It’s a quick update as I’m catching up with today’s news after flying out of Philadelphia this morning and landing Las Vegas.
We left a sweltering Philadelphia for the peaceful calm of the 105-degree heat of the desert. It was more painful in PA with the humidity around 70 percent, while here, it’s a scant FOUR percent. I don’t buy the “different kind of heat” thing, but it’s not as bad here as it was back home.
Upon arriving, we checked into the Excalibur after taking a cab from the airport. Drexel coach Jack Childs was on the plane with us and joined us for lunch at Dicks, the notorious place where the waitstaff mouths off and curses at you and gives you less than complimentary hats to wear during the meal.
I couldn’t stop laughing, just quality stuff that I can’t dare repeat. … I think our Scholastic Director John Cook might have had the worst “saying” on his modified paper hat. Mine is sure to surface on facebook eventually, but I’m not sure I can say the same about our Assistant Director Tammy Tedesco. It was seriously funny, but seriously inappropriate for repeating in this forum.
Those of you who have been to this type of place know what I’m talking about.
The NWCA Executive Board and Full Board meetings are tomorrow and I’ll be doing some airport runs before the full Convention gets rolling on Thursday. Last year, we were in Tahoe … now we have to survive Las Vegas.
Bullet points for today
As I’d noted in yesterday’s Four Points, there was some wiggle room for USA Wrestling to enable more covearge and NBCOlympics.com obliged. A press release was issued earlier today (this Pacific time is really screwing up my internal body clock) announced all the finals would be streamed live on the web. This is a plus. … The newspaper articles are starting to pile up about Oregon’s lawsuit and I just love the reader comments blabbering on about how no one cares about wrestling. That’s a great excuse. It’s like people will pass off unethical and underhanded means of cutting a program are to be overlooked because John Q. Spastic Duck Fan doesn’t go to wrestling matches. … ASICS released its High School All-America Team, and there was little surprise about who was on it, but some potential discusson on how it was ordered. Give it a look here.
1 Comment
June 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Nothing like going to Dicks, asking for a menu and the waiter flips you off and walks away. Great food though.
If you go there at night, you get to witness something horrendous with the “announcer” giving lap dances to the women. Still trying to burn that one out of my head. Just imagine “Fat Bastard” from Austin Powers in a G String.