The Time is Coming!

Its a battle between the Nevada Univerities top rivals UNLV and UNR. The Fremont cannon is on the line. This season for the Rebels, has been up and down. The highs of winning such a big game against the Warriors and the lows of losing a close one to Oregon State and another conference road loss to Wyoming.

I really think this is Mike Sanford's lucky time. There is no real AD in there to kick him out. Which he loves. The guy has lost 20 straight conference road games. You have got to be kidding me!!!!! Why is he still the coach can someone answer this question??????????????

We win the biggest game in football history in the last ten years last season on the road at ASU and then we lose on the road to Colorado State, who at the time lost 22 straight games. Being an alumni I'm sick of Mike Sanford. This season it looks like we can actually go to a bowl for the first time in 10 season and we can't even win on our home field. This is getting really ridiculous and I know everyone is tired of it.

How is this guy still around. What has he done for the program? Oh he won five games last year. Give me a frick'n break people. He SUCKS!!!! He's a guy who should never be the head coach.. When you hire someone and the alumni and fans ask WHO? You have made a mistake. Sanford was cut from the Urban Myer Cloth, was it the dirty part? The guy sucks. Everyone else from his coaching tree has made a name for themselves by winning bowl games and being ranked.

Sanford needs his walking papers now. There is some talent on this team and I would love to see them win the cannon this weekend but its not going to happen. UNR will win the cannon again because Sanford can't beat Ault. We should let John Robinson coach this game because he never lost to the Wolf pack and the cannon was always Red when he was coaching.

You should never go more then two season without losing the cannon. This guy has NEVER won it. We lost it the year he came in and havent seen it since. They don't get better players they have the same talent and they have tough teams in conference too, but they can win on the road. Where has this program gone since Sanford took over? In the damn ground!!!!!! I'm sick and tired of this shit and ready for a change. Why don't we try a new coach every game because that would work better!!!! I know pee wee coaches who can do a better job and have less talent!

SEE YA MIKEY!

Shout out to George Tarkanian who is now the coach of Bonanza High School!

That's whats on my Mind! Now its a headache!!!!

SIMSZEE

Athletes and there DOOs!

This is a funny topic to keep it light. What is with the athletes and there hair doos these days. Ive noticed that the dread locks in the NFL have picked up. An have you noticed its usually by position.? Like running backs defensive backs and wide receivers all have dreads. Your linemen usually are the country boys with mullets or shaved heads. Like Minnesota's Jared Allen. I mean I hope hes pulling chicks at the boat parties with that nasty doo.

In the NBA dread locks are out Allen Iverson and Rip Hamilton have shaved there heads in recent seasons to go with the shaved head looks. I think someone should bring back the high top fade like UNLV's Anderson Hunt has back in the early 90's.

In golf you don't see to many crazy hair cuts but i think it would be awesome to get some guys with a Mohawk or two out there. I like Charlie Hoffmans hulk hogan hair cut. That's about as good as golf gets. In hockey you don't see many mullets anymore. The hockey players should bring this back for the playoffs like the playoff beards.

Shout out some cool doos to me and let me know what you guys see. I always think its cool to see what is out there. Shoot me some topics too. Ive been slacking lately but ill bring it back soon. Little busy with a job that pays me lately!

SIMSZEE

PLAYERS SHOULD DECIDE GAMES!

I was in Vegas this week and decided to go see my team play against a very good Oregon State team. I think the Beavers are ranked in the top 25 this year. UNLV never has a good football team, I'm waiting for the coach to be fired and I don't know when they are going to get around to it. This was a great game thought. Rebels losing until the 3rd quarter when there back up quarterback Mike Clausen led them with two amazing drives to take the lead 21-20 with under two minutes to go.

Its was shaping up to look like the Rebels would be the Pac-10 killers the past few season with a win at ASU and Oregon St. The Beaver get the ball back on there 20 yard line. This is where it get disappointing. I'm sitting 50 yard line row one i can see everything. Shoot the picture will give you an idea.




