2 oops in one year....not a good second half of the year

So, how is everyone?

I apologize for not checking in sooner. It has been the entire Fall quarter since I checked in with everyone... (Why didn't you say anything there Jess?) Since finals start tomorrow, I can say took when referring to my classes. I took Financial Management (teacher had a very heavy Middle Eastern accent, and many others in addition to myself, had a very hard time understanding him), Organizational Management, Mass Media & Society, and the school newspaper.

Funny thing in the newspaper class, the first week of the quarter I was assigned a story on the Athletic Director retiring. One of the people I figured should have been in the article was the President of the school, so I went and made an appointment to interview him for the story. I got the interview three days later, and got him into the article. I go in on the following Monday and have the following conversation,

Editors: How did you interview Mitchell (the school President)?

Me: I made an appointment and got in there, why?

Editors: It took us 4 months to get an interview with him last year.

Me: Did you go back and follow up on the interview request?

Editors: Yeah.

Me: With his secretary?

Editors: Yeah, 4 months after we initially asked.

Me: Well, you should have done it two days later, that is what I did.

After that conversation, the Editor in Chief said "You are my ace in the hole." I eventually went on, and I believe I'm the only person in the class to have at least one article in every single issue. To the best of my knowledge, the only other "sports writer" got 2 stories in 9 issues.

Well, as you can see it is late, and I need to get to bed.

I'll try and remember to get updates in more often.

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Ooops

Well, I see it has been since Dec. that I haven't updated the blog. Sorry. Been kinda busy with this thing called School.

I was looking and noticed that I had stated in previous posts that I would never do Twitter...Never say never. As I have officially joined the Twitter nation, and tweet pretty much every game that I go to. (twitter.com/CDinSV)

I survived the entire Winter quarter here at CSUB. I took Organizational Behavior (B-), Sports Law (B), and Sports Marketing (B). Quarter GPA - 2.90, missed a 3.0 by that much |_|.

For those that care, I'm taking Marketing, Event & Facility Management (my final Sports Marketing class), and MIS.

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.?