Entries tagged with "sports"
I don't know... I might just be a basketball machine.
posted by srah on March 17, 2008 10:50 PM
Tags: basketball, ncaa, sports
It's time once again for Srah's Wholly Unknowledgeable Basketball Picks! You would think that after two non-consecutive years of doing this, I would start to develop some strategy, or get to know the playing styles of some of the teams that are in the tournament every year. Not so! I just pick the brackets. I don't watch the basketball, foo'. I have better things to do with my time, like... uh... well, very important things. Once again, I present to you (after the jump), my bracket-picking strategy, in all its glory....
The Curse of the Srambino
posted by srah on February 23, 2008 7:25 PM
Tags: hockey, sports, the university i work at
I went to a hockey game last night because a friend had an extra ticket. The University I Work At was playing against Western Michigan, my friend's alma mater, although she's lived in Srahtown and had various connections to The University I Work at for years. So she had loyalty to both teams and I had loyalty to none at all, because although I work there, TUIWA has been battling the University of Michigan for the top of the league (and the top of the college hockey rankings altogether) all season. Once the game started, though, I started hoping for...
Rip! Rip! Rip the chipmunk off the field
posted by srah on November 10, 2007 8:04 AM
Tags: football, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, sports, university of michigan
Go Blue! (No, there is no real content to this post. What am I, a football blog? Kittens!)...
How many guys in a bear suit does it take to scare srah?
posted by srah on October 3, 2007 5:34 PM
Tags: fear, mascots, sports, the university i work at
I am proud to have been a Bulldog/Mustang, a Roadrunner, a River Rat, a Briton and a Wolverine, because one thing that all of these schools had in common was that they never dressed anyone up in a stupid costume to dance around and seriously freak me out. Sports mascots are like clowns, but you can't even see their eyes so you never know when they're going to snap. (With clowns, at least you can see their eyes, so you can tell that they are going to snap and murder you... any minute now. It's... reassuring?) My usual reaction to...
Excellence is good (I wish we were)
posted by srah on September 12, 2007 9:47 PM
Tags: football, notre dame, sports, university of michigan
This is a really exciting time to be a Michigan fan. My director is a Notre Dame graduate, so this afternoon when talk turned to weekend plans, our conversation was basically My Team Is Going to Lose to Your Team. Both teams are 0-2 for the season so far, and going up against each other this weekend in what has been referred to as "Cripple Fight 2007" or "The Slump Buster Bowl". I think we have the advantage for MTIGTLTYT, though, with a freshman quarterback with half a game's experience (as opposed to a freshman quarterback with two games' experience),...
Roast the Ducks!
posted by srah on September 8, 2007 3:11 PM
Tags: football, sports, university of michigan
Who's ready for some MICHIGAN FOOTBALL?! (I hope the team is.) ETA: The team was not....
'Whaddya got there, the ol' leather pumpkin?'
posted by srah on March 12, 2007 5:13 PM
Tags: basketball, ncaa, sports
Using my awesome psychic powers, which only fail me oh, about every day, I have determined that the 2006 2007 NCAA Basketball champions will be... Gonzaga University in a surprise win over Michigan State. Start dousing the couches! Things will be aflame in East Lansing the evening of April 2nd! I will not go into quite as much detail as I did in 2005, but this year, my bracket selection strategies include: "We work with their study abroad programs" (Butler, Virginia, Wright State), "They're nearby and if they win, then Ohio State is out of the tournament" (Xavier), "They have...
Some Pig Owl
posted by srah on February 4, 2007 3:35 PM
Tags: football, sports, super bowl
So it seems like everyone's really excited about some owl this weekend. They're even throwing big parties for it, and they're going to be televising it for, like, 3.5 hours this evening. I don't really get it or why everyone thinks it's so superb, but I hear they're going to have some pretty good commercials on in between the avian coverage, so I guess I'll watch that. Go little Exlee, or whatever your name is....
What power?
posted by srah on October 29, 2006 12:18 AM
Tags: baseball, detroit tigers, sports
To whom it may concern: Although I often use my Evil Voodoo Powers to curse the Detroit Tigers, I will have you know that I did nothing to influence the World Series, because I had already given up on caring what the Tigers did this season....
