Alright I'll switch it up a little bit...coming up I've already done number 10 and 9. After a little bit, now it's time to round out my favorite moments 6 thru 10.
EG3 Favorite #8: Road to Ames
Hitting a critical stretch in the season for Kansas State in football where the Wildcats had to go on the road to take on Iowa State and West Virginia in back to back weeks but first it was going up to Ames, Iowa getting ready to do color commentary for this broadcast for the Wildcat 919 station. The night before the game I left Manhattan with Steven and Jake on an rainy night tag along with some of the boys from the Collegian and once we got to Ames...well we were really close to staying in the hotel some 30 minutes away from Ames and saved by a last minute switch to a hotel room that just opened up in Ames. Once we all got there some 7 guys in one tiny small hotel room, haha...yeah you can do the math there. You gotta make the best of a kinda bad situation but us guys like to have fun and talking about sports...which was the night the St. Louis Cardinals came all the way back to beat the Washington Nationals in the division series in DC where at least the Nationals had the best team in the National League and look how that ended up.
Shoutouts:
Steven Seib
Jake Brew
Mark Kern
John Zetmeir
and 2 more guys
EG3 Favorite #7: Fireworks
Back in July while I was still in Manhattan for the summer...for the Fourth of July celebration I went with the Bowman's to Junction City, KS where the Fuller's are located and celebrated a fun night with them. I can stay that the traditions that they do are dangerous fun in a good way; before that I saw their fireworks show. It was once again an great opportunity to hangout with people from the church that I go to and get to know them more.
Shoutouts
Bowman family/Derek Bowman
Fuller Fam/Kenneth and Kylie
EG3 Favorite #6: What's Up West Virginia
That 's about 16 hours...well almost it took us to get to Morgantown, West Virginia for the showdown between K-State/West Virginia. This matchup was downplayed a bit because of the beatdown that Texas Tech gave West Viginia down in Lubbock, TX the week before. Again, I was color commentary for the game and obviously we left the day before going through at least 7 states in the car. Lucky this game was in primetime, lol. Just going up there and seeing Collin Klein outplay Geno Smith who was in the middle of the Heisman was something else. K-State was on point everything including shutting down Smith which kept the Wildcats at the time undefeated. If they would've lost then we are talking about something else. To this game was the fact that Kansas State and West Virginia met as Big 12 opponents. The way with my own eyes just seeing K-State embrass WVU...I was in complete awe and happy the way that they did it.
Shoutouts
Mark Kern
Steven S.
Mav. McCoy
John Z.
Until next time,
*EG3
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Chapter #44 EG3 Favorite (#9): Hanging out in Manhattan
EG3 #9: This favorite moment from the fall semester of 2012 comes from once again earlier in the semester where pretty all of the sports teams for Kansas State like the football team, volleyball, the Men's and Women's basketball teams getting introduce to the city of Manhattan, KS for an event which is called the Purple Power Play on Poyntz...yeah a lot of P's in that tilte. But that's what it's called which was on Poyntz Avenue where fans from not just in the area but outside the state of Kansas who are big fans of K-State get fired up for the upcoming season. It was just great to be out in the environment with some of my staff friends at the Wildcat 91.9 giving tons of items away to some of the students and folks at the events. It was cool being out there and also I felt I was at a carnival or something, haha!!
*EG3
Shoutouts to:
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Mary
Jared
*EG3
Shoutouts to:
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Mary
Jared
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Chapter #43: EG3 Favorite (#10) Calling 1st ever Football Game
EG3 #10: Going back early this past semester in September before this epic season by the K-State football team; the semester prior I called my first basketball and baseball games of my radio career and I was really exciting and very anxious to get started with the season. Even though the opponent in Missouri State coming into Manhattan the unknown of myself and this Wildcat team led by Collin Klein which we all knew at least me and K-State country knew the potential of this team coming off a Cotton Bowl lost a season ago to Arkansas, this had a lot players return and ready to take to the next level. At least in the 1st half of the opening game of the season, Missouri State kept things really close and the Cats playing to their level making the game interesting with field goal after field goal. If I remember correctly the game was all tied up going into break and the guys in the booth with that evening were saying up here we close again...meaning that the Wildcats nearing the opening last year to a not so good opponent. But the 2nd half of this game though was totally different with the Cats exploding with big play, after big play. Special Teams was huge with Tramanie Thompson and Tyler Lockett making plays. My excitment in calling this game turned in to just trying to finished at the same time losing my voice after the Jon Hubert run. K-State turned on the jets to defeat Missouri State on opening night. I still think that was a lot of fun...a lot of fun to do. You got to make the most of your oppurtunities and I'm blessed with just a chance to do the game which that would my first out of two games of the season. Ashton Glacier did prove himself the QB of the Missouri State team would came into the kinda trash talking on twitter but that would not be enough as the Wildcats prove they were obviously the better team. Shoutout to Mark Kern color commentary guy for that game we were all laughing and enjoying ourselves.
Shoutouts:
Mark Kern
Chris Harrison
Caleb Jones
*EG3
Shoutouts:
Mark Kern
Chris Harrison
Caleb Jones
*EG3
Friday, October 26, 2012
Chapter #42: Cats' Get Back on Winning Track
West Virginia
The K-State women's volleyball team was back in action again on Wednesday night travel all the way to Morgantown to take on the Mountaineers a few days after the football team lead by Heisman frontrunner Collin Klein just ran through the football team did. And Kansas State took care of business like the football team did by sweeping West Virginia in striaght sets 25-15, 25-16, and 25-19. It is the Wildcats 15th sweep this season led by Lilla Porubek who had a career night with 4 aces. Courtney Traxson continued her excellent play adding in 8 kills. Alex Muff on the defensive side had 6 total blocks and five assists along with it. And, Kaitlynn Pelger had five blocks. Cats' started hot and pretty much never slowed down against West Virginia. Last weekend the Wildcats defeated the Red Raiders and now winners of two striaght games. On Saturday, K-State returns to Ahearn Fieldhouse to take on the Baylor Bears at 7pm. Cats are now 19-3 on year and 6-3 in Big 12 conference play.
EG3
The K-State women's volleyball team was back in action again on Wednesday night travel all the way to Morgantown to take on the Mountaineers a few days after the football team lead by Heisman frontrunner Collin Klein just ran through the football team did. And Kansas State took care of business like the football team did by sweeping West Virginia in striaght sets 25-15, 25-16, and 25-19. It is the Wildcats 15th sweep this season led by Lilla Porubek who had a career night with 4 aces. Courtney Traxson continued her excellent play adding in 8 kills. Alex Muff on the defensive side had 6 total blocks and five assists along with it. And, Kaitlynn Pelger had five blocks. Cats' started hot and pretty much never slowed down against West Virginia. Last weekend the Wildcats defeated the Red Raiders and now winners of two striaght games. On Saturday, K-State returns to Ahearn Fieldhouse to take on the Baylor Bears at 7pm. Cats are now 19-3 on year and 6-3 in Big 12 conference play.
EG3
Friday, October 12, 2012
Chapter #41 Kansas State Volleyball : Week #6 Texas
#9 Texas
Last time we left off the Kansas State volleyball was in the middle of an important homestand with on Last Saturday when they took on Texas. Coming into this game, the Longhorns where ranked #9 in the mation coming into a packed house at Ahern but at the end the 'Cats didn't put away Texas in the seconf set and that ended costing them the entire match. Texas sweeped the Kansas State 17-25, 28-30, and 15-25. Texas depth was the key in the match wearing down the Wildcats after playing really hard to win set #2 could not get control of the momentum. Kaitlynn Pelger for K-State had another great great but it wasn't meant to be this time around with 19 kills in the game. Alex Muff and Kuulei Kabalis had good games on the defensive end for the 'Cats. Nest game will be at TCU one of the newset members of the Big 12 on Saturday at 1pm.