Anyway Rebels get a huge sack on second down leaving the Beavers with 3rd down and 26 yards for a first down. They run the play once again the quarterback gets hammered by the Rebels linebacker, the ball goes into the air incomplete at the 30 yard line and the receiver was on the 50 yard line. About 3 second go by before a flag comes out. The referee called pass interference giving the ball to OSU with under a minute to go.

This is so dumb. First off there wasn't any way there could have been pass inference because they werent even near each other. The ball also was unreachable and the qb got hammered. So why would the ref do this to a team who fought back to win the game. Let the players play, to determine the outcome. Sure you can say they should have stopped them again but hey that call didn't need to be called. The Beavers went down and hit a field goal with seven seconds remaining.

For a team like UNLV to be losing 20-7 at half and come back with there starting qb on the bench was amazing. They deserved that game and it should have been theirs. Instead some dumb ref makes a bad call costing them the game possibly the season. It takes a lot to bounce back from that. Hopefully they will do it, but there is no guarantees.

That's whats on my Mind!

SIMSZEE

HALL OF FAME FOR MJ!

I was watching some of the highlights of Michael Jordan's 23 greatest moments and it made me think. I was thinking about what a great player he was. I know hes the best but I would watch every game he played in on TV. He is that type of athlete. Hes one of those guys that when his game was on everyone was watching. Tiger Woods has this too. Every time they are playing the world is watching. I was thinking about some of Jordan's greatest moments to me.

I think one of my favorites is when he won the fourth championship and went into the locker room and cried about not having his father there to see it. What a moment in sports that is. He was so over come with emotion that his father had not been there for this championship it made this tough grown man cry.

That is one of my favorites. He came back from a two year retirement to play at the top of his game and win his fourth title what an amazing accomplishment.

Another favorite moment of mine is in the 1997 NBA finals when Jordan was extremely ill and went off on the Jazz on the road to help secure there fifth championship. Its amazing to watch how Scotty Pippen had to carry him off the court after the game.

The man played the game with such domination. You knew he wasn't going to let you lose. He is there to beat you and be the best. Jordan was cocky but not the type of T.O. cockiness its more of a classy cockiness that makes you respect him. He work ethic was better then any ones and it goes back to the day he was cut from his high school team

I think there will never be another Michael Jordan in my lifetime. I love Lebron but he has a long way to go before he can be like Mike. Jordan is that player that you just love to watch. Every game he played in was amazing. There are just players that make you say wow and he is one of them. There are not many players like this that is why we stop and watch every time they play. It amazes me that when i think back on how many times i watched the NBA when i was younger he was involved some way. He did a lot for the league and deserves his Hall of Fame introduction this Friday.

I want to say Thank you MJ!

SIMSZEE

FLASH BACK MARCH 2006

My March 2006 interview with Kurt Busch...

It was the last race of the season in 2004, every position he moved up made his chances better at winning a championship, if he were to slip back to far or get into an accident the championship would be gone in the snap of a finger. Kurt Busch just did what he does best and that’s drive. He stayed out of trouble and finished high enough ahead of Jimmie Johnson to win the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup title. Busch won the championship by eight points the closes points race in the history of NASCAR.

“It was a great accomplishment,” Busch said about winning to title in only his fourth full season of NASCAR.

It’s a pretty big accomplishment for a kid who grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, a city that didn’t have a racetrack until a hand full of years ago. The 27-year-old grew up on the southwest end of town attending Durango High School. He got his start in racing from his father Tom. A racer himself, Tom would take Kurt to the track while he raced, then as a youngster he put Kurt in go-carts when he was 14. It seems a little older than most to get his start in racing but it didn’t take long for Kurt to get going.

“I would go to the bull ring and watch my dad,” Busch said. “Then I guess I caught the racing bug after that.”

From go-carts Busch moved up to the Dwarf Cars. It wasn’t long before he won his first title. In 1994, he was named the Nevada State Dwarf Car Rookie-of-the-Year and won the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dwarf Car championship. The next season he won the Nevada State Dwarf Car title and another Speedway championship. A few years later Busch captured Legends Cars National Rookie-of-the-Year and the Western States championship. He did all this racing went to school and worked for the water district fixing main brakes.

