It's Gameday....Western Michigan

Pull up a chair and let Husker fever rain on you

Michael Jackson turns 50

Okay so he may be a little kooky, but Jacko
turned 50 today...I personally think his music is great in spite of his weirdness...

I heard this topic on 'Mike and Mike' this morning and I liked it. Here are my favorite Michael Jackson songs Olympics style...

Gold - Billie Jean
Silver - Thriller
Bronze - Say, Say, Say

The bronze is my sleeper pick...It's a song that doesn't get a whole lot of airplay if any, but I love the duet with Paul McCartney...What's yours?

Okay so I'm planning on buying the Nebraska vs. Western Michigan on pay per view this weekend. The only thing keeping this from coming together is that Dish Network has not announced what channel it will carry the game.

Someone needs to get on the ball and get this done.

When you're a College President and it's July 4th on Lake Okoboji...

I'm going to go out on a limb here but you don't pour beer down the throats of bikini clad women on the back of your boat. Just a hunch but in the age of the digital camera, you don't yuck it up within sight of one.

The story is here. He probably is right - His personal life is probably just that. However, this won't play very well for a person in a leadership role of college age students.

We were there that weekend and probably toasted this guy as we motored past the party cove. This incident just reinforces that Okoboji is the place to be on July 4th.

London 2012

This summer Olympics I wasn't really excited about. I meant to write an entry about how unenthused I was leading up to this. Boy was I wrong. Phelps, Usain Bolt, the Redeem Team, Shawn Johnson, Nastia, Beach Volleyball, or crazy Cuban TaeKwonDo athletes I was totally sucked into it. I'm back on the Olympic bandwagon.

So much so I am researching the London games of 2012. I really want to go. Tickets go on sale in 2011. It's on the list. The invitation is open to anyone who wants to go with us. Who's going with us?

An Interesting Choice....

I don't normally wade into political waters. Probably because my beliefs are fairly entrenched in the conservative camp. I really feel no need to mix it up because most political debate ends up in rhetoric anyway. But this choice by Obama could prove to be a liability because of how outspoken he was about Obama. Read on about it here.

Ref Tae Kwon Do at your own risk

(JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

Apparently this highly trained, world-class athlete disagreed with the refree on his disqualification from his bronze medal match.

This just illustrates why I referee-ing an Olympic Tae Kwon Do match is not making my bucket list.

Here is the story

My memories of my 10,000 calorie diet

The most amazing thing about Michael Phelps is his 8,000 to 10,000 calorie diet. Forget the all the gold medals, blah, blah, blah. Eating that much and still staying under 200 pounds is superhuman. Let’s see I ate like that for a time in my life and I ballooned up to 240+ pounds. Thanks to University of Minnesota food services and my penchant for binge drinking. Michael Phelps diet is very well documented but lets see how my diet stacked up against his.

Breakfast:
12” plate – ½ eggs scrambled or sunny + ½ bacon, sausage, or both
1 Plate full of Hashbrowns
1 bowl of cereal
1 bagel with cream cheese
16oz of milk
16oz of Orange Juice

Lunch
2 Hamburgers
Bowl of Salad with Bleu Cheese Dressing and Croutons
Plate of Fries
Potato Chips
20oz of pink lemonade
And surely more food which hit my mouth so quickly I forgot.

Dinner
A plate full of the entrée du jour
Throw in some fries
Salad.
Plate of pasta
Glass of Milk
20oz soda

Dinner #2 ~8pm
Pizza, Subs, Fried Rice, or other Fast Food.
Beer – volumes unknown.

Take that Michael Phelps…I own you as far as our diets go...Sure you burned it all off - I wore it like a badge of honor for 10 years...