This is the Story of a Champion....

Short Notice Picks.

Houston over Atlanta

Buffalo over NYJ

Baltimore over Cleveland

Dallas over St. Louis

Detriot over Chi-town

Oakland over Miami

Green Bay over Minnesota

Tampa Bay over Carolina

San Fran over Seattle

Pittsburgh over Arizona

Indy over Denver

San Diego over KC

Phili over NYG

New England over Cincinnati

Mike's Locks

Atlanta over Houston

Buffalo over New York

Cleveland over Baltimore

Dallas over St. Louis

Detriot over Chicago

Oakland over Miami

Green Bay over Minnesota

Tampa Bay over Carolina

San Francisco over Seattle

Pittsburgh over Arizona

Indianapolis over Denver

San Diego over Kansas City

New York over Philadelphia

New England over Cincinnati

Hello! YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!!

Week 3 Picks

San Diego Chargers OVER Green Bay Packers
-Brett Favre is old.

Kansas City Chiefs OVER Minnesota Vikings
-I heart a rumor Tavaris Jackson went on a cruise....and not the good kind...

Houston OVER Indianapolis Colts
-Disney World is my favorite......therefore I believe that dreams do come true.

New York Jets OVER Miami Dolphins
-I like whistle blowers.....except basketball refs, they give me technicals.

Philadelphia Eagles OVER Detriot Lions
-Andy Reid. He looks like Santa.

New England Patriots OVER Buffalo Bills
-Randy Moss and his cornrows will outscore JP this season.

Pittsburgh Steelers OVER San Fransico 49ers
-My Dad has a crush on Terry Bradshaw.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers OVER St. Louis Rams
- John Gruden is my favorite horror movie actor.

Baltimore Ravens OVER Arizona Cardinals
-If Ray Lewis can kill a man, he certainly can shut down a pretty boy like Matt.

Oakland Raiders OVER Cleveland Browns
-Dante Culpepper....come back player of the year.

Seatlle Seahawks OVER Cincinnati Bengals
-I predict one amazing comment by Chad Johnson...in Chad I trust.

Denver Broncos OVER Jacksonville Jaguars
-I don't even like the car, so why would I like the football team.

Carolina Panthers OVER Atlanta Falcons
-No reason.....but.....free Michael Vick.

New York Giants OVER Washington Redskins
-Redskins is a mean name.

Dallas Cowboys OVER Chicago Bears
-Rex Grossman is the best player on the Cowboys....think about it.

New Orleans Saints OVER Tennessee Titans
-Madden curse.

Some of these picks were made under the Papa G theory due to fantasy implications.

-L

Ryan's Picks

Chargers Loss
- tied for 29th in rushing? Not anymore...

Chiefs
- Home field what the Doc prescribed..

Colts
- I'd bet money one of these teams won't be 3-0 once the game is over...

Patriots
- Look for Randy Moss alone to beat the Bills team in scoring...

Jets
- Someone has to win it... Pennington silences the critics...

Lions Loss
- Big game for McNabb, but Kitna and the air attack prevail in a close one...

Steelers
- A bad offense on the road vs. a solid defense at home = Survivor Pick of the Week

Buccaneers
- At home, Jeff Garcia goes up against bad defense...

Ravens
- Cardinals defense can't keep up with Ray Ray's boys...

Browns Loss
- Brady who? Derek Anderson, on such a high from Bengals onslaught, does enough...

Seahawks
- Could be another ugly high scoring affair.. with Alexander leading the way..

Broncos Loss
- Third game winning FG to start the year? Nope... Henry has huge game on the ground..

Panthers
- Harrington... Leftwich... it doesn't matter!... Division game a must win for Carolina...

Redskins Loss
- Eli has had nightmares of Sean Taylor all week... Portis running too much...

Bears Loss
- Sunday nighter, you know that defense wants to prove Super Bowl is in sight...

Saints Loss
- They have to win eventually, right? Reggie outplays Vince. (and i'm not talkin Miller vs. Carter)

Tobey Trice, Real name no gimmicks

"Winning is one of those rare commodities on earth money cannot buy....until you called me"



Ind. over HOU - I havent been to Disneyland in over 10 years, I dont even think it exists anymore, no miracles here.



