Entries Tagged as 'Sports'

Cubs vs. Cardinals Stormy Night Game

May 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Last Wednesday I went with Danny, Jen and Chad to see the Cubs take on the Cardinals. We lasted for about 2 innings before we made a run for it underground. It was like a Godzilla movie… where everyone sees Godzilla coming and flees. We saw dark black clouds rolling in. Parts of the sky were even freakishly bright red. Everyone in the stands made a run for the aisles to get out of there. We finished our beers underground and before we could leave, the skies opened up. It was raining so hard, the roads were immediately flooding. Needless to say the game was delayed. At some point we made a break for one of the bars across the street. We ordered dinner and as our food arrived the game resumed. We watched the Cubs beat the Cardinals 11-4 from the safety of a bar across the street!

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Derrick Rose: Longest Eyelashes in the NBA

May 6th, 2011 · No Comments

… also, youngest NBA MVP evah! Go Bulls!

Todd thinks I am keeping a seperate set of stats than everyone else. Derrick Rose: Longest Eyelashes in the NBA; Alfonso Soriano: Tightest Pants in the MLB. This is just how I keep the game interesting!

For more photos, check out this GQ spread. Supposedly, it’s about windbreakers, but I didn’t make it past the eyes. Also? I could do without the pornstache!

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Easter Wrigley

April 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Dallas and I spent Easter at Wrigley Field with Todd and Kelly watching the Cubs lose to the Dodgers. I think the Cubs are now 11-10 now. Not that surprising, really!

We met up with Kelly and Todd at the new Sports Corner, which I’d never been to. It used to be kind of a dingy, dive bar. Then they demolished it and rebuilt it and now it’s a nice multi-level space with a rooftop beer garden. The old Sports Corner used to be constantly packed to the gills on game days. The new one was not, but the whole city was so empty yesterday because of the holiday. Who knows how it is on a normal day.

At Wrigley we played “the cup game.” The first rule of the cup game is to empty a cup, i.e. chug your beer. After that, everyone puts $2 in the cup. Each player takes turns holding the cup then passing it. Each turn lasts as long as a baseball player is at bat. If your batter gets an out, you have to put a dollar in the cup and pass it to the next person. If your hitter reaches base, you get to take a dollar out of the cup. If your batter gets a double, you get to take $2 from the cup. If your batter gets a triple, you take $3 from the cup. If your batter gets a home run then you get to take all the money from the cup and everyone has to re-ante up $2. I think that’s how it went. Might not be the exact rules. Anyway, I lost about $3 on this game and no one was a big winner, so we used the money to pay for drinks and food later on.

After the 7th inning stretch we went to Bird’s Nest. I don’t usually like leaving before the game is over, but the Cubs were getting killed and it was cold outside. Todd kept talking about how great the wings were at Bird’s Nest. I am not a big wings fan at all. When Dallas orders them, I might eat one.. if they look meaty.. but that’s about my limit. Well, maybe the Bird’s Nest wings really are that good, or maybe it was all the Miller Lite, but I ate probably 6 wings, setting all sorts of personal wing-eating records! I liked that the wings were not soggy at all, very crispy. And the sauce was delicious.

This was the first game I’d been to at Wrigley since 2009! Wow, crazy. I went to a Cubs game last year, but it was in Milwaukee. Nice to be back in the friendly confines.

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Los Bulls vs. 76ers – Noche Latina

April 8th, 2011 · No Comments

One good thing that came out of that WTF night is that at the Association House event both Jess and Sara won Bulls tickets! So, we all three, plus Jillian, went. I’d only ever been to one Bulls game before and it was 6 years ago, so I was excited. And Sara had never been to a game, so she was super psyched.

We didn’t realize that the game was Noche Latina (Latin Night) until we got to the arena. Noche Latina honors the Hispanic community and is presented by the McDonald’s Hispanic Owner-Operators Association (MHOA). The Bulls wore Los Bulls jerseys and throughout the game there was all kinds of stuff going on! The player intros were in Spanish, a mariachi band played the National Anthem, local Hispanic dance troupes performed, and at halftime the flags of 20 Spanish-speaking Latin countries were presented.

You’ll see from my photos that I found a lot of this stuff to be more exciting than the actual game! Blasphemous. Maybe if the Bulls would have won….


Getting Excited!


Really excited! This was Sara’s first Bulls game!


If you can’t understand the audio: 1. Derrick Rose incites screaming and 2. It’s in Spanish.


Game On!


Nosebleeds


Madhouse = The United Center is at 1901 W. Madison Street


Like our #1 fingers?


Jumbotron


Cool Dance Troupe


Flag presentation = Most boring halftime show ever!


Killian was at the game and came for a halftime visit. He took this photo of us.


More awesome Hispanic dancers.


#1 Beer!


Rachelle & Jess


Acrobatics. Check out that lady getting spin at center court.


The Luvabulls.


Noche Latina

After the Bulls game we went to Bottom Lounge just for one more drink.



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Kamehameha vs. ‘Iolani for the State Basketball Championship

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments


Kamehameha vs. ‘Iolani

That night our friend, Dallas’s fellow Kamehameha Schools classmate, Monte came to pick us up at our hotel. The Kamehameha boys basketball team was playing ‘Iolani for the state championship at the Stan Sheriff Center on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. Last year Kamehameha lost the final game to ‘Iolani, so a lot was on the line.


Kamehameha Cheerleaders

We met up with a bunch of Dallas’s old classmates and some of their kids. Everyone was super excited. This was a big game.

Throughout the game the score was pretty close, within a few points. But then in the 3rd quarter Kamehameha went up and ‘Iolani could not get with it. Kamehameha ended up winning 64-53.

Monte took this horrible photo of us after the game (my camera’s fault, not Monte’s!):


Front: Healoha, Donovan, Dallas, Rachelle, Shannon, Keone. Back: BJ & Pam

After the game we went out to celebrate. Monte took us to a nearby sports bar called Rock Bottom (not the chain). Dallas’s classmate Alika was there and it was nice to see him again. At some point we were ushered into a seperate space and karoke began.


Nakanishi Twins on the left, wearing leis

That’s when I noticed we were partying with VIPs. Jessie Nakanishi, the Kamehameha Schools head coach, his twin brother and assitant coach Julian, and a few of the other Kamehameha Schools coaches were all there with us celebrating. Pretty crazy. The Nakanishis were one year behind Dallas’s class at Kamehameha schools. I was just watching this interview with Jesse. He looks so young!


Likelike Drive Inn

Later on that night, early in the morning, Monte took us to Likelike Drive Inn for breakfast. This place reminded me a lot of the Wailana Coffee House, a late-night spot we went to last time we were in town.


Monte, Rachelle


Loco Moco

I don’t know what Dallas and Monte got, but I dove into my loco moco with record speed! It was so delicious. Especially at 2:30 a.m.!

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