First I'm writing this post in a wierd mood, I'm happy I'm done with exams and all my classes, but pissed off because I wrote a blog last night that I somehow closed out words before finishing. So lets get this stated with a little houskeeping.
On Saturday April 21st the FAU Owls football team held it's annual Spring Football game. I really don't know what to make of it,over 500 people showed up which sounds nice until you realize that Alabama drew 92,000 fans and the Hurricanes (the other spring football game I covered) had over 5,000 fans. Next the team looked anemic on offence Rusty Smith threw 2 picks and Sean Clayton threw 1, the only highlight was Willie Rose and his 92 yard run. Which when comparing to the 'Canes those numbers are reall not that bad. Kyle Wright completed less that 50% of his passes should have thrown a pick and threw 1 TD, and Kirby Freeman was worse. The positive is that the defence looked amazing but take that with a grain of salt because this is a game that is condusive to good defensive performances.
I don't know about all of you but this past week was brutal, all I have to say about it is that no man should have to spend 15 hours in a walk in closet with Dave Dipino recording voice overs for a project. That pretty much sums up my exam week.
So Heat finally end their pathetic reign as NBA Champions I am so happy I will never have to hear anyone say that the Heat are champions ever again. Never mind the fact that the fans in south florida don't deserve a NBA champ this team didn't deserve to be on the same floor as the Chicago Bulls. The Heat were old and un-inspired while the Bulls were young and exciting. The Heat deserve to be the first NBA champ swept out of the first round of the playoffs. They pissed all over the regular season playing with no pride and no desire for excellence.
Dolphin's draft was a debacle and nothing makes me happier and I wanted to blog about it but instead I"m going to send you a list of text messages I got from my friend Super Dolfan Danny Lemon (name change, because no one wants to be known as a dolphins fan.)
"Shoot me"
"(in responce to Jon Beck)or worse the next Rex Grossman" he only wishes
"Do you blame me? the dolphins' just regressed another decade and F@$# THE BULLS!!"
"And with their second round pick, the Miami Dolphins select....Danny Lemon, a 6'2 190 pound QB with below average arm strength and a questionable work ethic, has little or no pocket poise hasn't won a big game and is a closet alchoholic, he does have potential out of the backfield if he was someone else and will be happy to drop his pants and wag his *&(*& and $&^%&^ to your delight. He lacks touch on the deep ball his footwork is mediocre and he has a career completion % of 7 he has thrown 3TD's and 48INT's and he can drink 18 beers and can pleasure himself four times in 2 hours, his upside is huge...Thank you Dolphnas now go kill yourself."
"I'll punch Cam (Cameron) in the face, F&^% the Phins."
"So we drafted a special teams player, a career backup QB, and a sumo wrestler, the curse of Marino continues."
"Laugh away,my friend but stay by the phone the phins are taking Jim Rutledge LB from FAU with their 3rd round pick...Congrats"
and my last text from George was Sunday around 4pm it read "I'll fight you right now"
I think that sum's up the worst weekend to be a fan of south florida sports and nothing could make me happier, the fans finally get what they deserve for being so fickle. But I do feel bad for true fans like Danny.
Oh and the sorry ass Marlins' lost 2 and were almost no hit on Sunday. HA HA HA HA
RIP Josh Hancock 29 year old MLB Cardinls relief pitcher
Monday, April 30, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
No sleep til Tommorow
Since it's the end of the semester, let's start with some housekeeping.
First, I hope everyone enjoyed Dave's blog last week on branding. You think that after a branding campaign that included the possibility of choosing a new mascot and logo, they would have come up with something better than the Owls. Hoot, Hoot is not that intimidating.
I don't know about everyone else, but this semester's exams are killing me. I literally just woke up from a five-hour nap, which was the first sleep I've had in in 28 hours, so this blog should be interesting.
Two paragraph's is about as long as I can wait to bask in glory that is my Chicago Bulls. Nothing makes me happier than watching Luol Deng average just under thirty points a game with D-Wade and James Posey guarding him, and Ben Gordon knocking down jumpers with an efficiency which hasn't been seen in years. Kirk Hinrich and Andres Nochioni are in the heads of the entire Heat team including head coach Pat Riley. This years Heat team looks like the old decrepit assembling of players I thought they were last year. Now I know this series is far from over, but without question, we are seeing a Heat team that is on its last leg and they are not getting any younger, so soon they will be irrelevant.
