As I alluded to earlier I’ll be away most of this morning.

Going to be a very busy day from the onset. I’ll announce the results as soon as I have them. As the esteemed Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’”. Thusly today I go forth to do what I have been afraid to do thus far.

Meanwhile don’t forget to join me tonight via the RockyTopTalk Podcast as we talk Missouri State University and University of Tennessee Basketball, coaches and other points of interest.

Ya’ll be good, and try not to spill anything on the carpet will ya?

Tags: Basketball, Luck, Missouri State University, Podcast, Public Service Announcement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rocky Top Talk, Site Announcement, Technorati, Transcendentalism, University of Tennessee

Me!

Well actually it’s some infamous blogger who just happens to blog about sports occasionally and the guys of RockyTopTalk!

Yes, friends it seems my part time gig at RockyTopTalk just got pushed to center stage thanks to my even more recent affiliation with Missouri State University.

Or more precisely since University of Tennessee hired away MSU’s Basketball coach Cuonzo Martin, I’ve been asked to toss some information regarding our adventures in Basketball etc out here in Bear-land.

Many thanks to Joel for the opportunity, and as this will be my first live PodCast with a studio crew I’ll try not to embarrass myself, our few but loyal reader base here at RegisteredEvil or the Bears

You will be able to listen in via the PodCast on Wednesday at 21:00 EST, 20:00 CST Right Here

Tags: Basketball, Cuonzo Martin, Joel, Missouri State University, Podcast, Rocky Top Talk, Technorati, University of Tennessee

What a way to start graduate school heh.

I haven’t blogged anything regarding Missouri States sports program. That may change moving forward.

By a weird twist of fate, I just so happened to be finishing my paperwork at Carrington Hall for admissions while history for the school was being made on Saturday.

Missouri State got 18 points from Jermaine Mallett to lead four Bears in double figures in a 69-64 win over the Wichita State Shockers here Saturday afternoon in the regular-season finale for both clubs. With the victory, MSU (23-7, 15-3) earned its first-ever Missouri Valley Conference regular-season conference title.

Meanwhile I was giving copies of transcripts and other such material to admissions personnel.

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Tags: Basketball, Bears, Conference, Education, Graduate School, Missouri State University, MSU, MVC, Shockers, Technorati, Things that make you go Hrmm, Wichita State

Ya’ll know I love my Vols.

You also know I love the fella’s over at Rocky Top Talk.

Well they recently sent out a quest for volunteers to give them a hand and you know I had to throw my name in that hat figuring “Hell, why not.”

And as Eric would say, rubberneckers let me tell you I was selected. I guess they figured they could not get a more Vol obsessed lunatic, even if he lives in another state. But whatever the reason I am honored.

Now I ain’t doing anything huge. I’m doing a very small thing over there. Just watching for leads for the main writers, but its still awesome just the same. These fella’s are the know-all’s of Knoxville insofar as I am concerned. The most calm, rational and straight forward reporting you get out of the area.

So a chance to work with them, even as tiny as what I’ll be doing, is very cool.

So keep yer eyes peeled over at RTT folks. I’ll be cross posting stuff here as I always do, but I’m happy to say they are letting me be part of the show.

Tags: Basketball, Football, Go Vols, Knoxville, Obsession, Rocky Top Talk, SEC, Sports, Technorati, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, Vols, Volunteers

As always I’m hanging in Rocky Top Talk for all the online fans trapped at work.

If you got the connection, and your IT Administrator isn’t looking you can watch it live here

Currently 35-34 ole Miss leads at the Half

Tags: Basketball, Go Vols, Go Volunteers!!!!, NCAA, Ole Miss, SEC, Technorati, Tournament

If your trapped at work, you can catch the game with a group of us at Rocky Top Talk.

Also there are links to the Games Internet Broadcast, Audio and Internet Live Stats (A quiet, low key way to keep track of the game without disturbing your co-workers. ……….who the hell cares what they think ITS THE VOLS!!!!! )

Hopefully I’ll see you there!

Tags: Basketball, Go Volunteers!!!!, LSU, NCAA, Registered Evil, Technorati, Tournament, University of Tennessee, Vols

Thursday should be interesting.

Those readers who have known me for an extensive amount of time know I used to play basketball. County Rec, but basketball nonetheless.

Those readers who are newer or whom have met me in the past few years are probably laughing hysterically by now.

I have found that many people who participated in a sport have a hard time watching it on TV. Ergo I can watch football because I did not play it. I can not watch basketball because I did.

I will be watching Thursday however.

There are few schools I hate more than LSU.  We have a great rivalry with ‘Bama and with Florida, but it is LSU who holds a special place in my heart as a institution I wish to see smoked so severely on a scoreboard that they give their Tiger to the SPCA, and hitchike back home in the dead of night.

How many times have we played LSU in football for the SEC Championship only to have our dreams crushed by a bunch of boozing purple wearing heathens who can’t even speak proper Southern English?

Shall I name the years?

How about 2001? Final score LSU 31 Tennessee 20.

2007? LSU 21 Tennessee 14

Both of those years I was on assignment far from home.  Both of those years I took the ribbing of those passer by’s as I stood decked in my Orange  and White ready to see our boys rally to the end zone and silence the blasphemy that was being spoken in my ears by so-called friends who were of course rooting for LSU. Both times I was the sole Volunteer amidst the purple masses. It’s like being a orange dropped in to a bowl of grape jello.

Did I mention that my current boss is a LSU graduate? Those whom have seen my office space know that it is rarely without Orange and White in some definition.

LSU versus Tennessee. We have to win, dammit. Not just because it’s LSU but because Bruce and the boys have worked their kiesters off.

It ain’t football. But its all I have.

Tags: Basketball, Go Vols, LSU, NCAA, Registered Evil, Technorati, Tennessee, Tigers, University of Tennessee, Volunteers