Last time we left off the Kansas State volleyball was in the middle of an important homestand with on Last Saturday when they took on Texas. Coming into this game, the Longhorns where ranked #9 in the mation coming into a packed house at Ahern but at the end the 'Cats didn't put away Texas in the seconf set and that ended costing them the entire match. Texas sweeped the Kansas State 17-25, 28-30, and 15-25. Texas depth was the key in the match wearing down the Wildcats after playing really hard to win set #2 could not get control of the momentum. Kaitlynn Pelger for K-State had another great great but it wasn't meant to be this time around with 19 kills in the game. Alex Muff and Kuulei Kabalis had good games on the defensive end for the 'Cats. Nest game will be at TCU one of the newset members of the Big 12 on Saturday at 1pm.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Chapter #40: Intermission
Taking a break from writing my weekly blog post for volleyball and finally talking about something else...at least for a little bit and talk about what's up in the world of radio for the first half of the fall semester. Before I can do that I will do a little recap on the K-State volleyball team who done some great things already this season even though they just lost to Texas earlier this evening. Still got some things to work on, but they are right there in the mix for the Big 12 title race led by their best player junior Kaitlynn Pelger.
School with the combination of radio for The Wildcat 91.9 has been SUPER busy this semester. By far, the busiest semester since I been here at Kansas State it's been sometimes tiring but it's been fun. There are just a couple of issues outside of school that I need to take care of but other than that it's time to turn up heat a little bit here and work hard in pretty much everything weather it's in the classroom or not. Each day has it's challenges you just got to take it one day at a time. School is racking up quickly with a ton of big essays, reading, reading, and more reading. I feel like I have been reading over 100 books and we are only halfway, lol. Also, group projects...I have 3 of those not that I am complaining or anything like that but I'm at that stage where work is piling up and you just have to deal with it and try to do the best you can that's all you can ask for. Radio this semester has been fun once again! I feel blessed for this opportunity to work with a lot of awesome people. From hanging out with the staff people which I feel like are the best people that I can possibly have to other students at the station who have made their mark this year and helping them out as well. Enjoy the Purple Power Play earlier this semester getting prepared for the college football season for K-State. To hanging out with some of my favorite friends on staff Jen, Elijah and Caitlin. I have also spent some time with a few more people Krystal, Mike, Katie, Dan and more. This month is big and special for me in just a few weeks I have big weekend in store...more on that in the next blog post ahead.
Oklahoma Trip
Haha, 3 weeks ago I went down to Norman, Oklahoma with some of the sports staff and some of the sports staff from the Collegian as well. That was a fun trip with those and it had a little bit of everything in it. Lucky for all of us we got along really went. The trip down there had it's moments for sure guys been well you guys but K-State ended up knocking off #4 Oklahoma that weekend...oh and wee managed to park behind someone house after not evening getting a parking pass, lol. I was a little worried about that but at the end it didn't matter because we won the game. Got back to Manhattan between 5:30 and 6 in the morning, whoooo...
Until next time,
Eddie III (EG3)
School with the combination of radio for The Wildcat 91.9 has been SUPER busy this semester. By far, the busiest semester since I been here at Kansas State it's been sometimes tiring but it's been fun. There are just a couple of issues outside of school that I need to take care of but other than that it's time to turn up heat a little bit here and work hard in pretty much everything weather it's in the classroom or not. Each day has it's challenges you just got to take it one day at a time. School is racking up quickly with a ton of big essays, reading, reading, and more reading. I feel like I have been reading over 100 books and we are only halfway, lol. Also, group projects...I have 3 of those not that I am complaining or anything like that but I'm at that stage where work is piling up and you just have to deal with it and try to do the best you can that's all you can ask for. Radio this semester has been fun once again! I feel blessed for this opportunity to work with a lot of awesome people. From hanging out with the staff people which I feel like are the best people that I can possibly have to other students at the station who have made their mark this year and helping them out as well. Enjoy the Purple Power Play earlier this semester getting prepared for the college football season for K-State. To hanging out with some of my favorite friends on staff Jen, Elijah and Caitlin. I have also spent some time with a few more people Krystal, Mike, Katie, Dan and more. This month is big and special for me in just a few weeks I have big weekend in store...more on that in the next blog post ahead.
Oklahoma Trip
Haha, 3 weeks ago I went down to Norman, Oklahoma with some of the sports staff and some of the sports staff from the Collegian as well. That was a fun trip with those and it had a little bit of everything in it. Lucky for all of us we got along really went. The trip down there had it's moments for sure guys been well you guys but K-State ended up knocking off #4 Oklahoma that weekend...oh and wee managed to park behind someone house after not evening getting a parking pass, lol. I was a little worried about that but at the end it didn't matter because we won the game. Got back to Manhattan between 5:30 and 6 in the morning, whoooo...
Until next time,
Eddie III (EG3)
Friday, October 5, 2012
Chapter 39: K-State Volleyball Recap: Week #5
Baylor
Last weekend, the Kansas State volleyball team snapped a four game road losing streak to the Baylor Bears last Saturday afternoon in Waco (Sept 29). Kaitlynn Pelger had one of her best matches of the season to this point. The Wildcats defeated Baylor 18-25, 25-22, 25-23, and 25-16. Courtney Traxson played her best game of the year, shy from her personal best game for K-State. Traxson came off the bench for Suzie Fritz team and provided a huge spark for the Cats' when they needed it most. Had 10 kills on the night, meanwhile senior Caitlyn Donahue had 55 assists in this game two shorts of her best. Other highlights for K-State Kuuiel Kabalis had a career high in digs with 17. Torri Campbell and Laura Jones for Baylor led the way in kills but it was not enough for the Bears to overtake the Wildcats.
#22 Iowa State
Kaitlynn Pelger came into this game coming off another player of the week award from last weekend's action. Another plus for Pelger, she and her teammates came out and stunned the #22 ranked Iowa State in striaght sets at Ahern Fieldhouse on Wednesday night (Oct 3). Pelger led the way with 5 kills along with 6 swings, Alex Muff and Lilla Porubek also helped the Cats against the Cyclones. Kansas State came into this contest ranked #14 and right from the start just took it to the Cyclones who had no answer all night long. Iowa State had an oppurtunity to seal the second sets but the 'Cats rallied back to steal the set and pretty much closed the door on Iowa State for the match. Kansas State with the sweep 25-15. 27-25, and 25-17. The Wildcats move to 16-1 on the year and 3-1 in the Big 12 with #9 Texas coming to Manhattan on Saturday night. This will be the biggest test for K-State to see if they can contend for the Big 12 title. Game at Ahern Fieldhouse starts at 7pm Saturday night.
*Eddie III (EG3)
Last weekend, the Kansas State volleyball team snapped a four game road losing streak to the Baylor Bears last Saturday afternoon in Waco (Sept 29). Kaitlynn Pelger had one of her best matches of the season to this point. The Wildcats defeated Baylor 18-25, 25-22, 25-23, and 25-16. Courtney Traxson played her best game of the year, shy from her personal best game for K-State. Traxson came off the bench for Suzie Fritz team and provided a huge spark for the Cats' when they needed it most. Had 10 kills on the night, meanwhile senior Caitlyn Donahue had 55 assists in this game two shorts of her best. Other highlights for K-State Kuuiel Kabalis had a career high in digs with 17. Torri Campbell and Laura Jones for Baylor led the way in kills but it was not enough for the Bears to overtake the Wildcats.
#22 Iowa State
Kaitlynn Pelger came into this game coming off another player of the week award from last weekend's action. Another plus for Pelger, she and her teammates came out and stunned the #22 ranked Iowa State in striaght sets at Ahern Fieldhouse on Wednesday night (Oct 3). Pelger led the way with 5 kills along with 6 swings, Alex Muff and Lilla Porubek also helped the Cats against the Cyclones. Kansas State came into this contest ranked #14 and right from the start just took it to the Cyclones who had no answer all night long. Iowa State had an oppurtunity to seal the second sets but the 'Cats rallied back to steal the set and pretty much closed the door on Iowa State for the match. Kansas State with the sweep 25-15. 27-25, and 25-17. The Wildcats move to 16-1 on the year and 3-1 in the Big 12 with #9 Texas coming to Manhattan on Saturday night. This will be the biggest test for K-State to see if they can contend for the Big 12 title. Game at Ahern Fieldhouse starts at 7pm Saturday night.
