I feel really out of shape now… This dude rowed ACROSS THE FRICKIN’ OCEAN. Geez.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Call MJ, Larry, and McDonald's
I don’t care how long it took them to get these shots. They’re still pretty good.
Monday, March 24, 2008
'Nuff Said
This is a block?
From the NCAA 2nd-Round game between UCLA and Texas A&M, played at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Totally Worth the Fifteen (Not 60) Minutes
Check out this piece from 60 Minutes, a feature on 24-year-old Venezuelan conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. It’s not so much his conducting, but his background in the Venezuelan music system that’s fascinating. How about a country-wide program that takes kids from the poorest neighborhoods and gives them an opportunity to learn music? Something to learn from here, I suppose.
Watch it NOW! (Seriously, watch it).
Da… da… DA DA DA… DADA-DADA-DADA-DADA-da, da, da…
Biggest debut of the spring! (Um… except for my second child, of course).
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Geez… More DVD Watching to Come
I’ve always been interested in Battlestar Galactica, but have never had the time to watch it after the first TV movie aired five years ago. I’m definitely going to have to catch up and watch all of this series after seeing this:
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
Geez... It Doesn't Get Any Worse
Talk about the worst recruiting story in history. The kid from Nevada who was supposedly duped by a “recruiter,” who, it turns out, made up his whole recruitment by the likes of Cal, Oregon, and Washington must just be hating himself now. The police are finishing up their investigation and will turn in their findings to the D.A. who can decide whether or not to charge him with filing a false police report. You know they won’t press charges, because what could be worse than people finding out the truth after you hauled out the media, your family, and your entire school to a press conference in your gym where you committed to a school that never even considered recruiting you?
Read more about it here.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Keep It Quiet
***Updated Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 9:37 p.m.***
Is it just me, or should the NCAA’s spring signing day (the day that high school athletes are permitted to sign a National Letter of Intent binding them to attend a university) should NOT be a nationally televised event? People forget that these are seventeen, eighteen, nineteen-year-olds making huge decisions, but decisions that should not be scrutinized by the media or fans of the colleges to which the student-athletes are committing. It’s too much hype, not to mention that it probably leads to a number of athletes with over-inflated egos.
It also leads to things like this report that a young man from Nevada verbally committed to Cal in front of his school, family, and television and news media – but never actually had an offer from any institution on his table. The student-athlete had been contacted by a man claiming to be a recruiter, who also apparently set up false phone calls with people claiming to be the head coaches of a number of top-tier universities. Turns out, there were no offers on the table, as neither Cal, nor Oregon (the school he supposedly picked Cal over) recruited him.
I’m wondering how this kid was duped for so long, and why he never took a visit to any of these schools – official or otherwise – to see them for himself. I know it’s a complicated process for athletes and parents, but you don’t get recruited for just a month and suddenly end up with a scholarship. You really don’t get a scholarship without meeting somebody from the staff in person on campus. It’s sad that people would take advantage of kids this way.
I know people want to know where the next great kid is going to school, but ESPN doesn’t have to devote an entire day, taking up all of one of its networks (ESPNU) to this. It’s stupid.
***UPDATE***
How about the dumb kid made the story about his recruitment-gone-bad up? Read more about it here. Sad.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Giddy Excitement
A new photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Read more about it on MTV’s Movie Blog. Recognize those crates? Maybe this picture will jog your memory:
If that still doesn't work, it's the last shot from Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Makes me all giggly inside.
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