SD OVER GB - I like GB and think they're for real, but SD lost 2 games all year last year and they will not lose their second one this year in week 3, LT gets back on track.



KC OVER Minn. – Leigh has a better chance of going 16-0 this week then this game actually being entertaining.



Carolina OVER ATL. – Steve Smith’s 4 favorite movies :

1)Gladiator

2)300

3)Troy

4)The Notebook – and that is why I love him.



BALT OVER Zona. – Leinart’s my boy, but I garuntee you Ray Lewis, his torn bicep and the rest of his team do not feel the same way.



NE OVER Buff. – No comment.



NYJ OVER Mia. – The Jets are a very talented team that has had tough breaks the forst two games. It helps that Miami still does not know who to start at RB.



PHILLY OVER Det. – Toughest game of the week to pick, Philly can NOT go 0 – 3, the fact that this game is at home for Philly scares me, because if they lose this one a fan will likely slip rufy’s in the Gatorade http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.bold.gif
insert bold tagscooler so the fans can finally have some fun with the team.



PITT. OVER San Fran. – I hope Gore goes off, but it doesn’t look good.



TAMPA OVER St. Louis – Chuck Norris tells Jeff Garcia jokes.



DENVER OVER Jack. – They’ve got to 2 – 0 with ugly wins, but Denver still gets it done.



OAK OVER Cleveland – Derek Anderson comes down off cloud 9 after running into this surprisingly tough defence.



SEATTLE OVER Cinci. – No idea where to go here, had to go with the home team. Plus the Bengals drove me nuts last week, lets hop that same secondary shows up. Haaaasssssselbeck.



WASH OVER NYG. – This looks like one of those games that seems like a lock, and Eli makes us look silly to bet against a Manning.



CHICAGO OVER Dallas – I hate going against Dallas with Rex as the QB, however lets not forget how good this defence is and how they always find a way to win.



NO OVER Tenn. – I still remember the atmosphere of NO’s first home game last year on Monday night, and behind that crowd they bounce back in a big way.

Mike's Picks

San Diego Chargers OVER Green Bay Packers
-L.T. is losing in his fantasy league where he took himself first overall, this motivates him to a huge game. San Diego wins in the not so frozen tundra

Minnesota Vikings OVER Kansas City Chiefs
-Both these teams suck, Minnesota sucks a little less

Indianapolis Colts OVER Houston Texans
-It's a little cold outside today, but not cold enough to suggest hell has frozen over, Colts win, Huston's D could hold them to under 30 points though

New York Jets OVER Miami Dolphins
-The Jets rally behind the absence of the "J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!" guy. I think his name is fireman Dan?

Detroit Lions OVER Philadelphia Eagles
-Eagles suck...bad. They couldn't buy a TD this week. Detroit is going to pick apart their depleted secondary.

Buffalo Bills OVER New England Patriots
-I'm a Bills fan, if this happens I"ll have to live off this win the rest of the season

Pittsburgh Steelers OVER San Francisco 49ers
-San Fran can't put up big points on Pittsburgh's D. End of story.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers OVER St. Louis Rams
- Pirates are cute

Baltimore Ravens OVER Arizona Cardinals
-In nature could a Cardinal beat up a Raven? I don't know but The Ravens will win today

Oakland Raiders OVER Cleveland Browns
-Cleveland should fire their entire starting defense and suit up the Cleveland girl scouts. They'd do better against the Raiders

Cincinnati Bengals OVER Seattle Seahawks
-Cincinnati wins in a high scoring game

Jacksonville Jaguars OVER Denver Broncos
-Denver beat Buffalo this year so screw them. They lose today because I said so

Carolina Panthers OVER Atlanta Falcons
-Atlanta is the worst team in the NFL...yes worse then the Bills

Washington Redskins OVER New York Giants
-Washington is good this year...I know I can't believe it either

Dallas Cowboys OVER Chicago Bears
-T.O. scores and gets fined again... I can't wait

New Orleans Saints OVER Tennessee Titans
-Saints are the best 0-2 team in the NFL

-M

Leigh 12
Ryan 11
Mike 9
Tobey 9

Math is good for something...

