Here are a few of my tricks and treats from my spooky sports goodie bag...

Trick – Michigan’s 2007 pre-season AP #5 ranking.
Treat – Watching them get beat in their season opener by an unranked team -Appalachian State – I mean really?

Treat – Roger Clemens coming out of retirement…again to pitch for the Yankees.
Trick – Clemons doesn’t produce and once again the Yankees fail to make it to the World Series.

Trick – Ole Miss football team
Treat – Mississippi State football team

Trick – The New England Patriots attempting to video record their opponents’ play-calling signals.
Treat – duh…Tom Brady

Trick – Britney Spears
Treat – Britney Spears

Trick – The Rockies performance in the World Series after winning 21 of 22 games
Treat - Jonathan Papelbon doing his infamous river dancing and wearing a kilt during the victory parade in Boston

Have a safe Happy Halloween! Boo!

Christi

Now what would peaches and softball have in common? Oh just a 5A State Championship thats all. If it weren’t for Peaches’ performance, Clinton High School couldn’t have pulled off their 9-8 win over Meridian for the title.

Peaches is not only pitched the Lady Arrows to victory in the championship game, she had 10 hits total including 7 singles, 2 triples, and a home run in the semifinal sweep of Madison Central and championship series against Meridian. Peaches knows how to cream the ball. She led the team with a .594 batting average on the season that included 6 homeruns. She holds the school record with 42 homeruns.

Congrats to the Arrows – I guess that new athletic facility is really paying off.
Also, there’s nothing new about New Hope and winning games. New Hope has the winningest program in Mississippi, and now has their 10th State Title. The Lady Trojans beat Lawrence County 11-6 in the championship game under the direction of former Lady Trojan player and now Coach Tabitha Beard.

So now it’s on to the smaller ball and faster pitching as the World Series has begun. Christian has the Rockies getting swept by the Red Sox, but I think 2004 is going to be a distant memory as this time around it will be the Rockies who make history.

Christi

The Colorado Rockies are headed to the World Series - for the first time ever! Now you see I was a fan way back when Starter jackets were cool. In Junior High, my very first and only Starter jacket was the Colorado Rockies jacket. I knew they would do something big one day, so naturally I chose their jacket – that and I liked their colors. The Miami Dolphins teal was just not my color and my twin sister had the Broncos jacket, so I went for the pretty purple, black and white. Man, I wish I had that jacket today. It’s probably been sold 10 times at Goodwill.

All season the Rockies have been receiving some good will from Matt Holliday who has a .340 batting average and hit a 3-run homer in last night’s National League series to give his team the go ahead win and a trip to their first World Series. He leads the NLCS post season with four homeruns. I’d like to think his homerun ability comes from his home base – Oklahoma. You see he’s married to a girl that grew up in the same home town as me, Chickasha, Oklahoma. I can almost bet she’s a factor in his slugfest. Behind every good batter is a great wife.

- Christi

So I like football, I know teams, I understand the game, but I don’t like numbers and statistics. I never have, never will. You’d think being married to a sportscaster, I would know all sorts of useless sport history and could spit out statistics, but the truth of the matter is that I can’t. I don’t keep up with the amount of rushing yards BenJarvus Green-Ellis has on the season, I can’t even get his name right most days.

If I do have to prove my sports knowledge to my husband I fake it to make it. It goes a little like this.
“Ole Miss actually looked pretty good against Georgia, too bad they’re defense didn’t hold up.” Or “Tom Brady is playing as good as he looks.” Or “I think the Dallas Cowboys are going to the Superbowl” Why he asks, “Because their offense is good and because Tony Romo doesn’t have butterfingers this season.”
All very legit responses that your husbands can’t refute. In my upcoming blogs I’ll share generalized statements you can use to convince your husband, or to impress your guy friends, that you know football.

Here’s an example you can use today: My prediction for tonight’s big game, Southern Miss vs. Rice, is logic. The Golden Eagles will win because they’re more powerful, faster birds, and they have impeccable sight. The Rice Owls are solitary, small birds, and heck they’re nocturnal. Oh... and you can also throw out that Rice hasn’t won a game yet, and that its being televised on ESPN2.

Ladies, you have to make watching football fun or else you’re going to be miserable when you husband remembers how many touchdowns Brett Farve threw as a Southern Miss Golden Eagle, but doesn’t remember to bring home the milk.

Christi