This is what happens when you get bored on a rainy day. You go to your friend's blogs and see what they have to say. If it is something like what you are about to read, then you copy and paste it on your own site.
1. YOUR SPY NAME (middle name and current street name): Ryan Rystan
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (grandfather/mother on your dad’s side and your favourite candy): Allen Skittels
3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name and first three or four letters of your last name): A Eppe (yeah that is weird…sounds more emo or punk to me)
4. YOUR GAMER TAG (a favourite colour, a favourite animal): Green Bulldog
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, and city you were born in): Ryan Beckley
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, last
three letters of mother’s maiden name, first three letters of your
pet’s name) Eppkerpee
7. JEDI NAME (middle name spelled backwards, your mom’s maiden name spelled backwards): Nayr Reklaw
8. PORN STAR NAME (first pet’s name, the street you grew up on): Chuck Jackson (very 70s if you ask me)
9. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The”, your favourite colour and the automobile your dad drives) The Green Lumina
10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME (first name of the main character in the last film you watched, last food you ate) Mumble Andys Mint
Now back to copying CDs and doing absolutly nothing for the rest of the day. Got to love MLK Day.
Seriously, I promise a good update will come soon with lots of new photos and what not. I know this site still looks holiday-ish but its the begining of the semester for me here and that means lots of changes and new stuff to deal with. Not to mention I had my wonderfuly girlfriend here for the past couple weeks and I think she is a little more important that updating this. You will see plenty of good photos of her soon too, I promise.
Keep checking back for more. I have some basketball games coming up real soon too.
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So its the end of the year and I figure it is a decent time to reflect on what has transpired in the past calendar year. Amazing to believe and think that 2006 is almost over and that 2007 is just a jump away. Anyways…I have no real order to this list. Some things are life, sports, and just random stuff in my head. I will try to go month by month, if I can. If not, then sue me.
January – Best – Sugar Bowl: The year got kicked off with a major bang as WVU beat Georgia in their own dome to win the Sugar Bowl. For one, it was a great time. And for seconds, WVU actually won a bowl game! Yes, for the second time, no maybe third (I will have to check), WVU actually won a bowl game. Wow.
Best – Rose Bowl – now that was a game…one of the best I've seen in some time.
Worst – No snow in January – seriously, one of the mildest winters I have ever lived through and it was not the coldest of winters either.
Best – Steelers win Super Bowl – Okay, I had trouble putting "best" beside this one but it was a good thing. Bettus got his ring, the entire psycho Steeler nation got their "one for the thumb" and I believe it shut them all up for at least 10 more years. Again, both my team (the 49ers) and some cryboy team in Texas would like to congratulate you on becoming a member in the 5 rings club.
Feburary – Best – My 21st – sure becoming legal to drink is one thing but the random looks from other states when they see the id is always a laugh
Worst – Winter – okay the cold finally came as it normally does…the only bad part was standing in line at the Coliseum for games….
Worst – Mountaineer Manics – its a damn cult really. Peoplpe getting in the building early to save seats. Not just one or two but I am talking like 4 or 5 rows. It was horrible and totally wrong for the people out in the cold.
March – Best – George Mason's run – alright, nothing like a bracket buster pal. I loved it though.
Worst – Cold spring breaks – maybe that is why people go south for those things…
April – Best – Moving into new place – out with the old and in with the new…place…okay that was cheesy but it worked. Got a new townhouse here in town and got rid of an annoying couple who lived together but didn't live together. Oh, and their dog was never fed either.
Best – Honda Civic – getting a new car is always nice…don't ya think?
May – Best – Starting a new internship!!! – Dallas for the summer was great! Seriously…
Alright, I am sorta tired of the month by month thing…so whatever. After summer was fall semester and you have read what has been good and bad in the fall semester. Football, soccer and a girlfriend – good….school, school, and school – have been not soo good.
Here are some final lists that I made up. All mostly sports related I believe.
Male Athlete – Tiger Woods
Female Athlete – Amelie Mauresmo
Best Championship Team – Italy World Cup soccer …so I am biased on the sport…it was the only World Champion on the list really…
Coach of the Year – Jim Larranaga, George Mason basketball
Rookie of the Year – Vince Young, Tennessee Titans
Best Game – USC 41, Texas 38 (Rose Bowl)
Biggest Disappointment – Bode Miller
Biggest Disappointment (Team) – New York Yankees
Most Overrated Story – (Tie) Barbaro and Kobe scoring 81 on the Toronto Raptors
Best Story – "J-Mac" – Autistic kid Jason McElwain scores 24 points in final three minutes of a game
Biggest Goat – Zinedine Zidane
Funniest Movie of the Year – Talladega Nights
Alright…there is my list and best/worsts of the year…you may want to add this list to that but I don't care. I was bored and I thought "why not".
