Podcast #3

We are changing number 3. Instead of being about food. I dceided to interview Alex about his second girlfriend, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Here is his opinion: Gabcast! Ohio State/BCS title game #1

Podcast #2

Here is the second debate: Hardees vs. Wendy's Gabcast! Hardees vs. Wendy's #1

Podcsat #1

Click this link to get the flashplayer needed for this podcast: Gabcast! Qdoba vs. Chipotle #1



This is a link to the first episode: Qdoba vs Chipotle. Gabcast! Qdoba vs. Chipotle #1

Harvest Moon

Most people think about an orange moon when they hear harvest moon. Anyone in the Ultimate Frisbee world only thinks of the annual Halloween tournament in at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. It is THE single biggest party tournament of the Fall season. Aside from it being a party tournament in the spirit of Halloween, the actual games are very competitive. There are 20 college teams attending the tournament, along with 20 college women's teams.

There are two traditions that are vital to this tournament. The first is that every team comes to the field on Saturday in a team costume, and plays in it all day. The SLU team is going as Peter Pan, Rufio, and the lost boys from the movie Hook. The team judged to have the best costume gets awarded a wooden disc trophy. The other tradition is that the team who is judged to have had the best spirit over the weekend, also gets a wooden disc.

Usually the wether is bad, but it should be an all-around good time. Here is the website for the tournament: http://www.fayettevilledisc.org/moon.shtml

Post Fall Break

Fall break rolled around last weekend and myself and four friends decided to go camping. We traveled down highway 67 way south to Sam A. Baker national park. This is definitely in the middle-of-nowhere-Missouri. It took about 2 hours to get there, and the closest gas station, besides the Amoco stationed right next to the park, was 30 minutes away.
We went there on Sunday morning and came back Tuesday midday. Sunday was pretty low-key. We set up the camp site and sat around the fire at night. One of my friends is a big cleveland Indians fan, and we somehow managed to pick up slightly enough reception on the radio to listen to the game. So we sat around the fire, ate hot dogs, drank a few beers, and listened to the game. It was fun, but not for Bryan; his team lost.

We got unlucky the second day though. The temperature dropped to about 50. It also started pouring rain. That was just plain awful. We got a short hiatus from the rain in the middle of the day and went on a 5 mile hike, but once we got back to the campsite, it started raining again. We tried to keep the fire going, but pretty much just remained uncomfortable together. Between the cold, rain, and mountains of hot dogs, it was pretty miserable. But it was still awesome- probably because we were miserable together.

I have two funny things to post tonight.

1.) I was jumping around on cnnsi.com today and found this hilarious clip of a division three football game. You should watch it, it's pretty incredible. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/28/trinity.lateralapalooza.ap/index.html

2.) I have a picture to show you guys. I have a project in an English class in which I had to find something on SLU's campus that I think should be changed. I picked the statues that surround the campus. I won't go into details but I will show a picture. It's called the Madonna Del La Strada. I call it the Virgin Mary of the ice cream scoop.

Monday night football

Dallas Cowboys 25, Buffalo Bills 24.... Greg Vukelic you can eat your heart out.

I'm a huge Dallas Cowboys football fan. I was born in Dallas and had no other sports team, college or pro, to root for when I moved to North Dakota. Ever since I can remember I've been a Cowboys fan. I had one of my buddies over last night, Pat Austermann, to watch the game with me. We're both diehard fans and were excited to watch the game together. The Cowboys are still undefeated, but the game was a downward spiral and hopeless show of offense for the 'boys. I probably almost turned off the tv ten times. Add to the fact that during the Cowboys' fourth quarter rally my roommates from Cleveland came back and were demanding to see the end of the Cleveland Indians game. Long story short, (trust me, you can find the long story all over ESPN) the Cowboys won on a 53 yard field goal with 1 second remaining. I was super excited!

This weekend is the first college Ultimate tournament that the SLU teams is traveling to. I've been waiting for this tournament for months, ever since the last tournament was finished in April. The tournament is called Glory Days. The website is www.glorydaysultimate.com/info. It is held in Naperville, Ill. right outside of Chicago. Truman State is the hosting school and it boasts a very competitive field of about 40 college men's teams. I'll post again when the tournament is over with results.

My roomate Alex (the one in the ridiculous mexican hat) turned 21 this weekend. So it was a busy couple of days. We started out the night- and finished it later- at Iggy's, the new Mexican sports bar on campus by the Village Apartments. It was really fun because it was the first time in a while that a good core of my friends were able to get together for a while. We are all involved in various clubs and majors, so it's hard to coordinate a time when everyone can get together.

I was meaning to post a picture of myself on this blog, so you'll just have to play an easy version of where's waldo. I'm the guy on the right with the shaved head... Also in the picture are my good friends Alex Joyce, Bryan Arko, John Degroote, Phil Clerc, Charles Porter, Kyle Mathis, and Tom Mazuranic. I love my friends