Play Ball…
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, college baseball, the red-headed stepchild of college sports, is heating up as the College World Series is underway. While the tournament does not receive the same fervor of devotion from most of the country as basketball in March and football in the fall ending in the grand Bowl weeks during the holidays, the College World Series has the fast action of college sports, and the hunger that only a student athlete can posses.
The double elimination tournament started on Saturday, and will continue for the next two weeks, ending with a three game tournament to crown the best team in college baseball.
This year we see the south dominating the tournament much like in years past. Three ACC teams, Florida State
(4) and North Carolina(2) and number one ranked Miami, are both in the competition while the SEC has LSU(7) and Georgia(8) dogging it out for the title. The Rice Owls (6) are the only team from Texas and it is representing Conference USA in the series, something the school is accustom to the series, appearing in the past 7 out of 12 College World Series.
Florida isn’t the only state with two teams competing for the title. California is being represented by two schools, Fresno Stateand Stanford. Fresno Stateis making its first appearance since 1991 in the CWS while Stanfordhas two back-to-back CWS titles (1987 and 1988), and has been in the series six times in the past 10 years.
So far in the Series, Stanfordbeat Florida State16 to 5 with a record breaking 11 runs being scored by Stanfordin the 9th. Georgiapulled off a win against Miami7 to 4, Fresno Statedominated Rice 16 to 5, and North Carolinapulled off a hard win against LSU, winning 8 to 4. Miamiand Florida Statewill play on June 16 (Game 5), as the cross state rivals will bat it out with similar ferocity as the nationally known football rivalry has. Also on the 16, Stanfordwill slug it out with Georgia(Game 6), with the loser playing the winner of the Florida State/Miamimatchup in Game 9. Rice will face LSUon June 17 (Game 7), and the winner will face the loser of the day’s other match between UNC and Fresno State(Game 8) in Game 10.
The winners of Games 6 and 8 will face off against the winners of Game 9 and 10, meaning that the winners of the second round may play against a team they already beat in Games 11 and 12.
All this is a build-up to the Championship Series in Omaha, which is host to the best of college baseball slugging it out for the title.
So crack open a beer, sit back, and watch the underappreciated sport of college baseball on ESPN and ESPN 2 for the next two weeks. Watch the balls fly and the aluminum ping as the college boys of summer duke it out for the top spot and bragging rights for the next year.
--Boomer
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
College Majors We Wish We Could Have Been
Remember the days when you would be cutting across the freshly mowed grass of the campus quad, racing with books in hand to a class that started ten minutes ago? As you sprint across the lawn, you almost Birkenstock a casual friend in the face as they lay on the grass with nothing but time to kill.
Remember those days, and remember those people? Those nodding buddies, cats that you would see regularly on your way to class and occasionally at a kegger or packed bar, who seemed to never go to class but always be on campus.
As you’re trying to remember those lackadaisical loungers you should also be trying to figure out what were their majors and why didn’t you major in co-ed anatomy?
Each college has them. While some of them appear to be filled with fluff and lounging time, most off-the-beaten-path majors are rigorous and challenging, further pushing those plucky individuals into a highly specialized and technical field.
At
Clemson, you can major in Turfgrass… That’s right, Turfgrass. The Undergrad major bills itself as “for students interested in careers in the rapidly growing turfgrass industry, with courses in turfgrass management, pathology, agricultural mechanization, personnel management, soil fertility, soil microbiology, weed control, and park and recreation management.” And wait, there’s more, you can be a get a masters in Turfgrass also.
At the University of Florida you can major in Landscape Design. This five year program not only gets you accreditation as a Landscape Architect, you also have to go on at least three field trips and it is highly recommended that you spend a semester abroad. For those of you who were stirred up by the last posting, this was the major you should have taken.
Iowa State has a host of interesting majors, mainly focusing on various elements of agriculture. At Iowa State, you can spend four years studying and learning the many applications of soybeans and soybean oil if you were inclined to major in agronomy. Iowa State's College of Design is host to the Solar Decathlon team, which competes with other environmentally focused architects and design schools to design the future eco-houses today.
At the University of Connecticut you can get a major in Irish Literature, while at Bingham Young University you can major in paleontology and actually spend most of your time rooting around hunting for dinosaurs.
With all the different schools, majors and focuses, it’s somewhat amazing that many of us chose a mainstream path and major in practical fields, only to find out that years later in the professional world that our CEO graduated with a degree in comparative literature.
--Boomer
http://www.collegiateliving.com/ E-mail: info@collegiateliving.com
Remember those days, and remember those people? Those nodding buddies, cats that you would see regularly on your way to class and occasionally at a kegger or packed bar, who seemed to never go to class but always be on campus.