Speaking of irrelevant, the Marlins are teetering on the edge of falling to the basement of their division. Currently, the fish are below .500 and are losing 3-0 to the Braves. Normally, I like young teams, but the ownership and management's railroading of manager Joe Girardi has turned me off to this team. I do feel bad for the players like Miggy, Scott Olsen and D-train who are ridiculously talented but have to play for a team that can't pay them and fan's that won't show up.
First, I hope everyone enjoyed Dave's blog last week on branding. You think that after a branding campaign that included the possibility of choosing a new mascot and logo, they would have come up with something better than the Owls. Hoot, Hoot is not that intimidating.
I don't know about everyone else, but this semester's exams are killing me. I literally just woke up from a five-hour nap, which was the first sleep I've had in in 28 hours, so this blog should be interesting.
Two paragraph's is about as long as I can wait to bask in glory that is my Chicago Bulls. Nothing makes me happier than watching Luol Deng average just under thirty points a game with D-Wade and James Posey guarding him, and Ben Gordon knocking down jumpers with an efficiency which hasn't been seen in years. Kirk Hinrich and Andres Nochioni are in the heads of the entire Heat team including head coach Pat Riley. This years Heat team looks like the old decrepit assembling of players I thought they were last year. Now I know this series is far from over, but without question, we are seeing a Heat team that is on its last leg and they are not getting any younger, so soon they will be irrelevant.
Speaking of irrelevant, the Marlins are teetering on the edge of falling to the basement of their division. Currently, the fish are below .500 and are losing 3-0 to the Braves. Normally, I like young teams, but the ownership and management's railroading of manager Joe Girardi has turned me off to this team. I do feel bad for the players like Miggy, Scott Olsen and D-train who are ridiculously talented but have to play for a team that can't pay them and fan's that won't show up.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Branding for Luck, Money $$$
Normally Jim Rutledge writes the "On the Edge of Sports" blog. Jim has bit off more than he can chew this week. Pardon the cliche, but it's something that happens from time to time with created,talented, want to do it all media people. I can speak from experience. My name is David DiPino, and I've been the sports editor at the University Press since August, 2006. I also write five stories a week and the police blotter, for the Delray Times, a small weekly newspaper in Delray Beach. I write one story a week for the Sun-Sentinel Community News Section, take classes at FAU and try to find time to cover my passion, sports.
I used to write one story a week for the UP. The editor in chief told me in January 2007, that he was going to go with themed issues, which meant no weekly sports coverage. While I was totally against this, I respect his decision, and even though he thought I was taken too much on, I would have found a way to get it done. I used this semester to help out fellow writers like Frank Durosier, Jim, and others. I wrote a few web only stories. Well enough about me, let's talk about sports.
The topic of branding came up recently, when the University of Central Florida Golden Knights decided to redo their logo, and drop the word golden from the mascot. Yes they are now the University of Central Florida Knights. The logo is different, all in an effort to make more money. UCF is moving into a brand new state of the art, 40,000 seat stadium. They will be hosting the University of Texas Longhorns, and in an effort to cash in on sports licensing decided to make the changes. Some would say it's an important step you must take to enter into the college football elite. Others might say it's a big step to take for a team that seldom goes to bowl games or win a conferance title. Time will tell.
FAU decided to change their logo and come with a new branding campaign prior to the 2006 football season. While the new logo made FAU look sharper on the field, it did cost a substantial amount of money for an artist to come up with the new logo you see everywhere today. I didn't think at the time it was neccessary, but it did provide some much needed luck to the athletic department. They plan to have a balance budget by June 30, 2007, which is good news to all of us who support the football program. Remember when the football program existed in the red? Not any more. And while I was against the branding campaign, I now think after seeing the rest of the logos and uniforms in the Sun-Belt Conferance that we look sharper than anybody else in the league. Have you ever seen South Alabama's uni's? Yuck! Since entering the Sun-Belt with our new logos our men's and women's swim teams have dominated with Sun-Belt Conferance titles. Who knows maybe that success could carry over to women's soccer, women's basketball, softball, baseball, men's and women's golf, and football. If it does I'm going to hang it on the head of our newly designed, branded, Owl.
