Another question


I need to pose another question, this is for the sports nuts like myself. In skipping my company party this Saturday, I decided to attend a women's basketball game with the love of my life and her eigth grade b-ball team. TU (Tulsa University) was playing one of my former classmates and Megs' former teammates team Arkansas. It was one of the best games that I have ever attended (apart from the refs keeping TU in the game. At one point in the game with the aid of the stupid refs TU took the lead, a lady on Arkansas' team proceeded to take over the game, hitting multiple 3's and taking the ball to the rack on several occasions (you can read the story here). As an observer this took me by surprise for during the time when Arkansas took their eleven point lead she was very passive deferring to her teammates, but when TU got too close for comfort she took over. I had the opportunity to meet her after the game because of my connection with the assistant coach. While I was talking with the assistant coach I found out the lady is only a freshman!

Anyways, I say all that to say this. I'm facing a dilemna, as a Cats fan, I feel restrained from rooting for any other team besides the Cats and Michigan. I do admit to owning several other schools apparel, is this wrong as well?

I guess my main question is, when is it alright to stop rooting for one team and start rooting for a team? If you fell in love with one particular style of play and a team that you root for has stopped playing that way and they play a style that literally puts you to sleep, is it alright to discontinue rooting for them? I say this just as a question for I never intend to stop rooting for either Michigan or the Cats, but it brings about good conversation I'd say.

With the whole Arkansas thing, I think that it's alright for me to pull for the women's team and the football team, because they both have roots in my alma mater. If it wasn't for Murray State than they wouldn't be where they are today, so as a way of being loyal to Murray State, I root for the Arkansas Women's Basketball and Football teams as well as Alabama's Men's Basketball team for the same reason, is this wrong? Provided I only do this when they aren't playing UK or Michigan. But what about when the UK women's basketball team is playing Arkansas, I had classes with the assistant coach at Arkansas, she was one of my wife's favorite teammates, I love the way the freshman played, I don't even know anything about UK's team, so who should I pull for in that match up? Oh the dilemna's of being a fanatic!

As you can see, I need some counsel in sports etiquette, so please, even if you are a tekkie chime in. Your opinion matters here!

As always, thanks for visiting and come back soon.

P.S. Thanks for the help with the tekkie post Jed. B-Walk if you stop by congrats on beating OK State yesterday. This brings up another question too, Bruce Pearl was the coach of my childhood fantasy team, when I was a kid I rooted for UK, Michigan, USI, and anyone that played either Duke or IU. I loved the way USI played, fast paced, shooting three's on the break, pressing constantly, it was beautiful! Now Bruce Pearl, the coach I loved as a little rugrat is coaching at a despised enemy, of UK who doesn't play a style of play that I agree with, how should a man feel about this situation? Who should the loyalty be to? The team or the coach or the style of play?

Oh yeah, while I'm at it, check out the Lady Racer's tearing up opponents and with a winning record in the conference, I can't remember the last time that happened!

Stay out of trouble.

A Question for all my Tekkies


I recently downloaded some music from Red Mountain Church's website and one problem that I faced is it will only let me download it in Windows Media Player. The other problem that I have had is that once I downloaded all of the songs I placed them in a playlist and attempted to burn them onto a cd. When I attempted to do that it gave an error saying "cannot synchronize" or "cannot convert" something basically telling me that I can't burn them on to a cd which makes them completely pointless because if I can't even get them either on a cd or into my iTunes than I will never listen to them for I can't carry around this big ol' computer everywhere I go just to listen to some songs! Thus, I need your help, how in the world do I get around this mess? This inquiring mind wants to know! Please help this brother out!

If you don't consider yourself to be a tekkie but know the answer to my dillemna please give me your advice for you are more than welcome here!

On a side note, there have been many questions that I've posed that have went unanswered, my Ted Haggard vs. Jimmy Swaggart question is one example, please don't let this be one be like that!

