Solon Coffee Connection Delayed

In light of OGTs, we’ll delay tomorrow’s (3/16) Solon coffee connection until 9:15…sleep in - connect - go to class

March Madness Week 2 Pics

Check out the Week 2 Photo Album (thanks Steph and Julie!)

March Madness Standings: After Week 2

After week 2, no change at the top, but a huge leap by the Banana Slugs!

1. Williams College Purple Cows - 74,500 pts
2. UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs - 58,500 pts
3. Saint Louis University Billikens - 57,500 pts
4. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers - 54,000 pts

Let the trash talking comments begin…remember, the best rant post wins 5K points for your team!  (Clarification from a good question asked on the website: do your ranting here.  Just add a comment to this post.)

Don’t forget ways to score points for your team next week:

1. The Mascot Look-Alike Contest for 10K points
2. Best online rant for 5K points (will be read aloud Week 3 too!)
3. Each new person you bring is worth 1,000 points…so bring friends!

NCAA Tournament Pick ‘Em

It’s the greatest time of the year again…spring is just around the corner, and maybe even better, the NCAA Tournament is about to tip off!  Think you can guess how the men’s bracket is going to play out? Sign up for the Parkside Youth Tournament Pick ‘Em and show us what you got.  The winners will receive gift cards to iTunes… Here’s how to play:

1. Sign up for a Yahoo! account if you don’t already have one
2. Go to the Yahoo! Sports Tournament Pick ‘Em Page
3. Click “Join a Group”
4. Click “Join Group” on the left of the screen
5. Enter in the following info: Group ID is 33785 and password is warehouse
6. Select “Save & Continue”. You are now officially part of the competition! (More instructions below…)

The bracket will be announced on Sunday, March 14th. You’ll have until the start of the first game on Thursday March 18th to make your picks. So, after you have registered, be sure to go back to the Pick ‘Em page between the 14th and 18th to fill out your bracket (under “My Picks”). Keep things real by talking smack to each other and stay tuned to see if you’re smart enough (or lucky enough!) to win it all…and, oh by the way, go Blue Devils!

It can be done…

From our Student Body game on Sunday, proof that 3 golf balls can indeed be stacked on top of one another…nice work Zach.

March Madness Night 1 Pics

Check out pics from night 1 of March Madness!

March Madness Standings

The week 1 results are in, and here are the standings:

1. Williams College Purple Cows - 40,000 pts
2. Saint Louis University Billikens - 27,500 pts
3. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers - 20,000 pts
4. UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs - 17,500 pts

Let the trash talking begin…

Don’t forget ways to score more points for your team next week:

1. The “Spirit Award” for best-dressed is worth 10,000 points
2. Each new person you bring is worth 1,000 points…so bring friends!

March Madness kicks off tomorrow!

The wall is ready to go…

March Madness Team Intros: Team 4

Last, but not certainly not least, Team 4 of March Madness 2010 comes from just south of San Franciso, CA and competes in Division III of the NCAA as an independent member.  The campus of this school overlooks the Pacific Ocean, but the lure of the beach hasn’t prevented their athletes from practicing, as they have recently won national championships in water polo (2006), tennis (2007), and women’s club rugby (2005-2006).

As for their mascot?  He goes by the scientific name of Ariolimax dolichophallus, and is no stranger to the big stage.  You might have seen him on Fear Factor a few years ago, or in Reader’s Digest, when he was named the best mascot of 2004.  He also made an appearance in a court case involving campus mascots, this having been written about him in Crue et al. v. Aiken in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals: “We give the best college nickname nod to the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Imagine the fear in the hearts of opponents who travel there to face the imaginatively named ‘Banana Slugs’”.  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  The fourth and final team of March Madness 2010, the University of California, Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, and their mascot, Sammy the Slug!