how they interacted during the game. He said that Petro was the most intense player he's ever played with or saw play, ever. As in 1989, 2008 ended the same, Syracuse having the weapons and Hopkins losing.
Syracuse is a different team from just two years ago when they made it to the final four. They place a lot more emphasis on fundamentals (though they got a lot of stupid penalities that almost cost them the game on Saturday). I can't stand them but they are a very good team with quite an upside if their goalie gets any better (he's not very good) and they can find a face-off man like Brennan. I just hope that doesn't happen.
Lastly, the use of the term "extra-man offense" or "EMO" is utter nonsense. The term is misleading for it overtly implies that the team with the ball has an extra man. Guess what? THEY DON'T! They have the same number as they did before the other team sent a player to the penalty box. I don't know why they keep insisting on using that phrase in describing a man-up/man-down situation. It's MAN-UP or MAN-DOWN. That's it, stop with the EMO, it's not even close to being correct.
I liked the coverage and the fact that so many folks showed up to Foxyboro for a lacrosse game, and not just one, but five over three days. Sunday's games showed just how dominant one or two schools are in DII and DIII. Salisbury has only lost once in the past four years, and that was to the team they beat on Sunday. The Gulls are great, I just wish that ESPN would do a better job in covering the lower divisions (which they don't AT ALL). Exposure creates more exposure (look what it's done for lacrosse since they've been covering it on ESPN) and if ESPNU could expand its reach so that the other "college" sports cable network can focus on what it really wants to do, replay the NCAA men's basketball tournament from the past 20 years 24/7. Also, most of the CBS College Sports anchor folks are all from Syracuse (bleech!) and can't wait to act like Yankees fans which makes this Boston/Hopkins fan want to, well use your imagination.
On Saturday, that double overtime was awesome. The UVA goalie played his heart out but that kid Brooks has got a canon, man, he's pretty dern good. I was impressed on Saturday and on Monday with Syracuse's effort in regards to team defense. Their goalie isn't very good, he really isn't, but the defense in front of him plays great. Danny Glading had two of the most amazing goals of the tournament (Huntley's behind the back on Saturday was pretty cool too), I hope he gets some love for next year.
The flashback part of the halftime show was AWESOME! Gary Gait's description of Pietramala was sooo righteous. He said he was the hardest and toughest player he'd ever played against, ever. Petro is a god of lacrosse, as a player, he was awesome, as a coach, he is a dedicated task master, and kids love to play for him even though he's a hard-ass. Look at the players he's gotten, Rabil, Huntley, all the Peyser brothers, Harrison, Schwartzman, the list goes on and on. I still watch that 1989 championship game from time to time and I'm still amazed at how great Syracuse was that year and just how gritty Hopkins was. Petro single-handedly gave his team a chance to win in every instance. Kessnich, who does color for ESPN, was his teammate and goalie for that 1989 team, and mentioned last year about how they interacted during the game. He said that Petro was the most intense player he's ever played with or saw play, ever. As in 1989, 2008 ended the same, Syracuse having the weapons and Hopkins losing.
Syracuse is a different team from just two years ago when they made it to the final four. They place a lot more emphasis on fundamentals (though they got a lot of stupid penalities that almost cost them the game on Saturday). I can't stand them but they are a very good team with quite an upside if their goalie gets any better (he's not very good) and they can find a face-off man like Brennan. I just hope that doesn't happen.
Lastly, the use of the term "extra-man offense" or "EMO" is utter nonsense. The term is misleading for it overtly implies that the team with the ball has an extra man. Guess what? THEY DON'T! They have the same number as they did before the other team sent a player to the penalty box. I don't know why they keep insisting on using that phrase in describing a man-up/man-down situation. It's MAN-UP or MAN-DOWN. That's it, stop with the EMO, it's not even close to being correct.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Lacrosse, Primaries, anything else?
Well, it's the Monday after the Face-off classic that was up in B-more. The two teams that I wanted to win did so (I always love it when Syracuse loses, can't stand that team). UVA beat the Orange in overtime, 14-13 (Go Wahooos!) and Hopkins crushed Princeton 14-9 (Princeton's coach, Bill Tierney is a number one prick, met him a few years ago at Maryland for the final four and he was such an a-hole to me because I asked him a question about weak-side D, shyte). I got to see Cornell pull off a huge overtime win against Navy. They were down by 3 with less than 2 to play and they cranked out four straight face-offs and beat the Academy, Streibel accounting for half of the effort there in the last few mins. Sorry, for those of you who aren't into lacrosse or have just a smattering of knowledge about it I apologize. I love the sport and tend to forget that others just don't know the sport. Anyways, things are looking good for a great season (Hopkins just might win it all again, Petro has that team firing on all cylinders) and I hope that teams like Albany, Loyola, or Bucknell can break through and have a great season and make the tournament. Each year there's a surprise team in the Final Four it seems, maybe one can make that leap to winning it all, just maybe.
Has anyone else been a little tired of the Presidential coverage overload? I mean, wow, every burp or fart is covered and the press are blanketing Obama or Clinton like a wet t-shirt. Can't say I'll vote for Obama, but who knows? No way in HELL do I vote for CANKLES, no way.
College Basketball's tournament begins this month and to be perfectly honest, I'm really uninterested. That's a first, I'm just tired of watching b-ball. I am, however, very excited about catching some college hockey, that's fer sure. I miss college hockey down here in DC, there's nothing even remotely close to go and see a game. Maybe Penn State which is around 5 hours from where I live (whooopeee!!!).
Well, the ides of March are in 12 days, make sure you're extra careful and have a good one until next time.
Has anyone else been a little tired of the Presidential coverage overload? I mean, wow, every burp or fart is covered and the press are blanketing Obama or Clinton like a wet t-shirt. Can't say I'll vote for Obama, but who knows? No way in HELL do I vote for CANKLES, no way.
College Basketball's tournament begins this month and to be perfectly honest, I'm really uninterested. That's a first, I'm just tired of watching b-ball. I am, however, very excited about catching some college hockey, that's fer sure. I miss college hockey down here in DC, there's nothing even remotely close to go and see a game. Maybe Penn State which is around 5 hours from where I live (whooopeee!!!).
Well, the ides of March are in 12 days, make sure you're extra careful and have a good one until next time.
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