Show Down in P-Town!

Well it's official! The "Holy War" is tomorrow! It's what I've been waiting for all season, BYU and Utah head to head on the gridiron. In recent years it has been one of the closest mach-ups in the nation as 13 of the last 16 games have been decided by 7 points or less.

BYU brings a high powered offense in to the game complimented by a stout rush defense that has reeked havoc in teams backfields all year. Utah brings a balanced run and gun attack and a defense that has plenty of speed to keep up with the Cougars.

Some think it's going to be a high scoring shoot out, others think it will be a battle of defenses. But everyone knows that the truth is when the Cougars and Utes square off the only thing for certain is that nothing is certain.

BYU is my team so you know who I'll be rooting for, But either way I think its going to be another great one that won't be decided till the bitter end.

Here's to another great BYU Utah game!

RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH! RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH! RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH! GOOOOOO COUGARS!!!!

How I KNOW I'm a BYU fan...

If there was any doubt in anybodies mind as to weather or not I truly am a BYU fan it was all put to rest through a quite interesting experience I had on Saturday.

First you need to understand this. Sarah (my wife) and I love to play tricks on each other. One of our favorite tricks to play on each other is to steal the other ones cell phone and send a text to somebody that is either inappropriate or something that the owner of the phone would never say.

With that in mind...On Saturday evening we were upstairs watching TV when Sarah asked me to go get her a glass of ice water. While I was gone, unbeknown to me Sarah got her hands on my cell phone and texted something to my brother (a huge Utah fan)that I would never say. Shortly after I got back I received a text from my brother which read "did you really just say that? did your fingers actually type those words?". Immediately I looked at Sarah and said "what did you text to him?" she acted like she didn't know what I as talking about so I went to my sent message box and opened the most recent message sent to Steve...it read "GO UTAH". This is where it gets interesting. As soon as I read those words I got EXTREMELY nauseous ran to the bathroom and PUKED my guts out! NO JOKE! I felt fine before that...and I felt fine after. I have thought long and hard about why this would happen. I have no explanation other than this...I AM A TRUE BYU FAN!

GO COUGARS!

Expectations

I can't believe it, but its already time for the NBA basketball season to start! It was an interesting off season. Lots of teams made big moves, lots of teams decided to stand pat. Here is my break down of what I think will happen Division by Division this season:

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division
Lots of big changes over the summer on the East Coast, but in the long run it probably won't change a whole lot. Boston still looks really good, if K.G. and the rest of the team can stay healthy they should have no problems bringing the Division crown back to Bean Town.

1. Celtics
2. 76ers
3. Raptors
4. Knicks
5. Nets

Central Division
If the Central has one thing its STARS to the ump-teenth power. With the likes of LeBron, Derick Rose, Micheal Redd, and Sheed being joined by Shaq there will be no shortage of great play. The Cavs look good but I wouldn't be too surprised if the Bulls or Pistons made a serious push for 1st place.

1. Cavs
2. Bulls
3. Pistons
4. Bucks
5. Pacers

Southeast Division
If there is a division where ANYTHING can happen, this is it. Orlando will be a contender for the Title again, and D-Wade is hungry for another ring. If the Wizards and Hawks can get their acts together they will be hard to beat. The only easy pick in the Southeast is last place.

1. Magic
2. Heat
3. Hawks
4. Wizards
5. Bobcats

Western Conference

Pacific Division
This is an interesting division. The Lakers are without question the best team, and unless Armageddon occurs they will win the division with no problem. It gets chippy after that. The Suns are good but ageing, the Warriors are fast but lack disipline, The Clippers are Talented but can never put it together, and the Kings can hits 3's all day but have no inside game. Spots 2-5 are up for grabs on the left coast.

1. Lakers
2. Suns
3. Warrior
4. Clippers
5. Kings

Southwest Division
There is no question that its going to be a competitive grind it out type of season for the Southwest. When it comes down to competitive grind it out basketball nobody does it better than the San Antonio Spurs. It will be a close race but in the end Timmy and the boys will edge out the Hornets and Mavs for the #1 spot. Sorry Houston, with Yao out and Artest in Purple and Gold, it might just be best to tank it and see if you can get a good lottery pick

1. Spurs
2. Hornets
3. Mavs
4. Grizzlies
5. Rockets

Northwest Division
Probalby the best division in the NBA this season. I expect it to come right down to the last game for the division championship to be decided. If the Nuggets can gel like they did last year they could win it. The Blazers have a strong backcourt and if Oden comes up big...look out! But if the Jazz avoid injurys and locker room drama, they will be haging another division championship banner in the ESA!

