Supposedly she is from Sweetwater, AL. and the video has made it onto Youtube.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Getting Rowdy At The Sugar Bowl
Alabama and Oklahoma were in the Sugar Bowl last night. It was a great game, though unfortunately Alabama lost. One woman, an Alabama fan, got a bit too rowdy during the game and confronted some Oklahoma fans who she was sitting near. Apparently they had words and she felt that words just weren't quite enough. So this is what happened:
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
IT"S 2014! FIRST POST OF THE YEAR
A new year and a chance to start anew.
So it's now the year 2014. Another fresh 365 days are ahead of us to work, create, enjoy, endure, etc. 2013 ended with a bang as the fireworks went off all around the world. I could hear them outside the house starting nearly two hours before midnight hit. People like to start the partying early I guess.
I heard something funny: the police will, on New Years eve, park their cars under something, like a bridge for instance, to keep from being hit by bullets fired by revellers. Yep, people are still stupidly firing their guns into the air in celebration even though they should know better--the bullet's gonna come down & possibly hit someone in the head. I wonder how many people die annually from this ridiculousness. I guess there's a lot of things people die from each year that could easily be avoided if people would think about what they're doing before doing something stupid.
I've begun work on a new book (taking a break from the Andy Brighton trilogy for the moment). My idea has evolved over the last couple-three months or so but it involves a female protagonist. My current idea is that she is Virginia Dare of the lost Roanoke Colony and is taken by a malevolent and nefarious character to live somewhere else and then learn the ways of witchcraft. He teaches her these things and in the end wishes her to be like him--an evil servant of Satan. Whether or not she does become such a thing we will have to wait and see. I've written the prologue (the part about when she is taken from her mother on Roanoke Island) already, and I've got an outline of the story drawn up, so I just need to get on into it. Writing the entire book will take a while, maybe six months to a year in my spare time. When its done I hope to show it to an editor I know and see what he thinks of it & what changes he suggests that could make it better.
I had an idea for a cover too, of a girl's face looking in through the leaves. It would look something like this:
I have a niece that would probably be perfect for the girl's image as she's the right age. My thinking on the cover is I want it to look mysterious and like the girl is looking at something amazing. (she would be looking through a grove of bushes/plants and into a magical portal through which is hidden a whole other world. My title for the book is Jenn Wytcher. The girl who becomes a witch.
So it's now the year 2014. Another fresh 365 days are ahead of us to work, create, enjoy, endure, etc. 2013 ended with a bang as the fireworks went off all around the world. I could hear them outside the house starting nearly two hours before midnight hit. People like to start the partying early I guess.
I heard something funny: the police will, on New Years eve, park their cars under something, like a bridge for instance, to keep from being hit by bullets fired by revellers. Yep, people are still stupidly firing their guns into the air in celebration even though they should know better--the bullet's gonna come down & possibly hit someone in the head. I wonder how many people die annually from this ridiculousness. I guess there's a lot of things people die from each year that could easily be avoided if people would think about what they're doing before doing something stupid.
I've begun work on a new book (taking a break from the Andy Brighton trilogy for the moment). My idea has evolved over the last couple-three months or so but it involves a female protagonist. My current idea is that she is Virginia Dare of the lost Roanoke Colony and is taken by a malevolent and nefarious character to live somewhere else and then learn the ways of witchcraft. He teaches her these things and in the end wishes her to be like him--an evil servant of Satan. Whether or not she does become such a thing we will have to wait and see. I've written the prologue (the part about when she is taken from her mother on Roanoke Island) already, and I've got an outline of the story drawn up, so I just need to get on into it. Writing the entire book will take a while, maybe six months to a year in my spare time. When its done I hope to show it to an editor I know and see what he thinks of it & what changes he suggests that could make it better.
I had an idea for a cover too, of a girl's face looking in through the leaves. It would look something like this:
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
2013 The Year in Review
A lot happened this year. Lots of news stories, celebrity stories, TV shows, Movies, and lots of famous people died. So much has happened that it's impossible to list everything. But here are some of the things that I found memorable:
