Hoya Saxa – Georgetown basketball on a roll

This morning, I saw a video on CNN this morning of surfers riding some great waves off the coast of Long Island, NY. I sent my brother an email asking if our brother-in-law had gotten out there to test his skills.  Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to due to timing, but he sent me a picture…

While I am not surprised about the popularity of the Chinese Olympics, the number of people that hit the site seems crazy.  Bummer for Ticketmaster and for the people that couldn’t get on. Eight million hits and 200,000 orders per second overwhelmed the technical system, Chinese news site Xinhua reported. Link to the article Technorati…

Okay, this is probably dating myself but watching the Celtics-Lakers game tonight actually gave me flashbacks to my childhood when the rivalry between Bird/McHale/Parrish and Magic/Worthy/Kareem was the stuff of legends.  Check out the first 2 minutes of this teaser from 1984 if you don’t know what I am talking about.  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6XroCc66Eo&hl=en] The only problem…

What great news I got this weekend when I received an email alert from the Washington Post that Greg Monroe has decided to sign with Georgetown over his hometown school, LSU, as well as cancel his recruiting trip to Duke — despite the fact that he was Coach K’s #1 player this year. I couldn’t…

The Onion is a phenomenal website.  Except when it parodies Donovan McNabb and my Eagles twice in three weeks.   The first one was on 9/17: Eagles Fans Give McNabb Three-Week Deadline To Win Super Bowl and then there was one this week after the loss to the Giants: Umenyiora comes out of nowhere to sack…

I saw this story yesterday on the NFL network and thought it was a great story about DeSean Jackson’s road to the NFL and the role that his father (who passed away in May) played in it. Desean seems like a classy guy, and I am happy that he plays for the Philadelphia Eagles!  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERuRmancsE&hl=en&fs=1&&hl=en]…