Coach

Player: I'm gonna make practice this Saturday cause I took off from work...back when I thought we had a game this weekend.
Coach: Yeah...I'm sorry that it got moved and you missed the game. I owe you one.
Player: Buy me a cold one.

Odds

I've coached through my share of penalty kick wins and penalty kick losses. This study of penalty kick success rates performed on data from professional leagues in Europe and South America as well as from the European Championships and World Cup competitions sheds some interesting light on PK strategies that players should avoid or adopt. Check it out.

Scared Of Dinosaurs - Soulja Boy

I'm posting this out of some sort of strange curiosity laced with emotions that border on actually liking this cover. Strange but just might be worth watching at least once...

Jozy and the Bells

I've been meaning to post this video for a while but kept forgetting. Too much festival on the mind. A while back, we starting working on training Jozy to ask to go outside in some other manner than jumping up on the door and scratching all of the wood off. The solution: Poochie Bells (purchased last Christmas). It took a while for Jozy to get the hang of it, but now she is a a regular pro.

The other week, I was playing fetch with her and decided to see if she could solve a little puzzle. Here you go:

Michael Oher Drafted

Way back in November of 2006 (yes, this blog is over 3 years old), I was posting about Michael Oher (here and here) who is the focus of Michael Lewis' book, The Blind Side. This book was amazing. And now a new chapter will need to be written:

Oher was selected in the first round of the NFL draft (#23) and will be playing for the Baltimore Ravens. How cool is that?

Jozy and the Kiddie Pool

With summer on the horizon, if not here already, we (and by "we," I mean my wife) decided to buy Jozy a kiddie pool since she seems to love the one at the dog park. It only cost $9 so it was a pretty safe investment. If she didn't take to the pool, she would at least have a really large water bowl for outside.

After she got into the swing of swimming, it was inevitable that that the pool would be incorporated into the dogobie game. So here is Jozy's water trick debut set to a song by a local band called The Figs.

Vacation!

We just booked two tickets to Paris in June. The countdown (see sidebar on the right), has started already.