April 22, 2008
The school I coach at seems to have gotten it right…
D.S.S.T.’s first senior class has had every member be accepted to a four year college. A remarkable feat! Additionally, the school has a diverse makeup…
the senior class is 60 percent minority, 50 percent will be the first in their families to go to college and 40 percent are low-income.
Why the success? Well the school is hard, but caring. They don’t teach to a “test” but teach for life. The CSAPS take care of themselves. The school makes the kids understand that excuses are just that. They learn quickly that success and failure is a personal choice.
I won’t lie. I hurts my team to have kids missing practice because of tutoring, or internship programs, or mock trial preparation, or some other activity. But I’d rather have a bad team with a bunch of future lawyers and doctors than a great team with kids only interested in “getting to the pros.” For me, the best type of player is a smart player. Smarts trump talent in most cases.
This is not to say my teams are bad, we’re not. And that’s the great thing. We get our wins and I have the privilege of working with our future’s best and brightest.
Not too bad a situation if you ask me.
April 18, 2008
After watching this…
SAN DIEGO — The Rockies played all night and into the next morning.
But it was worth it.
Not only did the Rockies pull out a record-setting 2-1, 22-inning victory against the Padres as Thursday night turned into Friday morning at Petco Park, but they also rediscovered the ace for their rotation.
The game ended at 2:21 a.m. Denver time. There were 15 pitchers and 683 pitches.
I tried to stay up and watch but I fell asleep in the 20th inning. I’m dragging today but I’m sure I’m not nearly as tired as the players. Good luck playing tonight fellas!
April 16, 2008
….on my way to Estes Park.
I was driving my girl’s soccer team to a game against Estes Park High School in Estes Park when the bus…died. I tried to get it going again but it just wasn’t happening. So there we were stuck on the highway in the mountains. After several minutes, a Boulder County Sheriff pulled up and helped. As we were waiting for the bus to cool down he told me what an interesting day he’d had.
Turns out he was one of the cops involved in this…
A man stole an ambulance from outside the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette on Tuesday afternoon.
Read the article, it’s pretty funny, but to hear the story from the deputy was hilarious. The part where the guy took off with the lights and sirens on was especially humorous.
Needless to say, that was the highlight of my afternoon yesterday.
April 10, 2008
There’s just so much wrong with this…
When Mom wears one set of gang colors and Dad wears another, conflict over how to raise the baby can cause irreconcilable differences.
Gee I guess it could, what with all the shooting at each other and stuff. But how did the cops find out about the Jets/Sharks relationship anyway?
When officers questioned the woman, they learned that the two had been together for four years and were the parents of a child.
When police asked the woman why the two had separated, she said they have “different ideas about how the baby should be raised,” according to a police report.
When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs.
“They could not agree on which gang the baby would claim,” Swift said.
Nice.
I’m trying to decide the worst part of this story. The fact that these two were from different gangs but living together and having kids? That they fought over which gang the baby should be in? Or maybe that the mother actually told the cops the real reason for the fight.
I tell ya, stories like this make me really happy never joined a gang….so many tough choices to make.
April 3, 2008
This is hysterical….
The way things are going, Boulder will only make it about halfway to its goal of cutting enough greenhouse gases to comply with the Kyoto Protocol, according to a memo released by the city staff Wednesday.
I think this says a lot more about the Kyoto Protocol then Boulder, but still, not even halfway to being compliant? I guess this should stop them preaching to the rest of us. But there’s a reason that cuts even more to the heart of this issue.
So far, the city’s approach to emission reduction has relied heavily on marketing and subsidies — most of which are offered in conjunction with Xcel Energy or Boulder County — to convince people to take voluntary actions, including retrofitting their homes, driving less and buying wind-power offsets. The Office of Environmental Affairs would also dump the majority of new money into reducing greenhouse gases through energy efficiency.
So all the money the city is getting to become compliant is on marketing and offsets? So they’re not doing anything, anything that is except patting themselves on the back for looking like they’re doing something. How typical. Of course the only way for Boulder to get to their goals is to drastically raise taxes and force people to live a certain way. They even want to limit house sizes. Of course when Boulderites are forced to actually enact all these “rules” they say they live by, watch how quickly they backtrack. Boulder is the ultimate “feel good” community, they will support anything until it stops them from “feeling good” about their individual lives then it just goes away.
March 28, 2008
I’ve got this wedding on Saturday that I can’t miss, cause my fiance and her family would kill me. Needless to say that I will be taking a short break from this here blog while I get married, not that too many will notice.Any who, be back in awhile.
March 21, 2008
and NOT influence people.
Denver could face a “dangerous situation” on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, war protesters said Thursday, after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.
“When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer for the Re-create 68 Alliance.
Well, I think I will blame them for that.
Why?
Let’s see….a group named for, and glorifying a convention remembered for violence and riots is threatening to create a “dangerous situation.” They also announced that they are going to break the law by marching “with or without permits.” It sure sounds to me like they’re the ones “blowing things up.”
The interesting part is that these folks don’t know who their dealing with. Maybe someone needs to remind them of a few things, like the Denver Police’s penchant for killing people. Or maybe how the police tend to treat protesters that threaten violence (see: Columbus Day). Finally, these people might want to read up on Colorado’s “Make My Day” law which allows lethal force by individuals who are defending their property, let alone themselves. In short, if this group isn’t careful the only “blowing up” they’ll be doing will be to air mattresses outside local hospitals waiting for their wounded buddies to heal.
But what do I care? The ‘68 convention led to the election of Richard Nixion and an era where 5 of the last 7 presidents have been Republican. So go nuts people. You’re the best advertisement for voting Republican imaginable.
March 13, 2008
This seems odd….
A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.
”She is an adult; she made her own decision,” said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. ”I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it.”
I’m not the type of guy to pry into another’s business, particularly when they’re doing their..uh..business, but I would have probably tried to get her help after about one or two days. How long did Kory wait?
The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.
Two years? TWO YEARS?!!!!
Dude, seriously. I mean, I’m glad you brought her food and water and clothes, I also will note that you did try to get her out of there, but I can’t imagine there was not some point that it didn’t cross your mind to get some professional doctors to help you with the coaxing.
I don’t know about y’all, but if my fiance was staying in the bathroom for even two days, I’d have called every psychiatrist in the city to come and help. I certainly wouldn’t have waited two years. But hey, that’s just me.
March 4, 2008
Forsberg returns tonight!
Peter Forsberg will make his season debut for Colorado tonight against Vancouver, a much-needed boost for the injury-riddled Avalanche.
Peter the Great is, in my mind, one of the best players of all time. His size, speed, toughness and creativity makes him impossible to stop. It will be nice to see him back on the ice in Denver, even if he is a bit older.
Looks like I’ll be watching Altitude tonight.
GO AVS!!!!