*Eddie III (EG3)
Friday, September 28, 2012
Chapter #38 Wildcats-Moutaineers First Meeting
Thursday night coming off a bounce back victory over Nebraska-Omaha. The Kansas State volleyball team went back to work taking on the West Virginia Mountaineers for the first matchup in their history. On a night where the best player for the 'Cats joined a huge accomplishment the Wildcats made it look easy against West Virginia sweeping them 25-8, 25-19, and 25-17. It already marks for the 12th time this season that Kansas State has beat a team in straight sets. But this night when theme at Ahearn Fieldhouse was 70s night, junior Kaitlynn Pelger joined the 1000 kill club.
The Wildcats jumped on West Virginia (8-8, 0-3) early as the Mountaineers struggled to handle K-State’s serve and offensive firepower. K-State would go on a 12-0 in the opening set to take a 22-5 lead. West Virginia would fail to reach double digits in the first frame, marking the first time K-State has held a conference opponent under 10 points in a non-shortened fifth set in the rally scoring era, which started in 2001. Other than Pelger, the Cats receive another good performance from seniors Caitlyn Donahue, and Tristan McCarty. Kansas State moved their record to an overall 14-1 on the year and get their first conference win on the season 1-1. K-State returns to action quickly on Friday night when they hit the road down to Texas to take on the Baylor Bears.
*Eddie Grier III (EG3)
The Wildcats jumped on West Virginia (8-8, 0-3) early as the Mountaineers struggled to handle K-State’s serve and offensive firepower. K-State would go on a 12-0 in the opening set to take a 22-5 lead. West Virginia would fail to reach double digits in the first frame, marking the first time K-State has held a conference opponent under 10 points in a non-shortened fifth set in the rally scoring era, which started in 2001. Other than Pelger, the Cats receive another good performance from seniors Caitlyn Donahue, and Tristan McCarty. Kansas State moved their record to an overall 14-1 on the year and get their first conference win on the season 1-1. K-State returns to action quickly on Friday night when they hit the road down to Texas to take on the Baylor Bears.
*Eddie Grier III (EG3)
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Chapter #37 Kansas State Volleyball Recap: Week #3
Kansas State volleyball team led by head coach Susie Fritz came off last weekend with sweep in the Tulsa Invatational where the 'Cats beat 3 teams. Two of those teams were ranked inside the Top 25 which was huge of the team. K-State defeated Tulsa last Thursday, followed that up with an upset of the #10 ranked opponent Minnesota. After getting hammered in the first set of the game, the 'Cats battled back in the second set then fell in the 3rd set, and they were about to lose the 4th set until a late rally against the Golden Gophers. Then K-State ran away with the 5th set to capture the victory. On Saturday, the Cats' took care of #20 Dayton in 3 sets to move to 12-0 on the year. K-State junior Kaitlynn Pelger took MVP honors in the tourney and was the Player of the Week, nationally.
Oklahoma
On the road to start off Big 12 play, the 'Cats on the road in Norman taking on the Sooners which lost a couple key players the year before. But on this night, K-State fell behind early and often against the Sooners and ended up losing their first game in 2012 by losing to Oklahoma in 3 sets. Once again as she always does night in and night out, Kaitlynn Pelger had another big game for the 'Cats leading the team with 13 kills followed by Lilla Porubek with 11 kills. Oklahoma defeated K-State 25-27, 19-25, and 21-25.
Oklahoma
On the road to start off Big 12 play, the 'Cats on the road in Norman taking on the Sooners which lost a couple key players the year before. But on this night, K-State fell behind early and often against the Sooners and ended up losing their first game in 2012 by losing to Oklahoma in 3 sets. Once again as she always does night in and night out, Kaitlynn Pelger had another big game for the 'Cats leading the team with 13 kills followed by Lilla Porubek with 11 kills. Oklahoma defeated K-State 25-27, 19-25, and 21-25.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Chapter #36 Huge Test for Cats: Tulsa Tourney
The Kansas State volleyball team with their best start in school history at 9-0 will have a huge test this weekend in the upcoming Tulsa tournament in Oklahoma this weekend beginning with of course Tulsa of Thursday evening . K-State has overpowered most of their competition except for Oregon State in the first week of the season but still manage to win in 5 sets. The Cats' will need to get out of the gate this weekend if they want to continue their early season success especially Top 10 ranked opponent in Minnesota coming up on Saturday led by their best player Katherine Harms who averages 4 kills a game. #10 Minnesota will be playing 2 games on Friday, while K-State will be just playing the normal one game which will be at 4:20pm. Cats' wrapped up tourney play Saturday morning when they take on Dayton. The bigger question coming after these games will K-State still be unbeaten??
Tulsa
On Thursday night, the K-State volleyball team started out fast to defeat Tulsa in straight sets 25-19, 25-22, 25-18. The Cats led by the talented junior Kaitlyn Pelger who led the attack with 11 kills in this game while Kathleen Ludwig had another big game by adding 10 kills as well. The Wildcats in this contest found a way to slow down Tulsa's best player Tyler Henderson who had 18 kills but the rest of the Golden hurricanes couldn't get anything going. The Cats' continue to rack up the wins and going to the game with #10 Minnesota Friday afternoon at 10-0.
*Eddie (EGIII)
Tulsa
On Thursday night, the K-State volleyball team started out fast to defeat Tulsa in straight sets 25-19, 25-22, 25-18. The Cats led by the talented junior Kaitlyn Pelger who led the attack with 11 kills in this game while Kathleen Ludwig had another big game by adding 10 kills as well. The Wildcats in this contest found a way to slow down Tulsa's best player Tyler Henderson who had 18 kills but the rest of the Golden hurricanes couldn't get anything going. The Cats' continue to rack up the wins and going to the game with #10 Minnesota Friday afternoon at 10-0.
*Eddie (EGIII)
Friday, September 7, 2012
Chapter #35 Kansas State Volleyball: Early season recap
A few weekends ago (August 24-26) the K-State volleyball team (women) began it's season after making it the Sweet 16 one year ago. Kansas State hosted the Varney's Invitational at Ahern Fieldhouse. The Cats' ended up sweeping the weekend and starting off with a record of 3-0 so far early in the season. On Friday, K-State took down UC Irvine, then in the night cap in striaght sets defeated Oakland. The toughest test came on Saturday evening facing Oregon State. Behind in the 4th set the Cats' began to rally behind Juniors Kaitlynn Pelger and Lilla Porubek. K-State ended up winning set 4 then finished off the Beavers in the 5th and final set of the match 15-8. Pelger and Porubek had 43 of the 76 kills for the Wildcats. Senior Caitlyn Donahue made key plays down late in the game for K-State. Pelger, Porubek, and Donahue all receive 1st team honors of the Varney's Invitational.
Bluejay Invitational Recap
Kansas State volleyball team last weekend played up in Omaha, Nebraska where the Wildcats ended sweeping all three teams to win the weekend tournament. Denver, Creighton, and Syracuse. Along with that the Cats won every single game not losing a set (9-0). Kansas State defeated Syracuse 25-17, 25-14, 25-16 to seal the tourney let by Lilla Porubek and Kaitlyn Pelger. K-State volleyball will return to action next beginning on Wednesday when take on Missouri State flollowed by St. Mary's and on Saturday night Utah State.
*Eddie Grier (EG3)
Bluejay Invitational Recap
Kansas State volleyball team last weekend played up in Omaha, Nebraska where the Wildcats ended sweeping all three teams to win the weekend tournament. Denver, Creighton, and Syracuse. Along with that the Cats won every single game not losing a set (9-0). Kansas State defeated Syracuse 25-17, 25-14, 25-16 to seal the tourney let by Lilla Porubek and Kaitlyn Pelger. K-State volleyball will return to action next beginning on Wednesday when take on Missouri State flollowed by St. Mary's and on Saturday night Utah State.
