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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Larry Craig was Here...Really, He Was




You really thought that I could let this opportunity pass me by? I can't take credit for the picture but I have sat in these very stalls!!! You'll be happier to know that my feet never drifted into the next stall and I don't attempt to pick up toilet paper off the floor (or men from the next stall either for that matter)

Saturday, September 29, 2007

My Recent Trip to Madison, Wi.

I have always raved about Madison, Wi. as one of my favorite layovers in the system. The city has a feel of a vibrant college town (UW is here) as well as playing home to the Wisconsin state government. The Capitol building and the University are connected by State Street, a pedestrian street with access limited to buses and deliveries. State Street is packed with great restaurants and shopping and as it progresses from the Capitol to the University the complexion of the street changes. At the Capitol end of the street the shops are more upscale with numerous moderate and upscale restaurants with street seating as well as indoor seating. The shopping is more boutiques and such, closer to the University the shopping becomes more college oriented with several team shops and college aged shops like GAP and Urban Outfitters. I have found my place and enjoy a brat and some fried cheese curds at State Street Brats! The city is surrounded on three sides by lakes and the University uses the lake to great advantage as you should see in some of the following pictures. Enjoy the pictures..and feel free to comment.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

WVU-Maryland highlights!

I don't take credit for these highlight reels but DougityDog does some great work! Thanks to him and YouTube! Enjoy!

Maryland Road Trip

I went over to College Park last week for the WVU-Maryland football game and an extended weekend. I flew over on Wednesday and left Saturday morning, staying at my friend Reids. We also got a chance to get out and see some sights around DC. Even though I'd been to the World War II Memorial I was able to go again and got some great shots. I was also able to get some shots of the football stadium and the Alumni center.
The stadium was awash in black clad students as the campus was in "black out" mode for the game. Suddenly, WVU is the hunted and it is fun! It is an incredible feeling to go into an away stadium and know that thousands of people are there only because we are there. The student section was nearly full 45 minutes before the game started and they were rowdy. I was fortunate and wasn't harassed and barely had anything said to me although Reid took some abuse during a misguided walk alone through the campus in full WVU regalia.

Click below for a slide show of the trip!

The Right Stuff


Just found this today and thought it was awesome. Hope all ya'll enjoy it! It is cool to see some old footage of Major Harris and the great teams of the 80's and watch it progress into the RRod era!
ENJOY!

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

WVU vs. Marshall 2007 Highlights, Take it to the house


A look back at WVU's romp in Huntington. I say we say "NEVER AGAIN" to Huntington

Oklahoma really IS OK!

I finally fulfilled a promise this weekend and headed out to see my old buddy Scott Mahaney this weekend. I'm happy to report that it was a GREAT weekend and fantastic to see MOE-haney and my first OU Sooner football game.

I flew in on Thursday afternoon and Scott picked me up. We headed over to the Murrah Building Memorial and I got some incredible pictures of the Memorial. Click on the pic below and it will take you to the album of pics from the site plus some pictures of town called Bricktown. Downtown OKC is a really sweet town.




On Friday we spent the afternoon walking around OU and getting a feel for the campus. I am sure that Oklahoma has violates some federal law as it has built a flat campus. After my time at WVU, I'm SURE that is against the law. Once again, click on the link below for some pictures.






Unfortunately, I didn't take the camera to the game on Saturday as the weather was unstable. We actually got some rain early in the game but after that, the sun was out and it was HOT AND HUMID. OU rolled over Miami, winning 51-13 and looking mighty impressive. The crowd was huge, just over 85,000 and was the largest crowd in the history of the stadium. It was also the largest sporting event crowd ever in the state of Oklahoma. After the game, Scott and I headed back to the apartment and gorged on a Saturday of college football...it was most wonderful.

My plans were to leave on Sunday and head back to Charleston as it is a short week for me. I'm leaving for Maryland on Wednesday and was hoping to spend another day in town. Unfortunately all the flights were packed and I got stuck. I was able to get out on Monday morning though and got back to Charleston at about 6pm Monday night. Scott and I took full advantage of the extra day and headed over to the Oklahoma State Capitol Complex to check it out. Oklahoma has a very impressive state capitol and I took a bunch of pictures..you can check them out with the link below!






