It’s all just a bunch of middle-aged male rednecks who like killing defenseless animals, right? Tell that to 17 year old Jessica Olmstead who just took a record breaking black bear in Canada, with a bow!
Category Archives: Sports
Spend Time With Your Kids so Payton Manning Doesn’t Have To
Saw this little short on Saturday Night Live.
Getting Out of Control
That would be NFL Rookie contracts. From ESPN:
So let me get this straight – He didn’t finish his college career (left after having been injured his ENTIRE junior year), he hasn’t taken a snap in the NFL, and the Rams want to drop $50 million in guaranteed money in his lap? NFL rookie contracts are getting out of control.
USU vs. WSU
My instate friends will initially believe that I’m talking Utah State vs. Weber State. No, on this post I’ll be discussing Utah State vs. Wichita State.
Wichita State University is a NCAA Division I school that plays in the Missouri Valley Conference. Saturday’s game is big for Utah State – they need the win to maintain their lead in the conference, thus getting into the NCAA March Madness Tournament. Wichita State, on the other hand, has no way of making the tourney because they are #2 in their conference having lost to Northern Iowa earlier this season.
So, why does any of this matter? Because I’m going to the game on Saturday and my dad and I will probably be the only two people in the Spectrum rooting for the Shockers!
I lived in Wichita, Kansas, for almost five years and my family was there for a total of 12. When it’s college baseball world series time, we always pulled for WSU (check out their record and you’ll know why). If the game is televised, look for the two guys in the Sunflower Yellow and Black!
Winchester SXP Update (Part III)
I was googling around today wanting to see if I could find more info on the Winchester SXP. I found it at Field and Stream:
The SXP is the Turkish-made reincarnation of the old 1300, an underappreciated, lightweight, inexpensive gun made in the old New Haven factory before it closed. Winchester announced the SXP last year but it wasn’t until this year that they actually received guns from their Turkish vendor in sellable quantities.
Turkish-made? It was time for another call to Browning.
Rick, one of the customer service agents with whom I’ve spoken several times concerning the SXP, confirmed that the manufacturing was being done in Turkey but did not remember the name of the factory/company. FN (the Browning/Winchester parent) of course has complete QC oversight and testing is being done in here in the U.S. at the Browning factory in Morgan, Utah. Apparently, FN uses a lot of Turkish manufacturers for their shotguns (thus quality should not be an issue).
As mentioned previously, they are still on schedule for a June, 2010 release date.
Thoughts on the 2009 NFC Championship Game
| Team Stat Comparison | ||
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| 1st Downs | 31 | 15 |
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Passing 1st downs
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17 | 8 |
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Rushing 1st downs
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10 | 4 |
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1st downs from Penalties
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4 | 3 |
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3rd down efficiency
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7-12 | 3-12 |
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4th down efficiency
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0-0 | 1-1 |
| Total Plays | 82 | 55 |
| Total Yards | 475 | 257 |
| Passing | 310 | 189 |
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Comp-Att
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28-46 | 17-31 |
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Yards per pass
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6.7 | 6.1 |
| Rushing | 165 | 68 |
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Rushing Attempts
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36 | 23 |
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Yards per rush
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4.6 | 3.0 |
| Red Zone (Made-Att) | 4-6 | 3-3 |
| Penalties | 5-32 | 9-88 |
| Turnovers | 5 | 1 |
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Fumbles lost
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3 | 1 |
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Interceptions thrown
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2 | 0 |
| Defensive / Special Teams TDs | 0 | 0 |
| Possession | 36:49 | 27:56 |
A note to the Minnesota Vikings – YOU CANNOT COMMIT 5 TURNOVERS (fumbling six times, losing three, and throwing two interceptions) AND EXPECT TO WIN THE GAME, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOUR OTHER STATS ARE!!!
Over all, it was a great game. If the Vikings hadn’t of turned the ball over five times, they’d be heading to Super Bowl XLIV and not the Saints.
Oh well. Only 231 days until the Vikings take the field during week 1 of the 2010 Regular Season.
Go Red Rocks!!!
They often go unnoticed because of the Utah football and basketball team, but our Red Rocks did us proud tonight!
