school again

today is my first day of my sophomore year at UCD. 1st class was Soc4: Immigration - teacher/topics sounds intriguing. Tomorrow is my first advance calculus class and then a computer science class. yay me.

Fav ALL TIME MLB and NBA Teams

These teams are subject to change.

NBA
PG- Magic Johnson
SG- Michael Jordan
SF- Kobe Bryant
PF- Scottie Pippen
C- Yao Ming
6th - Reggie Miller
7th- Alonzo Mourning
8th- Andris Biendris
9th- Dennis Rodman
10th- Rasheed Wallace
11th- Allen Iverson
12th- Chris Mullin
IR- Jason Williams
IR- Dirk Nowitzki
IR- Steve Kerr
IR- Stephen Jackson
IR - John Stockton
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MLB
C Kurt Suzuki
C Joe Mauer
1B Scott Hatteberg
IB Mark McGwire
2B Mark Ellis
SS Derek Jeter
SS Miguel Tejada
2B/SS Marco Scutaro
3B Eric Chavez
LF Rickey Henderson
CF Ken Griffey Jr.
RF Ichiro Suzuki
OF Nick Swisher
OF Rickey Henderson
OF Roberto Clemente
SP Tim Lincecum
SP Tim Hudson
SP Rich Harden
SP Greg Maddux
SP Pedro Martinez
LRP Tom Glavine
RP Rollie Fingers
RP Dennis Eckersly
RP Huston Street
CP Francisco Rodriguez
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My All-Time NFL team is still in process.

QB Rich Gannon
QB Donavan McNabb
QB Steve Young
RB Charlie Garner
RB Maurice Drew Jones
RB Justin Fargas
RB Clinton Portis
RB Reggie Bush
FB Mike Alstot
FB Jon Richie
WR Randy Moss
WR Steve Smith
WR Hines Ward
WR Jerry Rice
WR Tim Brown
WR Torry Holt
WR Larry Fitzgerald
TE Tony Gonzalez
TE Antonio Gates
TE Chris Cooley
LT Lincoln Kennedy
LT
LG Steve Wisnewski
LG
C
C
RG
RG
RT
RT
LE Julius Peppers
LE Derrick Burgess
RE Dwight Freeny
RE Haloti Ngata
DT Warren Sapp
DT Ted Washington
DT Tony Sirigusa
LOLB Terrell Suggs
LOLB Manny Lawson
MLB Kirk Morrison
MLB Ray Lewis
ROLB Bill Romanowski
ROLB Thomas Howard
CB Charles Woodson
CB Nnamdi Asomugha
CB Dante Hall
CB Deion Sanders
CB Ronde Barber
FS Rod Woodson
FS
SS Jon Lynch
SS Troy Polamalu
K Sebastian Janikowski
P Shane Lechler
KR Dante Hall
PR Devin Hester

The Office

You may not know, but I am a fan of the NBC show, The Office, starring Steve Carrell. Look at this its preakin punny.

Love Triangle

Found this video online...Pretty amusing.


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Earthquake

I just felt this really big earthquake around 9:00 PM on September 5, 2008. No big damages, just a lot of shaking for like 15 seconds. It was around a 4.0 magnitude.

I live very close to the Hayward Fault, so I am kinda used to small earthquakes, but this was the largest I ever felt since the 1989 Earthquake (which I felt, but I was not aware of it, being that I was 11 months old). Oh and by the way, the Oakland A's beat the San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series where one game of the World Series was interuptted by the massive earthquake - postponing the game for ten days.

Non-Sports Post

Today, I was thinking of some non sports stuff to write about. I came up with the following:

-music trends (specifcially something on how boy bands just disentigrated into thin air)

-why certain people do not like sports

-the topics that were discuseed in my economics and US history classes today (which were monopoly and the Vietnam War, respectively)

-and something about Kool-Aid, and artficially flavored juice drinks (which I was drinking at the time)

Then I started to think of not doing a non-sports post, and actually doing a sports relating post.

I then decided not to do that idea.

Suddenly I came with an idea of summarizing my day, or my summer, in ten words (but not in a sentence though, like: fun happy boring...blah blah blah)

I again decided not to follow up on that new idea.

And finally I came up with just posting all of my ideas of what I could of wrote about in this non-sports post. This basically took me half an hour to write. What a waste of time, but who cares, it's a non-sports post, hehe.

Patrick Ewing Jr.

To start off my random player of the day, I would first like to apologize for the title of my blog, not accurately reflecting the content of it. As of tomorrow, I will attempt to do my best of posting sports and not sports relating topics to the best of my abilities.

Patrick Ewing. Perhaps one of the greatest NBA centers of all time. Well, like a majority of human beings, he has children. One of them is Patrick Ewing Jr. He was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in the 2008 NBA draft, then traded to the Houston Rockets in the Ron Artest deal (which really helped the Rockets chances of advancing to the next round of the playoffs, but it all really depends on Yao's health), then recently was just traded to his father's team, the New York Knicks.
Ewing Jr. has a chance of making the team, and probably will as he will most likely become a fan favorite, and possibly the organization's favorite. The New York Knicks did not trade for Ewing Jr. to better the team, I think that they did this trade just for the heck of it. They only had to trade away draft rights of a basketball player who might never play in the NBA. By this, you can tell the Houston Rockets were in no means "desperate" to keep Ewing Jr.
But, this little part of me wants Ewing Jr. to not only make the team, but to actually play and succeed. Maybe not to the extent of his father, but at least to the success of a solid role player. I feel this way because it must be difficult being a professional athlete whose father/mother was exceptional at that sport, while they might not be exceptionally as their parent was.
There are many other notable athletes who probably faced some of the same pressures as Ewing Jr. at one point in their lives are:

Jeffrey and Marcus Jordan (College and High School Basketball) - Sons of MJ
Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB) - Son of Ken Griffey
Barry Bonds (MLB) - Son Bobby Bonds
Stephen Curry (College Basketball) - Son Dell Curry
Brett Hull (NHL) - Son of Bobby Hull
Mike Dunleavy Jr. (NBA) - Son of Mike Dunleavy
Laila Ali (Boxing) - Daughert of Cassius Clay or otherwise known as, Muhammad Ali
Moises Alou (MLB) - Son of Felipe Alou
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Nascar) - Son of Dale Earnhardt
Eli and Peyton Manning (NFL) - Sons of Peyton Manning

Oh and did you know, Denzel Washington (the actor) has a son playing in the NFL name John David Washington Jr.?

J. T. O'Sullivan

While UCD might not be like the Miami Hurricanes or the USC Trojans in terms of getting football players into the NFL, we still produce some pretty good players. For instance, like J.T. O'Sullivan:

J. T. O'Sullivan is the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. He attended college that I currently attend, UC DAVIS!!! But he is not the only former Aggie now starting for a professional team. Mark Grieb, of the San Jose Sabercats in the Arena Football League also attended UCD. Ken O'Brien a quarterback who played in the NFL for the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame as of 1997, also attended UCD.

GO AGGIES!