Baby Steps

There was a time when playing in a bowl game lent prestige to a football program: Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl. The smaller bowls also seemed prestigious: Peach Bowl, Gator Bowl, Sun Bowl. But now, there are so many bowl games that virtually every team that has won at least six games [...]

There is a God!

There is a God!

One Win Away…

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ell, we climbed the mountain, but we couldn’t get over the top. Congratulations to the Flordia Gators. They were definitely the better team tonight as they just whooped our butts royally. I don’t even remember the score. Still it was a good run for our team. They played injured throughout most of the season, few [...]

NCAA Finals, Baby

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e have climbed the mountain. All season, we were injured. We were under-rated. No one gave us a shot of being REALLY good. But, last week, the Bruins held 80-points-a-game Memphis to 45 points. Yesterday, Saturday night, they held the LSU Tiger and Glenn “Big Baby” Davis–another 80-points-a-game team–to 45 points. What is with this [...]

It’s Good to be a Bruin

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know a lot of you hate sports entries, but I can’t help myself. I mean, it’s great to be a Bruin right now. Saturday’s game was ugly, I mean incredibly ugly. But we beat Memphis 50-45. Woo hoo! We are regional champs and are now headed to the Final Four in Indianapolis. Strangely, we are [...]

Elite Eight

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am, first and foremost, a football fan… BUT HOW ‘BOUT DEM BRUINS! They play Gonzaga, one of the best teams in the nation, and they are down by as many as 17 points in the first half. At half, it was 42-29. In the second half, every time UCLA seemed to creep closer, Adam Morrison–the [...]

Spring Break

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ow… It's been a week since I've been here. I have been preoccupied with a number of different things and have neglected to update this record of my life… such as it is. In any event, I have reached a point in my life where there are simply not enough hours in a day to [...]