look what you've done

I just saw the first BCS standings for the season, and i'll be honest i am not a happy camper. How in the name of all that is holy did Cal come in ahead of Tennessee? The last time i checked, UT took Cal to the woodshed!! This is just one of the reasons why i feel there needs to be a playoff system for college football. The BCS is flawed, it relies too much on computer and not enough of what the teams actually do on the field. The other reasons would take a lot of time to explain, and i'm just too tired to go into it right now plus i have a mid-term tomorrow morning and i need to study for that bad boy.

o yeah and the Tigers are headed to the World Series: Tigers in 6

fell in love with the game

As i spend another day watching college football i have decided that this time of year could very possibly be the best time of year for sports, in no particular order you have college football, baseball playoffs and professional football. Speaking of baseball playoffs my faith has been restored somewhat as i watched the Detroit Tigers beat the yankees, the Tigers came back out and celebrated with the fans. That is something that you don't see hardly anymore in the major league. I'm a devout braves fan, but i don't think that they would celebrate the way the Tigers did. I would love if the Braves did that but i know they won't because they are comfortable where they are, this is the first time in 14 years that the braves haven't been in the postseason.

My friend Carsten (check out his blog http://www.christmasgirlsandsports.blogspot.com) and i were discussing how teams like the Yankees celebrate only when they win the World Series, they don't get that fired up when they win the regular season division, the divisional series or any other series. Money can buy you all the talented players you could need, but it won't buy you a team. There is a chemistry that a team like the Tigers have that the Yankees only wish they had. As a result of the Detroit team celebrating with their fans tonight, from this point on in the post-season for baseball i will be pullin for the Detroit Tigers

but tonight we dance

Well last night was heartbreaking, thats the best way i can explain my feelings after that game. UT did not play a bad game, UT played an exceptional game; a game, that i believe, would have beaten any other team on our schedule this season. They faced the toughest front seven in the SEC, and scored 20 points. I won't go into the interception return for a TD that was called back cause that will only cause me to scream and shout obscenities. On the whole it was an amazing experience and i thank Michael for allowing me to go with him. Here is a picture of where our seats were for the game

On another note i have a bone to pick with ESPN, and one to pick with ABC (which i'll address tomorrow).

ESPN: Last night after the game we (Michael and I) were watching the college gameday wrap up on ESPN, and they cut to a story about a young man from Iowa, the young man's name was Mike Klinkenborg. This young man suffered a loss more significant than any football game, and that was the loss of his father. The commentators were going on and on about it on ESPN during the game, and after the game the sideline reporter proceeds to ask a visibly shaken Klinkenborg how he's feeling after the game. The young man was crying, and they ask him how he's doing. Honestly, did this guy need to ask? I thought this was pretty classless on the part of ESPN. We know how the young man was doing. We know that he is upset, and the one thing he didn't need was a nosy sideline reporter asking him how he was doing. I'm sure he wanted nothing more than to find his family and be with them. Instead we see a greasy sideline reporter with slick hair and a microphone and a camera in his face. ESPN did well to address this story during the game, but they decided to take it too far, and for that I am disappointed. Hopefully ESPN can redeem themselves in the future.

from here you can almost see the sea

This weekend i am embarking on an adventure the likes of which i have never been on. I can see you are giddy with anticipation, well saturday mornin i'm packin up the car and i'm heading towards Knoxville to see my first ever Volunteer rivalry game. Thats right in all my years of bein a Tennessee fan i've never been to Knoxville to see my beloved Vols take on an SEC rival, but that all ends saturday night at 8 pm EST when i see the Vols and the gators take the field.

You can be sure that the digital camera will be there and numerous pics will be taken. In the mean time i have to bide my time with school and work. Both of which have taken off in a new area this semester. I am taking 9 hours of class on top of 35-40 hours of work a week. Its not all bad though, i have about 2 hours in the middle of the day when the kiddies are asleep to read, and i do get a lot of that type of stuff done.

Enough of the writing and blogging if you will i must return to the unending reading that confronts me...

chasing cars

i've decided that i need a new direction to run with this blog, part of me wants to do somethin funny and on occasion something serious, with pictures and things that i take...

if anybody has any ideas about what to do with this, please tell me, i am open to any and all ideas.

just another star

there is some exciting events that have taken place the past 3 days, more to come in the very near future

summer shudder

movin into a new apartment today and the following 2-3 days. and i turned a quarter of a century old today.... kind of humbling to think that i have been blessed with good health and a good life to live to be 25 years old. i praise God for his mercy on me and saving me from certain death.

i'm tired and sweaty and ready to be fully moved in. i'm gonna go lay down.