“I got the job through a friend of mine I had in high school,” Busch said of his job at the water company. “I would fix main breaks in my bright orange uniform, it was a great job and I had a lot of fun with it.”

He was on the move in racing but in 1997 after graduating from Durango he decided to leave racing for college. Busch attended the University of Arizona in the fall of 1997 and was studying medicine.

While at college Busch couldn’t shake the racing bug and in 1998 returned to Las Vegas to pursue his dream of being a racecar driver. That year would be the year he broke through in racing. Busch captured the Rookie-of-the-Year again in the Southwest Series with one win and three top-five finishes.

“I stayed and raced here (Las Vegas) for awhile but then I went to Detroit to get my start in the bigger classes,” Busch said.

Las Vegas wasn’t the racing mecca in ‘98 like it is today. Kurt went on to the east coast to compete for a spot in one of NASCAR’s big time series. In 1999 he become the Southwest Series champion and was given a shot to drive in the Winston West race in Las Vegas where he finished eighth. This caught the eye of Jack Roush who gave Kurt a shot at competing for a seat in one of his NASCAR Craftsman Trucks. Roush was more than impressed with Busch and signed him to a multi-year contract.

Busch said it was one of the most exciting accomplishments of his young racing career but it was going to stop there. He would earn his fourth Rookie-of-the-Year title and came within a few points of winning the Truck Championship. This successful season prompted Roush to move Kurt right into the NASCAR Nextel Cup in 2001. Most drivers move from trucks to the Busch Series, which is like the triple A of NASCAR, but Kurt moved right to the top series.

“I was living the American dream with all this success,” Busch said about his move from trucks to the Nextel series. “For a guy this city it pretty amazing.”

In his first season, Busch had three top-five finishes and was second in the Rookie-of-the-Year voting. At first most veteran drivers thought of Busch as a reckless driver and most picked on him and bullied him for it, but in a series where guys think you should pay your dues first Kurt was becoming a star not to mention one of the best drivers in the circuit. Busch went on to have a breakthrough year in 2002. He racked up four wins, and nine top-five finishes and a total millions of dollars in winnings. That set up his 2004 championship run, where he won one race and finished better than sixth in the last ten races of the season known as “The Chase.” Its NASCAR’s version of the playoffs.

“Winning the championship changes things a lot,” Busch said. “You have a lot more pressure to win and win.”

Busch followed up his championship year with a solid 2005 campaign winning three races and racking up nine top-five finishes, 18 top-10 finishes and took tenth in “The Chase,” which pushed his career winnings to over $29 million. Kurt signed a huge multi-million dollar deal with team Penske in 2006 and will take over the number 2 Miller Lite Dodge car formerly driven by NASCAR legend Rusty Wallace.

“The transition has been pretty smooth,” Busch said from switching teams. “The people are great and I enjoy them.”

Its three races into the new year and Busch hasn’t had the start he expected but he loves to come home and race in Las Vegas with the fans.

“Vegas is always big race for me, its my home town and its as big as the Daytona 500 for me,” said Busch who finished 16^th in the race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “This race is very important to me I have a lot of friends at the track and I know everybody around there, its always fun to come back.”

Kurt didn’t get the finish he expect but his little brother Kyle had a great showing finishing third in the race. Kyle is seven years younger then Kurt and learned his skills from racing against his older brother.

“He seven years younger and we have had some battles growing up, but he can never keep up with me,” Busch said with a laugh. “He’s going to be a great racer in this series he just has a lot of pressure on him and he will get use to it.”

Busch also mentioned that Las Vegas is one of the most fan friendly tracks in the country and with the new renovation for 2007 it’s going to be even better.

“They are going to have a pit area where fans can see just about everything,” Busch said. “Your going to be able to see down into the garage and pit stalls. They are also going to change the banking from 12 degrees to 20 degrees, which will added about 10 to 15 miles per hour more to the car. Its going to be much faster and a lot of side-by-side racing.”

Despite all his success, Busch credits most of it to his Dad, who got him into racing. He still calls Las Vegas his home even though he resides in North Carolina close to the teams shop. Busch still gives back to the Las Vegas community all the time, he works with many different organizations like Water Works Industry Solutions and local youth sports programs.

