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8/18/2011

Iowa High School Picks - Week 0

Light week to open Iowa Highschool football, but you get the #2 rivalry in the state with WDM Valley vs WDM Dowlilng and Ankeny vs Waukee.

Below are my 1st set of picks for the 2011 Season.

4A	Dowling over Valley - L
4A	Ankeny over Waukee - W
4A	SE Polk over DM Lincoln - W
4A	Indianola over Hoover - W
3A	Heelan over SC East - W
3A	Harlan over Denison-Schleswig - L
1A	AGWSR over Grundy Center - L
A	GMG over Earlham - L
A	MC Newman over Northwood-Kensett - W
8M	Lenox over Fremont Mills - PPD

Season : (5-4)

8/12/2011

2011 College Football

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2011 College Football Predictions

Ahh college football is back….No lockouts here, just paying recruits and tattoo scandals and Longhorn Networks threatening to destroy what’s left of the Big XII….oh and some new faces in the Big Ten and Pac-12. Last year we had Auburn with Cam Newton running the table getting the SEC the National Title for the 5^th year in a row. I think that run ends this year.

Without further ado…my sure to be wrong college football picks for 2011.

Major Conferences

ACC – Florida State over Virginia Tech

Big East - West Virginia

Big Ten - Nebraska over Wisconsin

Big XII – Oklahoma

PAC 12 – Stanford over Arizona State

SEC – Alabama over South Carolina

MtWest – Boise State

Big Bowls

National Championship – Oklahoma over Alabama

Rose – Nebraska vs. Stanford

Fiesta – Texas A&M vs. Wisconsin

Sugar – Boise State vs. LSU

Orange – Florida State vs. West Virginia

Big Ten Bowls

Nebraska - Rose

Wisconsin – Fiesta vs. Texas A&M

Iowa – Capital One

Ohio State - Outback

Penn State - Gator

Michigan – Insight vs. Baylor

Michigan State – Texas Bowl vs. Texas Tech

Northwestern – Ticket City

Illinois – Pizza

Big XII Bowls

Oklahoma – National Championship

Texas A&M – Fiesta vs. Wisconsin

Oklahoma State – Cotton

Texas – Alamo

Baylor – Insight vs. Michigan

Missouri – Holiday

Texas Tech – Texas Bowl vs. Michigan State

Heisman Trophy

Landry Jones – Oklahoma

8/11/2011

2011 Heisman Candidates

I really am not a fan of this and well I'm not sure while I'm doing it, but I am. ESPN has their way to influential terrible power poll....these are just my few players to watch that could take home the Heisman, and also the RoughRider Offensive Player of the Year.

Andrew Luck - QB - Stanford : He would have been the first pick in the NFL draft this year had he come out, and will be this next year most likely. Should put up big numbers again even though Jim Harbaugh is now with the 49ers.

LaMichael James - RB - Oregon : Another stud in the Pac-12. Helped led the Ducks to the National Championship game and last years Doak Walker Award winner. He should have another big year. Oregon-Stanford is the game of the year in the Pac-12.

James White - RB - Wisconsin / Montee Ball - RB - Wisconsin : The Badgers like to run, a lot! White ran for 1050 yards last year sharing duties with a John Clay and Montee Ball. IBell ran just under 1000. If they are healthy 'they'll put up a lot more than that.

Marcus Lattimore - RB - South Carolina : Who would have thought the ole ball coach would have an stud RB in his offense? Lattimore ran for almost 1200 yards and 17 scores. He'll need to do the same to get South Carolina back to the SEC title game.

Trent Richardson - RB - Alabama : In shared time with Mark Ingram, Richardson put up nearly 1600 yards from scrimmage. This year Ingram is gone and he'll get most of the Tide touches, and Saban will ride him like they rode Ingram. He could put up big numbers.

Kellen Moore - QB - Boise State : How long has this kid been there? A Heisman finalist this year, he's passed for 10,000+ yards already for the Broncos. He's got 38 career wins and is on tap for double digit more. Should be back in New York for the Heisman Ceremony.

Landry Jones - QB - Oklahoma : In 2 years as the Sooners QB he's already tossed up nearly 8000 yards. He has a stud WR to throw too in Ryan Broyles and has the weak Big XII to eat up. He should put up another big year as should Broyles.

Justin Blackmon - WR - Oklahoma State : A physical beast! Almost 1800 yards receiving and 22 touchdowns in the Cowboys explosive offense. He should put up around 1500 this year as he will be a marked man and he is most likely the #1 WR taken in the NFL draft.

