Wasn't to sure about this pick at first since I wanted a QB or WR that was still available. However, after studying the pick more and with Darren Sharper probably retiring in the next 2 years I am happy with it.
Johnson Highlight video
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-g0WS8yQxE&hl
http://www.nfl.com/videos;jsessionid=E7261F5F131C89B3CB70CD669B260BA6?videoId=09000d5d808000f4
They say he might be the best safety in the draft and is a great tackler in the open field, which is exactly what the Vikings need. Wasn't to sure of the pick at first, but now I am loving it.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
NFL Draft 2008: Live Blog #3
With Ellis going to the Saints, the Ravens are now on the clock. They would have loved to get QB Matt Ryan, but he is already off the board. Jacksonville just traded up to #8 in place of the Ravens. Possibly DE Derrick Harvey from Flordia. There was speculation that Jacksonville was interested in giving up their frist round pick to the Dolphins for Jason Taylor, but I like this decision better then going after the 30+ year old Taylor.
After a slow, predictable start, things are starting to pick up with back-to-back trades.
With the draft starting 3 hours later and them moving the 3rd round until tomorrow may have somthing to do with my low level of excitement. The Vikings only have one first day pick, 2nd round pick #47, so they won't be picking until late tonight around 8-9p.m. If QB Brian Brohm is there, I hope Minnesota picks him. If Brohm left Louisville last year, he may have been a top 10 pick. He is likely to fall out of the first round in 2008. The Ravens trading down with Jacksonville to the mid 20's might pickup the next QB whether it be Brohm, Joe Flacco from I-AA Delaware, or Chad Henne from Michigan.
Jaguars pick Harvey at #8, which Mel Kiper feels is a reach and so do I. In mock drafts, I saw Harvey maybe droping to the Vikings when they had their 17th pick early, but likely going 13-14.
After a slow, predictable start, things are starting to pick up with back-to-back trades.
With the draft starting 3 hours later and them moving the 3rd round until tomorrow may have somthing to do with my low level of excitement. The Vikings only have one first day pick, 2nd round pick #47, so they won't be picking until late tonight around 8-9p.m. If QB Brian Brohm is there, I hope Minnesota picks him. If Brohm left Louisville last year, he may have been a top 10 pick. He is likely to fall out of the first round in 2008. The Ravens trading down with Jacksonville to the mid 20's might pickup the next QB whether it be Brohm, Joe Flacco from I-AA Delaware, or Chad Henne from Michigan.
Jaguars pick Harvey at #8, which Mel Kiper feels is a reach and so do I. In mock drafts, I saw Harvey maybe droping to the Vikings when they had their 17th pick early, but likely going 13-14.
NFL Draft 2008: Live Blog #2
The Jets pick is in and they drafted Gholston. The only six players in the green room are now gone. We won't be seeing any Brady Quinn or Aaron Rodgers situation where they had to stay in the back from 4-6 hours.
The Patriots lucked out getting the 49ers 1st round pick this year due to a trade last year. I guess they draft Sedrick Ellis from USC although I am not that confident.
Darren McFadden could be the Adrian Peterson of this years draft. I don't think that he will due to going to the Black Hole that is the Oakland Raiders franchise. Having a rookie RB and basically a rookie in second year QB JaMarcus Russell can't be a good thing.
A thing that makes the draft fun are the trades and speculation about what teams want to trade down and what teams want to trade up to get the player that they want.
The Saints just traded up to get the #7 pick from the Pats. I am pretty confident that it will be Ellis now to New Orleans. The Pats will now get multiple picks and stockload even more talent to the best team in the NFL this decade.
The Patriots lucked out getting the 49ers 1st round pick this year due to a trade last year. I guess they draft Sedrick Ellis from USC although I am not that confident.
Darren McFadden could be the Adrian Peterson of this years draft. I don't think that he will due to going to the Black Hole that is the Oakland Raiders franchise. Having a rookie RB and basically a rookie in second year QB JaMarcus Russell can't be a good thing.
A thing that makes the draft fun are the trades and speculation about what teams want to trade down and what teams want to trade up to get the player that they want.
The Saints just traded up to get the #7 pick from the Pats. I am pretty confident that it will be Ellis now to New Orleans. The Pats will now get multiple picks and stockload even more talent to the best team in the NFL this decade.
NFL Draft 2008: Live Blog
Watching the NFL Draft has always been something that I look forward to each year. But this year, even before the Vikings traded away their first round pick and two thirds to K.C., I wasn't as excited for this draft as I have been in the past. For weeks, no one knew who the top 5-10 picks were going to be. Everyone knew who was going to get picked, but unsure what team they would go to. Then on Tuesday, it was announced that Jake Long, OT from Michigan,signed with the Miami Dolphins to become the #1 pick. This set into motion the Rams picking DE Chris Long from Virginia, the Falcons picking QB Matt Ryan from Boston College, the Raiders selecting RB Darren McFadden from Arkansas. After weeks of not knowing, we basically knew the first five picks in the draft before they were officially announced. That left the Chiefs at #5 to pick DT Glenn Dorsey from LSU.
As I am writing this the Jets are on the clock. I would guess that they would pick Vernon Gholston, DE from Ohio State.
As I am writing this the Jets are on the clock. I would guess that they would pick Vernon Gholston, DE from Ohio State.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
A Good Walk Spoiled: Chapters 5-8, Pages 116-211
The way that the PGA Tour makes the majority of their money is through sponsorship, especially the naming rights to their tournaments. Buick has to be the biggest sponser because they had their name put on four different tour stops; the Buick Invitational in San Diego, the Buick Classic in Westchester, The Buick Open in Blanc, Mich., and finally the Buick Southern Open in Columbus, Georgia.
