Major Sports Update!

One of my secret agendas for this blog was to create a forum where I could openly brag about my sporting exploits (see me skiing and biking below). But up to this point, I have been quite reserved, mostly because there just has not been much to brag about this year. The flag football team I am on finished in second, we lost our first tournament game in intramural basketball, and it is yet to be determined how we will finish in softball (we won it last year).

Well, the one year drought without a championship has come to an end and it must be chronicled. My ward team (6th Ward) won the stake basketball championship. As I was cutting the nets down after the final buzzer, with "We are the Champions" playing in the background (I had Polly bring a boombox), I thought, this must be what it feels like when your first child is born. I don't know, maybe someone could verify that for me. In a post game interview, I told the woman from KREM 2 News, "I remember dreaming about winning a stake championship when I was just a kid, but it was just dreams...I never thought it could actually happen." Well it did happen and now it is documented here (and on KREM2.com) for all to see.

I play the role of "enforcer" when I step on the court. Some have said that I have a motor that just doesn't quit. Others have said I play the game it was meant to be played. I really couldn't tell ya, because from tip off to the final buzzer, I just black out. When I snap out of it, the game is over and I am usually hoisted up by teammates and fans. Wierd, huh?














I really didn't consider the video game Halo 3 a sport, but Polly insists that it is so it must be documented. I didn't understand her fascination with playing shooting games and trash talking 12 year old kids online until she convinced my to give it a try. She is a level 50, General and I am just a lowly Gunnery Sargent so she can pull rank on me whenever she wants. Just look at her intensity level. She is a stone cold killer.

This is a side of Polly not many have seen. But this is exactly the type of hard hitting-all access-blogging I do. I promised the world an uninhibited-no holds barred look into our lives and once again, I delivered. Your'e Welcome.