*Eddie Grier (EG3)
Monday, August 27, 2012
Chapter #34 Chris and Megan's Wedding
Haha, yeah...I'm a little late with blogging as for late but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things with school starting back up and trying to get everything all in order here for the fall semester. Anyway, a few weeks ago I got to be apart of a wedding; I went to a wedding in the middle of this summer which was my first, and now I was in my good friend's wedding a couple months later in August (August 11th) Chris and Megan Karlin. It was definitley an honor to be apart of their special day knowing them for over 2 years now. I came back to Manhattan that Wednesday couple days before the wedding day because as earlier I mention that I was in the wedding as an usher. But going back a little bit, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it to their wedding (Karlins). But I was able to make it staying at Willie's place on the first night. Then, hanging out with Chris and the guys the first then helping them get set up with their wedding on Friday with Megan and the rest of the family. That goes for Chris's as well. It was really nice to get to know Chris and Megan family during the 3-day stay in Manhattan (Kansas). On wedding day, the guys Chris, Shane, and myself got to the church early along with Matthias (Megan's brother) got into our very nice clothes and got ready to Chris/Megan get married. Being usher for their wedding pretty good! Family from both sides came of course a lot of people that I kenw at this wedding as well beside the married couple now were their and I know quite a bit actually. After the ceremony and everything and a chance to take some pictures with the group. And yes, we got creative it was a ton of fun...the entire day itself was just a blast. It's about some 3 weeks later but congrats again to my good friends now married Chris and Megan. And thank you for letting me part of your wedding day! I'm blessed to have them in my life.
People that I met during the wedding:
Chris and Megan's Parents
Matthias
Morgan
Miranda
Marissa
Sara
and a few more
Until next time,
*EG3
People that I met during the wedding:
Chris and Megan's Parents
Matthias
Morgan
Miranda
Marissa
Sara
and a few more
Until next time,
*EG3
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Chapter #33 Lake or Break
Just a couple of weekends ago, I had a chance to go back to Wilson Lake in Wilson, Kansas to spend the Sunday afternoon with friends from Barton County Community College that I went to school for 2.5 years. Some of them who were out at the lake...there was like including myself 8 of us. A couple of them I met my Sophomore year. Haha, yes there was suppose be a few more out there on the lake with but on well.
Water and me don't really get along that well; I mean I can drink gallons of it all day long if I wanted to but swimming in it is a whole different challenge for me. The last time I was out there, I was at a different side of the lake and when tubing a couple years ago. It was my first summer in the state of Kansas, I was with a couple of friends and went tubing back then I didn't know what it was called. Let's just say that I somehow survived that activity. Going to Wilson, this time was very different...road trip there was cool; after a busy summer it was my last weekend in the Hat for awhile. Riding along with Brittany and Joann overall was good but somehow I didn't feel safe in the car, lol. Maybe the first hour of the trip all I hear from them was knives, hot dogs and other things and yeah but I guess it's good thing though not in a bad way. Anyway, we all got to Wilson in one piece waited for other people to get to the mini restaurant intown and then we were on our way there after a few more u-turns and so on. Our group went to the other side of the lake where there was kids. Wilson is pretty decent in size so it wasn't that bad. Playing, walking, volleyball in the lake just your normal hangout during the summer. After a few hours there pictures and hugs followed, then I with Brittany and then replace Joann with Kaitlin when took a look at her (Kaitlin) hometown which is pretty small. In Kansas I have seen my share of small towns and it was nice to see how everyone in the small town works and I'm sure everyone in town knows your name. I have not mention food, lol. Well it depends on which store you go to but on the way back to our locations me, Brittany, and Kaitlin stopped at a convenience store and order food, and it was pretty good hot and fresh too...just saying haha. Overall, the entire day was awesome just get away from our normal lives and enjoy some fun for a day.
People I was with:
Brittany
Joann
Kaitlin
Erica
Cassie
Reba
Mahlia
Kyle
Until next time
*EGIII
Water and me don't really get along that well; I mean I can drink gallons of it all day long if I wanted to but swimming in it is a whole different challenge for me. The last time I was out there, I was at a different side of the lake and when tubing a couple years ago. It was my first summer in the state of Kansas, I was with a couple of friends and went tubing back then I didn't know what it was called. Let's just say that I somehow survived that activity. Going to Wilson, this time was very different...road trip there was cool; after a busy summer it was my last weekend in the Hat for awhile. Riding along with Brittany and Joann overall was good but somehow I didn't feel safe in the car, lol. Maybe the first hour of the trip all I hear from them was knives, hot dogs and other things and yeah but I guess it's good thing though not in a bad way. Anyway, we all got to Wilson in one piece waited for other people to get to the mini restaurant intown and then we were on our way there after a few more u-turns and so on. Our group went to the other side of the lake where there was kids. Wilson is pretty decent in size so it wasn't that bad. Playing, walking, volleyball in the lake just your normal hangout during the summer. After a few hours there pictures and hugs followed, then I with Brittany and then replace Joann with Kaitlin when took a look at her (Kaitlin) hometown which is pretty small. In Kansas I have seen my share of small towns and it was nice to see how everyone in the small town works and I'm sure everyone in town knows your name. I have not mention food, lol. Well it depends on which store you go to but on the way back to our locations me, Brittany, and Kaitlin stopped at a convenience store and order food, and it was pretty good hot and fresh too...just saying haha. Overall, the entire day was awesome just get away from our normal lives and enjoy some fun for a day.
People I was with:
Brittany
Joann
Kaitlin
Erica
Cassie
Reba
Mahlia
Kyle
Until next time
*EGIII
Monday, July 23, 2012
Chapter #32: Summer Radio
The past two and a half months, it's been kinda like getting back to normal pretty much after last summer's epic trip to Alaska (Juneau). But this summer I think much more productive taking the opportunities given to me and taking full advantage of that. My very first summer spent here in Manhattan as been a busy one getting work done and just relaxing. From late May learning how to do a news broadcast record it and all of that stuff, to promoting events over the radio so the community of Manhattan at the very least knows what's going on. All the way to learning about how to do severe weather and how to insert that into a live broadcast. Then there's sports talk each week on Wednesday's this summer which as been a blast getting a chance to talk about sports with Cameron Banning and with Preston Rumford as well. And then the transition to my DJ show "Primetime" which I play alternative rock and do sports updates each week from Monday thru Friday 7 to 9pm which I enjoyed doing that and playing people's request on it too. Doing a little promos for a few shows with Ryan Stark have been good; learning about knowing what you want on your show and cutting it down to about 30 seconds is kinda of hard to do but it wasn't that bad. Our radio station got a good laugh when Jen decided she wanted to do this event called "Pull a dare from Eddie's hair" on her show which turned out to be really good, haha!! Doing lots and lots of things the last couple of months for The Wildcat 919 KSDB has been fun to do and be apart of thanks for the opportunity...as we are about to transition into the fall semester I'm looking forward to happen what going to happen it's going to be interesting that for sure as I'll moving to a different section on the staff team.
The people that I was hanging out with this summer and will continue into August:
Mary
Jared
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Cameron
Joey
Ryan
Edward B.
*EGIII
The people that I was hanging out with this summer and will continue into August:
Mary
Jared
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Cameron
Joey
Ryan
Edward B.
*EGIII
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Chapter #31 New Phone/Technology
It's been almost two months since my last post it seems like I'm getting lazier and lazier...haha. But I guess starting now I will be getting back on these posts and update you on what's going. Blogging about life and other things that interests myself. And this will be my first blog post of the summer. And with everything going on around me right now things are about to get busier plus a time of change is going to happen soon. I have a lot to actually look forward to so will see what will happen for the rest of this summer and much more to come.
During my hiatus from blogging I got a new cell phone. I basically upgraded from the one I had since I have been in college; still with the same carrier Verizon, changed phones to a regular to a "4G" smart phone. Yeah, that's right I'm trying to catch up on modern technology a little bit, lol. I will still keep my old phone though but for right now I'm still on the learning curve on how to operate the phone. It's been going well so far; it's that there are sooo many features on this phone that it's great. This thing is like one big dictionary that you wouldn't need anything else well except food. A lot of people/friends depend on this type of phone weather it's an iPhone or a different phone in there daily routine while still use it of course but of important reasons like the alarm clock. I'm still at the learning stage of trying to learn how to use all of these apps and use them for the right reasons. From games, to news, camera, video and lots more. Phones are definitely important; especially in this age of technology. you got to have the right connections.
