Hi kids, how are we all doing lately?
Me? Oh, I've been just peachy. It's been almost a month since my last blog post, but I swear I have a good explanation for it (er...sorta). Not only do I work most of the day away, but when I'm not working, I'm tuning up my resumé and continuing to hunt for job. Annoying, but something we all must do, like writing this blog post.
Not only that, but thanks to my pal R-Matts (who I sincerely hope reads this post to see the adorable nickname I just came up with), my TV show watching has been increased two-fold. In the past month, I have chugged out 'Modern Family', 'Arrested Development' (for the 2nd time), and have begun 'Deadwood' and 'Mad Men'. When I'm not watching those, I've been spending my time watching the NCAA tournament. If you didn't get a chance to read my post evaluating Wisconsin and Marquette's chances, go back and read them to see how dead on I was.
Despite their exits in the round of 16, I'm proud of my boys. That's a rare feat for any school, hell, even a 1-seeded team like Pittsburgh couldn't get there. That said, I like the rest of you have a completely busted bracket. In the 3 I did, only 1 did I have UConn in the Final Four, and I regretted that selection almost immediately. Butler doesn't shock me after they made the championship game last year, but VCU? Obviously the selection committee isn't so stupid, are they? (VCU was HIGHLY criticized for being chosen to make the tournament over several teams). And hey, did you know Shaka Smart was from Wisconsin? Just one of many winners this year from America's Dairyland, let's quickly break down this year in sports in the state of Wisconsin:
- 2011 is kicked off with Wisconsin Badgers football in their first Rose Bowl (as well as BCS bowl) in 10 years. They lost, but an 11-2 season is nothing to scoff at.
- The Packers just squeak into the playoffs but winning consecutive 'do or die' games, and then go on a miraculous run of winning 3 road playoff games to make the Superbowl and defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers to bring home their 13th NFL title, 1st since 1997. No matter what happened after, this completely made my year already.
- Wisconsin Badgers women's hockey wins what feels like their 100th championship. Obviously, that's an exaggeration, but these girls are well coached and good year in and year out. An easily overlooked achievement.
- Wisconsin Badgers and Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball both make the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. One of them would have great, but both is just awesome.
- Shaka Smart, native of Madison, WI, takes his 11-seeded underdog Virginia Commonwealth to the Final Four. A truly outstanding achievement for a young coach on the rise.
And I'm sure there are more teams who have been involved with national tournaments and athletics, and probably a few coaches or players from the state, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Something is in the air, Wisconsin, and our athletes are drinking whatever is in that water supply we got pumping right now (though it's probably frozen since it's March 28th and still 30 degrees outside).
What more could this year hold? Guess we'll just have to wait and see. I won't let the Bucks bring me down, we've got Opening Day right around the corner, and I'll be doing a super duper awesome Opening Day primer on Wednesday for all of you to read (for the baseball fans and ones who don't care as much). Smell those brats folks, no matter what the temperature is outside, spring is in the air...
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