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You know it’s a good day when:
1. It snows
2. Family and Friends
3. UNC loses in basketball
4. Duke wins in basketball
5. NC State wins in basketball
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Appalachian plays Richmond this Saturday night at 8pm, in Boone, NC. That’s going to be a cold game, lol. Like many other places in the country, it’s supposed to snow their this week. Oh yeah, it’s going to be aired on ESPN2 If you don’t watch it, you’re a loser.
Carolina (Hockey) plays tonight. They badly need a win. They’ve lost 6 of their last 9 games. They’ve let the rest of their division catch up after having such a good start to the season. Blah
In other news besides sports, it’s getting cold. Like cold and windy. It reminds me of undergrad at App, but it isn’t quite that cold yet. Just mainly the wind part.
Christmas will soon be here. I am definitely not prepared gift wise. I have one gift and five or six more to purchase. Go me! I still have time. I’ll go look one night this week after work. We have a conference going on all week for work. We will be at the Sheraton Imperial near the airport. Fun times.
::Correction::
The game is now Friday night at 8pm. It was moved because of the bad winter weather and the fact that Delaware has yet to leave to go play Southern Illinoise. That game was originally supposed to play Friday night.
Football.
Today has not been a very good day for my teams so far. I was hoping Kentucky would beat Florida. I assumed ECU would beat NC State. I was worried about Appalachian; rightfully so, apparently. My lovely alma mater lost at home today, 38-35. It was the first home loss since 2002, my freshman year. Thirty games in a row. It was the longest streak in college football.
You can read about some of it here: Go ASU
It was an ok game. ASU was losing big in the first half, but our defense stepped up and was able to hold them under control for most of the second half. We drove down the field late in the game, scored, forced them to punt after a three and out, and we got the ball back with 1:25 left in the game, down by three points. The punt return was called back because of a penalty. If it wasn’t for the penalty, we would have been about thirty yards from scoring, but because of it, we got the ball on our own 35. We moved the ball pretty well for not having any timeouts left, but an inability to get out of bounds and not getting a first down forced us into one last play, 4th and 11, with the clock running with about 12 seconds left in the game. Edwards, our QB, tried to pass it, then took off running and was forced out of bounds within feet of picking up the first down. The clock had 1.1 seconds left. We turned the ball over on downs.
It was a heart breaker. So close to being able to kick a field goal and tie the game, but if you look at it that way, then I can also look at two passes during the game that were dropped that would have resulted in touchdowns, instead of field goals.
I guess all I can say is “oh well”. We had to lose sometime, right? It was a lot of fun though, being over at a friends house watching it on his satellite, eating Bojangles.
Here is a game recap: ESPN
Today is Saturday, a very wonderful day. I’ve grown up watching sports and throughly enjoy watching and participating in them.
Some of my earliest sports memories involve Bobby Hurley and the Duke University basketball team. I guess I was either five or six years old at the time. I assume I was drawn to the Blue Devils because of their mascot, the color blue, or because they were just on tv. Who’d a thought that a seemingly small decision at such a young age would affect a life in such a way? I like to say I’ve been a Duke fan for life, but who really knows? I can’t recall that far back. Anyway, I have no clue where I’m going with this, but yeah, information is good, right?
For the past eleven or twelve seasons, I’ve been attending Duke home football games. Basketball tickets have been impossible to obtain for like my whole life, so I get as close as I can to the basketball stadium, I guess. I have actually attended like two games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Why is it called a stadium anyway? It can only fit like 4,000 people, it’s hot, and was built like sixty years ago. Clickie But it’s totally awesome. Anyway, the football team at Duke has more or less sucked the last decade or so. (Yay, the Carolina Hurricanes just scored (2-1) against Montreal) Despite their suckieness, Duke actually won a game earlier this season (yay!), something that alluded them all last season. Your luck eventually turns up, I guess. I’m going to go ahead a make a bold prediction, Duke is going to have a .500 season next year or the year after that.
I think they can. It’s bound to happen sooner or later. We’ve been in some pretty close games this season. We’ve lost two high-scoring games this season, almost beat Miami last season, and lost to both UNC and Wake Forest (the eventual ACC Camps) by one point last season. So, we’ve almost been there, it just hasn’t happened yet. That is why I think we will actually win multiple games in the next year or two. We need a new kicker though, god we do. Thankfully, he is a senior and will be gone next season.
Anyone watch LSU lose in triple OT to Kentucky? I love college sports. Way better than professional. Time to go finish watching the Hurricanes game. From what I’ve seen this season, they are a pretty strong team. Last season, after winning the Stanly Cup in 2005, was a let down, but the same thing happened in 2002 when they lost in the finals. The season after that stunk. That’s just how they are I guess. I’d take another Stanly cup championship this season though.