Well at least we're not round on our ends!
posted by srah on September 14, 2006 12:28 PM
Tags: michigan, ohio, sports, walking
Yesterday I walked to the library as part of my HIGHEST STEPCOUNT DAY EVER. On the way there, another pedestrian passing in the other direction said, "Great shirt." I looked down and saw that I was wearing a Michigan sweatshirt. Ah, a fellow Wolverines fan! When I got to the library to pick up the books I had on reserve, the clerk said, "I don't know if I should give these to you." I thought, 'What have I done? Do I have enormous fines I don't know about? Did I reserve porn??' She continued, "... wearing that shirt." Aha! A...
Because you're mine, I walk online
posted by srah on September 6, 2006 8:36 PM
Tags: health, pedometer, sports, steps, walkertracker, walking
Thanks to Ed, I have discovered Walker Tracker, which has many of the features of the previous step-tracking site I was using, but with more community interaction and graphs! Read my step logger! Watch my progress go up and down! Join this one now!...
Got Lions and Tigers, only in Detroit
posted by srah on August 11, 2006 5:11 PM
Tags: baseball, detroit tigers, sports
I am so disappointed with the Detroit Tigers this year. Remember when they used to almost break records for sucking and suck so bad they lost more games than they played? I have been mad at the Tigers for the last three years¹, ever since that season where they sucked so bad... that they couldn't even break records for sucking. They were poised to break records for the worst season ever, then at the end of the season they won a few games and avoided that plight. If you're going to be that bad, then go all the way and...
You may not have felt anything, but I just kicked you in the solar plexus, suckah
posted by srah on February 16, 2006 9:55 PM
Tags: sports
I went to the first session of a self-defense class tonight. When I left I was all sweaty. What the heck? Forget this self-defense, man. You can have my wallet, just don't make me break a sweat. Speaking of things I'd like to beat up, how about this weather of ours? My sweaty self and I brought along a coat and a sweatshirt, prepared for normal February weather, but walked out of class in a t-shirt....
Who... dey?
posted by srah on December 20, 2005 12:14 PM
Tags: bengals, cincinnati, comics, football, ohio, sports
I went shopping on Sunday, as I am wont to do but don't want to do¹. At 4pm, every television in the mall turned to the Bengals game. I don't just mean that they turned to the game in electronics stores or in bar/grills within the malls. I mean that when I was taking a break from the Hell That Is Holiday Shopping (and Gaucho Pants) by playing I'm Going To Buy This For You/Shopping For a Dress For a Wedding I Already Went To in the formalwear section in Dillards, the TVs in that section that usually show music...
You know you're not from Ohio when...
posted by srah on December 16, 2005 11:11 PM
Tags: ohio, ohio state university, sports
... you see a special-printed Coke can with "Go Bucks" written on it and wonder why a Milwaukee basketball team¹ are advertising down here. ––––– ¹Note to naysayers and croakers: Look! I knew the mascot of a professional basketball team! Do you respect me yet?...
Hey, guess what - Detroit's in the playoffs this year! *gag*
posted by srah on June 17, 2005 11:35 AM
Tags: sports
Ever since Cari left, there's no one around to organize social events. Don't look at me - I have all this important stuff to do... like... um... encourage my Sims to socialize. Wait... So luckily a fête happy hour was organized for last night. But unluckily, a basketball game was also scheduled for last night. Basketball and I have never quite seen eye-to-eye but we managed to coexist civilly - the occasional biting remarks but usually it was okay to take us out in public together. But our truce lasts no longer! The bar was full of people watching the...
Another black day in my athletic career
posted by srah on April 23, 2005 6:44 PM
Tags: sports
Dear The People Who Are In Charge Of Picking These Things, It is with great regret that I inform you that I missed the deadline for the NFL Draft. Things were very busy this week and my mind was elsewhere. I assure you, however, that I will make an effort to declare my eligibility next year. Hope you're not too disappointed, SRAH...
Proof that you can combine blogging and professional basketball as long as you are not me
posted by srah on April 23, 2005 2:40 PM
Tags: sports
Paul Shirley, please continue blogging. [via swirlspice]...
The ongoing saga of srah vs. sports
posted by srah on April 4, 2005 9:39 AM
Tags: sports
I am a sports fiend! As some of you may have followed and others of you may have waited with baited breath* to learn, if I had been involved in some kind of NCAA basketball pool (which I WASN'T) I would have come in last place among the other people NOT participating in said IMAGINARY pool and won back the five dollars that I DIDN'T illegally bet on the outcome of the tournament. Victory! Sweet sweet breaking even!** On the heels of this triumph comes my new foray into the world of sports wagering: Fantasy Baseball. Fantasy Baseball, unlike NCAA...
