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Brad

2011 NCAA Championship Tournament!!!

It's the best time of the year and the bracket is finally all set and ready to begin!!!  After a runner up showing in the Big East tourney, we all thought our Cards might grab a #3 seed going into the big dance.  However I'm not surprised that they gave us a #4 seed and I'm actually ok with that.  However, Cuse being a #3 seed instead and Florida being #2 seed is absolutely ridiculous.  This is one of the hardest brackets I can remember filling out.  So many up in the air games and not really any for sure dominate teams.  Gonna be a wild and amazing tourney.  Good luck to everyone in their pools! Go Cards!!!

Love these Pics!

Love these 2 pictures and I'm very proud of our showing in the 2011 Big East Tourney! Off to the big dance now!!!

Best Thing Ever!!!

Here We Go...

Ok the time has come once again for the NFL to crown a new Champion for the 2010-11 season.  If you know me at all you then it should be very obvious how excited I am for this Super Bowl!  I've been waiting 13 long years for my Packers to get back to the Super Bowl and I fully expect them to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to its real home of Green Bay!  I'm also very happy that my 2nd favorite NFL team the Pittsburgh Steelers will be representing the AFC in Super Bowl XLV!  Hopes were very high coming into this season for my Packers with a large majority of the analysts picking them to make it to the Super Bowl.  However this all changed very quickly when the injury bug hit the team starting in game one.  It snow balled literally throughout the entire season and finally totaling 20+ injuries and 7 game 1 starters on IR.  Our boy Aaron Rodgers has stayed focused throughout everything thrown his way.  Putting in a dominate effort this year and really excelling in the playoffs.  I think we can all agree that his performance against ATL in the divisional playoff game was one of the best in the past 10-15 years!  I feel like he knows this is his time to separate himself as one of the elite QBs in the NFL which he will no doubt do by winning this Championship.  Keys to the game I think will be which of these two great defenses can get stops as well as each teams ability to run the ball.  My prediction is Packers winning 31-24 and Aaron Rodgers gets MVP.  Gonna be a great one and I'm set and ready! GO PACK!!!!!!

Team Updates!!!

I apologize for not blogging that much lately but its due to my hard drive deciding it would much rather become a paper weight and retire to file 13.  However apple care saved me and now I'm back at it.  So here are the things going on in my sports world:
Packers vs Steelers in Super Bowl XLV
So obviously this is the biggest story of the past few weeks, especially for me.  After many years of not really having one of my teams in a Championship game, finally my Green Bay Packers have made it back to the Super Bowl.  Not only that but their opponent will be my 2nd favorite NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers!  This will be no doubt be a great/close game but I am 100% confident that the Packers will get the win and add another title to their collection.  I feel strongly about the outcome because our players/coaches are not being recognized for their great play this season.  Aaron Rodgers and Tramon Williams were snubbed for the pro bowl, Clay Mathews was snubbed for Defensive POY, and finally Mike McCarthy not winning coach of the year was one of the worst things ever.  Because of these factors I feel the Packers are here to prove that they are back and want to be on top where they belong.  Making it this far with all of the adversity the team has gone through means we have no intention on losing this.  Go Pack!
Louisville Cardinal Basketball hangin in there!
Much like the Packers, my Cards have gone through an unusual amount of injuries this season.  To be where we are through all of that is amazing considering this was what Pitino called a "bridge year."  Not having a star on this years team has been the key for victory.  I know that sounds crazy but I've never seen a team play more like a well-round actual "team" in my life.  Even through all of the obstacles we find ourselves tied for 2nd in the Big East(preseason picked to finish 8th) and 13th in the nation!  We play a struggling Depaul team this Saturday and I look for us to get a few injured players back follow that game (Dieng/Knowels/Buckles).  Good things to come and keep up that "team" play fellas! GO CARDS!!!
Where are the Lakers?
Wow this month has not been kind to the Lakers as they drope 4 of the last 5 and pushing their record against winning teams to 9-10.  This was all capped off with a horrible last second loss to the Spurs last night.  With living in LA I hear all of the opinions and gripes from everyone out here.  Is the team too old? Are they not tough enough? Not focused?  I personally think they will be fine but they are gonna have to turn things around a little bit before they find themselves fighting for a playoff spot.  To be continued...
Football Cards class of 2011!
Now that national signing day has come and gone we officially locked in the  21st national ranked recruiting class of 2011.  The only hitch in this years recruiting class was DeMarcus Smith deciding that Teddy Bridgewater was too much to compete with and committing to UCF.  That really just makes things easier on the staff choosing the starting QB for next year!  Great job coaching staff!  In Strong we trust!  Go Cards!!!