The largest gymnastics crowd in Utah and NCAA history turned out to see the two most successful programs in the country and Utah and Georgia did not disappoint. In a meet that went down to the final routine, Utah eked out a 196.550-196.500 victory over the five-time defending NCAA champion GymDogs.
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ke the article says, Georgia has won the NCAA gymnastics championship for the last five years. Utah has “the most successful collegiate gymnastics team in the nation,” and finished 2nd three times and 3rd twice in the last five years. We beat Georgia last year during the regular season too, but couldn’t pull it out in the finals. Good luck, Red Rocks! Let’s bring another national championship home!
Take That Pac-10!
Utah just finished destroying Cal in the Poinsettia Bowl. Yes, the final score was 37-27, but the game wasn’t really that close. Congrats to the Utes! That makes the Mountain West Conference 3-0 in bowl games thus far. It also makes the Pac-10 0-3 since Wyoming beat Fresno State, BYU beat Oregon State, and Utah just beat Cal.
I love the Bowl Season, and I’m not the only one in our family. D has become an avid football fan. He always wants to do it and only real games will suffice (I’ve tried to get him to watch stuff on Youtube and he just walks off). Well, the game tonight was on ESPN and thank heaven for ESPN360.com. If your internet service provider is contracted with ESPN, you can watch ANY game that they cover (in any sport), even going into the archives to catch games that you missed. This was the view for the first little while at our house:
Yes, that’s my two year old watching the game, propped right in front of the screen. It makes me a happy dad. Congrats to the Utes!!! Good luck to Air Force when they play Houston on Dec. 31 in the Armed Forces Bowl, and good luck to TCU when they play Boise State on Jan. 4 in the Fiesta Bowl.
The Streak Is Over!
For the first time in 10 years, the Utah Jazz beat the San Antonio Spurs IN San Antonio.
I think that, going forward, we should only sign Carlos Boozer to one year contracts. That way he’s always in a contract year and always has to play at the top of his game.
Cry Babies
I’d like to invite Lane Kiffin and the other pansy coaches of the SEC to quit whining to the press and to handle their complaints in a manner that isn’t going to take up space in my sports news reading. I’d also like to invite ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, and each and every other sports news agency/ affiliate to stop getting a hard on and showing it to the world every time one of these second graders complains to the press.
Most people that I talk to agree that high-profile athletes aren’t worth their salaries, regardless of their talent and what they do for our favorite teams. And it’s strange to see how that attitude is starting to apply to coaches. For example: I think Urban Meyer is an amazing football coach and I’m very grateful for what he did with the University of Utah program, leading us to our 2005 Fiesta Bowl win. But now he’s whining to the press about how SEC refs blew a call against the holy child Tebow (the call didn’t even determine the outcome of a game).
All of this crying has led to the decision by the SEC to no longer hand out reprimands but to start fining or even suspending coaches who act like 8 year olds. I think it’s a good move.
Okay, I’m done.
Football Season!
After watching my Utes run all over Utah State on Thursday – well, I was in class so I was following a stat tracker on ESPN.com – I’m ready for a great Saturday full of College Football. Tammy is going to a baby shower, so I’m all set to indoctrinate the boy!
We’re broke and don’t have cable, so I’m quickly becoming an avid fan of ESPN.com, since they “televise” games that I normally wouldn’t see. The Boise State/Oregon game for example. I wouldn’t have seen that game but I was able to watch it on ESPN 360.
Here is my football watching schedule for the day:
Navy/Ohio State – 10:00am ESPN 360
Georgia/Oklahoma State – 1:30pm ABC
BYU/Oklahoma – 5:00pm ESPN 360
Alabama/VA Tech – 6:00 ABC
The beautiful thing about being able to watch games online is that, as you can see, two of the games will overlap and I can watch them simultaneously. Today is going to be a good day.
They Say Better Late Than Never
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will never be broken.
Well, I guess if you set your mind to it you can do anything.
Late Reaction
OK, so readers of this site know that I’m a huge Utah football fan. You also know that Utah stomped BYU this year, on their way to a BCS victory over Alabama. Well, I just had this video forwarded to me. It shows a frustrated Adolf Hitler, as an avid BYU fan, venting after the BYU loss to Utah. Enjoy!
