Category: sports

CONGRATULATIONS, RICE OWLS!

Houston’s own Rice Owls have won the NCAA Baseball Championship. This proves that smart, articulate people can also play sports…well. It was refreshing to be able to understand every syllable these young men uttered during the post-game interviews. Complete sentences without any, “…uh…” or “…yo…” or shouts out to academically (or criminally) suspended teammates… truly refreshing…

My friend Jarred (Rice graduate) sent me the following. I can only assume that it’s a Rice U. cheer of some sort. (lol)

e to the x, dy/dx;

e to the x, dx;

secant, tangent, cosine, sine;

3.14159;

square root, cube root, btu;

compass, slide rule, go Rice U.!

Cheerleading with an incredibly high GPA…

CONGRATULATIONS, SAN ANTONIO!!

A Texas team won the NBA championship! Other than the Pacers winning, this is the second best thing. 🙂

Houston will host the 2004 Super Bowl. Jene’ says I’m delusional because I think the Colts will actually get it together this year. Hey, I’m loyal. I was loyal to the Colts during the late 80’s and 90’s and through the Eric Dickerson disappointment. I remember all the years of Monday morning’s anthem, “God help our Colts.” I think if they actually get the defense in gear, they could have a shot. Of course, I’m also loyal to the Houston Texans unless they are playing the Indianapolis Colts.

Congratulations, David Robinson, one of the NBA’s few class acts. He will be missed. I totally loved him praising God for the victory!

I’m going to Galveston tomorrow night for a short break, so I have to get a few things together tonight. I promise, longer, thoughtful blogs will be forthcoming in the weeks to come. 🙂

Good night!

MONSOONS AND HOOPS

I am so glad that my next door neighbor can’t hear me scream when I’m watching basketball games. My roommate, on the other hand, is worse than I am, but more often than not, she chooses not to watch the game for fear she might permanently damage her vocal cords or a vessel in her brain might explode. She can usually tell the status of the game by what or how loudly I am shouting. The game is over… I will probably calm down enough to go to sleep in a couple of hours.

Now, onto rain… we finally got some more in the form of the usual Houston monsoon. Though we get several inches per hour, it usually rains less than one hour and for that we are grateful, lest we get 38 inches in less than 24 hours and relive Tropical Storm Allison all over again…but I digress. At least I lived on the third floor and my car was parked on the second floor of the parking garage…

At least the satellite didn’t go out during the game. Priorities…