Well, that inspired this post of 100 sports related things I'd rather do than go through finals week. In no particular order. Void without sarcasm.
- Listen to the Duke student writer complain about the television monitor in front of his seat.
- Interview Rick Majerus after a loss.
- Watch Javier Vazquez pitch in a pressure situation.
- Stand in against a Randy Johnson fastball, circa 1993.
- Write a column denouncing my ties to the Cubs.
- Drink "Dirty 30" Juice.
- Dot the I in the Ohio State band.
- Watch SIU play a zone defense.
- Operate on Mark Prior's shoulder.
- Wear the oppositions colors when covering an SIU sporting event.
- Watch Alfonso Soriano swing at a pitch in the left-handed batters box.
- Listen to Hawk Harrelson tell me a story about the 1977 Red Sox.
- Listen to Joe Buck do ANY play-by-play.
- Read a sports blog that doesn't have pictures of pretty girls.
- Take medical advice from Dusty Baker.
- Take medicine from the cabinet of Barry Bonds.
- Talk to a Northwestern University police officer.
- Anger Lou Piniella.
- Anger Ozzie Guillen.
- Watch Ben Wallace shoot free-throws.
- Watch J.J. Redick shoot free-throws.
- Go on road trips without a TomTom.
- Sit behind home plate at U.S. Cellular Field with Ronnie Woo Woo.
- Be anywhere close to Ronnie Woo Woo.
- Watch Stephen A. Smith on ESPN.
- Listen to Stephen A. Smith yell at me.
- Look at naked pictures of Will Leitch.
- Watch Duke play wearing UNC colors in Cameron Indoor.
- Listen to Coach K give me compliments in a post game press conference.
- Get a 'Happy Thanksgiving' text message from Chris Lowery.
- Watch my sports editor get spanked
- Listen to basketball games not broadcasted by Marv Albert. Yes!
- Argue with Stile Smith ... about anything!
- Piss in a trough at Wrigley Field.
- Look at a landfill over the left-center field wall at new Busch Stadium.
- Comment on James Durbin's banana suit at SIU basketball games.
- Plot my meteoric rise in the world of sports journalism.
- Put together those Saluki sports minute video blogs.
- "Do the Heisman on that ---"
- Get posted up and posterized by Sean McGahan.
- Ridicule the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
- Listen to abnoxious Duke fans.
- Listen to the old guy at the 2K Sports Classic who thought every player on Michigan was Manny Harris even though Harris was on the bench.
- Think of pick up lines that would get me in bed with one of those super-beautiful UCLA cheer girls.
- Think of ways to meet USC Song Girls.
- Write headlines that involve "Wang"
- Say inappropriate things at the sports desk.
- Listen to Notre Dame fans wax nostalgic about the good old days.
- Drive in New York City traffic and pay a billion dollars for parking.
- Make it rain with Pacman Jones.
- Go to a club with Plaxico Burress.
- Pick up chicks with Derek Jeter.
- Pick up chicks with Nick Swisher at McGee's.
- Do Marv Albert impersonations...YES!
- Read pointless threads on Saluki Talk.
- Answer questions from random guys in Chicago who want to meet Megan Kramper.
- Read Jake Peavy trade rumors.
- Write sidebars that turn into gamers.
- Write gamers that turn into sidebars.
- Write previews that turn into features.
- Listen to Brian Feldt say "You wrote another gamer" when I was trying to write a sidebar.
- Watch Adam Dunn swing and miss.
- Watch Adam Dunn swing and hit the ball 5,000 feet.
- Listen to "Heart of a Champion" by Nelly and think about Saluki volleyball.
- Listen to a Mike Reis broadcast.
- Take pictures with Erin Andrews.
- Watch Chris Berman on SportsCenter give players bad nicknames.
- Read Bill Plaschke columns.
- Watch Jay Mariotti on Around the Horn.
- Write blogs.
- Tweet from Saluki athletics.
- Participate in a dance-off against Warren Sapp.
- Get hit with a frisbee toss.
- Watch P'Allen Stinnett get fired up by a crowd.
- Read Ron Turner's playbook.
- Pick up chicks with Kyle Orton after doing shots of Jack Daniels.
- Hang out with Cedric Benson with a bunch of pretty white girls on a party boat.
- Go on a date with Sean Avery's sloppy seconds, Elisha Cuthbert.
- Read the Girls and Sports comic in the DE.
- Write corrections.
- Argue against anti-stat heads.
- Firing Stile Smith.
- Rehiring Stile Smith.
- Going on road trips with Edyta, Anthony, Brian, Sean, Jeff, Stephen...
- Having dinner with southern Illinois' best sportswriters in Youngstown, Ohio and New York.
- Play with Brian Feldt's whiffle ball bat (no homo)
- Watch Greg Paulus get dunked on over and over and over again!
- Yell at my TV during a sporting event.
- Hating Creighton.
- Write love letters to Jill Arrington, Erin Andrews, Stacy Dales.
- Watch games broadcasted by ESPN's Pam Ward.
- Shoot around with Justin Bocot in dress casual attire after an SIU women's basketball game.
- Try to sponsor a fight between Rick Telander and Jay Mariotti.
- Read columns about how every school wants Chris Lowery as its coach.
- Look at pictures of Layla Kiffin.
- Watch a "recruitment video" sent by Layla Kiffin.
- Search Chickipedia for pictures of girls for the Daily Dosage.
- Watch "classic" Bulls games starring Ron Mercer, Eddie Robinson.
- Share a dinner table with Eddy Curry, Mark Mangino, Jim Hendry, Rick Majerus.
- Write a list of 100 sports-related things I would rather do than study.
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