List #721: Favorite Hockey Games played

List #721: Favorite Hockey Games played

1. The Wheaton field hockey tournament

2. The Floor hockey IM game where I had 3 goals in 30 seconds

3. The GCS Field Hockey faculty game where I schooled AP and scored on a diving maneuver

4. Any of the 6 games where I scored a goal when I played organized hockey (through 5th grade)

5. The game where I didn't score in overtime against the twin cities team

6. Probably Ball hockey on christmas day

7. Alumni ice hockey games

List #700: 7 favorite Sevens

List #700: 7 favorite Sevens

1. Dream, Destiny, Desire, Delerium (who was once Delight), Death, Destruction, Despair

2. Neal Broten

3. Gareth, Neil, Tom, Ollie, Aleks, Harriet and Ellen Campesinos!

4. Game 7 of the 1991 World Series

5. North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

6. Shining Knight, Manhattan Guardian, Zatanna, Frankenstien, Klarion the Witch Boy, Bulleteer, Mr. Miracle

7. Superman, Hawkgirl, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Flash (Wally), Green Lantern (John), Wonder Woman

List #695: 5 Thoughts on Ping Pong

List #695: 5 Thoughts on Ping Pong

1. It was all the rage during my very first year at a summer camp that I once went to

2. It was all the rage at thanksgivings in Kansas City

3. Obadiah has a head like a Ping Pong Ball

4. There was once a boy whose only wish was 19 pink ping pong balls

5. I'm not good at it because the tables are too small.

List #675: Area Sports Teams In Order of Least Apathy or Dislike

List #675: Area Sports Teams In Order of Least Apathy or Dislike (collegiate or professional)

1. Johns Hopkins Lacrosse (I think they're the only team I actively root for)

2. Washington College Field Hockey (go Claire!)

3. Baltimore Orioles (eh, I only go to games when they play the Twins, so I have to hate on them then... otherwise, eh)

7. The Football Ones

8. Washington Capitals (I get tired of explaining to the people in the world that I'd rather watch college or HS hockey, and the I don't think Ovechkin is the second coming of our lord and saviour)

9. Are there basketball teams?

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape, IIRC (West End Piedmont Wingers, AYSA Silver Division Champions U12, circa 1991)

1. Run Riot -- Def Lepard

2. Rocket -- Def Lepard

3. Kickstart My Heart -- Motley Crue (self edited for profanity)

4. Dr. Feelgood -- Motley Crue

5. something by Poison, I think.

List #644: Races I Have Run

List #644: Races I Have Run (for J.P. Zieger)

1. A race at my Dad's company picnic once

2. Midnight Sun Midnight Run 5k (Duluth) 2009, 2010, 2011

3. Horsin' Around 5k (somewhere at a horsefarm in MD) 2010

4. GCS Dragon Dash 5k (Ellicott City, MD) 2010, 2011

5. SoWeBo Landmark 5k (Baltimore) 2011

List #643: 5 Ways I'd Fix Basketball

List #643: 5 Ways I'd Fix Basketball

1. 15 second shot clock

2. Each team may only use 1 time out in the last 2 minutes of a half

3. Fouls in the last 2 minutes are automatic points for the other team OR the team shooting free throws in the last 2 minutes maintains possession regardless of the outcome of the free throw

4. Players committing fouls must be subbed out for 30 seconds

5. Add two rounds (plus 90 'play-in' games ) to the Spring Basketball Insanity tournament and make the round of 256 be unseeded.

List #640: Field Hockey Sticks I Own

List #640: Field Hockey Sticks I Own

1. A Wooden STX 37" (nicknamed "N'Sync")

2. Grays GX750 37" (team gift, nicknamed "Hannah Montana")

3. STX P 2.0 38"(purchased with team gift funds, nicknamed "Shakira")

4. An unknown stick, ~35", all of the markings and grip are peeled off

List #638: 3 Sports I'd Like to Try

List #638: 5 Sports/Athletic Competitions I'd Like to Try

1. Biathalon

2. Team Handball

3. Indoor Field Hockey

List #629: My Predictions For Sports Related Winning

List #629: My Predictions For Sports Related Winnings This Year (based on a super secret method)

1. SuperBowl: Dallas

2. NBA: Sacramento

3. March Madness: Iowa

4. Whatever that Vote is for College Football: Georgia

List #579: 5 Thoughts on Football

List #579: 5 Thoughts on Football

1. "Taking a Knee" is for wimps. A team with the lead that "takes a knee" should stop the clock.

