Long Season Continues
September 21, 2008
Sean’s season, which is building up to a very long season continued yesterday with another loss. They were defeated again yesterday by a score of 9 – 0, though the scored really wasn’t that close as we never threatened to score.
The game was an away game for us in Douglas, AZ. That meant about a 90 minute drive to the game for us and a long day. These long road games for sports is one of the few downsides to country living.
Our team continues to struggle on offense. We managed only a couple of first downs and had negative total yardage for the day. The team lacks the basic skills of blocking and executing a play. It also takes them forever to run a play. I clocked in time between plays one time at over 2 minutes. The refs gave them the benefit of the doubt most of the time and didn’t call delay of game penalties but did get fed up and flag them a few times.
On defense, the kids continued to have the opposite story. The were pretty effective in stopping the other team. Take away the safety and the defense gave up one touchdown and it was on a long, trick play double reverse that went for about 50 yards.
Sean was shifted to defensive tackle this week and did a pretty good job of stopping up the middle. Any runs of length went to the outside. He continues to have the same problem, all the other kids we play are bigger. He was giving away another 40 pounds (and he is slightly above average at 125 pounds) on average to the other lineman. As he gets older, he is either going to have to get bigger or faster as he currently lacks the speed to play LB or DB.
The trip made for a long day yesterday. Throw in a stop for lunch on the way to the game and then a stop for dinner on the way back, and we were gone most of the day. I believe next week is another away game though it would be closer as Douglas is the furthest away game.
Sleep Deprivation
August 19, 2008
I have mentioned this before, but I have been thoroughly enjoying the Olympics this year. The past couple of Olympiads, I have had a hard time getting interested. A large part has been the crappy coverage. This year, there is more sports and less human interest stories and fluff. Unfortunately, this Olympics has also been causing a good deal of sleep time to be missed. I am finding myself staying up way too late at night watching instead of going to bed. And it doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, I tend to wake up at 5:30.
The primary NBC coverage begins at 7 and usually lasts until 11. That might not be so bad if I went to bed then. However, at 11:30, the Olympics coverage switches over to the USA Network. Quite frankly, they have been doing an even better job than NBC. That is, they show almost non-stop events.
Last night, for example, they had on the awesome beach volleyball match between the two Chinese teams. The winner would face the USA team for the Gold Medal. It was a very intense match see-sawing back and forth – quite enjoyable. They followed it with some table tennis. Being a former college dorm champ in table tennis, I found it quite enjoyable. Past nights have included badminton, field hockey and polo amongst others.
Alas, the Olympics come to and end this weekend and I can hopefully get back to a normal sleep pattern. Until then though, it looks like a few more late nights.
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