The Tough Road

I thought about making a lot of turns in my life, trying to make sure I make the right one. I do a lot of traveling so I let the GPS tell me where to turn sometimes so I will not get lost. I never thought about what can happen to me on the road  but I just go. I have passed a lot white lines that is in the middle of the road and been through a lot of green lights, a lot of exits and four way stops and so on. Through all of this, am I making the right turns? Should I just stay straight, should I make a u-turn, should I just stop? Everyday we as people come to the point in the road where we have to make a turn and that decision can be tough. I think about the turns I make and I hope for the best that they are the best turn to make for me.

Take a look at the road that you are riding on. Are you riding in the fast lane or are you just letting everybody pass you by? Maybe you are on cruise controol. Somewhere in life you have to look at your road, make sure it has lines in the middle to keep you from going into other peoples lanes. Make sure that you are driving your car and not letting someone else do the driving for you. I know this may just sound like a driving lesson, but honestly, look at this entry indirectly, think about it! Really, really think about it. Yeah I am just using roads and signs as a way to guide me thru the right life. Its a tough road out there, just make sure you make the right turns and life will not be that tough at all. Until next time peace and much love!!!!!

The Adjustment

I know its been a while since I wrote a blog, and the only thing I really write about is sports but I'm going to write about me this time. If you have not heard, I left Mobile to pursue a sports photographer position in Birmingham, AL at the NBC station. I did my eight years in Mobile and it really taught me a lot. It taught me to be patient and just wait for my turn. In the back of my mind, I always felt I would be doing something different than what I was doing in Mobile and it really came to me. I guess all the praying and patience paid off and thats one thing I cannot forget. Sports is my passion and I had to go after that. I'm doing a job that I really love and I want to tell people that if you are not doing something that you LOVE to do, then whats the point? Are you in it to just pay bills? Are you there because you have to be there? Life is too short to be stuck in a hole and waiting for the world to come to you. You have to go out and get the world before it swallows you up. I was determined to not let that happen to me. Believe me, I had a lot of rejections but I never gave up on what I wanted to do in life. I never quit, and yeah I complained here and there but that actually got me nowhere and fast. If you are reading this, think about where your life is and where it is going. Make some adjustments if you have to, change your routine and stop being predictable, letting the world see your plans, just go out and do it without telling people. Adjust your life to the point where people want to say, "I wish I was doing what he/she is doing." I really glad I made this adjustment to Birmingham, this can only lead to bigger and better things!!!!!! Peace and much love.

The Dummy Badger Don't Care

The one thing that we just found out is that the Honey Badger really does not care. He does not care that he gave up a free scholarship to LSU. He does not care that he was in the running for the Heisman Trophy at one point in time. He does not care that he had a nickname that people used against him(It is pretty different). And finally he did not care about how much weed he chose to smoke. The one thing that he did care about was doing things to get kicked off of LSU football team.

Tyrann Mathieu was a good player(even though I really dont care for LSU) but I think he ran his mouth too much. Especially after Alabama hung the goose egg on them in the BCS National Championship game. In one of his tweets for this upcoming season, he stated, nobody has every scored a touchdown on him in a one-on-one situation. I think does not matter when you can't even when the the biggest game of your career and your team was highly favored to win. Even though he was short in stature, Honey(Dummy) Badger was a defensive beast on the field. He brought excitement to the LSU secondary but I guess he was "putting them in the air" like a quarterback when it came to his needs of getting high. I guess he was to dumb enough to care.

Les Miles cared enough to get rid of him and I really respect that. Sometimes we have to put morals over winning(where are you Penn State???). I hate to see good players throw away everything because they were to dumb enough to realize a good thing. Maybe this is the wake up call that the Dummy Badger needs to get himself together. Put the marijuana down man and play football. Somewhere you have to realize that drugs dont care about you. Please, change your life around from being the Dummy Badger to Honey Badger and then maybe you will CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

State Of Shock

I guess today was the day that Penn State University students, faculty and fans was dreading to hear about. It all fell down today, just like the statue coming down yesterday. Were the penalties strong enough? Thats for you to decide. I think the biggest thing we saw today was the NC two A do some real work.

Loss of money, four year bowl ban, loss of scholarships and above all, loss of integrity. This incident is bigger than football and its bigger than a statue. How do you rebuild from this? Number one, a lot of your football players will probably jump ship to find a school that does not have a cloud over its campus. Recruits will probably shy away from the "State Of Shock" and find better schools to play for. But then again, this is bigger than football. It just happen to happen in the football world of the locker room. Its time to rebuild, but in another way. Lets rebuild in the hearts and minds of the alumni. Thats a good start. Football should be last on peoples minds(Im a big fan college football fan and thats honestly hard to do) but you have to put integrity first.

Man Joe Pa, did you ever see this coming? Maybe Sandusky did but he did not care, he was all out for himself and it literally brought the house down. I see people are mad at the NC two A(thats my way of breaking down the spelling) but you should be mad at Sandusky. Using the school to "get" to young men. Its very hard to sweep things under the rug when the rugs get lumpy and obvious. The obvious thing is to start over but start slow, put those wins and loses to the side(backburner) and please bring hearts and minds together. Penn State, its time for a new slate.

Penn State Scandal

This is my first blog and I hope everyone will go on this journey with me. Please bare with me and I really hope you enjoy what I have to say.

This Penn State scandal has been a story that touches everyone in some form of fashion. You have the die hard football fans and the you got the people looking out for children rights. I really believe Penn State did not do enough to protect the children but they did do a lot to protect the integrity(and I use that loosely) of the school.

Joe Paterno did a lot for the football team as well as the school but what did he do for the children that needed help. He was just as involved as Jerry Sandusky was. Why would you protect a guy like that I mean, just look at him. Sandusky will do some prison time, Paterno will never have the chance to speak out about the lastest findings and alumni, students and fans are left to deal with the state of Penn State, or as I call it, Penning The State. There are a lot of questions that might not get answered but for the ones they can be answered, what does the school do from here.

The Paterno name is all over the school, the library and his own statue. So what is that state of his name remaining at the school? A lot of people are torn on should his name stay on the library and should his statue remain up on campus. If I was a gambling man(I dont gamble much), I would say the name comes down and that state of the statue, will not remain. We can go on and on about who should take the fall for the "penning of the state," and look like Sandusky will take the major fall but will Paterno's name fall even harder than his, only time will tell.