So I am not a big beach volleyball fan, in fact I don't think that I have watched a beach volleyball match before this year.....

But I have to say I am really impressed with Kerri walsh and Misty May-Treanor.... They won the gold at the Olympics in Athens and since then have a record of 458-18 and are currently on a 107 win run.

They just won the semifinal round so they will play to defend their medal against a Chinese team for the gold!

You go girls!

The Olympics: Is it fair?

There is this big hoopla about Michael Phelps and his gold medals. And it has gotten me thinking....

Not to take anything from him, he really is an amazing athlete (swim, eat sleep... that is all he does, and he is supposed to ingest 8000 -10,000 calories a day! Can you imagine?!?!?), but this has me thinking.... 8 gold medals is quite an accomplishment but what about the athletes who compete in mutliple rounds all games long just to get one medal -- like volleyball, tennis, soccer..... Are they lesser athletes because they will never have the opportunity to win that many medals in a single Olympics?

Olympic Fever

I'll admit it.... I have Olympic fever....

The second ever black person, Cullen Jones, is on the Olympic swimming team this year. He learned to swim after he almost drowned at the bottom of a water slide when he was 5. He just won a gold medal as part of the World Record setting Men's 4x100 relay team.

Dara Torres has become the oldest person to win an Olympic medal at age 41

Why is the time that Bush has spent at the Olypmics ( 4 days total) the longest time he has spent in any country since he has been president......

I think it is interesting how instrumentals of popular hiphop songs have become the background music for the montages and feature stories during major sporting events -- I have heard Take a Bow by Rihanna, Superstar by Lupe Fiasco (a favorite -- it was also used heavily during the Superbowl) and Apologize by One Republic and Timbaland so far.

Gotta go.... more Olympics to watch!

An amateur takes on the NCAA.....

So, I finally decided to get in the pool at work for the NCAA championship..... And I made my bracket choices on ESPN. Now, I know really not much at all about NCAA basketball, despite the fact that I went to two big basketball schools. (I am sure many guys would find it a travesty that I only attended about 3 of the many free games that I could have attended while in school.) But, bolstered by the good performance by one of my alma maters and figuring that all of that college basketball news I have overheard over the year must be worth something, I decided to put my hat in the ring.

After a little bit of research, some school loyalty and some educated guessing, I have my bracket....


So far, only one of the teams I picked is out and I am tied for first in my pool! Now, I don't expect this to last but if it keeps up, I could do alright. Wish me luck!