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Good day…

I felt I would upload some photos of what I’ve been into this summer. Okay, honestly they are all mostly from soccer games that I’ve been to. I haven’t taken a camera to work or anywhere else but I sort of plan to before long. So enjoy.


my room at the Fitzgerald casa.


my seat at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, TX…home of FC Dallas!!


Carlos Ruiz from a distance…he is currently the leading scorer for FC Dallas this year with (I believe) 8 goals and 3 assists. Not to shabby for a fish.


FC Dallas warming up before their match with New York Red Bulls. Yeah I was too lazy to take photos during the game so warm ups is all I got.

I will return later on hopefully with more enlighting photos of my summer.

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Happy 4th

I know its tomorrow but I figured I would go ahead and throw it out there and wish everyone a Happy 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks and all the fun that comes with celebrating America’s birthday!

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A month down…

So I have been in Dallas for a little over a month now and I must say I still am enjoying it as much as the day I got here. It doesn’t hurt that the weather here makes you have a better mood even though it is really hot out. I like it here and I cannot believe how fast the time is getting away from me here already.

I figured I would jot down a few of the things that I probably haven’t mentioned on here that I have been up to since the last post on here which was even too long ago that I cannot recall. Anyways, even though I intern at ABC radio four days a week and I am usually pretty wiped out during the week, I still manage to get to do somethings on the weekends and even during the weekend on Wednesdays (my off day) or in the evenings during the week.

Since I got here I have been to two FC Dallas soccer games (the won one and lost one in those two games), one Texas Ranger’s game against Oakland (which the Rangers won 4-3), one rodeo…which I must say was pretty cool, and a few movies.

Of course all month long I have been glued as much as I can to the TV for the FIFA World Cup. I have to have my soccer when it is on!

Hard to believe I am pretty much half way through my summer already down here! That is the only thing about summer that I have never enjoyed or understood, how fast it always goes!

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Random Thoughs

I’ve noticed some things since I have been down here in Texas. In a way these things are probably a little racial or wrong in some ways but its what I have seen.

For one, the further south from WV you go the less of an opinion people have of West Virginians. Not so out here in Texas. It seems like WV didn’t piss off any Texans, so they hardly seem to care that the state is full of hicks or anything like that. I would say that most Texans would get along great with most West Virginians.

Secondly, I’ve noticed in Mexicans or Latinos, that they and their kids are always wanting to run from things or run away to something else. Its weird but in line at 6 Flags today I noticed these little Mexican kids. They kept running away from one another and their parents seemed to just cheer them on and tell them that they were free from one another or something weird like that. Funny, yet really true that they do like to run away to other things.

Lastly, and this isn’t something I have noticed its just what is going on in my internship. This week I will start working with a morning on-air guy. He seems cool and could be the right person to get to work with anyways. Better than re-learning my ABC’s for other people in the sales offices. Yeah, I’ve been doing a lot of filing for people so far! Not bad, but it can get old and it will get old before August I am sure. At least I will have some fun things like the early mornings coming up to break them apart.

Oh, and the World Cup starts at the end of this week! I am pumped! 64 games! Yes!

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Week One in the books…

Well, I meant to take care of this post a couple days ago but sometimes I get caught up in things or the internet doesn’t work for me when I want to do something. But nonetheless, here I am with a little recap of my first week at ABC Radio.

First couple days were boring to say the least. I basically just organzied a truck load of papers for differnet people in the sales department of ESPN Radio here in Dallas. Not a totally bad thing, I did get to see how they do their orders and sales contracts which isn’t totally a waste to know about. I had to basically recall my ABCs for the first two days. At least I will say the time went by pretty well while I was doing that stuff.

The next two days were better to finish the week. Thursday I was able to sit in during a radio show at ESPN Radio. It is their show that they place between Mike & Mike in the Mornings and the Dan Patrick Show. Here the show is known as the Dennis and Engel Show. Its pretty interesting. I sat in on their show for about the entire time. See how they handle callers and all sorts of things.

Next, I went with an on-air talent and he showed me how they write up their SportCenter Updates. Its pretty cool, it had me do one and put the music to it to see how it would sound. I will probably be working with this guy more as the summer continues in the mornings. Should be a good thing.

And on Friday, I went on location with the Dennis and Engel show to see how they do a live remote broadcast. Nothing I had never seen really, but it was better than sitting in an office all day on a Friday.

As you can see I have today off since it is Memorial Day. Can’t complain a bit about that.

I will try to update this as much as I can with what I do this summer. It shouldn’t be too hard since I have to do it anyways to get credit for this internship!

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Things are big in Texas

As you can guess it I am indeed in Texas now. I arrived this past Saturday evening. Honestly the drive down here wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it could have been. The weather certainly helped that out but even if it had rained any it would have been alright I believe. For some reason two days of driving midway across the country wasn’t bad. I was a bit shocked. I will say it was nice having no set time to get down here. Driving at my own pace and all was the way to be.