As you’re trying to remember those lackadaisical loungers you should also be trying to figure out what were their majors and why didn’t you major in co-ed anatomy?
Each college has them. While some of them appear to be filled with fluff and lounging time, most off-the-beaten-path majors are rigorous and challenging, further pushing those plucky individuals into a highly specialized and technical field.
At
Clemson, you can major in Turfgrass… That’s right, Turfgrass. The Undergrad major bills itself as “for students interested in careers in the rapidly growing turfgrass industry, with courses in turfgrass management, pathology, agricultural mechanization, personnel management, soil fertility, soil microbiology, weed control, and park and recreation management.” And wait, there’s more, you can be a get a masters in Turfgrass also.
At the University of Florida you can major in Landscape Design. This five year program not only gets you accreditation as a Landscape Architect, you also have to go on at least three field trips and it is highly recommended that you spend a semester abroad. For those of you who were stirred up by the last posting, this was the major you should have taken.
Iowa State has a host of interesting majors, mainly focusing on various elements of agriculture. At Iowa State, you can spend four years studying and learning the many applications of soybeans and soybean oil if you were inclined to major in agronomy. Iowa State's College of Design is host to the Solar Decathlon team, which competes with other environmentally focused architects and design schools to design the future eco-houses today.
At the University of Connecticut you can get a major in Irish Literature, while at Bingham Young University you can major in paleontology and actually spend most of your time rooting around hunting for dinosaurs.
With all the different schools, majors and focuses, it’s somewhat amazing that many of us chose a mainstream path and major in practical fields, only to find out that years later in the professional world that our CEO graduated with a degree in comparative literature.
--Boomer
http://www.collegiateliving.com/ E-mail: info@collegiateliving.com
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Summer Job
Finals are over, empty kegs line the front porches , commercial size trash bags sit outside the dorms—the campus is a veritable ghost town. With the exception of grad students and the football team, most students have left for the summer. Many depart for Europe to enjoy the history, culture, and, more beer, of course , while others have entrained for the beach, picking up where they left off at the last kegger. Most, however, face the gloomy prospect of finding a summer job in their hometown.
There’s nothing like the shell-shocked feeling of that first day home, when your old man—wasting no time—barks, “So, boy, what are you going to do for a job this summer?” What am I going to do? Hmm . . . haven’t really thought about it.
As you languish on the couch watching Springer, delaying the inevitable, you know full well that whatever job you get will be drudgery of the lowest kind. If you’re lucky, you’ll land a sweet gig as lifeguard at the community pool, or, perhaps, driving a Mr. Frosty truck. But those jobs are few and far between and have a long waiting list.
You more than likely will get to earn your stripes as one of the following : manure shoveler and spreader (landscaper); tar hauler and layer (roofer); deep fryer master and mop specialist (fast food employee); nuclear family dinner interrupter (telemarketer); pack-mule imitator (bar back); or masochistic food deliverer (Waiter).
The upshot of all this is, we, who now make six figures a year as lawyers, doctors, accounts, etc., all cut are teeth as manual laborers in some form or another. Some of us are now the diabolical task master that you curse at under your breath. So, remember that this is temporary and that you’ll look back one day and laugh.
With that in mind, it’s time turn off Springer, ease your aching bed sores, and find that dream job. When you’re knee deep in manure and it’s 100 degrees out, remember, collegians, it builds character.
B.B.
www.collegiateliving.com -- info@collegiateliving.com
There’s nothing like the shell-shocked feeling of that first day home, when your old man—wasting no time—barks, “So, boy, what are you going to do for a job this summer?” What am I going to do? Hmm . . . haven’t really thought about it.
As you languish on the couch watching Springer, delaying the inevitable, you know full well that whatever job you get will be drudgery of the lowest kind. If you’re lucky, you’ll land a sweet gig as lifeguard at the community pool, or, perhaps, driving a Mr. Frosty truck. But those jobs are few and far between and have a long waiting list.
You more than likely will get to earn your stripes as one of the following : manure shoveler and spreader (landscaper); tar hauler and layer (roofer); deep fryer master and mop specialist (fast food employee); nuclear family dinner interrupter (telemarketer); pack-mule imitator (bar back); or masochistic food deliverer (Waiter).
The upshot of all this is, we, who now make six figures a year as lawyers, doctors, accounts, etc., all cut are teeth as manual laborers in some form or another. Some of us are now the diabolical task master that you curse at under your breath. So, remember that this is temporary and that you’ll look back one day and laugh.
With that in mind, it’s time turn off Springer, ease your aching bed sores, and find that dream job. When you’re knee deep in manure and it’s 100 degrees out, remember, collegians, it builds character.
B.B.
www.collegiateliving.com -- info@collegiateliving.com
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