Hire me, ye downtrodden NCAA losers!
posted by srah on March 22, 2005 10:26 PM
Tags: job search, sports
Have increased my Number Of Jobs Applied For by 67% today. By 67%? Is that right? Aw, forget this fancy math. I applied to two, bringing the total to five. I finally got around to applying for two jobs at schools that are still in the tournament, keeping my pathetic basketball hopes alive! Gonzaga, you have shamed me. But I ain't proud. Got any openings in your study abroad office?...
Uneducated guessing
posted by srah on March 17, 2005 11:13 AM
Tags: basketball, ncaa, sports
Here is the extent of my knowledge/made-up facts about basketball: Tall people play it. James Naismith invented it. He was Canadian. Converse used to have contracts to shoe the NBA. Now they just shoe ninjas. Here is the extent of my knowledge about the current state of college basketball: Division I college athletes are spoiled. Oh, and, um, I think Duke might be good. You always hear about them, don't you? So, of course, it follows that I am not (if the NCAA asks) entering a NCAA basketball pool. Yes, that's it. Not entering. Go away, nice NCAA. But I...
srah's Super Bowl halftime update
posted by srah on February 6, 2005 8:29 PM
Tags: commercials, football, sports, super bowl
Who are you cheering for? I'm rooting for FedEx myself. Ah, that Burt Reynolds! Oh... there's a football game on? Well, if I have to pick a team, I'll cheer for Philadelphia. I base this decision on absolutely no knowledge of professional football and the conviction that there's something creepy about Tom Brady. Paul McCartney's halftime show is making me uncomfortable. I don't know what it is, but I feel very uneasy and on edge. It's like watching someone you know on stage - you want them to do very well, but there's this terrifying feeling that they will fail...
Go, erm, blue.
posted by srah on March 18, 2004 2:41 PM
Tags: sports
I bought season tickets today for next year's Michigan football season. I know, I know, I am not the first person you would expect to buy season football tickets. I am not necessarily a big sports fan*. But I do enjoy getting swept up in the enthusiasm and a Michigan football game, unlike Zzzzalbionzzzzz, has plenty of spirit.Cari told us her tales from the games last season and somehow I felt like I was missing out.This is my last chance to sit in the student section. Because of all of these factors, I grabbed the opportunity and bought tickets in...
srah's athletic exertion for the week
posted by srah on February 9, 2004 9:21 AM
Tags: sports
Having read a few books with characters who are athletes, I know that when you push yourself in athletic pursuits, chemicals called endorphins are released into your blood. You will push yourself beyond pain in order to release these chemicals, which drug your brain and make it happy. Athletes build up immunities to endorphins, though, which explains the athletic drive. Like with any addiction, the more you get, the more endorphins you need to get that buzz the next time. Running late for being early this morning, I combined frantic flailing running (think Phoebe on Friends) with brisk walking and...
All my girls (and guys) at the party, look at his/her body
posted by srah on February 1, 2004 11:57 PM
Tags: football, sports, super bowl
I question the logic of theming this year's Super Bowl halftime show "The Hits of Three Years Ago, As Performed By Has-Beens." As far as I know*, the only one in the mess who has a song currently playing on the radio is Kid Rock, and rather than sing that one, he sang his Big Hits of 1998 or whatever they were. The worst offender in this category was Michael "Janet" Jackson, who hasn't had a hit in years, but was for some reason the headlining performer. He has got to be the richest person in the world. He owns...
Go FedEx go!
posted by srah on February 1, 2004 5:45 PM
Tags: commercials, football, sports, super bowl
I imagine that I will spend the evening watching the Super Bowl, then running into the office to work on Programming homework between the commercials. Apparently this year they have some football game or something on as filler. *shrug* Where do they get these ideas?...
It's a nerd... it's a jock... it's Supersrah!
posted by srah on November 22, 2003 3:32 PM
Tags: sports
I have managed to watch U-M beat OSU's sucky Ohio behinds and at the same time find a website devoted to Square One TV. Doan be jealous of my versatility now....
The national pasttime should be sitting around in your pyjamas and watching DVDs
posted by srah on August 10, 2003 12:56 PM
Tags: baseball, detroit tigers, sports, srahfam
My family seemed surprised to learn that, given the choice between going to a baseball game in Detroit and sitting around the house all day, I would choose the latter. I was only gone for seven months and these people don't even know me anymore. Actually, I love sitting around the house all day, so there wasn't even much of a decision to be made. If, on the other hand, my choices had been between going to watch the Tigers and jabbing myself in the eye with a pencil, THEN I might have had some soul-searching to do. Although I...
