Alex Gutor

Alex Gutor is an Outside Hitter on the Penn State Men's Volleyball team. In the upcoming 4-team NCAA Championship tournament his Penn State squad will match up with UC-Irvine in the semifinal round.

I played high school volleyball against Alex Gutor. I remember that during my senior year, he was the mysterious Eastern European player that the Greenhill School (Dallas, TX) had somehow procured. We were sure that he was some sort of volleyball machine. It turns out that he actually is.

During my junior and senior years in high school (and possibly beyond) Greenhill was on some ridiculous winning streak that I beleive got into the 50's. Alex was a big part of that, and the years of success that Greenhill had.

I wish him luck in the upcoming tournament.

Rising Sun

So, the Phoenix Suns are amazing. I watched the first quarter of their game last night before I fell asleep. (I hate how work gets in the way of watching sporting events, I also hate how the East Coast is so far away from the West Coast)

Who would have ever thought a team that passed the ball, shot the ball well, and made crisp cuts to the basketbal would be successful?

I HATE typical NBA basketball. I hate isolation plays. The NBA is basically a bastardized version of basketball where they stand around waiting to see if someone is going to dunk it, or if the offense is going to be so disgustingly stagnant that someone who has been dribbling meaninglessly for the last 14 seconds jacks up a shot to beat the 24 second clock. Now, because its the NBA, they end up dunking it a lot, and often making those shots. But that's beside the point. Why not play the game the way its meant to be played?