Addendum: For all of you that were whiggin' out like me worrying about Jed and Sunny's safety: as of today (12/18/06) Jed is at home in Chicago, his trip went well and he arrived home safely. I had the privelege of speaking with him yesterday. Besides getting to spend time with the love of my life, hearing that Jed is alright and speaking with him was the highlight of my day.

As always, thanks for stopping by and come back soon!

Giving unto others

As I was listening to the Clark Howard radio program roughly two weeks ago, I was confronted with memories of my childhood. Clark, who is all about keeping us out of debt and avoiding being ripped off, was talking about the Salvation Army and how you could donate through his website and the money that you donate would stay in your community to help out hungry kids and buy Christmas gifts for many children in your area. This brought back the memories of one Christmas in particular where my parents definitely could not afford anything for me and my sister for Christmas but somehow at the last hour my dad came home with a 30 gallon bag full of toys for me and my sister. One toy in particular was the pogo-ball. The only reason why I remember this gift is because my sister brought it to my attention when I sought to verify this memory with her, truthfully until she brought up the pogo ball I couldn't remember a single toy that we got that Christmas, the only thing that I could remember is seeing that big ol' garbage bag being filled with toys for my sister and I and being overjoyed that instead of not getting even a stick of bubble gum for Christmas, we had the best Christmas that we ever had, probably even to this day! I say all of this not that you'll have pity on my childhood, I wouldn't trade it for anything, but that we can remember that we do not have anything that we haven't recieved, everything that I think I own is a gift from God, without His hand throughout our lives we would own nothing and would completely self-destruct. That Christmas when I was less than eight years old is what gives me a better perspective on how I can bring joy to others and possibly later on in life, whether the little rugrats like myself can look back and praise God for caring for them even when I never showed any inclination of caring about Him.

On another note, if anyone has heard from Jed about if he got to China alright please let me know, I'm a bit concerned about him traveling half-way around the world. If you don't receive a gift from me this Christmas it's only because my plans of taking over the world have been thwarted thus far, but when I do I'll send you a gift. Megs and I miss you all. Spread the joy and love of Christ this Christmas in any and every way. Thanks for stopping by and come back to visit soon! (I should be posting fairly regularly in the coming days for I got lots to say!)

BCS Outrage Cont'd

How in the world can a team that loses decisively to two teams that were both unranked at the time and their last game of the year lose to one of those teams end up still finishing fifth in the BCS rankings? This is ridiculous! All of the two loss teams in the nation that are in any of the power conferences should be ranked above USC! This is absolute madness! Stop the press! Why is no one talking about this? True, it’s a big story that Florida moved ahead of Michigan in the rankings but the more absurd question is how is USC losing to two unranked teams ahead of any two loss teams let alone a one-loss team and an undefeated team. Needless to say, I AM OUTRAGED!

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Plus, as a reward to USC for losing to two unranked teams, they get to play in a BCS bowl game that is only about a 30 minute drive away from there campus, IT”S A HOME GAME! THEY GET A STINKIN’ HOME GAME FOR GETTING THERE BUTT”S BEAT BY TWO UN-RANKED TEAMS!!!!!!

BCS Rants


I know I stated that I would post last night but I had to work an hour over (11 hours total) deal with people who attend a "Christian" school who stiffed me even though I had to drive on very very icy roads, plus I had a splitting headache all throughout the day which made me almost vomit twice, luckily for my vehicle's sake I didn't! I say all this not as an excuse because I have none, I said I would and I didn't it's that simple. Please accept my apology. Oh yeah, my motivation to post was also zapped by someone telling me that UCLA beat USC, I was planning on watching that sometime!