"To find a women you need time and money
∴ Women = Time x Money

Time is money
∴ Time = Money
∴ Women = Money x Money
Women = (Money)²

Money is the root of all problems
∴ Money = √Problems

∴ Women = (√Problems)²
∴ WOMEN = PROBLEMS"

Sorry ladies, we have proof on paper now. I still love you all though.
Men, time to celebrate. Go put the toilet seat up and meet me at the bar.

-M

Rob Kaman Seminar

I'm bottom left in the red

Ok so the long and short if it is that Rob Kaman came to my gym (kombatarts.com) to give a Muay Thai seminar. It wasn't cheap, but wow, just wow. The things I learned make me realize how much more work I have to put in if I want to be a great fighter.

Not only did he teach me things I never even fathomed before (angles in the ring, getting out of the corner, combinations that are damn near impossible to block) but like in life it is the little things that make the difference. HE showed me minor things to change in my game. Twisting my body to throw the cross from a position that I can generate far more torque and much more power, "sitting down" when throwing the hook for more power, setting up a complicated powerful counter with a simple one that has the same set up as the more powerful one. I learned so much.

And he was a pretty nice guy to boot. Like I'm sure he does this kind of stuff a lot, and he has countless world titles, he trains with George St. Pierre, Hermes Franca, and countless other world famous fighters so I'm sure he wasn't super thrilled to be doing this seminar. But he still took the time to take pictures, and help with technique even if it was something very simple and quite frankly not worth his time to correct.

We trained for 6 hours on Saturday with a lunch break and for about 3 hours on Sunday with no lunch break. That's about all I have to write about the seminar because everything else would be very technical and thus very boring for all of you (Leigh and my mom I mean, as they are the only ones who read this blog).

Oh also, I met a pretty amazing girl at the seminar...

-M

Teaching is not, not going to be interesting....

Soooooo,

4 weeks ago I began my foray into the teaching world, and I'm already glad I made the decision to go through with dropping a buttload (Brooke, 2006) of dough to drive 2 hours to the worst city ive ever driven through to spend 18 hours out of 36 in a classroom (that imbeded reference was just for practice, at D'Youville college (thats where I go (I love brackets)) they LOOOOOOVE APA style, they should marry it). On a side note, why we use the psychology style for writing papers on education is beyond me, that could be because I don't care about writing enough. Wow, that was incoherent, but im not going to fix it, since I'm not getting marked on it (that's kind of a teaching joke......but not a good one).

What I'm trying to get at here is, I like learning about this stuff, I like it a bit more than science (only because i like peoples opinions, and most of the time science is fact baed). I feel like in past four weeks my thoughts on the world and the inequalities that lie therein have developed emensley. I still have a long way to go, but i'm not much of a self reflector (I prefer to reflect on sports) so for me to recognize that must mean something is going right. I have also learned how to articulate my feelings and thoughts a bit better. When you are forced to reflect out loud about that the stuff that you read and hear about 45 times in 12 hours, you learn to express yourself properly, because if you don't, you will sound like a dummy. For example, I'm taking a class about content area literacy, which is being able to understand and use terms in a specific content area (math, biology, basketball, whatever). I never thought about it before, but now I think it's important. I mean how am i supposed to teach someone about biology if every time I say cell, they pull out their nokia and text me something like "lol i (l) u". Having realized this, I find myself already thing of ways I can help my students increase their biological literacy. That was boring example, but my point is I have learned a lot of interesting and relevant things (there are alot more personal discoveries I have made, but they are called personal discoveries for a reason).

Another thing I have enjoyed are my classemates. My classmates are cool. A few of them looooove to say not so smart things using big words in an attempt to impress someone (maybe the prof, maybe the blackboard, who knows). But generally they are all pretty cool. They have cool ideas, cool perspectives, they are fun, accepting, and complimentary. Now that I have said all this nice stuff about school, dont be alarmed when I spew out numerous posts on why they decided to give me so much work, that just the stress talking. The point is, I'm glad im going to be a teacher, im aware that it wont be easy as many of you think it will be, and im okay with that. THE END.

Love,

Leigh

p.s. that was alot of brackets.

Dear God,

I am shocked an appalled by my recent experience with you and your staff. On December 12, 2006 I spent $983.77 on gifts for your son's birthday. I endured three-hour lines for a Tickle Me Elmo, a more then likely drunk Santa at the mall, and a man in church who I can only hope was asking for a case of Right Guard for Christmas.

