As conference championships have begun to be decided, are you wondering where your team will fall? In the case of my Mountaineers, the question is what seed they will be more than where they will be playing after Selection Sunday, March 15. If, as they have in the past, West Virginia happens to win the… Continue reading Will Your Team Dance?
Surprise! Surprise! The NCAA thinks it is just like big time professional sports and has an annual meeting to discuss rules and changes to said rules. If you have ever gone through the NCAA recruiting manual, I am amazed there are not more violations. It is like reading a state report but much more dry… Continue reading NCAA Recruiting Rules Change
I love to go to swim meets that are not at Maine-Endwell. You see, my son is a diver, not a swimmer. He does occasionally swim exhibition heats but he does not swim much. He dives. So why do I dislike going to home meets? Maine-Endwell does not currently have a diving board for diving during swim meets. When my… Continue reading Diving at Oneonta
My almost 22 year old son left home yesterday to head back to college. No classes do not start this early in January. He is heading to the University at Buffalo to meet up with approximately 23 busloads full of students who are now almost at the Canadian border. They are following their football team… Continue reading Bowl Bound
My 21 year old son is on the bus, one of six I believe, headed from the Buffalo suburb of Amherst where the University at Buffalo’s North Campus is located to Detroit. Why you may ask? He is one of approximately one thousand who have bought tickets to attend the MAC Championship Game at Ford… Continue reading MAC Championship Tonight
My 21 year old son is currently getting a lesson at college that is not one that you normally pay for receiving. I know the tuition bill for next semester should be here any time and I will definitely know that I am paying for his education but this is a reprisal of a lesson… Continue reading A Different Lesson from College
Not exactly but a little known prep school in our backyard is known for the quality and number of running backs it has produced. I remember when Milford Academy was first getting started. No one in the small upstate NY town of New Berlin was sure about the location in their town. Townspeople, if I recall… Continue reading Running Back U?
I am not a huge fan of Facebook or MySpace but I do have profiles on both. I don’t sit and regularly check them as my teenagers do. I do regularly check my teenagers’ profiles, though. The problem is a lot of teenagers and early 20s kids don’t get that people other than your “friends”… Continue reading Facebook, MySpace and the College Athlete
Should you be tired early this evening of hearing about the lines voters don’t want to wait in (this is a small price to pay for the type of society we live in), the faulty machines that are being used (I am really hoping this doesn’t make big headlines), or how close or not close… Continue reading Election Night Television Recommendation
I know yesterday’s blurb was pretty sure that this was the case. Both the Buffalo News and the Niagara Gazette had articles saying Buffalo was the only of the three finalist cities to have a news conference scheduled for yesterday. Yesterday, Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, made the news official. HSBC Arena, in… Continue reading World Junior Hockey Coming to Western NY
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