-Be Cool
*EGIII
During my hiatus from blogging I got a new cell phone. I basically upgraded from the one I had since I have been in college; still with the same carrier Verizon, changed phones to a regular to a "4G" smart phone. Yeah, that's right I'm trying to catch up on modern technology a little bit, lol. I will still keep my old phone though but for right now I'm still on the learning curve on how to operate the phone. It's been going well so far; it's that there are sooo many features on this phone that it's great. This thing is like one big dictionary that you wouldn't need anything else well except food. A lot of people/friends depend on this type of phone weather it's an iPhone or a different phone in there daily routine while still use it of course but of important reasons like the alarm clock. I'm still at the learning stage of trying to learn how to use all of these apps and use them for the right reasons. From games, to news, camera, video and lots more. Phones are definitely important; especially in this age of technology. you got to have the right connections.
-Be Cool
*EGIII
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Chapter #30 The Radio Guy Part 2
Last chapter I talked about the beginnings for me in radio; in this chapter, I will talk about the overall first year at Kansas State calling on air activities, a small preview of what's to come for the summer, and could be topics changes??
On Air: My first year on radio for the Wildcat 919 was a great experience getting to do A LOT of things learning to do stats, or running boards, doing color commentary, play by play, talking about news. Almost everything you can think of; I learned how to do it. Football (at K-State) only got to do one game but I did some behind the scene stuff. Basketball season for Men and Women I did a lot more including calling my first play-by-play game. That was a lot of fun; had a blast with. Baseball, the same amount of work like basketball almost...being in the the booth with two other students or one talking baseball which is fun for me because I know the game very well because of play this game for a long time.
Preview: This summer I will be on staff as the assistant of news and sports; primary will be in news mostly to help them get there news coverage on the radio up from this past year. This is something that I have little experience in, but I'm up for the challenge in doing this. Meanwhile, I will be debuting as a DJ in prime time as well. That will be exciting will how far that goes. Prime time will begins next week.
Changes: There will be really no major changes to my blog yet, I would like to mix it up a little bit more and talk about some of my favorite sports. I will starting this summer will be balancing out talking about what's going on with me with some of the sporting events that are going on currently that I enjoy; the teams I follow. There's still a lot going on in sports right now, with Wildcat sports winding down for the summer after the track and field championships concluded last weekend. Stay tuned for more.
-EGIII
On Air: My first year on radio for the Wildcat 919 was a great experience getting to do A LOT of things learning to do stats, or running boards, doing color commentary, play by play, talking about news. Almost everything you can think of; I learned how to do it. Football (at K-State) only got to do one game but I did some behind the scene stuff. Basketball season for Men and Women I did a lot more including calling my first play-by-play game. That was a lot of fun; had a blast with. Baseball, the same amount of work like basketball almost...being in the the booth with two other students or one talking baseball which is fun for me because I know the game very well because of play this game for a long time.
Preview: This summer I will be on staff as the assistant of news and sports; primary will be in news mostly to help them get there news coverage on the radio up from this past year. This is something that I have little experience in, but I'm up for the challenge in doing this. Meanwhile, I will be debuting as a DJ in prime time as well. That will be exciting will how far that goes. Prime time will begins next week.
Changes: There will be really no major changes to my blog yet, I would like to mix it up a little bit more and talk about some of my favorite sports. I will starting this summer will be balancing out talking about what's going on with me with some of the sporting events that are going on currently that I enjoy; the teams I follow. There's still a lot going on in sports right now, with Wildcat sports winding down for the summer after the track and field championships concluded last weekend. Stay tuned for more.
-EGIII
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Chapter #29: The Radio Guy Part 1
It's been a few weeks since the last chapter, busy with getting everything together for the last week of classes with finals here at Kansas State. Since late last summer, I think I have found something that I'm interested in for the future. I have new found motivation to keep going to finish off college. I was really on the verge of heading back to Alaska for the summer...it would have been mid-June that I would've gone back to Juneau, but that will be put on hold this year and I will continue my pursuit in radio this summer with The Wildcat 919 at Kansas State. Being involved with radio has started to open some doors for opportunities to be successful.
Looking back over this past year, I have gotten a lot better at the on the air stuff. It's amazing that a lot of people and I mean a lot, my friends and other people that I don't have came up to me and said that I have that radio voice on the air that people can listen to. I wouldn't have even imagine that I have that voice, but I do. I sound a lot different on the air when I listen to myself talk and I will explain more about it in Part 2 about how this all got started. I have always had an interest in the radio business if I wasn't on the field playing sports. From football to doing basketball for the men and women's (I did a lot of the Women's games) to baseball games (I've done quite a few) I've gotten really good...not that good yet but just improving from game to game correcting the things that you need to correct.
Stay tuned for Part 2 next week...
Talk to you guys soon!
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
Looking back over this past year, I have gotten a lot better at the on the air stuff. It's amazing that a lot of people and I mean a lot, my friends and other people that I don't have came up to me and said that I have that radio voice on the air that people can listen to. I wouldn't have even imagine that I have that voice, but I do. I sound a lot different on the air when I listen to myself talk and I will explain more about it in Part 2 about how this all got started. I have always had an interest in the radio business if I wasn't on the field playing sports. From football to doing basketball for the men and women's (I did a lot of the Women's games) to baseball games (I've done quite a few) I've gotten really good...not that good yet but just improving from game to game correcting the things that you need to correct.
Stay tuned for Part 2 next week...
Talk to you guys soon!
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Chapter #28: K-State vs Baylor Weekend Preview
I'm doing a blog post of the radio station The Wildcat 91.9 and here is a weekend preview of an important series for the 'Cats as take on #8 Baylor team that is unbeaten in conference play.
K-State vs. #8 Baylor (May 13-15th): The 'Cats resume conference play this weekend on Friday as they take on the Baylor Bears who stand in the top 10 nationally in the country at #8 with a record of 27-7. And Baylor riding a wave of momentum winning 16 straight games and coming of a series Wednesday night sweeping Louisiana-Munroe in 2 games. K-State head coach Brad Hill and company will have there hands full playing the best of the best in the Big 12 conference. Meanwhile on Wednesday night the 'Cats lost in Springfield, Missouri as they lost to Missouri State 3-0 dropping the 'Cats record to now 17-15 on the season after last weekend sweeping the 3-game series against Sacred Heart at Tointon Family Stadium. If the 'Cats are going to snapped the Bears long winning streak this weekend, they will need there bats to come alive which the offense has been up and down this season up to this point. The 'Cats need consistent pitching as well if they are going to stay with a national ranked team like the Bears. K-State has four players who are in the top 15 in batting average. Led by centerfielder Jared King coming off a 3 for 4 game Wednesday night against Missouri State. Conference resumes for the 'Cats Friday night at 6:30 at Tointon Family Stadium. Games on Saturday and Sunday begin at 1pm. Friday's game is Military Appreciation Night; Military personal can get general admission for $3.
Players to Watch:
#8 Baylor (27-7)
Adam Toth
Max Muncy
Logan Vick
Cal Towey
*All have hitting streaks coming in
Kansas State (17-15)
Jared King
Tanner Witt
Matt Giller
Jake Brown
*Witt: Has reached base 25 games in a row.
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
K-State vs. #8 Baylor (May 13-15th): The 'Cats resume conference play this weekend on Friday as they take on the Baylor Bears who stand in the top 10 nationally in the country at #8 with a record of 27-7. And Baylor riding a wave of momentum winning 16 straight games and coming of a series Wednesday night sweeping Louisiana-Munroe in 2 games. K-State head coach Brad Hill and company will have there hands full playing the best of the best in the Big 12 conference. Meanwhile on Wednesday night the 'Cats lost in Springfield, Missouri as they lost to Missouri State 3-0 dropping the 'Cats record to now 17-15 on the season after last weekend sweeping the 3-game series against Sacred Heart at Tointon Family Stadium. If the 'Cats are going to snapped the Bears long winning streak this weekend, they will need there bats to come alive which the offense has been up and down this season up to this point. The 'Cats need consistent pitching as well if they are going to stay with a national ranked team like the Bears. K-State has four players who are in the top 15 in batting average. Led by centerfielder Jared King coming off a 3 for 4 game Wednesday night against Missouri State. Conference resumes for the 'Cats Friday night at 6:30 at Tointon Family Stadium. Games on Saturday and Sunday begin at 1pm. Friday's game is Military Appreciation Night; Military personal can get general admission for $3.
