1) I have ideas in my head, but none are good. I can't write anything good these days. Maybe it's just because of slow news days or maybe I'm still bummed about not being a finalist, but man, it's tough to write day after day. I've had about 5 ideas about articles I could write but they aren't any good. Man, big writer's block. We need something big to happen so I can actually write about something.
2) I love Bowl season but I want the Rose Bowl now. I've heard too much about USC, listened to too many analysts and journalists discuss Bowls I care little about, and lost interest in the little Bowl games.
3) The NFL playoffs need to start. Week 17 should be bad and I'm tired hearing about the so called "Reggie Bush Bowl". I would have laughed if he didn't declare and stayed in college another year. Get on with the playoffs already, just so I hear about something fun.
4) New Years Eve is the second most overrated holiday, only behind Halloween. Finding something to do tonight was harder than it should have been and chances are, I'll be bored, begging to watch Sportscenter or some other sports show. Heck, I wouldn't object to going online and talking Giants football with my fellow Giants fans. But no, I'll be somewhere, watching a ball fall and ring in 2006. Pretty boring if you ask me.
5) Online sports message boards are a better source of information than a majority of journalists out there. People on message boards actually watch the game and don't have a supervisor looking over their shoulder. Everyday when I go online, I check my message boards first because I know I'll actually get the information I want to hear. Plus I won't be reading the junk found in every article.
6) This one ties in with number 5. You know sports journalism hits a low point when they profile message boards and hail them as great. You know its bad when news organizations check those websites and correct the errors the posters make. When is the last time a professional athlete or the member of an athlete's family checks message boards and sometime post on them, it becomes clear where the true information and true opinions are found.
7) I hope the NGS II starts soon after the first one finishes, because man, I really want to compete again.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you wholeheartedly on the halloween thing man! My favorite holiday of all! Halloween is when you can go out to the bars & clubs and find the hottest girls wearing the sexiest costumes you've ever seen! I was in arizona for halloween this year and at one of the bars my friends went to, I ended up meeting who may possibly be the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen...and all she was wearing was tiny little hotpants, a tiny tube top, and fireman's overalls clipped to her hotpants. She was also wearing a little fireman's hat too, but that's about it! And man did she have a smoking body. Mmm.. love halloween lol
No comment, Doc. Tiki, I know the feeling only too well. I've been suffering from writer's block for about two months now and, if something doesn't give soon, I'll never make my deadline (and I'm writing a textbook, for heaven's sake!).
Just wanted to check in and say that Barber pulled a Sugar Ray Leonard with that 263 last night. He might not win the MVP, but it will not be because of his final game.
