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About Me

im an outgoing 29 yr. old...I am pretty easygoing and am into a lot of things...Religion is really important to me...i like sports, music, outdoors, animals, movies, history, etc.

My Interests

Sports: I like to play many sports, especially volleyball, basketball, football, and kickball!!College Basketball-Duke Blue Devils;NBA-Spurs;College Football-VOLS, and whoever is playing Florida;Pro Football-Cowboys, Colts;Baseball-Cardinals (World Series Champs) NASCAR-Dale Jarrett, Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, David Reutimann, Michael Waltrip, and anyone who keeps the fruity twins, Gordon or Johnson, from winning; Even though I drive an Impala, all the drivers I like will be in Toyota Camrys in 2008.music (country, oldies, 80s, etc.), all types of movies....see below

I'd like to meet:

I always like meeting new friends...definitely people who I have stuff in common with.Coach K...to tell him he's the greatest coach ever.The girl who played Winnie on the Wonder Years...(I still haven't given up on her), I've always liked that girl next door type

Music:

The radio is usually on 92.9Country-Sawyer Brown, Diamond Rio, Alabama, Clay Walker, Alan Jackson,George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Sara Evans, Little Texas, Brad Paisley, SheDaisy;80's-Chicago, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Toto, Billy Joel, Kenny Loggins...and many 1 hit wonders;Older rock-Beatles, Elvis, Temptations, Beach Boys;

Movies:

all types: Star Wars, Back to the Future, Hoosiers, Grease, Glory Road, Shrek, Fletch (maybe the most underrated movie ever), the Naked Gun Trilogy (must underrated triology of all time), the Walking Tall trilogy(it was filmed in my hometown), 10 Things I Hate About You, Top Gun, Sweet Home Alabama, Pure Country, Maverick, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Eight Men Out, Remember the Titans, 8 Seconds, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, We Are Marshall, Alfred Hitchcock Movies...plus many more....I could run a movie rental business out of my apartment

Television:

Current-Sports,Scrubs, Friday Night Lights, Detective shows on A&E or Court TV, History Channel;Recent-Seinfeld, Friends, Ed (the greatest show ever), Love Monkey (the best show that ever got canned after 3 episodes),Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell is hot), OC80s/90s-Wonder Years, Growing Pains, Home Improvement, Saved by the Bell, Matlock, Perfect Strangers, Cheers, Family Ties, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The A-Team;Classic-Get Smart, Dragnet, Andy Griffith

Books:

Bible, Great Gatsby, Canterbury Tales, Mystery type stories, History

Heroes:

Jesus, My grandfather, Coach K, Ronald Reagen, Grant Hill, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Shane Battier, Peyton Manning, Walter Payton, Ozzie Smith, Joe Paterno

My Blog

the cardinals and the impact of rain

Ive been meaning for several days now to address the Cardinals and their recent resurgence. Last Friday morning, I read that Rick Ankiel had homered in his first game back with the Cardinals. It was...
Posted by mark on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:49:00 PST

the greatest college basketball team ever

While it would be easy and accurate to talk about Duke being the greatest program in college basketball over the last 21 years, I am going to reflect on their best team of them all, the 1992 Blue Devi...
Posted by mark on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:50:00 PST

basketball

Well...tonight marked the end of our Church league basketball season. We lost our tournament game by 3 points. There were questionable calls, questionable non-calls, and a lot of poor sportsmanship f...
Posted by mark on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:43:00 PST

college football history

I have just witnessed one of the most remarkable games ever...the Boise State Broncos just won their bowl game. After losing a 28-10 lead and falling behind 35-28, they tied the game in the last minu...
Posted by mark on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:33:00 PST

response to matt's rules of fandom

I don't know that a comment on his blog would suffice to cover my reaction. A couple of issues from his blog and otherwise need to be addressed. 1. He stated that he did not know how someone could ...
Posted by mark on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:51:00 PST

World series champions

The Cardinals have done it...World Series Champs. In my 21st year of watching baseball, it has finally happened. It has been a tough, stressful road. As stated in my interests column in my profile ...
Posted by mark on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:41:00 PST

a blog for Holly Young

This blog is dedicated to one of the coolest chicks I know, Holly Young. We were in college at the same time at FHU. Sadly, our paths did not cross often or if they did we were too enamered (is the ...
Posted by mark on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:27:00 PST