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First of all, what a crappy national championship game last week. I know its been a week, but I still feel cheated. Neither team should have won. In my book both Butler and Uconn automatically lose 5 games at the start of next season for forcing us all to watch such futile basketball. Any way, among other things, we discussed at length just how bad this game was on the show this week. More importantly we were joined by guests for the first time in a while. Personally I was glad to return to doing the show this way as it is always fun talking to our guests. This week it was senior golfer Erica Creed and her coach, Emily Marron, who joined us. After ribbing me for pronouncing Charl Schwartzel's (the recent winner of the masters) first name wrong, both Erica and Coach Marron gave some insight into the life of a student athlete. They also served as panel experts for a showdown between Matt and me, as Ryan created a quiz on golf etiquette. Sadly Matt won and for the second time this year I was beaten on my own show (see http://thesportscycle.blogspot.com/2010/11/ashley-schnell-renaissance-woman.html.) Anyway Erica and her teammates are about to head down to Hilton Head for the Southern Conference tournament this weekend, and as we all know, we were a springboard of good fortune for the Women's soccer team (ok maybe they were just awesome.) Regardless, best of luck to the ladies as they travel to Hilton Head. You can track their success here http://www.uncgspartans.com/sports/wgolf/index. One last order of business, and one I may live to regret. We made a promise on the show that if enough people responded to our facebook post we would rent cricket equipment and videotape ourselves playing. Within an hour this quota was met, so we're going to do it. I don't know where or when, as life is about to suck with exams and all, but it's going to happen. Look for the video at some point I guess. -SB

Mid Major Dominance?

Wow, I havent' made a post since the tournament started. I'm just a lazy journalist I guess. So if I make a post at all its usually after the show on Mondays but this week I'd like to preview our show as we will spend a good amount of time talking about tomorrow's national championship game between Butler and UCONN. Predictions have been hard to make correctly this year, but it seems like UCONN has the better team. That's not to say Butler can't win. Everyone knows that Butler plays such good defense that their offense only has to play just well enough to win. I think they would have to be more effective on offense if they want to take home the championship though. Defensively they will have to be sharper than ever as they will go up against one of the nation's best in Kemba Walker. On The Sports Cycle we've been picking experience to win and I'm going to keep that going here, so I'm picking Butler. Matt Howard, (also the name of one of my co host) is a gritty player who might be the difference maker, but what do I know? The show starts at 5 on http://wuag.net/ or 103.1fm -SB

March Badness

Man what a messed up bracket. I'm not going to piss and moan like many bloggers, so I'll just post this bracket and pretend its cool. For anyone expecting in depth analysis I recommend ESPN or something. I'm going to bed.

-SB

The Baseball Porject

It's not often two of my favourite things get combined. But with the release of The Baseball Project, indie music and baseball have at long last crossed paths. Anchored by Pete Buck from R.E.M, Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5, Linda Pitmon, and Steve Wynn from Dream Syndicate, this indie super group combines music and America's pastime to make one kick ass album. Below are some tracks I personally enjoyed, but the whole CD is pretty good.

Don't call the Twinkies- Song done by Craig Finn of The Hold Steady (pretty stellar indie group) that chronicles the Minnesota Twins from Finn's birth onward. I'm not even a Twins fan but this song is a toe tapper for sure



Chin Music- A humorous take on pitching "high and inside"

Ichiro Goes to the Moon- Honestly I thought the Japanese government sent him on a mission to the moon years ago. A tongue in cheek song about how damn good Ichiro was during the last decade.


Lookout Mom- another upbeat, funny song about Denard Span (what's with all these Twins references?) and him accidentally nailing his mother with a foul ball. Ironically it happened on Mother's Day.

Twilight of My Career- A sobering, kind of gloomy song about Roger Clemens and his fall from glory as he succumbed to steroid use.



So get your hands on this CD cause it rocks! Also, the Women's basketball team at UNCG is heading down to Boone to take on the top seeded Mountaineers in their final regular season game. Then its off to Chattanooga for the Southern Conference Championships!

-SB

Room 315: Karla Davis

Karla Davis


Karla'a manager Gabby on the right



Karla again



Me, Matt and Ryan (you hear our voices each week)

Does this look like I'm interrogating her?

Ryan Hecht (Karen Lee in the background)

From this angle room 315 looks sort of messy

"How did I get invloved with these fools?"

This past week we decided to shake things up a bit. Instead of broadcasting out of room 313 like we normally do, we went one room down the hall where we were joined by Karla Davis. For four seasons (2004-2007) she was a standout for the women's soccer team at UNCG. Here in 2011 she is a rising country musician with as much talent on the guitar as on the soccer field (believe me, that's a lot of talent.) We did a short Q & A with here and she preformed two songs from her debut album Here I Am.Personally, I loved Whiskey's Got a Job to Do, but she also sang Why, which was great as well.

We also broke down the upcoming Super Bowl match up, which in case you somehow don't know what that match up consists of, it's the Steelers and Packers. If you want my personal opinion (since that's why blogs exist, right?) I feel the Packers ought to win this game, but it should be a close one. Any way enough about that Super Bowl thing. Thanks to Katei, our promotions director (she took these stellar photos above) and Reed, our productions director, for helping out with this. I don't feel like I have emphasized enough how awesome everyone at WUAG is. Also check out Karla's website and learn about all kinds of cool info on her new cd and when she will be playing live shows. When she is really famous in a few years, remember that you heard about her on The Sports Cycle.

-SB

Women's Basketball

This past Monday we were joined by UNCG basketball standouts Amanda Leigh and Monique "Mo" Floyd. I learned after the show that Amanda prefers to go by "Leigh", which is not uncommon in the sporting world. Sadly I mistakenly called her "Amanda" for the duration of the show. We chatted with the ladies for about 30 minutes or so and learned a few new things. Supposedly coach Agee (now in her 30th season as head coach here at UNCG) has some pretty killer dance moves, and we learned that women are smarter than men (Leigh's words not mine, though I have to agree to an extent.) Both Mo and Leigh are fantastic ball players capable of scoring in double figures every night. If you haven't been out to see them play yet, then you should. Their next home game is Feb. 7 at noon in Flemming gym. I know its an odd time, but it will be far more interesting than class.


This week we will have a quick interview with former UNCG soccer player and rising country music star Karla Davis. She will be promoting her newest album as well as talking some soccer and UNCG sports with us....you don't want to miss it. And just so everyone know, we are having a running wager on The Sports Cycle until the Super Bowl. With both Matt and Ryan rooting for their respective teams, we've decided that the loser should have to do some kind of forfeit. If you have any suggestions you can leave a comment here, leave a comment on our Facebook page, email us at wuagsports@gmail.co or call in during the show (336-334-5450.) We'd love to hear everyone's suggestions

-SB