I used to write one story a week for the UP. The editor in chief told me in January 2007, that he was going to go with themed issues, which meant no weekly sports coverage. While I was totally against this, I respect his decision, and even though he thought I was taken too much on, I would have found a way to get it done. I used this semester to help out fellow writers like Frank Durosier, Jim, and others. I wrote a few web only stories. Well enough about me, let's talk about sports.
The topic of branding came up recently, when the University of Central Florida Golden Knights decided to redo their logo, and drop the word golden from the mascot. Yes they are now the University of Central Florida Knights. The logo is different, all in an effort to make more money. UCF is moving into a brand new state of the art, 40,000 seat stadium. They will be hosting the University of Texas Longhorns, and in an effort to cash in on sports licensing decided to make the changes. Some would say it's an important step you must take to enter into the college football elite. Others might say it's a big step to take for a team that seldom goes to bowl games or win a conferance title. Time will tell.
FAU decided to change their logo and come with a new branding campaign prior to the 2006 football season. While the new logo made FAU look sharper on the field, it did cost a substantial amount of money for an artist to come up with the new logo you see everywhere today. I didn't think at the time it was neccessary, but it did provide some much needed luck to the athletic department. They plan to have a balance budget by June 30, 2007, which is good news to all of us who support the football program. Remember when the football program existed in the red? Not any more. And while I was against the branding campaign, I now think after seeing the rest of the logos and uniforms in the Sun-Belt Conferance that we look sharper than anybody else in the league. Have you ever seen South Alabama's uni's? Yuck! Since entering the Sun-Belt with our new logos our men's and women's swim teams have dominated with Sun-Belt Conferance titles. Who knows maybe that success could carry over to women's soccer, women's basketball, softball, baseball, men's and women's golf, and football. If it does I'm going to hang it on the head of our newly designed, branded, Owl.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Random thoughts from a tired mind
Lets gets this started with a disclaimer, I thought I was clever and I would do a blog on HBO's Sunday night line up, but that idea has been done by everyone from Bill Simmons and Evan Cohen to some dude in Wyoming. I will throw in my two cents and say I'm starting to get a little disappointed with Entourage. It's still a great show but I have a real problem with this half hour format,it seems that as soon as the show gets rolling its over. I understand that it keeps viewers coming back but it also pisses viewers off. Am I the only one that wishes that Vince's new agent was one of the girls wearing lingerie at Vince's Victoria's Secret Birthday bash. FYI if any woman can tell me what Victoria's secret is that would be great. It's like Guess jeans what am I supposed to guess, your weight, breast size, how crazy you are, if your going to boil a rabbit, all things I don't really want to guess at, I would rather know.
Anyways onto the Soprano's perfect show as always, you have to really watch it to enjoy how many layers of plot are in the show. I have a feeling Tony is going to end up face down in a pool at the end of the show, they talk about a kid being found that way, and Tony said he couldn't' get that out of his mind. I'm probably wrong but hey it's a guess. There is no way that Bobby lives after beating Tony, and could A.J. seriously stop fucking up, the only off spring that screws up more is Matt from Nip/Tuck.
I turned on ESPN 2 yesterday and saw an old Boston Celtics Los Angelos Lakers game from the 80's and I have a few questions and observations. Larry Bird is a bad man after a big Celtics win he says something about how his team played like women. And anyone that can dominate a game wearing shorts that tighter than my boxers has to be great. It has to be strange playing basketball and flashing your crotch more than Brittaney Spears and Paris Hilton combined. Also don't they have gyms back then, every time I see video of 80's athletes they are always running in some strange place like the upper level bleachers or on a mini mountain, I'm sure that's an ideal training regiment, but I would like proof that a gym existed in the 80's.
Am I the only person that can recite Shawshank Redemption word for word because it comes on at least 3 times a month on cable. I'm very upset that TNT has stopped showing Above the Rim after every NBA basketball game. It was like cooling down after a workout, you watch back to back NBA basketball games and you need something to slowly bring you back to regular t.v. and Above the Rim did that.