You'll be swell, you'll be great
posted by srah on July 2, 2003 6:37 PM
Tags: basketball, sports, srahfam
Listening to a sports radio show on the way home from work last week, I decided that I wanted to be a professional basketball player in Belgium. Getting paid to live in Belgium sounds pretty good to me. Far from supporting my dream, my parents started pointing out various flaws in my plan, such as the fact that I am a 5'1" girl with no talent or interest in basketball and with a contempt for most athletes. I was horrified and disappointed that my family didn't support my decision automatically and tell me to shoot for my dreams because if...
And not a Flying V in sight
posted by srah on June 10, 2003 1:40 PM
Tags: sports
So, the Mighty Ducks have finally been vanquished. After such fierce opponents as the Hawks, the Icelandic Junior Team, and the Eden Hall Varsity Team, it was the New Jersey Devils who finally managed to beat the team some considered unstoppable. I wouldn't know - I was busy watching D3 on the Disney Channel....
srah's TV guide
posted by srah on June 3, 2003 10:47 AM
Becky spent the evening flipping back and forth between the Stanley Cup finals and For Love or Money, and I spent the evening walking through and screaming at the télé while my cookies baked. My thoughts on the Stanley Cup finals are that I don't care who wins as long as it isn't Anaheim. So yeah, go Devils or whatever. I don't care how good Anaheim are or how long they've been around or how long ago the movie came out - I don't want to live in a world where the Mighty Ducks win the Stanley Cup. My thoughts...
The rest of the weekend
posted by srah on February 2, 2003 11:40 AM
Tags: assistantship, crepes, holidays, la chandeleur, skiing, sports
The weather got worse yesterday afternoon, so no one went out skiing in the evening. I briefly considered going along this morning but Philippe, who is a ski instructor, was training and Mathieu, who is another beginner, was nursing a sore knee. So instead of going out and falling all over with no one to commiserate, I stayed behind and spent the morning with Mat (or Tomate, if you are a pompette joyeuse). We returned his skis, had a walk around the lake and a talk about Thanksgiving and politics, then went back to the apartment and spent the rest...
Bury me up to the knees at Super-Besse
posted by srah on February 1, 2003 7:07 AM
Tags: assistantship, sports
The others went skiing, but I am a chicken. I don't like going downhill and the only thing I can think of to make this worse is two big awkward pieces of fiberglass stuck to my feet. No, that's not true - I can think of something worse: having one big awkward piece of fiberglass stuck to my feet, as in snowboarding. Anyway, I might work up the stupidity courage to do it for an hour this evening, just for the sake of saying I've done it. But at the moment the others are out skiing and I'm not. Instead,...
¡Hasta luego!
posted by srah on January 31, 2003 8:38 AM
Tags: assistantship, sports
I'm off to Spanish class with the THOTs again, as we're leaving from Valéry Larbaud at 4pm for our weekend of snow and NOT skiing. I shall not allow myself to be convinced to ski. I shall remain stubborn as a mule and keep my limbs intact, thankyouverymuch....
Régis suggests skiing uphill
posted by srah on January 24, 2003 1:42 PM
Tags: assistantship, skiing, sports
I have been invited to go skiing (or "skying", if you prefer) with the S2OLs next weekend. This sounds like a fun, exciting way to spend a weekend, except for the whole skiing part. I imagine roaring fires, hot tea or chocolate, and perhaps tramping about in the snow a bit, but none of that nasty downhill nonsense, considering I have problems walking downhill or even descending staircases. Up up up for srah, or perhaps over over over, but certainly not down down down. Even better, perhaps, would be staying still still still, considering that I am unathletic and maladroite...
And I would walk 500 miles... (6.10.02)
posted by srah on October 7, 2002 4:54 AM
Tags: assistantship, sports, walking
When I woke up this morning, my first thought was not Hmmm, how about I walk until my feet fall off? And yet I did. I will miss those feet, as I've had them for quite a while and have grown rather attached. Jennifer suggested last night that we go for a bike ride or a walk around the area, so we met up at 10am today. Finding no bike rental shops open, we set off on foot. We walked through Cusset and out the other side, throught a mountainous forest area that reminded me of Le pacte des loups....