I think that the PGA is very smart for doing this and making money anyway they can. The only downfall to the whole thing is that with sponsership changing almost on a yearly basis it takes away some of the tradtion of having an event with the same name year in and year out. To the normal golf fan I would think it would be hard to know where the tournament stops at each week by just looking at the name of the tournament because it always seems to be changing with a higher bidder coming in every year and putter their name on the tournament.
A big reason that companies pay the extra money to have their name part of the title of the tournament is that the companies name has to be said on television everytime someone is refering to the tournement. For example, if AT&T is a major sponser of a tournament like the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but doesn't fork over enough money for naming rights for the tournament, then their name might not get mentioned at all and the only exposure that they will get will be mainly with T.V. commericials. However, if AT&T pays enough for the naming rights, then when refering to the tournament an announcer has to say "The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am" so that all of the viewers know who's paying the big money. The way of making money is a lot like NASCAR. Each week the cars are plastered with decals of sponsers from the major one on the hood to the small ones on the rear fender. The names that the sponsers put on the race sometimes can get a little out of hand in how long and ridiculous they are.
I think that the PGA is very smart for doing this and making money anyway they can. The only downfall to the whole thing is that with sponsership changing almost on a yearly basis it takes away some of the tradtion of having an event with the same name year in and year out. To the normal golf fan I would think it would be hard to know where the tournament stops at each week by just looking at the name of the tournament because it always seems to be changing with a higher bidder coming in every year and putter their name on the tournament.
A big reason that companies pay the extra money to have their name part of the title of the tournament is that the companies name has to be said on television everytime someone is refering to the tournement. For example, if AT&T is a major sponser of a tournament like the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but doesn't fork over enough money for naming rights for the tournament, then their name might not get mentioned at all and the only exposure that they will get will be mainly with T.V. commericials. However, if AT&T pays enough for the naming rights, then when refering to the tournament an announcer has to say "The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am" so that all of the viewers know who's paying the big money. The way of making money is a lot like NASCAR. Each week the cars are plastered with decals of sponsers from the major one on the hood to the small ones on the rear fender. The names that the sponsers put on the race sometimes can get a little out of hand in how long and ridiculous they are.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Video Blog
With the recent flip video making it so easy to produce a news story, I found this video blog of Al Tompkins and how he uses his equipment to post videos in his blogs. I think that this flip video is great because it makes it so easy to post video in pretty good quality for the web. The price is reasonable too. A Mass Comm. student who would use this camera for class instead of checking out the bigger, more expensive cameras, would see just how convenient and easy it is to use. This would be perfect for The Collegian to use next year as they are going to be adding video to the website.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
A Good Walk Spoiled: Pages 1-115
With the Masters wrapping up today, I decided that it would be nice to read John Feinstein's book "A Good Walk Spoiled".
The format of the book is similar to another Feinstein book that I have read, "A March to Madness". In "A March to Madness", it chronicles a season in one of the toughest conferences in college basketball, the Atlantic Coast Conference, during the 1997-98 season. The chapters switch from each of the nine coaches in the league and their pursuit to get into the NCAA Tournament at the end of the year for a chance to paly for the National Championship.
In "A Good Walk Spoiled", Feinstein follows a selcet group of golfers and brings some insight into what life is really like on the PGA tour. Some of the players are established and have won majr titles, while others are struggling to make a living on the tour and trying do well in Qualifying school. Q school is a grueling six day event in which golfers compete to win a spot on the tour for the rest of the year. To earn a spot on the tour, a golfer has to either finish in the top 125 of the money ist, win a tournament (2 year exemption), or win one of the four major tournamets (10 year exemption), the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, or PGA Championship.
The book begins talking about the Ryder Cup, an event between the U.S. and Europe every two years. hile golf is an individual sport, the Ryder Cup team is made up of a team of 12 players who competein pairs or one-on-one matchups against the other team. This book is interesting because it is before Tiger Woods started his dominance and golf became more popular. I don't know some of the players so I won't know the outcome of the tournaments like I do in other sports boos that I have read.
The format of the book is similar to another Feinstein book that I have read, "A March to Madness". In "A March to Madness", it chronicles a season in one of the toughest conferences in college basketball, the Atlantic Coast Conference, during the 1997-98 season. The chapters switch from each of the nine coaches in the league and their pursuit to get into the NCAA Tournament at the end of the year for a chance to paly for the National Championship.
In "A Good Walk Spoiled", Feinstein follows a selcet group of golfers and brings some insight into what life is really like on the PGA tour. Some of the players are established and have won majr titles, while others are struggling to make a living on the tour and trying do well in Qualifying school. Q school is a grueling six day event in which golfers compete to win a spot on the tour for the rest of the year. To earn a spot on the tour, a golfer has to either finish in the top 125 of the money ist, win a tournament (2 year exemption), or win one of the four major tournamets (10 year exemption), the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, or PGA Championship.
The book begins talking about the Ryder Cup, an event between the U.S. and Europe every two years. hile golf is an individual sport, the Ryder Cup team is made up of a team of 12 players who competein pairs or one-on-one matchups against the other team. This book is interesting because it is before Tiger Woods started his dominance and golf became more popular. I don't know some of the players so I won't know the outcome of the tournaments like I do in other sports boos that I have read.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Wellness Center Video
I had some trouble with the one guys shirt and eyes being green, so it is transparent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahm9chhYOvI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahm9chhYOvI
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