Hope you enjoy the pictures...I'll try to get some from the Maryland game this weekend and wherever I might get sent next week while flying! Please post comments, I love hearing from everyone!

Friday, September 7, 2007

Must clean my pants after this. WOW.

This is enough to make me rethink my career.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Some Pictures from Morgantown







I took these pictures Saturday before the WVU-WMU game. Notice the sky..how stunningly clear it is. It was as pretty of a day in Morgantown as I've ever seen! Enjoy!

Reviewing Week One of College Football

Well, obviously the biggest story of the week and what will be one of the biggest stories of the year happened in Ann Arbor yesterday as David slay Goliath. Any football fan worth his/her weight knows that Appalachian State was going to the Big House simply to pick up a paycheck. Someone forgot to tell the Mountaineers. Check out the video of the ending of the game. It was PANDALERIUM! The other side of the coin, for Michigan, this is quite possibly the worst season opening loss in the history of the program. Lloyd Carr admitted that his team was not prepared for the game and that he was to blame. Those words will come back to haunt him as the expectations in Ann Arbor were sky high this year. If Carr struggles through the rest of this season there will be a coaching change for the Wolverines next year. Carr might be done even if he goes 10-2, losing only to Appy State and Ohio State.



Other "Hot Seat" Coaches after week one.

We've established that the seat just got REALLY hot on Lloyd Carr but several other coaches didn't do anything to stop the rumors that are starting to swirl around them.

1-Greg Robinson (Syracuse)-Wow...this is a team that actually looks like it spent the off-season getting worse. Washington, a program that is working to rebuild itself, looked like national title contenders as the Orange looked inept (again) in the Carrier Dome
2-Sylvester Croom (Missississississippi State) Croom faces an interesting issue. He has one of the toughest defenses in the SEC but the other side of the ball is aptly named...it is offensive. The Bulldogs worked all spring, summer and fall trying to find an offense. The results were not encouraging. The 'dogs only managed 5 first downs while having SIX interceptions and losing one of three fumbles. Croom might want to start looking for a real estate agent if this keeps up.
3-Al Groh. Groh left the J-E-T-S JETS! JETS! JETS! in hopes to right the fortunes of his alma mater at the University of Virginia. Losing to Wyoming isn't the way to do it.

5 Storylines from week 1-

1-I-94 is NOT the place to see great football. Interstate 94 runs through the heart of lower Michigan right through Ypsilanti (Eastern Michigan), Ann Arbor (University of Michigan) and Kalamazoo (Western Michigan)
2-Charlie Weiss (Coach at Notre Dame) is as overrated as he is oversized.
3-Virginia Tech has offensive problems
4-West Virginia opponents must be cursing aloud today as they look at a highlight reel of the offense. WVU easily threw the ball yesterday which bodes well for the continued development of the offense. Add impressive debuts by both Jock Sanders and Noel Devine in the backfield and (for this week only) the OTHER Mountaineers might make good on Steve Slaton's wish to "average 50 points" this year.
5-West Virginia might have to bring the basketball scoreboard over from the Coliseum for the WVU-Louisville game in November

Big East Week 1

The Big East was 7-1 in its first week with only Syracuse losing. USF struggled to get past Elon in a game that I thought would be a blowout, Lets hope the Bulls were looking forward to Auburn next week. Jim Leavitt will not be happy in practice heading into Auburn for a matchup with the Tigers Saturday. UConn got a "must" in the win column with a 45-14 win over the woeful Duke Blue Devils. It started off rough for the Huskies who actually trailed for a period Saturday. Pitt beat Eastern Michigan, West Virginia beat Western Michigan, Rutgers beat Buffalo and Louisville beat Murray State. No big surprises here as all the favorites won and won comfortably.

Some Highlights from Week 1 In Morgantown




Hope you enjoy! I'll try to get some Week 2 previews up later this week! I'll be IN Oklahoma for the OU-Miami game this Saturday...pics and more coming up soon!