A pause would be refreshing
posted by srah on October 7, 2002 3:40 AM
Nothing hits the spot after a 25km walk on Sunday afternoon like a week-long bus strike beginning Monday morning. Ah, la France! Of course, I didn't know there was a bus strike until I had run to school, loaded down with photo albums, thinking I had missed the bus. Blargh. My feet will never recover....
Strike baseball! Maybe you'll kill it.
posted by srah on August 30, 2002 10:30 AM
Tags: sports
The radio keeps getting my hopes up, talking about the impending possibility of a baseball strike. They keep saying that baseball may be finished. Unfortunately, they probably only mean for the season. Ah, the nation's beloved pasttime. Why doesn't it just die? Then we could have something worthwhile on TV. Maybe this is a local thing - maybe my love for baseball comes from the local team being the Detroit Tigers. Does anyone like baseball anymore?...
Olympic Recap
posted by srah on February 25, 2002 1:46 PM
It's been a while since my last Olympic Update, and I'm sure you've all been missing the latest results on the one and a half countries I follow. (There are too many French athletes to follow them all, so we just count the medals). Final French medal count: 4 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze (tied with Switzerland for 8th) Final Chilean medal count: 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze (tied with a hillion jillion other medalless countries for 26th, I believe) Chilean Alpine Skiing results Men's Downhill: Maui Gayme - +8.50 (48/55), Mikael Gayme - +9.24 (50/55) Men's Super-G: Duncan...
My bottom is broken
posted by srah on February 17, 2002 9:06 AM
Tags: sports
Skating was lots of fun. I only fell once and in my defense, it was because Samata pulled me down with her. I landed hard on my butt and I am convinced it is broken, although no one else really believes me. Owwwwwwww......
Olympic Update
posted by srah on February 16, 2002 4:15 PM
The women's Super-G results aren't online yet, but judging from the men's results, Chileans are better downhill skiers than biathletes. Duncan Grob seems to have been the only of the three Chileans to finish, but came in 33rd out of 58 in the Super-G this morning at+8.77....
What would srah boitano do?
posted by srah on February 16, 2002 3:16 PM
Tags: sports
We may or may not be going skating tonight as a goodbye get-together for Ayako, who is moving to Connecticut. The stinking rink doesn't have open skate until 8:30pm. I haven't skated in several years now! And I never really got the idea of braking down, so I just coast to a stop or skate myself into the boards....
Olympic Update
posted by srah on February 14, 2002 3:55 PM
*sad face* Chile's latest biathlon results: Carlos Varas was 86/87 in the men's 10km sprint yesterday and Claudia Barrenechea was 74/74 in women's 7.5 km sprint. Better luck this weekend (both biathlon AND Super-G!) France is stuck at three medals for the moment (7th), but more happily, the US has been passed by both Germany and Norway....
Instant Replay
posted by srah on February 4, 2002 8:15 AM
Tags: commercials, sports, super bowl
If anyone missed important chunks of the Super Bowl - like the AT&T commercials or the trailer for Blade - you can watch them here....
*burp*
posted by srah on February 1, 2002 11:24 AM
Tags: commercials, sports, super bowl
There is something seriously wrong with this Kellogg Centre computer. It keeps making Blogger eat my posts. I don't blame you, Blogger. As I was saying, before my post was so rudely eaten, my CS professor has cancelled Monday's class and pushed the test till Tuesday so that we can watch the Super Bowl Commercials Show. He may have mentioned something about football, too. Off I go to be evaluated in Spanish....
Are you ready for some football?!
posted by srah on January 31, 2002 4:28 PM
Tags: commercials, football, sports, super bowl
It's Super Bowl time again. For some reason, they break up the Super Bowl Commercials Show with a whole bunch of football breaks, so I usually watch it on tape in order to be able to fast-forward through them. I don't think I have blank tapes around this year, so I may be forced to watch it live. Sigh....
This is just stupid
posted by srah on December 18, 2001 6:54 PM
Tags: sports
This is just stupid: Ruling on girls sports gets mixed reactions. Our schedules are different from most of the country, but it's not hurting anyone. In fact, it's better because the use of equipment is spread out over several seasons, girls can do several sports, coaches can coach boys' and girls' sports, and we don't have as much need for referrees. I've yet to hear one actual person complain that the old system was hurting them - it was like these crazy feminist lawyers decided they had a problem with it and decided to screw over the rest of the...