For all of you that thought it was a horribly long drive. Well the long part is correct. It is a long drive but there really isn’t anything bad about it that I can say. I get to do it again in a couple months. I still feel that stuff like that just doesn’t bother me and it may never will. I have my own ways of doing things alone like that I guess. It just doesn’t get to me like it does some people I guess. Plus having a little alone time never hurts I’ve found.

I interview with my internship Wednesday and should be starting up for a summer of work next week. I will keep everyone updated as good as I can.

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Beckley-Town

As the title suggests, I am indeed home in Beckley, West Virginia. Sadly enough this is the first time since December that I have been here in the City of Champions. And I will be leaving in less than week to get down to Dallas.

So far I am starting top plan out my route to Dallas. It looks like for one night I will stay with my good friend Brett at his college in Williamsburg, Kentucky. It is about 40 minutes out of Knoxville, TN. It should be a two day treck but it could extend to a three day one just for the heck of it. I haven’t decided everything just yet and all. I know it is doable in two days depending on which way I go.

Also, I guess it is time to tell everyone that I have a new car to drive to Dallas. I now drive a 2006 Honda Civic LX. It is a big upgrade from what I used to drive. I must say I enjoy driving this new car a lot.

Well, that is all for now. I should have my semester grades this week sometime and then I may post them. It should be another 3.0 semester I think. Or at least that is what I am hoping for here. We will see.

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Fall Soccer

Most of you who read this know I called soccer games this past fall for both the men and women’s teams here at WVU. Today, my broadcast partner and myself met with the people at MSN (the media folk who control most of the sports at school) to see if we could come back in the fall. Of course we are signed up again for them. They loved our work last year even though our main problems were techincal. Thankfully those tech issues seem to be handled for this coming season. That is a great thing really.

How many games will I be doing this fall is a question. Last year I didn’t work nearly as many as I wanted to due to school and other issues. Not to mention both the men and women were home for only 14 games. This year they are home for a combined 21 (it helps that the women’s coach is about to have a baby, so they will be home a lot). Yes, 21 homes games, plus the possible Big East tournament games and NCAA games. Which will be great!

Of course I will let you all know details on how to listen to those games when they come up.

It was nice to square away that issue before I leave for the summer and I believe the head of MSN was quite impressed about where I am working this summer. Now to finish an exam tomorrow and pack up. I should…should be in Beckley on Thursday sometime. We will see.

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United 93

Last night I went out with a group of friends to see a movie and it ended up being United 93, the film about the plane that crashed into a field in PA on 9/11. I must say the timing of this film is interesting. Five years since the events happened may be too soon but I will say this film is worth seeing. It was tastefully done and there was nothing wrong about how it was shown on the big screen.

It was not Hollywood-ized, and it didn’t have any cheesy lines in it. It was intense and emotional, but definitely worth seeing in my opinion.

I just thought I would share that with you all. Some may find it a little political bashing but honestly I could not find any bad knocks on the government in this movie. Thankfully that side was left out. It was pretty much done by the books and how it happened on that day.

Give it an honest shot when you see it. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see it but I am glad I did.

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Almost there…

Yes, I know I haven’t posted on this page in a little while. Not that I have been lazy or busy…or both, I just haven’t honestly taken time to get on here and post anything meaningful. That is until tonight…

Why tonight? I am bored. I love to be honest as possible and that is why I am posting, I am bored as can be right now. I basically have no school work to do other than study for a test that is a week away. So now I am drinking a Frappucino from Starbucks (the bottle version, not the plastic cup full of goodness) and listening to random music.

Its nice to know that I really have nothing to do today and tonight though. Honestly since I pushed print on my sport psych manual today at work, I have felt great. It was a nice relief knowing that I am mostly done with this semester. And unlike most semesters at the end, I honestly cannot tell you what my fall schedule is like coming up next semester. Usually I can spit out everything about the next semester before it comes even down to the details like teacher and classroom location. But not this time. I guess its either I don’t care or just haven’t taken the chance to really give a crap. And too, I didn’t get every class I wanted this time around so maybe I was a little bummed about that. Who knows.

I do know that I am about a week away from being back in Beckley for the first time in uh…carry the one…four months? Yes. Four months. I couldn’t remember if it was three or four, and yes I was counting out loud. Its honestly tough to go home these days during the semester, I really wanted to a couple weekends ago but that didn’t happen thanks to some work that I had to do for my broadcasting class. I have a feeling this fall will be much of the same. Not to mention I will be doing soccer games again so I will be busy on most weekends. Not to mention again, that I will be covering the football team here more this fall for the radio station. So yeah, busy little fall coming up here. But I am looking foward to it.

I will get a nice week or so in Beckley once I am done here before I make my long trip to Texas. I believe it will be a 20 hour trip or so. So yeah, I will have to spend the night somewhere along the way. No big surprise there really. It shouldn’t be too shabby though. I know I am looking forward to it more and more.

But I do have one more week or so to go here. Tomorrow is another light day, and Friday I work and then have a party for my radio station. Should be a nice weekend as well I think. Well, I should be studying mostly this weekend.

Yeah, I think I am gonna go watch a movie now. I haven’t popped in a movie in here in a while come to think of it. I am sure I will be bored again real soon! haha

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