My Week in Sports

College Football:

• Texas A&M 12, Texas 7. After this score became final no other games mattered the entire weekend. I know, I know it was a cheap shot on McCoy but I'll still take it. If only USC could have taken out one of Vince Young's knees...
• Notre Dame is overrated again. Blow out by Michigan, blown out by USC. Their biggest win is beating Georgia Tech by 4 points. Every commentator in America was holding onto the wish/hope that ND would play for the National Championship. Please.
• Write it down - Steve Kragthorpe, head coach at Tulsa, will be the next head coach at Miami or Alabama. What would be hilarious is if he went to Miami and then Tulsa hires Larry Coker.
• If you watched the OU-OSU game, did you know that Boone Pickens is OSU's #1 fan?

NFL:

• Jason Campbell got his second start and first win in his pro career. Only about a year late Joe Gibbs.
• Tony Romo throws for 5 TDs. Good thing he was sitting on my Fantasy bench.
• Jay Cutler is in at Denver. After Shanahan's interview you would have thought Jake the Snake was already cut and playing in the Arena League.
  
• Mike Vick can run like the wind but does not know how to react to drunk fans.
• The Giants absolutely collapsed. Maybe Eli shouldn't have been a baby and gone to San Diego, I heard they have a pretty good team this year.

College Basketball:

• I know the game was in November, but the Kansas-Florida game felt like March.
• As much as I like watching Florida play basketball, I can't stand watching Joakim Noah. He acts likes a toddler.
• How about Gonzaga beating UNC? Looks like they can still win after losing Morrison.
  

Baseball:

• Cubs sign Alfonzo Soriano. They paid way too much. But it gives us Cubs fans hope for next year. Going all the way in '07.
  
• McGuire won't get in the Hall on the first ballot. Something to do with steroids.
  

NBA:

• It is still as boring as last year.

Hockey:

• Why can't they go on strike for another couple of years?

Black Friday...Cyber Monday...It's a scam

Oh how the holiday shopping season is upon us. There are more sales on Black Friday (the day after thanksgiving - to all of you living in a hole) than any other day of the year. I heard on the radio approx. 140 million people went shopping in America last Friday. This is day retailers tradionally turn profitable for the year. Today is Cyber Monday where there will be more internet sales today than any other day of the year.

Garden Ridge was open from 9am Thursday until midnight Sunday for 87 hours of madness (who goes shopping for towels at 2.30 in the morning?). You might even find a crazy deal on an EMachines computer at 4 am at Best Buy for less than $200 (for that computer it's not really a deal). Yes there are some good deals, but for the most part prices are really similar to the rest of the year. These two days are really about tradition. EVERYONE goes shopping on Friday because that is what they have always done. Oh, and the American media does nothing but hype the day even more (why would they not). If you truly are a smart shopper then you know there are deals like this all the time if you look.

My personal experiences of Black Friday - my senior year in high school I worked at Wendy's in the Mall and the day never ended. One thing Americans like to do about as much as shop is eat.
This year I enjoyed 18 holes of golf while people are sitting outside Target waiting to get $5 DVDs.

I will use this day to my advantage. 239 items are ending on ebay today from the username allcottcap. So fall into the trap, become a sad bargain crazed freak and go buy something.

Buy it, Buy it now!!!

The link to my PS3 auction on my previous post does not work. Here is the correct link. Bid on it!!!!

I own a 60GB

I own a 60GB...at least for a few more days. Yes, yes I am taking advantage of an opportunity to make a quick buck. Right now my PlayStation 3 is on eBay here.

Last week, I called Caleb and told him we would split whatever we made off of the PS3. Next thing you know he is picking up the cash from my wife (I was out of town - don't worry I would have been there too) and heading up to Best Buy at 8 pm on Wed. He can't buy one until Friday at 8am! Fortunately enough, he was number 20 in line and there were only 20 60GBs going on sale. There were a total of 26 people sitting outside the Best Buy (20 60GBs, 6 20GBs), all of them wrote their number on their hand, and they had a big party for a day and a half. All but one (a 14-yr old boy - does he have school?!) of the 26 planned on selling the coveted gaming system.

If you didn't hear about the PlayStation 3 madness across America last week, then you truly do live in a hole. Here are some of the highlights from last week.
- I was in Cincinnati, OH and went by a Target at about 11pm on Thur. and there were 9 people in line. Target was only getting 8 systems and the last guy was trying to buy a seat. The lowest anyone would go was $1500.
- Thursday, Jayson, Johnny and I had a conversation about how this was the perfect night if someone was going to rob a video game store. But then we thought, there is no way - tonight would be the night where there is crazy security and there is no way something like that was going to go down. Well it happened in Dayton, OH.
- At the Wal-Mart in Carthage, MO there were 10 lawn chairs set out. If you got up from your chair to do anything, someone could run in and steal your seat. Talk about setting your self up for a riot.
- Rumors were flying about how many systems Sony was going to release and when.
- Pre-sales on ebay reached as high as $10,000.
- Rules were/are up on ebay for selling the item and less than 24 hours after they were released 40,000 PS3s were available on the auction site.

We will see what happens, but for now, I own a 60GB.

Act like you know what you are doing

Talk about a lack of security. Matt Foreman and I just returned from the Rose Garden in Portland, OR, where the Portland Trail Blazers play. We did have to walk around a little bit, but after a few trys, there was a open door. Next thing you know, courtside. We just walked right in. Then we walked on the court. Then we sat on the bench. Then we walked to the locker room entrance. This all took place in about 30 minutes. Then we left. Nothing. Nobody said a word. We walked past a few workers. There were some guys working in the arena. We acted liked we knew where we were going and knew what we were doing and nobody cared.