Anyways, why the BCS is bogus. When UofL got beat by Rutgers they immediately dropped to being behind both Rutgers and WVa in the BCS even though UofL already beat WVa pretty convincingly and WVa still had to play Rutgers a little bit down the road. According to sound logic, two teams both with one loss, if one team has beat the other than that team should be ahead of the other in the rankings. BCS even proved this logic when Arkansas (who was without a good starting quarterback) got it handed to them by USC (the first game of the year), when USC lost to a team that never even dreamed of dreaming of being ranked USC was still ahead of Arkansas in the rankings. Now common sense tells us all that there has to be something flawed in the system when UofL had beaten better teams than both WVa and Rutgers did and fell behind both of them when they lost one game, and USC gets beat by Springer's flag football team and they stay ranked higher than the majority of one loss teams, it's all ridiculous.

In my opinion, Notre Dame is highly over-rated, getting crushed by Michigan at home proves my point. Let alone getting drilled by a team that got beat by Springer's flag football team. USC is extremely over-rated and probably shouldn't even be in the playoffs if there were such a thing in college football. Florida or Michigan should be in the National Championship hunt, (remember I haven't seen the scores to know if they beat Arkansas in the SEC Championship). All the talk about USC this week is just propaganda to publicize the games on their family of networks. I gaurantee if UFl vs. UAk would have been on ESPN or ABC this week and not CBS than they would have been ranked #2, Michigan #3, and USC #4, this fact sickens me to no end.

This proves the point, when Florida lost to Auburn at Auburn they should have dropped in the rankings but not that much because Auburn was ranked higher than Florida and it was a road loss for Florida, but when USC got beat by Springer's Flag Football team Florida didn't move ahead of USC in the rankings, this is ridiculously absurd. Florida went with one loss throughout the entire SEC season (and possibly the Championship game). Keep this in mind too, the SEC is by far the toughest conference this year, proof, everyone is losing to everyone, even MSU is pulling out upsets, this year, plus, they have a Championship Game, something that the Big 10 and PAC 10 should be forced to have!

Concluding remarks, Florida or Michigan deserve to be in the National Title game (Michigan lost by 3 on the road off of a dumb penalty by the defense which led to 7 points, and a penalty not called by the refs when OSU's receiver clearly extends his hands and shoves/pics off the Michigan defender to free up the other OSU receiver to catch a pass in the endzone, in live action we couldn't even see if there was a defender remotely in the area, but on the replay via DVR we could clearly see that the Michigan defender was picked off which is illegal at any level of football, biddy leagues, flag football, high school, the pro's, and of course college football, but was it called then? NO! which gave OSU 7 more points, thus in two scenarios Michigan should have won the game! Thus deserving a rematch. Florida, they deserve it for only having one loss in the best conference in the nation. Also, we seriously need to do something about the referees, if the refs wouldn't have blown it in the Michigan vs. OSU game we would automatically be watching the Mighty Wolverines in the Championship game, and if, I hate to make this point, the refs would have got it right in the OU vs. Oregon game, the PAC 10 wouldn't have had such high conference ratings and we may be talking about Oklahoma in the National Title game, which makes me sick even thinking about it, fair is fair, right is right, and wrong is wrong, it's clear that their is something wrong with the BCS, too much propaganda by ESPN's family of networks that get teams that clearly have no case for the National Title into the hunt just so their ratings can go through the roof. Thus we should look to the pro level as Jed does and know that no matter what it is all settled on the field and leaves nothing to the commentators except to react to what is done on the field and let's everyone know that only the officials (as we saw in the Super Bowl with Seattle getting robbed on multiple occasions by the refs) and the players can determine who the Champion is!

Thanks for visiting, come back by soon, please accept my apologies, and please pass this article on Christians and tipping around to all your loved (and hated) ones!

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Have a good rest of the day!

BCS post still to come



Although the games that matter will be played today, I am delivering pizzas in the snow and thus will be unable to watch the games. I do however plan on DVR'ing them, but I will not watch or knowingly find out the outcome of any of them until I post on this matter, hopefully tonight when I arrive home safely from work. Please bear with me for this post will come. Be safe and have a good rest of the day, thanks for visiting!