Players to Watch:
#8 Baylor (27-7)
Adam Toth
Max Muncy
Logan Vick
Cal Towey
*All have hitting streaks coming in
Kansas State (17-15)
Jared King
Tanner Witt
Matt Giller
Jake Brown
*Witt: Has reached base 25 games in a row.
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Chapter #27 Arizona Part 2
It's been awhile...but I wanted to share a funny story in Part 2 of the spring break trip to Arizona one of the main highlights of the trip.
Funny Story: In the middle of the week in Arizona (a few weeks ago) me and a couple of the youth students Jake, Haleigh and a couple more helped out with baking oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies which turned out to be a success. Okay, so after that has been taking care of we clean up and put everything away in the kitchen (cabin). The kitchen cabin was set up a little bit different form your normal kitchen like the refrigerator and freezer. They were both the same exact length right next to each other...usually the freezer is on top of the frig. So, I had the eggs in my hands and put them up in the other frig (the right side) without me every really realizing that is was actually the freezer. Waking up the next morning, I'm walking back into the cabin and I get asked the question, "Did you put the eggs in the freezer?" and I said, "No I didn't." I got asked the same question again and I said no again before the ladies Jalena and Natasha said that I put them in the freezer. Yeah, but hey I didn't know...there was no labels on them saying which one was which. Kelsey decorated some labels and put them. For the rest of trip my new name was "freezer" everybody had a lot of fun with that one.
After pretty much we got done what we need to as a group towards the end of the week, we took our last afternoon to visit the Grand Canyon which something else. The view all around that place was awesome; we were there until sunset then headed back.
People that I went with C4C/Youth Group:
Joseph
Jalena
Rod
Richie
Kelsey
Chris H.
Natasha
Cassie
Matt French
Marvin
Derek
Jake C.
Haleigh
Andrea
Jake K.
Blake
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
Funny Story: In the middle of the week in Arizona (a few weeks ago) me and a couple of the youth students Jake, Haleigh and a couple more helped out with baking oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies which turned out to be a success. Okay, so after that has been taking care of we clean up and put everything away in the kitchen (cabin). The kitchen cabin was set up a little bit different form your normal kitchen like the refrigerator and freezer. They were both the same exact length right next to each other...usually the freezer is on top of the frig. So, I had the eggs in my hands and put them up in the other frig (the right side) without me every really realizing that is was actually the freezer. Waking up the next morning, I'm walking back into the cabin and I get asked the question, "Did you put the eggs in the freezer?" and I said, "No I didn't." I got asked the same question again and I said no again before the ladies Jalena and Natasha said that I put them in the freezer. Yeah, but hey I didn't know...there was no labels on them saying which one was which. Kelsey decorated some labels and put them. For the rest of trip my new name was "freezer" everybody had a lot of fun with that one.
After pretty much we got done what we need to as a group towards the end of the week, we took our last afternoon to visit the Grand Canyon which something else. The view all around that place was awesome; we were there until sunset then headed back.
People that I went with C4C/Youth Group:
Joseph
Jalena
Rod
Richie
Kelsey
Chris H.
Natasha
Cassie
Matt French
Marvin
Derek
Jake C.
Haleigh
Andrea
Jake K.
Blake
*Eddie G. (EGIII)
Monday, March 26, 2012
Chapter #26 Arizona Part 1
This past week during my spring break from Kansas State I made my trip over to the state of Arizona for the first time. I went with 16 students college/high school/ youth. All of them I knew or had the chance to get to know them during the mission trip and all of them have different personalities. This trip had a little bit of everything that you would get from a week mission trip like this one including a new nickname, haha! I would say that I'm glad that I went on this trip. Originally, I wasn't planning on going anywhere but I change my mind about it and had some help along the way. Also, this a group that I go to church with on Sundays as well...Manhattan Church of Christ.
Saturday 3/17: It all started early in the morning around 6 o'clock everybody is in the vans ready to head out to Prescott, AZ. The original plan was to stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the night but because of a snow storm around the area (Prescott) and the unknowns of it we could most like beat the storm. So the staff changed the plans to try and make it in one trip which basically took us almost 24 hours to complete including stops. I helped drive out there as well a good 5-6 hours out there as well. My first drive through the state of New Mexico was good; all I saw mostly were big trucks driving down the highway...around 2 or 3am Pacific time we got into Prescott finally but we ran into the snow storm; the cabin was sitting on top of a mountain so we tried to drive our van through the snow and it wasn't happening. Our van got stuck on several occasions nearly hit the railing...most of us got out in the cold snow and push the van out of the hole that we dug ourselves in. Our group ended up staying at a church that one of the staff people stayed at while living in Arizona. Flip side of that there's a mini story behind staying there because we actually broke into the church, yeah that's right broke in. I'm not sure who but a few people help out with that and we let ourselves in and finally around 4 or 5am when to sleep...
Sunday 3/18: Because of the storm we thought that their wasn't going to be service the next morning but almost 15 minutes before I guess Sunday School started we got up in a hurry put the stuff away and went to the main service. We had potluck right after service with the members of church before finally going up to the cabin. A couple in Prescott helped us get all of our things together because he had a 4-wheel drive vehicle that can get us up the road even though the road were paved. At the bible base cabin with the snow starting back up again we made it there. Snow falling once again, a bunch of the guys including myself gone some or I should say a quite of but of firewood to put in the cabin because the place inside wasn't really warm. Others chopped wood at the same time.
(To Be Continued)
-Eddie III (EGIII)
Saturday 3/17: It all started early in the morning around 6 o'clock everybody is in the vans ready to head out to Prescott, AZ. The original plan was to stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the night but because of a snow storm around the area (Prescott) and the unknowns of it we could most like beat the storm. So the staff changed the plans to try and make it in one trip which basically took us almost 24 hours to complete including stops. I helped drive out there as well a good 5-6 hours out there as well. My first drive through the state of New Mexico was good; all I saw mostly were big trucks driving down the highway...around 2 or 3am Pacific time we got into Prescott finally but we ran into the snow storm; the cabin was sitting on top of a mountain so we tried to drive our van through the snow and it wasn't happening. Our van got stuck on several occasions nearly hit the railing...most of us got out in the cold snow and push the van out of the hole that we dug ourselves in. Our group ended up staying at a church that one of the staff people stayed at while living in Arizona. Flip side of that there's a mini story behind staying there because we actually broke into the church, yeah that's right broke in. I'm not sure who but a few people help out with that and we let ourselves in and finally around 4 or 5am when to sleep...
Sunday 3/18: Because of the storm we thought that their wasn't going to be service the next morning but almost 15 minutes before I guess Sunday School started we got up in a hurry put the stuff away and went to the main service. We had potluck right after service with the members of church before finally going up to the cabin. A couple in Prescott helped us get all of our things together because he had a 4-wheel drive vehicle that can get us up the road even though the road were paved. At the bible base cabin with the snow starting back up again we made it there. Snow falling once again, a bunch of the guys including myself gone some or I should say a quite of but of firewood to put in the cabin because the place inside wasn't really warm. Others chopped wood at the same time.
(To Be Continued)
-Eddie III (EGIII)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Chapter #25 Setting The Stone
All new chapter of my blog and here are the three big topics for this week's post covering the last 2 weeks or so...
Doing What's Right: A couple of weeks ago, I watched a movie called Courageous with quite a few friends from my group called 121. Before that we went on a run to Orange Leaf an ice cream shop in Manhattan. We had a chance to of eat ice cream from different kinds of flavors; plus their was a kids choir group from St. George doing a fundraiser deal to support them. That was cool...back to the movie if you haven't seen it then I won't give away too much information just an overview. Courageous is pretty much about 5 men 4 of the were in the police force, standing up and being leaders of their families, accepting the responsibility and honoring God all at the same time. All of these guys signed a pact that they would all do the right thing. Godly men need to take charge and be leaders of their own families and having faith especially with God. Great movie...