My Ultimate Super Bowl Match-up!!!

I wrote a 6 paragraph excited post but my firefox crashed and erased it all.  Took to long to write so I will sum it up by saying this, GO PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cards!!!

Go Cards!!!

LEGIT!!!

Near Perfect Day of Sports!!!!

So the day started with my Louisville Cardinals beating the Marquette Golden Eagles by 1 after trailing by 18 with 6:00 left in the 2nd half.  Literally couldn't believe we won this game!  We went on a 24-5 run in that final 6:00 to grab our 3rd win in Big East play.  This could be considered a season saving comeback in this game due to how tough the Big East road is ahead of us.  In Preston we trust!

Next up was my second favorite NFL team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, taking on the Baltimore Ravens.  Like we all knew it would be, these two teams battled like a heavyweight bout for 4 quarters!  In the end it was the Steelers getting the win 31-24 and moving onto the AFC Championship game!

In the finale of the day it was my Green Bay Packers absolutely destroying the Atlanta Falcons 48-21!  Through all of the injuries this season we are still in the position we had hoped to be in coming into this season, the NFC Championship Game!!!!  Aaron Rodgers played lights out and seemed unstoppable throughout this great win!  Next stop, the SUPER BOWL!!!!!! Go Pack!!!!

So like I said, with all of my teams winning today on such large stages, this is one of the best sports days for me in as long as I can remember! 

Weekend NFL Playoff picks!

*Baltimore Ravens vs Pittsburgh Steelers
*Green Bay Packers vs Atlanta Falcons
New York Jets vs *New England Patriots
Seattle Seahawks vs *Chicago Bears

* my winning pick

Moving On...

Thankfully we were able to contain Vick and Jackson in this game enough to squeak by the Eagles to move forward in the playoffs!  Next week will be a challenge against the Atlanta Falcons.  Hopefully this time we won't give the game away in the last 9 seconds like we did in the regular season match-up.  Go Packers!!!

Van Treese and Goode must take over Buckles minutes!!!

I have to give credit to a much improved USF team that we had to grind out a win against today!  This team is pretty tough this year!  They are a very large team with a few lights out athletes who can score quickly.  Fortunately for us they are young and don't quite have the depth to compete the full game!  It took us all the way down to the final 5:00 of the game before we wore them down enough to pull away and safely get the W!  MVP without a doubt goes to Stephen Van Treese who finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds.  We will need play like this out of him on a consistent basis until we get Rakeem Buckles back(4 or so weeks).  Go Win! Go Cards!!!

Playoff Time!!!

Alright, here we go! It's that time of year again when we all get a little bummed that the NFL regular season has ended.  However the most exciting part of the season is still to come because we get to watch the NFL's best slug it out it what should be a wild playoff season!  Now that my Packers have made it in I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing I have at least one more week to pull for my dudes!  However the big story of the week belongs to the NFC West Champion Seattle Seahawks who won their division with an whopping(haha) record of 7-9.  What makes it even worse is the fact that there are two 10 win teams who were left out of the playoffs(TB/NYG).  Regardless I must give a congrats shout out to Seattle for their win, I guess.  Either way lets enjoy an awesome end of the NFL season and hope to get some great games leading up to the super bowl!  Here are my predictions for week 1 of the playoffs:

Baltimore* vs KC
Jets vs *Colts
Saints* vs Seattle
Packers* vs Eagles
*winning team