8/10/2011

Oh what a day....

Sometimes you just have some days that are like....wow...really, this is all happening. Especially with kids. Today was one of them.

This morning my 3 yr old son woke up crying and screaming in pain. This isn't normal...really. He doesn't like to wake up really unless he's getting to stay home and watch cartoons. So he is staying home obviously. I call and get him an appointment but not till midday. He struggled through the morning but laying on his side he was ok. he had trouble walking comfortably, and getting up and down off the couch or chairs.

Then comes the appointment. We have a nurse come in and talk to us and she can visibly see that my boy is hurting. She left and the doctor came in 30 mins later and did some initial looking over of him. She had him on the table and did the normal check of ears, eyes and nose. Also checked his tummy which was obviously hurting him. She ordered a blood test, pee test and xrays.

Pee test he did fine. XRays were good. He stuck his tongue out at the "camera". Then came the Blood Test. I sat up in the chair, in charge of holding an arm and two legs. Another nurse was in charge of holding him down, another held and iPad for him to watch a Toy Story movie/book to calm him down. But it didn't matter, as soon as that needle went in his arm, he was wiggling and crying. It seemed like forever knowing he was hurting there and holding him....but he got through it and made it. In the end he scored 8 Toy Story and Captain America stickers.

After all this and getting him a snack, we headed up to the doctors office again. He was a good trooper. Sat and watched cartoons well and was really quiet though he was in pain. Eventually 4 hours or so into the whole trip, we got the results. No appendicitis....no constipation or a lot of poop in the intestines... don't really know what it is. So that's that. 4 hours all those tests and "oh just watch him" How is that supposed to help?

As a parent seeing my kids in pain is one of the worst things, this is one of the worst moments. So trekked home. Think that is enough for one day? Oh no.

Tonight while playing a matching game my boy, who by this time was feeling a little better, hit my daughters gatorade bottle that happened to be in her mouth. Instant screaming and bleeding. The right front tooth is bleeding and hanging. Crap just what needed to happen. Sent the boy to his room and we got the tooth out.

So that was my day. I'm worn out, ears feel weird....throat too and now gotta get hook up with the tooth fairy tonight.

Never thought the day would begin with my son not barely able to walk and get up on the couch...and ends with him knocking out his sisters front tooth.

Time to bed.

8/08/2011

How I'd fix the WWE

Welcome to the WWE....notice things haven't changed in a while. Cena with a title belt. How long has it been like this? Like for the past 3-4 years. It was like this before that when it was HHH who held the belt for years, and then long before that it was Hogan for like 5 years straight. At least in the 90s you got Stone Cold, the Rock and Mankind fighting over the belt with a little Brock Lesnar, Chris Jericho and Big Show too. But yes I get it, I get it, Cena sells shirts and the kids love him. He's Vince's cash cow.

What they don't seem to understand is that Cena doesn't need the belt to still sell all the shirts and merchandise. Cena doesn't need a belt to make Wrestlemania matches sell. I don't understand why the WWE doesn't get this?

And for the past 5 or 6 years there have been 2 champions. Huh? How can 2 be champs. It's like 1990 when Georgia Tech and Washington tied for the College Football National Championship. Just not right. There should only be 1 champ.

How I would fix the WWE. And before we get into it all, yes i know its staged. But here we go. The talent is so thin the Rogain guy needs called in for help, the rosters of Smackdown and Raw need combined. You get to much of the same crap over and over.

When you do that you have a 32 men bracket for the WWE Championship. The World Heavyweight championship is gone. No more. Sorry Big Gold Belt.

As each person loses they get thrown into one of 2 battle royals, one for the Intercontinental Championship and the other for the US Championship. Your roster all gets exposed here pretty much. New feuds can be created than the normal ones we see.

With only 3 belts there and a full roster, you can build up the Tag Team titles. Remember back in the 80s when there was Demolition, the British Bulldogs, and the Hart Foundation. Now we get Santino and someone. The tag titles have taken a hit. You build that up and newer talent can build off each other.

Finally bring back the Hardcore title. This can be something like the ECW title where it was EXTREME! When Big Show had the ECW title he KICKED ASS, TOOK NAMES! Now he gets beat by dudes 1/3 his size. Not right! Let him roll with the Hardcore title and just beat the tar out of people!

Finally to go in further with the WWE title bracket, you need Cena to go far, maybe final four, and lose. Then run in on the championship and turn heel! No one would expect it.

That's how I'd fix the WWE. What do you think?