To date, I have not so much as received a token thank you from you. I don't ask for much, maybe a raise, a hot girlfriend, a car that isn't a piece of crap, or even some UFC tickets.

I have been a faithful customer for over 24 years now. However, I have not been satisfied with your service lately. In fact, I was talking with my friend Abdul the other day and was admittedly impressed by Allah's work. I am sure you wouldn't want me going to one of your biggest competitors now would you?

I am certain that you will resolve this matter to my satisfaction by providing some answered prayers, please give the Scarlett Johansson prayer priority over the others...

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing form you within the next five business days.

Sincerely,
Michael Pacheco

CC:
Pope Benedict XVI
The Disciples
St. Joan of Arc
David Hasselhoff

This is Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando. This is where Chris Bosh lives in the summer.

-L

Fuck you!

When I say fuck you I am actually saying it to you, you the person who is reading this and I'll tell you why...

Everybody knows things are bad, things in the world that is.

Our food is unfit to eat, it is full of preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, and aspartame just to name a few of the poisons. Why is it in there? Because it's easier to make money that way, food lasts longer, is cheaper to produce, easier to market (it's FAT FREE! but full of chemicals) Why? Why will the pot head only smoke the good weed, the drunk will only drink his favourite beer, people will only wear certain brands of clothes, good clothes, people will buy an Ipod not the cheap knock off, people want that "good stuff", but not with their food. Why? Why will you look all over for the "good stuff", work your ass off at your job for it, but you won't get the good food? That's what's going into your body. The companies put fruit all over the bottle, kiwi's and strawberries and you read the ingredients and all you're getting is high fructose corn syrup! And flavouring to mask the APPLES. You buy fucking kiwi/strawberry juice and it's mostly apples and flavouring because they are cheap and there's lots of them in the our area. Where's my fucking fruit man? Damn!

And while they're churning out all this shit that's killing us, they are killing the earth. The air is unfit to breath for fuck sakes! The elderly and sick are forced to stay in doors on the worst of days because of air quality! Open your eyes people...

We turn on the news and find out how many violent crimes happened since the last time we tuned in and listen to the anchor person talk about it like that's the way things are supposed to be, we accept it. But we sit in our home letting our world get smaller. We don't go out to certain places anymore, we shy away from others. How long until we're sitting at home begging them "please, at least leave me alone in my own house, leave me my microwave, my TV and my fucking ipod, I won't say anything, just leave me alone"

There is to much wrong with the world, I don't know what to do about any of it, the poison they feed us, the environment we're killing, the society we're let going to hell, terrorism, inflation, poverty, war, famine. And it's not just enough to acknowledge the problem, you have to get angry! Don't you care? About anything? About yourself? These things should make you furious.

But they probably don't, so fuck you.

-M

You can't teach height OR knee health

Top Three Things to do after getting drafted first overall amid a great deal of hype:

1)Covince your teammates to show up and practice weeks before training camp.

2)Miss summer league because you are 8 years old and need to get your tonsils fixed

3)Get season ending knee surgery....before the season starts.

On a lighter note, I went to Pizza Hut buffet....and Joe was right, it really is hard to stop eating in a situation like that.

-Leigh

Who's brining back the boy band? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question jerk face! Argh! You ruined it... we are, we are bringing back the boy band... Leigh is going to be the guy in the band that comes out of the closet in 5 years when the band breaks up

You finish the joe make some mo!

Happy Bday salington

-BB II

I wanna be a rap superstar

Whoooooooooaaaaaaa

they really let anyone put whatever they want on the internet don't they?

I figure since I love reading blogs, I might as well put something back out there, karma is my homeboy. Also since I only have a few thing to do: 7 classes, a part time job, watching sports, fantasy football, playing ball, and a wife, I might as well give myself something else to do. I would tell you stuff about me, but if you are reading this you know me, unless I get linked on TrueHoop if I write a really sweet post about basketball.....

did you know video blogs are called vlogs? me either.

ok, bye.

New Job Sucka!

I'm starting my new job today. I'm as nervous as Mike Vick on the witness stand. I do have a spiffy new batch of work clothes though.

Mike