1. Jazz
2. Blazers
3. Nuggets
4. T-Wolves
5. Thunder

Mascots

The other day I was thinking about all these College's and their mascots...and I realized that there are 3 types. There are normal mascots, there are bad mascots, and mascots that make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!! Here are some of my favorites:

Virgina Tech Hokies: If you look up the word Hokie in the dictionary wanna know what you'll find? NOTHING!!! It isn't even a word! Va Tech gets and E for E-magination on that one!

TCU Horned Frogs: Yeah they are a real thing that lives in Texas. But there are a lot of other more scary things to choose from like...racoons...cottontail rabbits...and......hillbillies!

St. Louis Billikins: Nobody knows what a Billikin is...but it looks like a cross between the devil, a mouse, and the abominable snowman.

Southern Illinois Salukis The Saluki is actually a great dog to have around...when your hunting mice...probably something that only would happen in southern Illinois.

UAB Blazers: At this point, they might as well just change it to the roaches...or the bong water...

California-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs: this one just makes you ask....why?....is creativity really that important?

Cenetary Gentlemen: Gotta give them credit though...they are very Polite!

Grays Harbor Chokers: I bet these guys hate being in a close game!

Purdue Boilermakers: At least they aren't in denial about why their students go to school there....now pass me another boilermaker!

Rhode Island School of Design Nads: yep...my mind is at the level of a 3rd grader right now.

Syracuse Orange: Why would you name your team after a fruit?

Texas A&M-Galveston Sea Aggies: First of all...whats an Aggie? Second of all...What in the world he doing in the sea?

Ohio State Buckeyes: Why would you name yourselves after a nut? At least its not pecans or walnuts thought.

Indiana Hoosiers: I've always wanted to say this.................HOOOOOOOSIER DADDY?

If you can think of any more to ad to the list Feel free!

It's been a while!

Sorry Folks for not posting in a while! Sometimes life comes at ya fast and things like blogging get pushed to the side a little bit. I'll try to keep things up to date from now on.

Here are the up-dates I gotta blog on

Broncos 5-0- Totally unbelievable! I thought they would go down for sure to the Pats, gotta give the mile high boys props for pulling it out in OT! And you gotta love the Oompa Loompa socks!

Cougars Win Big- All I can say on this one is its about time we blew out a team we were supposed to blow out! Harvey looked mean out there, and Max finally had a 0 Int game (his first in 8 games).

Utes Pull it off...again- Gotta give the boys on the hill koodos for coming back and winning against CSU. I'm sure all you U fans out there are singing praises to Johnson and his 3 picks that saved the game.

Ready for basketball- The Jazz had a two game trip to Europe, they went 1-1. I'm actually kind of excited to have Boozer back cause ya know he is going to play his butt off so he can get his big contract next year. Who knows...maybe he'll make an effort on defense this year.

Peace Out!

4-0...and Who-da known?

At the beginning of the NFL season I was looking a Denver's schedule and asking myself questions like "are they even going to win" and "I wonder if we'll get the #1 pick in the draft." When the Broncos beat the Bengals with that miracle catch in week one I said to myself, "If that's the only win this year, I'll be happy." When we beat the Browns into the ground in week 2 I thought to myself, "wow! 2-0, that's more wins than I was expecting all year." When we pounded the Raiders I was like "Ok, this must be where the glory ride ends." Leading up to Sunday I thought there was no way we would beat the Cowboys... boy, was I wrong. It took a great effort, but they pulled it off! Now I'm saying things to myself like "are the Broncos legit this year" and "we probably only have to win 4 more games to win the division and make the playoffs." I don't know what's going to happen the rest of the season. All I have to say is...HOW 'BOUT THEM BRONCOS?!

Top Play

Maybe I'm just a homer, but there is no way any play could have been better than Brandon Marshall's game winner vs. Dallas. Look at the catch and the moves he puts on! This guy has IT!

Rivalry?

In the state of Utah few sporting events draw more press attention than this one. The headlines are dominated and tensions run high as fans and students from both sides scramble to buy tickets. Yes indeed, this rivalry demands the undivided attention of the entire state. This rivalry is....................

BYU vs. Utah State?

