In Sports Relation

There used to be a time when sports ate up way too much of my time - Sundays in the Fall and Winter meant sitting on the couch and watching a three plus hour game of men tackling each other while pausing for commercial every five minutes; Summer days and nights spent in front of the tube or with the radio blaring through inning after inning of an endless season of baseball games. And a bunch of basketball and hockey mixed in-between. Not so much these days as it's hard to rationale blocking out three hours of a day for entertainment, but I was reminded of that fun childhood time on Sunday, with Steve Young's induction ceremony into the football hall of fame - Seeing highlights of his career, of which nearly all were vividly still fresh in my mind, brought a wave of nostalgia of a time in middle school and high school of how simplistic life was back then. You know, the kind of stuff like whether or not I'm happy for the week depended on if the Niners won. Being overly superstitious by making sure to cook up some clam chowder when they played Dallas because when they finally did beat them the previous year, that was what I was having. (although i'll admit most people whatever age still do this) What a fun time to look back on. I didn't have a revelation here to offer but just a nice reminiscence.

And so, before I forget, Nickel Creek's album will be OUT by the time you read this Tuesday!! Since I'll be working, I may just take time out of lunch to go pick it up and hopefully so will you They'll also be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Tuesday night. Catch that and you'll likely here a live performance of their single, When in Rome. If you're even more interested, they've got a six page spread in the current issue of my favorite magazine, Paste, along with their rockish sounding track, Best of Luck, featured in the magazine's cd sampler.

If you'd like to listen to their album streaming and free, go here - Their stream is surprisingly high quality!

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/creek_nickel/938799/album.jhtml#