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| Today's Golden State Warriors loss to the Utah Jazz typifies how Bay Area sports teams have always seemed to disappoint their fans in the last 20 years. Wheather you are a Warriors, Giants, A's, Sharks, Cal, or Stanford fan can you think about a moment in the last 20 years where you felt a charactric release? None of these teams ever live up to expectations or have the balls to close out any game or series. I am giving the 49ers a break because they have won 4 championships.
But when was the last time as a Bay Area Sports fan that you truly celebrated. Warriors over Dallas this year? Cal over USC in 2003? A's sweeping the Giants in 1989? The Warriors should have beat Dallas the way the were playing. I may give you Cal over USC but it was still won in OT on a FG. And the A's simply were better then the Giants and Bay Area team beating another doesn't really count.
Now for the disappointments....
Warriors: As illustrated today, blew a 5 point lead with 35 seconds left. They haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years so it's hard to think other examples of disappointment-- other than perennial disappointment-- O, hold on... they blew a 9 point lead with 3:24 left to Dallas in Game 5.
Sharks: 2007, lost to Detroit 4--was up 2-1 in the series and up 2-1 in Game 4 with 30 secs left. 2006, lost to Edmonton - was up 2-0 in the series.
Giants: 2002, lost to the Anahiem Angels in the World Series-- was up 3-2 in series, top of the 7th with a 5-0 lead.
A's: 2000-2002, losing all the 5 game series. 2003, lost 3-2 to Boston-- was up 2-0.
Cal: Football: 2004 at USC, down six with 4 tries at the endzone at 9 yrd line.
Stanford: Every year a 1st or 2nd Rd knockout in March Madness. (Maybe I'll give them that final four when Madsen pounded his chest for 5 mins)
Maybe, I'm wrong and being too hard on Bay Area sports teams. But I'm not. There has never been a moment where a team has come through or closed out a series when they needed to in the past 20 yrs. I'm not talking about the games or series we should win. I'm talking about those games or series that mean something.
It sucks to be a Bay Area sports fan.
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| Many of the readers of my xanga know of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
Now, I just read this from the probably most cited source of information for most high school essays in the United States: Wikipedia.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship grew out of a student movement at the University of Cambridge in England in 1877. A group of students gathered together to pray and study the Bible.
Similar groups began at other British universities. Eventually, the
groups formed an organization they called the Inter-Varsity fellowship
(the British term for a University was 'Varsity'). In 1928, students at
several Canadian universities and graduate programs asked the British
InterVarsity for help in beginning their own movement. The Canadian
InterVarsity in turn provided help to independent evangelical student
movements in the United States as they tried to organize. In 1938, University of Michigan students formed the first InterVarsity Chapter in the United States. By May of 1941,
the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA was fully chartered, staffed
mostly by Canadian members. IVCF/USA helped to found the International
Fellowship of Evangelical Students in 1947,
an organization that connects national Christian student movements in
143 countries at this moment.
It's pretty much official, without Canadians the world would have been depleted of so much.. We helped start IV...but there's so much more that influence the world today.
Here's my list of some notables:
(1) The Canadian military
(2) Shania Twain
(3) Hockey (best playoff sport)
(4) Avril Lavigne
(5) Me
(6) Byran Adams ("Everything I Do" may be the greatest love song ever... which brings me to ...)
(7) Celine Dion... Celine Dion... Celine Dion
(8) William Shatner (Star Trek, The show that spanned decades and should be used as a model for Intervarsity talks about learning across cultural differences!-- plus where would Priceline.com be)
(9) Michael Buble
(10) CFL
I think enough is said.
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| Haven't written in a while. Nothing much new with me. I am going to stay at least until August now here, so I get to enjoy another Chicago summer-- which I actually really like. In a few weeks I'm also doing Relay for Life here at Northwestern for American Cancer Society. My grandmother passed away 2 years ago from pancreatic cancer and my aunt now has cancer too-- so I do hope that this will help in any way for people in the future. It's for a great cause. Unfortunately, I haven't fundraised that much yet... so if any of you would like to sponser me... here's the link.
Northwestern Relay for Life-Eric Huang
I hope the link works. My goal is $100 (will be higher...thanks to those who donated) but I hopefully can get more than that. And, the girl in the picture on the link isn't me.
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| Albert, Sophie and I were thinking of watching Firewall with Harrison Ford. Well, I wanted to watch it....it's Harrison he has to be good....but here's one review....
"Put Alan Thicke in the lead role of Firewall and, without changing one line of dialogue, the flick would debut at 9pm Eastern on ABC's Movie of the Week."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
Man....brings back the memories of Growing Pains...
Btw.... go Team Canada.....women's hockey over Italy 16-0....
o, yeah...and Sophie wants to watch Curious George....great.
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| I was reading the Wall Street Journal today....and this was the front
page article in the Weekend Edition- "The New White Flight." The gist
of the article basically states that in these cities where the Asian
populations are rising, the Asian influence in the high schools are
creating a very competitive atmosphere which has caused many white
families to move out of the area.
At first I thought this article was going to be pretty racist towards
Asians, but after I thought more about it-- the author Suein Hwang (who
I assume is Asian) does report good points. Although these all
will be generalizations, I do believe that we live in a world where you
have to at least make some generalizations in order to survive. We live
in a world today where generalizations are seen as taboo to make-- but
if I see a person with a gun on the street-- I'm going to make the
"generalization" that this person may be dangerous and I'm going to run.
Anyways, Asian Americans from what I see are very performance oriented
especially when it is in the presence of other Asian Americans.
Although this may be a good way to push others to success, I have seen
a lot of people struggling with this too. It creates an
atmosphere of where you can never really be happy, and I can relate to
some of the white parents where they say that it's not healthy for
their kids.
Well, I was going to comment more...but "Executive Decision" with Steven Segal is on TNT....so I'll finish this later....
The New White Flight-By SUEIN HWANG http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113236377590902105-lMyQjAxMDE1MzEyOTMxNjkzWj.html
November 19, 2005; Page A1
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