My opinion on Pac Man, even though he has been convicted of nothing, being arrested multiple times in a short period and not turning a man who caused someone to be a paraplegic should keep him out of the NFL alone.
Don Imus, aren't we just empowering his words by creating such a big deal out of them. I understand that what he said is very insulting and crude, but calling press conferences talking about how wrong he is draws attention to him and his show. I've never heard it, but I'm sure he has made similar remarks on his shows and when their not brought to a National level nobody cares.
Final thought is that girl in the Genco generator commercials his daughter or wife, the ad doesn't say and I'm confused.
Anyways onto the Soprano's perfect show as always, you have to really watch it to enjoy how many layers of plot are in the show. I have a feeling Tony is going to end up face down in a pool at the end of the show, they talk about a kid being found that way, and Tony said he couldn't' get that out of his mind. I'm probably wrong but hey it's a guess. There is no way that Bobby lives after beating Tony, and could A.J. seriously stop fucking up, the only off spring that screws up more is Matt from Nip/Tuck.
I turned on ESPN 2 yesterday and saw an old Boston Celtics Los Angelos Lakers game from the 80's and I have a few questions and observations. Larry Bird is a bad man after a big Celtics win he says something about how his team played like women. And anyone that can dominate a game wearing shorts that tighter than my boxers has to be great. It has to be strange playing basketball and flashing your crotch more than Brittaney Spears and Paris Hilton combined. Also don't they have gyms back then, every time I see video of 80's athletes they are always running in some strange place like the upper level bleachers or on a mini mountain, I'm sure that's an ideal training regiment, but I would like proof that a gym existed in the 80's.
Am I the only person that can recite Shawshank Redemption word for word because it comes on at least 3 times a month on cable. I'm very upset that TNT has stopped showing Above the Rim after every NBA basketball game. It was like cooling down after a workout, you watch back to back NBA basketball games and you need something to slowly bring you back to regular t.v. and Above the Rim did that.
My opinion on Pac Man, even though he has been convicted of nothing, being arrested multiple times in a short period and not turning a man who caused someone to be a paraplegic should keep him out of the NFL alone.
Don Imus, aren't we just empowering his words by creating such a big deal out of them. I understand that what he said is very insulting and crude, but calling press conferences talking about how wrong he is draws attention to him and his show. I've never heard it, but I'm sure he has made similar remarks on his shows and when their not brought to a National level nobody cares.
Final thought is that girl in the Genco generator commercials his daughter or wife, the ad doesn't say and I'm confused.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Monday April 2nd
The greatest day in sports would have to be Monday April 2nd. You have opening day of baseball (and I'm not counting the one game that plays the night before). You also have NCAA College Basketball Championship game.
The Championship game turned out to be a big pile of crap. Not just because the Florida Gators won, but also because the game was never close. The entire Final 4 was filled with disappointing games. Florida dominated UCLA and Georgetown never really gave the Buckeyes a scare. So, all this talk about how the tournament would have better games because the best regular season teams were playing was just that- talk. The problem with the tournament at the later stages is that it's usually one team that is incredibly hot facing other teams who are good, but are not hitting on all cylinders.
Baseball is back! And soon my stomach ulcers will begin. Being a Cubs fan, this is what baseball means to me.
I'm discovering that every year, as I grow older, I take the losing season personally, to a point that I might need to see a psychologist. Being a Cubs fan is like having a really shitty girlfriend that against all logic you keep on dating even though she constantly breaks your heart. You date for a few months usually (April til early October), then have a huge messy break up, you say you never want to see her again, your heart is broken and you spend the next few months with her always in the back of your mind. Just when you're about to get over her, she appears (usually around March). You don't want to talk to her, but you give it a chance and by April your excited and can't wait for the season/relationship to begin.
Finally, a strange topic has risen in sports talk radio(790) and blogs(Bill Simmons). The questions revolve around Forrest Gump. Question 1: how many people did Jenny sleep with in the movie? Question 2: How did Forrest not acquire AIDS from Jenny? Obviously they had sex and they had a child. And, I have a 3rd Question: who slept with more people, Jenny from Forrest Gump or Carrie from Sex in the City?
