Vegas baby!

Great times all around! From greeting the morning sun outside of The Sin, bumping into Reiley in a random casino bathroom at 6 am, Chad spilling drinks and losing money at an astonishing rate, the most foul late night/early morning seafood buffet I've ever eaten with Fenster, constantly trying to figure out where in the hell Brad was, Bro trying to talk skiing with a stripper and carrying an 18 pack through the MGM, pissin' off the New York New York blackjack dealer, and Stover doing his best to stay awake and out of trouble. For pictures, click on this link.

I'm ready for Vegas and some flying Elvi.

Good Morning Vail!

Get Up!

Get ready to start your day,
The mountains are calling you out to play

Come on!

We'll make you feel right at home.

Good Morning, Vail!

See what lies in store for you,
there's so many things to see and do.
Summer, Winter, Spring or Fall
Your home in the Rockies has it all.

So Get Up!

Get ready to start your day,
the coffee's brewing, you're on your way
The fun is waiting outside your door.

Good Morning, Vail!

7 inches of natural at Vail this morning,
click on the picture for a link to the "Good Morning Vail" theme song.

Colorado Ski Resort Opening Dates:

Arapahoe Basin: Open
Aspen Highlands: December 9
Aspen Mountain: November 23
Beaver Creek: November 22
Breckenridge: November 10
Copper: Today, November 3
Crested Butte: November 18
Durango (Purgatory): November 23
Eldora: November 17
Keystone: November 10
Loveland: Open
Silverton: November 23
Ski Cooper: November 23
Steamboat: November 22
Telluride: November 23
Vail: November 17
Winter Park: November 15
Wolf Creek: Today, November 3

Tennesse 31, South Carolina 24: Anybody else notice backup QB and redshirt freshmen Jonathan Crompton try to call an audible with 2:00 left in the game? Love his confidence, but he's played maybe three series all year. Fulmer had to waste a timeout and stop the clock. "Crompton must see something in the defense he doesn't like". Hah! What was he gonna change the play to, a Hail Mary?



Nebraska 29, Oklahoma St 41: Crys of "The Blackshirts are back" have died down somewhat with all eyes looking towards next week's game against Missouri.

Ole Miss 17, Auburn 23: Either the Rebels are one step away from being a contender in the SEC West or this is as good as they'll ever be under Orgeron. One thing we know for sure is that they knocked Auburn back a spot in the BCS rankings.

BCS Computers Reek of BS

Obviously the main problem lies within the CPU polls. Prime example: they have Cal listed as #3. WTF! The so called "built-in" strength of schedule factor is nothing but a fluke. USC loses to Oregon State and the CPU's only knock them back to 6? Tennessee's only loss is to #4 Florida and they have UT ranked #10? Simply ridiculous. Based on this, one would think the Pac-10 is the toughest conference in the nation. I think I might throw up.
By the way, I was under the impression each of the human polls and the CPU poll counted as 1/3 towards a team's total BCS ranking. As described by the official site, "All three components shall be added together and averaged for a team's ranking in the BCS standings." No doubt I'm missing something here, but if UT is ranked as #8 by both the Harris and USA Today polls and #10 by the CPU polls, how in the world does this average out to #11?
Bottom line: I love it. Bring on the chaos! While all those mindless idiots are chanting for a playoff, the South may just secede again. The notion of an SEC super conference is starting to grow on me.

"Every Man For Himself" 3x04

Tonight's episode of LOST is a Sawyer-centric episode, in which according to the preview will reveal "a secret so shocking, it'll change everything they know about this island." The official Lost ABC website says that tonight, "Sawyer finds out how serious his captors are in making sure he and Kate don't attempt to escape."

Ya'll should definately check out this website. Especially the Nate & Tyler show. Pretty funny stuff. Also, the video of Coach Orgeron is hilarious.

Further Instructions
What's the deal with the picture of an upside-down bridge? Sawyer was holding a picture of it in Locke's vision from last nights episode and it also appeared in Rose's flashback last season.

BCS Rankings Released

College Football Pick'Em
I've started up a league on Yahoo Sports for anyone interested in picking the games for the remainder of the college football season. Go to http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/college and search for group id (32839). If you want to join let me know by posting a comment to this blog and I'll send you the password.

iTunes 7.0 Blows!
If any of ya'll have iPods, whatever you do, don't upgrade to the new iTunes 7.0 software. It's got dozens of bugs including freezing every freakin' two seconds...like mine. Apple needs to get their shit together and issue a patch for this quick. Here's more:

iTunes 7 and iPod 1.2 update confound users by ZDNet's Jason D. O'Grady -- When Steve Jobs announced iTunes 7 I couldn't reload the download page fast enough. I was anxious to try out the first whole number upgrade to Apple's venerable jukebox application in almost a year. In the 10 or so days that I've been using the new iTunes I've had little or no problems with it. Unfortunately others haven't been so lucky.

Week 5 Picks

Click here to submit your college football picks for week 5.

Early Winter Dusting?

Let me rephrase that...barfing might be a better word. Are you kidding me? 11 inches at PHQ?

Couldn't have asked for a better snowfall last year. Hell, it broke numerous records allowing Vail to stay open an additional week. But wouldn't you know that the first winter we move away may prove to be the most brutal yet.

Ahhh, Memories

(webcam provided by TOV)

Vail's first dusting of the season.
Ski Swap's in a month or so.

#15 Tennessee 20, #5 Florida 21
Ainge had flashbacks of last year in what I would consider a small bump in the road to the SEC Title.


Other notable scores:
#3 USC 28, #23 Nebraska 10
#2 Auburn 7, #10 LSU 3
Ole Miss 14, Kentucky 31
#6 Michigan 47, #12 Notre Dame 21
Princeton 14, Lehigh 10

#13 Tennessee 31, Air Force 30

In a spectacular game this past Saturday evening, one can't help but give credit to Air Force for an incredible performance and be thankful that UT came away with the win. Neyland hasn't seen crowds this amped up or noise levels this high since '99 or '00. The air in Knoxville is electric heading into the weekend's game against #7 Florida. While UT's offense is running on all cylinders, the defense will certainly need to man up after losing starters "Inky" Johnson (cornerback) and Justin Harrell (tackle). Since having the piss smacked out of him by Cutcliffe, Erik Ainge is looking to be the quarterback everyone was expecting him to be and took SEC Player of the Week.

Other Scores Across the Country:
#19 Nebraska 56, Nicholls St 7
Ole Miss 7, Missouri 34
#25 Penn St 17, #2 Notre Dame 41
#8 Texas 7, #1 Ohio St 24
Lehigh 31, Villanova 28

Three Decades Of Agassi

#23 UT 35, #9 CAL 18

While many may have expected Tennessee to beat Cal in their season opener, very few expected them to do so in such convincing fashion. During the 3rd quarter, Tennessee quickly blew the game wide open jumping to a 35-3 lead before putting in their second team squads in the fourth. UT held the Golden Bears to only 64 yards rushing for the game. Erik Ainge had this to say, "This game tonight wasn't just Tennessee versus California. It was for the South versus the West Coast, the SEC versus the Pac-10."