top Sports stories of 2013
1 Lance Armstrong confesses to using performance enhancing drugs and is stripped of his 7 Tour de France victories.
2 Oscar Pistorius murders his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
3 Andy Murray wins Wimbleton Tennis Championship
4 The Boston Red Sox win the World Series
5 The Auburn Tigers football team
6 The Boston Marathon bombing.
7 Jameis Winston wins Heisman Trophy despite allegations of rape.
top news stories:
Paula Deen racism scandal
George Zimmerman trial (found not guilty)
Trayvon Martin
Obamacare (ACA)
Jodi Arias trial (found guilty)
deaths:
Nelson Mandela
Peter O'toole
Patti Page
Jonathan Winters
Larry Hagman
George Jones
James Gandolfini
Slim Whitman
Tom Clancy
Lou Reed
Annette Funicello
Bonnie Franklin
David Frost
Paul Walker
Hugo Chavez
Margaret Thatcher
Marcia Wallace
Tom Laughlin
Celebrity and TV show stories
Duck Dynasty
Jennifer Lawrence
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Miley Cyrus
Twerking
So much for just one year. You'd think it couldn't all fit.
top Sports stories of 2013
1 Lance Armstrong confesses to using performance enhancing drugs and is stripped of his 7 Tour de France victories.
2 Oscar Pistorius murders his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
3 Andy Murray wins Wimbleton Tennis Championship
4 The Boston Red Sox win the World Series
5 The Auburn Tigers football team
6 The Boston Marathon bombing.
7 Jameis Winston wins Heisman Trophy despite allegations of rape.
top news stories:
Paula Deen racism scandal
George Zimmerman trial (found not guilty)
Trayvon Martin
Obamacare (ACA)
Jodi Arias trial (found guilty)
deaths:
Nelson Mandela
Peter O'toole
Patti Page
Jonathan Winters
Larry Hagman
George Jones
James Gandolfini
Slim Whitman
Tom Clancy
Lou Reed
Annette Funicello
Bonnie Franklin
David Frost
Paul Walker
Hugo Chavez
Margaret Thatcher
Marcia Wallace
Tom Laughlin
Celebrity and TV show stories
Duck Dynasty
Jennifer Lawrence
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Miley Cyrus
Twerking
So much for just one year. You'd think it couldn't all fit.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Sunday, December 8, 2013
A Pretty Good Day
December 7th, 1941 has for 72 years been remembered as the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor & brought the US into WWII. Yesterday, December 7, 2013 many will remember as the day Auburn University made it's own mark in history. For that day they earned a seat in the BCS National Championship Football game.
Auburn had the week before been victorious over Alabama, previously the #1 college football team in the country, and so was playing in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta, GA. against Missouri. It would be a tiger on tiger brawl the likes of which has never been seen before!
The teams fought viciously fang and claw for 4 quarters with the teams going back and forth. All told there were 8 lead changes, making for a very competitive and rollercoaster game. You can check out the game stats here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_SEC_Championship_Game
I rode over with a couple friends to Atlanta and met another of our friends there before the game. Me, Adrian and Rick, who drove and had tickets took us. He gets tickets for many sporting events as he's a great follower of all kinds of sports (basketball, baseball, football, tennis, etc.) and a great guy to be friends with. I was lucky enough to be invited along and even though going to football games in person is not something I especially like doing I figured that this was an exceptional opportunity & not just some regular season game. This was going to be something epic. And watching the game I was definitely not disappointed, for the two teams played their hearts out and left everything on the field.
Here are pictures of me and the other guys I went with at the game just after Auburn won.
Auburn proved victorious this day and so it was up to two other conference championship game outcomes to determine who would be going to the big bowl games in early January. Michigan State was ranked #10 playing against #2 Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference Championship. You can see the stats of the game here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Big_Ten_Football_Championship_Game
Me, Adrian and Rick watched most of the game at a popular sports grille in Douglasville, GA called Taco Mac. They have an absurd amount of tv's, all on the games, so it's probably one of the best places to watch and get something to eat while doing so. Michigan State lead early, got tied up at 17-17 then lost the led 24-17, but then outscored Ohio State 17-0 and ended the game by a winning score of 34-24. Needless to say, since Ohio State stood in the way of Auburn reaching the BSC National Championship game, we were exstatic. We also saw #1 Florida State beat #20 Duke as expected to earn their place alongside Auburn in the big bowl game to be held in January. Here's my link to this game here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_BCS_National_Championship_Game
Being from Birmingham, AL. and a fan of local teams I was also pleased to hear that UAB won their basketball game on Saturday too by a score of 74-69. This gives them a record of 7-2 including a win over #16 North Carolina so far this year. Hopefully they can win most of their remaining games and have a good shot at getting into the NCAA Basketball Tourney in March of next year.