My answers- I'm going to have to go with 202, and I'm not counting her messed up childhood, then I'm sure she slept with a few boys in High School. In college we saw that she was sneaking boys into her dorm and she wanted to bang Forrest so I'm going to say she was at 25 by age 21. She modeled in Playboy so she probably had sex with Heff. Then she was a naked hippie folk singer and we all know how hippies are so I'm going with 74 by age 25. Moving on to her days in San Fransisco, she had to have slept with a few of the black Panthers at that rally, her boyfriend and some other random radicals. So lets push it to 100. Now is when she piles up the numbers in her drugged out years where she almost killed herself, she might of had a few multiple partner nights. After she had little Forrest I think she settled down to maybe 1 or 2 guys. So I got 202.
As for Question 2, I'm going to have to point to science and luck, I'm guessing they only had sex without a condom the one time, and either she didn't have it then or Forrest got lucky, because I think it's harder for a man to get from a woman than to give it to her.
For my question, I'm going with Jenny over Carrie in a close 202 to 178 affair. Carrie took the time to have 'boyfriends' and that alone is going to hurt her chances of pulling off the upset. But none of them compare to Wilt Chamberlin with over 100,000 women. The King has his queen and her name is Jenny.
RIP 1919-2007 Eddie Robinson 408-65 in 55 seasons coaching at Grambling State.
The Championship game turned out to be a big pile of crap. Not just because the Florida Gators won, but also because the game was never close. The entire Final 4 was filled with disappointing games. Florida dominated UCLA and Georgetown never really gave the Buckeyes a scare. So, all this talk about how the tournament would have better games because the best regular season teams were playing was just that- talk. The problem with the tournament at the later stages is that it's usually one team that is incredibly hot facing other teams who are good, but are not hitting on all cylinders.
Baseball is back! And soon my stomach ulcers will begin. Being a Cubs fan, this is what baseball means to me.
I'm discovering that every year, as I grow older, I take the losing season personally, to a point that I might need to see a psychologist. Being a Cubs fan is like having a really shitty girlfriend that against all logic you keep on dating even though she constantly breaks your heart. You date for a few months usually (April til early October), then have a huge messy break up, you say you never want to see her again, your heart is broken and you spend the next few months with her always in the back of your mind. Just when you're about to get over her, she appears (usually around March). You don't want to talk to her, but you give it a chance and by April your excited and can't wait for the season/relationship to begin.
Finally, a strange topic has risen in sports talk radio(790) and blogs(Bill Simmons). The questions revolve around Forrest Gump. Question 1: how many people did Jenny sleep with in the movie? Question 2: How did Forrest not acquire AIDS from Jenny? Obviously they had sex and they had a child. And, I have a 3rd Question: who slept with more people, Jenny from Forrest Gump or Carrie from Sex in the City?
My answers- I'm going to have to go with 202, and I'm not counting her messed up childhood, then I'm sure she slept with a few boys in High School. In college we saw that she was sneaking boys into her dorm and she wanted to bang Forrest so I'm going to say she was at 25 by age 21. She modeled in Playboy so she probably had sex with Heff. Then she was a naked hippie folk singer and we all know how hippies are so I'm going with 74 by age 25. Moving on to her days in San Fransisco, she had to have slept with a few of the black Panthers at that rally, her boyfriend and some other random radicals. So lets push it to 100. Now is when she piles up the numbers in her drugged out years where she almost killed herself, she might of had a few multiple partner nights. After she had little Forrest I think she settled down to maybe 1 or 2 guys. So I got 202.
As for Question 2, I'm going to have to point to science and luck, I'm guessing they only had sex without a condom the one time, and either she didn't have it then or Forrest got lucky, because I think it's harder for a man to get from a woman than to give it to her.
For my question, I'm going with Jenny over Carrie in a close 202 to 178 affair. Carrie took the time to have 'boyfriends' and that alone is going to hurt her chances of pulling off the upset. But none of them compare to Wilt Chamberlin with over 100,000 women. The King has his queen and her name is Jenny.
RIP 1919-2007 Eddie Robinson 408-65 in 55 seasons coaching at Grambling State.
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