The 2009 Poinsettia Bowl

So, it has been awhile since I've posted, so I'll make up for that tonight as I blog from the 2009 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. This years edition features the #23 ranked Utah Utes (9-3) out of the Mountain West Conference and the University of California Golden Bears (8-4) out of the Pacific 10 Conference.

Those who know me might think I'm going to do a straight normal recap, and blog about these two teams....maybe you need to know a little more about these two fine teams.

Utah - The Utah Utes come in as I have already mentioned 9-3 and they finished 6-2 in the MWC. Utah according to their fine game notes have the nations longest active bowl winning streak and it stands at eight games (last bowl loss was against Wisconsin in the 1996 Copper Bowl). The Utes are on a nice stretch of games as they have won 23 of their last 26 games and 30 of its last 34.

University of California - Berkley -- More commonly referred to as "Cal". Comes into the game off a loss to Washington in the final regular season game, and it was a butt kicking as they lost 42-10. Cal doesn't have any game notes, so I can't really tell you much.

Head to Head -- Kyle Wittingham for Utah has never faced Cal. Jeff Tedford on Cal's sideline is 0-1 against the boys from Salt Lake City.

Conferences - Mountain West "Above the rest"...Pacific 10 "Conference of Champions". I think I'm going to have to go with the Pac 10 on which has a better tag line.

Oh and this is as close as I will ever get to twittering!

Oh the fun of going to college. Right now @ 11:45'ish I am doing laundry. Yeah!!!

Well that was nerve racking

For the first time outside of Home openers since I've started announcing I was actually nervous about announcing a game.

I got a text from our Sports Information Director (SID & my boss) around 4:45 for a 7p game. Asking me if I had ever announced a soccer before. I have announced CIF Soccer, once. So I somewhat lied and said that yes I have announced soccer before. So, not knowing if they would treat me like the regular announcer, I brought with me rosters for both teams.

I get to the field at 6:05 (5 minutes later than what I had planned), and went over the script for advertisements with the soccer contact, Sarah. I was told to read the script as it was printed with no ad libbing. That is tough for me, since this was the first time that I would have to read strictly from a script. So as game time got closer, my nerves got more and more crazy (of course it didn't exactly help that I was so nervous that I couldn't eat dinner & had low blood sugar).

Once I got into the Anthem "break", I was fine. I had a couple of screw ups on names, but other than that I did fine. Now comes the big question.....will they want me to take over once the regular announcer leaves at the end of Oct.?

Finally!

I'm officially a University student!
-CD

As sent earlier today from my phone. Well today was the day that I've been looking forward to since December of 2007 when I made the decision to go back to school. It has been just 3 months shy of 2 years, and oh the classes and homework and all the other stuff that goes along with school.

So now that day one is done, I've only got 2 years (by my own limitations) before I get my B. S. paper. Wish me luck, not only with school, but with my next 100 posts. Yes, this is post # 100, thanks to everyone (aka Jesse) who has been with me through all 100 posts.

Well, maybe not

As you read in my last bog, I was planning on going to Hollywood for a taping of "Let's Make a Deal". Well, then again maybe not. When we got to San Clemente things went down hill (and not just because the I-5 goes down). At first, I was starting to feel a little uneasy, so I stopped at the Mickey D's at Ave. Pico. I used the restroom and got there just in time as things in my body hit the eject button. So we turned around and came back home. We got back to the house around 8a and then Mom & I went to bed. I went to bed and didn't get up until 3p, it was a nice long rest. So I wish I could tell you about "Let's Make a Deal" but, I, just like the rest of everyone that wasn't there, will have to wait until the episode comes out on TV.

PS, tomorrow will be 2 months until I move into the dorms at CSUB.

Back to Hollywood

So I'm heading back to CBS Television City tomorrow for a taping of yet another TV Show. You might have heard the previous version of this show...."Let's Make a Deal". Everyone in the audience must dress up in a costume, so I'm going as ............................. a Hooter's Pool Boy. Mom will be joining me and she is going out on a huge limb as what she is dressing up as...a square dancer, oooooooo big time dress up there.