Archive for July, 2010

I guess it took a two-year bowl ban, severe holds on scholarships and an entire season wiped from the record books for the University of Southern California to realize that Mike Garrett was simply not the right guy to be the Athletic Director for USC. So in comes in Pat [...]

Ever since Eminem’s album Recovery came out, I have not been able to stop listening to it. Is Eminem back to his old self? Not quite. He will have a hard time following up such emotional and power songs such as “Hailey’s Song” and “Cleaning out my Closet?.” However, this [...]

I still find it hard to believe that in one month I will be 2,800 miles away in the city of Ithaca, New York. If you were to ask me two years ago when I graduated high school that I would be attending Cornell University, I would have laughed, and [...]

Lebron James is off to Miami. Surprise surprise. I guess he can’t keep everyone out of the loop. My question is what kind of narcissistic, self-centered jerk-off decides that he is so high and mighty that he will turn his free agency status into a publicity stunt, then have the [...]

It’s funny. I was never a real big Orlando Hudson fan, even for the majority of last season. You know the saying, “you never know how much you love someone until they’re gone.” Well, he did not die or anything, but this is a statement that resembles my take on [...]

In a final attempt to put the west coast on the map, the Pac-10 conference has added the University of Colorado and the University of Utah. However, this switching around of conferences has completely taken away from the idea of the student athlete and turned it into a giant business [...]

I was reading an article in the Ventura County Star the other day about high school seniors choosing to attend community college instead of the four-year universities they got into: ones such as UC-Santa Cruz, CSUCI, Cal State Dominguez Hills, etc. Whether it was to be closer to family or [...]

I never really envisioned myself ever watching soccer on television. Then there was the world cup. I think that the world cup stands for something more than just the game of soccer, and is a message to us all that team, pride, and unity, among other things, is what defines [...]