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Friday afternoon, my department at $WORK played hooky and hit the links at Hedingham for 18 holes of golf. The course was extremely soggy from Thursday night’s rain but we couldn’t use it as an excuse. What we lacked in talent we made up in wisecracks. It was a lot of fun.
It had been probably a dozen years or more since I picked up golf clubs. I forgot how much fun it (and challenging) it can be.
Some ridiculous thread on the WRAL Sports Fan website asks “Why do some NC.STATE Fans treat Coach Lowe different From TOB?? Does Race Play a part in this???” I didn’t bother wading through all of the 16 pages of responses because I already know the answer.
I like both coaches. I like both basketball and football. But there’s no denying that around here basketball is king. Our rivals frequently win national championships in basketball and State doesn’t. Does this put more pressure on Sydney Lowe than it does Tom O’Brien? Sure it does! If UNC and Duke were always contenders for national championships in football then O’Brien would always be feeling the heat.
It’s not about race, it’s about the neighborhood we live in.
Last weekend the kids went to a pool party for a friend at Gypsy Divers. The scuba diving school rents out time in a room and its heated pool for birthday parties and the like. I hadn’t planned to get into the pool at first but on a whim I dug up my ancient dive certification card from the training I got back in 1989.
As the kids got ready for the pool, I chatted with staff and asked if it was possible to get some gear on and try diving again. After squinting hard at the hair-covered picture on my dive card, the staff issued me a BC, regulator, and tank, and sent me into the storage room to hunt down flippers, booties (which Kelly found so attractive), and a mask. After a quick, two-minute refresher lesson on all the controls around me and a suggestion to stay near the shallow end at first, I straddled the poolside and slipped into the twelve-foot end.
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I’m just shocked and amazed that Mark McGuire used steroids. Who would’ve thought it?
Bobby Bowden
The news is all over the sports world that Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden has coached his last season. It was inevitable (and made moreso by the team’s recent foundering) but it’s still a sad day for college football.
I grew up a Florida State fan and have always thought Bowden was the epitome of a college football coach. There will certainly never be another one like him. As Birmingham News sports columnist Kevin Scarbinsky pointed out:
Bear Bryant didn’t build Alabama from next to nothing. Joe Paterno didn’t start Penn State from virtual scratch. Bobby Bowden turned Florida State from a former girls’ school into a national football power.
Thank you, Bobby Bowden.
Travis got a beginner’s RC plane for his birthday and yesterday we decided to fly it for the first time. The family (plus dog) piled into the minivan and headed for Horseshoe Farm Park.
Horseshoe is the perfect place to fly an RC plane: a large, open, grassy field with few people around. I tied up the dog to the barn and the kids played nearby while Kelly assembled the plane. We warned the kids that this could end in disaster because it was the first time we flew and they seemed okay with it. We followed all the pre-flight checks, though the wind was a bit stronger than we anticipated. Ignoring this, Kelly hand-launched the plane into the wind as I cranked up the throttle.
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For some reason, MT.Net has been deluged with Yahoo searches for “Michael Jordan’s net worth.” This leads folks to my earlier musing about the legends surrounding Jordan.
Yahoo is running this story on their front page about His Airness buying a rather large house in Jupiter, Florida. There is a tiny link under the headline “Michael Jordan’s Costly Mansion” that runs the search. So essentially MT.Net is one step away from being linked to from Yahoo’s home page.
(And for those of you who were wondering, Michael Jordan’s net worth is estimated to be somewhere north of $400 million.)
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m now juggling! As an anniversary present Kelly bought me my own set of juggling balls, having seen how much I liked it last month. I’ve been practicing with them whenever I get a few minutes. I’ve found it’s easiest to park myself in front of our bed when I practice: I don’t have to stoop to pick up the dropped balls that way.
Another thing I’m finding about juggling is the meditative aspect of it. It requires a focus that is far more intense than I anticipated. If I let my mind wander – boom! – I lose the rhythm and balls go flying everywhere. I can see the very nature of juggling will help my concentration skills. Pretty cool.
A story ran in today’s N&O about basketball legend Michael Jordan. The story aimed in part to debunk the widely-held belief that Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team at Laney High School in his hometown of Wilmington.
After reading this morning’s story I went to check Jordan’s Wikipedia entry. Sure enough, Wikipedia stated that Jordan was cut from the team:
He tried out for the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but at 5’11” (1.80 m), he was deemed too short to play at that level and was cut from the team. His taller friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, was the only sophomore to make the team.
(Note: it has since been updated in a way I can agree with.)
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Looks like things aren’t settled between Alberto Contador and his Astana teammates. Contador has amazing legs and an ego to match. He has thumbed his nose at his team throughout the race.
Says Lance Armstrong on Twitter just now:
Seeing these comments from AC. If I were him I’d drop this drivel and start thanking his team. w/o them, he doesn’t win.
hey pistolero, there is no “i” in “team”. what did i say in March? Lots to learn. Restated.
Lance then quoted Axel Merckx, who said:
A champion is also measured on how much he respect his teammates and opponents. You can win a race on your own not a grand tour.
