The end of my blog

I have learned quite a bit about myself from writing this blog. The first thing is that I don't really like sharing my opinions on stuff with the free world. I am extremely social and friendly and talk all the time but there is something agitating about posting these blogs and knowing that anyone can read them and then criticize my opinions. I have also learned that talking about sports does make me happy and I h0pe to work for the NFL in the very near future. Maybe I will try to be a sports broadcaster one day...for now, I am glad to be done with this blog. I had a great semester but I am looking forward to keeping my thoughts to myself for awhile. Maybe I will blog again one day but I don't think it will be any time soon.

Steriods and Baseball

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is concerned with the aspect of steriods in baseball. He had collected tons of data and documents and conducted hundreds of interviews but Mitchell will not state exactly what he is trying to figure out through the collection of this data. I think that is a little odd...and I guess my main question is why steriods seem to be such a bigger issue in baseball than in any other sport?? You would think those involved in my contact related sports like football would seem more likely to take steriods. Just my opinion, go figure! :)

Baseball Tattoo Battle

A St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Fan is suing a tattoo parlor over a misspelled tattoo. The day after the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, a fan spent $190 at a local tattoo parlor to have “St. Louis Cardinals, World Series Champions, 2006” written across his back. Proud of his new tattoo, he showed his mother, who asked what the “Worlb Series” was and whether the Cardinals won in 2000. Obviously not the tattoo the fan had asked for. The fan is now seeking $25,000 in damages. To me that seems like an awful lot of money...but I know nothing about the abilities and cost to fix a tattoo so maybe that is why the sum is so large??

Georgia State Football Team??

So apparently Dan Reeves, former coach of the Atlanta Falcons, has been asked to help Georgia State University decide whether or not to start a football program. The university has 26,000 students (it is the 2nd largest university in the state after UGA). So you would think that since smaller schools in the state have football programs, Georgia Southern University and Valdosta State University are prime examples, that this would be a good idea. Well, maybe not. Apparently, the attendance for their basketball team is very low and if they get a team, they would be playing in the GA Dome, which seats 71,250. It is a tough sell. I think it is a good idea, but personally I would like to see my alma mater Kennesaw State University (the 3rd largest university in GA) get a football program started before GSU does. GSU has a lot of competition with GA Tech being right next door. I think GSU could have a successful Division 2 team but I think that is as far as they will ever go with in state rivals GA Tech and GA leading in the hearts of the state's population.

Oh the Gators

One of the highlights of the past week for me was the fact that Chris Leak, the QB from the National Champion Florida Gators, did not get drafted on Saturday. He did however sign as a free agent with the Chicago Bears. Although he had a great season, obviously, judging from the fact that he took his team to the Championship game, he is a bit on the small side for a QB. He is only 6'0, 203 lbs. That is small compared to almost all of the other QB's in the NFL and the NCAA. As a UGA student and football fan, I had to chuckle to myself about the fact that the Gators QB was not really of any interest to the NFL. Nice huh? GO DAWGS!

UGA players drafted into the NFL

So last Saturday, four former UGA football players were drafted into the NFL. Quentin Moses was the first former Bulldog to get drafted by the Oakland Raiders, who took him in the third round. This was a little disappointing considering he was a top 10 pick going into the last season. The Raiders had a lot of good picks, including the first pick of the draft, JaMarcus Rusell, the QB from LSU. DE Charles Johnson, who was also predicted to go in the first round like Moses, was the 83rd pick, going to the Carolina Panthers. The Atlanta Falcons also drafted a Bulldog alumni, TE Martrez Milner. And finally, the St. Louis Rams took OT Kendrick Shakleford. While the draft was successful for some of our graduating GA Bulldogs, the talent that we have here now is going to far surpass this year's seniors when they go into the draft. I look forward to seeing what happens.

End of the semester

I am taking a detour from sports for a moment to talk about my semester in PR Campaigns. So the Spring semester is finally coming to an end. I just wanted to point out that I learned a lot. In this class, I learned to expect the unexpected and take life as it comes. There is no need to stress out about the little things you cannot control. I had fun working on the PR Campaign for the Athens Symphony Orchestra. While the project itself was not very thrilling, I really enjoyed working with my group members. They are all pretty cool people and I wish them all the best of luck as they graduate. (well, some of them, us grad students are still going to be around for a semester or two more.) I worked on a PR Campaign as an undergrad so I had unfair expectations about how this project should go. While we chose to go a completely different route than I am used to, we somehow managed to get there in the end. Our client seemed pleased with our work and our presentation. I guess the main lessons I took from this class were life lessons and not so much PR skills. But, I think that is what makes a class great. :)