People that I was with 121:
Brian
James
Brandon
Megan W.
Caleb
Joee
Mark
Courtney
Hunter
Joanna
Getting Together: Couple Sundays ago I was celebrating my good friend Leon's birthday with his family. I met his Mom last semester and they seem pretty cool. And I have been hanging out with Nick playing video games...sometimes and then spending some time with my good brother Richie listening to his cool beats and eating lunch. The last few weeks when I have some free time during the week, I have more friend time with Kaci. I met her in one of my classes last fall during my first year at Kansas State. Going to IHOP and Noodles and Company. I'm really enjoy just hanging out and just talking about how our weeks are going and other things...awesome Looking forward to doing it some more before the school year comes to a close.
Others:
Leon
Nick
Richie
Kaci
Michelle
Brooke
Postseason Basketball: Last week I had the opportunity to go to Kansas City for the Big 12 Tournament for radio (K-State). Got nominated by staff to attend this event and it was awesome...not the game of course the K-State men's team lost to Baylor in the first round 81-72. I never been inside the Sprint Center and it beautiful. I was on the radio help calling the game with Brandon Tadtman and we were up there ways...not that far up but you can see the court well from there. The road trip there and back was a lot of fun; with interesting stories, haha!! Now, for the NCAA tourney K-State has a tough road ahead of them starting on Thursday morning to mid-afternoon in Pittsburgh the East region. It will be very interesting to see how they respond against Southern Miss and if they can get pass them.
Road Trip to Kansas City, Missouri with:
Brandon Tadtman
Mike Pereira
Daniel Flores
-Eddie III (EGIII)
Doing What's Right: A couple of weeks ago, I watched a movie called Courageous with quite a few friends from my group called 121. Before that we went on a run to Orange Leaf an ice cream shop in Manhattan. We had a chance to of eat ice cream from different kinds of flavors; plus their was a kids choir group from St. George doing a fundraiser deal to support them. That was cool...back to the movie if you haven't seen it then I won't give away too much information just an overview. Courageous is pretty much about 5 men 4 of the were in the police force, standing up and being leaders of their families, accepting the responsibility and honoring God all at the same time. All of these guys signed a pact that they would all do the right thing. Godly men need to take charge and be leaders of their own families and having faith especially with God. Great movie...
People that I was with 121:
Brian
James
Brandon
Megan W.
Caleb
Joee
Mark
Courtney
Hunter
Joanna
Getting Together: Couple Sundays ago I was celebrating my good friend Leon's birthday with his family. I met his Mom last semester and they seem pretty cool. And I have been hanging out with Nick playing video games...sometimes and then spending some time with my good brother Richie listening to his cool beats and eating lunch. The last few weeks when I have some free time during the week, I have more friend time with Kaci. I met her in one of my classes last fall during my first year at Kansas State. Going to IHOP and Noodles and Company. I'm really enjoy just hanging out and just talking about how our weeks are going and other things...awesome Looking forward to doing it some more before the school year comes to a close.
Others:
Leon
Nick
Richie
Kaci
Michelle
Brooke
Postseason Basketball: Last week I had the opportunity to go to Kansas City for the Big 12 Tournament for radio (K-State). Got nominated by staff to attend this event and it was awesome...not the game of course the K-State men's team lost to Baylor in the first round 81-72. I never been inside the Sprint Center and it beautiful. I was on the radio help calling the game with Brandon Tadtman and we were up there ways...not that far up but you can see the court well from there. The road trip there and back was a lot of fun; with interesting stories, haha!! Now, for the NCAA tourney K-State has a tough road ahead of them starting on Thursday morning to mid-afternoon in Pittsburgh the East region. It will be very interesting to see how they respond against Southern Miss and if they can get pass them.
Road Trip to Kansas City, Missouri with:
Brandon Tadtman
Mike Pereira
Daniel Flores
-Eddie III (EGIII)
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Chapter #24 Kansas State Basketball
This is kind of a special blog but I was at Bramlage Coliseum courtside for the K-State women's final home game against Texas Tech and the game was decided in the final minutes and it was Senior night for the 'Cats...
Manhattan, Kansas: On Saturday night, K-State seniors Jalana Childs, Tasha Dickey, Branshea Brown, JuliAnne Chisholm, and Emma Ostermann played their final home game at Bramlage as K-State lost in a tough game against Texas Tech 64-63 in which K-State lead early by 13 points during the game. It was really disappointing for the K-State to lose their final home game. Childs had a big night scoring 22 points on the night for the 'Cats. The Wildcats started out hot right out of the gate in the first half making shots and playing good defense and they led 36-30 at halftime. Then the second half, K-State left their offense in the locker room and Texas Tech began on a 12-2 run; following that it seemed like the 'Cats couldn't find their groove until about after midway in the 2nd half as began to fight their way back. In the final minutes, Texas Tech left the door open for the Wildcats to complete the comeback as the Red Raiders missed free throws with less than 10 seconds left. After a missed free throw by Tech Tasha Dickey couldn't convert a pass to Brittany Chambers as it just missed by inches as it went out of bounds (hail r the Wildcats as team to lose their final home game with the Seniors but you got to enjoy the fight that they showed in the 2nd half as they almost rallied from 10 down late in the game. Texas Tech hung on to win the game by one as Monique Smalls for TTU scored 15 points and Shauntal Nobles with 16 points to lead the Red Raiders. Texas Tech goes to 18-12 overall and 6-12 in the conference, meanwhile Kansas State and Deb Patterson falls to also 18-12 with a 9-9 Big 12 conference record as they both get ready to go to Kansas City, Missouri for the Big 12 Tournament next weekend.
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Stat Leaders:
Texas Tech (18-12, 6-12)
Shauntal Nobles 16pts, 8rebs
Monique Smalls 15pts, 4assists
Kierra Mallard 15pts, 6rebs
Kansas State (18-12, 9-9)
Jalana Childs 22pts, 3rebs
Brittany Chambers 11pts, 8rebs
Branshea Brown 10pts
Tasha Dickey 6pts, 6rebs
-Eddie Grier (EGIII)
Manhattan, Kansas: On Saturday night, K-State seniors Jalana Childs, Tasha Dickey, Branshea Brown, JuliAnne Chisholm, and Emma Ostermann played their final home game at Bramlage as K-State lost in a tough game against Texas Tech 64-63 in which K-State lead early by 13 points during the game. It was really disappointing for the K-State to lose their final home game. Childs had a big night scoring 22 points on the night for the 'Cats. The Wildcats started out hot right out of the gate in the first half making shots and playing good defense and they led 36-30 at halftime. Then the second half, K-State left their offense in the locker room and Texas Tech began on a 12-2 run; following that it seemed like the 'Cats couldn't find their groove until about after midway in the 2nd half as began to fight their way back. In the final minutes, Texas Tech left the door open for the Wildcats to complete the comeback as the Red Raiders missed free throws with less than 10 seconds left. After a missed free throw by Tech Tasha Dickey couldn't convert a pass to Brittany Chambers as it just missed by inches as it went out of bounds (hail r the Wildcats as team to lose their final home game with the Seniors but you got to enjoy the fight that they showed in the 2nd half as they almost rallied from 10 down late in the game. Texas Tech hung on to win the game by one as Monique Smalls for TTU scored 15 points and Shauntal Nobles with 16 points to lead the Red Raiders. Texas Tech goes to 18-12 overall and 6-12 in the conference, meanwhile Kansas State and Deb Patterson falls to also 18-12 with a 9-9 Big 12 conference record as they both get ready to go to Kansas City, Missouri for the Big 12 Tournament next weekend.
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Stat Leaders:
Texas Tech (18-12, 6-12)
Shauntal Nobles 16pts, 8rebs
Monique Smalls 15pts, 4assists
Kierra Mallard 15pts, 6rebs
Kansas State (18-12, 9-9)
Jalana Childs 22pts, 3rebs
Brittany Chambers 11pts, 8rebs
Branshea Brown 10pts
Tasha Dickey 6pts, 6rebs
-Eddie Grier (EGIII)
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Chapter #23 Heads or Tails??
