This could be a once in a life time thing here because if I finish this post I am pretty sure that I will be all caught up on my blogs. It is a miracle. I have really covered most of recent sports news; there are a couple of things though to talk about I guess. But I really am kind of tired of talking about strictly sports. I was doing some surfing of the web and I remember in some class looking at the picture of the day, but it was like from NASA so I started looking at some of the recent pictures. This is my favorite that I found in the last week. It’s the space shuttle being hulled from California back to Florida on a modified Boeing 747.

I don’t know what it is but these pictures really intersested me. I really think I could spend all day just looking at these. I want to see if there were any other organizations that did this type of thing, and I found a Kodak one where they have a daily picture thing too. I’m thinking this could be a new touch to my blog, at the end of every post put up a new picture that I found that I liked. Here’s one from the Kodak site entitled Alone.

This evening I want to talk about the most dominating current athlete in all of sports in my book. No it not Kobe Bryant or Labron James, I’m talking about Tiger Woods. Yesterday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational going into the final round Sunday Tiger was down five strokes to Sean O’Hair. Tiger made a huge come back and sunk 16 footer on the 18th. He made a birdie and won his 5th Arnold Palmer Invitational by only one stroke. If you were watching it live like I was, you knew the second that he walked up to the ball that it was in the hole. It’s not like O’Hair is some chump that can’t play golf, he is ranked in the top 30 in the world for professional golfers. This is Tiger’s only third tourney back from his like 8 month layoff. He had to have surgery on his knee for like a torn ACL. (Something like that) I wonder what that guy was feeling when he knew Tiger Woods was playing and catching him. You could pretty much say that he chocked under the pressure though. It’s just so amazing I think to watch this man play golf. The way that he dominates everyone else; I just think it’s so cool. I’m pretty sure that the Masters is only like three weeks away and I’m pretty sure everyone in the nation is thinking that Tiger is going to win. Well at least I am. If I was in charge of getting the green jacket ready I would call in Tiger’s size, because the way he played on Sunday afternoon, I really don’t think anyone has a chance.

I haven’t had a chance to blog about the ncaa men’s basketball tournament. Well I was doing really well; I believe I was in second place in this rather big poll but then after what happened the past two days in the elite eight I didn’t end up doing so well with my picks in those games. Although I do have UNC winning and they are still in it so I should be able to pick up some points if they end up winning and hopefully place in the top 3 so I can win some money. There hasn’t really been any major upsets or Cinderella stories this year in the tournament. There has been some pretty good games though. In the first round there were one night that there was like three overtime games. If I can remember right it was the Wisconsin game, the Siena game, and I can’t remember what the last one is but they were all pretty good games but none of the teams that one those close games ended up moving on to the next round. Then just last night, it was probably going to be the best game of the tournament, well it is so far. It was the Pitt vs. Nova game. Pitt being a number 1 seed and Nova being a number 3 seed. It was close the whole game but then Fields from Pitt, you know who he is, he’s the chubby point guard with the crazy hair and the headband, well he got fouled and made both free throws to tie the game with like something under 15 seconds left and Nova inbounds the ball and takes it full court and makes a little running lay-up type thing as time expired. But then they put .5 seconds back on the clock. I know you are thinking that isn’t enough time to do anything but actually Derek Fisher of the LA Lakers caught and shot with .4 left and won the game, so that had a chance. Pitt in bounded the ball to Fields he took a gather dribble and shot it banked hard off the backboard but it really looked like it had a chance and it pretty much was right on target. The game was real exciting I thought personally.
So in the final four it UNC a number 1 seed vs. Nova a number 3 seed and then Michigan State a two seed vs. UConn another number one seed. The winners play next Monday for the men’s national championship. Personally I hope UNC wins so that maybe I have a chance to win some money this year in the pools.

Well blogging over spring break is not fun at all and now we have to go back to school tomorrow. And then last night we had kind of a large snow storm which really sucks. I’m at the point where I’m sick of winter and want it to get warm and become nice out.

I guess now it has been a couple of weeks ago but we went down to the boy state basketball turny in Des Moines. We went to a three of games on Wednesday and then two on Thursday. The games were pretty good nothing too exciting, like the Johnston vs. Urbandale game. That one probably shouldn’t have been a state basketball game. I think I dosed off during it, it was so boring. But then on Thursday in the quarterfinals of 2a it was solan and western. This is probably one of the best high school basketball games I have ever seen. If I can remember right, which I probably can’t, but anyways solan was like down by twenty so somewhere close like that at the start of the second half and came back to push it into overtime then it went into double overtime. And there was this huge dunk that this solan kid had, and they ended up winning the game. The solan point guard that is real good (can’t remember his name sorry) had like 35 points. It was such a good game. Then there was the 4a championship game. It was Linn Mar vs. Ames. This one was another good one everyone was kind of planning on Linn Mar getting killed cause of Barnes, who by the was is the number 3 ranked basketball recruit in the nation out of his class, anyways I too was I kinda hoping Linn Mar would get killed but they kinda hung on there up until the end of the game. But Barnes, who by the way has offers from UNC and Duke just to name a couple, had like 6 huge dunks during the game. I thought the game was one of the better high school games I has seen.

Well it’s been while since we have got a chance to blog. This is kind of a good thing I think. Although I kind of got the hang of this whole blogging thing, I don’t really enjoy it. I find that blogging is kind of nice break from the normal day in perspectives but still it’s kind of a pain because I never come close to finishing my 3 post of 250 words a piece. It wouldn’t be so bad I don’t think if I would get it all done but even if I worked/ typed the whole class I really don’t think I could get it done. Oh well I guess, it is our assignment so, I guess I have to do it. My blog was originally started to cover almost all sports and the big news in sports. I did this in most post but sometimes I felt that there was bigger and maybe some more interesting things to talk about. And there was some weeks where there really wasn’t anything going on in the sports world.
My blog has not covered any sports in awhile. There was the week I missed because of my surgery, which is healed fine now, so you don’t need to worry anymore. And then we started our movie projects so we didn’t have to do it anymore that trimester. But now that this great new trimester has started I’ll pick it up again.