Saturday 8/30/08

Virginia Tech at East Carolina

I hate ECU. Every year or so when I was in Blacksburg these little purple bastards would come into town and scare the bejeebus out of us. Yes, I know that's really more a matter of Tech's inconsistencies that anything ECU brought to the table, but whatever. I remember being back at school for a game when David Garrard was their QB and being amazed at how big he was. Big and good, didn't like him then and I don't like him beating me in fantasy football now either.



USC at Virginia

I'm looking forward to this game. I'm looking forward to seeing UVa manhandled the first week of the season on national TV. Even if the Tech game goes badly this one should help perk me up a bit. UVa finished well last year but if Groh couldn't get them ready for a first week game against Wyoming, how does that bode for a first week game against USC?



Appalachian St. at LSU

I don't think I've ever had more fun watching a game in which I had no rooting interest than when I watched App. St. and Michigan last year. To make it even better, one of my college friends had just started working at App. St. as their new head VB coach so he kept giving me updates on how the campus was reacting. Is there anyway they do it again this year? LSU looks to be shaky at QB but the rest of them should probably overpower App. St. Should. C'mon little guys...



Alabama at Clemson

OK, not really at Clemson but they get home billing so they've got that going for them, which is...oh, nevermind. I'm curious to see what happens with Clemson this year, expectations couldn't be any higher for them, and that's not usually a good thing for these guys. Seems like Bowden is always just barely hanging onto his job, with a win over Fl. State always saving his ass. This could be the year he's done. If he doesn't come close to living up to expectations then they might have to finally can him. But a loss here wouldn't really hurt them and wreck the season.



And let's not forget US Open tennis. Tennis is obviously taking a backseat to the opening weekend of college football but I love the US Open. One year I'm going to drag a few friends to Queens for the first week and go to all the night matches.

Thursday 8/28/08

And here we go, football is finally back godammit!! College game, NFL game, whatever...it's football and I'm happy.

Game One:
NC State vs. South Carolina
ACC vs. SEC - let's start off the year with my conference (Hokies) getting shown up one more time. I don't know anything about either of these teams except as it regards their coaches.
Spurrier is loved by Gator fans but loathed in the DC area where I live. Don't even get my brother started on him. As a lifelong Redskins hater I personally loved his time in Raljon. Truth be told, I've loved every minute of the Dan Snyder era.

And O'Brien? I can't for the life of me understand why the man would leave Boston College for NC State. Better weather? I just don't get it. Same conference, lesser college football history attached to the school, guaranteed to be overshadowed by the Tarheels in his new geographic area, etc. Whatever, he goes from one place that guarantees a low level of mediocrity to a place that guarantees a slightly higher level of mediocrity. Good choice. At least with NC State under O'Brien you'll get some consistency, under the barrel-chested maniac that used to coach them they usually sucked but they could always work up a big scare one or two weeks of the year - kind of like a poor man's Clemson.

First game gets "KKKY" from CunninLynguists.



Game Two:

Oregon State & Stanford

Oh goody - we get to see two packs of hippies fighting each other. Maybe they'll have a hacky sack game at halftime. Yippee

Hippies should get Built to Spill but we'll go with "Come On" by The Panderers



There's also a game between Wake Forest & Baylor tonight but I'm not wasting a song on this pile of shit game. I know two guys who grew up in Maryland and went to Wake and both of them are bigger Terp fans than they are Wake fans. If they don't care about their team, why should anyone else? And Baylor? I'm betting a six pack of good beer that there are some (which means many) high school teams in Texas that could whip Baylor.

About

What is this Weekend Sports Soundtrack you may be asking? Just a (hopefully) helpful way to get you into the spirit of the weekend. I make no promises that the songs I choose will have anything to do with the games being played, but I also make no promises that they won't have anything to do with them. If the songs do have anything to do with the games, it will be tangential at best. In other words, very very weak.

Also, after the end of the sporting weekend (meaning after Monday Night Football) I'll cram all that week's songs together into a podcast.