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Name: Joseph
Country: United States
State: Alabama
Metro: Auburn
Gender: Male
Interests: anime, college football, videogames, crossbows, sleep, in that order
Expertise: college football, history, Wizard, pissing off fairies
Occupation: Other
Industry: Media
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12/12/2004
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| Colleg Football Season is hereOn the eve of this year season start (as of when I am writing this, the season starts in just 2 hours).
An expanded top 10 with comments on each top 10 team can be found at The Mission (adventurenews.blogspot.com) a site about everything. This here will be all sports all the time.
Top 25
1) Texas - Here by default as there is no truly deserving number 1
2) Ohio State - Could have the best offense in the country, but will Tressel loosen up enough to outscore opponents early on.
3) Auburn - The best the SEC has to offer with a favorable schedule to boot
4) West Virginia - The Big East version of Auburn, with an even weaker schedule. They are legitametely this good though
5) LSU - Could shoot above Auburn or well down depending on performance of running backs returning from injury
6) Notre Dame - I'm not sure they are even this good. Would not, even with what is returning, have been this high to start in any other year in recent memory.
7) Cal - If they lose to Tennessee, oh well, they still will go 10-2
 USC - I'm not sold on Booty at QB. I still have memories of watching his older brother stink the field up at LSU.
9) Michigan - With Hart back and healthy, the Wolverines are ready to roll
10) Clemson - The ACC's best team (not by much). Won't win the conference because of difficult road games.
11) Nebraska - If the quarterback gets hurt, its back to Big 12 North oblivion
12) Florida - Leak can't run this offense, Tebow can't possibly be ready and the O-Line and running backs are terrible. Sounds like a few more boring SEC defensive struggles like last season for these guys
13) Miami - The disciplinary problems are troubling. Have the look of Tennessee last year without the QB controversy. Could go 11-1 or 7-5.
14) Oregon - Next year will be the big year, but this season will be a good one.
15) Louisville - A probable BCS at-large if not the Big East champ due to extra bowl game and easy schedule
16) Georgia Tech - Ball is inconsistent and Gailey is terrible, but talent helps teams overcome those issues
17) Texas Tech - Why aren't these guys getting more preseason respect
1 Georgia - This year will be a one-year throwback to the years of Goof (Goff) and Donnan. 8-4 while losing at least one game they have no business losing and 3 of the 4 rivalry games (Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Georgia Tech)
19) Utah - The best of the Mountain West and a potentail BCS team with the new rules
20) Iowa - A weak team with a favorable schedule. Could go 7-5 again, could play in the Rose Bowl
21) Florida St. - I am not sold on the offense and the defense has to rebuild. It looks like another long year for Bowden
22) Oklahoma - After the Oregon game on Sept. 16, I reserve the right to move this team all the way into the top 5 if they win easily
23) TCU - Another potential Mountain West BCS team
24) Virginia Tech - Think 2004, without the experienced quarterback. That team was close to losing 2 more games on top of the 3 they did lose
25) Tennessee - 2005 was not an aberration, it was the wheeels falling off completely. This could take awile before they are in national title hunt again.
BCS Bowl Picks
Rose - Utah vs USC
Fiesta - Texas vs Louisville
Sugar - Auburn vs Notre Dame
Orange - Miami vs Ohio St.
National Title Game - Cal over Michigan | | |
| I'm BackI'm back to both xanga and Auburn. I have nothing else to say really except that this site will be a combination of what it was and sports stuff (don't worry, it won't be rants and raves, all the time).
Yes, I listen to strange music. | | |
| From the LA Times (this could only happen in LA)
The Plot Thickens in Ferrari Crash
A gun's magazine found near the wreckage may be connected to the accident, and a Scottish bank says it might own the destroyed car.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
February 28, 2006
The mystery deepened Monday in the case of the puzzling crash last week of a $1-million Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
Sheriff's detectives said Monday that they believe a gun's magazine discovered near the wreckage is connected to the crash, and they plan to interview an unnamed person who they believe was in the car with Swedish game machine entrepreneur Stefan Eriksson.
The crash has also garnered the attention of a leading Scottish bank, which has informed sheriff's investigators that it may own the destroyed car. At the same time, detectives are trying to figure out why another exotic car in Eriksson's extensive collection, a Mercedes SLR, was listed as stolen by Scotland Yard in London, said Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks.
The totaled Ferrari was one of two Enzos that Eriksson brought into the United States from England along with the Mercedes SLR, Brooks said. But detectives concluded that the totaled vehicle did not have appropriate papers and was not "street legal" for driving in California, he said.
Detectives have been trying for nearly a week to sort out what exactly happened last Tuesday morning when Eriksson's Enzo — one of only 400 ever made — smashed into a telephone pole, totaling the car. Eriksson told deputies that he was the passenger and that a man he knew only as "Dietrich" was behind the wheel. But detectives have been openly skeptical of the story, noting that Eriksson had a bloody lip and that the only blood they found in the car was on the driver's-side air bag.
