Let's End the Drought

Well, I apologize for the drought between posts. Based on my friendly reminder from Blogger, it's been almost two weeks since my last post. Unfortunately, this blog's record number of 2, that's right- 2!, followers has not been enough to generate the ad revenue necessary for work. Are you kidding me, Bleacher Report? You don't want to buy this? I'm offensive, have no background in sports I cover, and am barely literate-- I'm your dream writer! Anyways, I have had to focus on work the past couple of weeks, so I'm behind on posts. So, this will be a links article to end the drought.

First of all, a big Happy Birthday to Uncle D. I'd put up the link to his birthday page on Facebook, but I worried both that I could reveal his identity and also I'm no longer allowed on
social-networking web pages after a certain ridiculous "court order." Long story short, if Braylon Edwards would just be cool and be my Facebook friend, take me out to a club, and give me a lifetime supply of "5 Hour Energy," none of this would be an issue. But Happy Birthday, D.

1. I have made no qualms that I enjoy Stewart Mandel's columns, but since he's on sabbatical working on another book that I'm sure won't sell at all, SI.com has tried to find replacement authors. Tragically, one of these men is Andy Staples, who gives us a listing of the 12 Best Jobs in College Football. I won't even get started on this one here-- I just wanted to share it with you. My rebuttal post will be out later in the week. I'll just start with this: only an idiot would come up with a "top 12" list. Moron.

2. The Brobible has made a list of the 10 Best Traditions In College Football. I can't really argue with this list because the writers have clearly been to waaay more games than I have. I've been to games at Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana, Virginia, Notre Dame, Texas and Georgia Tech. Only Ohio State made the list, and Script Ohio is pretty awesome. Anyway, this list is inspiring to me and I think I'll come back to this summer when I play trips next fall. Since I'm now in SEC country, the goal is to hit the following stadiums (in order): Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, LSU, Auburn. My goal: hit two next year. Anyone want to help me out with tickets?

3. How many blogs can give you this? Let's talk March Madness! That's right, we're only 2 weeks (roughly) away from Selection Sunday in . . . Men's College Hockey! USCHO has the pairwise breakdown-- I know I'm talking to pro's here, but remember only the top 16 teams qualify. The team to watch is Notre Dame this year-- defending champs that also brought in the nation's top recruiting class (including my high school friend's younger brother-- yeah Eric!). Anyway, I know you don't really care about this, so here's a great link to the tournament that you all care about: the Women's Frozen Four rankings.

4. Finally, I spent all day last Saturday fully engrossed in the first big weekend of men's college lacrosse. It was the Face Off Classic, and featured three games pitting six of the biggest names in men's lacrosse: Virginia v Syracuse, Johns Hopkins v Princeton, and Maryland v Duke. Not only that, Army even stepped in and played an awesome game against Ivy League-favorite Cornell. If you don't watch lacrosse, you missed some awesome games. Inside Lacrosse did a live blog of the UVA-Cuse game: spoiler alert, you see the killer in the first seen, like in "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

Wow, do you find yourself refreshed, re-energized, and quenched? That's what she said-- and that's the end of our drought here at Office Tailgate. We're back!