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By the by, if you're wondering why I haven't written anything about our first "Sports Overtime" of the season.. it's because I'm still pretty upset about the whole thing. Nearly all of our photographers called in sick on Friday night, so we only got to eight games. We try to get to between 12-14 a week. It's hard to fill a 20-minute show with just eight games, but we did what we could.
We had a surprise waiting for us when we got out to the set... new chairs. Unfortunately, they were too tall! Our legs didn't fit under the desk! Even worse, since we're out running around in the heat, humidity, and rain, we're always wearing grubby pants. So Dave and I spent the entire show yanking on our jackets to make sure they were covering our sloppy slacks.
Of course, the show could've gone much, much, worse. My very first Sports OT, the studio crew forgot to turn on the set lights until about 30 seconds before the show. It takes them about 5 minutes to warm up, so we were pretty much in the dark literally and figuratively.
Today was the first day of college football. I'll summarize the area teams:
Auburn: the #6 team in the nation was shut out 23-0 by eighth-ranked Southern Cal. Jason Campbell turned the ball over twice, both times leading to Trojan touchdowns. I wonder how long it'll be before there's another quarterback controversy on "The Plains?"
'Bama: Pretty-boy coach Mike Shula must've given one helluva half-time speech. Bama went from trailing 17-7 with less than a minute in the first half to winning 40-17. Huh?
Georgia: Oh, ye of little faith. Critics said that the Georgia defense had no secondary. Yet, they shut out Clemson at Clemson. Critics said that Georgia's inexperienced Offensive Line wouldn't get the job done. True, they could have protected David Greene a little better (he was sacked four times). Still, I think Georgia's 197 yards rushing (Compared to the Tigers' 35 yards) probably makes up for it.
By the by, if you're wondering why I haven't written anything about our first "Sports Overtime" of the season.. it's because I'm still pretty upset about the whole thing. Nearly all of our photographers called in sick on Friday night, so we only got to eight games. We try to get to between 12-14 a week. It's hard to fill a 20-minute show with just eight games, but we did what we could.
We had a surprise waiting for us when we got out to the set... new chairs. Unfortunately, they were too tall! Our legs didn't fit under the desk! Even worse, since we're out running around in the heat, humidity, and rain, we're always wearing grubby pants. So Dave and I spent the entire show yanking on our jackets to make sure they were covering our sloppy slacks.
Of course, the show could've gone much, much, worse. My very first Sports OT, the studio crew forgot to turn on the set lights until about 30 seconds before the show. It takes them about 5 minutes to warm up, so we were pretty much in the dark literally and figuratively.
Today was the first day of college football. I'll summarize the area teams:
Auburn: the #6 team in the nation was shut out 23-0 by eighth-ranked Southern Cal. Jason Campbell turned the ball over twice, both times leading to Trojan touchdowns. I wonder how long it'll be before there's another quarterback controversy on "The Plains?"
'Bama: Pretty-boy coach Mike Shula must've given one helluva half-time speech. Bama went from trailing 17-7 with less than a minute in the first half to winning 40-17. Huh?
Georgia: Oh, ye of little faith. Critics said that the Georgia defense had no secondary. Yet, they shut out Clemson at Clemson. Critics said that Georgia's inexperienced Offensive Line wouldn't get the job done. True, they could have protected David Greene a little better (he was sacked four times). Still, I think Georgia's 197 yards rushing (Compared to the Tigers' 35 yards) probably makes up for it.
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