A Girls Guide to Sports: USD just wanted it more then Gonzaga did, so they took it

Apparently it's basketball season (man where does the time go? Really? Basketball? Weren't we just watching a whole bunch of unfunny Superbowl ads?) and USD's basketball team is doing really good in winning when they aren't supposed to.

Monday they played against Gonzaga and beat them (69-62) and people were like "Holy Crap, they just totally beat them when they had totally lost to them every other time." And then they were like "Hells ya we did nerds! We beat them cause we wanted it SOOO bad!" And then Gonzaga was like "we couldn't beat them cause they woulda cried they wanted it so bad."

From the Seattle Times:

The 20th-ranked Bulldogs had won 13 consecutive games over San Diego and nine in a row in the tournament since losing to the Toreros at USD's Jenny Craig Pavilion in the 2003 title game. The 21-13 Toreros were playing their third game in three nights, having rallied from 17 down to beat No. 2 seed Saint Mary's in double overtime late Sunday."We could just not match their desire," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said.

I just caught that they play at the Jenny Craig Pavilion, hilarity. There's another joke in there somewhere about San Diego and people on diets and Jenny Craig, but I'm still trying to get over daylight savings time, so my brain is a little fuzzy.

Lines for the sports bar:

Did you watch Carly Smithson last night? She was AWESOME!

Carly Smithson Asks Us To Come Together: there's a dirty joke in there somewhere

For your viewing pleasure.

Go San Diego (via Ireland) chick.

But Where The Hell Have You Been?

Well you see I've been working, actual for real, reporting to the office daily working. WORKING. We still be po' but I'm working up a storm.

Point is, been anxious to get back to the old San Diego reportage, but haven't been able to find any space between working and LIVING in San Diego to actually do it.

So we're going back to the drawing board. Going to change it up a bit (as promised), adding a taking away a few things.

Will keep all posted as it gets more finalized.

RELAUNCH

RELAUNCH - Coming soon. (I'd say Monday, but the way life has been going lately who knows).

New features, New Content, New Ideas.

Until then, enjoy Carly (hometown girl, via Ireland, already had a record deal) Smithson.

And go here. It's entertaining...

Was Planning to LiveBlog the Genius that is Carly Smithson (AKA girl with the buzz, according to Simon)

But I have this unspoken deal with my husband that we will watch it together and my husband was asleep at the time so I had to forgo witty and amazing off the cuff commentary for a post-post about last nights show.

Carly Smithson got the coveted last spot position (coincidentally the night before the coveted last spot position was held by Michael Johns, other reported "professional singer who already had record deal and apparently American Idol is all about people who don't have record deals", coincidence? Some are calling these two "the ringers.") and... well the girl has bronchitis. You may not have noticed but she was actually missing from the night before and wasn't there to cheer on the boys (some speculate she was off getting another record deal, and you never know with that girl).

A lot of the girls were supposedly sick, but as Carly (go hometown girl) belted out her tune I've never heard before she muscled through it and even managed to get a little dig in there when she said "sickness is not an excuse."

So there other girls who were walking around with the flu, Carly's a pro (as evidenced by her mic technique, so says Paula Abdul) and you all are just sick little non pros.

Anywho, I'm still voting for her because as we were sitting there watching the performances I looked at my husband and went "wait a minute, who performed before this girl? And what did she sing?"

Simon would call that "forgettable."

And Carly Smithson is the only actual name I remember. Besides "rocker chick girl", which I'm assuming is her name, I know she's a nurse and she's all "original" and stuff. So I guess I could vote for Rocker Chick Girl as well.

Just Another Reason We Love The Daily Aztec: San Diego gets a beer pong league and they are right on top of that story

From The Daily Aztec:

Now, with the addition of a San Diego beer pong league, locals can enjoy playing this wonderful pastime competitively. Anyone lucky enough to walk into McMurphy's Pub on a Wednesday night can witness competitive beer pong.

All the news fit to print. All the stories necessary to read. All the reporters fit to co found a beer pong league.

"This is what I do," he said to a reporter and the SDBP co-founder. "You write articles; you run beer pong tournaments; I make cups."Weisburd said he would like to play other people in what he calls a professional environment.

I saw this guy down the street the other day just KILLING at Beer Pong, can we say "beer pong scout?" Cause I'd make a good one, I live in PB after all.

Minutemen Continue to Fight Over Highway

The San Diego Minutemen are challenging the proposed change in the location of their "adopt a highway" stretch of road. From The New York Times:

The group filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month arguing that the decision violated its constitutional rights to free speech, due process and equal protection under the law. The Minutemen are asking for permission to work at the original site, as well as for the payment of legal fees and $50,000. A hearing is scheduled for March 14 in the United States District Court in San Diego.

Because it's theirs and belongs to them and they should have it cause they saw it first.

It has nothing to do with the fact that it's very near a border station and they are a group of people who fancies themselves freelance border patrol.

And it has nothing to do with the odd symbolism of the whole thing, what with them "picking up trash" on the side of the road near the border patrol where they like to pretend to be the border patrol.

And it's not like they are going to stand on the side of the road in their orange vests and look for immigrants themselves, irregardless of if they are trained to do so, or even if they are targeting ACTUAL illegal immigrants, they're just picking up trash you see.

Really it's about fairness, you dig? They should be able to stand on the side of the road, scan for interlopers, point and yell and generally infringe upon the rights of others, because it's ONLY FAIR. Sure they are really in it to adopt a highway, but they don't want any old highway in East County... they reject you old highway in East County.

But really they are in it for the highway... just not that highway.

Poor east county highway.

My Husband is a Real Estate Appraiser and just explained to me that it's not your house any way, so deal.

"Because they just own the title to it, the Government actually owns the house. Because when you pay taxes you technically can lose the house at any time, the government can take it from you, so you don't actually own it."

So there, people who are peeved because there is some guy walking around San Diego taking pictures of all the houses so that he can create a database of every single house, put it on the internet and let people search through it to see just how pretty houses are in San Diego.

From NBC San Diego:

"The goal is to establish a database of every residential property, actually every property, in the country into a database," said Kevin Allen of Anderson Appraisal Services. "What we want is the picture that's going to best show what this house looks like." It's a database that a company named Zaio plans to sell to real estate appraisers.

And make their jobs just a little bit more comprehensive.

So there, DEAL.

Because Bloggers Like to Blog About What Other Bloggers Are Blogging

A Blogger named Pat Flannery (check out his blog of San Diego here) was thrown out of a new conference because he's a blogger with a big blogging mouth. Apparently he actually exercises his right to free speech via articles and entries addressing what he calls San Diego's growing "police state." And, apparently, there are some people who don't like him.

Hence they throw him out of public places so they don't have to watch him and his dissapproving looks.

After he was thrown out of the news conference where DA Bonnie Dumanis was set to endorse Judge Jan Goldsmith for City Attorney, he went home and blogged about it.

He even has video.

Shanna Schwarze has never heard of this speed dating thing before but she thinks it's hot

She also thinks Sex and the City is the best new show on television, totally original, completely ballsy, and going to change the face of television.

From NBC San Diego: The What's Hot section (not even kidding):

If the bar scene gives you a hang over and Match.com feels like a mismatch, you may want to try Speed Dating. The concept is pretty simple: men and women sign up and pay on-line, show up at the designated spot, and have a “date” in a round robin type of way.

And the verdict?

The verdict? Full speed ahead! While it felt a little awkward at first, this event was surprisingly fun and something I’d suggest to other men and women. I even got 3 “matches” out of it!

Next up Shanna moves right on in to 2006 where she will tell you all about this new fangled My Space and it's dating potential (so much better than Friendster).