Rrandom thoughts

     Hello all. It has been a little while since the last twitter style update or any update at all.  I blame this on the winter Olympics. The winter Olympics has had most of my attention. I can not put my finger on it but for some reason the winter Olympics are much more interesting to me than the summer Olympics. I tried to explain to someone the other day but I could not. On that note, I will jump into some thoughts about the Olympics and other thoughts I have.

NBC's coverage of Olympics

     If anybody reading this did not know this, the winter Olympics are in Vancouver. It is annoying the amount of tape delayed events I have seen. Vancouver is only two hours behind the central time zone and it seems hard to get any live coverage of the events. It really killed the excitement of Shani Davis and Bode Miller winning gold knowing that I had already heard they won their races.
   
     The next thing that has been annoying is the coverage of the biggest USA hockey game in years against Canada. How could they place that game on MSNBC? Over ice dancing? Poor choice. The people who want to watch ice dancing will watch ice dancing wherever it is on. Skating is not as popular as it use to be in the mid-90's. The hockey game would have been ratings gold for NBC that night, but also for future NHL hockey games on NBC.  The USA vs. Canada match-up is highly possible and hopefully NBC gets it right this time.


Spring Training has started

     All Cubs fans are pumped about spring training. It is chance to believe the Cubs will actually do something this year. I do not get excited as I use to about because I have become a more realistic cubs fan. The Cubs really did not do a lot to improve the team except make moves that will hopefully improve their team. Xavier Nady could be a really big signing for the team, but again if he is healthy. How will his arm hold up in the outfield? How often will he play? There are so many questions with him, but also many other Cub players, i.e. Carlos Silva. Spring training should hopefully help answer some of them. There will be more Cubs thoughts during the year as spring training continues and it gets closer to the regular season.

March Madness

    It is about that time to start thinking if favorite team will make it into the tournament. Luckily for me, my favorite team, Mizzou, will be in this year. Mizzou clinched it with a 2-0 week by beating Texas and Nebraska. Unfortunately there is also the other side of things where your favorite team has a crushing lost that keeps them out. I feel for all the mid major teams that lost games during bracket buster Saturday or teams that have to win their tournaments to get in. Even if they are solid teams, getting solid win will always be tough because the bigger schools do not want to play them.  After watching lots of College basketball it will make me angry if the Pac-10 gets more than one team in or if the ACC gets more than four. Neither of those conferences really deserve more than that.

That is it for now.

-Mike Moreau