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In defense of Bo Jackson: Bo knows baseball; @royalsreview (Royals Review) must not know Bo. We now live in an age of stardom and fame for all the wrong reasons. Bo Jackson represents the pinnacle of two sport superstardom. No other Royals player who has or will ever suit up in the cool blue...
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Shaquille O’Neal (AKA Shaq) and the Cleveland Cavaliers will be in Denver tonight to play the Nuggets at the Pepsi Center. If the current employment schedule worked out better this would certainly be a game worth the two hour drive to Denver, Colorado. After moving to Colorado Springs the ability to easily attend...
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Back on October 30, 2004, a weblog post focused on a serious question, “Why use Beckett Grading Service?” Over the last few years, my collection of trading cards has been reduced. Right now my primary focus involves picking up carefully selected Beckett Grading Service (BGS) encapsulated cards from auction houses or private collectors. Right...
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Maybe the future network printer will help print out a copy of the current sports card database. Maybe the best strategy for dealing with all the changes in the sports card trading industry will involve simply focusing the hobby of collecting. Those pesky graded card companies do make some fantastically exciting trading card holders....
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Watching college football generally involves locating the big game on seemingly randomly assigned television channel. National Football League (NFL) games are typically available on a handful of channels. Each week with the NFL involves the question, “What games are on?” Every Sunday a few NFL games are always going to be televised and are...
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Fans have started to petition the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) calling for running back Larry Johnson to be stopped from achieving the all time team rushing record. The Kansas City Chiefs from 1989 to 1998 were consistent and well coached by Marty Schottenheimer. Naturally, the general manager of the...
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Without the possibility of leaving the house, now would be the time for a few notes about a series of Saturday/Sunday activities that seemed completely and totally routine. An ice storm hit Colorado Springs during the early hours of the morning. The bank located in the grocery store did not open until about zero...
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Playing golf requires spending time at a driving range. Only a driving range can provide an environment for improvement. As a sport, golf requires access to equipment and the commitment of time. The eDouble band played on the Microsoft Zune music player during the redistribution of a bucket of Sand Creek driving range golf...
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For some reason the telephone service appears to be uninterrupted, but the DSL internet services are not functioning. The individual faces a late night query for information or simply a late night nudge in the right direction. Society’s interests including politics rise and fall like with the ocean’s tides. During the beginning of early...
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What a day! Unfortunately, the baseball game scheduled between the Colorado Springs Sky Sox and the Omaha Royals conflicts with an NBA playoff game. Phil Jackson and the Los Angeles Lakers will compete against the Houston Rockets at 1:30 PM MST in Los Angeles. Thanks to the magic of DVR technology the game will...
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Nels successfully acquired three sets of Denver Nuggets Western Conference Finals NBA playoff tickets. Unfortunately, Ticketmaster’s engineers have decided Colorado Springs resides outside the borders of the State of Colorado. At the very last moment, during the checkout procedures immediately after authorizing payment for all three sets of tickets the tickets were released back...
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On Friday May 15, 2009, at 10:00 AM MST Nels tried to utilize a special promotional code to purchase NBA Western Conference playoff tickets at the Denver Nuggets home arena the Pepsi Center. Nels even successfully acquired tickets using the Ticketmaster system. At the very last moment, during the checkout procedures (after authorizing payment)...
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Denver Nuggets NBA western conference finals tickets are going on sale Friday May 15, 2009. The Denver Nuggets website has indicated that season ticket holders will have priority ticket status. The total pool of tickets available to the public will be limited. Competition for the tickets will be fierce. Colorado residents had a horrible...
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The National Football League (NFL) draft will start at 4:00 PM EST on Saturday April 25, 2009. Nels will be covering the NFL draft all weekend via both live blogging and Twitter. Unlike most sports writers, Nels will fully disclosure all previously associated fandom. Traditionally, Nels follows the plotlines of two NFL franchises the...
