NCAA Tournament

Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls from all over the world and welcome to another edition of 'Life of a Student Athlete.'  In today's edition we are going to talk about College Basketball, the craziness that is going on there, high school basketball as it is playoff time there and the finals at Buffalo State are looming for this weekend.  Maybe we will visit the disappointing news of Alex Smith and his story.  The Buffalo Sabres have been on an awful slide lately and are currently the worst team in the Eastern Conference, but they won their last game, have fired their coach, they play tonight again, and who knows they could be making a huge run on the trail to comeback city.  For you those of you who don't know comeback city is a place you try and go when you are falling behind.  I'd just like to say that I invented it.  You're welcome world.  First though to start off this evening, I'd like to give a huge shout out to Keith McShea, a high school sports reporter for the Buffalo News, and maybe the reason I started this blog.  He had the birth of his first child yesterday, a boy and a healthy boy at that, so congratulations to him.  Now to College Basketball, everyone knows about March Madness, but this season has been madness from the beginning.  Dick Vitale is a big idol of mine, and he wrote an article about the craziness this season has brought.  More specifically to what happened last night between Michigan and Penn State, one of the few crazy games I missed because I didn't know it was on.  Here is a little script of the article:  

"I cannot remember a wilder and more exciting college basketball season in my years at ESPN. Over 30 years of action, and every night this season, we get another incredible story.
Look at last night. Penn State did not have a Big Ten win. Michigan was a top 10 team and big favorite over the Nittany Lions. So what happens? Another shock city upset. It throws more bracket predictions out the window."....

....."Then we have March Madness and I feel for the NCAA Selection Committee. How do you seed this field based on all of the wacky results? Is this the year that a low seed cuts down the nets in Atlanta?"

And there were two other crazy games last night alone!  I happened to be watching both.  The first was Georgetown vs. Connecticut.  Now this is in the Big East and that conference is unbelievable.  Unfortunately this is the last year all teams will be together.  The Big East is struggling and fighting to just keep the name alive.  Half the conference is leaving to go to other ones.  Problems could be looming for the Big East.  Anyways, the Hoyas and the Huskies went into overtime, but I can't even believe they go there.  UCONN had a big lead but the Hoyas roared back with a lot of three balls.  Otto Porter the star of Georgetown is unbelievable.  This kid is going to be something someday people lemme tell ya.  Last night he made the game winning layup carving through the defense with 9 seconds left, part of his 22 point night.  This kid is 6'8" 205 lbs. and can handle the ball with ease.  He has put the team on his back lately and is currently second in the race for the Wooden Award which is basically the best player in college basketball.  Coming off of a career game against my team Syracuse this past Saturday.  It was awful.  He put up 33 points in that game.  The rest of his team scored 24 points.  Syracuse scored just 13 more points than Porter.  It was embarrassing, and was by far the worst game they played all year.  I must say I'm a little concerned with my boys going into March.  We've dropped 3 of our last 5 and have struggled shooting.  My other team though Miami is riding high.  Beating both Duke and Carolina by 25+ earlier this year they just lost their first game in conference play this season to Wake Forest which isn't good, but it's hard to run the table.  They have a huge showdown this weekend in a rematch against Duke.  Duke's #3, Miami's #5.  I'm pumped.  In my personal opinion I think this is Miami’s year, and I cannot wait for the tournament this year.  It is going to be cray.  Duke is the best team I've seen personally, although they aren't ranked number one, Indiana is, they are hot and have beat some really good teams.  They've already beat three Top-5 teams in Kentucky, Louisville, and Ohio State.  I think they are poised to make a run, until they face Syracuse of course. Here is Joe Lunardi, Bracketology experts, prediction on the last teams in and out.

 ON THE BUBBLE

Last Four In

• Temple
• Kentucky
• Villanova
• Ole Miss

First Four Out

• Baylor
• Arizona State
• Indiana State
• Southern Miss

Next Four Out

• St. John's
• Boise State
• Maryland
• Alabama

Thank you all for joining me today, I hope you have a good weekend and I also hope that you guys will join me for next time.  Please comment on this blog so I can see your predictions and takes on this entire subject, thank you come again.

New Things

Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls from all over the world and welcome to another edition of 'Life of a Student Athlete.'  In today's edition we are going to talk about this new trend that has come about once a week and also this new twitter sensation.  I am really excited about this week's blog and I hope you are too.  First things first, make sure you guys are all following The Bulldog, @The_Bulldog14.  I demonstrate a lot of quality work and provide a lot of information from that account.  Also there is live tweeting from every JV basketball game.  Anyways there are a couple big stories flowing around the school these days.  The first is Jersey Thursday.  Or if we're talking Twitter terms using the hash tags, #JerseyThursday.  I can proudly say that I am one of the three co-founders of Jersey Thursday.  But honestly I think of myself as the only founder, as I am the only person of the three founders to still wear a jersey every Thursday, it's a little disappointing.  But I'll tell you the story of how it came about anyway.  It was a Wednesday night, and myself, Allen Darrow, and Brian Stoldt were all over at Brian Stoldt's house because his parents weren't home and they were not coming home so we decided to have a sleep over at his house.  So we just got home from McDonalds because that's where we had dinner.  Brian went to the bathroom and me and Allen were just taking a stroll around the house because we were bored.  And we decided to go up to his old room because we haven't been in there in a while and there were a lot of memories in the room and a lot of good times.  We were shooting some hoops because he has this like double basketball net thing and whatever we were having some fun.  And then I decided to check out his closet cause he's always had some cool gismos in there.  But then I just saw this massive amount of jerseys, and I was like whoa!!  Al come check this out.  There had to be at least 20 jerseys mostly NFL.  From Jerry Rice to Emmett Smith to Mike Alstott.  Mike Alstott I guarantee half the nation doesn't even know who that is.  Well he's a fullback or was a fullback he has retired and was a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There was also the best jersey I've ever seen in my life.  Mike Williams in his college days at Syracuse.  It was an actual jersey, like a game worn jersey.  It was awesome and I wanted to wear it so bad.  I was planning on wearing it in school, it was so tight but it was so cool.  So I was gonna wear it and Al wanted one too so we came up with this theory of we should do this every week and call it Jersey Thursday.  Even Brian was in on this.  So now almost two months later Jersey Thursday is still a thing, but pretty much I'm the only one participating.  And that’s kind of stupid.  I haven't missed a Thursday, but it has started to spread not only throughout our school, but to other schools.  I was at JFK two weeks ago for a basketball game and I saw a kid wearing a jersey.  No big deal.  But then this past Thursday, the girl sports anchor from SportsNation was wearing a jersey.  NO BIG DEAL.  That's crazy and I like to think of myself of a great trend starter that I will follow the rest of my life.  I'm currently trying to get a new Kenyon Barner jersey; he's a running back for the Oregon Ducks.  Now the other big deal swirling around the school is the new twitter sensation of AlDeN PrObZ.  They came about the night of January 30^th, and has been the talk of the school since.  No one knows who he/she is.  Everyone wants to know.  All they do is make harmless tweets that are quite comical that essentially problems in Alden.  They also make shout outs of the day every day.   No big deal but I was the first student in the school to be shouted out to.  The most recent was Josh Weisbeck.  I do remember one of the days after Alden Probz came about that for the entire 40 minute lunch period I was in; my table was non-stop talking about the subject.  The funniest part is, no one knows who it is.  We made up these big diagrams of who it could be, but no.  It’s sad, there’s been a lot of suspects, one is Cole Lamacchia I personally think it is him.  A lot of people think it’s Miner, but it has been proven that it is not him.