Summer

We are finally coming up on summer time and I cannot wait. I’m so sick of cold weather, cold rain, or snow that summer could not come sooner. Other than the weather, summer means a break from school, and for me it’s the last summer as a student at UNCW. I may stay down here after graduation, if I can find a job, but this time next year summer won’t be near as significant.
This being said, I want to make this summer memorable. I didn’t get to take a trip for spring break, and since I’m graduating in December, that was technically my last spring break, so I definitely want to take a trip of some sort. Right now I have a couple of options. One of my good friends from high school is in the army, and he’s stationed right outside Honolulu, Hawaii. Since he has been there he has been begging me and my twin brother to make a trip out there, and he has a couple weeks of leave at the beginning of July. My roommate and a few of my friends are also looking at taking a cruise around the Caribbean sometime midsummer too.
The pros of a cruise is that it’s all inclusive (except alcohol), and you get to see a bunch of different sites. It would definitely be cheaper than flying out to Hawaii and back too. But Hawaii is Hawaii and that’s a pro in itself. Plus, I know my friend and he is likely to pay for a lot of what I and my brother would do once we got over there. Sufficed to say, both trips would be a blast, but I can only take one. So I ask my blog readers, what would be the most memorable for you?

March Madness

So I couldn’t quite decide on what to discuss for this Blog so I figured I would piggy back off a discussion I heard on ESPN this afternoon. Obviously the biggest thing going on in sports right now is the NCAA tournament. The discussion I heard centered on the question, “is the first 2 days of the NCAA tournament the best time of the year to watch sports?” Several of the sportscasters argued that yes, this is absolutely the best time of the year for watching sports, especially basketball, but I would take a different side to this argument.
I would say that March Madness is a crazy time of year for sports, but for a whole different reason than most people would look at it. It is madness, not because there are so many basketball games being played, eventually resulting in a national champion, but because it is the first month since August that there have been no football games on TV. This thought is slightly depressing. I would argue that any Saturday and Sunday filled with College and Professional football is far superior to the NCAA tournament. As a matter of fact, I would rather watch most teams play in football before I would care to watch them in basketball.
This is not to say that I don’t like to watch basketball from time to time, or that I don’t enjoy the NCAA tournament. I personally would prefer football over any sport that I can watch on TV or see in person. I feel that the game is so much more exciting, with the opportunity for a big play at any moment. It doesn’t consist of watching teams run back and forth across a court hundreds of times in a game. I know that there of many people who would disagree with me on this, but it’s just the way I feel.