Update from the U #5
Thursday, March 27
-This past week, Da Great White Hype & peers from class were forced into involuntary labor offered their services to the CA Championships at Doral PGA Event. We enticed golf fans into filling out surveys for CA data collection with the promise of a free CA visor. The problem with this was two-fold:
1) Most golf fans are bald or balding. Therefore, a visor is as pointless as trying to find meaning in a Pauly Shore movie (no Clueless).
2) The spectators were offered a free visor about 300 yards down once they made the entrance into the main venue.
But that's all not to say the two-day session of work wasn't for naught. As all the experiences with my Miami brethren, it offered another bonding experience. And it was another experience in dealing with customer service.
I was able to teach Mike aka the Sultan of South Beach (aptly named for his afficianto status of SoBe nightlife as well as his tendancies to pose in a pseudo b-boy stance in all facebook photos while adorned in the latest Ed Hardy/Affliction garb) about golf and life. And I was able to watch him pounce like a tiger on a gazelle from the adjacent XM Radio stand.
-The Great White Babe's trek to the Great White Domicile came to an end and it was a wild ride. It was sort of like that movie "The River Wild" without Meryl Streep and her family... and I was Kevin Bacon and she was the other dude and we were just floating down the rapids ourselves.
But all in all we had a great time and a great Easter Sunday, where we dined at Quattro and I had the best cheese platter I've ever had in my young life. And the Great White Babe's family and DJ Caity P came down this week to stay in Deerfield. We did it big both here at Bayside and in SoBe, including a night at Sushi Samba for Alexandra's b-day and chocolate fondue (no homo).
-Miami Men's Basketball ended their improbable run last week, losing to the steers & queers of Texas by 3 points. Miami played like the Washington Generals to the UT's Globetrotters in the first half, but in a mirror image of their first round game against the Immaculate Conceptions of Saint Mary's, Miami came out firing like a pissed off postal worker in the second half, and should have emerged victorious. I would chalk up this loss to the fact that they did not score as many points as Texas did.
-I've been hard at work with all projects both in and out of class including helping to put on a golf tourney. I would like to invite any readers to come play in the 3rd Annual UM S.P.O.R.T Golf Tournament at Palmetto Golf Club on April 25th. For more info email me at m.kelley@umiami.edu. This event benefits both S.P.O.R.T. (the grad program of Sport Administration) as well as the Florida Marlin's Community Charity (or something like that). Zac Effron, the cast of Gossip Girl, and Matt Ryan will be in attendance*.
-Well, after the first day, my bracket looked like this....
and now as we enter the Sweet 16, it's basically turned into this..
-My friend Kim and her friends come down this week from UDel and I promised to show them what life is like living here in Downtown Miami. Which involves standing on the balcony of my apartment and laughing at the poor people below on the streets.
-My business associate and fellow 8th grade graduate of Montgomery J-Dubs is coming down two weeks from now as we will immerse ourselves in models during Miami Fashion Week. I will have to leave my Suave Sombrero at home and take my Networking Buret with me to the catwalks for a few nights I guess as we attempt to invade the fashion scene of the 305.
-Oh yeah and Erica from class basically gave my laptop the People's Elbow during class. Let's just say I'm writing this on my desktop. For Good.
*Note: Zac Effron, the cast of Gossip Girl, and Matt Ryan will not be in attendance.
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Tournament Summary --Courtesy of Da Great White Babe...
Sunday, March 23
"...so I went to the bathroom and I was peeing and all of a sudden I heard people screaming. I thought the place was on fire, but really some team hit a basket to win a game I guess."
-GWB while at the Rat on campus with her friend watching games while I had to work.
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My Super Sweet 16 (Part I)
Monday, March 17
: OMFG! So this year is my Sweet 16 and I cant effing wait! We're having my party in Charlotte this year and I asked my two best friends to pass out invites outside school!!! 
: Hey y'all! Ty-Ty here and I'm here to pass out invites with Tyler to his Sweet 16 party. I heard Miley Cyrus is performingggggggggggg. GTFO!
: Just so you know, I don't even want to be here helping Tyler. It used to be MY MOM that they would show in the crowd. It used to be MY FACE on the programs. He can't even dance!
Tyler H: Okay.. now it's time to pass out invites to the Sweet 16: 
OMFG! Butler is soooo hot. He is ranked in the top 15 in polls, but for some reason got a 7 seed. Plus, he always walks late into class and smells like Marlboro Reds. Eeeeeek!
Sure, ND's irish skin might burn at my Beach party, but when they play beer pong, Kyle McAlarney hits from the outside, while 'Gody is a force on those inside cups. Plus they both wear BOD.
