*disclaimer-I've been thinking about getting back in the blogging business for a while, and this isn't going to be a sports blog, but since sports are a big part of my life, obviously a large number of post will be sports related. If you don't like it, you can geeeeeeet out.
I knew I needed to be asleep. It was midnight, I was leaving for Vegas the next day, and I hadn't slept enough that week already. If Lost hadn't come on that night, I probably would have already been asleep anyway.
I had given up on Georgia basketball this year sometime around the middle of December, you know after two of our best three players got kicked off the team. I was done with Georgia basketball until they changed; got at least a little competitive or at least got a new coach. Dennis Felton just wasn't working. By all accounts he is a pretty good guy, but I though his way just wasn't going to work at a big-time SEC school like UGA. Besides, UGA had handed me all the basketball heartbreak I could stand over the years. I decided to watch anyway. I figured I owed it to Sundiata and Dave Bliss, the only two pieces left of what once looked like the renaissance of Georgia Basketball. I even had it all planned out, the blog post I was going to write on my new blog about all the reasons Felton needed to be fired. I had it all planned out to talk about how low the program had been and how it looked like we might be ready to come back a little bit, but then all of a sudden the bottom fell out. A funny thing happened though; sports.
I went to bed excited about Dave Bliss' bank shot game winner. Then the tornado happened. Then three of my favorite UGA basketball games ever, which I got to watch in the sports book a The Mirage happened. (By the way, the sports book in a Vegas casino is hands down the most underrated part of the Vegas experience; Tons of huge screens with sports, the ability to put down a sports bet in a second, tons of comfy leather chairs, all the free drinks you can drink, plus chariot racing. Plus any place where you can put down a bet on the New Orleans Voodoo is my kind of place). Anyway Sundiata led the Bulldogs to the tournament, a little national fame, and a chance for me to get a 2008 Georgia SEC Basketball Champions Shirt. See, thats the funny thing about sports, you never know. Maybe Felton isn't the right coach for UGA in the long haul, but he and Sundiata and Dave Bliss and Terrance Woodbury and even assistant coach Jay Macauly were perfect for a few days in March. And that is why I love sports.
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