Auburn had the week before been victorious over Alabama, previously the #1 college football team in the country, and so was playing in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta, GA. against Missouri. It would be a tiger on tiger brawl the likes of which has never been seen before!
The teams fought viciously fang and claw for 4 quarters with the teams going back and forth. All told there were 8 lead changes, making for a very competitive and rollercoaster game. You can check out the game stats here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_SEC_Championship_Game
I rode over with a couple friends to Atlanta and met another of our friends there before the game. Me, Adrian and Rick, who drove and had tickets took us. He gets tickets for many sporting events as he's a great follower of all kinds of sports (basketball, baseball, football, tennis, etc.) and a great guy to be friends with. I was lucky enough to be invited along and even though going to football games in person is not something I especially like doing I figured that this was an exceptional opportunity & not just some regular season game. This was going to be something epic. And watching the game I was definitely not disappointed, for the two teams played their hearts out and left everything on the field.
Here are pictures of me and the other guys I went with at the game just after Auburn won.
Auburn proved victorious this day and so it was up to two other conference championship game outcomes to determine who would be going to the big bowl games in early January. Michigan State was ranked #10 playing against #2 Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference Championship. You can see the stats of the game here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Big_Ten_Football_Championship_Game
Me, Adrian and Rick watched most of the game at a popular sports grille in Douglasville, GA called Taco Mac. They have an absurd amount of tv's, all on the games, so it's probably one of the best places to watch and get something to eat while doing so. Michigan State lead early, got tied up at 17-17 then lost the led 24-17, but then outscored Ohio State 17-0 and ended the game by a winning score of 34-24. Needless to say, since Ohio State stood in the way of Auburn reaching the BSC National Championship game, we were exstatic. We also saw #1 Florida State beat #20 Duke as expected to earn their place alongside Auburn in the big bowl game to be held in January. Here's my link to this game here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_BCS_National_Championship_Game
Being from Birmingham, AL. and a fan of local teams I was also pleased to hear that UAB won their basketball game on Saturday too by a score of 74-69. This gives them a record of 7-2 including a win over #16 North Carolina so far this year. Hopefully they can win most of their remaining games and have a good shot at getting into the NCAA Basketball Tourney in March of next year.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
One Second To Kill Yourself
Last night #4 Auburn played the game of the year and beat #1 Alabama. And they did it in 1 second.
The game had gone back and forth for 4 quarters. Auburn scored first going up 7-0 to end the 1st quarter. But this woke the sleeping giant and in the 2nd quarter Alabama outscored Auburn 21-7 to lead 21-14 at halftime. In the 3rd quarter Auburn repeated the scoring from the 1st quarter and outscored Alabama 7-0 to tie Alabama 21-21. And so they battled in the 4th quarter neck and neck, both gaining a touchdown. Throughout the game Cade Foster for Alabama missed 3 attempted field goals, knocking as much as 9 points off the scoreboard, unusual for their kicker.
The game was tied 28-28 near the end and with 7 seconds to go Alabama had the ball, T.J. Yeldon drove down the field and was knocked out of bounds at Auburn's 38 with 1 second left on the clock. What to do?
Alabama had several choices. Take a knee & go into overtime. Throw a long bomb pass for a TD to try & win the game. Or do what they did & attempt a field goal to win. Obviously they'd lost faith in Cade Foster's ability to kick, so they brought out redshirt freshman kicker Adam Griffith to make the 57 yard kick. Doom.
The choice, though not absurd, was frought with danger. Although seemingly invisible to Alabama, not so to Gus Malzahn and his crew. For, as everyone lined up for the kick one Auburn defender, Chris Davis, instead of staying on the line to try and block the kick, ran back to the end zone to wait and catch it--assuming it would fall short. The kick was up and it did fall short & he caught it. Chris Davis then ran 100+ yards past all of the Alabama players and scored one of the most remarkable touchdowns to win the game in Ironbowl history.
And so another regular season is over. Auburn heads to the SEC Championship instead of Alabama. And Alabama's hopes for a 3rd consecutive national championship are most probably dashed. And Alabama should have seen it coming.
With big fat slow offensive linemen on the field Alabama had little chance to catch the speedy Chris Davis when they kicked the ball with only 1 second left. Couldn't they have foreseen this happening? Well, Auburn obviously did. Otherwise Chris Davis would not have been where he was. Nick Saban always talks about giving your team the opportunity to win. But in this Ironbowl game he gave Alabama the opportunity to lose.
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