Louisville...I heard his mom had him while she was in jail. He is soooo badass. 
Wow, Jay Hawk had a party last week and I heard he had his dog do a kegstand! 
Clem totally made me this mix-CD this summer and it had my fav Jack Johnson song evvvvvvaaaa. But I gave him two free shots at me, and he missed 'em both!!
Wisconsin totally flat ironed his hair for his yearbook picture and looked like a doof! But he really helped me with my math homework last week. I'm gonna keep my eye on him.
George. He lives in this phat gothic crib but always whines about his last relationship in '85 with Villa Nova... she was a druggie slut!
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Late Night With Hypes
Sunday, March 16
Welcome back folks. Before we bring out our first guest, who happens to be the star of the new hit comedy Me and My Funny Anglicized Mexican-American Family, let's go to tonight's Top Ten List entitled:
The Top Ten Reasons Your Team Might Not Be Selected for the NCAA Tournament:
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 10: On senior night, the only black kids on your team came in with :13 left in the game.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 9: During the off season when the coach preached to the team to be "proactive with the basketball", they all quit because they couldn't dribble a ball covered in acne medication.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 8: Your signature wins this year came against Duke and Memphis. But that was during football season.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 7: Your jerseys match your highlighters.
: Heh, heh. Digger Phelps. Heh.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 6: Instead of game film, your players watch "Gauntlet III" highlights, citing CT's performances as inspirational.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 5: At halftime of your last game, this graphic comes up:
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 4: You have 3 McDonald's All-Americans on your bench. They are on the bench cause they eat McDonald's 3 times a day and they are slow and fat.
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 3: Your coach, who is currently under NCAA probation for improper recruiting violations, responds to the media's questions with "sry ill brb, ttyl" and "psycho T P-O-Y....roflmao!!!"
Nummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmber 2: During breaks from play this week, ESPN2 shows a player's mom in the crowd proudly wearing "My son made it to the Big Sky tournament and all I got was this lousy shirt!"
And the number 1 Reason Why Your Team Might Not Be Selected for the NCAA Tournament is: The Harlem Globetrotters expect you to be on time for the exhibition game next week.
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Update from The U #4
Monday, March 3
If you missed the first 3...
Update #1
Update #2
Update #3
-For my Leadership class, I had to pick a book on leadership to read, and I chose Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison. It was a great book for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of leadership, how to improve personal accountability, and how to define "success" from one of the greates coaches ever. One thing that is pretty interesting is how Wooden mentions he would "rather have little experience and a lot of talent over a lot of experience and no talent." This was not only echoed by the President of The U, Donna Shalala who came into speak with one of my classes last week (which she talked about while illustrating her search for a new A.D.), but also by a group presentation in class today about a book entitled Fun Is Good by Mike Veeck. I guess what this means is that sometimes you have to take chances on people that don't have a great deal of experience, but may be willing to learn and improve their skills and show a great deal of talent.
-I joined up with the UM Club Golf team which has been pretty cool. I got my swing "motion captured" which gave me another perspective on how bad my swing is.
-This weekend, I got my first experience of "The Rat"--the restaruant and bar on campus which was a lot of fun, and that same night my friend John and I went to BED (n/h), a club in South Beach where we learned Fridays are "ugly girls get in for free" night
-Jim and I started our own company which I promised to myself that I would not cross-promote on this site. But I mean if you were to google Kelley Management Group, you might find it.
-Straight from the slums of Shaolin, NY, da great white Babe will make her first appearance in Dade County in 2 weeks and I'm pretty pumped. I'm gona also try to con her into making an appearance on the webcam (for a GWH video blog, you pervs).
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Links of the Week
Things I found while burning my softcover edition of Moneyball....
-You go out to a bar. The hottest girl inside there is kinda sloshed and falling over you. You go back home with her and just as you enter your room, she passes out and you remember what Jesus said... don't have sex with girls that are passed out cause thats rape, brotha (Paul, letter to the Corinthians 4:24-98). So you basically thought you were going to light the lamp, when really there's no action to be had.Well, this is kinda like that, except you can get a lot more use out of an Xbox 360 than you could with any girl.
-40+ and still hot? No not Juan Gonzales in Spring Training! Diane Lane is still a fox
-This is gona be freakin sweet.
-Make sure you check out the former home of GWH.... as da great white cousin and the shogun on RoadtotheCup.com, comin live with PodCasts!
