Tough Losses

Well, the Michigan Basketball team had some tough losses. We ended up loosing to Illinois, then Ohio State at home, then at Penn State, we beat Northwestern at home, then we continued to loose to Ohio State and Purdue. We finally beat Penn State on the 31st, but that was it. We have had a very low shooting percentage, an average of 26%. It has been pitaful. Practices have been so so, but I cant comment more on them.

One bummer was the home game against Ohio State. Now we lost to them by a little on the road, and we really should have beat them. But this time they came home, and in celebration and commemoration, we invited the 1989 NCAA Championship team to come and we wore the ´89 year retro jerseys. It was pretty pimp...until we lost. Yes, we lost to Ohio State, and it was very very disappointing. It really was embarrassing, but never the less, the ´89 squad was very supportive and gave the players a lot of encouragement after the game. IN the locker room, one of the things that stood out for me was when Beilein asked a raise of hands of all the players hwo played in the NBA. About 8 or 9 of the 13 guys raised their hands. Then he asked how much money they had left from their NBA careers, and they all said Zero. "Did you Michigan Education pay off?" "Absolutely!" They all shouted in unison!











Now, although we have a loosing streak going, we still have a chance to make it into the NCAA tournament. We need to make at least 9 conference wins to have a chance, but it seems like this chance is getting slimmer and slimmer as the games go by. We will see what happeneds.

Man Month and Inauguration

Man month has begun and it is all out. The no shave started sharp on the 1st of January and will continue. Here at the pentadude there is plenty of eating meat, doing pushups, and just growling. It is awesome. The goal of man month? To Reject all forms of Feminization in our Manlyness.

A good way to meet up in the middle mark and size up our beards is MLK weekend (or I like to call it MiLK weekend) for the Men`s winter cabin trip. We go into the middle of some woods in the snow with UCO dudes from all over Michigan and just hang out. Of course the historical things are the massive football game, eating manly stew, playing card games and dice games, and just being men. It is sweet.

I had tons of fun playing this new game called Settlers of Catan, which little did I know would become an instant addiction to my room. It was good seeing some good guys from lansing and we ahd a lot of fun trying to get our cars out of the snow.


Then of course, the big anticipation here in Ann Arbor was the inaguration of Barak Obama. People were going nuts here and like almost everything stood still. I saw the inauguration, and I love speeches, and although it was a fairly decent one, I dont think it cracked the top 10. The thing that I noticed most was this was not a big deal because of this liberal man was becoming president and he was going to change everything. It was historical because this man who had black and white parents was the first president with black blood to take office. That was it. The whole importance was the black berrier that was deminished. I think people often overlook on his actual policies because he is black. I think it is great that he is the first black president, but people all over th enation overlooked what the man`s policies are. That was displayed 3 days after he entered office when he passed a bill to allow money to go to places over seas like planned parent hood that offer constraceptives and abrotions. See what the Vatican thinks about it.

What do you guys think about his inauguration? What about the bill? Think Man Month is pretty cool? You do, I can see it in your eyes! Tell me what you think! and I will write soon!

Comming back for round 2

Well, its time to come back to Michigan! This year is looking to be a promising year. Not as hectic as the first. I am only taking 13 hours and I think it is gonna be a good year in basketball too. We have Lavel, the transfer from Arizona elligible.

I will be applying to the second tier of the Sport Management program this semester. Although Econ killed my GPA (fell from a 3.34 to a 2.88 after both econs), I believe my strong resumé of work and past experiences will help me get in.

I am looking forward to do many things with St Mary and NCSA. It was funny,b ecause a couple of us were going to do litergy of the hours on saterday morning, the first one from my break. We descided to meet at St Mary to use a room there and because it was a central location. Well, we get there at 10am, and it takes like 10 minutes, but I figure out that I had an NSCA meeting,t he first one of the term! So I went and it took 10 hours, no joke, from 10am to 7:30. It was nuts. But we got so much important things done.


UCO is gonna be sweet. The combination of JaNEWary and Man Month is gonna be awesome! THe beard has already begun and it is only a matter of time that the girls look at me weird and the coaches offer me shavers. But what the corn, it is all good.

The one thing that sucks is that my iPhone is still bricked. it is still useless. As in, it doesnt work and it hasnt worked since January 4th. I have done everything. I even got one of them any sims and cut my sim card so that it would fit and it still doesnt work! Ahh. If anyone has any suggestions, please put them in the comment box.




I have Intermural basketball this semester and that should be cool. If you remember last year, we were on the A league instead of the B. And it was aweful. This year we are in teh B and we are more prepared. I even have my manager buddy Josh playing with us. It should be exciting.

This was a short post, but what the heck, I will post another one up soon. Take care, ya hear?