My Beaver Blog

The east coast bias strikes again. The #5 ranked Beavs were skipped over for a national seed and will need some serious help if they wish to host a super-regional again this year. According to the bracket if it holds to form OSU will advance to play #3 seeded Texas, which means the selection committee in all their wisdom has OSU seeded #13 nationally after winning the Pac-10 by 3 games. East coast bias? Well this report from USF seems to support the claim. Not to mention the fact that MSU got in as a #3 seed after losing 16 of their last 24 games and 7 of 8 series. Oh yea, the MSU AD was the president of the selection committee. Good ol' boys network at it's finest.

Enough complaining. They've all go to lose sooner or later so lets get the first three teams out of our way beginning with Wright St. on Friday. The Beavs draw seems winable, but will likely come down to a match-up with Big XII tourney champ Kansas. Suspensions from the Big XII championship game could impact player availability for Kansas and then it could end up being Hawaii. This might not bode well for the Beavs who have a 4-15 record against UH.

Last year 15 of the 16 regional hosts advanced to the supers. Let's look for that trend to continue this year, at least in Corvallis.

Defending Pac-10 champs hold a 2 game lead with 6 to play. Magic # is 5, no other team can win more than 16. Beavs travel to WSU this weekend for 3 before ending the season at hoem vs. UCLA.

Beavs 12-6
ASU 10-8
UCLA 10-8
USC 11-9
WSU 9-9
Stan 10-11
UW 9-12
Cal 9-12
UA 7-11

Why is it that on Mother's Day my wife wants to spend the day with the family and on Father's Day I want to play golf with the guys?  Is this the norm?

I really hate the idea of talented athletes getting limitless chances after making mistakes, probably because I am not a talented athlete.  However, it's often the severity of the action being overlooked that bothers me.  Marcus Vick signs a free agent deal with the Dolphins, presumably to compete with Joey for backup duty if and when Daunte returns.  Now don’t get me wrong, I hate everything to do with the lightning and green, but I hope Joey wins this battle.  Vick has proven repeatedly that he is just a bad guy who doesn’t understand what the right thing is, let alone actually making the choice to do it.  Joey is a standup guy who deals with whatever comes his way.  He survived 4 years in Detroit, the guy deserves a break for that alone.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-dolphins-marcusvick&prov=ap&type=lgns

I thought I was a big football fan. I was wrong.

I have attended every home game for the past 4 years, a handful of road games including that windy night at rainy Seattle last year. Have taken in the Fiesta and Insight bowls in person. I live for Saturdays in the fall. However, the spring game a few Saturdays ago bored me to no end. Thank god there was an exciting baseball to follow or the whole day would have been for not.

It's not that I'm no longer a fan. Just that it's hard when you can't root for or against somebody. In the scrimmage I wanted everyone to do well (and no one to get hurt). Not exactly the same feelings that pulse through my veins in September. I was glad to see Joe back in action and Matt Moore throwing to the right colored shirts. All in all I think we looked good, but it's hard to tell until we line up against someone from another school.

This was my first spring game and I was hoping it could help fill the void until kick-off in August. It didn't. I guess I'll have to keep on visiting beaver blogs, chat sites, etc. 50 times a day until then. Seems to be the only thing that remotely meets my need for a "fix". That and following the baseball team pitch by pitch via gamecast. Man, how did I ever survive without the net.