Sports
I’ve grown up a sports junkie. I’ve always loved baseball, but football has been the sport that has giving me the most opportunities. I played both of those in college as a Simpson (IA) Storm. Previous to that I played football, basketball, soccer and baseball in high school for the Newton Cardinals. Also either in […]
My Playing Career
I am originally from Newton, IA. I grew up playing any sport I could. I started playing YMCA soccer at 5 years old, flag football and basketball at 9. I also started tee ball at 5 and baseball was always my favorite sport. For soccer, I got involved with NASA, the Newton Area Soccer Association, […]
Opening day at TD Ameritrade Park
I had the chance to attend the opening night game at TD Ameritrade Park. The Creighton Bluejays played the Nebraska Cornhuskers in some frigid weather. I’ve been to a lot of baseball games, but this was one of the coldest. I even talked my wife into staying for the whole game. Its a good thing, […]
Tagxedo
I heard about Tagxedo.com on Net@Night from the twit.tv network and figured I had to try it. It is actually pretty neat. You can plug in different websites, twitter ID’s and search terms to create a neat tag cloud of the words you use. Here’s an example of mine. I uploaded a graphic and adjusted […]
College World Series 2010
Here’s a round up of the pictures I took from College World Series games this year. I got a chance to sit in 3 different areas of the stadium. I saw 2 great finishes by South Carolina including the Championship and last game played at Rosenblatt Stadium. I didn’t have the best camera, just using […]
Rockin the @htc Incredible and it’s girly case.
I'm really liking my new phone. today is it's 1 week birthday. Yeah I know kinda cheesy, but I hadn't really showed it off yet. I'm still downloading apps like crazy and the battery makes me stop playing with it in the early evening. But I guess the 14 hours I'm getting now is better […]
OITC: 2009 Softball Season Underway
We had our first softball game of the season yesterday. It didn’t go too bad, I think we’ll have a good season for that team. It’s a Sunday night league that lasts through August I think. So it’s a pretty long season, but should be fun if we win some games. We lost like 12-11 […]
Soccer: Thoughts from games 1 & 2
I got a chance to make it to the girls opener last Thursday. It was fun to watch them beat Marshalltown. I don’t think we ever beat Marshalltown like that when I was coaching. They played well together and had some fun at the same time. I also can’t remember starting off the season undefeated. […]
Soccer: Season Kick-off
I’m now counting down the hours until I get to see my first Newton Girls Soccer game of 2009 and it happens to be the season opener, which is even better. Last year was tough, it was my first year out of coaching and I had to hear from everybody what was […]
Volleyball
I get a call the other day asking if I would play volleyball. I couldn’t turn that down, so I said I was in. 10 minutes later I get a call back, “I wrote your information down as the coach, thanks”. So I guess I’m coaching a volleyball team. That’s a new one to me. […]
