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The iPad is definitely worth it
For Christmas this year our family got an iPad. All I can say is that it’s a perfect addition to what we do around the house.
We are working through the newness of it and the addiction of playing games. But once you finish angry birds what do you do? 😉
I think this can be a great productivity tool and help our family move to less paper around our house. I look forward to playing around with it. I’m sure that my wife is also.
Metrodome won’t be ready for Vikings game; Snow removal started at TCF Bank Stadium – ESPN
Metrodome won’t be ready for Vikings game; Snow removal started at TCF Bank Stadium – ESPN.
I’m glad the NFL has come to their senses and will allow the game to be played at TCF field. There will be challenges, but this is the best option and an option that should have been used for the game last Monday night.
Here’s to an outside NFL game in Minnesota. It’s about time!
The NFL Should Have Kept the Vikings-Giants Game in Minnesota
The NFL should not have moved the Vikings-Giants football game this evening from Minneapolis to Detorit. They had a perfectly good option at TCF, the football home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
If you didn’t know, the Metrodome (the home of the Vikings) inflatable roof collapsed Sunday morning under a bunch of snow. It is unplayable.
By moving the game, the NFL is taking the game away from the true Vikings fans and moving it to one of their hated rivals in the NFC North, the Detroit Lions.
There goes the home field advantage an NFL team usually enjoys. They are giving the tickets away to the game, first-come, first-served.
The NFL could have just as easily kept the game in the Twin Cities, played the game outside at the University of Minnesota and kept the game in front of Vikings fans.
Come on NFL, stop ruining the game.
Outlook 2007 Tasks and Blackberry Problem
I use Outlook 2007 at work with a Blackberry Bold.
But I have one big problem, if I mark a task complete on the Blackberry, it marks it complete on the Blackberry and in Outlook. However, the completed task just moves from the day I completed it to the next day, to the next, etc. You get the picture.
This is quite frustrating and I hope to get this solved. Are there any suggestions out there?
Conference alignment is just nuts
The conference realignment is just nuts.
TCU has left the Mountain West Conference for the Big East. So instead of playing games in Fort Collins, Albuquerque and Las Vegas they will be playing in Syracuse, Boston, and Pittsburgh.
Now the Mountain West Conference is talking with Hawaii about a football only membership and Utah State is lobbying to get into the conference.
The Western Athletic Conference is in real danger of just going away leaving Idaho, San Jose State, Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State in the cold.
This is just nuts. And all because everyone is chasing the millions in the BCS.
Boise State started it all off by moving to the MWC to help the conferences opportunity to be an automatic qualifier into the BCS. But Utah, BYU, and now TCU have left and has really hurt the chance.
The only thing that is real plausible for the Mountain West Conference right now is to merge the WAC and MWC into one mega-conference. It would help its opportunity and generate some good competition.
Let’s bring some sanity to this mess, but I doubt this will happen.
Colorado Rapids Win MLS Cup
The Colorado Rapids won the Major League Soccer Cup in a physical match, but one that was fun to watch, with a 2-1 OT win over FC Dallas.
FC Dallas started the scoring when David Ferriera scored on a beautiful cross from Chavez when the Rapids failed to mark Ferriera.
But FC Dallas would score no more. Conner Casey got the Rapids even with a goal from his rear when he found the ball in a pile of bodies and put it in.
The rest of regular time no one scored despite efforts from both teams. But in the beginning of the 2nd OT, Kandji kicked a ball off FC Dallas defender John and it found the goal for an own goal.
If you watch the replay, Kandji got a boot to the knee and was unable to finish the game. The Rapids finished with 10 men and withstood a rampant attack by FC Dallas including Pickens making a wonderful diving save.
The Rapids bring home its first MLS Championship and hopefully many more to come.
Go Rapids!
The Mountain West Conference and Western Athletic Conference Should Merge
With all this conference re-alignment going on, the time has come for the Mountain West Conference and Western Athletic Conference to merge and become one 16 team conference.
This is how it could break-down.
Eastern (Rocky Mountain)
Louisiana Tech
TCU
New Mexico State
New Mexico
Air Force
Colorado State
Wyoming
Utah State
Western (Sierra)
San Diego State
Fresno State
San Jose State
UNLV
Nevada
Boise State
Idaho
Hawaii (Denver)
The invitations to Texas State and UTSA are on hold depending if LA Tech goes to Conference USA and if TCU heads to the Big East. Hawaii is football only with the remaining teams in the Big West. Denver can take over the other sports left by Hawaii and swap with Utah State in the divisions for the other sports. This will build on the rivalries that already exist in Colorado.
This gives you seven division games plus a rotating game with the other division. It preserves rivalries and shortened travel. This is important because Air Force doesn’t want to play more than 8 conference games because of its commitment to play the other service academies. You also get a championship game that generates a lot of money.
This creates a super-conference in the west and it’ll generate a lot of interest and money for everyone.
The nice thing about this is the conference can get rid of The Mountain (the MWC network that no one likes) and go with a contract with ESPN and get the exposure that everyone wants.
What are your thoughts?
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