Brooks said detectives have called in Eriksson for another interview. Eriksson has declined through the security guard at his gated Bel-Air estate to comment. An attorney who has previously represented Eriksson in civil matters, Ashley Posner, also declined to comment Monday.
But some city leaders in Malibu, where the crash has been the talk of the town, were less circumspect.
"The guy should have had an IQ test," said Malibu Mayor Pro Tem Ken Kearsley, who has been following the coverage of the crash with a half-grin. The driver's IQ "couldn't come up above 60 if he was doing 120 on PCH," Kearsley said.
But in fact, Brooks said Monday, the car was traveling 162 mph when it crashed, far faster than the 120 mph originally believed. The Ferrari, with just a few inches of undercarriage clearance, hit a bump at a crest in the road, sending the vehicle airborne and into the power pole, Brooks said.
Brooks said they are investigating whether someone else may have been present and are trying to determine whether the recovered gun component is connected to the case. He declined to say more about the find or elaborate on the status of the Scottish bank and Scotland Yard in the case.
The question of whether Eriksson was the driver is key to the case, Brooks said. Eriksson's blood-alcohol level was 0.09%, higher than the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle.
Sheriff's officials are still trying to confirm witness reports that the Ferrari might have been drag racing with another car, and officials aren't sure if that's what happened.
Sheriff's officials said Eriksson was an executive with a game company that attempted to take on Sony and Nintendo, but the firm collapsed last year.
In Malibu, officials said they are not sure what to make of the accident.
Kearsley said the stretch of road was not known for drag racing, but for run-of-the-mill speeders. He said the Sheriff's Department has had success for the last year and a half using radar and lasers to catch overzealous drivers. The lasers are not detectable to drivers, he said.
"It's straight as an arrow where the accident was," he said. "You really have to go out of your way to hit a telephone pole."
Carol Moss, a longtime Malibu resident, activist and meditation group leader, said the accident came as no surprise.
"It was horrendous, but Malibu is full of idiots," she said. "There are a lot of wild cars and irresponsible people. The roads are dangerous. You always see people with those sorts of cars. You see some wild behavior."
But, in keeping with her Zen frame of mind, Moss extended an olive branch. "Everyone is welcome to attend the meditation group. Even the drag racer."
In other Yoshi news
I have finally sold out and jumped on facebook. Spring Retreat was good. Anime club has been going really well this semester. Munchkin with epic rules should be fun. Duke still hasn't lost a second time so I can't celebrate. Auburn has a new defensive coodinator. My PS2 is about to die  . It has served me well. It needs to last just a little bit longer. I think I'm going to Mexico this summer. I just dropped a class. GRASS. I like J-Pop music more than anything I have heard in the English language recently. The table is even more mismatched and strange than it used to be (Come back Russell, all is forgiven, you brought sanity to the group).
Thought from Yoshi's convoluted mind: How to get rid of Jehova's Witnesses (courtesy of James Key at the table). First ask if you can preach to them the same amount of time as they preach to you (One of the first rules for these guys should be if they ask to have equal time, run away, this is how you get converted or become very afraid of certain segments of our society). Then, when its your turn, go dress up in a robe and get your scythe, if you have one (If you don't axes, staffs, or many other weapons would suffice). Then come out and thank the witnesses for coming to your house on a Druid Holiday that requires sacrifices since you are role-playing as a druid. Threaten them with Druid sacrifice for 31 minutes, then let them go, scared halfway to death. | | |
| I am sitting here at work really really bored. right now. I thought I should post for those who still read this, so I am posting but I don't really have anything to post about so I am now just pointlessly typing to have something to say in this utterly meaningless post about nothing that I am obligating myself to write about how bored I am in the computer lab because my job is boring and it provokes me to write about nothing and post really boring items when I haven't done so in awhile.
Test your knowledge of 8-bit video games here. I scored 300/600 (30 out of 60 right). I suck at that but some of those were obscure, much more so than last year's video and computer game quiz.
Thought from Yoshi's convoluted mind: I need a break from all the crap going on in my life right now. | | |
| I decided it was time for a really lame post. No convoluted thought even, after the awesome worship party, I can't think. After watching Duke win today, I can't think. My mind is numb after the events of the last week or so. I need a break. This is a ridiculous rant. Anime club has been good for the last two weeks. I have work to do. I also have video games to play. I am tired of writing papers. I listen to weird music. There is a lot of information in here for a lame post. I don't want to go to bed so I am typing more random things or thoughts that come into my head even though I am not thinking. I like driving Sarah's car. I like driving any car. My wrist is getting tired so I am going to bed now. | | |
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