SIMSZEE

MICHAEL CRABBBBBYYYTREE

What is this guy thinking? He says he is prepared to sit out the entire NFL season because he deserves money like a first five picks. You cant be that selfish. I know you want the guaranteed contract which everyone tries to get in the NFL. I think the NFL needs to get a hold of this. Why do these guys think they should be given this cash? You haven't proven anything yet. The guaranteed money protects you if you get hurt. I know this. But for guys like this $5 million guaranteed is just as good. These guys have never seen a $1 million, so why do they need $23 million.

You give a guy $21 million like Andre Smith who held out all pre-season and now has a broken his foot. The Bungles waited all this time to get him into camp and now he is hurt. This just puts him back more and could affect his chances of playing this year.

These guys don't need all this money up front. The NFL needs to have smaller rookie contracts for there players. That way these guys get into camp on time. They don't hold out and you have to develop them the right way. Crabtree is just hurting himself. He is now going to be considered a baby and a whiner by his teammates. What about the guys struggling to make the team. They are there and ready to go. You never know who could take your spot.

Crabtree needs to find better advisers and better people around him. These rookies need to prove it on the field first. You should never get that much money for not even playing a game. The NBA does this with there players, you don't hear about hold outs with them. Also, if your the 10th pick in the draft. You get paid 10th pick money. You cant have say I should have been a top 5 pick so I should get that money. You think Dwade was pissed he didn't go higher? I'm sure, but he didn't complain, he did what he had to do to prove himself and got a contract when they felt he deserved it. OH! Hes the only one with a championship ring from that draft.

So my advice to these cry babies like Crabtree is get out there prove yourself. If you have what it takes it will benefit you and you can have as much money as you want. Your going to make more then anyone in your family has ever!

That's what's on my mind!

SIMSZEE

RIGHT TO TIME TO SAY GOODBYE!

If any of you watched the UFC this weekend you saw a man 46 years old handle himself pretty well. Randy Couture looked like a man who was well trained, in great shape and ready to fight a man 13 years younger. Couture lost the three round match in a unanimous decision. Is this his time to say goodbye? He looked all of 46 in his last fight again UFC champ Brock Lesner.

Couture has signed a six fight deal with the UFC where he says he wants to stay and end his career. Why isn't he retiring now? He's taken a lot of punishment and is a good commentator for the sport. Its his time to say good bye. I give the man credit he did a great job this past weekend. But that doesn't last for long. Look at Chuck Liddell, he lost four of his last five bouts and no one wanted to see Chuck go out like that not even Dana White.

They always say its not how old you are its how old you feel. Well Randy if your feeling 30 great! I just don't see what you have left to prove. You are a legend in this sport. You should take you leave and walk out now, while everyone still respects you and not when its too late. Michael Jordan was a fat jump shooter for the Wizards and they had to drag him off the floor. (Thanks Bill Mahr.) Mike Tyson was out of shape and washed up and was punished in his last two fights.

Randy might be getting a little more credit from me if he didn't waste almost a year and a half fighting with White over his contract. In that time the sport developed some huge heavy weights, and now with the Ultimate Figther heavyweights show is about to premier, what is he going to do with this new crop? He cant even move down to 205. You have Machita the champ! Rashad Evans, Quinton Jackson, Forest Griffin, and a guy who is the 185 champ Anderson Silva. All those guys would get the best of Couture. Not in his prime but today is different.

White said Couture could pick his fights because he has earned the right and is a master. But seriously I don't want to see Randy laid out on his back twitching like he was hit by a MAC TRUCK. Its time to walk away buddy. We love you. Everyone loves you. We don't want to see you get hurt or worse. You cant use the juice. Randy is reminding me of some girls who just cant seem to act their age. Your 30, stop try'n to look 22! Act your age! Randy its okay, we are still going to watch you on the telecasts. Maybe Dana could let you be the commissioner or something. I think in the back of his mind he doesn't want to see you leave either but it sometimes walking away at the right time gives you a special place in History. If you leave too late you end up hurting your legacy.

That's what's on my mind!

SIMSZEE

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