Again, I am a little bored today so why not…plus it is always fun to speculate things…
I will start with the bowls that don’t mean anything and end up with the BCS games along with the national title game (teams in bold have already accepted the bids):
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia
(Mountain West vs. At-large) : Utah vs. Arizona State
Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas
(Pac-10 No. 4 vs. Mountain West) : Oregon vs. BYU
R&L Carriers New Orleans
(Sun Belt vs. C-USA) : Middle Tennessee State vs. East Carolina
Papajohns.com
(C-USA vs. Big East) : Southern Miss vs. Cincinnati
New Mexico
(WAC vs. Mountain West) : Nevada vs. New Mexcio
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
(Mountain West vs. C-USA) : Rice vs. TCU
Sheraton Hawaii
(WAC vs. Pac-10) : Hawaii vs. UCLA
Motor City
(Big Ten No. 7 vs. MAC) : Kentucky (Big 10 may not have 7 teams, so at-large it should go) vs. Ohio
Emerald Bowl
(Pac-10 No. 5 vs. ACC No. 7) : Arizona vs. Florida State
PetroSun Independence
(SEC No. 8 vs. Big 12 No. 7): Alabama vs. Kansas State
Pacific Life Holiday
(Pac-10 No. 2 vs. Big 12 No. 3): Cal vs. Texas A&M
Texas
(Big East vs. Big 12): South Florida vs. Texas Tech
Gaylords Hotels Music City
(ACC No. 5 vs. SEC): Wake Forest vs. Tennessee
Brut Sun
(Pac-10 No. 3 vs. Big 12 or Big East): Oregon State vs. Rutgers
AutoZone Liberty
(C-USA No. 1 vs. SEC No. 6): Houston vs. South Carolina
Insight
(Big 12 No. 6 vs. Big Ten No. 6): Oklahoma State vs. Minnesota
Champs Sports
(ACC No. 4 vs. Big Ten No. 4/5): Maryland vs. Purdue
Meineke Car Care
(Big East or Navy vs. ACC): Navy vs. Clemson
Alamo
(Big Ten No. 4/5 vs. Big 12 No. 4) Iowa vs. Missouri
Chick-fil-A
(ACC No. 2 vs. SEC): Virginia Tech vs. Georgia
MPC Computers
(WAC vs. ACC): San Jose State vs. Washington State (another At-large bid here)
AT&T Cotton
(Big 12 No. 2 vs. SEC): Nebraska vs. Auburn
Outback
(Big Ten No. 3 vs. SEC): Penn State vs. LSU
Toyota Gator
(ACC No. 3 vs. Big 12 or Big East) Boston College vs. Oklahoma
Capital One
(Big Ten No. 2 vs. SEC No. 2): Wisconsin vs. Arkansas
International
(MAC vs. Big East No. 4 or 5): Western Michigan vs. Pittsburgh
GMAC
(C-USA No. 2 vs. MAC): Tulsa vs. Ohio
Rose
(BCS vs. BCS): Michigan vs. Notre Dame
Tostitos Fiesta
(BCS vs. BCS): Texas vs. Boise State
FedEx Orange
(BCS vs. BCS): Georgia Tech vs. West Virginia
Allstate Sugar
(BCS vs. BCS): Florida vs. Louisville
BCS Championship Game
(BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2): Ohio State vs. USC
Yeah, I am a homer and I put WVU in a BCS game but I honestly believe it can still happen as long as certain things happen. Well, that killed a little bit of time, enjoy reading and yelling at my picks.
Nothing going on today really…its Turkey Break so that means a lot of me sitting on my butt and doing nothing. I am totally cool with that. I hope to get some work done today around the house and for school. We will see if that happens or not.
In other news, I fly with the family to Chicago on Wednesday morning to stay with my family up there for Thanksgiving. And then on Friday I fly back here to work a couple basketball games and go to a football game on Saturday.
Fun, fun.
Alrighty, incase you missed it yesterday. The draw came out for both the men and women’s soccer tournaments. The men definitely got a good draw and have a solid chance to make it to the Final Four. The women, well…not so much but all is not lost even though they have to go on the road to Wake Forest this weekend. I will be traveling with the team to Winston Salem, NC to cover the events. Hopefully they can manage to beat two ACC teams as they play Virginia on Friday night and should end up playing Wake Forest on Sunday.
Hey it is possible.
In other news, epp6.com has been renewed for another year! YAY! Hard to believe this site is about four years old now. It is still growing but I am also currently shopping for a new host for it. I found one but the process is taking longer than I expected. Some things have changed with transfering hosts over the years. It wasn’t this complicated before. I am mainly waiting on my current host to give me some authorization key to be able to transfer my stuff to them. So hopefully soon it will take place.
What does that mean for everyone else? Nothing much really, hopefully there won’t be any downtime for this site. Any more I have the most trouble getting this site to load up with my current host so that is the big reason why I am changing. Not to mention I found a new host that has all the bells and wistles that I want for half the price. Can’t beat that. Not to mention the random discounts they throw on there for certain things. I like discounts, so naturally I listen when I see a good deal.
Again, hopefully there won’t be any downtime as far as changing host and what not. Hopefully it will happen and no one but myself will even see it.
Well then…now it looks as though I will not be traveling to New Jersey this weekend to broadcast the Big East tournament. It came down to traveling costs and poor timing really. I was unable to leave with the team on Thursday morning since I have to meet with one of my teachers that day and MSN just didn’t want me to drive up there the following day. It was a matter of not wanting to pay for my gas and not wanting to be held responsible if something happened to me while I was driving.
I was a little upset about the whole ordeal but really its life and I can deal with it. Not to mention it totally opens up my weekend to get other things done around here. And it will give me another day for my story now. That is another thing that I am happy about as well.
What does kinda suck is that the crew they are sending to cover the women’s team this weekend at UConn. They are flying them up on Friday morning and paying for that costs. It does sound a little poor on their part but in a way it comes down to the women’s teams here getting the better treatment. I know UConn is further north than Rutgers but its still a little shady if you ask me. Again, oh well…there will be tournament games starting the following week I believe so I will have plenty of information on that, probably around this time next week. The brackets are released next Monday.
Hopefully both teams will be put in a situation that they will be home for a while in the tournaments. I think at least the men will be, but the women may have to travel some. So we will see.
Its snow in the air already! …Mark it down, yesterday was the fist snow of the school year…it wasn’t much but it was something!