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This weekend will be almost exclusively devoted to working on writing projects. Joni will be attending a retreat this weekend. Nels will have to take advantage of this opportunity to spend the entire weekend writing. At the same time, the National Football League (NFL) will be holding the annual rookie draft event at Radio...
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On Monday, the Spartans of Michigan State will be competing against the Tar Hells of North Carolina. One of these two national basketball powers will collect an additional NCAA national championship trophy. A DVD copy of last years Jayhawks of Kansas defeating the Tigers of Memphis sits on the shelf collecting dust. Archived basketball...
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For Kansas Jayhawk fans, the March Madness occurring within the confines of the NCAA basketball tournament is now over until next year. Bill Self has demonstrated a unique ability to both recruit well and coach well. They say a good coach has the ability to motivation people. A good coach demonstrates the ability to...
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Concentration really matters. Sometimes it is hard to focus on a specific topic. Anticipation of task completion can create anxiety. A relentless nature can be a substitute for concentration in terms of task completion. I find myself building a list of topics. Each day receives a certain number of topics. Now is the time...
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As a futurist thinker I occasionally wonder about what professional sports will be doing years from now. The National Football League (NFL) will probably at some point decide the media exposure from American cities does not provide the necessary international exposure to expand the league globally. At some point the NFL will simply move...
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Concentrate. Focus on what needs to be done. Make sure all of the options available receive consideration. Distractions are everywhere. College basketball season has started. Joni allowed the purchase of the ESPN full court college basketball package. Last night the University of Kansas basketball game against Northern Arizona was broadcast as a part of...
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Last night at the Denver Nuggets game, the Pepsi Center staff handed out inflatable thunder noise making sticks to all of the fans. Whistle happy referees called 68 fouls in the third playoff game between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Clippers. Large numbers of whistles stop the game from developing any kind...
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Over the next month the National Basketball Association (NBA) will holding a series of playoff games. During this very special time of the year, playoff basketball raises the standard of play to a higher level. Last weekend sported four games on both Saturday and Sunday creating a scenario where the better part of...
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Joe Torre the current manager of the New York Yankees probably deserves a pay raise after Forbes Magazine announced $1,026,000,000.00 as the new team value. Current owner of the New York Yankees George Steinbrenner bought the team in 1973 for $10,000,000.00 from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). After adjusting for inflation, George Steinbrenner paid...
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The University of Kansas played another NCAA tournament game against a school with a name that starts with the letter “B.” The University of Kansas lost another first round NCAA tournament game. Coach Bill Self has not had a problem recruiting talented players to play for the University of Kansas. Coach Bill Self has...
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CBS provides the worst possible NCAA tournament basketball coverage. By hoarding all of the games to one channel the nation gets to see seemingly spontaneously chosen segments of games. Note to CBS show highlights after the game is over instead of trying to highlight parts of multiple games. Basketball fans want to see the entire...
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Sometime in the next hour or so, the journey will begin and the Chevy Blazer will be racking up highway miles. Last time the University of Kansas qualified for a bowl game, the trip involved crossing more than half the United States of America to attend the Tangerine Bowl. At the time, the currently...
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Anticipation is already building in Lawrence, Kansas, for Friday December 23, 2005. The college football teams of both the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the University of Houston Cougars will be competing in the Fort Worth Bowl. Back in 2003, the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the North Carolina State University Wolf pack traveled...
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Monday night football should have some of the best television ratings of the year when the Pittsburg Steelers take on the undefeated Indianapolis Colts. Some of the National Football League games this year have lacked a competitive edge resulting in low television ratings. Peyton Manning has to learn an important lesson about the difference...
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Recently, Joni gave the final approval for the purchase of the ESPN Full Court college basketball game digital cable package from Comcast Cablevision. Last year the struggle of trying to watch University of Kansas Basketball games on television in Boulder, Colorado, was difficult enough to warrant purchasing an additional cable package just to be...
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Could the day make sense, if the morning started with a bowl of some kind of microwave chili product that claimed to be the dynamite type of spicy, but in fact was really just spicy enough to be flavorful? Restless nights are part of being an overworking contributor to the widely diverse set of...
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