-And every Sunday at 8:00pm, go to www.wvbu.com to check out friends of da great white hype, Big Mike and Shep's sports talk show on Bucknell Radio, where GWH makes frequent call-ins.
...and the video of the week (not starring Jenna Haze...)
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Best Posts of the Month of February
-Evidently the Giants won the Super Bowl, leaving the Eagles to be the only team in the NFC East without not just one victory, but three. Probably one of my favorite posts of all time since I was able to write it after being there with my dad and friends in Jersey. One of the coolest things that happened after we left an hour past the end of the game to get our Super Bowl shirts at a sporting goods store was watching the replay of the last 5 minutes of the game. My dad, one of his best friends, and I sat on the couch at 3am, (about 7 hours before my flight back to the U) had a beer, and just sat in amazement at what Eli and the rest of the team was able to do. All you Eagles fans will never experience this because your dads will die before they ever come close to winning again. Sorry.
-I had actually predicted a Giants victory (sort of) the night before the game. I also gave predictions on a replay of the Miami-Duke game, as well as the B-level romance comedy about culture clashes, unplanned pregancy, and lame Matthew Perry jokes where he always goes "wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" while shaking his head like its on a swivel.
-After Dwight Howard's "dunk" which wasn't a dunk was glorified by all media outlets, I posted a rant on things that really grind my gears.
-And my small and unfit tribute to one of my favorite baseball players from a little independant league in Somerset, NJ.
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Biased MLB Preview
Ever since the landmark case of U.S. vs. Pitchers, Catchers, et. al (108 U.S. 21) desegregating spring training and allowing all players to report, not just the battery, this time of the year for baseball fans has always proven to be a special one. Hopefully 2008 will be a special year for these fans, especially. But most special is the fact that we can only hope that this year can be half as special as last's--which provided 182 special regular season games for each team, filled with home runs, double plays, doubles, and even ground rule doubles!
Here's Da Great White Hype's Biased MLB Preview:
AL East Champion: New York Yankees
AL Central Champion: Cleveland Indians
AL West Champion: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Circumscribed by the Limits of Orang County
Wild Card: Boston Red Sox
Yankees over Angels (finally!)
Indians over Red Sox
Indians over Yankees
AL Cy Young: C.C. Sebathia
AL MVP: Grady Sizemore
NL East Champion: New York Mets
NL Central Champion: Chicago Cubs
NL West Champion: San Diego Padres
Wild Card: Arizona Diamondbacks
NL Cy Young: Dan Haren
NL MVP: Ryan Howard
Mets over Padres
Cubs over Diamondbacks
Cubs over Mets
World Series: Indians over Mets
Looking in the AL, the team that made the biggest splash in the offseason was the Detroit Tigers. Although they have some great young pitching with Bonderman and Co. already, I'm not convinced that newcomer Dontrelle Willis (22 games won since 2005) will make it an elite staff from top to bottom. And they did also recieve Miguel Cabrera in that trade, who is now reuinted with former Florida manager Jim Leyland. But in that division, I like the Cleveland Indians and the best outfielder in the AL-Grady Sizemore. 
Newly-acquired Tigers 3rd Baseman Miguel Cabrera and some jump-off. I bet if Migs had a quarter for every time he heard "wow he's so fat and out of shape" he'd go to KFC and get a bucket of sauceless wings.
The Yankees are looking like a Yankees team of the late 90's--relying on players brought up from within the organization, like P's Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, Ian Kennedy, and newly-announced opening day starter C.M. Wang. Besides a log-jam at first (with Giambi, Duncan, Damon, and Phillips), they do lack depth on the bench, which is a usual staple for a Yankees team. But I do like the Yankees and therefore I'm picking them to win the division. Los Angeles of Anaheim brought on Torii Hunter (extra "i" for incentive) as well as Judy Jon Garland this offseason, and I believe they will run away with this division.
In the NL, Flushing is still reeling from the collapse of last year, allowing the Phillies to capture the crown and the only playoff birth from that division. Now with the game's best pitcher of the past 4 years added to their rotation, I can see the Mets winning 98 games and blocking the Phils out of the postseason. Phils pissed off Ryan Howard with the arbitration deal, but I look for him to have a 53-121 season this year. 
The most regarded foreign prospect (FuckYouDome) signed with the Cubs in the Winter, and they might reap some karmatic benefits after letting Mark Prior go. And now that Arizona signed one of the best young righties in the game from Oakland (Dan Haren pictured right), they have a pitching staff that will be able to dominate in the 5 game series (along with Brandon Webb, who last year in a stretch of 42 innings last year looked as domiant as any pitcher ever, whilst not allowing a run in those innings).
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