2. I hate the Packers (except that I think it's cool that they are community owned)

3. I'm still disappointed by '98

4. I probably should like it more than I do

5. 3-Line football in gym class was always really fun

List #545: Observations after this morning's 5k

List #545: Observations after last night/this morning's 5k

1. Bring extra water in the car

2. I can still run an okay time even if I didn't prepare and was sick all week

3. I didn't feel bad about having to walk part

4. I wished I could have stolen a glow stick (the big green kind)

5. I'm sad that the shirt design changed

List #536: Favorite Hockey Teams and their 2010-2011 Finishes

List #536: Favorite Hockey Teams and/or teams I coach and their 2010-2011 Finishes

1. JV Field Hockey 7-2-3 '2nd place'

2. Varsity Field Hockey: IAAM B CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

3. JV Ice Hockey: 7-0 MIAA Co-champions

4. Duluth East High School: Lost Minnesota State High School Championship multi-OT

5. University of Minnesota Duluth: NCAA Div I Champions (OT)

6. Vancouver Canucks: Lost Stanley Cup in 7 games.

List #530: Top 5 Least Favorite NHL Teams

List #530: Top 5 Least Favorite NHL Teams

1. Dallas Stars (for dropping from the 'North')

2. Colorado Avalanche (for not being the Nordiques)

3. Philadelphia Flyers

4. Carolina Hurricanes (for not being the Whalers)

5. New York Rangers (though I feel bad for hating on an original 6 team)

Bonus List: Teams I just kind of dislike

1. Detroit Red Wings (used to hate, but have grown to respect)

2. Chicago Blackhawks (old rivalries die hard)

3. Washington Capitals (proximity and Ovechkin worship)

4. Boston (for being from Mass. and for not losing enough in the finals right now)

List #514: Favorite Races

List #514: Favorite Races (the competition kind)

1. All-School Relay

2. Olympics Week relay

3. 50m Freestyle, 50m Swimming (really any swim race 50 or under)

4. Midnight Sun Midnight Run 5k

5. Grandma's Marathon

6. Pretty much any winter Biathalon

7. Long Track Speedskating 3000m and under

8. Short Track Speekskating, any

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

List #467: Youth Hockey Memories

1. My Teams: Wheeler (squirt D, C), Piedmont (Squirt B)

2. Collecting Hockey card stickers to put on my helmet

3. Crying so hard (at age 6) when I got my first penalty (because I was innocent) that I had to go home

4. Being offered a dollar for a goal and 50c for an assist from my grandpa (career lifetime salary <15$)

5. Awesome Fans

6. Hiding one of our players in a locker in the locker room after he punched someone in the handshake

7. Hanging out with friends between games at tournaments (and the little pom-poms the mom's would make)

8. Taking up skiing when it became clear that I wasn't good enough to keep playing on the same team as all of my friends would be on.

Bonus list: Things I don't remember

1. The outcome (Score-wise) of any game or tournament

2. It being un-fun, a waste of time, or a bad experience, even thought I quit

List #463: Things I Dislike about Baseball

List #463: Things I Dislike about Baseball

(this was an unintentional and accidental revision to bonus list #87)

1. Hitting into Double Plays

2. The Yankees

3. Pitchers' duels (exception: Game 7, 1991 World Series)

4. Home runs

5. Full counts

List #443: Favorite Annual Sporting Events

List #443: Favorite Annual Sporting Events

1. State (Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament)

2. All of Field Hockey Season

3. Midnight Sun Midnight Run 5k

4. GCS Ice Hockey coaches scrimmage

5. Frozen Four

6. Hating on Basketball Idiocy Month

List #432: Things I've Won

List #432: Things I've Won / Victories (individual or team-where-I-mattered)

1. Geography Bee (at least the school level), 7th grade

2. A running race at my dad's company picnic (age ~7 or 8)

3. DC Heroclix Hypertime Marquee tournament (2002)

4. The first broomball tournament at that camp's Winter Camp

5. U12 Silver Division AYSA Soccer Championship (6th grade)

6. Life (every once and awhile... I'm no Charlie Sheen)

List #405: Skiing Memories

List #405: Skiing Memories (Because it's been 15 years)

1. Having a back table in the Moosehead Saloon

2. Free ski passes because Mom worked at Spirit Mt.

3. Storing my stuff in the ski shop

4. Jamming my thumb really bad on the death cookies.

5. Skiing 3 days a week sometimes in middle school.

6. Falling off a ski lift (it was at the beginning, and only like 5 feet off the ground).

7. Learning about the "no tucking" rules while on the bunny hill (after watching Pirmin Zurbriggin and Alberto Tomba in the 1988 olympics)

8. First kiss (on a ski-lift)

9. All of my awesome (Then, and now seemingly ridiculously-awesome) ski gear

10. All of my skiing friends.