Here coming on this chapter of All Smiles 24/7, the 3 topics that will be writing about the successes of being on the radio getting practice, trying to find that special someone and getting into the bible a little bit more.
Radio Live: With still a lot of momentum in being involved with radio continuing to move along; I had the opportunity to debut doing play-by-play call for the women's K-State game (basketball) when they played Texas a few weeks ago. That was a lot fun, I did that with Flores and Eli Anderson. Now I've been doing color commentary for a few games this year for mainly the women's game and only one for the men...this past week I did another play-by-play call when the K-State (women) played Oklahoma State called that one with Dan Page. Last semester including this semester so far I've been able to do a little bit of everything at the radio station on campus (Wildcat 91.9) from board, calling games, even doing some news as well. Wednesday, I did live news on air and did sports updates as well. I still need a some practice with the technical things involved with doing radio but overall I've gotten a lot high praise from classmates and friends about hearing me over the radio. I have made huge strides over the air. And with more practice I will continue to get better with it. I have really enjoyed spending time with all of the guys and just talking about sports.
Hide and Seek: I don't know what to say about romance and all that but in this day age now people are getting engaged quickly than ever. Hey, I'm not saying that it's bad because it's not but I'm like wow, speechless. I rarely talk about this subject but because of Valentine's day this month already passed by I thought that I would just gives some insights on it. I have already like at least 8 people (friends) who are getting married this summer...hmm it might be more than that actually but that's lot...doing all you can for someone special can sometimes be not enough. For the first time ever I was able to give some roses to a good friend of mine hoping for a good result but it just didn't happen the way that I thought it could be. And that is only the short version...it was disappointing because it was my first time ever getting roses for any girl ever and it was heartbreaking. Also being told that you a really good person and then the big moment comes and it doesn't happen it a big downer. I have a lot of girls as friends and which is always ( good but when it's comes to finding that special someone it's been really tough to say the least. I've gotten encouragement from a few people and it's helped getting through and move on, it took me a while to get over sometimes I wonder if i will ever find the "special person"...
Bible Time: Just recently I was in a bible study and discussing about how to reading your bible and not always having your sights set on just being in the New Testament. You got to read the bible all the way through. If you don't read your bible all the way through then your missing out on some of the good stuff. You can skip into different books of the bible but make sure you at least touch base with every single one of them. I recently never read Leviticus; I look at a few chapters of it but I have sat down and actually read the entire book. I have read the first 4 chapters of it so far and it's been good and interesting talking about the different types of offerings. There are not just one which is eye opening.
-Eddie III
Radio Live: With still a lot of momentum in being involved with radio continuing to move along; I had the opportunity to debut doing play-by-play call for the women's K-State game (basketball) when they played Texas a few weeks ago. That was a lot fun, I did that with Flores and Eli Anderson. Now I've been doing color commentary for a few games this year for mainly the women's game and only one for the men...this past week I did another play-by-play call when the K-State (women) played Oklahoma State called that one with Dan Page. Last semester including this semester so far I've been able to do a little bit of everything at the radio station on campus (Wildcat 91.9) from board, calling games, even doing some news as well. Wednesday, I did live news on air and did sports updates as well. I still need a some practice with the technical things involved with doing radio but overall I've gotten a lot high praise from classmates and friends about hearing me over the radio. I have made huge strides over the air. And with more practice I will continue to get better with it. I have really enjoyed spending time with all of the guys and just talking about sports.
Hide and Seek: I don't know what to say about romance and all that but in this day age now people are getting engaged quickly than ever. Hey, I'm not saying that it's bad because it's not but I'm like wow, speechless. I rarely talk about this subject but because of Valentine's day this month already passed by I thought that I would just gives some insights on it. I have already like at least 8 people (friends) who are getting married this summer...hmm it might be more than that actually but that's lot...doing all you can for someone special can sometimes be not enough. For the first time ever I was able to give some roses to a good friend of mine hoping for a good result but it just didn't happen the way that I thought it could be. And that is only the short version...it was disappointing because it was my first time ever getting roses for any girl ever and it was heartbreaking. Also being told that you a really good person and then the big moment comes and it doesn't happen it a big downer. I have a lot of girls as friends and which is always ( good but when it's comes to finding that special someone it's been really tough to say the least. I've gotten encouragement from a few people and it's helped getting through and move on, it took me a while to get over sometimes I wonder if i will ever find the "special person"...
Bible Time: Just recently I was in a bible study and discussing about how to reading your bible and not always having your sights set on just being in the New Testament. You got to read the bible all the way through. If you don't read your bible all the way through then your missing out on some of the good stuff. You can skip into different books of the bible but make sure you at least touch base with every single one of them. I recently never read Leviticus; I look at a few chapters of it but I have sat down and actually read the entire book. I have read the first 4 chapters of it so far and it's been good and interesting talking about the different types of offerings. There are not just one which is eye opening.
-Eddie III
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Chapter #22 Identity
Trying to find who you are in life can be a very important part of your life. People are always looking for some kind of clues to who they as a person. It really doesn't matter if it's you or your best friend or someone else finding the truth of who you are is important. Since transferring over to Manhattan, I realized that I've changed a little bit but not that much. Trying to find my way through the bigger college I realize that the road is tough and it will always be for me. It has never been easy and it will never get easier as time moves on. Last semester was a challenge and I got through that challenge and now I'm getting a lot closer to finishing up college. I just started a new semester and it's only the beginning but I like the start of it. I'm changing some things up as of late like spending a little more time with homework...on the flip side of that I'm beginning to make a few friends that I got to know last year our hanging out a lot more, I mean a lot, a lot haha! True friendships are forming and I'm really enjoying that. As for my first blog post of the year I'm doing it a little different I will talk about 3 major things that are happening going on around me in society or you can say college. Here are 3 major things for this chapter (Identity).
Denver: About an month and a half ago, I went back to Denver, CO for my second trip to the Denver Christmas Conference. It was another great experience going back up there. Seeing some of the summer project guys up there and reuniting with them for a week was awesome! On the other side of the coin, I got to meet plenty of new faces and make some new friends along the way that was good to do that. The speakers were really good again. Every message that was spoken were right on target to what I needed to strengthen my relationship with God each and every day. I also started reading the book of Genesis over the Christmas break as well so it was nice getting into the word.
Radio Man: Radio has been one awesome experience after another. Like I have never done radio type stuff before this school year. I have told that to a lot of people already but I'm with the sports department for the college station on campus and we do games and other things away from the action itself. I actually did color commentary for the Oklahoma game my first Men's game. Before that I did a couple Women's games already and I plan on doing a couple more games as the Big 12 schedule begins to kind of wind down. I'm getting a lot of good comments from staff and classmates that I'm doing a great job with all. A lot of people say that I have that radio voice and it's pretty good...hmm
Changes?? There might a change coming up or two, lol. Some of my friends that I talked to know what I'm talking about. I'm just getting back in to the whole blogging thing this will be short though. More coming up in the next post about if not or if I did change something.
Denver: About an month and a half ago, I went back to Denver, CO for my second trip to the Denver Christmas Conference. It was another great experience going back up there. Seeing some of the summer project guys up there and reuniting with them for a week was awesome! On the other side of the coin, I got to meet plenty of new faces and make some new friends along the way that was good to do that. The speakers were really good again. Every message that was spoken were right on target to what I needed to strengthen my relationship with God each and every day. I also started reading the book of Genesis over the Christmas break as well so it was nice getting into the word.
Radio Man: Radio has been one awesome experience after another. Like I have never done radio type stuff before this school year. I have told that to a lot of people already but I'm with the sports department for the college station on campus and we do games and other things away from the action itself. I actually did color commentary for the Oklahoma game my first Men's game. Before that I did a couple Women's games already and I plan on doing a couple more games as the Big 12 schedule begins to kind of wind down. I'm getting a lot of good comments from staff and classmates that I'm doing a great job with all. A lot of people say that I have that radio voice and it's pretty good...hmm
Changes?? There might a change coming up or two, lol. Some of my friends that I talked to know what I'm talking about. I'm just getting back in to the whole blogging thing this will be short though. More coming up in the next post about if not or if I did change something.
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