A Rivalry Renewed!

If you ask most people what the best rivalry is in college sports, you'd probably get the typical Michigan vs. Ohio St. or USC vs. UCLA, well I think I found one to add to that list. The University of California, Riverside Highlanders and the California State University, Long Beach 49ers!

I attended UCR for 4 years, and not one time during my years as a student did I actually attend a sporting event for the university, odd I know, but it wasn't what the kids were doing.

About 2 weeks ago I checked the yahoo sports page for the UCR Basketball Team and found that they were playing Long Beach on January 19th. Having no plans I called Long Beach State alum John and asked if he was willing to put school pride on the line and drive out to Riverside to watch the game. Naturally he said yes and the rivalry game was on!

Here are some random pictures from the game and the day out in the Riverside area:

Three games of bowling:

In UCR's defense the lanes were more for straight bowlers and those who throw a hook have a hard time. That said, did LBST really have to do the dirty bird?

For those who love food, or for those who went to UCR and remember the awesome food we used to have, I give to you the Carne Asada Fries....mmm carne asada fries..mmmmm

Okay now for the reason you are all reading this blog, to see who won the game....

The Highlanders...

or the 49ers?

The action was slow and tedious in the first half, but picked up at the end giving UCR a slight lead at the half:
34-33 UCR with the lead at the half!

Once the second half started, Long Beach seemed to take control of the game, and with approximately 4 minutes remaining they had a commanding 7 point lead, thus bringing down the spirits of the 250 - 300 people in attendance at the Recreation Center. About this time LBST had a brain lapse and put 6 players on the court for an inbound following a time-out. That lead to a two shot technical foul and some momentum for the home team! Down the stretch it seemed to be foul after foul, luckily UCR had some clutch shooters:

Amazingly UCR was able to come from behind and shock their Big West Rival! The crowd went crazy and the LBST fans were left to try to figure out how they just lost the game:

U-C-R! U-C-R! U-C-R!

All and all it was a fun game and a fun day. Now if only we can keep winning through the Big West Tournament and get to the Show! Oh and Cal Poly Pomona.....watch out!!

Random Piece of Knowledge: President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot had to be removed from his funeral in 1845 because it was swearing.

Still lazy apparently

Sorry, all my readers, I get so lazy. Okay, playing guitar hero III a little to much I guess, whatever, don't judge me.

Because of my lack of blogging I will treat you to 3 random facts:

1. Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing up.

2. At latitude 60 degrees, you can see all the way around the world

3. A can of spam is opened every four seconds.

I know you are all amazed!

I missed you Blog

Hello everyone! I know you were all missing out on your fix of stupid posts from yours truly, so here I am back for 2008! First lets catch up on the past couple of weeks that I have been away:

I had originally stopped blogging the day my grandfather passed away cause I didn't really know what exactly to write at that time. Still hard at times, here is his bio: Robert E. Hutchins

Me, my brother and my dad flew back to Massena, New York for the funeral, here are a few shots from our trip:

Here is my grandfather's picture in his Army uniform with his Bronze Star and Purple Heart

Here is the river that runs along the back of my Grandparent's former, and aunt's current house

Cousin Picture: Brad, Peter, Matthew, Paul, Grandma Hutchins, Emily (not present Amy, Stacey, Sally, Kenny, Amanda)

Here I am trying to get my dad to recreate the scene in "A Christmas Story" where the kid gets his tongue stuck to the flag pole.

Not sure if I mentioned this, but it was cold.

Me and my next ride, a sweet snowmobile. These work in sand right?

This got old, very very fast.

I really like this picture cause it was the last time all of us were all together at the same time. Back row: Uncle Rick, Uncle Bruce, Sally, Aunt Judy, Aunt Beth, Uncle Kenny, Mom, Amy, Dad Middle Row: Matthew, Me Bottom Row: Grandpa Stacey, Grandma, Emily, Peter, Paul

Anyway, I thought I'd share a few of the pictures I took while there. It was cool to see everyone again, although the circumstances for us getting together was not fun.

Because I know you are all dying to know what else I have been up to recently, here are a few pictures I have taken to document the last month and a half.

Went to a Clippers game, turns out.....they suck!

Took part in numerous conference calls at work pertaining to California's Health Reform. Guess what everyone? We are all getting health insurance*

Found this peanut in my bag at work, are you aware there are 4 peanuts in that shell! Yeah, this is what i get excited about at work.

Look I am royalty! The fine people of Amazon.com seem to think so at least!

Despite going to Vegas numerous times before, this was the first "Dam" Time I had to visit the Hoover Dam. I gotta say it was "Dam" Exciting and "Dam" big. And yes this lame joke continues to this day.

Here I am rubbing the toes of some "Dam" statue that is supposed to bring good luck. Well I won a nice amount in Vegas, so I guess it worked!

Here is a T-shirt given to me by my friend Peter. Alhambra, for all of you who don't know is from this day on, to be known as "The Bra" - and since you all saw that I was royalty, this is real!

Oh well, all this blogging is now making me tired, and I'm going to read my new book before I go to sleep. Yes it's a Star Wars Book, yes its a Pop-Up Book, and yes the lightsabers are really glowing....Whatever, don't judge me.

Thank you all who came back to my blog after a long blog-hiatus. I will do my very best to blog at least once a week this year, possibly more! As a new feature to my blog, at the end of each post I will give you all a random piece of information that I learned in "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information" so that you can all be as knowledgeable as me on obscure topics!

Here is today's: It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip off your ear

* - You will get health insurance if the state votes to increase taxes......little word to the wise, you aren't getting health insurance.