To be honest, I'm not even sure if this can be called a rivalry any more. Before I go any further let me say this. This is not a diss on USU. To tell ya the truth, if I have a second favorite team in the state its USU. I wish them well in every game....except one.

The cold hard fact is this, in the last 28 games the Y has won 25 of them.

Can you really call that a rivalry? Utah State hasn't beat BYU since 1993. BYU's average margin of victory has been more than 3 TDs. In the last three meetings BYU has outscored USU 107-48 (34 of USU's points came in one game).

If you ask the average USU student/fan who their #1 rival is the answer will be BYU every time. Ask a BYU student/fan who their top 4 rivals are and you won't here USU's name. Ask a BYU student/fan who their second favorite team is they will probably say...USU. That's gotta suck for USU's fan base to know that the team they hate the most actually kind of likes them.

I thought it was pretty sad last year when the fans in Romney stadium in logan started chanting "over rated" because BYU was only winning by 20.

They always say that anything can happen in a rivalry. So I guess that means that USU could score its first points in Provo since 2001. Maybe BYU will win by less than 20 points for the first time in 8 years. And maybe...just maybe...USU will win a game against an instate opponent. After all this is a rivalry....right?

Matt's TD

I was just on Youtube to check out the top plays from this past weekend. There were some pretty amazing plays. But none more amazing than this one! This is my TOP PLAY!

At first glance you might think this is nothing special - that's what I thought - until I did some research. The ball carrier is Matt Ziesel, a junior at St. Joseph's Benton High School in Missouri, who has down syndrome. His team was down 46-0 when his coach asked the opposing coach to let Matt score, not only did the opposing coach say yes, but his defensive players did everything they could to make it feel as real as possible for Matt! That's what I call sportsmanship, and that's why this is my TOP PLAY!

Smoked!

This past weekends college football schedule for The Y, the U, and Utah State had everybody in the state excited. Each member of Utah's big 3 was taking on a high profile BCS conference team, and a lot of people thought there was a legit chance that our state could put even more pressure on the BCS to change!
At least for now - all of that will have to wait. All the big 3 served up were 3 BIG disappointments, as Utah couldn't keep up with Oregon down the stretch, Utah State came up just short in what could have been a huge upset against Texas A&M, and BYU decided not to show up against FSU. For Utah it was the end of the nations longest winning streak. For BYU it marked the first home loss in 3 years. And for USU.....it was the same old same old.

The part that bugs me the most is this...NOW NONE OF THE TEAMS FROM UTAH HAVE A SHOT AT THE BCS, While the teams that beat us, who all have 2-1 records still have a legit shot at not only playing in a BCS game, but also the national championship. Oklahoma even has a better shot at that than anybody from Utah. It just goes to show how bad of a system the BCS is.

But hey, lets look on the bright side....Vegas is beautiful in December. Just ask Bronco Mendenhall, he knows all about it.

Talkin' Sports

Well here it is...my very first sports blog!

Recently I was on a road trip with my wife, her cousin Elise, and Elise's husband Bryan. On the way home Brian and I were in the front seats Talkin' Sports. Brian turned to the back and asked for the girls to interject to which the reply came...."there is too much testosterone in here." Probably the best reply ever, it made me laugh.

There are so many times I have been talking to another guy and noticed that every gal in the room is totally tuned out, every time I notice this...I'm Talkin' Sports.

What is it that makes chicks zone out when dudes are Talkin' Sports? How could something be so interesting to a guy, and yet totally ungripping to a girl? The answer is.......NO BODY KNOWS!

In a way this blog is doing my wife...and a lot of other girls a favor, cause if they don't wanna hear me Talkin' Sports they don't have to. At the same time though I'm doing a favor for me and all the other dudes out there cause now you can hear me Talkin' Sports any time you want!

So here's a little bit about me and what you can expect on this blog.

I am a HUGE BYU fan! I love 'em! I'm gonna write about them!

I am a HUGE UTE hater! I hate em! But i'm still going to write about them!

I am a MAJOR JAZZ fanatic! You WILL be hearing about them!

I H-A-T-E the LAKERS! They are #2 on my shiz list (right behind the Utes)!

I'm down with MLB baseball! I'm all about the Cards and the Yanks! Hate the Bo Sox!

I don't like NASCAR and I won't write about it!

Every now and then I might write about cricket or rugby or some Olympic sport or something, cause I'm down with them too and I gotta give them their due respect!

I hope all of you out there enjoy my blog! You keep it real, and I'll do the same! Until next time...keep Talkin' Sports